DICAEOPOLIS
May I die if I believe a word of what you tell us! Excepting the
grasshoppers, there is not a grain of truth in it all!

THEORUS
And he has sent you the most warlike soldiers of all Thrace.

DICAEOPOLIS
Now we shall begin to see clearly.

HERALD
Come hither, Thracians, whom Theorus brought.

DICAEOPOLIS
What plague have we here?

THEORUS
'Tis the host of the Odomanti.[1]

f[1] A Thracian tribe from the right bank of the Strymon.

DICAEOPOLIS
Of the Odomanti? Tell me what it means. Who has mutilated them
like this?

THEORUS
If they are given a wage of two drachmae, they will put all
Boeotia[1] to fire and sword.