Yes, Pure and Chaste and Holy, do this thing ...

And is’t not strange as well that she should choose

No more the ever-blithesome Aphrodite

For witness, but the stern-faced Hestia

Before whose gaze the greenest garland dries?

Lesbia.

Oh, oh, it means the Thing most dread of all!

[Enter Gyges.

Hero.

Gyges!