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BALLIO
You’re telling nothing new Telling nothing new: He means that Calidorus has called him that already; which he has done in the 354th line..
BALLIO
Most severely said.
BALLIO
Oh! wonderful!
365
BALLIO
Pooh! pooh Pooh! pooh!: Bombax. This is a Greek word, an expression of contempt.!
365
CALIDORUS
Defrauder of the public!
365
BALLIO
Most decidedly so.
365
PSEUDOLUS
Cheating scoundrel!
CALIDORUS
You beat your father and mother.
BALLIO
Aye, and killed them, too, rather than find them food; did I do wrong at all?
PSEUDOLUS
We are pouring our words into a pierced cask Into a pierced cask: This notion is probably taken from the punishment of the daughters of Danaüs, who, for the murder of their husbands, the sons of Aegyptus, were doomed by Jupiter to pass their time in the Infernal regions in gathering up water in perforated vessels.: we are losing our pains.
