That I am mad? TYNDARUS Do you see him, with what a furious aspect he’s looking at you? ’Twere best to retire, Hegio; it is as I said, his frenzy grows apace; have a care for yourself. HEGIO I thought that he was mad, the moment that he called you Tyndarus. TYNDARUS Why, he’s sometimes ignorant of his own name, and doesn’t know what it is. HEGIO But he even said that you were his intimate friend. TYNDARUS So far from that, I never saw him. Why, really, Alcmaeon, and Orestes, and Lycurgus Alcmaeon, and Orestes, and Lycurgus : He alludes to these three persons as being three of the most celebrated men of antiquity that were attacked with frenzy. Orestes slew his mother, Clytemnestra; Alcmaeon killed his mother, Eriphyle; and Lycurgus, King of Thrace, on slighting the worship of Bacchus, was afflicted with madness, in a fit of which he hewed off his own legs with a hatchet. besides, are my friends on the same principle that he is.