Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Do you say that a mistress was purchased for Philolaches for thirty minae?
PHANISCUS
I do say so.
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THEUROPIDES
And that he gave her her freedom?
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PHANISCUS
I do say so.
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THEUROPIDES
And that after his father had departed hence abroad, he has been carousing here continually with your master?
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THEUROPIDES
Well, has he made purchase of the house next door here?
PHANISCUS
I don’t say so.
THEUROPIDES
Has he given forty minae, too, to this person, to be as a deposit?
PHANISCUS
Nor yet do I say so.
THEUROPIDES
Ah me! you’ve proved my ruin!
PHANISCUS
Aye, and he has proved the ruin of his father.
THEUROPIDES
You prophesy the truth! I could wish it false!
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PHANISCUS
A friend of his father, I suppose?
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THEUROPIDES
Ah me! Upon my faith, you do pronounce him to be a wretched father.
PHANISCUS
Why really, this is nothing at all—thirty minae, in comparison with the other expenses he has incurred in good living.
He has ruined his father.
There’s one servant there a very great scoundrel, Tranio by name; he could even waste the revenue of a Hercules The revenue of a Hercules: It was the custom with many to devote to Hercules the tenth part of their possessions. Consequently, the revenues belonging to the Temples of this Deity would be especially large..
On my word, I’m sadly distrest for his father; for when he comes to know that things have gone on thus, a hot coal will be scorching his breast, poor man.
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THEUROPIDES
If, indeed, this is the truth.
