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Epidicus, or The Fortunate Discovery (207b-245)

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I say that it has been done.
PERIPHIANES
Are you sure of that?
EPIDICUS
I am sure of it.
PERIPHIANES
Why are you sure of it?
EPIDICUS
Because I’ve seen the soldiers marching through the streets in shoals. They are bringing back their arms and their baggage-horses.
PERIPHIANES
Very good indeed!
EPIDICUS
Then, what prisoners they’ve got with them! boys, girls, in twos and threes; another one has got five; there’s a crowd in the streets; they are looking out each for his son.
PERIPHIANES
I’ troth, a business very well managed!
EPIDICUS
Then, filly as many of the courtesans as there are in the whole city were going decked out each to meet her lover;
they were going to trap them; that’s the fact, inasmuch as I gave especial attention to it; several of these had with them nets beneath their garments. When I came to the harbour, forthwith I espied her waiting there, and with her were four music-girls.
PERIPHIANES
With whom, Epidicus?
EPIDICUS
With her whom your son has been loving and doting on for years,
with whom he’s making all haste to ruin credit, property, himself, and yourself. She was on the lookout for him at the harbour.
PERIPHIANES
Just see the sorceress now!
EPIDICUS
But decked out, sparkling with gold, and adorned so splendidly! so nicely! so fashionably!
PERIPHIANES
What was she drest in? Was it a royal robe, or was it a plain dress?
EPIDICUS
A skylight one[*], according as these women coin names for garments.
PERIPHIANES
What! was she dressed in a skylight?
EPIDICUS
What’s there wonderful in that? As though many women didn’t go through the streets decked out with farms upon them. But when the tax is demanded, they declare it cannot be paid[*]; while to these hussies, to whom a larger tax is paid, it can be paid. Why, what new names every year these women are finding for their clothing—
the thin tunic, the thick tunic, your fulled linen cloth, chemises, bordered shifts’ the marigold or saffron-coloured dress, the under-petticoat or else the light vermilion dress, the hood, the royal or the foreign robe, the wave pattern[*] or the feather-pattern, the wax or the apple-tint. The greatest nonsense! From dogs, too, do they even take the names.
PERIPHIANES
How so?
EPIDICUS
They call one the Laconian[*]. These names compel men to make auctions.
PERIPHIANES
But do you say on as you commenced.
EPIDICUS
Two other women behind me began to speak thus between themselves; I, like my wont, went away a little distance from them; I pretended that I wasn’t attending to their talk: I didn’t quite hear all, and still I wasn’t deceived
in a word they said.
PERIPHIANES
I long to hear it.
EPIDICUS
Then one of them said to the other with whom she was talking—
PERIPHIANES
What?
EPIDICUS
Be quiet then, that you may hear. After they had caught sight of her whom your son is dying for: Prithee, how happily and luckily has it befallen that woman for her lover to be wishing to set her free. Who is he?
said the other. She mentioned Stratippocles.

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