Gratified, highly gratified with your discourse—­I devoured
      it.

Mega.

  An audivisti?

      Eh? you heard?

Eucl.

  Usque a principio omnia.

      Every word of it.

Mega.

  Tamen meo quidem animo aliquanto facias rectius,
  si nitidior sis filiai nuptus. 540

      (looking him over) But I say, though, I do think it would
      be a little more in keeping, if you were to spruce up a bit
      for your daughter’s wedding.

Eucl.

Pro re nitorem et gloriam pro copia qui habent, meminerunt sese unde oriundi sient. neque pol, Megadore, mihi neque quoiquam pauperi opinione melius res structa est domi.

(whining) Folks with the wherewithal and means to let ’em spruce up and look smart remember who they are.  My goodness, Megadorus!  I haven’t got a fortune piled up at home (peers slyly under cloak) any more than people think, and no other poor man has, either.

Mega.

  Immo est quod satis est, et di faciant ut siet
  plus plusque et istuc sospitent quod nunc habes.

      (genially) Ah well, you’ve got enough, and heaven make it
      more and more, and bless you in what you have now.

Eucl.

  Illud mihi verbum non placet “quod nunc habes.”
  tam hoc scit me habere quam egomet. anus fecit palam.

      (turning away with a start) “What you have now!” I don’t
      like that phrase!  He knows I have this money just as well as
      I do!  The old hag’s been blabbing!

Mega.

  Quid tu te solus e senatu sevocas?

      (pleasantly) Why that secret session over there?

Eucl.

  Pol ego ut te accusem merito meditabar.

      (taken aback) I was—­damme sir,—­I was framing the
      complaint against you that you deserve.

Mega.

  Quid est? 550

      What for?

Eucl.

Quid sit me rogitas? qui mihi omnis angulos furum implevisti in aedibus misero mihi, qui mi intro misti in aedis quingentos coquos, cum senis manibus, genere Geryonaceo;

What for, eh?  When you’ve filled every corner of my house with thieves, confound it!  When you’ve sent cooks into my house by the hundred and every one of ’em a Geryonian[C] with six hands apiece!

quos si Argus servet qui oculeus totus fuit, quem quondam Ioni Iuno custodem addidit, is numquam servet. praeterea tibicinam, quae mi interbibere sola, si vino scatat, Corinthiensem fontem Pirenam potest. tum obsonium autem—­

Why, Argus, who had eyes all over