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634. No, by Jove! for she does not happen to be within; but has slipped out from the house without my knowledge. For which reason also I fear lest she be doing some mischief.

. By Neptune, then you've suffered exactly the same as I; for she I live with, is gone with the garment I used to wear. And this is not the only thing which troubles me; but she has also taken my shoes. Therefore I was not able to find them any where.

. By Bacchus, neither could I my Laconian shoes! but as I wanted to ease myself, I put my feet into my wife's buskins and am hastening, in order that I might not do it in the blanket, for it was clean-washed.

. What then can it be? Has some woman among her friends invited her to breakfast?

. In my opinion it is so. She's certainly not an ill body, as far as I know.

. Come, you are as long about it as the rope of a draw-well. It is time for me to go to the Assembly, if I find my garment, the only one I had.