Perde 3
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May the Deities grant you many blessings, since you wish me well.
LYCUS
They say that you are in search of a lodging.
COLLYBISCUS
I am in search.
LYCUS
So those persons told me, who left me just now,
that you are in search of one that is free from flies.
690
COLLYBISCUS
By no means in the world.
690
COLLYBISCUS
Because if I had been looking for a retreat from the flies A retreat from the flies: Under this name he refers to envious and mquisitive persons and Parasites., on arriving here I should have straightway gone to gaol. I’m in search of this kind of lodging, where I may be treated more delicately than the eyes of King Antiochus The eyes of King Antiochus: This is probably not to be taken literally as, according to Suidas, the chief ministers of Antiochus were thus called. Apuleius says that the ministers of the King of Persia were called his eyes and ears. are in the habit of being treated.
LYCUS
Upon my faith, for sure, I can provide you a charming one, if, indeed, you can put up with yourself being in a charming room, on a couch charmingly laid, a charming damsel cuddling you.
695
COLLYBISCUS
You are in the right road, Procurer.
LYCUS
Where, with Leucadian, Lesbian, Thasian, and Coan
wine And Coan wine: The Chian held the first rank among the wines of Greece, while the Lesbian, Thasian, and Coan. ranked next to it., toothless with old age Toothlees with old age: Having by age lost all its acidity., you may soak yourself. There I’ll quite drench you with the effusion of unguents. Why many words? I’ll cause, when you’ve bathed, the bathkeeper to set up unguent-shop there. But (speaking confidentially) all these things that I have mentioned let out their services for pay.
700
LYCUS
Because they demand ready money.
705
COLLYBISCUS
Why, upon my faith, you are not more ready to receive than I to give.
LYCUS
The same is echoed in 720. Here there is no correspondence to the Perseus Latin. Why then follow me in-doors.
COLLYBISCUS
The same is echoed in 720b. Here there is no correspondence to the Perseus Latin. Lead me in-doors, then; you’ve got me devoted to your will.
ADVOCATI
What if we call Agorastocles hither out of doors, that he himself may be his own witness, past all exception? (They go to the door of AGORASTOCLES and call out, in a loud whisper. Hallo! you that are to catch the thief, come out quickly, that you yourself may witness him giving the gold to the Procurer.
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What’s the matter? What is it you want, witnesses?
ADVOCATI
Look to the right hand; your servant is paying gold to the Procurer himself.
