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(Re-enter DORDALUS, from his house, with a bag of money.)
DORDALUS
Sixty minae of assayed silver are here
(pointing at the bag.) less two didrachms.
Sixty minae of assayed silver are here
(pointing at the bag.) less two didrachms.
SAGARISTIO
What’s the meaning of those didrachms?
What’s the meaning of those didrachms?
DORDALUS
To pay for this bag, or else to cause it to come home again.
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To pay for this bag, or else to cause it to come home again.
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SAGARISTIO
Lest you mightn’t be enough of a Procurer, did you fear, wretched, filthy, avaricious creature, that you might lose your bag?
Lest you mightn’t be enough of a Procurer, did you fear, wretched, filthy, avaricious creature, that you might lose your bag?
TOXILUS
Pray, let him alone; since he is a Procurer, he isn’t doing anything surprising.
Pray, let him alone; since he is a Procurer, he isn’t doing anything surprising.
DORDALUS
I’ve judged from omens that I should make some profit to-day;
nothing is of value so small to me, but that I grudge to lose it. Come, take this, will you?
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(Holds out the bag to SAGARISTIO.)
I’ve judged from omens that I should make some profit to-day;
nothing is of value so small to me, but that I grudge to lose it. Come, take this, will you?
690
SAGARISTIO
Place it around my neck, if it is not too much trouble.
Place it around my neck, if it is not too much trouble.
DORDALUS
Certainly, it shall be done.
(Hangs it round his neck.)
Certainly, it shall be done.
SAGARISTIO
Is there anything else that you wish with me?
Is there anything else that you wish with me?
TOXILUS
Why are you in such haste?
Why are you in such haste?
SAGARISTIO
My business is of that nature; the letters that have been entrusted me, I want to deliver;
and I’ve heard that my twin-brother’s a slave here; I wish to be off to seek him out, and redeem him.
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My business is of that nature; the letters that have been entrusted me, I want to deliver;
and I’ve heard that my twin-brother’s a slave here; I wish to be off to seek him out, and redeem him.
695
TOXILUS
And, i’ faith, you’ve not badly put me in mind of it; I think that I’ve seen here one very like you in figure, of just the same size.
And, i’ faith, you’ve not badly put me in mind of it; I think that I’ve seen here one very like you in figure, of just the same size.
SAGARISTIO
Why, it must surely be my brother
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Why, it must surely be my brother
1
.
DORDALUS
But we’d like to know what your name is.
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But we’d like to know what your name is.
700
TOXILUS
What does it matter to us to know?
What does it matter to us to know?
SAGARISTIO
Listen then, that you may know; my name is Lying- speakerus
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, Virgin-seller-onides, Trifle-great-talker-ides, Silver-screwer-outides, Thee-worthy-to-talk-to-ides, Wheedler-out-of-coin-ides,
What-he-has-once-got-hold-of-ides, Never-again-part-with-it-ides.
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Listen then, that you may know; my name is Lying- speakerus
2
, Virgin-seller-onides, Trifle-great-talker-ides, Silver-screwer-outides, Thee-worthy-to-talk-to-ides, Wheedler-out-of-coin-ides,
What-he-has-once-got-hold-of-ides, Never-again-part-with-it-ides.
705
DORDALUS
Dear me; upon my faith, this name of yours is written in many ways.
Dear me; upon my faith, this name of yours is written in many ways.
SAGARISTIO
Such is the way with the Persians; we have long names of many words twisted together. Do you wish for anything else?
Such is the way with the Persians; we have long names of many words twisted together. Do you wish for anything else?
DORDALUS
Farewell!
Farewell!
SAGARISTIO
And you farewell; for my mind’s aboard ship already.
And you farewell; for my mind’s aboard ship already.
DORDALUS
You’d better have gone to-morrow, and dined here to-day.
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(SAGARISTIO is going.) Farewell!
(Exit SAGARISTIO.)
You’d better have gone to-morrow, and dined here to-day.
710
(SAGARISTIO is going.) Farewell!
Persa. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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