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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (1068b-1085b)

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Why, by my troth, so is mine.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
I am a Sicilian, of Syracuse.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Troth, the same is my native country.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
What is it that I hear of you?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
That which is the fact.
MESSENIO(To MENAECHMUS SOSICLES, by mistake.)
I know this person myself (pointing to the other MENAECHMUS); he is my master, I really am his servant; but I did think I belonged to this other. (To MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus, by mistake.) I took him to be you; to him, too, did I give some trouble. (To his master.) Pray, pardon me if I have said aught foolishly or unadvisedly to you.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
You seem to me to be mad. Don’t you remember that together with me you disembarked from board ship to-day?
MESSENIO
Why, really, you say what’s right—you are my master; (to MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus) do you look out for a servant. (To his master.) To you my greetings (to MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus) to you, farewell. This, I say, is Menaechmus.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
But I say I am.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
What story’s this? Are you Menaechmus?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
I say that I’m the son of Moschus, who was my father.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Are you the son of my father?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Aye, I really am, young man, of my own father.
I don’t want to claim your father, nor to take possession of him from you.
MESSENIO
Immortal Gods, what unhoped-for hope do you bestow on me, as I suspect. For unless my mind misleads me, these are the two twin-brothers; for they mention alike their native country and their father. I’ll call my master aside—Menaechmus.
BOTH OF THE MENAECHMI.
What do you want?
MESSENIO
I don’t want you both.
But which of you was brought here in the ship with me?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Not I.

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