Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (980b-989)

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What—ask you that? Step closer this way.

NICOBULUS
(coming nearer.)

Well, I do come closer.

CHRYSALUS

I am an excellent pleader. By rebuking him, and by whatever hard language I really was able to think of, I forced the fellow to tears.

NICOBULUS

What did he say?

CHRYSALUS

He uttered not a word: crying, he listened in silence to what I was saying; in silence he wrote down on his tablets; these sealed he gave to me;

he bade me deliver them to you. (Gives him the tablets.) But I am afraid that they sing to the same tune that the former ones did. Observe the seal, is it his?

NICOBULUS

I recognize it. I’d like to read them over.

(Goes to a distance.)

CHRYSALUS

Read them through. (Aside.) Now is the upper lintel[*] being cut down, now is the destruction of Troy near at hand. The wooden horse is shaking it right cleverly.

NICOBULUS

Chrysalus, just step here while I am reading these through.

CHRYSALUS

Prithee, what need is there for me to be near you?

NICOBULUS

That you may know what’s written here.

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