Pythia

dote on you, what is the consequence? You flirt with Lycaena under my very eyes, just to vex me; you sit next to me at dinner, and pay compliments to Magidium, a mere music-girl, and hurt my feelings, and make me cry. And that wine-party the other day, with Thraso and Diphilus, when Cymbalium the flute-girl was there, and Pyrallis: you know how I hate that girl: as for Cymbalium, whom you kissed no less than five times, I didn't mind so much about that,-it must have been sufficient punishment in itself:-but the way in which you were always making signs to Pyrallis to notice your cup, and whispering to the boy, when you gave it back to him, that he was not to fill it for any one but Pyrallis! and that piece of apple that you bit off and shot across right into her lap, when you saw that Diphilus was occupied with Thraso,-

dear, you have spoilt him, by letting him see how fond you are of him. It is a great mistake to make so much of them; t

word of such a thing! I only wish

ere he is

ne? If he should have overhea

er look at her again, after what she has done: but I don't want you to

y what I w

s so tearful now, has been disloyal to me, and rece

-. But when did you

pen to me. Well, I wasn't going to be kept away from her, so I told Dromo to slip along the courtyard to the lowest part of the wall, and then let me mount on his back; I knew I could easily get over that way. To make a long story short, I got out, and came here. I

! What is coming

I was mistaken! My hands passed over a smooth, beardless man's face; the fellow was close-cropped, and reeked of scent like any woman. I had no

all? Why, it was Pythias

a, don't

ias; I had asked her to come and sleep

r hair has grown pre

ropped. And now she has got false hair. Pythias, show him that it is so. Beh

have been jealous? I had the

o return you evil for evil? What should you say

ve some wine, and Pythias must join us;

scrape you have led me into,

in too, so you must forgive him. I say, Lysias,