Take care of yourself, there’s a dear. Prithee, will you go in this dishabille?(Pointing to her dress.)SILENIUM It’s right that such neglect should attend upon my prospects thus disarranged.GYMNASIUM At least do lift up that outer garmentOuter garment: Amiculum was a general name for the outer garment, such as the pallium, toga, or chlamys, in contradistinction to the tunica, or under-clothing..SILENIUM Let it be dragged, while I myself am being dragged down.GYMNASIUM Since so it pleases you, fare you well and prosper.SILENIUM If I could, I would.(Exit.)GYMNASIUM Mother, do you wish anything of me, before I go indoors? Upon my faith, to me she does seem to be in love.A PROCURESS For this reason, then, it is, that I’m repeatedly dinning it into your ears, not to be in love with any man. Go in-doors.GYMNASIUM Do you wish anything of me?A PROCURESS That you may fare well. GYMNASIUM Fare you well.(GYMNASIUM goes into the house of SILENTIUM.)

(The PROCURESS, alone.)A PROCURESS(to the AUDIENCE.) It’s the same fault with myself as with a great part of us women who are following this calling; who, as soon as ever we have got our load of food, are forthwith full of talk; more than is enough do we say. Why, myself now, inasmuch as I’m filled to my heart’s content, and because I’ve charged myself quite full of the choicest of wine, it pleases me to use my tongue more at freedom; to my misfortune I can’t keep silent on that which it were necessary to be silent upon. But once upon a time, that girl, who has gone hence in tears, from a lane I carried off a little child exposed.There is here a certain youth, of the highest rank; his father, of a very high family, is living at SicyonLiving at Sicyon : This was a very ancient city in the north of the Peloponnesus, not far from Corinth. According to Pliny the Elder, it was famous for its shops, stored with all kinds of metals.;