Stichus
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley
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The opening
SCENE I
(Enter PHILUMENA and PAMPHILA.
PHILUMENA Sister, I think that Penelope was wretched from her very soul, who was so long deprived of her husband; for from our own fortunes, whose husbands are absent from us, we judge of her feelings; for whose affairs, still, in their absence, both night and day, sister, as is becoming, we are ever anxious.
PAMPHILA ’Tis right that we should do our duty; and we do not that any further than affection bids us.
PHILUMENA But, sister, step this way a moment; I want to speak about the affairs of my husband.
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