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But I would rather have him draw upon my mishaps than upon my savingsUpon my savings: He seems to mean, that he had rather put up with insult, or violence even, from his pupil, than be responsible for his misdeeds in which latter case, probably, some part of his peculium, or savings, would be taken away from him, in the shape of fines..
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LYDUS
Because, if he were to draw upon my mishaps, he would each day be making them less.
MNESILOCHUS
Why, Lydus, are you censuring your pupil, my friend?
LYDUS
Your friend is ruined.
MNESILOCHUS
May the Gods forbid it.
LYDUS
’Tis so as I say. And further, I myself saw it when he was undone; I am not censuring him from hearsay.
MNESILOCHUS
What has been done by him?
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LYDUS
He is disgracefully doting upon a harlot.
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MNESILOCHUS
Won’t you be silent now?
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LYDUS
She, too, like a tide, most voraciously swallows all up, whenever she has touched any one.
MNESILOCHUS
Where does this woman live?
MNESILOCHUS
Whence do they say she comes?
MNESILOCHUS
What’s her name?
MNESILOCHUS
You are wrong, Lydus; I know the whole affair, just as it is. You are blaming Pistoclerus without reason, and in his innocence.
For he is carefully performing the business enjoined on him by his friend and companion, his sincere well-wisher. Neither is he himself in love, nor do you suppose him so.
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LYDUS
Is it necessary for him carefully to perform the business enjoined upon him by his friend in this fashion—for himself, sitting down, to hold a damsel in his lap who is kissing him? Can the business thus entrusted be in no way transacted unless ever and anon
