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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (213b-250b)

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I’ faith, I will.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
We’re going to the Forum: we shall be here just now. While it’s cooking, we’ll take a whet in the meantime.
EROTIUM
Come when you like, the things shall be ready.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Only make haste, then. Do you follow me
(to PENICULUS.)
PENICULUS
By my troth, I certainly shall keep an eye on you, and follow you. I wouldn’t take the wealth of the Gods to lose you this day.
(Exeunt MENAECHMUS and PENICULUS.)
EROTIUM
(speaking at the door of her house.)
Call Cylindrus, the cook, out of doors this moment from within.
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(Enter CYLINDRUS, from the house.)
EROTIUM
Take a hand-basket and some money. See, you have three didrachmns here.
(Giving him money..)
CYLINDRUS
I have so.
EROTIUM
Go and bring some provisions, see that there’s enough for three; let it be neither deficient nor overmuch.
CYLINDRUS
What sort of persons are these to be?
EROTIUM
Myself, Menaechmus, and his Parasite.
CYLINDRUS
Then these make ten, for the Parasite easily performs the duty of eight persons[*].
EROTIUM
I’ve now told you the guests; do you take care of the rest.
CYLINDRUS
Very well.
It’s cooked already; bid them go and take their places.
EROTIUM
Make haste back.
CYLINDRUS
I’ll be here directly.
(Exit CYLINDRUS, and EROTIUM goes into her house.)
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(Enter MENAECHMUS SOSICLES and MESSENIO.)
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
There’s no greater pleasure to voyagers, in my notion, Messenio, than at the moment when from sea they espy the land afar.
MESSENIO
There is a greater, I’ll say it without subterfuge,—if on your arrival you see the land that is your own.
But, prithee, why are we now come to Epidamnus? Why, like the sea, are we going round all the islands?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
To seek for my own twin-brother born?
MESSENIO
Why, what end is there to be of searching for him? This is the sixth year that we’ve devoted our attention to this business.
We have been already carried round the Istrians[*], the Hispanians, the Massilians, the Illyrians, all the Upper Adriatic Sea, and foreign Greece [*], and all the shores of Italy, wherever the sea reaches them. If you had been searching for a needle, I do believe you would, long ere this, have found the needle, if it were visible.
Among the living are we seeking a person that’s dead; for long ago should we have found him if he had been alive.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
For that reason I am looking for a person to give me that information for certain, who can say that he knows that he really is dead; after that I shall never take any trouble in seeking further.
But otherwise I shall never, while I’m alive, desist; I know how dear he is to my heart.
MESSENIO
You are seeking a knot in a bulrush[*]. Why don’t we return homeward hence, unless we are to write a history[*]?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Have done with your witty sayings, and be on your guard against a mischief.
Don’t you be troublesome; this matter shan’t be done at your bidding.
MESSENIO
(aside.)
Aye, aye; by that same expression do I rest assured that I’m a slave; he couldn’t in a few words have said more in a plain-spoken way. But still I can’t restrain myself from speaking. (Aloud.) Do you hear, Menaechmus? When I look in the purse,

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