(_angrily_) Because what you tell me is not so, never was so, never will be.
Eccere, iam tuatim facis tu, ut tuis nulla apud te fides sit.
See there now! Just like you--you can never trust your servants.
Quid est? quo modo? iam quidem hercle ego tibi istam scelestam, scelus, linguam abscidam.
(_misunderstanding_) What? How is that? Well, by heaven now, I’ll cut out that villainous tongue for you, you villain!
Tuos sum, proinde ut commodumst et lubet quidque facias tamen quin loquar haec uti facta sunt hic, numquam ullo modo me potes deterrere. 560
(_stubbornly_) I am yours, sir: so do anything that suits your convenience and taste. However, I shall tell everything just as it happened here, and you shall never frighten me out of that, never.
Scelestissime, audes mihi praedicare id, domi te esse nunc, qui hic ades?
You confounded rascal, do you dare tell me you are at home this very minute, when you are here with me?
Malum quod tibi di dabunt, atque ego hodie dabo.
A fact you shall soon suffer for--the gods will see to that, and so will I.
Tun me, verbero, audes erum ludificari? tunc id dicere audes, quod nemo umquam homo antehac vidit nec potest fieri, tempore uno homo idem duobus locis ut simul sit?
You dare make fun of me, scoundrel, your master? You dare tell me a thing no one ever saw before, an impossible thing--the same man in two places at one time?
Quid mali sum, ere, tua ex re promeritus? 570
What harm have I done you to be punished, sir?
Rogasne, improbe, etiam qui ludos facis me?
Harm? You reprobate! Still making a joke of me, are you?
Merito maledicas mihi, si id ita factum est.[16] verum haud mentior, resque uti facta dico.
You would have a right to call me names, if that was so. But I am not lying, sir: it happened just as I say.
(_dryly_) Your wish is already gratified.
(_despairingly_) What am I to make of the fellow?
Equidem decies dixi: domi ego sum, inquam, ecquid audis? 577 et apud te adsum Sosia idem. satin hoc plane, satin diserte, 578 ere, nunc videor tibi locutus esse?
I have told you how it is ten times over: I am at home, I say. Do you hear that? Yes, and I am here with you, the same Sosia. There sir, do you think that is putting it plainly enough, lucidly enough for you?