ite a little while ago--just now.

_Amph._

Qui istuc potis est fieri, quaeso, ut dicis: iam dudum, modo?

For heaven's sake, how can those statements agree--"quite a
little while ago" and "just now"?

_Alc._

Quid enim censes? te ut deludam contra lusorem meum,
qui nunc primum te advenisse dicas, modo qui hinc abieris.

Well, how do you suppose? I am merely trying to make game of
you for a change, after your making game of me by saying
this is your first appearance here, when you just now left
us.

_Amph._

Haec quidem deliramenta loquitur.

(_to Sosia_) Upon my soul, she is raving!

_Sos._

Paulisper mane,
dum edormiscat unum somnum.

Wait a while till she has slept out just one sleep.

_Amph._

Quaene vigilans somniat?

What, awake and dreaming?

_Alc._

Equidem ecastor vigilo, et vigilans id quod factum est fabulor.
nam dudum ante lucem et istunc et te vidi.

(_indignantly_) To be sure I am awake, and awake as I
relate what happened. Why, just a little while ago before
dawn I saw that man and you, both.

_Amph._

Quo in loco?

Where was this?

_Alc._

Hic in aedibus ubi tu habitas.

Here in your very own house, sir.

_Amph._

Numquam factum est.

Impossible!

_Sos._

Non taces? 700
quid si e portu navis huc nos dormientis detulit?

Hush, sir, hush! What if the ship carried us here from the
harbour in our sleep?

_Amph._

Etiam tu quoque adsentaris huic?

Ha! you are siding with her too, are you?

_Sos._

Quid vis fieri?
non tu scis? Bacchae bacchanti si velis advorsarier,
ex insana insaniorem facies, feriet saepius;
si obsequare, una resolvas plaga.

(_wisely_) Well, what do you want? Don't you understand? You
but cross a Bacchante when the Bacchic frenzy fills her, and
you'll make the crazy thing crazier still and she'll hit you
all the more: humour her, and she'll call it quits after one
blow.

_Amph._

At pol qui certa res
hanc est obiurgare, quae me hodie advenientem domum
noluerit salutare.

Humour her? By the Lord, it will be bad humour, that's
sure,--arriving home to-day and she unwilling to give me a
decent welcome!

_Sos._

Inritabis crabrones.

You'll be poking up a hornet's nest.

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