Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (426-440b)

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O, you ask me who I am, do you?

PHILOCOMASIUM

Why shouldn’t I ask that which I don’t know?

PALAESTRIO

Who am I, then, if you don’t know him?

PHILOCOMASIUM

You are an annoyance to me, whoever you are, both you and he.

SCELEDRUS

What? don’t you know us?

PHILOCOMASIUM

No, neither of you.

SCELEDRUS

I very much fear—

PALAESTRIO

What do you fear?

SCELEDRUS

Why, that we have lost ourselves somewhere or other; for she says that she knows neither you nor me.

PALAESTRIO

I wish, Sceledrus, to examine into this, whether we are ourselves, or else some other persons; lest secretly somehow some one of our neighbours may have transformed us without our knowing it.

SCELEDRUS

For my part, beyond a doubt, I am my own self.

PALAESTRIO

I’ faith, and so am I.

SCELEDRUS

My lady, you are seeking your destruction.[*] To you I am speaking; hark you, Philocomasium!

PHILOCOMASIUM

What craziness possesses you,

to be calling me wrongly by a crackjaw name[*]?

SCELEDRUS

How now! What are you called, then?

PHILOCOMASIUM

My name is Glycera.

SCELEDRUS

For a bad purpose, Philocomasium, you wish to have a wrong name[*]. Away with you, shocking woman; for most notably are you doing a wrong to my master.

PHILOCOMASIUM

SCELEDRUS

Yes, you.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I, who arrived from Athens yesterday evening at Ephesus,

with my lover, a young man of Athens?

SCELEDRUS

Tell me,

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