ANTIOCHUS. Your Grace’s welfare is so dear to me that I do not seek to disguise what is hostile to your interests, but immediately bring it to your notice and denounce it!
HADRIAN. Do you praise yourself for this? If you withheld such information you would be guilty of treason to our Imperial Majesty.
ANTIOCHUS. I have never been disloyal.
HADRIAN. I do not question it. Come, if you have discovered some new danger, make it known to us.
ANTIOCHUS. A certain alien woman has recently come to this city with her three children.
HADRIAN. Of what sex are the children?
ANTIOCHUS. They are all girls.
HADRIAN. And you think that a handful of women threaten danger to the state?
ANTIOCHUS. I do, and very grave danger.
HADRIAN. Of what kind?