[Pg 95]

[Pg 96]


VI

[Aphrodite and Circe are seated on the grass in a little dell surrounded by beechwoods. Far away a bell is heard.]

Circe.

What is that curious distant sound? Is it a bird?

Aphrodite.

Cydippe tells me that there is a temple on the hill beyond these woods. I wonder to whom amongst us it is dedicated?