Scaife ATLAS

Curculio, or The Forgery (415-455b)

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Because, when in my drunken fit I’ve gone to sleep, I summane[*] the garments; for that reason do all people call me Summanus.

LYCO

’Twere better for you to look out for entertainment for you somewhere else; really in my own house I have no room for a Summanus. But I am the person that you are looking for.

CURCULIO

Prithee, are you he,

Lyco the banker?

LYCO

I am.

CURCULIO

Therapontigonus requested me to give you a hearty greeting, and to deliver this letter.

LYCO

What, to me?

CURCULIO

Just so. Take it, recognize the seal. Do you know it? (LYCO takes the letter.)

LYCO

Why should I not know it? On which, a man, holding a shield, is cleaving an elephant asunder with a sword.

CURCULIO

What’s written there he bade me request you to do immediately, if you wished for his esteem.

LYCO

Step aside; I’ll look what’s written in it.

CURCULIO
(stepping aside.)

By all means, at your pleasure, so long as I receive of you that which I’m come for.

LYCO
(reads.)

Therapontigonus Platagidorus, the Captain, his guest, sends to his host Lyco, at Epidaurus,

right hearty greeting.

CURCULIO
(aside.)

This fellow’s my own; he’s swallowing the hook.

LYCO
(going on.)

I beg and request of you that, the person who delivers this letter to you, to him be given up the girl whom I purchased there (which I did there in your presence, and you being the negotiator),

and the golden trinkets and clothes as well. You know already how it was agreed upon. You give the money to the Procurer, and give the young woman to this person.(To CURCULIO.) Where is he himself? Why doesn’t he come?

CURCULIO

I’ll tell you; because it is but four days since we arrived in Caria, from India; there he now intends to order a solid golden statue

to be made of Philippean gold, which is to be seven feet high—a memorial of his exploits.

LYCO

For what reason this?

CURCULIO

I’ll tell you; why, because within twenty days he singly has subdued the Persians, Paphlagonians, Sinopians, Arabians, Cretans, Syrians, Rhodia and Lycia, Peredia and Bibesia[*],

Centauromachia and Classia Unomammia[*], and all Libya, and all Conterebromia; one half even of all nations has he conquered unaided in twenty days.

LYCO

Dear me!

CURCULIO

Why are you surprised?

LYCO

Why, because if all these people were penned up in a cage

as close as chickens, even so they couldn’t be encompassed in a year. Upon my faith, I do believe that you are[*] come from him; for you do jabber such nonsense.

CURCULIO

Aye, and I can tell you still more, if you like.

LYCO

No; I don’t want it. Follow me this way. I’ll pay you that, on account of which you came;

and lo, I see ⋯ (from his house.) Save you, Procurer.

CAPPADOX

May the Gods prosper you.

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