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[Textpart 3]
and it will not befall me without having already experienced it, to be getting stuck in such a quagmire.
535
TOXILUS
There seems to be no risk.
DORDALUS
I know that; but I’m afraid about myself.
TOXILUS
It matters nothing whatever to me, so far as I’m concerned; it’s for your sake I mentioned it, that I might at the earliest moment give you an opportunity of advantageously purchasing her.
DORDALUS
I return you thanks; but it’s a nicer thing for you to become wise through others, than for others through yourself.
TOXILUS
Surely no person can follow after her from the inmost parts of Arabia. Will you make purchase of her, then?
DORDALUS
Only let me see the commodity.
TOXILUS
You say what’s fair. But look, most à propos, the stranger is coming himself, who brought this letter hither.
DORDALUS
And is that the girl that was stolen?
545
TOXILUS
I know just about as well as yourself, except that I have seen her. Upon my faith, she certainly is genteel looking, whoever she is.
545
DORDALUS
Faith, she has pretty regular features.
TOXILUS
With what contempt the hang-dog does speak of her. (To DORDALUS.) Let’s examine her beauty in silence.
DORDALUS
I approve of your advice.
[Textpart 4]
Doesn’t Athens seem to you a rich and opulent place?
DAUGHTER
I’ve seen the appearance of the city; the customs of the people I’ve observed but little of.
550
TOXILUS
At the very outset has she forborne to make a wise remark.
DORDALUS
I cannot by her very first words form an estimate of her wisdom.
SAGARISTIO
What as to that which you have seen? How does the city seem fortified to you, with its wall?
