<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="859c" part="M"> All the Gods are blessing you.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HEGIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="859d" part="F"> I don’t feel it so. </l></sp><sp><speaker>ERGASILUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="860"> Why, you are not in a quickset hedge<note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">In a quickset hedge</emph>: Here is a most wretched attempt at wit, which cannot be expressed in a literal translation. Hegio says, <q rend="double">Nihil sentio,</q><q rend="double">I don’t feel it.</q> Ergasilus plays upon the resemblance of the verb <q rend="double">sentio</q> to <q rend="double">sentis</q> and <q rend="double">senticetum,</q> a <q rend="double">bramble-bush</q> or <q rend="double">quickset hedge;</q> and says <q rend="double">You don’t feel it so</q> <q rend="double">non senis.</q> <q rend="double">because you are not in a quickset hedge,</q> <q rend="double">in senticeto.</q></note>, therefore you don’t feel it; but order the vessels, in a clean state, to be got for you forthwith in readiness for the sacrifice, and one lamb to be brought here with all haste, a fat one.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HEGIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="862b" part="M"> Why? </l></sp><sp><speaker>ERGASILUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="862c" part="F"> That you may offer sacrifice</l></sp><sp><speaker>HEGIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="863" part="I"> To which one of the Gods?</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>