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Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (103b-137)

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I wish your attention to be given; for, unacquainted with female matters and ways,
I come now as a pupil to you, my instructresses; in order that each of you may tell me what endowments matrons ought to have, who are the best esteemed.
PAMPHILA
What’s the reason that you come hither to enquire about the ways of females?
ANTIPHO
Troth, I’m looking for a wife, as your mother’s dead and gone.
PAMPHILA
You’ll easily find, father, one both worse and of worse morals
than she was; one better you’ll neither find nor does the sun behold.
ANTIPHO
But I’m making the enquiry of you, and of this sister of yours.
PAMPHILA
I’ faith, father, I know how they should be, if they are to be such as I think right.
ANTIPHO
I wish, then, to know what you do think right.
PAMPHILA
That when they walk through the city, they should shut the mouths of all, so that none can speak ill of them with good reason.
ANTIPHO
(to PHILUMENA.)
And now speak you in your turn.
PHILUMENA
What do you wish that I should speak to you about, father?
ANTIPHO
How is the woman most easily distinguished, who is of a good disposition?
PHILUMENA
When she, who has the power of doing ill, refrains from doing so.
ANTIPHO
Not bad that. (To PAMPHILA.) Come, say you, which choice is the preferable, to marry a maiden or a widow?
PAMPHILA
So far as my skill extends,
of many evils[*], that which is the least evil, the same is the least an evil.
He that can avoid the women, let him avoid them,
so that each day he takes care, the day before, not to do that which, the day after, he may regret.
ANTIPHO
What sort of woman, pray, seems to you by far the wisest?
PHILUMENA
She who, when affairs are prosperous, shall still be able to know herself,
and who with equanimity can endure it to be worse with her than it has been.
ANTIPHO
By my troth, in merry mood have I been trying the bent of your dispositions. But ’tis this for which I am come to you, and for which I wished to meet you both. My friends are advising me to the effect that I should remove you hence to my own house.
PAMPHILA
But still, we, whose interests are concerned, are advising you quite otherwise.
For either, father, we ought not formerly to have been bestowed in marriage, unless our husbands pleased you, or, it is not right for us now to be taken away when they are absent.
ANTIPHO
And shall I suffer you while I am alive to remain married to men who are beggars?
PAMPHILA
This beggar of mine is agreable to me; her own king is agreable[*] to the queen. In poverty have I the same feelings that once I had in riches.
ANTIPHO
And do you set such high value on thieves and beggars?
PHILUMENA
You did not, as I think, give me in marriage to the money, but to the man.
ANTIPHO
Why are you still in expectation of those who have been absent for now three years? Why don’t you accept an eligible match[*] in place of a very bad one?

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