No, truly! since calamity were mine,

Nowise diminished: while I showed myself

Unhappy and inhospitable too:

So adding to my ills this other ill,

That mine were styled a stranger-hating house.

Myself have ever found this man the best

Of entertainers when I went his way

To parched and thirsty Argos."

"If so be—

Why didst thou hide what destiny was here,