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f©r any special treatment, Syrus, a slave, is rewarded at
tli® ®nd of the play by being given Ms freedom and by being
lent a s'um of money to net himself up in business. His
wife too la treed. It is hardly necessary to say that he
deserves none of this good fortune.65
Old 8mA) having been informed by Heglo that Demea*®
son Aeschinus has deserted his pregnant mistress for a slave
girl, goes In search of hla brother Mlcio, whom Demea holds
responsible for Aaschlnus* misbehavior, to "pour all this
into his ears.
In this qmat, Berne® is shamelessly treated fey hla
brother's slaw Syru.s. When Damea asks Syrus how to flat
Mlelo to give him. "news of more outrage ©us wickedness done ..
by that nice young man ^eschinus/," Syrus, in order to keep
the old man occupied while his young master enjoys his slave
girl and also t® punish hi® for wishing to lnfom Mlelo, di-
rects him on an aimless trudge which consumes the greater ■;
part of the day as well as the old man1s strength.
Here are seme of Syrus directions, shorn of ornwmntt
Do you know that colonnade at the butcher* s
shop down the street! . . . Warn you*ire crossed
that go straight up the street} when you*ve come
there, there*s a hill leading downwardsj down that
Fou go, and then there is a chapel on the right|
close by that there is a lane, • . • There where
the great wild fig tree stands. . . . Go that way
. . . you must come back to the colonnade againj
ft3fhe Brothers, v, i*. 64ibld.. Ill, ?.
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Branch, James Wesley. The Messenger in Shakespeare, thesis, May 1955; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130421/m1/91/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .