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[Textpart 4]
Why not your own self?
AGORASTOCLES
I’ll go and knock at this door.
740
ADVOCATI
Even so. Why not?
740
AGORASTOCLES
It’s time to be quiet, for the door makes a noise. I see the Procurer Lycus coming out of doors; come this way, pray!
ADVOCATI
Why not? But, if you please, cover up our heads, that the Procurer mayn’t know us,
who have been his decoyers His decoyers: Illices. Illex was a bird-call, quail-pipe, or decoy used by fowlers for catching birds. into so great a calamity.
745
[Textpart 5]
Let all soothsayers go hang themselves now at once. Why should I believe them in future, as to what they say? For they, just now at the sacrifice, told me that evil and the greatest disaster was portended to me.
LYCUS
I have since then amplified my fortune with profit.
750
AGORASTOCLES
Save you, Procurer.
LYCUS
May the Gods bless you, Agorastocles.
AGORASTOCLES
You now salute me more kindly than hitherto.
LYCUS
A calm has come, as though to a ship at sea. Just as the wind is, to that quarter is the sail shifted.
AGORASTOCLES
May those ladies be well in your house, to whom I wish it, but to yourself I do not wish it.
755
LYCUS
They are well, as you desire; not for you, though.
AGORASTOCLES
Send your Adelphasium to my house, to-day, please, upon this celebrated and famous festival, the Aphrodisia.
LYCUS
Have you been breakfasting on a hot breakfast today? Tell me.
LYCUS
Because now you are only cooling your mouth Cooling your mouth: Because in opening the mouth, the air tends to cool it, when you ask me.
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AGORASTOCLES
Attend to this, Procurer, will you; I’ve heard that my slave is at your house.
LYCUS
At my house? You’ll find that has never been the fact.
