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I think so.Part of Chremes' next line 607b in the Latin.
CHREMES
What then do you intend doing?
SYRUS
What, I? I shall go to Menedemus; I’ll tell him she is a captive from Caria, rich, and of noble family; if he redeems her, there will be a considerable profit in this transaction.
CHREMES
You are in an error.
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CHREMES
I’ll now answer you for Menedemus—I will not purchase her.
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SYRUS
What is it you say? Do speak more agreeably to our wishes.
CHREMES
But there is no occasion.
CHREMES
Certainly not, i’ faith.
CHREMES
You shall soon know.You shall soon know: Madame Dacier suggests that Chremes is prevented by his wife’s coming from making a proposal to advance the money himself, on the supposition that it will be a lucrative speculation. This notion is contradicted by Colman, who adds the following note from Eugraphius: Syrus pretends to have concerted this plot against Menedemus, in order to trick him out of some money to be given to Clinia’s supposed mistress. Chremes, however, does not approve of this: yet it serves to carry on the plot; for when Antiphila proves afterward to be the daughter of Chremes, he necessarily becomes the debtor of Bacchis, and is obliged to lay down the sum for which he imagines his daughter is pledged.
SYRUS
Stop, stop; what is the reason that there is such a great noise at our door?
