this was he who was brought to our
house?

PHAED. Why, I had no other.

PYTH. O dear! this one really isn't to be compared with the other. He
was of a handsome and genteel appearance.

PHAED. He seemed {so}, just then, because he was decked out in
party-colored clothes:[90] now he appears ugly, for this reason--
because he hasn't got them on.

PYTH. Prithee, do hold your tongue; as though indeed the difference
was so trifling. A young man was brought to our house to-day, whom,
really, Phaedria, you would have liked to look upon. This is a
withered, antiquated, lethargic, old fellow, with a speckled
complexion.[91]

PHAED. (_starting._) Hah! What tale is this? You'll so be-fool me that
I sha'n't know what I bought. (_To DORUS._) How now, sirrah, did I not
buy you?

DORUS. You did buy {me}.

PYTH. Bid him answer me in my turn.

PHAED. Question {him}.

PYTH. (_to DORUS._) Did you come here to-day to our house? (_DORUS
shakes his head._) He says, no. But it was the other one that came,
about sixteen years of age; whom Parmeno brought with him.

PHAED. (_to DORUS._) Well now, in the first place tell me this, where
did you get that dress that you have on? What, are you silent? Monster
of a fellow, are you not going to speak (_Shakes him._)

DORUS. Chaerea came.

PHAED. What, my brother?

DORUS. Yes.

PHAED. When?

DORUS. To-day.

PHAED. How long since?

DORUS. Just now.

PHAED. With whom?

DORUS. With Parmeno.

PHAED. Did you know him before?

DORUS. No.

PHAED. How did you know he was my brother?

DORUS. Parmeno said he was. He gave me these clothes.

PHAED. I'm undone!

DORUS. He himself put on mine; afterward, they both went out together.

PYTH. Now are you quite satisfied that I am sober, and that we have
told you no falsehood? Is it now sufficiently evident that the girl
has been ravished?

PHAED. Avaunt, you beast, do you believe what he says?

PYTH. What is there to believe? The thing speaks for itself.

PHAED. (_apart to DORUS._) Step aside a little this way. Do you hear?
(_DORUS steps aside._) A little further still. That will do. Now tell
me this once more; did Chaerea take your clothes off you?

DORUS. He did.

PHAED. And did he put them on?

DORUS. He did.

PHAED. And was he brought here instead of you?

DORUS. Yes.

PHAED. Great Jupiter! O wicked and audacious fellow!

PYTH. Woe unto me! Now at last will you believe that we have been
insulted in a disgraceful