Perde 2
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Just look around, whether there’s any person to overhear our discourse.
THEUROPIDES
All’s quite safe.
TRANIO
Look around once more.
THEUROPIDES
There’s nobody; now then, speak out.
TRANIO
The house has been guilty of a capital offence Guilty of a capital offence: Capitalis aedes facta eat; meaning that a murder had been committed in it..
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THEUROPIDES
I don’t understand you.
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TRANIO
A crime, I tell you, has been committed there, a long while ago, one of olden time and ancient date.
THEUROPIDES
Of ancient date?
TRANIO
’Tis but recently, in fact, that we’ve discovered this deed.
THEUROPIDES
What is this crime, or who committed it? Tell me.
TRANIO
A host slew his guest, seized with his hand;
he, I fancy, who sold you the house.
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TRANIO
And robbed this guest of his gold, and buried this guest there in the house, on the spot.
THEUROPIDES
For what reason do you suspect that this took place?
TRANIO
I’ll tell you; listen. One day, when your son had dined away from home, after he returned home from dining;
we all went to bed, and fell asleep. By accident, I had forgotten to put out my lamp; and he, all of a sudden, called out aloud—
THEUROPIDES
What person? My son?
TRANIO
Hist! hold your peace: just listen.
He said that a dead man came to him in his sleep—
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