_Amph._ Quis igitur tibi dedit? (_roughly_) Who gave it you, then? _Alc._ Qui me rogat. (_calmly_) My questioner. _Sos._ Me captas, quia tute ab navi clanculum huc alia via praecucurristi, atque hinc pateram tute exemisti atque eam huic dedisti, post hanc rursum obsignasti clanculum. (_to Amphitryon_) Trying to catch me! The fact is you ran on ahead from the ship yourself by another road on the sly, and took the bowl out yourself, and gave it to her, and then sealed up the chest again on the sly. _Amph._ Ei mihi, iam tu quoque huius adiuvas insaniam? an heri nos advenisse huc? Oh, ye gods! So now you are abetting her delusions, too! (_to Alcmena, with forced calmness_) We came here yesterday, you say? _Alc._ Aio, adveniensque ilico me salutavisti, et ego te, et osculum tetuli tibi. 800 Yes, and the moment you arrived you greeted me, and I you, and I gave you a kiss. _Sos._ Iam illud non placet principium de osculo. Now I don’t like that, that beginning with a kiss! _Amph._ Perge exsequi. Go on, go on! _Alc._ Lavisti. Then you bathed. _Amph._ Quid postquam lavi? And after bathing? _Alc._ Accubuisti. You took your place on the dining couch. _Sos._ Euge optime, nunc exquire. Bravo, sir! Great work! Now get to the bottom of it. _Amph._ Ne interpella. perge porro dicere. (_to Sosia_) No interruptions! (_to Alcmena_) Go on with your story. _Alc._ Cena adposita est, cenavisti mecum, ego accubui simul. Dinner was served: we dined together: I took my place on the couch, too. _Amph._ In eodem lecto? The same couch? _Alc._ In eodem. Surely. _Sos._ Ei, non placet convivium. Oho! This banqueting looks bad! _Amph._ Sine modo argumenta dicat. quid postquam cenavimus? (_to Sosia_) That will do. Let her state her case. (_to Alcmena_) What after we dined? _Alc._ Te dormitare aibas, mensa ablata est. cubitum hinc abiimus. You said you were sleepy: the table was removed: we went off to bed. _Amph._ Ubi tu cubuisti? Where did you sleep? _Alc._ In eodem lecto tecum una in cubiculo. Why, with you, in our room. _Amph._ Perdidisti. Oh, my God! _Sos._ Quid tibi est? What ails you? _Amph._ Haec me modo ad mortem dedit. She has killed me, killed me! _Alc._ Quid iam, amabo? Why, my dear man, what do you mean? _Amph._ Ne me appella. (_furiously_) Don’t speak to me! _Sos._ Quid tibi est? What ails you? _Amph._ Perii miser, 810 quia pudicitiae huius vitium me hinc absente est additum. Oh, God help me! She’s been seduced while I was gone! _Alc._ Obsecro ecastor, cur istuc, mi vir, ex ted audio?