To be sure I do—­telling lies.

Amph.

  Neque tu illi neque mihi viro ipsi credis?

      You won’t believe him, or me, your own husband, either?

Alc.

  Eo fit quia mihi
  plurimum credo et scio istaec facta proinde ut proloquor.

      That is only because I believe myself most of all, and I
      know everything occurred just as I tell you.

Amph.

  Tun me heri advenisse dicis?

      And you say that I arrived yesterday?

Alc.

  Tun te abiisse hodie hinc negas?

      And you deny that you left to-day?

Amph.

  Nego enim vero, et me advenire nunc primum aio ad te domum.

      Deny it?  Of course I do.  And I say I’m just now coming home
      to you for the first time.

Alc.

  Obsecro, etiamne hoc negabis, te auream pateram mihi 760
  dedisse dono hodie, qua te illi donatum esse dixeras?

      And will you deny this, too, pray,—­that you gave me the
      golden bowl to-day that was presented to you there, as you
      said?

Amph.

  Neque edepol dedi neque dixi; verum ita animatus fui
  itaque nunc sum, ut ea te patera donem. sed quis istuc tibi dixit?

      By heaven!  I neither gave it nor said it.  But I did intend
      to make you a gift of that bowl, and do still.  Who told you
      of that, though?

Alc.

  Ego equidem ex te audivi et ex tua accepi manu pateram.

      Why, I heard about it from your own lips and received the
      bowl from your own hand.

Amph.

  Mane, mane, obsecro te. nimis demiror, Sosia,
  qui illaec illic me donatum esse aurea patera sciat,
  nisi tu dudum hanc convenisti et narravisti haec omnia.

One moment, please, one moment! (turning to Sosia) It is very extraordinary.  Sosia, how she knows I was presented with a golden bowl there, unless you met her a while ago yourself and told her the whole story.

Sos.

  Neque edepol ego dixi neque istam vidi nisi tecum simul.

      By gad, sir, I never told her, no, nor saw her, except here
      with you.

Amph.

  Quid hoc sit hominis?

      (helplessly) What sort of a creature have I got here?

Alc.

  Vin proferri pateram?

      Would you like to have the bowl brought?

Amph.

  Proferri volo.

      Indeed I should.

Alc.

  Fiat heus tu, Thessala, intus pateram proferto foras, 770
  qua hodie meus vir donavit me.

      Very well. (calling to maid within) Ho, there!  Thessala,
      bring out the bowl my husband gave me to day.