Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
All right, it’s just as I sealed it up.
775
SOSIA
Prithee, why don’t you order her to be purified To be purified: Circumferri. Literally, to be carried round her. Those who were cerriti, tormented with the wrath of Ceres, or, in other words, possessed by evil spirits, were exorcised by persons walking round them with sulphur and burning torches; whence the present expression. as a frantic person?
775
AMPHITRYON
By my troth, somehow there’s need for it, for, i’ faith, she’s certainly filled with sprites.
ALCMENA
What need is there of talking? See, here’s the goblet; here it is.
ALCMENA
Come, now then, look here, if you please, you who deny what is fact, and whom I shall now clearly convict in this case.
Isn’t this the goblet with which you were presented there?
780
AMPHITRYON
Supreme Jupiter! what do I behold? Surely this is that goblet. Sosia, I’m utterly confounded.
780
SOSIA
Upon my faith, either this woman is a most consummate juggler, or the goblet must be in here (pointing to the casket.)
AMPHITRYON
Come, then, open this casket.
SOSIA
Why should I open it? It is securely sealed. The thing is cleverly contrived;
you have brought forth another Amphitryon, I have brought forth another Sosia; now if the goblet has brought forth a goblet, we have all produced our doubles.
785
AMPHITRYON
I’m determined to open and examine it.
SOSIA
Look, please, how the seal is, that you may not hereafter throw the blame on me.
AMPHITRYON
Now do open it. For she certainly is desirous to drive us mad with her talking.
ALCMENA
Whence then came this which was made a present to me, but from yourself?
790
AMPHITRYON
It’s necessary for me to enquire into this.
SOSIA
Jupiter, O Jupiter!
AMPHITRYON
What is the matter with you?
SOSIA
There’s no goblet here in the casket.
