Perde 5
[Textpart 4]
How is it that, so contrary to your usage, you are at Athens?
CRITO
So it has happened. But is this Simo?
CRITO
Simo, were you asking for me?Part of line 908b in the Latin.
SIMO
How now, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place?
SIMO
Have you come here so well prepared?
SIMO
Do you ask? Are you to be acting this way with impunity? Are you to be luring young men into snares here, inexperienced in affairs, and liberally brought up, by tempting them, and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises?
CRITO
Are you in your senses?
SIMO
And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage?
PAMPHILUS
I’m undone! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this.
CHREMES
If, Simo, you knew this person well,
you would not think thus; he is a worthy man.
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SIMO
He, a worthy man! To come so opportunely to-day just at the very nuptials, and yet never to have come before? (Ironically.) Of course, we must believe him, Chremes.
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PAMPHILUS
If I didn’t dread my father, I have something, which, in this conjuncture, I could opportunely suggest to him Could opportunely suggest to him: Colman has the following remark on this line: Madame Dacier and several English Translators make Pamphilus say that he could give Crito a hint or two. What hints he could propose to suggest to Crito, I can not conceive. The Italian translation, printed with the Vatican Terence, seems to understand the words in the same manner that I have translated them, in which sense (the pronoun illum referring to Simo instead of Crito) they seem to be the most natural words of Pamphilus on occasion of his father’s anger and the speech immediately preceding.
SIMO
A sharper! A sharper: Sycophanta. For some account of the sycophantae, swindlers or sharpers of ancient times, see the Notes to the Trinummus of Plautus, Bohn’s Translation.
CHREMES
It is his way, Crito; do excuse it.
CRITO
Let him take heed how he behaves.
