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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (914b-930)

urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi010.perseus-eng2:914b-930
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What do you want?
DOCTOR.
Tell me this that I ask of you; do you drink white wine or dark-coloured?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
What need have you to enquire?
DOCTOR.
⋯
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Why don’t you go to utter perdition ?
OLD MAN
Troth, he’s now beginning to be attacked with the fit.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Why don’t you ask whether I’m wont to eat dark bread, or purple, or yellow? Or whether I’m wont to eat birds with scales, or fish with wings?
OLD MAN
Dear, dear!
(To the DOCTOR.) Don’t you hear how deliriously he talks? Why do you delay to give him something by way of a potion, before his raving overtakes him?
DOCTOR.
Stop a little; I’ll question him on some other matters as well.
OLD MAN
You are killing me[*] by your prating.
DOCTOR.
(to MENAECHMUS.)
Tell me this; are your eyes ever in the habit of becoming hard[*]?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
What? Do you take me to be a locust[*], you most worthless fellow?
DOCTOR.
Tell me, now, do your bowels ever rumble that you know of?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
When I’m full, they don’t rumble at all; when I’m hungry, then they do rumble.
DOCTOR.
I’ faith, he really gave me that answer not like an insane person. Do you always sleep soundly until daylight? Do you easily go to sleep when in bed?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
I sleep throughout if ⋯ I go to sleep if I have paid my money to him to whom I owe it.
DOCTOR.
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MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
(to the DOCTOR.)
May Jupiter and all the Divinities confound you, you questioner.

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