Do you
suppose we don’t know the reason of your. anguish ?
You know not: otherwise you ‘Id shriek and
scream.From Euripides, according to Porson.
I know that the sum and substance of your troubles
is a love-affair; I don’t shriek and scream, though,
because I am used to it, as you have already affronted
me many a time in this way. It is likely that you
have found another Danae or Semele or Europa and
are plagued by love, and that you are thinking
of turning into a bull or a satyr or a shower of gold,
to fall down through the roof into the lap of your
sweetheart, for these symptoms—groans and_tears
and paleness—belong to nothing but love.
You simple creature, to think that our circumstances permit of love-making and such pastimes !
Well, if that isn’t it, what else is plaguing you ?
Aren’t you Zeus?