HEG. I don't care; still I'll approach him. (Advances to ARISTOPHONTES.)
TYND. (aside). Now am I utterly undone; now between the sacrifice and the stone {10} do I stand, nor know I what to do.
HEG. I lend you my attention, Aristophontes, if there is anything that you would wish with me.
ARIST. From me you shall hear that truth, which now you think to be false, Hegio. But I wish, in the first place, to clear myself from this with you—that madness does not possess me, and that I have no malady, except that I am in captivity; and, so may the King of Gods and of men make me to regain my native land, that fellow there is no more Philocrates than either I or you.
HEG. Come, then, tell me who he is?
ARIST. He whom I've told you all along from the beginning. If you shall find him any other than that person, I show no cause why I shouldn't suffer the loss with you both of my parents and of my liberty for ever.
HEG. (to TYNDARUS). What say you to this?
TYND. That I am your slave, and you my master.
HEG. I didn't ask that—were you a free man?
TYND. I was. ARIST. But he really wasn't; he is deceiving you.