to deliver you from that blindness, in fact to restore your sight.

Oh! do nothing of the kind, for I don't wish to recover it.

This fellow hugs his own misery.

If you were mad enough to cure me, and Zeus heard of it, he

would overwhelm me with his anger.

And is he not doing this now by leaving you to grope your

I don't know; but I'm horribly afraid of him.

Indeed? Ah! you are the biggest poltroon of all the gods! Why,