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How do you know? Were you, perchance, the midwife of my mother,
TYNDARUS
since you dare to affirm this so boldly?
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ARISTOPHONTES
When a boy, I saw yourself, a boy.
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TYNDARUS
But, grown up, I now see you grown up; so, there’s for you, in return. If you did right, you wouldn’t be troubling yourself about my concerns; do I trouble myself about yours?
HEGIO
Was his father called Thesaurochrysonicocrœsides?
ARISTOPHONTES
He was not; and I never heard that name before this day.
Theodoromedes was the father of Philocrates.
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TYNDARUS
I’m downright undone. Why don’t you be quiet, heart of mine? Go and be stretched, and hang yourself; you are throbbing so, that unfortunate I can hardly stand up for my fear.
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HEGIO
Is a full assurance given me that this was a slave in Elis, and that he is not Philocrates?
ARISTOPHONTES
So fully, that you will never find this to be otherwise; but where is heBut where is he: Tyndarus has probably betaken himself to some corner of the stage, and Aristophontes misses him from his former position. now?
HEGIO
Where I the least, and he the most could wish himself. In consequence, then, I’m cut asunderCut asunder: Deruncinatus means, literally, cut asunder with a runcina, or saw., disjointed, to my sorrow, by the devices of this scoundrel, who has bamboozled me by his tricks just as he has thought fit. But do, please, have a care that you are right.
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ARISTOPHONTES
Why, I assure you of this, as an ascertained and established fact.
ARISTOPHONTES
Why, nothing, I say, will you find more certain than this certainty.
Philocrates, from when a boy, has ever since that time been my friend.
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HEGIO
But of what appearance is your friend Philocrates?
ARISTOPHONTES
I’ll tell you:
with a thin face, sharp nose, light hair, dark eyes, somewhat ruddy, with hair rather crisp and curling,
HEGIO
The description is like.
TYNDARUS
Aye, so much so, indeed, that I’ve this day, much to my sorrow, got into the midst of this, i’ faith. Woe to those unfortunate rods which this day will be meeting their end upon my back.
