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).