Perde 4
[Textpart 2]
I’m doing that which, clearly, adulterers don’t generally do.
SYNCERASTUS
Bringing all off in safety All of in safety: There is an indecent allusion in this passage which is modified in the translation..
MILPHIO
May the Gods confound you and your master!
SYNCERASTUS
May they not confound me. I could make them ruin him, if I chose—
ruin my master, did I not fear for myself, Milphio.
865
MILPHIO
What is it? Tell me.
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SYNCERASTUS
You are a bad one.
SYNCERASTUS
It goes but badly with me.
MILPHIO
Just tell me, then; you ought to be in quite other plight. Why is it that it goes badly with you, who have at home in superabundance what to eat, and what to drink? You don’t give a single three-obol piece away to a mistress, and have her for nothing.
SYNCERASTUS
May Jupiter so love me—
MILPHIO
I’ faith, in the degree that you deserve, to wit.
SYNCERASTUS
How I do long for this family to come to ruin.
870
MILPHIO
If you long for it, lend your aid.
870
SYNCERASTUS
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
MILPHIO
Troth, then, don’t pluck out any hairs; then, in the next two months, your arm-pits will be fit for flying.
SYNCERASTUS
Away to utter perdition!
MILPHIO
Away yourself, and your master!
SYNCERASTUS
But, really, if a person knew him well, the fellow might soon be ruined.
