? I told
Libanus to come to the barber's shop, and he never came at
all. By the Lord, he hasn't given due thought to the welfare
of his hide and shanks, that's a fact!

_Merc._
_Trader_

Nimis imperiosust.

(_aside_) A precious domineering chap!

_Lib._

Vae mihi.

(_affecting terror_) Oh, I'm in for it!

_Leon._

Hodie salvere iussi 410
Libanum libertum? iam manu emissu's?

(_to Libanus ironically_) Ah, greetings to Libanus the
freedman, is it, to-day? Have you been manumitted now?
(_advancing_)

_Lib._

Obsecro te.

(_cowering_) Please, please, sir!

_Leon._

Ne tu hercle cum magno malo mihi obviam occessisti.
cur non venisti, ut iusseram, in tonstrinam?

By heaven, I'll certainly give you good reason to regret
crossing my path. Why didn't you come to the barber's, as
I ordered?

_Lib._

Hic me moratust.

(_pointing to trader_) This gentleman delayed me.

_Leon._

Siquidem hercle nunc summum Iovem te dicas detinuisse
atque is precator adsiet, malam rem effugies numquam.
tu, verbero, imperium meum contempsisti?

(_without looking at trader_) Damme! You can go on and say
Jove Almighty detained you, yes, and he can come here and
plead your case, but you shall never escape a flogging. You
scorned my authority, you whipping post?

_Lib._

Perii, hospes.

(_running behind trader_) Oh kind stranger, I'm a dead man!

_Merc._
_Trader_

Quaeso hercle noli, Saurea, mea causa hunc verberare.

By Jove, Saurea! Now, now, don't flog him, for my sake!

_Leon._

Utinam nunc stimulus in manu mihi sit.

(_paying no attention_) Oh, if I could only get hold of an
ox goad now!

_Merc._
_Trader_

Quiesce quaeso.

Now, now, calm down.

_Leon._

Qui latera conteram tua, quae occalluere plagis.
abscede ac sine me hunc perdere, qui semper me ira incendit, 420
cui numquam unam rem me licet semel praecipere furi,
quin centiens eadem imperem atque ogganniam, itaque iam hercle
clamore ac stomacho non queo labori suppeditare.

So as to stave in those ribs of yours that have grown
callous to blows! (_to trader_) Out of my way, and let
me murder the rascal that always sets me afire with
rage, that never lets one order from me suffice for on