Second Senator

The mimic is in mimicry sincere—

The rôle absorbed the actor. So he wept.

(They pass on, talking low.)

A Praetorian Officer

(To Psyche leaning on his arm.)

Was it a vision, Psyche? Have I slept?

By the pink-nippled Cyprian, I swear

Our Caesar knows a woman! Gods! That hair!

Spun from the bowels of Ophir!