u woke
up you ought to have taken some salted cakes, or incense,
and prayed to Jove--he has charge of prodigies.

_Alc._

Vae capiti tuo.

Oh confound you, sir!

_Sos._

Tua istuc refert--si curaveris.

(_innocently_) That would do you good, ma'am--if you
would see to it.

_Alc._

Iterum iam hic in me inclementer dicit, atque id sine malo.

There he is, rude to me again, and not suffering for it!

_Amph._

Tace tu. tu dic: egone abs te abii hinc hodie cum diluculo?

(_to Sosia_) Keep still, you! (_to Alcmena_) And you--I left
you this morning at daybreak, did I?

_Alc._

Quis igitur nisi vos narravit mi, illi ut fuerit proelium?

Why, who else but you two told me how the battle there went?

_Amph._

An etiam id tu scis?

You don't mean to say you know about that?

_Alc._

Quippe qui ex te audivi, ut urbem maximam
expugnavisses regemque Pterelam tute occideris.

Naturally, since I heard from your own lips how you took
that great city and killed King Pterelas yourself.

_Amph._

Egone istuc dixi?

I told you that, I?

_Alc._

Tute istic, etiam adstante hoc Sosia.

Yes, you yourself,--with Sosia here standing by, too.

_Amph._

Audivistin tu me narrare haec hodie?

(_to Sosia_) Have you ever heard me say a word of this?

_Sos._

Ubi ego audiverim?

Heard you? Where?

_Amph._

Hanc roga.

(_sullenly_) Ask her.

_Sos._

Me quidem praesente numquam factum est, quod sciam.

You never did so far as I know, leastways with me at hand.

_Alc._

Mirum quin te adversus dicat.

(_ironically_) It is strange he declines to contradict his
own master.

_Amph._

Sosia, age me huc aspice. 750

Sosia, here! Look me in the eye.

_Sos._

Specto.

(_obeying_) Very good, sir.

_Amph._

Vera volo loqui te, nolo adsentari mihi.
audivistin tu hodie me illi dicere ea quae illa autumat?

What I want from you is the truth, no obsequiousness. Did
you ever hear me utter a syllable of what she says?

_Sos._

Quaeso edepol, num tu quoque etiam insanis, quom id me interrogas,
qui ipsus equidem nunc primum istanc tecum conspicio simul?

Well, upon my word, I should like to ask if you are not
crazy yourself, asking me a question like that--and