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[Textpart 4]
But I ordered to that effect.
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PAMPHILUS
Prithee, do order him to be set at liberty,
955
PAMPHILUS
But immediately.
PAMPHILUS
O fortunate and happy day!
[Textpart 5]
I’m come to see what Pamphilus is about; and look, here he is.
PAMPHILUS
Some one perhaps might imagine that I don’t believe this to be true; but now it is clear to me that it really is true. I do think that the life of the Gods is everlasting,
for this reason, because their joys are their own. Their joys are their own: Westerhovius remarks that he seems here to be promulgating the doctrine of Epicurus, who taught that the Deities devoted themselves entirely to pleasure and did not trouble themselves about mortals. Donatus observes that these are the doctrines of Epicurus, and that the whole sentence is copied from the Eunuch of Menander; to which practice of borrowing from various Plays, allusion is made in the Prologue, where he mentions the mixing of plays; contaminari fabulas. For immortality has been obtained by me, if no sorrow interrupts this delight. But whom in particular could I wish to be now thrown in my way, for me to relate these things to?
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CHARINUS
What means this rapture?
PAMPHILUS
I see Davus. There is no one in the world whom I would choose in preference; for I am sure that he of all people will sincerely rejoice in my happiness.
[Textpart 6]
Where is Pamphilus, I wonder?
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PAMPHILUS
Here he is, Davus.
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you don’t know what has happened to me.
DAVUS
No really; but I know what has happened to myself.
DAVUS
It has fallen out just like human affairs in general, that you should know the mishap I have met with, before I the good that has befallen you.
