Oh come, good Phocion;—help me, for our friendship’s and our fellowship’s sake——

Phocion.

Are you mad, woman? I do not know you.

Publia.

What? You do not know me? Are you not Phocion the dyer? Are you not the son of——?

Phocion.

I am not the son of anybody. Get you gone, woman! You are mad! I do not know you; I have never seen you.

[He hastens in among the crowd.

A Subaltern.

[With soldiers, from the right.] Clear the way here!