CI CONVERSATION
Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck translation
“GOOD morning.—Good morning also.—Thou art in a great hurry.—Perhaps less than thou thinkest.—Thou art a pretty girl.—Perhaps more so than thou believest.
“What is thy charming name?—I tell it not so quickly.—Thou hast someone this evening?—Always there is my lover.—And how dost thou love him?—As he wishes.
“Let us sup together.—If thou desirest. But what givest thou?—This.—Five drachmæ? It is for my slave. And for me?—Say it thyself.—An hundred.
“Where livest thou?—In this blue house.—At what hour may I send to seek thee?—At once, if thou wishest.—At once.—Go before.”