Perde 3
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about this Music-girl.
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DEMEA
Do you really say so?
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SYRUS
Oh dear, he didn’t at all mince the matter; for just as the money was being counted out, the gentleman came upon us by chance, and began exclaiming, Oh Aeschinus, that you should perpetrate these enormities! that you should be guilty of actions so disgraceful to our family!
405
DEMEA
Oh, I shall weep for joy.
SYRUS
By this you are not squandering your money only, but your reputation.
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DEMEA
May he be preserved to me! I trust he will be like his forefathers.
DEMEA
Syrus, he is full of these maxims.
SYRUS
Strange, indeed! He had the means at home of learning them.
DEMEA
I do every thing I can; I spare no pains; I train him up to it: in fine,
I bid him look into the lives of men, as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Do this, I say—
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DEMEA
This is praiseworthy—
DEMEA
That is considered blamable—
DEMEA
And then, moreover—
SYRUS
Upon my honor, I have not the leisure
