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Philinna Well, the others applauded, but Diphilus lay on his back and looked up at the ceiling, till I was tired and gave up.
Mother But what about kissing Lamprias? is that true? and going across and embracing him? Well, why don’t you speak? Those are things I cannot forgive.
Philinna I wanted to pay him out.
Mother And then not sitting near him! singing while he was in tears! Think how poor we are, girl; you forget how much we have had from him, and what last winter would have been if Aphrodite had not sent him to us.
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Philinna I dare say! and I am to let him outrage my feelings just for that?
Mother Oh, be as angry as you like, but no tit for tat. You ought to know that if a lover’s feelings are outraged his love ends, and he finds out his folly. You have always been too hard on the lad; pull too tight, and the rope breaks, you know.
Melitta Bacchis, don’t you know any of those old women—there are any number of them about, ‘Thessalians,’ they call them— they have incantations, you know, and they can make a man in love with you, no matter how much he hated you before?_ Do go and bring me one, there’s a dear! I’d give the clothes off my back, jewellery and all, to see Charinus here again, and to have him hate Simiche as he hates me at this moment.
