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Mostellaria, or The Haunted House (472-505)

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Tell me, why so?
TRANIO
Just look around, whether there’s any person to overhear our discourse.
THEUROPIDES
(looking around.)
All’s quite safe.
TRANIO
Look around once more.
THEUROPIDES
(looking around.)
There’s nobody; now then, speak out.
TRANIO
(in a loud whisper.)
The house has been guilty of a capital offence[*].
THEUROPIDES
I don’t understand you.
TRANIO
A crime, I tell you, has been committed there, a long while ago, one of olden time and ancient date.
THEUROPIDES
Of ancient date?
TRANIO
’Tis but recently, in fact, that we’ve discovered this deed.
THEUROPIDES
What is this crime, or who committed it? Tell me.
TRANIO
A host slew his guest, seized with his hand;
he, I fancy, who sold you the house.
THEUROPIDES
Slew him?
TRANIO
And robbed this guest of his gold, and buried this guest there in the house, on the spot.
THEUROPIDES
For what reason do you suspect that this took place?
TRANIO
I’ll tell you; listen. One day, when your son had dined away from home, after he returned home from dining;
we all went to bed, and fell asleep. By accident, I had forgotten to put out my lamp; and he, all of a sudden, called out aloud—
THEUROPIDES
What person? My son?
TRANIO
Hist! hold your peace: just listen.
He said that a dead man came to him in his sleep—
THEUROPIDES
In his dreams, then, you mean?
TRANIO
Just so. But only listen. He said that he had met with his death by these means—
THEUROPIDES
What, in his sleep?
TRANIO
It would have been surprising if he had told him awake, who had been murdered sixty years ago.
On some occasions you are absurdly simple.
But look, what he said: I am the guest of Diapontius, from beyond the seas; here do I dwell; this has been assigned me as my abode; for Orcus would not receive me in Acheron,
because prematurely I lost my life. Through confiding was I deceived: my entertainer slew me here, and that villain secretly laid me in the ground without funereal rites, in this house, on the spot, for the sake of gold. Now do you depart from here; this house is accursed, this dwelling is defiled.
The wonders that here take place, hardly in a year could I recount them.

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