Beware lest, raising foes, a multitude,

You stumble where you apprehend no harm.

Her. If all Thebes saw me, not a whit care I.

But seeing as I did a certain bird

Not in the lucky seats, I knew some woe

Was fallen upon the house: so, purposely,

By stealth I made my way into the land.

Amph. And now, advancing, hail the hearth with praise

And give the ancestral home thine eye to see!

For he himself will come, thy wife and sons