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I do betroth her.
PHAEDROMUS
And to him do I promise support at my expense.
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CURCULIO
You do kindly. But
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THER,
But see, here’s the Procurer coming; my treasurer My treasurer: In allusion to the money which he intends to have back from the Procurer. Thesaurum seems here to have the signification of treasurer or treasury., I mean.
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Those who say Those who say: This and the following line are clearly in a very corrupt state. Indeed, it is hard to gather any sense whatever from them. it’s bad for bankers to be trusted, utter nonsense;
CAPPADOX
I say it’s neither good nor bad for them to be trusted, and that, I’ve fully experienced this day. They are not They are not: He seems to mean, that, where there is no possibility of the debtor paying back the money, the case is more fortunate than where you are tormented by hopes of getting it back, which, however, are doomed to disappointment. badly trusted, who never repay, but with whom it is lost outright. As for example, before this Lyco paid me the ten minae, he had to go to every banker’s counter. After there were no proceeds, I summoned the fellow with much noise; he appealed against me to the court. I was most confoundedly afraid that this day he’d be settling accounts with me before the Praetor Before the Praetor: He was afraid that Lyco would cheat him, by filing his schedule, or taking the benefit, in the Roman style. See the Note to l. 373 (Act III., Sc. 1).;
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but my friends forced him, so he paid the money at home. Now I’m resolved to make haste to my house.
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THERAPONTIGONUS
Hallo! you Procurer; I want you.
PHAEDROMUS
And I want you.
CAPPADOX
But I don’t want either of you.
THERAPONTIGONUS
Stay this instant, will you.
PHAEDROMUS
And make you haste to disgorge the money with all despatch.
CAPPADOX
What have you to do with me? (To the CAPTAIN.) Or what have you?
THERAPONTIGONUS
Because this day I shall be making a javelin of you, discharged from a catapulta,
and twist you with the string With the string: Nervus, a cord, was also the name of the iron chain fastened round the neck and legs of the prisoner. If the debtor did not pay within thirty days after judgment, lie was liable to be thrown into prison by the creditor., just as the catapultas are in the habit of doing.
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PHAEDROMUS
I’ll this day make a coxcomb of you, to be sleeping with a puppy With a puppy: He jokes on the double meaning of the word catellus, which signified an iron chain, and also a little dog. in your bed—an iron one, I mean.
CAPPADOX
But I’ll make you both to be rotting in a strong-barred prison.
THERAPONTIGONUS
Seize him by the throat, and away with him to extreme torture.
PHAEDROMUS
However that is, he’ll be going there of his own accord.
CAPPADOX
O Gods and men, your aid!
