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P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Adelphi: The Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 4 (search)
s Sannio to us at last? SYRUS He is pacified at last. AESCHINUS I'll go to the Forum to pay him off; you, Ctesipho, step in-doors to her. SANNIO aside to SYRUS. Syrus, do urge the matter. SYRUS to AESCHINUS. Let us be off, for he is in haste foe' Cyprus. He is in haste for Cyprus: Donatus remarks that this is a piece of malice on the part of Syrus, for the purpose of teasing Sannio. SANNIO Not particularly so; although still, I'm stopping here doing nothing at all. SYRUS It shall be paid, don't Cyprus: Donatus remarks that this is a piece of malice on the part of Syrus, for the purpose of teasing Sannio. SANNIO Not particularly so; although still, I'm stopping here doing nothing at all. SYRUS It shall be paid, don't fear. SANNIO But he is to pay it all. SYRUS He shall pay it all; only hold your tongue and follow us this way. SANNIO I'll follow. CTESIPHO as SYRUS is going. Harkye, harkye, Syrus. SYRUS turning back. Well now, what is it? CTESIPHO aside. Pray do discharge that most abominable fellow as soon as possible; for fear, in case he should become more angry, by some means or other this matter should reach my father, and then I should be ruined forever. SYRUS That shall not happen, be of good heart; mea
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Adelphi: The Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 2 (search)
hing at all to you in comparison to obliging him; besides, they say that you are setting out for Cyprus---- SANNIO (aside.) Hah! SYRUS That you have been buying up many things to take thither; and tha'd me to a hair." Several women have been purchased, and other things as well, for me to take to Cyprus. To take to Cyprus: He alludes to a famous slave-market held in the Isle of Cyprus, whither mercCyprus: He alludes to a famous slave-market held in the Isle of Cyprus, whither merchants carried slaves for sale, after buying them up in all parts of Greece. If I don't get there to the fair, my loss will, be very great. Then if I postpone this business, and settle it when I come bCyprus, whither merchants carried slaves for sale, after buying them up in all parts of Greece. If I don't get there to the fair, my loss will, be very great. Then if I postpone this business, and settle it when I come back from there, it will be of no use; the matter will be quite forgotten. "Come at last?" they'll say. "Why did you delay it? Where have you been?" So that I had better lose it altogether than either n the words, and understands them as alluding to Sannio's calculation of his expected profits at Cyprus. up what you calculate will be your profits? SANNIO Is this honorable of him? Ought Aeschinus t