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Heautontimorumenos; or, The Self-Tormenter (770b-800b)

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Tell me, please, what you think of it.
CHREMES
Extremely good, I declare.
SYRUS
Why yes, pretty fair. But listen, what a piece of policy still remains. He is then to say that he has seen your daughter—that her beauty charmed him as soon as he beheld her; and that he desires her for a wife.
CHREMES
What, her that has just been discovered ?
SYRUS
The same;
and, in fact, he’ll request that she may be asked for.
CHREMES
For what purpose, Syrus? For I don’t altogether comprehend it.
SYRUS
O dear, you are so dull.
CHREMES
Perhaps so.
SYRUS
Money will be given him for the wedding—with which golden trinkets and clothes—do you understand me?
CHREMES
To buy them—?
SYRUS
Just so.
CHREMES
But I neither give nor betroth my daughter to him.
SYRUS
But why?
CHREMES
Why, do you ask me? To a fellow—
SYRUS
Just as you please. I don’t mean that in reality you should give her to him, but that you should pretend it.
CHREMES
Pretending is not in my way; do you mix up these plots of yours, so as not to mix me up in them. Do you think that I’ll betroth my daughter to a person to whom I will not marry her?
SYRUS
I imagined so.
CHREMES
By no means.
SYRUS
It might have been cleverly managed; and I under-took this affair for the very reason, that a short time since you so urgently requested it.
CHREMES
I believe you.
SYRUS
But for my part, Chremes, I take it well and good, either way.
CHREMES
But still, I especially wish you to do your best for it to be brought about; but in some other way.
SYRUS
It shall be done: some other method must be thought of; but as to what I was telling you of,—about the money which she owes to Bacchis,—that must now be repaid her. And you will not, of course, now be having recourse to this method; What have I to do with it? Was it lent to me? Did I give any orders? Had she the power to pawn my daughter
without my consent? They quote that saying, Chremes, with good reason, Riorous law[*] is often rigorous injustice.
CHREMES
I will not do so.
SYRUS
On the contrary, though others were at liberty, you are not at liberty; all think that you are in good and very easy circumstances.
CHREMES
Nay rather, I’ll at once carry it to her myself.
SYRUS
Why no; request your son in preference.
CHREMES
For what reason?

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