Perde 3
[Textpart 3]
Get on, directly.
705
LIBANUS
I’ll do so. (He gets on.) Hallo!—what’s the matter? How are you going? By my troth, I’ll deprive you of your barley then, if you don’t ambleIf you don’t amble: Badizas. This is an adaptation of the Greek verb βαδίζω, to go., lifting up your feet.
705
ARGYRIPPUS
Prithee, Libanus, there’s enough now.
LIBANUS
Never this day, by my troth, shall you get anything by entreaty. For now up hill with the spur will I push on my steed. After that, I’ll deliver you to the millers, that there you may be tortured as you runTortured as you run: He alludes to the occupation of asses and worn-out horses in grinding at the corn-mill..
Stand still, that I may now at once get down for the hill, although you are but a bad one.
710
ARGYRIPPUS
Well now—since you’ve both made fun of me just as you liked, are you going to give the money?
LIBANUS
Why, yes, if, indeed, you erect to me a statue and an altar, and then sacrifice an ox to me here as though to a God; for I am the Divinity Salvation to you.
LEONIDA
Nay, but, master, do you betake yourself away from him, and do you come to me.
And, what he has demanded for himself, will you erect a statue for me, and offer prayers to me?
715
ARGYRIPPUS
But what Divinity am I to call you?
LEONIDA
Fortune, and that the Propitious oneAnd that the Propitious one: Fortuna Cbsequens or Propitious Fortune, had a Temple at Rome..
ARGYRIPPUS
You are better than he then.
LIBANUS
Why, is there ever anything better for a man than Salvation?
ARGYRIPPUS
Though I praise Fortune, still, not to speak in dispraise of the Divinity Salvation—
PHILENIUM
By the powers, but they are good, both of them.
ARGYRIPPUS
I shall know it, when they have conferred anything that’s good.
LEONIDA
Wish for that which you desire to befall you.
720
ARGYRIPPUS
What if I do wish it?
720
LEONIDA
It shall come to pass.
720
ARGYRIPPUS
I wish for her to be devoted to me alone this whole year round.
