Then do I rejoice at this, whatever she has merited at my hands.BROMIALeave that alone, and hear these things which I shall tell you. After she was delivered, she bade us wash the babes; we commenced to do so. But that child which I washed, how stout, how very powerful he is; and not a person was there, able to wrap him in the swaddling-clothes.AMPHITRYONMost wondrous things you tell of. If these things are true, I do not apprehend but that succour has been brought to my wife from heaven.BROMIANow shall I make you own to things more wondrous still. After he was laid in the cradle, two immense crested serpents glided down through the skylight; instantly they both reared their heads.