Chapter 68

ENTER _Parasite_ WITH _Cleomachus’s_ PAGE.

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Parasitus ego sum hominis nequam atque improbi, militis, qui amicam secum avexit ex Samo. nunc me ire iussit ad eam et percontarier, utrum aurum reddat anne eat secum semul. tu dudum, puere, cum illae usque isti semul: quae harum sunt aedes, pulta. adi actutum ad fores.

The parasite of a worthless reprobate is what I am, the parasite of the Captain that carried the wench off from Samos with him. Now he has ordered me to call on her and inquire whether she intends to pay him back his money, or go along with him. (_scanning the houses_) Boy, you came along to the place with her a short time ago: whichever house it is here, knock. Up to the door with you directly: (_page obeys, knocking timidly_)

recede hinc dierecte. ut pulsat propudium! comesse panem tris pedes latum potes, 580 fores pultare nescis. ecquis in aedibust? heus, ecquis his est? ecquis hoc aperit ostium? ecquis exit?

Get out and be hanged to you! How the imp knocks! You can devour a loaf of bread three feet wide: as for knocking at a door, you don’t know how. (_pounds vigorously himself, and shouts_) Anyone at home? Hi! Anyone here? Anyone minding this door? Anyone coming?

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