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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Do you dare affirm, audacious fellow, that I have ever met you this day since the time when I ordered you to come here to meet me?
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Do you dare affirm, audacious fellow, that I have ever met you this day since the time when I ordered you to come here to meet me?
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MESSENIO
Why, I just now rescued you before this house, when four men were carrying you off upon their shoulders. You invoked the aid of all Gods and men, when I ran up and delivered you by main force, fighting, and in spite of them.
For this reason, because I rescued you, you set me at liberty. When I said that I was going for the money and the luggage, you ran before to meet me as quickly as you could, in order that you might deny what you did.
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Why, I just now rescued you before this house, when four men were carrying you off upon their shoulders. You invoked the aid of all Gods and men, when I ran up and delivered you by main force, fighting, and in spite of them.
For this reason, because I rescued you, you set me at liberty. When I said that I was going for the money and the luggage, you ran before to meet me as quickly as you could, in order that you might deny what you did.
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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
I, bade you go away a free man?
I, bade you go away a free man?
MESSENIO
Certainly.
Certainly.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Why, on the contrary, ’tis most certain that I myself would rather become a slave than ever give you your freedom.
Why, on the contrary, ’tis most certain that I myself would rather become a slave than ever give you your freedom.
Menaechmi. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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