Scene IX.
Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley translation
Laches and Phidippus.
Phid. What obstinacy is this?
Lach. Did I not tell you, Phidippus, that he would take this matter amiss? It was for that reason I entreated you to send your daughter back.
Phid. Upon my faith, I did not believe he would be so brutish; does he now fancy that I shall come begging to him? If so it is that he chooses to take back his wife, why, let him; if he is of another mind, let him pay back her portion,49 and take himself off.
Lach. Just look at that, now; you too are getting obstinate and huffish.
Phid. (speaking with anger.) You have returned to us in a very ungovernable mood, Pamphilus.
Lach. This anger will depart; although he has some reason for being vexed.
Phid. Because you have had a windfall, a little money, your minds are elevated.
Lach. Are you going to fall out with me, too?
Phid. Let him consider, and bring me word to-day, whether he will or will not, that she may belong to another if she does not to him.
Goes hastily into his own house.
Lach. Phidippus, stay; listen to a few words—