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._ Proferri volo. Indeed I should. _Alc._ Fiat heus tu, Thessala, intus pateram proferto foras, 770 qua hodie meus vir donavit me. Very well. (_calling to maid within_) Ho, there! Thessala, bring out the bowl my husband gave me to day. _Amph._ Secede huc tu, Sosia, enim vero illud praeter alia mira miror maxime, si haec habet pateram illam. Sosia! Come over here. (_they withdraw somewhat_) Upon my soul, it will be the most astounding of all these astounding circumstances, if she has that. _Sos._ An etiam credis id, quae in hac cistellula tuo signo obsignata fertur? Do you really believe that, sir, when I’ve got it in this little chest here, sealed with your own signet? _Amph._ Salvom signum est? Is the seal intact? _Sos._ Inspice. (_showing chest_) Look and see. _Amph._ Recte, ita est ut obsignavi. (_doing so_) It is all right--just as I sealed it. _Sos._ Quaeso, quin tu istanc iubes pro cerrita circumferri?