No, not in vain; how can you say in vain when you have brought me sure proofs of his death?He sprang from my own life, yet deserting my breast and my nurture he became a fugitive, completely alien from me. And me, once he left this land, he saw no more; but, charging me with the murder of his father, he made terrible threats,so that neither by night nor by day could sweet sleep cover me, but the imminent moment made me live always as if I were about to die. Now, however, since today I am rid of terror of him and of this girl—that greater plaguewho shared my home while consuming undiluted my life-blood—now, I think, for all her threats, I shall pass my days in peace.