Perde 3
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from there he fled hither, when the town was surrendered.
665
COLLYBISCUS
Very clever that, about the soldier! about Sparta, most capital!
LYCUS
May the Gods and Goddesses bestow many blessings on you, for having given me kindly information, and finding me a choice prey.
ADVOCATI
Aye, and, as he himself has told us, that you may receive him the better,
he has brought three hundred Philippean pieces as a provision.
670
LYCUS
I’m a king if I can to-day entice this man to my house.
ADVOCATI
Nay but, he really is your own.
LYCUS
By my troth, prithee, do persuade him to take up his abode at my house, as the best lodging.
ADVOCATI
It befit us neither to persuade nor to dissuade
a person who is a foreigner; you’ll transact your own business, if you are prudent. We have brought the ringdove for you, even to the trapping-ground; now it’s better for yourself to catch him, if you wish him to be caught.
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COLLYBISCUS
What about the matters that I commissioned you upon, strangers?Part of line 678 in the Latin.
ADVOCATI
It’s better for you, young sir, to speak to him about your own concerns;
he’s clever in those matters which you are enquiring about.
680
COLLYBISCUS
But, for my part, I could like you to see when I deliver him the gold.
ADVOCATI
At a distance there we shall be witnesses of that.
COLLYBISCUS
You’ve given me kind assistance.
LYCUS
The profit comes to me.
COLLYBISCUS
Age, just so, indeed, the way that the ass kicks The way that the ass kicks: Taubmann says that this means that as the ass kicks away from himself, so the gain will go from Lycus, not to him. with his heels.
LYCUS
I’ll speak the fellow fairly. (To COLLYBISCUS.) A stranger salutes a stranger; I’m glad that you have arrived in safety.
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