Allow me to speak, that you may know that all the Deities are propitious to yourself and to your wife.AMPHITRYONSay on. BROMIAAfter that, this day, your wife began to be in labour, when the pangs of childbirth came on, as is the custom with women in travail, she invoked the immortal Gods to give her aid, with washed handsWith washed hands: The head was covered and the hands made pure by washing, before sacrifice to the Gods. and with covered head. Then forthwith it thundered