r a pause_) Where the deuce is master?

_Lib._

Maior apud forumst, minor hic est intus.

Old one's at the forum, young one's inside here. (_pointing
to Clearetas house_)

_Leon._

Iam satis est mihi.

That'll do! I'm satisfied.

_Lib._

Tum igitur tu dives es factus?

Satisfied? So you're a millionaire already, are you?

_Leon._

Mitte ridicularia. 330

Don't try to be funny.

_Lib._

Mitto.[9] istuc quod adfers aures exspectant meae.

I won't. (_grandly_) My ears await your tidings.

_Leon._

Animum adverte, ut aeque mecum haec scias.

Listen here, and you'll know about things as well as I do.

_Lib._

Taceo.

I'm dumb.

_Leon._

Beas.
meministin asinos Arcadicos mercatori Pellaeo
nostrum vendere atriensem?

(_ironically_) Oh, bliss! Do you remember those Arcadian
asses our steward sold to the merchant from Pella?

_Lib._

Memini. quid tum postea?

I do. Well, what next?

_Leon._

Em ergo is argentum huc remisit, quod daretur Saureae
pro asinis. adulescens venit modo, qui id argentum attulit.

Now then! He's sent the money for 'em, to be paid to Saurea.
A young chap's just arrived with it.

_Lib._

Ubi is homost?

(_with a start_) Where is he?

_Leon._

Iam devorandum censes, si conspexeris?

Think he ought to be swallowed down the minute you spy him,
eh?

_Lib._

Ita enim vero. sed tamen, tu nempe eos asinos praedicas
vetulos, claudos, quibus subtritae ad femina iam erant ungulae? 340

Aye, that I do! But let me see, of course you mean those
poor old lame asses with their hoofs worn away up to their
hocks?

_Leon._

Ipsos, qui tibi subvectabant rure hue virgas ulmeas.

Precisely! the ones that used to come down from the farm
with loads of elm rods for you.

_Lib._

Teneo, atque idem te hinc vexerunt vinctum rus.

I have you: yes, the same ones that carried you off to the
farm in fetters.

_Lib._

Memor es probe,
verum in tonstrina ut sedebam, me infit percontarier,
ecquem filium Stratonis noverim Demaenetum.
dico me novisse extemplo et me eius servom praedico
esse, et aedis demonstravi nostras.

Remarkable memory, yours! However, when I was in the
barber's chair he speaks up and asks me if I know a