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SOSTRATA
Upon my faith, we assuredly are all of us hated by our husbands with equal injustice,
on account of a few, who cause us all to appear deserving of harsh treatment. For, so may. the Gods prosper me, as to what my husband accuses me of, I am quite guiltless. But it is not so easy to clear myself, so strongly have people come to the conclusion that all step-mothers are harsh: i’ faith, not I, indeed, for I never regarded her otherwise than if she had been my own daughter; nor can I conceive how this has befallen me.
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But really, for many reasons, I long for my son’s return home with impatience.
(Goes into her house.)
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Upon my faith, we assuredly are all of us hated by our husbands with equal injustice,
on account of a few, who cause us all to appear deserving of harsh treatment. For, so may. the Gods prosper me, as to what my husband accuses me of, I am quite guiltless. But it is not so easy to clear myself, so strongly have people come to the conclusion that all step-mothers are harsh: i’ faith, not I, indeed, for I never regarded her otherwise than if she had been my own daughter; nor can I conceive how this has befallen me.
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But really, for many reasons, I long for my son’s return home with impatience.
(Goes into her house.)
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Hecyra. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). Ney York. 1874.
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