is?
What about his steward?
_Lib._
Nihilo mage intus est.
No, he's not in, either.
_Merc._
_Trader_
Ubi est?
Where is he?
_Lib._
Ad tonsorem ire dixit.
Said he was going to the barber's.
_Merc._
_Trader_
Conveni. sed post non redit?
I met him. But he has not been back since?
_Lib._
Non edepol. quid volebas?
Lord, no! What did you want?
_Merc._
_Trader_
Argenti viginti minas, si adesset, accepisset.
He would have got eighty pounds, if he was here.
_Lib._
Qui pro istuc?
What for?
_Merc._
_Trader_
Asinos vendidit Pellaeo mercatori
mercatu.
He sold some asses at the market to a trader from Pella.
_Lib._
Scio. tu id nunc refers? iam hic credo eum adfuturum.
I know. Bringing the cash now, are you? He'll be here soon,
I fancy.
_Merc._
_Trader_
Qua facie voster Saurea est? si is est, iam scire potero.
What does your Saurea look like? (_aside_) Now I can find
out if that fellow is my man.
_Lib._
Macilentis malis, rufulus aliquantum, ventriosus,
truculentis oculis, commoda statura, tristi fronte. 400
(_reflectively_) Lantern-jawed--reddish hair--pot-bellied--
savage eyes--average height--and a scowl.
_Merc._
_Trader_
Non potuit pictor rectius describere eius formam.
(_aside_) No painter could give me a more living likeness of
that fellow.
_Lib._
Atque hercle ipsum adeo contuor, quassanti capite incedit.
quisque obviam huic occesserit irato, vapulabit.
(_looking down street_) Yes, and what's more, he's in sight
himself, by gad,--swaggering along and shaking his head!
Anyone that crosses his path when he's angry gets thrashed.
_Merc._
_Trader_
Siquidem hercle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus incedit,
si med iratus tetigerit, iratus vapulabit.
Good Lord! No matter if he swaggers along as full of fire
and fury as Achilles--if your angry man lays a hand on me,
it's your angry man gets thrashed.
II. 4.
Scene 4.
ENTER _Leonida_, APPARENTLY IN A RAGE.
_Leon._
Quid hoc sit negoti, neminem meum dictum magni facere?
Libanum in tonstrinam ut iusseram venire, is nullus venit.
ne ille edepol tergo et cruribus consuluit haud decore.
What does this mean? Does no one mind what I say
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