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(Enter APAECIDES and PERIPHANES, from the house of the former.)
APAECIDES
Mostly all men
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are ashamed when they have no occasion to be; when they ought to be ashamed, then does shame forsake them, when there’s a necessity for their being ashamed. That man, in fact, are you. What is there to be ashamed of
in your bringing home a wife, poor, but born of good family? Especially her, whose daughter you say this girl is, who is at your house?
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Mostly all men
1
are ashamed when they have no occasion to be; when they ought to be ashamed, then does shame forsake them, when there’s a necessity for their being ashamed. That man, in fact, are you. What is there to be ashamed of
in your bringing home a wife, poor, but born of good family? Especially her, whose daughter you say this girl is, who is at your house?
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PERIPHIANES
I have some regard for my son
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.
I have some regard for my son
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.
APAECIDES
But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for;
whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her.
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But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for;
whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her.
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PERIPHIANES
Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour
3
was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.
Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour
3
was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.
APAECIDES
I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry.
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I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry.
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PERIPHIANES
Troth, so it is, which isn’t encumbered with a wife.
Troth, so it is, which isn’t encumbered with a wife.
Epidicus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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