If this did not take place just as I state, you have every right to accuse me of unchastity. _Amph._ Cuius? quae me absente corpus volgavit suom. X (XVI) Whose? A woman that prostituted herself in my absence! _Amph._ Quid minitabas te facturum, si istas pepulissem fores? XI (V) What were you threatening to do, if I pounded on that door? _Amph._ Ibi scrobes ecfodito tu plus sexagenos in die. XII (VI) There dig more than sixty ditches a day. _Amph._ Noli pessimo precari XIII (XVII) Don’t intercede for an utter rascal. _Bleph._ animam comprime XIV (XVIII) ---- save your breath. _Iup._ _Jup._ Manifestum hunc optorto collo teneo furem flagiti XV (IX) I have him by the scruff of the neck, an outrageous thief caught in the act. _Amph._ Immo ego hunc, Thebani cives, qui domi uxorem meam XVI (X) impudicitia impedivit, teneo, thensaurum stupri No, no, Theban citizens, I have him, the monster of lust who has brought disgrace on my wife at home. _Amph._ Nilne te pudet, sceleste, populi in conspectum ingredi? XVII (VIII) Aren’t you at all ashamed, you villain, to come out into public sight? _Amph._ clandestino. XVIII (XIX) ---- clandestinely. _Amph._ sive _Iup._ _Amph._ or _Jup._ Qui nequeas nostrorum uter sit Amphitruo decernere. XIX (XIV) You who are unable to decide which of us is Amphitryon. IV. 3. Scene 3. _Bleph._ Vos inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est; neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo. (_disgustedly_) You must untangle your own selves: I’m going: I have an engagement. (_aside_) Never did I see such marvels anywhere, I do believe. (_turns to go_) _Amph._ Blepharo, quaeso ut advocatus mi adsis neve abeas. Blepharo! Stand by me, for mercy’s sake, and be my assistant: don’t go! _Bleph._ Vale. quid opust me advocato, qui utri sim advocatus nescio? Good-bye. What’s the use of my being an assistant when I don’t know which to be it to? [EXIT _Blepharo_. _Iup._ _Jup._ Intro ego hinc eo. Alcumena parturit. (_aside_) I’m going inside myself: Alcmena’s delivery is at hand. [EXIT _Jupiter_ INTO HOUSE, UNSEEN BY _Amphitryon_. _Amph._ Perii miser. quid ego faciam, quem advocati iam atque amici deserunt? 1040 numquam edepol me inultus istic ludificabit, quisquis est; nam iam ad regem recta me ducam resque ut facta est eloquar.[25] ego pol illum ulciscar hodie Thessalum veneficum, qui pervorse perturbavit familiae mentem meae. sed ubi illest? intro edepol abiit, credo ad uxorem meam.