Look here!  I shall be at banker Archibulus’s.

Lib.

  Nempe in foro?

      In the forum, you mean?

Dem.

Ibi, si quid opus fuerit.

Yes, there,—­if anything’s needed.

Lib.

Meminero.

(nonchalantly) I’ll keep it in mind.
[EXIT Libanus TO FORUM.

Dem.

Non esse servos peior hoc quisquam potest nec magis versutus nec quo ab caveas aegrius eidem homini, si quid recte curatum velis, 120 mandes:  moriri sese misere mavolet, quam non perfectum reddat quod promiserit.

A more rascally servant than this of mine can’t be found, or a wilier one, or one harder to guard against.  But he’s just your man to commit a matter to, if you want it well managed:  he’d prefer to expire in pain and torment rather than fail to fulfil his promise to the letter.

nam ego illud argentum tam paratum filio scio esse quam me hunc scipionem contui. sed quid ego cesso ire ad forum, quo inceperam? [6]atque ibi manebo apud argentarium.

Why, I’m just as confident that that money is in store for my son as that I’ve got my eyes on this cane here.  But I must be off to the forum, where I was going.  Yes, and I’ll wait there at the banker’s. [EXIT Demaenetus.

I. 2.

    Scene 2.

    ENTER Argyrippus PRECIPITATELY FROM HOUSE OF Cleareta.

Argyr.

Sicine hoc fit? foras aedibus me eici? promerenti optume hocin preti redditur? bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es; at malo cum tuo, nam iam ex hoc loco 130 ibo ego ad tres viros vostraque ibi nomina faxo erunt, capitis te perdam ego et filiam, perlecebrae, permities, adulescentum exitium. nam mare haud est mare, vos mare acerrumum; nam in mari repperi, his elavi bonis.

(violently to those within) So that’s the way, is it?  Thrown out of doors, am I?  This is my reward for all the good turns I’ve done you, eh?  Evil for good and good for evil is your system.  But it will be evil for you!  I’ll go direct from here to the police and leave your names with ’em.  I’ll humble you and your daughter!  You decoys, you destroyers, you wreckers of young fellows!  Why, the sea’s no sea:  you are—­the wildest sea of all!  Why at sea I made my money, here I am cleaned out of it.

ingrata atque inrita esse omnia intellego quae dedi et quod bene feci, at posthac tibi male quod potero facere faciam, meritoque id faciam tuo. ego pol te redigam eodem unde orta es, ad egestatis terminos, ego edepol te faciam ut quae sis nunc et quae fueris scias. 140

All I’ve given you and all I’ve done for you gets no thanks, goes for nothing,