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Why, she’s at our house.
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CHARINUS
For what that person said, he told a falsehood in it.
EUTYCHUS
Really, I told you the truth.
CHARINUS
Now I’ve come to Cyprus.
EUTYCHUS
Nay, but follow me, that you may see her whom you are looking for.
CHARINUS
Enquiring there, I didn’t find her.
EUTYCHUS
I’ll not care then for my mother’s anger.
CHARINUS
I’ll still go on to seek her. Now I’ve got to Chalcis;
I see there my former host at Zacynthus; I tell him why I’ve come thither; I make enquiry if he has heard say who has brought her thither, who has got possession of her.
940
EUTYCHUS
Why don’t you cease that nonsense, and step with me this way in-doors?
CHARINUS
My host answered that figs grew, not bad ones, at Zacynthus.
EUTYCHUS
He didn’t say false there.
CHARINUS
But he says that he has heard about my mistress, that she’s here at Athens.
EUTYCHUS
Really, this Zacynthian is quite a Calchas Calchas: The soothsayer who attended the Grecian army to Troy..
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CHARINUS
I get aboard ship, and start at once. I’m now at home; now I’ve returned from banishment. My friend, Eutychus (turning towards him), greetings to you! How have you been? How are my parents? Are they well? Do you come to my mother, you say—you invite me kindly; you speak politely. At your house to-morrow; for the present at home.
So it is proper; so it ought to be done.
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EUTYCHUS
How now? What are you dreaming about? This man’s not in his senses.
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CHARINUS
Why don’t you, as a friend, make haste to cure me then?
EUTYCHUS
Follow me, please.
