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(Enter MICIO and HEGIO.)
(Enter MICIO and HEGIO.)
MICIO
I can see no reason here, Hegio, that I should be so greatly commended. I do my duty; the wrong that has originated with us I redress.
Unless, perhaps, you thought me one of that class of men who think that an injury is purposely done them if you expostulate about any thing they have done; and yet are themselves the first to accuse. Because I have not acted thus, do you return me thanks?
I can see no reason here, Hegio, that I should be so greatly commended. I do my duty; the wrong that has originated with us I redress.
Unless, perhaps, you thought me one of that class of men who think that an injury is purposely done them if you expostulate about any thing they have done; and yet are themselves the first to accuse. Because I have not acted thus, do you return me thanks?
HEGIO
Oh, far from it; I never led myself to believe you to be otherwise than you are; but I beg, Micio, that you will go with me to the mother of the young woman, and repeat to her the same; what you have told me, do you yourself tell the woman,
that this suspicion of Aeschinus’s fidelity was incurred on his brother’s account, and that this Music-girl was for him.
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Oh, far from it; I never led myself to believe you to be otherwise than you are; but I beg, Micio, that you will go with me to the mother of the young woman, and repeat to her the same; what you have told me, do you yourself tell the woman,
that this suspicion of Aeschinus’s fidelity was incurred on his brother’s account, and that this Music-girl was for him.
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MICIO
If you think I ought, or if there is a necessity for doing so, let us go.
If you think I ought, or if there is a necessity for doing so, let us go.
HEGIO
You act with kindness; for you’ll then both have relieved her mind who is now languishing in sorrow and affliction, and have discharged your duty. But if you think otherwise, I will tell her myself what you have been saying to me.
You act with kindness; for you’ll then both have relieved her mind who is now languishing in sorrow and affliction, and have discharged your duty. But if you think otherwise, I will tell her myself what you have been saying to me.
MICIO
Nay, I’ll go as well.
Nay, I’ll go as well.
HEGIO
You act with kindness;
all who are in distressed circumstances are suspicious,
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to I know not what degree; they take every thing too readily as an affront; they fancy themselves trifled with on account of their helpless condition; therefore it will be more satisfactory for you to justify him to them yourself.
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(They go into the house of SOSTRATA.)
You act with kindness;
all who are in distressed circumstances are suspicious,
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to I know not what degree; they take every thing too readily as an affront; they fancy themselves trifled with on account of their helpless condition; therefore it will be more satisfactory for you to justify him to them yourself.
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Adelphi. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). New York. 1874.
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