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You act kindly. Make haste, be off home; cleverly tutor your daughter beforehand, instruct her cunningly, what she is to say, where she is to declare she was born,
TOXILUS
who were her parents, how she was kidnapped. But let her declare that she was born at a distance from Athens; and let her shed tears when she makes mention of it.
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SATURIO
Now won’t you hold your tongue? Three times more artful is she than you would have her be.
TOXILUS
I’ troth, you say what’s excellent. But do you know what you are to do? Get
a tunic and a girdle, and bring a scarf and a broad-brimmed hat for him to wear who is to sell her to this Procurer—
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TOXILUS
As though he were a foreigner.
TOXILUS
And do you bring your daughter cleverly drest up after a foreign fashion.
SAGARISTIO
Où sont Où sont: The word whence is expressed in the text by the Greek πόθεν. It has been previously remarked, that the Romans interlarded their dialogue with Greek expressions, in the same way that we adopt French words and phrases. the dresses?
TOXILUS
Borrow them of the chorus-leader The chorus-leader: Chorego. As to the choragus or master of the wardrobe, see the Curculio, Act IV., Sc. 1 (and the Note), where he is introduced as one of the Dramatic Personae. See the Notes also to the Trinummus, l. 858..
He ought to lend them; the Aediles The Aediles: It has been observed in previous Notes that the Aediles had the management of the representations on the stage; and probably they had a contract with the choregi that they should always have dresses and properties in readiness for the use of the actors. have contracted for them to be found.
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SATURIO
I’ll have them here just now. But I’m to be acquainted with nothing of these matters?
TOXILUS
I’ faith, nothing, in fact. But, when I’ve got the money, do you at once claim her of the Procurer.
SATURIO
Let him keep her for himself, if I don’t immediately carry her off from him.
TOXILUS
Be off and attend to this. (Exit SATURIO.) In the meantime, I want to send a boy to my mistress; that she may be of good courage, and that I shall manage it to-day. I’m talking too much at length.
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