<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="3"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="6"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="552b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> I judge that so he is.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="553" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> Troth now, prithee, do tell me who it is.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MNESILOCHUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="553b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> He lives on good terms with yourself. But were he not; so, I would entreat you to do him whatever harm you could do.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="555b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> Only tell me the person, who he is; if I don’t do him an injury, some way or other, do you say that I’m the greatest of cowards.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MNESILOCHUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="557" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> The person’s a bad one, but he’s your friend, i’ faith.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="557b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> So much the rather, then, tell me who he is. In good sooth, I set no value on the esteem of a worthless person.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MNESILOCHUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="559" rend="align(indent)"> I appear, then, not to be able to avoid disclosing to you his name. </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="560">Pistoclerus, you have utterly undone me, your friend.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="561" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> How’s that? </l></sp><sp><speaker>MNESILOCHUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="561b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> How’s that? Did I not send you a letter from Ephesus about my mistress, that you should find her out for me?</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="562b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> I own you did; and I have discovered her.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MNESILOCHUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="563" rend="align(indent)"> How now? Was there not a choice for you of other Courtesans in Athens, for you to form engagements with, instead of with her whom I had recommended to your care? </l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>