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Tryphaena Which? there are two of them; one in Piraeus, who has only just come there; Damyllus the governor’s son is in love with her; is it that one? or the other, the one they call The Trap?
Charmides Yes, that is she; she has caught me and got me tight, poor mouse.
Tryphaena And the tears were all for her?
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Tryphaena Is this recent? or how long has it been going on?
Charmides Oh, it is nothing new. I saw her first at the Dionysia; that makes seven months.
Tryphaena Had you a full view of her, or did you just see her face and as much as a woman of forty-five likes to show?
Charmides Oh, come! I have her word for it she will be two-and-twenty next birthday.
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Tryphaena Well, which are you going to trust—her word, or your own eyes? Just take a careful look at her temples some day; that is the only place where her own hair shows; all the rest is a thick wig; but at the temples, when the dye fades a little, you can easily detect the grey. But that is nothing; insist on seeing more than her face.
Charmides Oh, but I am not favoured so far as that.
Tryphaena No, I should think not. She knows what the effect would be; why, she is all over—oh, talk of leopard-skins! And it was she made you cry like that, was it? I dare say, now, she was very cruel and scornful?
