Adelphi · 160 BC
Act V, Scene V
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
Enter SYRUS.
SYR. Hark you, Demea, your brother begs you will not go out of the way.
DEM. Who is it? --O Syrus, my friend, save you! how are you? How goes it with you?
SYR. Very well.
DEM. Very good. (Aside.) I have now for the first time used these three expressions contrary to my nature,-- “O Syrus, my friend, how are you? --how goes it with you?” (To SYRUS.) You show yourself far from an unworthy servant, and I shall gladly do you a service.
SYR. I thank you.
DEM. Yes, Syrus, it is the truth; and you shall be convinced of it by experience before long.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act V, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/32/.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act V, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/32/.