Perde 2
[Textpart 1]
Come, do you follow after me.
SOSIA
I’m following; I’m following close after you.
AMPHITRYON
I think that you are the veriest rogue—
SOSIA
But for what reason?
AMPHITRYON
Because that which neither is, nor ever was, nor will be, you declare to me.
SOSIA
Look at that; you are now acting according to
your usual fashion, to be putting no trust in your servants.
555
AMPHITRYON
Why is it so? For what reason? Surely now, by the powers, I’ll cut out that villanous tongue of yours, you villain.
SOSIA
I am yours; do each thing just as it is agreable and as it pleases you.
Still you never can, by any method, hinder me from saying these things just as they took place here.
AMPHITRYON
You consummate villain, do you dare tell me this, that you are now at home, who are here present?
AMPHITRYON
A mishap shall the Gods send upon you, and I this day will send it as well.
SOSIA
That’s in your power, for I am your property.
AMPHITRYON
Do you dare, you whip-scoundrel, to play your tricks with me, your master? Do you dare affirm that which no person ever yet before this has seen, and which cannot possibly happen, for the same man to be in two places together at the same time?
565
SOSIA
Undoubtedly, such as I say is the fact.
AMPHITRYON
May Jupiter confound you!
SOSIA
What evil, master, have I been deemed deserving of in your service?
570
AMPHITRYON
Do you ask me, you rogue, who are even making sport of me?
SOSIA
With reason might you curse me, if it had not so happened. But I tell no lie, and I speak as the thing really did happen.
