Praxinoä, never mind!

See, we're before them now, and they're in line.

PRAXINOÄ.

There, I'm myself. But from a child I feared

Horses, and slimy snakes. But haste we on:

A surging multitude is close behind.

GORGO [to Old Lady].

From the palace, mother?

OLD LADY.

Ay, child.