T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.2

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273

Cylindrvs

Bene opsonavi atque ex mea sententia,

bonum anteponam prandium pransoribus.

sed eccúm Menaechmum video. vae tergo meo,
275

prius iám convivae ambulant ante ostium,

quam ego opsonatu redeo. adibo atque alloquar.

Menaechme, salve.

Menaechmvs

Di te amabunt quisquis es.

Cylindrvs

Quisquis quis ego sim?

Menaechmvs

Non hercle vero.
280

Cylindrvs

Vbi convivae ceteri?

Menaechmvs

Quos tu convivas quaeris?

Cylindrvs

Parasitum tuom.

Menaechmvs

Meum parasitum? certe hic insanust homo.

Messenio

Dixin tibi esse hic sycophantas plurumos?

Menaechmvs

Quem tu parasitum quaeris, adulescens, meum?
285

Messenio

Peniculum éccum in vidulo salvom fero.

Cylindrvs

Menaechme, numero huc advenis ad prandium.

nunc opsonatu redeo.

Menaechmvs

Responde mihi,

adulescens: quibus hic pretiis porci veneunt

sacres sinceri?
290

Cylindrvs

Nummis.

Menaechmvs

Nummum a me accipe:

iube té piari de mea pecunia.

nam équidem insanum esse te certo scio,

qui mihi molestu's molestus es homini ignoto, quisquis es.

Cylindrvs

Cylindrus ego sum: non nosti nomen meum?

Menaechmvs

Si tu Cylindrus seu Coriendrus, perieris.
295

ego te non novi, neque novisse adeo volo.

Cylindrvs

Est tibi Menaechmo nomen, tantum quod sciam.

Menaechmvs

Pro sano loqueris quom me appellas nomine.

sed ubi novisti me?

Cylindrvs

Vbi ego te noverim,

qui amicam habes eram meam hanc Erotium?
300

Menaechmvs

Neque hercle ego habeo, neque te quis homo sis scio.

Cylindrvs

Non scis quis ego sim, qui tibi saepissime

cyathisso apud nos, quando potas?

Messenio

Ei mihi,

quom nihil est qui illi homini diminuam caput.

Menaechmvs

Tun cyathissare mihi soles, qui ante hunc diem
305

Epidamnum numquam vidi neque veni?

Cylindrvs

Negas?

Menaechmvs

Nego hercle vero.

Cylindrvs

Non tu in illisce aedibus

† habitas?

Menaechmvs

Di illos homines, qui illic habitant, perduint.

Cylindrvs

Insanit hic quidem, qui ipse male dicit sibi.

audin, Menaechme?
310

Menaechmvs

Quid vis?

Cylindrvs

Si me consulas,

nummum illum quem mihi dudum pollicitu's pollicitus es dare—

nam tu quidem hercle certo non sanu's sanus es satis,

Menaechme, qui nunc ipsus male dicas tibi—

iubeas, si sapias, porculum adferri tibi.
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Messenio

Eu hercle hominem multum, et odiosum mihi.

Cylindrvs

Solet iocari saepe mecum illoc modo.

quam vis ridiculus est, ubi uxor non adest.

quid ais tu?

Menaechmvs

Quid vis, inquam.

Cylindrvs

Satin hoc quod vides

tribus vóbis opsonatumst, an opsono amplius,
320

tibi et parasito et mulieri?

Menaechmvs

Quas tu mulieres,

quos tu parasitos loquere?

Messenio

Quod te urget scelus,

qui huic sis molestus?

Cylindrvs

Quid tibi mecum est rei?

ego te non novi: cum hoc quem novi fabulor.

Messenio

Non edepol tú homo sanus es, certo scio.
325

Cylindrvs

Iam ergo haec madebunt faxo, nil morabitur.

proin tu ne quo abeas longius ab aedibus.

numquid vis?

Menaechmvs

Vt eas maximam malam crucem.

Cylindrvs

Ire hercle meliust te interim atque accumbere,

dum ego haec appono ad Volcani violentiam.
330

ibo intro et dicam te hic adstare Erotio,

ut te hinc abducat potius quam hic adstes foris.—

Menaechmvs

Iamne abiit illic? edepol haud mendacia

tua verba experior esse.

Messenio

Observato modo:

nam istic meretricem credo habitare mulierem,
335

ut quidem ille insanus dixit, qui hinc abiit modo.

Menaechmvs

Sed miror qui ille noverit nomen meum.

Messenio

Minime hercle mirum. morem hunc meretrices habent:

ad portum mittunt servolos, ancillulas;

si quae peregrina navis in portum advenit,
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rogitant cuiatis sit, quid ei nomen siet,

postilla extemplo se applicant, agglutinant:

si pellexerunt, perditum amittunt domum.

nunc ín istoc portu stát navis praedatoria,

aps qua cavendum nobis sane censeo.
345

Menaechmvs

Mones quidem hercle recte.

Messenio

Tum demum sciam

recte monuisse, si tu recte caveris.

Menaechmvs

Tace dúm parumper, nam concrepuit ostium:

videamus qui hinc egreditur.

Messenio

Hoc ponam interim.

asservatote haec sultis, navales pedes.
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Menaechmi. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

Menaechmi (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.)

Translations (1)

Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.2 focus

273 (Enter CYLINDRUS, with a basket of provisions.)

CYLINDRUS

I’ve catered well, and to my mind. I’ll set a good breakfast before the breakfasters.

But see, I perceive Menaechmus. Woe to my back; the guests are now already walking before the door, before I’ve returned with the provisions. I’ll go and accost him. Save you, Menaechmus.
275

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

The Gods bless you, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS

who I am?

MESSENIO

I’ faith, not I, indeed.
280

CYLINDRUS

Where are the other guests?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What guests are you enquiring about?

CYLINDRUS

Your Parasite.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

My Parasite? Surely this fellow’s deranged.

MESSENIO

Didn’t I tell you that there were many swindlers here?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What Parasite of mine, young man, are you enquiring about?
285

CYLINDRUS

Peniculus.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Where is my ?

MESSENIO

See, I’ve got your sponge¹ [Peniculus] all safe in the wallet.

CYLINDRUS

Menaechmus, you’ve come here too soon for breakfast; I’m but now returning with the provisions.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Answer me this, young man: at what price do pigs sell here²,

unblemished ones, for sacrifice?
290

CYLINDRUS

At a didrachm a-piece.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

(holding out his hand.)

Receive, then, a didrachm of me; bid a sacrifice be made for you at my expense; for, by my faith, I really am sure in very truth that you are deranged, who are annoying me, a person that’s a stranger, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS

I am Cylindrus; don’t you know my name?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Whether you are Cylindrus or Caliendrus³, confound you. I don’t know you, and, in fact, I don’t want to know you.
295

CYLINDRUS

Well, your name, however, is Menaechmus, that I do know.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

You speak like a sane person when you call me by my name. But where have you known me?

CYLINDRUS

Where have I known you,

you who have Erotium, this mistress of mine (pointing to the house), for your lady?
300

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

By my troth, I have not, nor do I know yourself what person you are.

CYLINDRUS

Not know who I am, who have many a time filled the cups for your own self at our house, when you’ve been drinking?

MESSENIO

Woe to me, that I’ve got nothing with which to break this fellow’s head.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Are you in the habit of filling the cups for me, who, before this day, have never beheld Epidamnus, nor been there?
305

CYLINDRUS

Do you deny it?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Upon my honor,, I decidedly do deny it.

CYLINDRUS

Don’t you live in that house?

(Pointing to the house of MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.)

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

May the Gods send to perdition those that live there.

CYLINDRUS

Surely, this fellow’s mad, who is thus uttering curses against his own self.

Do you hear, Menaechmus?
310

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What do you want?

CYLINDRUS

If you take my advice, that didrachm, which you just now promised to give me—

you would order, if you were wise, a pig to be procured with it for yourself.
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For, i’ faith, you really for sure are not in your senses, Menaechmus, who are now uttering curses against your own self.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Alas! By my faith, a very silly fellow, and an annoyance to me.

CYLINDRUS

(to MESSENIO.)

He’s in the habit of often joking with me in this fashion. How very droll he is, when his wife isn’t present. How say you—?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What do you mean, you rascal?

CYLINDRUS

(pointing to the basket.)

Has this that you see

been provided in sufficient quantity for three persons, or am I to provide still more for yourself and the Parasite and the lady?
320

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What ladies—what Parasites are you talking about?

MESSENIO

What, you villain, urges you to be an annoyance to him?

CYLINDRUS

Pray what business have you with me? I don’t know you; I’m talking to this person, whom I do know.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

By my troth, you are not a person in his right senses, that I know for sure.
325

CYLINDRUS

I’ll have these things cooked directly; there shall be no delay. Don’t you be going after this anywhere at a distance from the house. Do you want anything?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

You to go to utter and extreme perdition.

CYLINDRUS

I’ faith, ’twere better for you to go in-doors at once and take your place,

while I’m subjecting these things to the strength of the fire⁴. I’ll go in-doors now, and tell Erotium that you are standing here, that she may fetch you away hence, rather than you be standing here out of doors.
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(He goes into the house.)

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Is he gone then? He is gone. By my faith, I find by experience that your words are not untrue.

MESSENIO

Do you only be on your guard;

for I do believe that some woman in the harlot line is living here, as, in fact. this madman said, who has just gone away from here.
335

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

But I wonder how he came to know my name.

MESSENIO

I’ faith, ’tis far from surprising: courtesans have this custom; they send servant-boys and servant-girls down to the harbour;

if any foreign ship comes into port, they enquire of what country it is, and what its name is; after that, at once they set themselves to work, and fasten themselves upon him; if they inveigle him, they send him home a ruined man. Now in this harbour there stands a piratical craft,
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against which I really think that we must be on our guard.
345

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

I’ troth, you really counsel aright.

MESSENIO

Then, in fine, shall I be sure that I’ve counselled aright, if you are rightly on your guard.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Be silent for a moment, then; for the door makes a noise. Let’s see who’s coming out from there.

MESSENIO

Meanwhile, I’ll lay this down. (He puts down the wallet.)

Do you keep watch upon these things, if you please, you sailors⁵.
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Cylindrvs Bene opsonavi atque ex mea sententia, bonum anteponam prandium pransoribus. sed eccúm Menaechmum video. vae tergo meo, 275 prius iám convivae ambulant ante ostium, quam ego opsonatu redeo. adibo atque alloquar. Menaechme, salve.

Menaechmvs Di te amabunt quisquis es.

Cylindrvs Quisquis quis ego sim?

Menaechmvs Non hercle vero. 280

Cylindrvs Vbi convivae ceteri?

Menaechmvs Quos tu convivas quaeris?

Cylindrvs Parasitum tuom.

Menaechmvs Meum parasitum? certe hic insanust homo.

Messenio Dixin tibi esse hic sycophantas plurumos?

Menaechmvs Quem tu parasitum quaeris, adulescens, meum? 285

Messenio Peniculum éccum in vidulo salvom fero.

Cylindrvs Menaechme, numero huc advenis ad prandium. nunc opsonatu redeo.

Menaechmvs Responde mihi, adulescens: quibus hic pretiis porci veneunt sacres sinceri? 290

Cylindrvs Nummis.

Menaechmvs Nummum a me accipe: iube té piari de mea pecunia. nam équidem insanum esse te certo scio, qui mihi molestu's molestus es homini ignoto, quisquis es.

Cylindrvs Cylindrus ego sum: non nosti nomen meum?

Menaechmvs Si tu Cylindrus seu Coriendrus, perieris. 295 ego te non novi, neque novisse adeo volo.

Cylindrvs Est tibi Menaechmo nomen, tantum quod sciam.

Menaechmvs Pro sano loqueris quom me appellas nomine. sed ubi novisti me?

Cylindrvs Vbi ego te noverim, qui amicam habes eram meam hanc Erotium? 300

Menaechmvs Neque hercle ego habeo, neque te quis homo sis scio.

Cylindrvs Non scis quis ego sim, qui tibi saepissime cyathisso apud nos, quando potas?

Messenio Ei mihi, quom nihil est qui illi homini diminuam caput.

Menaechmvs Tun cyathissare mihi soles, qui ante hunc diem 305 Epidamnum numquam vidi neque veni?

Cylindrvs Negas?

Menaechmvs Nego hercle vero.

Cylindrvs Non tu in illisce aedibus † habitas?

Menaechmvs Di illos homines, qui illic habitant, perduint.

Cylindrvs Insanit hic quidem, qui ipse male dicit sibi. audin, Menaechme? 310

Menaechmvs Quid vis?

Cylindrvs Si me consulas, nummum illum quem mihi dudum pollicitu's pollicitus es dare— nam tu quidem hercle certo non sanu's sanus es satis, Menaechme, qui nunc ipsus male dicas tibi— iubeas, si sapias, porculum adferri tibi. 314315

Messenio Eu hercle hominem multum, et odiosum mihi.

Cylindrvs Solet iocari saepe mecum illoc modo. quam vis ridiculus est, ubi uxor non adest. quid ais tu?

Menaechmvs Quid vis, inquam.

Cylindrvs Satin hoc quod vides tribus vóbis opsonatumst, an opsono amplius, 320 tibi et parasito et mulieri?

Menaechmvs Quas tu mulieres, quos tu parasitos loquere?

Messenio Quod te urget scelus, qui huic sis molestus?

Cylindrvs Quid tibi mecum est rei? ego te non novi: cum hoc quem novi fabulor.

Messenio Non edepol tú homo sanus es, certo scio. 325

Cylindrvs Iam ergo haec madebunt faxo, nil morabitur. proin tu ne quo abeas longius ab aedibus. numquid vis?

Menaechmvs Vt eas maximam malam crucem.

Cylindrvs Ire hercle meliust te interim atque accumbere, dum ego haec appono ad Volcani violentiam. 330 ibo intro et dicam te hic adstare Erotio, ut te hinc abducat potius quam hic adstes foris.—

Menaechmvs Iamne abiit illic? edepol haud mendacia tua verba experior esse.

Messenio Observato modo: nam istic meretricem credo habitare mulierem, 335 ut quidem ille insanus dixit, qui hinc abiit modo.

Menaechmvs Sed miror qui ille noverit nomen meum.

Menaechmvs Mones quidem hercle recte.

Messenio Tum demum sciam recte monuisse, si tu recte caveris.

Menaechmvs Tace dúm parumper, nam concrepuit ostium: videamus qui hinc egreditur.

Messenio Hoc ponam interim. asservatote haec sultis, navales pedes. 350

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CYLINDRUS I’ve catered well, and to my mind. I’ll set a good breakfast before the breakfasters. But see, I perceive Menaechmus. Woe to my back; the guests are now already walking before the door, before I’ve returned with the provisions. I’ll go and accost him. Save you, Menaechmus. 275

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES The Gods bless you, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS who I am?

MESSENIO I’ faith, not I, indeed. 280

CYLINDRUS Where are the other guests?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES What guests are you enquiring about?

CYLINDRUS Your Parasite.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES My Parasite? Surely this fellow’s deranged.

MESSENIO Didn’t I tell you that there were many swindlers here?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES What Parasite of mine, young man, are you enquiring about? 285

CYLINDRUS Peniculus.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Where is my ?

MESSENIO See, I’ve got your sponge 1 [Peniculus] all safe in the wallet.

CYLINDRUS Menaechmus, you’ve come here too soon for breakfast; I’m but now returning with the provisions.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Answer me this, young man: at what price do pigs sell here 2 , unblemished ones, for sacrifice? 290

CYLINDRUS At a didrachm a-piece.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES (holding out his hand.) Receive, then, a didrachm of me; bid a sacrifice be made for you at my expense; for, by my faith, I really am sure in very truth that you are deranged, who are annoying me, a person that’s a stranger, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS I am Cylindrus; don’t you know my name?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Whether you are Cylindrus or Caliendrus 3 , confound you. I don’t know you, and, in fact, I don’t want to know you. 295

CYLINDRUS Well, your name, however, is Menaechmus, that I do know.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES You speak like a sane person when you call me by my name. But where have you known me?

CYLINDRUS Where have I known you, you who have Erotium, this mistress of mine (pointing to the house), for your lady? 300

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES By my troth, I have not, nor do I know yourself what person you are.

CYLINDRUS Not know who I am, who have many a time filled the cups for your own self at our house, when you’ve been drinking?

MESSENIO Woe to me, that I’ve got nothing with which to break this fellow’s head.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Are you in the habit of filling the cups for me, who, before this day, have never beheld Epidamnus, nor been there? 305

CYLINDRUS Do you deny it?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Upon my honor,, I decidedly do deny it.

Cylindrvs

Bene opsonavi atque ex mea sententia,

bonum anteponam prandium pransoribus.

sed eccúm Menaechmum video. vae tergo meo,
275

prius iám convivae ambulant ante ostium,

quam ego opsonatu redeo. adibo atque alloquar.

Menaechme, salve.

Menaechmvs

Di te amabunt quisquis es.

Cylindrvs

Quisquis quis ego sim?

Menaechmvs

Non hercle vero.
280

Cylindrvs

Vbi convivae ceteri?

Menaechmvs

Quos tu convivas quaeris?

Cylindrvs

Parasitum tuom.

Menaechmvs

Meum parasitum? certe hic insanust homo.

Messenio

Dixin tibi esse hic sycophantas plurumos?

Menaechmvs

Quem tu parasitum quaeris, adulescens, meum?
285

Messenio

Peniculum éccum in vidulo salvom fero.

Cylindrvs

Menaechme, numero huc advenis ad prandium.

nunc opsonatu redeo.

Menaechmvs

Responde mihi,

adulescens: quibus hic pretiis porci veneunt

sacres sinceri?
290

Cylindrvs

Nummis.

Menaechmvs

Nummum a me accipe:

iube té piari de mea pecunia.

nam équidem insanum esse te certo scio,

qui mihi molestu's molestus es homini ignoto, quisquis es.

Cylindrvs

Cylindrus ego sum: non nosti nomen meum?

Menaechmvs

Si tu Cylindrus seu Coriendrus, perieris.
295

ego te non novi, neque novisse adeo volo.

Cylindrvs

Est tibi Menaechmo nomen, tantum quod sciam.

Menaechmvs

Pro sano loqueris quom me appellas nomine.

sed ubi novisti me?

Cylindrvs

Vbi ego te noverim,

qui amicam habes eram meam hanc Erotium?
300

Menaechmvs

Neque hercle ego habeo, neque te quis homo sis scio.

Cylindrvs

Non scis quis ego sim, qui tibi saepissime

cyathisso apud nos, quando potas?

Messenio

Ei mihi,

quom nihil est qui illi homini diminuam caput.

Menaechmvs

Tun cyathissare mihi soles, qui ante hunc diem
305

Epidamnum numquam vidi neque veni?

Cylindrvs

Negas?

Menaechmvs

Nego hercle vero.

Cylindrvs

Non tu in illisce aedibus

† habitas?

Menaechmvs

Di illos homines, qui illic habitant, perduint.

Cylindrvs

Insanit hic quidem, qui ipse male dicit sibi.

audin, Menaechme?
310

Menaechmvs

Quid vis?

Cylindrvs

Si me consulas,

nummum illum quem mihi dudum pollicitu's pollicitus es dare—

nam tu quidem hercle certo non sanu's sanus es satis,

Menaechme, qui nunc ipsus male dicas tibi—

iubeas, si sapias, porculum adferri tibi.
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Messenio

Eu hercle hominem multum, et odiosum mihi.

Cylindrvs

Solet iocari saepe mecum illoc modo.

quam vis ridiculus est, ubi uxor non adest.

quid ais tu?

Menaechmvs

Quid vis, inquam.

Cylindrvs

Satin hoc quod vides

tribus vóbis opsonatumst, an opsono amplius,
320

tibi et parasito et mulieri?

Menaechmvs

Quas tu mulieres,

quos tu parasitos loquere?

Messenio

Quod te urget scelus,

qui huic sis molestus?

Cylindrvs

Quid tibi mecum est rei?

ego te non novi: cum hoc quem novi fabulor.

Messenio

Non edepol tú homo sanus es, certo scio.
325

Cylindrvs

Iam ergo haec madebunt faxo, nil morabitur.

proin tu ne quo abeas longius ab aedibus.

numquid vis?

Menaechmvs

Vt eas maximam malam crucem.

Cylindrvs

Ire hercle meliust te interim atque accumbere,

dum ego haec appono ad Volcani violentiam.
330

ibo intro et dicam te hic adstare Erotio,

ut te hinc abducat potius quam hic adstes foris.—

Menaechmvs

Iamne abiit illic? edepol haud mendacia

tua verba experior esse.

Messenio

Observato modo:

nam istic meretricem credo habitare mulierem,
335

ut quidem ille insanus dixit, qui hinc abiit modo.

Menaechmvs

Sed miror qui ille noverit nomen meum.

Menaechmvs

Mones quidem hercle recte.

Messenio

Tum demum sciam

recte monuisse, si tu recte caveris.

Menaechmvs

Tace dúm parumper, nam concrepuit ostium:

videamus qui hinc egreditur.

Messenio

Hoc ponam interim.

asservatote haec sultis, navales pedes.
350

CYLINDRUS

I’ve catered well, and to my mind. I’ll set a good breakfast before the breakfasters.

But see, I perceive Menaechmus. Woe to my back; the guests are now already walking before the door, before I’ve returned with the provisions. I’ll go and accost him. Save you, Menaechmus.
275

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

The Gods bless you, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS

who I am?

MESSENIO

I’ faith, not I, indeed.
280

CYLINDRUS

Where are the other guests?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What guests are you enquiring about?

CYLINDRUS

Your Parasite.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

My Parasite? Surely this fellow’s deranged.

MESSENIO

Didn’t I tell you that there were many swindlers here?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What Parasite of mine, young man, are you enquiring about?
285

CYLINDRUS

Peniculus.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Where is my ?

MESSENIO

See, I’ve got your sponge¹ [Peniculus] all safe in the wallet.

CYLINDRUS

Menaechmus, you’ve come here too soon for breakfast; I’m but now returning with the provisions.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Answer me this, young man: at what price do pigs sell here²,

unblemished ones, for sacrifice?
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CYLINDRUS

At a didrachm a-piece.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

(holding out his hand.)

Receive, then, a didrachm of me; bid a sacrifice be made for you at my expense; for, by my faith, I really am sure in very truth that you are deranged, who are annoying me, a person that’s a stranger, whoever you are.

CYLINDRUS

I am Cylindrus; don’t you know my name?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Whether you are Cylindrus or Caliendrus³, confound you. I don’t know you, and, in fact, I don’t want to know you.
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CYLINDRUS

Well, your name, however, is Menaechmus, that I do know.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

You speak like a sane person when you call me by my name. But where have you known me?

CYLINDRUS

Where have I known you,

you who have Erotium, this mistress of mine (pointing to the house), for your lady?
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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

By my troth, I have not, nor do I know yourself what person you are.

CYLINDRUS

Not know who I am, who have many a time filled the cups for your own self at our house, when you’ve been drinking?

MESSENIO

Woe to me, that I’ve got nothing with which to break this fellow’s head.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Are you in the habit of filling the cups for me, who, before this day, have never beheld Epidamnus, nor been there?
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CYLINDRUS

Do you deny it?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Upon my honor,, I decidedly do deny it.

CYLINDRUS

Don’t you live in that house?

(Pointing to the house of MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.)

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

May the Gods send to perdition those that live there.

CYLINDRUS

Surely, this fellow’s mad, who is thus uttering curses against his own self.

Do you hear, Menaechmus?
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