HEC. Shall bear me, _dost thou mean_, to the confines of the Grecian land?
POLY. --shall cover thee, having fallen from the shrouds.
HEC. From whom meeting with this violent leap?
POLY. Thyself shalt climb with thy feet up the ship's mast.
HEC. Having wings on my back, or in what way?
POLY. Thou shalt become a dog with a fiery aspect.
HEC. But how dost thou know of this my metamorphose?
POLY. Dionysius the Thracian prophet told it me.
HEC. But did he not declare to thee any of the evils which thou sufferest?
POLY. No: for, _if he had_, thou never wouldst thus treacherously have
taken me.
HEC. [22]Thence shall I conclude my life in death, or still live on?