Question

Why was Antipholus of Syracuse terrified that his money was not safe?

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Antipholus of Syracuse Timeline and Summary

1.2.9: S. Antipholus instructs S. Dromio to take money to the Centaur, their inn. He says until dinner, he’ll wander around the town and view how things go down there, looking at the traders and the buildings. Afterwards, he’ll come and get a good night’s sleep at the inn.

1.2.19: S. Antipholus chats with the Ephesian merchant about S. Dromio. He calls his attendant "a trusty villain" and explains that S. Dromio often makes him light and laughing when he’s feeling particularly melancholy or just being, generally, a sad sack. S. Antipholus invites the merchant to walk around the town and dine with him.

1.2.30: Rejected! S. Antipholus says he’ll walk around alone instead, and "lose" himself in the city.

1.2.33: S. Antipholus unloads his sad heart to us: he says he cannot be content. Instead he’s like a drop of water that’s fallen into the ocean to look for a specific other drop of water. In his search, not only has he not found his family, but he feels he’s lost himself. He sees E. Dromio, and embraces him as S. Dromio, calling him his "almanac," as they were born in the same hour. He wonders how S. Dromio came back from the inn so quickly.

1.2.53: S. Antipholus asks E. Dromio what happened to the money he gave him. As E. Dromio is not S. Dromio, the man is utterly confused. S. Antipholus thinks his servant must be kidding around. He begins to grow angry at E. Dromio, especially when E. Dromio bids him home to dine with his wife. S. Antipholus increasingly threatens E. Dromio, and keeps asking after the 1,000 marks he gave S. Dromio to bring to the Centaur.

1.2.87: S. Antipholus gets really mad when E. Dromio keeps on talking about Antipholus’s wife and "mistress," so he resorts to beating E. Dromio.

1.2.95: After E. Dromio runs away, S. Antipholus decides that S. Dromio must have been cheated of his money somehow, but doesn’t want to admit it. He then tells us that he’s heard Ephesus is full of sorcerers, witches, quack doctors, and goodness-knows-what else. He says if he finds this to be true, he’s outta there. S. Antipholus heads for the Centaur to see if his money is safe.

2.2.1: Back at the marketplace, S. Antipholus confirms that his money has indeed arrived safely at the Centaur. He’s puzzled because it doesn’t seem possible that S. Dromio could have dropped off the money and seen him again in the city. Running into S. Dromio, he spews a barrage of questions, asking his servant why he denied getting the money and dropping it off at the Centaur. Further, he wants to know what S. Dromio meant by all his chatter about wives and the Phoenix (E. Antipholus’s house). S. Antipholus asks if S. Dromio was crazy earlier.