Perde 2
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This fellow’s drunk, as I imagine.
AMPHITRYON
Yes—you there.
575
SOSIA
I wish I were so.
575
AMPHITRYON
You are wishing for that which is fact; where have you been drinking?
575
AMPHITRYON
What is this, that is the matter with the fellow?
SOSIA
Really I have told you ten times over. I am both at home now, I say (do you mark me?), and I, Sosia, am with you likewise. Don’t I appear, master, to have told you quite distinctly, and quite circumstantially, that this is so.
get away with you from me.
580
SOSIA
What’s the matter?
580
AMPHITRYON
A pestilence possesses you.
SOSIA
But why do you say so to me? I really am quite well and in perfect health, Amphitryon.
AMPHITRYON
But I’ll make you this very day, just as you have deserved, not to be quite so well, and to be miserable instead of your perfect health, if I return home.
Follow me, you who in this fashion are making sport of your master with your crack-brained talk; you, who, since you have neglected to perform what your master ordered, are now come even of your own accord to laugh at your master. Things which neither can happen, and which no one ever yet heard of in talk, you are telling of, you villain; on your back I’ll take care and make those lies to tell this very day.
585
SOSIA
Amphitryon, this is the most wretched of wretchedness to a good servant, who is telling the truth to his master, if that same truth is overpowered by violence.
590
AMPHITRYON
Discuss it with me by proofs. Why, how the plague can such a thing happen, for you now to be both here and at home? That I want to be told.
SOSIA
I really am both here and there; this any person has a right to wonder at; nor, Amphitryon, does this seem more. strange to you than to myself.
SOSIA
In no degree, I say, is this more strange to you than to myself; nor, so may the Deities love me, did I at first credit Sosia—me myself, until that Sosia, I myself, made me to believe me myself. In order did he relate everything, as each thing came to pass, when we sojourned with the enemy;
