Perde 2
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What do I hear.
SOSIA
That which is the truth.
AMPHITRYON
But at your peril now, if it does not make its appearance.
ALCMENA
Why, it does make its appearance.
AMPHITRYON
Who then gave it you?
ALCMENA
The person that’s asking me the question.
SOSIA
You are on the catch for me, inasmuch as you yourself have secretly run before me hither from the ship by another road, and have taken the goblet away from here and given it to her, and afterwards you have secretly sealed it up again.
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AMPHITRYON
Ah me! and are you too helping her frenzy as well? (To ALCMENA) Do you say that we arrived here yesterday?
ALCMENA
I do say so, and on your arrival you instantly
greeted me, and I you, and I gave you a kiss.
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SOSIA
That beginning now about the kiss doesn’t please me.
AMPHITRYON
Go on telling it.
AMPHITRYON
What, after I bathed?
ALCMENA
You took your place at table.
SOSIA
Bravo, capital! Now make further enquiry.
AMPHITRYON
Don’t you interrupt. (To ALCMENA.) Go on telling me.
ALCMENA
The dinner was served; you dined with me; I reclined together with you at the repast.
AMPHITRYON
What, on the same couch?
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