<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi016.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="7"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi016.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="1231b" part="F">Strangers I’ll pay at once; to-morrow I’ll settle with fellow-citizens. Pseudolus has been holding a council-general <note resp="editor"><q rend="double">A council-general</q>: <q rend="double">Centuriata habuit comitia.</q> Literally, <q rend="double">has held the comitia centuriata.</q> These were the largest and most important meetings of the centuries or classes of all the Roman citizens, who there met together for the purpose of electing the superior magistrates by their votes, making laws, deciding upon war, and in later times, of concluding peace with foreign nations As these important things were done with due deliberation, Ballio borrows a figure thence, and means that Pseudolus has been giving all attention to the promotion of the success of the plot which he has laid against him.</note> against my life, in sending that fellow to me to-day to carry off the woman. <stage>(To HARPAX.)</stage> Do you follow me, <stage>(To the AUDIENCE.)</stage> Now don’t you be expecting that I shall be returning home this way.</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi016.perseus-eng2" n="1235">As matters stand, I’ve determined to go through the alleys.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HARPAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi016.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="1236">If you had walked at the rate you talk, you’d by this have been at the Forum.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>