<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.phi005.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="794"> I’m determined to do it; so that every one may pursue his own path, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" n="795">let no one be bringing any of his business in this street; for my fist is a balista, my arm is my catapulta, my shoulder a battering-ram; then against whomsoever I dart my knee, I shall bring him to the ground. I’ll make all persons to be picking up their teeth<note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">To be picking up their teeth</emph>: <q rend="double">Dentilegos.</q> He says that he will knock their teeth out, and so make them pick them up from the ground. We must suppose that while he is thus hurrying on, he is walking up one of the long streets which were represented as emerging on the Roman stage, opposite to the audience.</note>, whomsoever I shall meet with.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HEGIO</speaker><stage>(to himself.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="799"> What threatening is this? For I cannot wonder enough.</l></sp><sp><speaker>ERGASILUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="800"> I’ll make him always to remember this day and place, and myself as well. Whoever stops me upon my road, I’ll make him put a stop to his own existence.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HEGIO</speaker><stage>(to himself.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="802">What great thing is this fellow preparing to do, with such mighty threats?</l></sp><sp><speaker>ERGASILUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="803"> I first give notice, that no one, by reason of his own fault, may be caught—keep yourselves in-doors at home, and guard yourselves from my attack.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>