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Do you give attention then?
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CHREMES
Just stop—first I want to know this, what money you have squandered; for when you told your son that she was promised, of course Dromo would at once throw in a word that golden jewels, clothes, and attendants would be needed for the bride, in order that you might give the money.
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MENEDEMUS
No, I tell you.
CHREMES
Nor yet your son himself?
MENEDEMUS
Not in the slightest, Chremes.
He was only the more pressing on this one point, that the match might be concluded to-day.
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CHREMES
You say what’s surprising. What did my servant Syrus do? Didn’t even he say any thing?
MENEDEMUS
Nothing at all.
CHREMES
For what reason, I don’t know.
MENEDEMUS
For my part, I wonder at that, when you know other things so well. But this same Syrus has moulded your son,Has moulded your son: Mire finxit. He sarcastically uses the same word, fingo, which Chremes himself employed in 1. 887. too, to such perfection, that there could not be even the slightest suspicion that she is Clinia’s mistress!
CHREMES
What do you say?
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MENEDEMUS
Not to mention, then, their kissing and embracing; that I count nothing.
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CHREMES
What more could be done to carry on the cheat?
CHREMES
What do you mean?
MENEDEMUS
Only listen. In the inner part of my house there is a certain room at the back; into this a bed was brought, and was made up with bed-clothes.
CHREMES
What took place after this?
MENEDEMUS
No sooner said than done, thither went Clitipho.
