Then for your own sake,
Lady, I say it with all gentleness,
And for the sake of Sinnatus your husband,
I must compel you.
Camma (drawing her dagger).
Stay!—too near is death.
Synorix (disarming her).
Is it not easy to disarm a woman?
Enter Sinnatus (seizes him from behind by the throat).
Synorix (throttled and scarce audible).