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1 except yourself alone has ever touched my person in contact with his so as to render me unchaste. AMPH.
I could wish that that was true. ALCMENA
I speak the truth, but in vain, since you will not believe me. AMPH.
You are a woman; you swear at random. ALCMENA
She who has not done wrong, her it befits to be bold and to speak confidently and positively in her own behalf. AMPH.
That's very boldly said. ALCMENA
Just as befits a virtuous woman. AMPH.
Say you so? By your own words you prove it. ALCMENA
That which is called a dowry, I do not deem the same my dowry; but chastity, and modesty, and subdued desires, fear of the Gods, and love of my parents, and concord with my kindred; to be obedient to yourself and bounteous to the good, ready to aid the upright. SOSIA
Surely, by my troth, if she tells the truth in this, she's perfect to the very ideal
1 No mortal being: Unknowingly, Alcmena has a salvo here for the untruth, which, unconsciously, she would be otherwise telling; Jupiter not being a mortal.
The Comedies of Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley. London. G. Bell and Sons. 1912.
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