ÆG. Childless I am, by the disposal of some deity.
MED. Hast thou a wife, or knowest thou not the marriage-bed!
ÆG. I am not destitute of the connubial bed.
MED. What then did Apollo tell thee respecting thy offspring?
ÆG. Words deeper than a man can form opinion of.
MED. Is it allowable for me to know the oracle of the God?
ÆG. Certainly, inasmuch as it needs also a deep-skilled mind.
MED. What then did he say? Speak, if I may hear.
ÆG. That I was not to loose the projecting foot of the vessel—
MED. Before thou didst what, or came to what land?