Great Zeus, and thou, Apollo, and thou too——
Admetus.
[Interrupting hurriedly.] Oh, Heracles, you come in fitting time
To this afflicted and much suffering house.
Heracles.
Wherefore afflicted? Anybody dead?
Admetus.
Not dead, but living. That the grievance is.
Heracles.
A plague on riddles! Make your meaning clear.