Perde 2
[Textpart 1]
I didn’t give the sign; but still make your mistakes on that side in preference.
AESCHINUS
Now then, go.
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SANNIO
What is the meaning of this? Have you the sway here, Aeschinus?
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AESCHINUS
If I had it, you should be exalted for your deserts.
SANNIO
What business have you with me?
SANNIO
How then, do you know who I am?
AESCHINUS
I don’t want to.
SANNIO
Have I touched any thing of yours?
AESCHINUS
If you had touched it, you’d have got a drubbing.
SANNIO
What greater right then have you to take my property, for which I paid my money?
AESCHINUS
It were better for you not to be making a disturbance here before the house; for if you persist in being impertinent, you shall be dragged in at once, and there you shall be lashed to death with whips.
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SANNIO
A free man, with whips?
AESCHINUS
So it shall be.
SANNIO
Oh, you shameless fellow! Is this the place where they say there is equal liberty for all?
AESCHINUS
If you have now raved enough, Procurer, now then listen, if you please.
SANNIO
Why, is it I that have been raving, or you against me?
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AESCHINUS
Leave alone all that, and come to the point.
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SANNIO
What point? Where am I to come to?
