THE WASPS. 85

Slave, “ And, by Zeus! there is a fellow hanging
on underneath.”

'- Bdel. “What? Where?”

Slave. ‘“ Here, to be sure.”

Bdel. “Who in the world are you?”

Phil, “No man.”

Bdel. “No man, are you? Where do you come
from?” - a

Phil. “From Ithaca, the son of Runaway.”

Bael. “Well, however you'll not get off in this
way.” (To the slaves)* “ Drag him out.”

The old man accordingly was dragged off, and
pushed inside, and the door was bolted, barred, and
still further fortified by stones and other things piled
up against it. While the slaves were busy about this,
one of them was startled by a clod of earth falling on
his head. Philocleon had mounted on to the roof,
and seemed to be intending to fly off. “Throw the
net over him,” cried his son. This done, the slaves
ventured to suggest that a sleep would be welcome.
Of this, however, their young master would not
hear.

“Sleep!” he cried, “why, his fellow-juryman will

1 Philocleon bethinks him of the device by which Ulysses and his
men had escaped from the cave of the Cyclops. The hero: had tied
his companions under the bellies of rams, and he himself had clung in
the same way to the biggest and strongest. The Cyclops, sitting at the
mouth of the cave, and feeling the animals as they go out, asks this
animal which was accustomed to lead the flock, why it is so long in
coming out. The name “ No man ” is another reminiscence of the story.