What, you whipping post?  So, you gallows-bird?  D’ye think we skulk from our master?  On with you straight to the master you summon us to, the master you’ve wanted to see this long time past. (goes toward forum)

Merc.
    Trader

  Nunc demum? tamen numquam hinc feres argenti nummum, nisi me
  dare iusserit Demaenetus.

      At last, eh?  But never a penny do you get from me, unless I
      am instructed to give it to you by Demaenetus.

Leon.

  Ita facito, age ambula ergo.
  tu contumeliam alteri facias, tibi non dicatur?
  tam ego homo sum quam tu.

      All right, all right!  Come, step along, then!  Do you want to
      insult another man and not get it back?  I’m as much of a man
      as you are!

Merc.
    Trader

  Scilicet. ita res est.

      No doubt.  Quite so.

Leon.

Sequere hac ergo 490 praefiscini hoc nunc dixerim:  nemo etiam me accusavit merito meo, neque me alter est Athenis hodie quisquam, cui credi recte aeque putent.

Come along this way, then. (stops) If I may say so without presumption, let me tell you this now:  no one has ever yet accused me justly, and there’s not a single other man in all Athens that people think worthy of such confidence as me, either.

Merc.
    Trader

  Fortassis. sed tamen me
  numquam hodie induces, ut tibi credam hoc argentum ignoto.
  lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

      I dare say.  But notwithstanding, never will you induce me
      to-day to trust this money to you, a stranger, (somewhat
      apologetically) “Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”

Leon.

  Iam nunc secunda mihi facis. scibam huic te capitulo hodie.
  facturum satis pro iniuria; quamquam ego sum sordidatus,
  frugi tamen sum, nec potest peculium enumerari.

(encouraged) Now there, that’s decent of you!  I knew you’d soon be making amends to a good fellow for doing him an injustice.  No matter if I do look shabby, I’m an honest man just the same, and as for the cash I’ve laid by—­it can’t be counted.

Merc.
    Trader

  Fortasse.

      (sceptically) I dare say.

Leon.

  Etiam[13] Periphanes Rhodo mercator dives
  absente ero solus mihi talentum argenti soli 500
  adnumeravit et mihi credidit, nequest deceptus in eo.

Even Periphanes, the rich trader from Rhodes, counted out two hundred pounds to me when master was away and we were all by ourselves,—­he trusted me, and he wasn’t deceived in doing so, either.

Merc.
    Trader