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(Enter CYLINDRUS, from the house.)
EROTIUM
Take a hand-basket and some money. See, you have three didrachmns here.
(Giving him money..)
Take a hand-basket and some money. See, you have three didrachmns here.
CYLINDRUS
I have so.
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I have so.
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EROTIUM
Go and bring some provisions, see that there’s enough for three; let it be neither deficient nor overmuch.
Go and bring some provisions, see that there’s enough for three; let it be neither deficient nor overmuch.
CYLINDRUS
What sort of persons are these to be?
What sort of persons are these to be?
EROTIUM
Myself, Menaechmus, and his Parasite.
Myself, Menaechmus, and his Parasite.
CYLINDRUS
Then these make ten, for the Parasite easily performs the duty of eight persons
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Then these make ten, for the Parasite easily performs the duty of eight persons
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EROTIUM
I’ve now told you the guests; do you take care of the rest.
I’ve now told you the guests; do you take care of the rest.
CYLINDRUS
Very well.
It’s cooked already; bid them go and take their places.
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Very well.
It’s cooked already; bid them go and take their places.
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EROTIUM
Make haste back.
Make haste back.
CYLINDRUS
I’ll be here directly.
(Exit CYLINDRUS, and EROTIUM goes into her house.)
I’ll be here directly.
Menaechmi. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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