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Persa, or The Persian (674b-707)

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If for good persons
anything good is done, the same is wont to be both important and pleasing.
TOXILUS
Do you hear, you Persian, when you’ve got the money of him, do you pretend as though you are going straight to the ship.
SAGARISTIO
Don’t teach me.
TOXILUS
Betake yourself back again to our house, that way (pointing.) down the lane through the garden.
SAGARISTIO
You are naming what’s intended to be done.
TOXILUS
But don’t you at once be changing your quarters with the money, I recommend you.
SAGARISTIO
What’s worthy of yourself, do you take to be worthy of me?
TOXILUS
Hold your tongue; lower your voice; the spoil is coming out of doors.
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(Re-enter DORDALUS, from his house, with a bag of money.)
DORDALUS
Sixty minae of assayed silver are here (pointing at the bag.) less two didrachms.
SAGARISTIO
What’s the meaning of those didrachms?
DORDALUS
To pay for this bag, or else to cause it to come home again.
SAGARISTIO
Lest you mightn’t be enough of a Procurer, did you fear, wretched, filthy, avaricious creature, that you might lose your bag?
TOXILUS
Pray, let him alone; since he is a Procurer, he isn’t doing anything surprising.
DORDALUS
I’ve judged from omens that I should make some profit to-day;
nothing is of value so small to me, but that I grudge to lose it. Come, take this, will you?
(Holds out the bag to SAGARISTIO.)
SAGARISTIO
Place it around my neck, if it is not too much trouble.
DORDALUS
Certainly, it shall be done.
(Hangs it round his neck.)
SAGARISTIO
Is there anything else that you wish with me?
TOXILUS
Why are you in such haste?
SAGARISTIO
My business is of that nature; the letters that have been entrusted me, I want to deliver;
and I’ve heard that my twin-brother’s a slave here; I wish to be off to seek him out, and redeem him.
TOXILUS
And, i’ faith, you’ve not badly put me in mind of it; I think that I’ve seen here one very like you in figure, of just the same size.
SAGARISTIO
Why, it must surely be my brother[*].
DORDALUS
But we’d like to know what your name is.
TOXILUS
What does it matter to us to know?
SAGARISTIO
Listen then, that you may know; my name is Lying- speakerus[*], Virgin-seller-onides, Trifle-great-talker-ides, Silver-screwer-outides, Thee-worthy-to-talk-to-ides, Wheedler-out-of-coin-ides,
What-he-has-once-got-hold-of-ides, Never-again-part-with-it-ides.
DORDALUS
Dear me; upon my faith, this name of yours is written in many ways.
SAGARISTIO
Such is the way with the Persians; we have long names of many words twisted together. Do you wish for anything else?

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