Amph.
Quas, malum, nugas? satin tu sanus es?
What confounded rubbish! Are you actually in your senses?
Sos.
Sic sum ut vides.
You can see for yourself I am.
Amph.
Huic homini nescio quid est mali mala
obiectum manu,
postquam a me abiit.
The fellow is
bewitched somehow: the evil hand has been laid
on him since he
left me.
Sos.
Fateor, nam sum obtusus pugnis pessume.
Right you are!
Evil? The way I got beaten to jelly was
damned evil.
Amph.
Quis te verberavit?
Who was it beat you?
Sos.
Egomet memet, qui nunc sum domi.
I beat myself—the I that is at home now.
Amph.
Cave quicquam, nisi quod rogabo te, mihi
responderis.
omnium primum iste qui sit Sosia, hoc
dici volo.
Mind now, not
a word but what I ask you. In the first place,
I wish to be informed
who that Sosia is.
Sos.
Tuos est servos.
Your own slave.
Amph.
Mihi quidem uno te plus etiam est quam
volo, 610
neque postquam sum natus habui nisi te
servom Sosiam.
As a matter of
fact, I have one too many in you already, and
never in my life
did I own a slave named Sosia except
yourself.
Sos.
At ego nunc, Amphitruo, dico: Sosiam servom tuom praeter me alterum, inquam, adveniens faciam ut offendas domi, Davo prognatum patre eodem quo ego sum, forma, aetate item qua ego sum. quid opust verbis? geminus Sosia hic factust tibi.
Well sir, you mark my words now: I warrant you you will come upon a second servant Sosia of yours besides me when you reach home, yes sir, one whose father was Davus the same as mine, and who is just like me and just my age, too. Enough said, sir. Sosia has twinned here for you.
Amph.
Nimia memoras mira. sed vidistin uxorem meam?
(impressed)
Strange, very strange indeed! But did you see
my wife?
Sos.
Quin intro ire in aedis numquam licitum est.
Why, sir, never a foot was I allowed to put in the house.
Amph.
Quis te prohibuit?
Who hindered you?
Sos.
Sosia ille, quem iam dudum dico, is qui me contudit.
That Sosia I have
been telling of all along, the one that
smashed me up.
Amph.
Quis istic Sosia est?
Who is that Sosia?
Amph.
Ego, inquam. quotiens dicendum est tibi?