Fauna.

And with a scream she fell, and swooned away, and died, turning backwards, so that her hair caught in the springy herbage, and her head rolled a little in her pain, so that her hair was loosened and tightened, and look, there are still little tufts of blue-berry leaves in her hair.

Silvanus.

But here comes Æsculapius.

[They all greet Æsculapius, who enters from the left, with his basket of remedies.]

Persephone.

Ah! sage master of simples, this is a problem beyond thy solution, a case beyond thy cure.

Æsculapius [to the goddesses].

You think that Cydippe is dead?