Em.

      (doing so coolly) Well?

Arist.

  Dic modo:  570
  tun negas te Tyndarum esse?

      Now tell me:  do you deny that you are Tyndarus?

Tynd.

  Nego, inquam.

      I do, certainly.

Arist.

  Tun te Philocratem
  esse ais?

      You claim to be Philocrates, you?

Tynd.

  Ego, inquam.

      I certainly do.

Arist.

  Tune huic credis?

      (to Hegio, exasperated) Do you believe him?

Hegio

  Plus quidem quam tibi aut mihi.
  nam ille quidem, quem tu hunc memoras esse, hodie hinc abiit Alidem
  ad patrem huius.

      More than I do you, surely,—­or myself.  For you see, the
      fellow you tell me this man is—­he went away to Elis to-day
      to this man’s father.

Arist.

  Quem patrem, qui servos est?

      (contemptuously) Father!  What do you mean, when he’s a
      slave?

Tynd.

  Et tu quidem
  servos es, liber fuisti, et ego me confido fore,
  si huius huc reconciliasso in libertatem filium.

      Well, you, too, are a slave and once were free:  and (with
      emphasis) I hope to be so myself, when I have restored
      this gentleman’s son to home and liberty.

Arist.

  Quid ais, furcifer? tun te gnatum esse memoras liberum?

      What’s that, you villain?  You tell me you were born a
      freeman?

Tynd.

  Non equidem me Liberum, sed Philocratem esse aio.

      No indeed, my name is not Freeman, but Philocrates, that’s
      what I say.

Arist.

  Quid est?
  ut scelestus, Hegio, nunc iste te ludos facit.
  nam is est servos ipse, neque praeter se umquam ei servos fuit. 580

      What’s all this?  How the rascal’s making game of you,
      Hegio!  Why he’s a slave himself—­the only one he ever had.

Tynd.

  Quia tute ipse eges in patria nec tibi qui vivas domist,
  omnis inveniri similis tui vis; non mirum facis: 
  est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis.

(superior) Just because you yourself are poverty-stricken in your own country, with nothing at home to live on, you want to have every one else put in the same list.  There is nothing strange in that:  it is characteristic of poor beggars to be ill-natured, and envy the well-to-do.

Arist.

  Hegio, vide sis, ne quid tu huic temere insistas credere.
  atque, ut perspicio, profecto iam aliquid pugnae edidit.
  filium tuom quod redimere se ait, id ne utiquam mini placet.