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Palum erga dectha Palum erga dectha: Naked men..
AGORASTOCLES
Milphio, what is he saying now?
MILPHIO
He says that he has got spades and forks Spades and forks: Milphio says he is speaking of palas and mergas, spades and pitchforks, by reason of the resemblance in the sound. given him for sale,
for digging the garden and reaping the corn.
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AGORASTOCLES
What is that to me?
MILPHIO
He wishes you to be informed of it, so that you mayn’t suppose that he has taken anything secretly and by stealth. He has really, I do believe, been sent here to your harvesting.
HANNO
Muphonium sucoraim Muphonium sucoraim: ’Tis on account of your Deities before invoked..
MILPHIO
So there! do take care, please, how you do what he’s begging of you.
AGORASTOCLES
What is he saying, or what is he begging? Explain it.
MILPHIO
For you to order him to be placed beneath a hurdle Beneath a hurdle: Milphio says he is speaking of crates, a hurdle. This mode of stoning to death was practised among the Carthaginians., and for many stones to be heaped upon it, so as to put him to death.
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HANNO
Gunebel balsamen ierasan!
AGORASTOCLES
Tell me what it is that he’s saying.
MILPHIO
I’ faith, now I really don’t at all know.
HANNO
But that you may know, now from this moment henceforth will I speak Latin.
(To MILPHIO.) Upon my faith, you must be a worthless and bad servant, to be laughing at a person, a foreigner and a stranger.
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MILPHIO
But, i’ faith, at yourself a person that’s both a swindler and a cheat, who have come here to take us in, you half-and-half Lybian, you double-tongue, just like a crawling reptile.
AGORASTOCLES
Away hence with your abusiveness! do restrain your tongue. You’ll keep it from uttering abuse, if you are prudent; I don’t want you to be speaking harshly to my kinsmen. I was born at Carthage; do you remember that.
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HANNO
O my fellow-countryman, greetings to you!
AGORASTOCLES
And you, troth, whoever you are;
and if you have need of anything, pray mention it, and command me for the sake of our common country.
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