Is so transcendent, it exceeds them all.

[ SCENE II.]

Enter Chremes.

Chrem. (to Sostrata, within). Nay prithee, good wife, cease to stun the Gods

With thanking them that you have found your daughter;

Unless you fancy they are like yourself,

And think they can not understand a thing

Unless said o’er and o’er a hundred times.

—But meanwhile (coming forward) wherefore do my son and Syrus

Loiter so long?