Stasimon 2
[Lyric-Scene]
Not, as far as I know. Will you not then pack off as fast as possible from my door?
Pasias.
I will depart; and be assured of this, that I will make deposit against you, or may I live no longer!
Strepsiades.
Then you will lose it besides, in addition to your twelve minae. And yet I do not wish you to suffer this, because you named the kardopos floolishly.
Strepsiades.
Ha! Whoever is this, who is lamenting? Surely it was not one of Carcinus’ deities that spoke.
1260
Amynias.
But why do you wish to know this, who I am?-A miserable man.
Strepsiades.
Then follow your own path.
Amynias.
O harsh fortune! O Fates, breaking the wheels of my horses! O Pallas, how you have destroyed me!
Strepsiades.
What evil, pray, has Tlepolemus ever done you?
Amynias.
Do not jeer me, my friend; but order your son to pay me the money which he received; especially as I have been unfortunate.
Strepsiades.
What money is this?
1270
Amynias.
That which he borrowed.
1270
Strepsiades.
Then you were really unlucky, as I think.
Amynias.
By the gods, I fell while driving my horses.
Strepsiades.
Why, pray, do you talk nonsense, as if you had fallen from an ass?
Amynias.
Do I talk nonsense if I wish to recover my money?
Strepsiades.
You can’t be in your senses yourself.
1275
Strepsiades.
You appear to me to have had your brains shaken as it were.
Amynias.
And you appear to me, by Hermes, to be going to be summoned, if you will not pay me the money?
