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(Enter DEMIPHO and GETA.)
DEMIPHO
’Tis caused by our own fault, that it is advantageous to be dishonest; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and generous.
So run away as not to run beyond the house,
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as the saying is. Was it not enough to receive an injury from him, but money must be voluntarily offered him as well,
that he may have something on which to subsist while he plans some other piece of roguery?
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’Tis caused by our own fault, that it is advantageous to be dishonest; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and generous.
So run away as not to run beyond the house,
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as the saying is. Was it not enough to receive an injury from him, but money must be voluntarily offered him as well,
that he may have something on which to subsist while he plans some other piece of roguery?
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GETA
Most clearly so.
Most clearly so.
DEMIPHO
They now get rewarded for it, who confound right with wrong.
They now get rewarded for it, who confound right with wrong.
GETA
Most undoubtedly.
Most undoubtedly.
DEMIPHO
How very foolishly, in fact, we have managed the affair with him!
How very foolishly, in fact, we have managed the affair with him!
GETA
If by these means we can only manage for him to marry her.
If by these means we can only manage for him to marry her.
DEMIPHO
Is that, then, a matter of doubt?
Is that, then, a matter of doubt?
GETA
I’ faith, judging from what the fellow is, I don’t know whether he mightn’t change his mind.
I’ faith, judging from what the fellow is, I don’t know whether he mightn’t change his mind.
DEMIPHO
How! change it indeed?
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How! change it indeed?
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GETA
I don’t know: but
if perhaps, I say.
I don’t know: but
if perhaps, I say.
DEMIPHO
I’ll do as my brother advised me, bring hither his wife, to talk with her. Do you, Geta, go before; tell her that Nausistrata is about to visit her.
(DEMIPHO goes into the house of CHREMES.)
I’ll do as my brother advised me, bring hither his wife, to talk with her. Do you, Geta, go before; tell her that Nausistrata is about to visit her.
(DEMIPHO goes into the house of CHREMES.)
GETA
The money’s been got for Phaedria; it’s all hushed about the lawsuit; due care has been taken that she’s not to leave for the present. What next, then?
What’s to be done? You are still sticking in the mud. You are paying by borrowing;
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the evil that was at hand, has been put off for a day. The toils are increasing upon you, if you don’t look out. Now I’ll away home, and tell Phanium not to be afraid of Nausistrata, or his talking.
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(Goes into the house of DEMIPHO.)
The money’s been got for Phaedria; it’s all hushed about the lawsuit; due care has been taken that she’s not to leave for the present. What next, then?
What’s to be done? You are still sticking in the mud. You are paying by borrowing;
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the evil that was at hand, has been put off for a day. The toils are increasing upon you, if you don’t look out. Now I’ll away home, and tell Phanium not to be afraid of Nausistrata, or his talking.
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Phormio. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). Ney York. 1874.
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