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instead of your daughter. As to those thirty minae, in fact, I imposed upon you.
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PERIPHIANES
For what reason did you play a trick upon me about that hired Music-girl?
EPIDICUS
I’ faith, I really did do it, and I think it was rightly done.
PERIPHIANES
In the last place, what has been done with the silver I gave you?
EPIDICUS
I’ll tell you; I gave it to a person neither bad nor yet good Nor yet good: Indigno is read here in some editions for benigno, and is, perhaps, a better reading; though Epidicus may, possibly, as Post suggests, intend to allude satirically to the undecided and versatile character of Stratippocles.—your son Stratippocles.
PERIPHIANES
Why did you dare to give it him?
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EPIDICUS
Because it pleased me.
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PERIPHIANES
Plague on it! what insolence is this?
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EPIDICUS
Am I to be bawled at just as if I were a slave?
PERIPHIANES
As you are a free man, I rejoice.
EPIDICUS
I have deserved to become so.
PERIPHIANES
You—deserved?
EPIDICUS
Go look in-doors; I’ll let you know that this is the truth.
PERIPHIANES
What’s the matter?
EPIDICUS
The thing itself will tell you so at once. Only do go in-doors.
PERIPHIANES
Aye, aye! this is not without its meaning.
Do you keep an eye on him, Apaecides.
APAECIDES
What’s the meaning of this, Epidicus?
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EPIDICUS
I’ faith, it’s with the greatest injustice that I’m standing here bound, through whose aid his daughter has been discovered to-day.
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APAECIDES
Do you say that you have found his daughter?
