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Pseudolus, or The Cheat (972b-1001)

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Few persons do that which you mention; for in the Forum there is hardly every tenth person that knows his own self.
PSEUDOLUS
(from behind.)
I’m all right; he is philosophizing now.
SIMO
I’m looking for a fellow here, a bad one,
a law breaker, an impious, perjured, and dishonest rogue.
BALLIO
(aside.)
He’s looking for me, for those are my titles If he would only mention the name. (To SIMMIA.) What’s the name of this person?
SIMO
Ballio, the procurer.
BALLIO
Do I know him? I am the very person, young man, that you are looking for.
SIMO
What, are you Ballio?
BALLIO
I really am he.
SIMO
How you are clothed, a housebreaker ⋯
(He takes hold of BALLIO’S cloak.)
BALLIO
I think if you were to see me in the dark, you’d be keeping your hand off.
SIMO
My master bade me present you many greetings. Receive this letter from me; he bade me give you it.
BALLIO
Who’s the person that bade you?
PSEUDOLUS
(from behind.)
I’m undone, now the fellow’s in the middle of the mud.
He doesn’t know the name—this business is at a dead lock.
BALLIO
Who do you say sent me this?
SIMO
Observe the seal; do you yourself tell me his name, that I may know that you are Ballio himself.
BALLIO
Give me the letter.
SIMO
Take it, and look at the seal.
(Gives him the letter.)
BALLIO
(looking at it.)
Oho! ’Tis nothing more nor less than Polymachaeroplagides [*], his own very self; I recognize it. Hallo you, Polymachaeroplagides
is his name!
SIMO
I know now that I have rightly given you the letter, since you have mentioned the name of Polymachaeroplagides,
BALLIO
How fares he?
SIMO
By my troth, just as a brave man and a good soldier should. But make haste, I beg, to read this letter through, for it is requisite to do so, and to take this money at once and send out the damsel.
For it’s necessary for me this day to be at Sicyon [*], or else to suffer death to-morrow; so peremptory is my master.
BALLIO
I know it: you are telling those who know it already.
SIMO
Make haste then to read the letter through.
BALLIO
I’ll do so, if you’ll only hold your tongue. (He reads the letter.) The Captain Polymachaeroplagides sends this letter, written to the procurer Ballio,
sealed with the impression which was formerly agreed upon between us two.[*]
SIMO
The token’s in the letter

Tokens

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