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qui dudum properare se aibat? an ille me temptat sciens
atque id se volt experiri, suom abitum ut desiderem?
ecastor med haud invita se domum recipit suam.

(_aside_) What in the world is he back for so soon after
saying he must hurry off! Is he trying me on purpose, does
he want to test how much I miss him when he goes? Bless his
heart, I have no objection to his coming home again!

_Sos._

Amphitruo, redire ad navem meliust nos.

(_seeing her_) We had better make for the ship once more,
sir.

_Amph._

Qua gratia?

Why?

_Sos._

Quia domi daturus nemo est prandium advenientibus

No one at home is going to give the new arrivals a
breakfast, that is why.

_Amph._

Qui tibi nunc istuc in mentemst?

And how does that thought happen to occur to you?

_Sos._

Quia enim sero advenimus.

Because we've come too late.

_Amph._

Qui?

How so?

_Sos._

Quia Alcumenam ante aedis stare saturam intellego.

(_pointing_) Well, there's mistress in front of the house,
and she has a sort of well-fed look about her.

_Amph._

Gravidam ego illanc hic reliqui, quom abeo.

I had hopes when I went away, Sosia, of being made a father.

_Sos._

Ei perii miser.

Heaven help me!

_Amph._

Quid tibi est?

What is the matter?

_Sos._

Ad aquam praebendam commodum adveni domum,
decumo post mense, ut rationem te putare intellego 670

(_disgustedly_) I have got home exactly in time to draw the
water: it is the tenth month since, according as I follow
your reckoning.

_Amph._

Bono animo es.

(_laughing_) Cheer up, cheer up!

_Sos._

Scin quam bono animo sim? si situlam cepero,
numquam edepol tu mihi divini creduis post hunc diem,
ni ego illi puteo, si occepso, animam omnem inter traxero.

Know how cheerful I am, do you, sir? Let me get hold of a
bucket, and by gad, don't ever trust my sacred oath again,
if I do not drain that well of its last breath, once I
begin.

_Amph._

Sequere hac me modo, alium ego isti rei allegabo, ne time.

Come now, this way with me. (_moves toward house again_)
I will appoint some one else to that office, never fear.

_Alc._

Magis nunc me meum officium facere, si huic eam advorsum, arbitror.

(_aside_