Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer (724-739b)

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What other thing could I ardently wish for rather than that of which I am in want?

Oblige me with twenty silver minae to give to her mother.

LIBANUS

They shall be given: take care and be of good courage, your wishes shall be fulfilled.

ARGYRIPPUS

Just as they are wont, Salvation and Fortune are deceiving mortals.

LEONIDA

I this day have been the head in finding this money for you.

LIBANUS

I have been the foot.

ARGYRIPPUS

Why, neither head nor foot of your talking is visible;

I can understand neither what you mean, nor why you are trifling with me.

LIBANUS

I think that now you’ve been teased enough; now let’s disclose the matter as it really stands. Give your attention, Argyrippus, if you please. Your father has ordered us to bring this money to you.

ARGYRIPPUS

How very à propos and opportunely you have brought it.

LIBANUS
(giving him the bag.)

Here, in this, there will be twenty good minae, obtained by bad means:

these, on certain conditions, he bade us give you.

ARGYRIPPUS

Prithee, what are they?

LIBANUS

That you would grant him her favours and an entertainment.

ARGYRIPPUS

Bid him come, I beg. For him who deserves it right well, we’ll do what he wishes, him who has brought these scattered loves of ours to a happy result.

LEONIDA

You’ll permit your father then, Argyrippus, to caress her?

ARGYRIPPUS

She, by being restored to me, will easily cause me to permit it.

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