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,