I’m determined to make this, instead of my birthday, my dying day.(Exit BALLIO, HARPAX following.)

(SIMO, alone)SIMOI’ve touched this fellow handsomely, and cleverly has my servant managed his adversary. Now am I resolved to lie in ambush for Pseudolusin a different manner to what’s done in other plays, where people lie in wait with goads or whips. Without revenge will I at once pay down the twenty minae which I promised if he should effect it. I’ll carry them to him of my own accord. This creature is very clever, very cunning, very artful. Pseudolus has surpassed the Trojan stratagem The Trojan stratagem: He probably- alludes to the contrivance at the Wooden Horse, which was first suggested by Ulysses and Ulysses too.