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Chapter 53
ENTER _Lyconides_ AND _Eunomia_.
_Lyc._
Dixi tibi, mater, iuxta rem mecum tenes. super Euchoms filia. nunc te obsecro resecroque, mater, quod dudum obsecraveram: fac mentionem cum avonculo, mater mea.
That’s the whole story, mother: you see how it is with me and Euclio’s daughter as well as I do. And now, mother, I beg you, beg you again and again, as I did before: do tell my uncle about it, mother dear.
_Eun._
Scis tute facta velle me quae tu velis, et istuc confido a fratre me impetrassere; et causa iusta est, siquidem ita est ut praedicas, te eam compressisse vinulentum virginem.
Your wishes are mine, dear; you know that yourself: and I feel sure your uncle will not refuse me. It’s a perfectly reasonable request, too, if it’s all as you say and you actually did get intoxicated and treat the poor girl so.
_Lyc._
Egone ut te advorsum mentiar, mater mea? 690
Is it like me to look you in the face and lie, my dear mother?
_Phaed._
Perii, mea nutrix. obsecro te, uterum dolet. Iuno Lucina, tuam fidem!
(_within Euclio’s house_) Oh--oh! Nurse! Nurse dear! Oh, God help me! The pain!
_Lyc._
Em, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem verbo: clamat, parturit.
There, mother! There’s better proof than words gives. Her cries! The child!
_Eun._
Ei hac intro mecum, gnate mi, ad fratrem meum, ut istuc quod me oras impetratum ab eo auferam.
(_agitated_) Come, darling, come in to your uncle with me, so that I may persuade him to let it be as you urge.
_Lyc._
I, iam sequar te, mater. sed servom meum Strobilum miror ubi sit, quem ego me iusseram hic opperiri. nunc ego mecum cogito: si mihi dat operam, me illi irasci iniurium est. ibo intro, ubi de capite meo sunt comitia. 700
You go, mother: I’ll follow you in a moment. [EXIT _Eunomia_ INTO _Megadorus’s_ HOUSE. I wonder (_looking around_) where that fellow Strobilus of mine is that I told to wait for me here. (_pauses_) Well, on thinking it over, if he’s doing something for me, it’s all wrong my finding fault with him. (_turning toward Megadorus’s door_) Now for the session that decides my fate. [EXIT.
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