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Amphitryon, or Jupiter in Disguise (659-687c)

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Well, and don’t you think that I shall come much wished for to my mistress?
(AMPHITRYON advances, at a distance, with SOSIA.)
ALCMENA
(to herself.)
Surely, this is my husband.
AMPHITRYON
(to SOSIA.)
Do you follow me this way.
ALCMENA
(to herself.)
But why has he returned, when just now he said that he was in haste? Is he purposely trying me, and is he desirous to make proof of this, how much I regret his departure? By my faith, against no inclination of mine has he betaken himself home.
SOSIA
Amphitryon, it were better for us to return to the ship.
AMPHITRYON
For what reason?
SOSIA
Because there’s no person at home to give us a breakfast on our arrival.
AMPHITRYON
How comes that now into your mind?
SOSIA
Why, because we have come too late.
AMPHITRYON
How so?
SOSIA
Because I see Alcmena standing before the house, with her stomach-full [*] already.
AMPHITRYON
I left her pregnant here when I went away.
SOSIA
Alas, to my sorrow, I’m undone!
AMPHITRYON
What’s the matter with you?
SOSIA
I have come home just in good time to fetch the water [*]
in the tenth month after that, according as I understand you to compute the reckoning.
AMPHITRYON
Be of good heart.
SOSIA
Do you know of how good heart I am? By my troth, do you never after this day entrust to me aught that is sacred, if I don’t draw up all the life of that well, if I do but make a beginning.
AMPHITRYON
Do you only follow me this way. I’ll appoint another person for that business; don’t you fear.
ALCMENA
(advancing.)
I think that I shall now be doing my duty more, if I go to meet him.
(They meet.)
AMPHITRYON
With joy, Amphitryon greets his longed for wife—her, whom of all women in Thebes her husband deems by far the most excellent, and whom so much the Theban citizens truthfully extol as virtuous. Have you fared well all along? Do I arrive much wished for by you?
SOSIA
(aside.)
I never saw one more so;
for she greets her own husband not a bit more than a dog.
AMPHITRYON
When I see you pregnant, and so gracefully burdened, I am delighted.
ALCMENA
Prithee, in the name of all that’s good, why, for the sake of mockery, do you thus salute and address me, as though you hadn’t lately seen me—as though now, for the first time, you were betaking yourself homeward here from the enemy?
For now you are addressing me just as though you were seeing me after a long time.
AMPHITRYON
Why, really for my part, I have not seen you at all this day until now.
ALCMENA
Why do you deny it?
AMPHITRYON
Because I have learned to speak the truth.
ALCMENA
He does not do right, who unlearns the same that he has learned. Are you making trial what feelings I possess? But why are you returning hither so soon?

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