Perde 3
[Textpart 6]
You try to persuade me, just like what you are: you are being taken off to gaol, for that reason is it you entreat me to follow you?
875
PLESIDIPPUS
Do you still resist?
PLESIDIPPUS
I trust that may prove the truth. You, my dear Palaestra and Ampelisca, do you remain here in the meanwhile, until I return hither.
SERVANT
I would advise them
rather to go to our house, until you return.
880
PLESIDIPPUS
I’m quite agreable; you act obligingly.
880
LABRAX
You are thieves to me.
PLESIDIPPUS
Lead him along.Part of line 881c in the Latin.
LABRAX
I pray and entreat you, Palaestra.
PLESIDIPPUS
Follow, you hang-dog.
CHARMIDES
I am no guest of yours; I repudiate your hospitality.
LABRAX
What, do you slight me in this fashion?
CHARMIDES
I do so; I’ve been drinking with you once already Once already: He alludes to the drenching he has had in the sea, by reason of his acquaintance with Labrax, and means to say that one such reception is quite sufficient for his life..
LABRAX
May the Deities confound you.
885
CHARMIDES
To that person of yours, say that. (PLESIDIPPUS leads LABRAX off, followed by the SERVANTS.) I do believe that men are transformed, each into a different beast. That Procurer, I guess, is transformed into a stock-dove A stock-dove: He puns upon the resemblance between the word columbar, a collar, into which the head was inserted by way of punishment, and columbus, a pigeon. The notion of preserving the pun, by using the word stock-dove, is Echard’s. The plural of the word columbar was also used to signify a dove-cot.; for, before long, his neck will be in the stocks. He’ll to-day be building his nest in the gaol.
885
Still, however, I’ll go, that I may be his advocate,—if by my aid he may possibly be sentenced any the sooner.
890
