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Phormio · 161 BC

Act IV, Scene V

by Terence c. 195 – c. 159 BC

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)


DEMIPHO and CHREMES.

DEM. What is the meaning of all this?

CHREM. (looking at the door of his house.) Has she shut the door yet?

DEM. Now she has.

CHREM. O Jupiter! the Gods do befriend us; I have found that it is my daughter married to your son.

DEM. Ha! How can that possibly be?

CHREM. This spot is not exactly suited for me to tell it you.

DEM. Well then, step in-doors.

CHREM. Hark you, I don’t wish our sons even to come to know of this. (They go into DEMIPHO’S house.)

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Terence. Phormio, Act IV, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/terence-phormio-riley/26/.

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Terence. Phormio, Act IV, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/terence-phormio-riley/26/.

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