I will grant it out of reverence for thy holy sup- pliant touch. Nurse Henceforth I hold my peace; ’tis thine to speak from now. Phaedra Ah! hapless mother, Pasiphae, wife of Minos, deceived by Aphrodite into a fatal passion for a bull. Cf. Verg. Aen. vi. ad init., also Ovid Metam., viii, 131 sqq. what a love was thine! Nurse Her love for the bull? daughter, or what meanest thou? Phaedra And woe to thee! my sister, Ariadne, deserted by Theseus in the isle of Naxos, where Dionysus found her. bride of Dionysus. Nurse What ails thee, child? speaking ill of kith and kin. Phaedra Myself the third to suffer! how am I undone! Nurse Thou strik’st me dumb! Where will this history end? Phaedra That love has been our curse from time long past. Nurse I know no more of what I fain would learn.