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Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian (428-470)

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Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly[*]—
MILPHIO
Only do begone.
AGORASTOCLES
Ought I not this very day—
MILPHIO
Only do be off.
AGORASTOCLES
To give you freedom
MILPHIO
Only do begone.
AGORASTOCLES
By my troth, I should not deserve—
ah!
MILPHIO
Bah!
Only do be off.
AGORASTOCLES
As many as are the dead in Acheron—
MILPHIO
Will you, then, move off?
AGORASTOCLES
Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—
MILPHIO
Are you going to move off?
AGORASTOCLES
Nor as many as there are clouds—
MILPHIO
Do you persist in going on this way?
AGORASTOCLES
Nor as there are stars in heaven—
MILPHIO
Do you persist in dinning my ears?
AGORASTOCLES
Neither this thing nor that; nor yet, indeed, seriously speaking—nor, by my faith, indeed. What need is there of words? And why not?—a thing that in one word—here we may say anything we please—and yet, i’ faith, not seriously in reality. D’ye see how ’tis? So may the Gods bless me!—do you wish me to tell you in honest truth?
A thing that here we may between ourselves—so help me Jupiter— Do you see how? Look you—do you believe what I tell you?
MILPHIO
If I cannot make you go away, I shall go away myself: for really, upon my faith, there’s need of an Oedipus[*] as a diviner for this speech of yours, him who was the interpreter to the Sphinx.
(He goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)
AGORASTOCLES
He has gone off in a passion; now must I beware, lest, through my own fault, I place an impediment in the way of my love. I’ll go and fetch the witnesses, since love commands me, a free man, to be obedient to my own slave.
(Exit.)
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(Enter LYCUS.)
LYCUS
(to himself.)
May all the Gods render him unfortunate, should any Procurer, after this day, ever immolate any victim to Venus, or should any one sacrifice a single grain of frankincense.
For wretched I, this day, have sacrificed to my most wrathful Deities[*] six lambs, and still I could not manage to make Venus to be propitious unto me.
Since I could not appease her, forthwith I departed thence in a passion; I forbade the entrails to be cut, and would not examine them. Inasmuch as the soothsayer pronounced them not propitious, I deemed the Goddess not deserving. By these means I fairly played a trick upon the greedy Venus.
When, that which was enough, she would not have to be enough, I made a pause. ’Tis thus I act, and thus it befits me to act.
I’ll make the other Gods and Goddesses henceforth more contented, and less greedy, when they know how the Procurer put a trick upon Venus.
The soothsayer, in manner right worthy of him, a fellow not worth threepence, said that in all the entrails misfortune and loss were portended to me, and that the Gods were angry with me.
In what matter either divine or human is it right for me to put trust in him? Just after that, a mina of silver was given me. But where, pray, has this Captain stopped just now, who gave it me, and whom I’ve invited to breakfast?
But look! here he comes.

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