Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
What is it you say?
PHANISCUS
That eating and drinking have never stopped for a single three days here,
bringing in wenches, living like Greeks, hiring harpists and music-girls.
960
THEUROPIDES
Who was it did this?
THEUROPIDES
What Philolaches?
PHANISCUS
He whose father I take to be Theuropides.
THEUROPIDES
O dear, O dear! I’m utterly undone, if he says the truth in this. I’ll continue to question him still Do you say that this Philolaches, whoever he is, has been in the habit of drinking here together
PHANISCUS
Here, I tell you.
965
THEUROPIDES
My lad, contrary to your appearance, you are a fool. See now, please, that you’ve not perchance been dropping in somewhere for an afternoon’s whet An afternoon’s whet: Merendam. According to some, this meal was the same as the prandium, or breakfast; while others take it to have been a slight meal or luncheon, taken at about four or five in the afternoon., and have been drinking there a little more than was enough.
965
PHANISCUS
What do you mean?
THEUROPIDES
Just what I say: don’t be going by mistake to other persons’ houses.
PHANISCUS
I know where I ought to go, and the place to which I was to come.
Philolaches lives here, whose father is Theuropides; and who, after his father went away to trade, made free a music-girl here.
970
THEUROPIDES
Philolaches, say you?
PHANISCUS
Just so; Philematium, I mean.
THEUROPIDES
For how much?
ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates
For thirty talents.
PHANISCUS
No, by Apollo No, by Apollo: Ma τὸν Ἀπόλλω. He uses a Greek adjuration; you mean minae.
