484-485
ei nunciam ad erum, quo vocas, iam dudum quo volebas.

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
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