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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (108-149)

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Follow me this way in-doors to bathe, that you may relieve your weariness.
109
(Enter PISTOCLERUS, accompanied by People with Provisions for the Entertainment, followed by LYDES.)
LYDUS
For some time, Pistoclerus, I’ve been following you in silence[*],
watching what you were doing in this dress[*]. For, so may the Gods favour me, even Lycurgus himself[*] seems to me as if he could be led into debauchery here. Whither now are you betaking yourself hence in an opposite direction with such a train?
PISTOCLERUS
To this place (pointing to the house.)
LYDUS
Why to this place? Who lives there?
PISTOCLERUS
Love, Pleasure, Venus, Beauty, Joy, Jesting, Dalliance, Converse, and Sweet-kissing.
LYDUS
What intercourse have you with these most destructive Deities?
PISTOCLERUS
Bad are those men who speak evil of the good. You speak not well of even the Gods themselves; you do what is not right.
LTD.
Is Sweet-kissing, then, some God?
PISTOCLERUS
And do you not think she is? O Lydus, why, what a barbarians[*] you are, you, whom I had deemed to be far more wise than Thales hinself[*]. Go to, you are more foolish than Potitius, the foreigner[*], who, at an age so advanced, knew not the names of the Divinities.
LYDUS
This dress of yours pleases me not.
PISTOCLERUS
But no one prepared it for you; it was prepared for myself, whom it pleases well.
LYDUS
And do you commence upon your repartees against myself even? You, who, if you had even ten tongues, ought to be silent.
PISTOCLERUS
Not every age, Lydus, is suited for school[*].
One thing especially is just now on my mind, how the cook may with due care attend to these things as befits the elegance of the entertainment.
LYDUS
Now have you undone yourself and me and all my labours, me who so oft have shown you what is right, all to no purpose.
PISTOCLERUS
In the same place have I lost my labour where you’ve lost yours: your instructions profit neither me nor yourself.
LYDUS
O obdurate heart!
PISTOCLERUS
You are troublesome to me. Hold your tongue, Lydus, and follow me.
LYDUS
Now, see that, please; he no longer calls[*] me tutor, but mere Lydus.
PISTOCLERUS
It seems not proper, nor can it be fit, that,
when a person is in a house, and is reclining at the feast together with his mistress, and is kissing her, and the other guests are reclining too, the tutor should be there too in their presence.
LYDUS
Are these provisions purchased for such a purpose, pray?
PISTOCLERUS
My intentions, indeed, expect so; how it falls out, is in the hands of the Gods.
LYDUS
Will you be having a mistress?
PISTOCLERUS
When you see, then you’ll know.
LYDUS
Aye, but you shall not have one, and I won’t allow it. Go back again home.
PISTOCLERUS
Do leave me alone, Lydus, and beware of mischief[*].
LYDUS
What? Beware of mischief?
O yawning gulf, where art thou now? How gladly would I avail myself of thee!

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