Perde 3
[Textpart 3]
But now, master, he must be looked after by you.
CHREMES
It shall be done.
SYRUS
If you are wise,—for now he minds me less and less every day.
CHREMES
What say you? What have you done, Syrus, about that matter which I was mentioning to you a short time since? Have you any plan that suits you, or not yet even?
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SYRUS
You mean the design upon Menedemus? I have; I have just hit upon one.
CHREMES
You are a clever fellow; what is it? Tell me.
SYRUS
I’ll tell you; but, as one matter arises out of another—
CHREMES
Why, what. is it, Syrus?
SYRUS
This Courtesan is a very bad woman.
SYRUS
Aye, if you did but know.
O shocking! just see what she is hatching. There was a certain old woman here from Corinth,—this Bacchis lent her a thousand silver drachmae.
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SYRUS
She is now dead: she has left a daughter, a young girl. She has been left with this Bacchis as a pledge for that sum.
CHREMES
I understand you.
SYRUS
She has brought her hither along with her, her I mean who is now with your wife.With your wife: Madame Dacier remarks, that as Anitiphila is shortly to be acknowledged as the daughter of Chremes, she is not therefore in company with the other women at the feast, who are Courtesans, but with the wife of Chremes, and consequently free from reproach or scandal.
SYRUS
She is soliciting Clinia at once to advance her this money; she says, however, that this girl is to be a security, that, at a future time, she will repay the thousand pieces of money.
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CHREMES
And would she really be a security?Would she really be a security: The question of Chremes seems directed to the fact whether the girl is of value sufficient to be good security for the thousand drachmae.
SYRUS
Dear me, is it to be doubted?
