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[Textpart 3]
Now she has.
CHREMES
O Jupiter! the Gods do befriend us; I have found that it is my daughter married to your son.
DEMIPHO
Ha! How can that possibly be?
CHREMES
This spot is not exactly suited for me to tell it you.
DEMIPHO
Well then, step in-doors.
CHREMES
Hark, you, I don’t wish our sons even to come to know of this.
[Textpart 4]
I’m glad that, however my own affairs go, my brother has succeeded in his wishes. How wise it is to cherish desires of that nature in the mind, that when things run counter, you may easily find a cure for them! He has both got the money, and released himself from care; I, by no method, can extricate myself from these troubles;
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ANTIPHO
on the contrary, if the matter is concealed, I am in dread—but if disclosed, in disgrace. Neither should I now go home, were not a hope still presented me of retaining her. But where, I wonder, can I find Geta, that I may ask him what opportunity he would recommend me to take for meeting my father?
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[Textpart 5]
I received the money; handed it over to the Procurer; brought away the woman,
PHORMIO
that Phaedria might have her as his own—for she has now become free. Now there is one thing still remaining for me to manage,—to get a respite from the old gentlemen for carousing; for I’ll enjoy myself the next few days.
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ANTIPHO
But here’s Phormio. (Going up to him.) What have you to say?
ANTIPHO
Why—what’s Phaedria going to do now? In what way does he say that he intends to take his fill of love?
PHORMIO
In his turn, he’s going to act your part.
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PHORMIO
To run away from his father; he begs that you in your return will act on his behalf—to plead his cause for him. For he’s going to carouse at my house. I shall tell the old man that I’m going to Sunium, to the fair, to purchase the female servant that Geta mentioned a while since, so that, when they don’t see me here, they mayn’t suppose that I’m squandering their money.
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But there is a noise at the door of your house.
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ANTIPHO
See who’s coming out.
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[Textpart 6]
O fortune! O good luck!O good luck: Fors fortuna, good fortune; while fortuna merely means chance. with blessings how great, how suddenly hast thou loaded this day with thy favors to my master Antipho!—
