You yourself, this Sosia standing by as well. AMPHITRYON (to SOSIA.) Have you heard me telling about this to-day? SOSIA Where should I have heard you? AMPHITRYON Ask her. SOSIA In my presence, indeed, it never took place, that I know of. ALCMENA It would be a wonder It would be a wonder : She says this ironically. if he didn’t contradict you. AMPHITRYON Sosia, come here and look at me. SOSIA (looks at him.) I am looking at you. AMPHITRYON I wish you to tell the truth, and I don’t want you to humour me. Have you heard me this day sav to her these things which she affirms? SOSIA Prithee now, by my troth, are you, too, mad as well, when you ask me this, me, who, for my part, my own self now behold her in company with you for the first time? AMPHITRYON How now, madam? Do you hear him? ALCMENA I do, indeed, and telling an untruth. AMPHITRYON Do you believe neither him nor my own self, your husband? ALCMENA No; for this reason it is, because I most readily believe myself, and I am sure that these things took place just as I relate them. AMPHITRYON Do you say that I came yesterday? ALCMENA Do you deny that you went away from here to-day? AMPHITRYON I really do deny it, and I declare that I have now come home to you for the first time. ALCMENA Prithee, will you deny this too, that you to-day made me a present of a golden goblet, with which you said that you had been presented? AMPHITRYON By heavens, I neither gave it nor told you so: but I had so intended, and do so now, to present you with that goblet. But who told you this? ALCMENA Why, I heard it from yourself, and I received the goblet from your own hand. (She moves as if going.) AMPHITRYON Stay, stay, I entreat you. Sosia, I marvel much how she knows that I was presented there with this golden goblet, unless you have lately met her and told her all this. SOSIA Upon my faith, I have never told her, nor have I ever beheld her except with yourself. AMPHITRYON What is the matter What is the matter : It is disputed among the Commentators to which character these words belong, Amphitryon or Alcmena with this person? ALCMENA Should you like the goblet to be produced? AMPHITRYON I should like it; to be produced. ALCMENA Be it so. Do you go, Thessala, and bring from indoors the goblet, with which my husband presented me today. (THESSALA goes into the house, and AMPHITRYON and SOSIA walk on one side.) AMPHITRYON Sosia, do you step this way. Really, I do wonder extremely at this beyond the other wondrous matters, if she has got this goblet. SOSIA And do you believe it, when it’s carried in this casket, sealed with your own seal. (He shows the casket.) AMPHITRYON Is the seal whole? SOSIA Examine it.