Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Harkye, you lads! what are you doing there? Why are you breaking down that door?
PHANISCUS
Our master’s at a drinking-party here.
THEUROPIDES
Your master at a drinking-party here?
THEUROPIDES
You’re carrying the joke too far, my lad.
PHANISCUS
We’ve come to fetch him.
PHANISCUS
Our master. Prithee, how often must I tell you?
THEUROPIDES
There’s no one living here my lad; for I do think that you are a decent lad.
PHANISCUS
Doesn’t a young gentleman called Philolaches live in this house?
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ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates
This old fellow’s crack-brained, surely.
PHANISCUS
You are entirely mistaken, respected sir Respected sir: Pater. Literally, father.; for unless he moved from here to-day or yesterday, I know for certain that he’s living here.
THEUROPIDES
Why, no one has been living here for these six months past.
ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates
You are dreaming.
ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates
You.
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THEUROPIDES
Don’t you be impertinent. Let me speak to the lad. (Pointing to PHANISCUS.)
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PHANISCUS
No one lives there? O dear—
THEUROPIDES
It’s the fact.
PHANISCUS
Really! why, yesterday and the day before,Part of 956b in the Latin. four, five, six days ago, all along, in fact, since his father went abroad from here, eating and drinking have never ceased for a single three days here.
