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Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer (842-868)

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I know, indeed, father, why you now suppose to yourself that I’m sad; it is because she is by you. And really, father, by my faith, to tell you the truth, that matter does hurt me; and not for this reason, that I don’t desire for you that which you wish,
but because I love her; another woman, indeed, I could easily endure to be by you.
DEMAENETUS
But I have a fancy for this one.
ARGYRIPPUS
Then you have what you desire; for myself, I wish for what I could desire.
DEMAENETUS
Submit to it this one day, since I’ve given you the power to be with her for a year, and have procured for you the command of money in your amour.
ARGYRIPPUS
Well, by doing that, you have laid me under an obligation to you.
DEMAENETUS
Why then don’t you show yourself cheerful to me?
(They commence the banquet, PHILENIUM reclining below DEMAENETUS.)
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(Enter ARTEMONA and the PARASITE, from the house of DEMAENETUS, at the further side of the stage.[*]
ARTEMONA
Prithee, do you say that my husband is carousing here, together with my son?—and that he has carried to his mistress twenty minae of silver?—and that, with the knowledge of my son, his father is perpetrating this wickedness?
A PARASITE
Trust me in nothing henceforth, either divine or human,
Artemona, if you find me untruthful in this matter.
ARTEMONA
Wretched then am I, who have supposed that, beyond others, my husband was sober, decent, chaste, and especially fond of his wife.
A PARASITE
But now, henceforth, understand that he, before all men, is a person of the smallest worth—a drunkard, a good-for-nothing fellow, unchaste, and a contemner of his own wife.
ARTEMONA
I’ faith, if this wasn’t true, he would never be doing the things that he is now doing.
A PARASITE
Upon my word, I too always hitherto took him to be a decent person; but by this action he declares himself,—to be carousing, indeed, together with his son, and, a decrepit old man, toying with a mistress in his company.
ARTEMONA
For this it is, i’ faith, that he’s going out to dinner every day.
He says that he’s going to Archidemus, Chereas, Chaerestratus, Clinius, Chremes, Cratinus, Dinias, Demosthenes: while he’s thinking of debauchery, and public dens of infamy with his harlot.
A PARASITE
Why don’t you bid your maid-servants carry him off home upon their shoulders?

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