Nam quid ille revortitur, 660 qui dudum properare se aibat? an ille me temptat sciens atque id se volt experiri, suom abitum ut desiderem? ecastor med haud invita se domum recipit suam.

(aside) What in the world is he back for so soon after saying he must hurry off!  Is he trying me on purpose, does he want to test how much I miss him when he goes?  Bless his heart, I have no objection to his coming home again!

Sos.

  Amphitruo, redire ad navem meliust nos.

      (seeing her) We had better make for the ship once more,
      sir.

Amph.

  Qua gratia?

      Why?

Sos.

  Quia domi daturus nemo est prandium advenientibus

      No one at home is going to give the new arrivals a
      breakfast, that is why.

Amph.

  Qui tibi nunc istuc in mentemst?

      And how does that thought happen to occur to you?

Sos.

  Quia enim sero advenimus.

      Because we’ve come too late.

Amph.

  Qui?

      How so?

Sos.

  Quia Alcumenam ante aedis stare saturam intellego.

      (pointing) Well, there’s mistress in front of the house,
      and she has a sort of well-fed look about her.

Amph.

  Gravidam ego illanc hic reliqui, quom abeo.

      I had hopes when I went away, Sosia, of being made a father.

Sos.

  Ei perii miser.

      Heaven help me!

Amph.

  Quid tibi est?

      What is the matter?

Sos.

  Ad aquam praebendam commodum adveni domum,
  decumo post mense, ut rationem te putare intellego 670

      (disgustedly) I have got home exactly in time to draw the
      water:  it is the tenth month since, according as I follow
      your reckoning.

Amph.

  Bono animo es.

      (laughing) Cheer up, cheer up!

Sos.

  Scin quam bono animo sim? si situlam cepero,
  numquam edepol tu mihi divini creduis post hunc diem,
  ni ego illi puteo, si occepso, animam omnem inter traxero.

Know how cheerful I am, do you, sir?  Let me get hold of a bucket, and by gad, don’t ever trust my sacred oath again, if I do not drain that well of its last breath, once I begin.

Amph.

  Sequere hac me modo, alium ego isti rei allegabo, ne time.

  Come now, this way with me. (moves toward house again)
      I will appoint some one else to that office, never fear.

Alc.

  Magis nunc me meum officium facere, si huic eam advorsum, arbitror.