! Still asking me who I am, you death on rods,
you? By gad, I'll warm you up with a whip to day for this
insolence!

_Mer._

Prodigum te fuisse oportet olim in adulescentia.

You must have been a waster ... in your ... younger days.

_Amph._

Quidum?

How so?

_Mer._

Quia senecta aetate a me mendicas malum.

Well ... here you are in your declining years begging ... me
for trouble.

_Amph._

Cum cruciatu tuo istaec hodie, verna, verba funditas.

You shall soon suffer for this flow of language, you drudge.

_Mer._

Sacrufico ego tibi.

I'm sacrificing to ye, I am.

_Amph._

Qui?

How?

_Mer._

Quia enim te macto infortunio.

(_slyly poising a pail of water_) Why, because I'm making
you an offering of a ... calamity.

[_At this point there is a gap in the MSS. Only a few
lines have been preserved. Leo outlines the lost part as
follows: After Mercury has had sufficient amusement with
Amphitryon, the disturbance calls Alcmena from within. She
has a dispute with her husband--Jupiter had left her earlier
so that he might offer sacrifice--and shuts him out of the
house. Perhaps Amphitryon went away to summon friends to aid
him: at any rate, Sosia appears with Blepharo and gets a bad
welcome from his master, despite Blepharo's patronage, and
then escapes. Jupiter comes out of the house. Husband and
lover abuse each other vigorously and a scuffle ensues.
Blepharo is appealed to by Amphitryon, only to be made
ridiculous by Jupiter._]

_Amph._

At ego te cruce et cruciatu mactabo, mastigia. I

But I'll make you an offering of torture and torment, you
whipping post.

_Mer._

Erus Amphitruost occupatus. II

The master, Amphitryon, is busy.

_Mer._

abiendi nunc tibi etiam occasiost. III (XV LG)

---- now you still have a chance to leave.

_Mer._

Optimo iure infringatur aula cineris in caput. IV (III)

It would serve you right to have a pot of ashes broken on
your head.

_Mer._

Ne tu postules matulam unam tibi aquae infundi in caput V (IV)

You would certainly ask to have one jar of water emptied on
your head.

_Mer._

Larvatu's edepol hominem miserum medicum quaerita. VI (V