All right, it’s just as I sealed it up. SOSIA Prithee, why don’t you order her to be purified To be purified : Circumferri. Literally, to be carried round her. Those who were cerriti, tormented with the wrath of Ceres, or, in other words, possessed by evil spirits, were exorcised by persons walking round them with sulphur and burning torches; whence the present expression. as a frantic person? AMPHITRYON By my troth, somehow there’s need for it, for, i’ faith, she’s certainly filled with sprites. (ALCMENA.) ALCMENA What need is there of talking? See, here’s the goblet; here it is. AMPHITRYON Give it me. ALCMENA Come, now then, look here, if you please, you who deny what is fact, and whom I shall now clearly convict in this case. Isn’t this the goblet with which you were presented there? AMPHITRYON Supreme Jupiter! what do I behold? Surely this is that goblet. Sosia, I’m utterly confounded. SOSIA Upon my faith, either this woman is a most consummate juggler, or the goblet must be in here (pointing to the casket.) AMPHITRYON Come, then, open this casket. SOSIA Why should I open it? It is securely sealed. The thing is cleverly contrived; you have brought forth another Amphitryon, I have brought forth another Sosia; now if the goblet has brought forth a goblet, we have all produced our doubles. AMPHITRYON I’m determined to open and examine it. SOSIA Look, please, how the seal is, that you may not hereafter throw the blame on me. AMPHITRYON Now do open it. For she certainly is desirous to drive us mad with her talking. ALCMENA Whence then came this which was made a present to me, but from yourself? AMPHITRYON It’s necessary for me to enquire into this. SOSIA (opening the casket.) Jupiter, O Jupiter! AMPHITRYON What is the matter with you? SOSIA There’s no goblet here in the casket. AMPHITRYON What do I hear. SOSIA That which is the truth. AMPHITRYON But at your peril now, if it does not make its appearance. ALCMENA (showing it.) Why, it does make its appearance. AMPHITRYON Who then gave it you? ALCMENA The person that’s asking me the question. SOSIA (to AMPHITRYON.) You are on the catch for me, inasmuch as you yourself have secretly run before me hither from the ship by another road, and have taken the goblet away from here and given it to her, and afterwards you have secretly sealed it up again. AMPHITRYON Ah me! and are you too helping her frenzy as well? (To ALCMENA) Do you say that we arrived here yesterday? ALCMENA I do say so, and on your arrival you instantly greeted me, and I you, and I gave you a kiss.