<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.phi020.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="273ac" part="Y" resp="translator">What? <note resp="perseus">Part of line 273 in the Latin.</note></l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="273b" part="F">What I ask thee. Dost thee wish to be taken for a bondswoman, who dost carry on thee those rings?</l><stage>(Pointing to her fingers.)</stage></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="275">They give them to those who are worthy.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="275a" part="Y" resp="translator">These are the spoils of Laverna<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">Spoils of Laverna</q>:  Laverna was the tutelary Divinity of thieves and he intends to insinuate that she has stolen the rings.</note> which thee dost possess.<note resp="perseus">Part of line 275 in the Latin?</note></l><stage>(Lays hold of her.)</stage></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="276" part="I">Don’t be touching me.</l><stage>(Moving away.)</stage></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="276b" part="F">I, touch thee? So help me my weeding-hoe, I’d rather i’ the country for me to be harnessed like an ox with crumpled horns, and with it spend the livelong night upon the straw, than that a hundred nights with thee, with a dinner apiece, were given me for nothing!</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" n="281">But what business, woman, hast thee at our house? Why dost thee come running this way as often as we come to town?</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="283" part="I">I want to meet with your women.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="283b" part="F">What women art thee talking to me about, when there’s not even a single woman-fly within the house?
</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="285" part="I">What, does no woman live here?</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>