Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
Receive, then, a didrachm of me; bid a sacrifice be made for you at my expense; for, by my faith, I really am sure in very truth that you are deranged, who are annoying me, a person that’s a stranger, whoever you are.
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CYLINDRUS
I am Cylindrus; don’t you know my name?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Whether you are Cylindrus or Caliendrus Cylindrus or Caliendrus: Probably Cylindrus is so called from the words cylindrus, a cylinder, in the sense of a rolling-pin. Sosicles plays upon its resemblance to caliendrus, which perhaps meant a peruke or wig, as the Latin word caliendrum had that signification., confound you. I don’t know you, and, in fact, I don’t want to know you.
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CYLINDRUS
Well, your name, however, is Menaechmus, that I do know.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
You speak like a sane person when you call me by my name. But where have you known me?
CYLINDRUS
Where have I known you,
you who have Erotium, this mistress of mine (pointing to the house), for your lady?
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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
By my troth, I have not, nor do I know yourself what person you are.
CYLINDRUS
Not know who I am, who have many a time filled the cups for your own self at our house, when you’ve been drinking?
MESSENIO
Woe to me, that I’ve got nothing with which to break this fellow’s head.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Are you in the habit of filling the cups for me, who, before this day, have never beheld Epidamnus, nor been there?
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CYLINDRUS
Do you deny it?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Upon my honor,, I decidedly do deny it.
CYLINDRUS
Don’t you live in that house?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
May the Gods send to perdition those that live there.
CYLINDRUS
Surely, this fellow’s mad, who is thus uttering curses against his own self.
Do you hear, Menaechmus?
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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
What do you want?
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CYLINDRUS
If you take my advice, that didrachm, which you just now promised to give me—
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you would order, if you were wise, a pig to be procured with it for yourself.
