With clenched or open hand am I to strike him?STALINO Do just as you please.OLYMPIO(striking CHALINUS.) There’s for you, take that!CLEOSTRATA(to OLYMPIO.) What business have you to touch him?OLYMPIO Because my Jupiter (pointing to STALINO) commanded me.CLEOSTRATA(to CHALINUS.) Do you slap him in the face in return.(CHALINUS strikes OLYMPIO in the face.)OLYMPIO(calling out to STALINO.)I’m being murdered, I’m being punched with his fists, Jupiter!STALINO(to CHALINUS.) What business had you to touch him?CHALINUS Because this Juno of mine (pointing to CLEOSTRATA) ordered me.STALINO I must put up with it, since, as long as I live, my wife will have the mastery.CLEOSTRATA(to STALINO.) He (pointing to CHALINUS) ought to be allowed to speak as much as that fellow.OLYMPIO Why by his talk does he occasion me an unlucky omensSTALINO I think, Chalinus, you should be on your guard against a mishap.CHALINUS Full time, after my face has been battered! STALINO Come, wife, now then draw the lots. (To the SERVANTS.) Do you give your attention. (To CLEOSTRATA.) And give it, you, as well.OLYMPIO Where I am I know not.Part of line 413 in the Latin. I’m undone, I’ve got my heart full of maggots, I think; it’s jumping about already; with its throbbing it beats against my breast.CLEOSTRATA(putting her hand into the urn.)I’ve got hold of a lot.STALINO Draw it out, then.CHALINUS(to OLYMPIO.) Are you not dead now?OLYMPIO Show it. (She shows it.) It’s mine.CHALINUS Really this is an unlucky mishap.CLEOSTRATA You are beaten, Chalinus.STALINO Then I’m glad that we are to survive after all, Olympio.OLYMPIO Through my own piety and that of my forefathers has it happened.STALINO Wife, go in-doors and make ready for the wedding.CLEOSTRATA I’ll do as you bid me.STALINO Do you know that it’s to a distance in the country, at the farm-house,that he is to take her? CLEOSTRATA I know.STALINO Go in-doors,and although this is disagreable to you, still take care and attend to it.