For heaven’s sake, why don’t you have her treated for lunacy? _Amph._ Edepol qui facto est opus; nam haec quidem edepol larvarum plenast. By Jove, so I should! Why, bless my soul, she’s full of evil spirits! ENTER _Thessala_ WITH BOWL. _Alc._ Quid verbis opust? em tibi pateram, eccam. Are you satisfied, sir? There! Your bowl, see! _Amph._ Cedo mi. (_dumbfounded_) Give it here! _Alc._ Age aspice huc sis nunciam tu qui quae facta infitiare, quem ego iam hic convincam palam estne haec patera qua donatu’s illi? Come now, be so good as to look at it, you that do a thing and then disown it. I shall refute you plainly, sir, here and now. Is this the bowl which they presented to you there, or not? _Amph._ Summe Iuppiter, 780 quid ego video? haec ea est profecto patera. perii, Sosia. (_taking it_) Jove almighty! What do I see? The selfsame bowl, it is, it is! This is frightful, Sosia! _Sos._ Aut pol haec praestigiatrix multo mulier maxima est aut pateram hic inesse oportet. By gad, she’s either the greatest enchantress alive, easily, or the bowl must be inside here. (_pointing to chest_) _Amph._ Agedum, exsolve cistulam. Come, come, unfasten the chest! _Sos._ Quid ego istam exsolvam? obsignatast recte, res gesta est bene: tu peperisti Amphitruonem, ego alium peperi Sosiam; nunc si patera pateram peperit, omnes congeminavimus. Unfasten it? Why? It’s sealed all right, everything is shipshape. You have spawned another Amphitryon; I have spawned another Sosia; now if the bowl has spawned another bowl, we’ve all doubled. _Amph._ Certum est aperire atque inspicere. I’m resolved: it must be opened and inspected. _Sos._ Vide sis signi quid siet, ne posterius in me culpam conferas. You please take a look at the seal, sir, so that you won’t blame me later. _Amph._ Aperi modo; nam haec quidem nos delirantis facere dictis postulat. (_looking_) Yes, yes, open up! Why, the woman is bent on driving us mad with her talk. _Alc._ Unde haec igitur est nisi abs te quae mihi dono data est? 790 Where did this come from, then, if not as a present from you? _Amph._ Opus mi est istuc exquisito. (_curtly_) This matter needs my investigation. _Sos._ Iuppiter, pro Iuppiter. (_busy with chest_) By Jove! Oh, by Jove! _Amph._ Quid tibi est? (_excited_) What is it? _Sos._ Hic patera nulla in cistulast. There’s no bowl in the chest here at all! _Amph._ Quid ego audio? What’s that you say? _Sos._ Id quod verumst. It’s the honest truth. _Amph._ At cum cruciatu iam, nisi apparet, tuo. But your skin shall soon pay for it, if it’s not forthcoming. _Alc._ Haec quidem apparet. This one is forthcoming, at any rate.