Take care not to look back. Fly; cover up
your head!
THEU. Why don't you fly?
TRA. I am at peace with the dead.
THEU. I recollect. Why then were you so dreadfully alarmed just now?
TREA. Have no care for me, I tell you; I'll see to myself. You, as you
have begun _to do_, fly as quick as ever you can; Hercules, too
[4], you will invoke.
THEU. Hercules, I do invoke thee! (_Runs off._)
TRA. (_to himself._) And I, as well, old fellow, that this day
he'll send some heavy mishap upon you. O ye immortal Gods, I do implore
your aid. Plague on it! what a mess I have got into to-day.
(_Exit._
[Footnote 1: _Touch you the ground_)--Ver. 457. The ancients were
in the habit of reverentially touching the earth, when engaged in any
affairs that related to the dead or the infernal Deities.]
[Footnote 2: _Guilty of a capital offence_)--Ver. 464. "Capitalis
aedes facta est;" meaning that a murder had been committed in it.]
[Footnote 3: _Hallo! Tranio_)--Ver. 502. Weise's Edition gives
these words to Theuropides. Rost, no doubt rightly, suggests that these
words are spoken by Philolaches from inside (perhaps in a low voice, to
ask Tranio how matters are going on). On this, Tranio turns it to good
account, by pretending that the Ghost is calling out to him for his
supposed impiety in daring to knock at the door.]
[Footnote 4: _Hercules, too_)--Ver. 514.
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