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Athens (Greece) (search for this): act 4, scene 4
an, you are not sober. DAVUS aloud. One scheme brings on another. I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica---- CHREMES apart. Ha! DAVUS aloud. And that, constrained by the laws, Constrained by the laws: He alludes to a law at Athens which compelled a man who had debauched a free-born woman to marry her. This is said by Davus with the view of frightening Chremes from the match. he will have to take her as his wife. MYSIS Well now, pray, is she not a citizen? CHREMES apart. I you hear it? Here's villainy for you! she pointing at MYSIS ought to be carried off She ought to be carried off: He says this implying that Mysis, who is a slave, ought to be put to the torture to confess the truth; as it was the usual method at Athens to force a confession from slaves by that method. We find in the Hecyra, Bacchis readily offering her slaves to be put to the torture, and in the Adelphi the same custom is alluded to in the Scene between Micio, Hegio and Geta. hence to the tortu
Attica (Greece) (search for this): act 4, scene 4
, if he sees the child laid before the door, will not give his daughter; i'faith, he'll give her all the sooner. CHREMES apart. I'faith, he'll not do so. DAVUS aloud. Now therefore, that you may be quite aware, if you don't take up the child, I'll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road; and yourself in the same place I'll roll over into the mud. MYSIS Upon my word, man, you are not sober. DAVUS aloud. One scheme brings on another. I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica---- CHREMES apart. Ha! DAVUS aloud. And that, constrained by the laws, Constrained by the laws: He alludes to a law at Athens which compelled a man who had debauched a free-born woman to marry her. This is said by Davus with the view of frightening Chremes from the match. he will have to take her as his wife. MYSIS Well now, pray, is she not a citizen? CHREMES apart. I had almost fallen unawares into a comical misfortune. Comes forward. DAVUS Who's that, speaking? Pretending to look about. O