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de suo tigillo fumus si qua exit foras.
quin cum it dormitum, follem obstringit ob gulam.

That's a fact. Judge for yourself. Why, I tell you he begins
bawling for heaven and earth to witness that he's bankrupt,
gone to everlasting smash, the moment a puff of smoke from
his beggarly fire manages to get out of his house. Why, when
he goes to bed he strings a bag over his jaws.

_Anthr._

Cur?

What for?

_Pyth._

Ne quid animae forte amittat dormiens.

So as not to chance losing any breath when he's asleep.

_Anthr._

Etiamue obturat inferiorem gutturem,
ne quid animai forte amittat dormiens?

Oh yes! And he puts a stopper on his lower windpipe, doesn't
he, so as not to chance losing any breath while he's asleep?

_Pyth._

Haec mihi te ut tibi med aequom est, credo, credere.

(_ingenuously_) You should believe me, I believe, just
as I should believe you.

_Anthr._

Immo equidem credo.

(_hurriedly_) Oh, no, no! I do believe, of course!

_Pyth._

At scin etiam quomodo?
aquam hercle plorat, cum lavat, profundere.

But listen to this, will you? Upon my word, after he takes a
bath it just breaks him all up to throw away the water.

_Anthr._

Censen talentum magnum exorari pote
ab istoc sene ut det, qui fiamus liberi? 310

D'ye think the old buck could be induced to make us a
present of a couple of hundred pounds to buy ourselves off
with?

_Pyth._

Famem hercle utendam si roges, numquam dabit.
quin ipsi pridem tonsor unguis dempserat:
collegit, omnia abstulit praesegmina.

Lord! He wouldn't make you a loan of his hunger, no sir, not
if you begged him for it. Why, the other day when a barber
cut his nails for him he collected all the clippings and
took 'em home.

_Anthr._

Edepol mortalem parce parcum praedicas.

My goodness, he's quite a tight one, from what you say.

_Pyth._

Censen vero adeo esse parcum et miserum vivere?
pulmentum pridem ei eripuit milvos:
homo ad praetorem plorabundus devenit;
infit ibi postulare plorans, eiulans,
ut sibi liceret milvom vadarier.
sescenta sunt quae memorem, si sit otium. 320
sed uter vestrorum est celerior? memora mihi.

Honest now, would you believe a man could be so tight and
live so