SENATORS come to entreat TIMON to return to Athens and take the command of the army opposed to ALCIBIADES.

"1 SEN. The senators, with one consent of love, Entreat thee back to Athens.

Therefore, so please thee to return with us,
And of our Athens (thine and ours) to take
The captainship; thou shalt be met with thanks,
Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name
Live with authority:-so soon we shall drive back
Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,

Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up

What is amiss, plague and infection mend!

Graves only be men's works, and death their gain!
Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign."

ACT V. S. 2.