Why, you yourself are he; nor is there any slave in Elis of that name, except yourself. TYNDARUS Do you persist in reproaching me with being a slave—a thing that has befallen me through the fortune of war? ARISTOPHONTES Really, now, I cannot contain myself. TYNDARUS (to HEGIO.) Ha! don’t you hear him? Why don’t you take to flight? He’ll be pelting us just now with stones there, unless you order him to be seized. ARISTOPHONTES I’m distracted.