g is sure, that money
goes to pot, or else my life must. (_a pause, then with
animation_) I'll off to the forum this moment and try
to raise it by every means in my power: I'll entreat,
ex-supplicate every friend I see. Good and bad--I'll up
and try them all, I'm resolved on that: and if I can't get
it as a friendly loan, I'm resolved to borrow it at usury.
[EXIT _Argyrippus_.

ACTVS II

ACT II

(_A couple of hours have elapsed._)

ENTER _Libanus_ WITH WORRIED AIR.

_Lib._

Hercle vero, Libane, nunc te meliust expergiscier
atque argento comparando fingere fallaciam. 250
iam diu est factum
quom discesti ab ero atque abiisti ad forum,[8] (251)
ibi tu ad hoc diei tempus dormitasti in otio. (253)

By gad, Libanus, you'd certainly better rouse yourself now
and contrive some trick for collecting that cash. It's a
long time since you left your master and hied yourself to
the forum, to loaf and snooze away there till this time
of day.

quin tu abs te socordiam omnem reice et segnitiem amove
atque ad ingenium vetus versutum te recipis tuom
serva erum, cave tu idem faxis alii quod servi solent,
qui ad eri fraudationem callidum ingenium gerunt.

Come on, shake off all this dull sloth, away with
sluggishness, yes, and get back that old gift of guile of
yours! Save your master: mind you don't do the same as other
servants that use their wily wits to gull him.

unde sumam? quem intervortam? quo hanc celocem conferam?
impetritum, inauguratumst quovis admittunt aves,
picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos parra ab dextera 260
consuadent; certum herclest vostram consequi sententiam.

(_pause_) Where shall I get it? Who shall I swindle?
Where shall I steer this cutter? (_looking upwards, then
jubilantly_) I've got my auspices, my auguries: the birds
let me steer it where I please! Woodpecker and crow on the
left, raven and barn owl on the right. "Go ahead," they
say! By Jove, I'll follow your advice, I certainly will.

sed quid hoc, quod picus ulmum tundit? non temerariumst.
certe hercle ego quantum ex augurio eius pici intellego,
aut mihi in mundo sunt virgae aut atriensi Saureae
sed quid illuc quod exanimatus currit huc Leonida?