Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
The Gods protect and favour me! for this is my anvil: this day will I hammer out thence full many a device.
HARPAX
Why is he talking to himself alone?
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PSEUDOLUS
How say you, young man—?
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PSEUDOLUS
Are you, or are you not, from that Captain of Macedonia? The servant of him, II mean, who bought a damsel of us here, who gave fifteen silver minae to the procurer, my master, and is still owing five?
HARPAX
I am. But where in the world have you ever known me,
or have ever seen or spoken to me? For in fact, before this day, I never was at Athens, nor did I ever before this day behold you with my eyes * * * * * * * * * *
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PSEUDOLUS
Because you seem likely to be from him; for at the time when he went away, this was the day appointed for the money, on which he was to pay it to us, and he has not brought it as yet.
PSEUDOLUS
What?—have you brought it?
PSEUDOLUS
Do you at all hesitate to give it me?
PSEUDOLUS
Aye, faith, to me, who manage the business and the accounts of my master Ballio, receive his money, and pay it to him to whom he owes it.
HARPAX
By my troth, if you were even the keeper of the treasures of supreme Jove, I would never entrust a groat of silver to you.
PSEUDOLUS
While you’ve been making yourself so big,
the money has become loose Has become loose: This passage is of obscure meaning; very possibly, however, while Harpax has been vapouring, the mouth of the bag containing the money has become loose, to which Pseudolus draws his attention..
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HARPAX
I’ll keep it the rather tied up—this way.
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PSEUDOLUS
Woe to you! You indeed have been found to doubt my honor. As though innumerable times as much are not in the habit of being entrusted to me alone.
HARPAX
It’s possible that others may think so, and that I mayn’t trust you.
