Speak them, that I may judge their kind myself.
Æpytus
Accept them in one word, for good or bad:
Æpytus, the Messenian prince, is dead!
Polyphontes
Dead!—and when died he? where? and by what hand?
And who art thou, who bringest me such news?
Æpytus
He perish'd in Arcadia, where he dwelt
With Cypselus; and two days since he died.
One of the train of Cypselus am I.
Polyphontes
Instruct me of the manner of his death.
Æpytus