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?

I am, I say. How many times do you need to be told?

_Amph._

Sed quid ais? num obdormivisti dudum?

(_reflecting_) But look here, you were not asleep a while
ago, were you?

_Sos._

Nusquam gentium. 620

Not a bit of it, sir.

_Amph._

Ibi forte istum si vidisses quendam in somnis Sosiam--

Then perhaps, if you had seen that, well, that Sosia of
yours in your dreams--

_Sos._

Non soleo ego somniculose eri imper