e within an inch
of ruining me, beginning to scratch and claw around where
this (_looking under cloak_) was buried. Enough said. It
just got me so worked up I took a club and annihilated that
cock, the thief, the redhanded thief!

credo edepol ego illi mercedem gallo pollicitos coquos, 470
si id palam fecisset. exemi ex manu[8] manubrium.[9] (471)
sed Megadorus meus affinis eccum incedit a foro. (473)
iam hunc non ausim praeterire, quin consistam et conloquar.

By heaven, I do believe the cooks offered that cock a reward
to show them where this (_looking under cloak_) was. I took
the handle (_looking under cloak_) out of their hands!
(_looking down street_) Ah, but there is son-in-law
Megadorus swaggering back from the forum. I suppose it
would hardly do for me to pass him without stopping for
a word or two, now.

III. 5.

Scene 5.

ENTER _Megadorus._

_Mega._

Narravi amicis multis consilium meum
de condicione hac. Euclionis filiam
laudant. sapienter factum et consilio bono.

(_not seeing Euclio_) Well, I've told a number of friends of
my intentions regarding this match. They were full of praise
for Euclio's daughter. Say it's the sensible thing to do,
a fine idea.

nam meo quidem animo si idem faciant ceteri
opulentiores, pauperiorum filias
ut indotatas ducant uxores domum, 480
et multo fiat civitas concordior,
et invidia nos minore utamur quam utimur,
et illae malam rem metuant quam metuont magis,
et nos minore sumptu simus quam sumus.

Yes, for my part I'm convinced that if the rest of our
well-to-do citizens would follow my example and marry poor
men's daughters and let the dowries go, there would be a
great deal more unity in our city, and people would be less
bitter against us men of means than they are, and our wives
would stand in greater awe of marital authority than they
do, and the cost of living would be lower for us than it is.

in maximam illuc populi partem est optimum;
in pauciores avidos altercatio est,
quorum animis avidis atque insatietatibus
neque lex neque sutor capere est qui possit modum.
namque hoc qui dicat "quo illae nubent divites
dotatae, si istud ius pauperibus ponitur?" 490

It's just the thing fo