Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
You’ll obtain your prayer.
APAECIDES
Why then, don’t you go in-doors and bring the money out here? I’ll go visit the Forum. Epidicus, do you come thither.
EPIDICUS
Don’t you go away from there before I come to you.
APAECIDES
I’ll wait till then.
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PERIPHIANES
Do you follow me in-doors.
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EPIDICUS
Go and count it out; I’ll not detain you at all.
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[Textpart 3]
I do think that in the Attic land there is no spot of land so fertile as is this Periphanes of ours; why, from the locked and sealed-up money-chest I summon forth silver just as much as I please.
EPIDICUS
But this, i’ troth, I am afraid of, that if the old man should come to know it, he’ll be making parasites of elm-twigs Parasites of elm-twigs: He alludes to the propensity of Parasites for devouring to the bone all who came in their way., to be shaving me quite clean. But one matter and consideration disturbs me—what music-girl, one that goes out on hire, I’m to show to Apaecides. (He muses.) And that as well I’ve got: this morning the old gentleman bade me
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bring for him on hire some music-girl to his house here, to sing for him while he was performing a sacrifice Performing a sacrifice: It was the custom, while private person were sacrificing to the Lares or household Gods, to have music performed upon the harp or the pipe.. She shall be hired, and be instructed beforehand in what way she’s to prove herself cunning towards the old man. I’ll away in-doors; I’ll get the money out of the swindled old fellow.
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