Increased in fame by this, as is his wont
By other tasks.
Megara: What wretched men desire
They readily believe.
Amphitryon: Nay, what they fear
They think can never be escaped or borne.315
For fear is prone to see the darker side.
Megara: Submerged, deep buried, crushed beneath the world,
What chance has he to reach the upper realms?
Amphitr.: The same he had, when, through the arid plain,