Quite straight, sir, as far as her memory goes: she’s giving you her dream. But I say, ma’am, this morning after you 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 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.