The Eleven Comedies Vol 1 Part 65
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STREPSIADES. Who is this?
PASIAS. ... for the old day and the new.
STREPSIADES. I call you to witness, that he has named two days. What do you want of me?
PASIAS. I claim of you the twelve minae, which you borrowed from me to buy the dapple-grey horse.
STREPSIADES. A horse! do you hear him? I, who detest horses, as is well known.
PASIAS. I call Zeus to witness, that you swore by the G.o.ds to return them to me.
STREPSIADES. Because at that time, by Zeus! Phidippides did not yet know the irrefutable argument.
PASIAS. Would you deny the debt on that account?
STREPSIADES. If not, what use is his science to me?
PASIAS. Will you dare to swear by the G.o.ds that you owe me nothing?
STREPSIADES. By which G.o.ds?
PASIAS. By Zeus, Hermes and Posidon!
STREPSIADES. Why, I would give three obols for the pleasure of swearing by them.
PASIAS. Woe upon you, impudent knave!
STREPSIADES. Oh! what a fine wine-skin you would make if flayed!
PASIAS. Heaven! he jeers at me!
STREPSIADES. It would hold six gallons easily.
PASIAS. By great Zeus! by all the G.o.ds! you shall not scoff at me with impunity.
STREPSIADES. Ah! how you amuse me with your G.o.ds! how ridiculous it seems to a sage to hear Zeus invoked.
PASIAS. Your blasphemies will one day meet their reward. But, come, will you repay me my money, yes or no? Answer me, that I may go.
STREPSIADES. Wait a moment, I am going to give you a distinct answer. (Goes indoors and returns immediately with a kneading-trough.)
PASIAS. What do you think he will do?
WITNESS. He will pay the debt.
STREPSIADES. Where is the man who demands money? Tell me, what is this?
PASIAS. Him? Why he is your kneading-trough.
STREPSIADES. And you dare to demand money of me, when you are so ignorant? I will not return an obolus to anyone who says him instead of her for a kneading-trough.
PASIAS. You will not repay?
STREPSIADES. Not if I know it. Come, an end to this, pack off as quick as you can.
PASIAS. I go, but, may I die, if it be not to pay my deposit for a summons.
STREPSIADES. Very well! 'Twill be so much more to the bad to add to the twelve minae. But truly it makes me sad, for I do pity a poor simpleton who says him for a kneading-trough.
AMYNIAS. Woe! ah woe is me!
STREPSIADES. Hold! who is this whining fellow? Can it be one of the G.o.ds of Carcinus?[568]
AMYNIAS. Do you want to know who I am? I am a man of misfortune!
STREPSIADES. Get on your way then.
AMYNIAS. Oh! cruel G.o.d! Oh Fate, who hath broken the wheels of my chariot! Oh, Pallas, thou hast undone me![569]
STREPSIADES. What ill has Tlepolemus done you?
AMYNIAS. Instead of jeering me, friend, make your son return me the money he has had of me; I am already unfortunate enough.
STREPSIADES. What money?
AMYNIAS. The money he borrowed of me.
STREPSIADES. You have indeed had misfortune, it seems to me.
AMYNIAS. Yes, by the G.o.ds! I have been thrown from a chariot.
STREPSIADES. Why then drivel as if you had fallen from an a.s.s?[570]
AMYNIAS. Am I drivelling because I demand my money?
STREPSIADES. No, no, you cannot be in your right senses.
AMYNIAS. Why?
STREPSIADES. No doubt your poor wits have had a shake.
AMYNIAS. But by Hermes! I will sue you at law, if you do not pay me.
STREPSIADES. Just tell me; do you think it is always fresh water that Zeus lets fall every time it rains, or is it always the same water that the sun pumps over the earth?
AMYNIAS. I neither know, nor care.
STREPSIADES. And actually you would claim the right to demand your money, when you know not a syllable of these celestial phenomena?
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