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I’ll accost them. (Goes up to them.) O welcome to you, our neighbor Chremes.
GETA
I’m delighted to see you safe returned.
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CHREMES
I believe you.
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CHREMES
Many changes here upon my arrival, as usually the case.
GETA
True; have you heard what has happened to Antipho?
GETA
What, have you told him? Disgraceful conduct, Chremes, thus to be imposed on.
DEMIPHO
It was about that I was talking to him just now.
GETA
But really, on carefully reflecting upon this matter I think I have found a remedy.
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DEMIPHO
What is the remedy?
GETA
When I left you, by accident Phormio met me.
GETA
He who patronized her.
GETA
It seemed to me that I might first sound him;
I took the fellow aside: Phormio, said I, why don’t we try to settle these matters between us rather with a good grace than with a bad one? My master’s a generous man, and one who hates litigation; but really, upon my faith, all his friends were just now
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advising him with one voice to turn her instantly out of doors.
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ANTIPHO
What is he about? Or where is this to end at last?
