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Do go now Do go now: Stasimus is continually urging him to follow Philto, and bring the matter to a conclusion, as he fears that so good an opportunity may be lost through his master’s habitual carelessness especially as Philto has agreed not to receive the land as a marriage-portion..
LESBONICUS
It seems by no means just, but that, since I have done wrong—
LESBONICUS
It should be chiefly a detriment to myself.
and shall I ever see you again?
590
STASIMUS
Do go now. Go—go now.
590
LESBONICUS
I am going.
590
Do you take care of that which I have asked you. I shall be here directly. (Exit LESBONICUS.)
STASIMUS
At length I have prevailed on him to go. In the name of the immortal Gods, i’ faith, ’tis a matter well managed by wrongful means of performance, inasmuch as our piece of land is safe; although even now ’tis still a very doubtful matter what may be the result of this affair.
But, if the land is parted with, ’tis all over ’Tis all over: He means that he will no longer have any support from his master, and that he will have to turn soldier, and so earn his livelihood. with my neck; I must carry a buckler in foreign lands, a helmet too, and my baggage. He will be running away from the city when the nuptials have been celebrated; he will be going hence to extreme and utter ruin, somewhere or other, to serve as a soldier, either to Asia or to Cilicia Atia or to Cilicia : , Alluding, probably to the wars which were continually occurring between the Greeks and the Persian monarchs, or else to the custom of hiring themselves out as mercenary soldiers, as Xenophon and the ten thousand did to the younger Cyrus..
595
I will go there (looking at the door of the house bouight by CALLICLES), where he has ordered me to go, although I detest this house ever since he has driven us out of our abode.
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