I just
this minute setting eyes on her for the first time along
with you?

_Amph._

Quid nunc, mulier? audin illum?

What now, madam? Do you hear him?

_Alc._

Ego vero, ac falsum dicere.

To be sure I do--telling lies.

_Amph._

Neque tu illi neque mihi viro ipsi credis?

You won't believe him, or me, your own husband, either?

_Alc._

Eo fit quia mihi
plurimum credo et scio istaec facta proinde ut proloquor.

That is only because I believe myself most of all, and I
know everything occurred just as I tell you.

_Amph._

Tun me heri advenisse dicis?

And you say that I arrived yesterday?

_Alc._

Tun te abiisse hodie hinc negas?

And you deny that you left to-day?

_Amph._

Nego enim vero, et me advenire nunc primum aio ad te domum.

Deny it? Of course I do. And I say I'm just now coming home
to you for the first time.

_Alc._

Obsecro, etiamne hoc negabis, te auream pateram mihi 760
dedisse dono hodie, qua te illi donatum esse dixeras?

And will you deny this, too, pray,--that you gave me the
golden bowl to-day that was presented to you there, as you
said?

_Amph._

Neque edepol dedi neque dixi; verum ita animatus fui
itaque nunc sum, ut ea te patera donem. sed quis istuc tibi dixit?

By heaven! I neither gave it nor said it. But I did intend
to make you a gift of that bowl, and do still. Who told you
of that, though?

_Alc._

Ego equidem ex te audivi et ex tua accepi manu pateram.

Why, I heard about it from your own lips and received the
bowl from your own hand.

_Amph._

Mane, mane, obsecro te. nimis demiror, Sosia,
qui illaec illic me donatum esse aurea patera sciat,
nisi tu dudum hanc convenisti et narravisti haec omnia.

One moment, please, one moment! (_turning to Sosia_) It
is very extraordinary. Sosia, how she knows I was presented
with a golden bowl there, unless you met her a while ago
yourself and told her the whole story.

_Sos._

Neque edepol ego dixi neque istam vidi nisi tecum simul.

By gad, sir, I never told her, no, nor saw her, except here
with you.

_Amph._

Quid hoc sit hominis?

(_helplessly_) What sort of a creature have I got here?

_Alc._

Vin proferri pateram?

Would you like to have the bowl brought?

_Amph._

Pro