Perde 4
[Textpart 7]
I speak to that effect.
HARPAX
Such is the fact, I say.
BALLIO
Polymachaeroplagides sent you to me?
HARPAX
You say what’s fact.
BALLIO
To give me this money?
the procurer Ballio.
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BALLIO
And for you to take away the woman from me?
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BALLIO
Did he say that it was Phœnicium?
HARPAX
You remember it exactly.
BALLIO
Wait there; I’ll return to you this instant.
HARPAX
Make haste, then, with all speed, for I’m in a hurry. ’Tis now late in the day, d’ye see?
BALLIO
I see; still I wish to call this person aside. Do you only wait there; I’ll return to you this instant. (He takes SIMO on one side.) What’s to be done now, Simo?
What are we to do? I’ve detected this fellow that has brought the money in the fact.
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BALLIO
And don’t you understand what this plan is?
SIMO
About as much as the most ignorant do.
BALLIO
Your servant, Pseudolus, has sent this fellow on the message, as though he was from the Macedonian Captain.
