Grip. [To Jup.] Did not I charge you not to speak? 'twas plain enough before; and now you have puzzled it again.

Amph. Good gods, how can this be!

Grip. For certain there was but one Pterelas; and he must have been in the plot against himself too; for he was killed first by one of them, and then rose again out of respect to the other Amphitryon, to be killed twice over.

Enter Alcmena, Phædra, and Bromia.

Alcm. No more of this; it sounds impossible

[Turning to Phædra and Bromia.

That two should be so like, no difference found.

Phæd. You'll find it true.

Alcm. Then where's Alcmena's honour and her fame?