days'
difference between them so far as age is concerned, but this
lad is more than thirty years his senior in native sense.

_Phil._

Cave malo et compesce in illum dicere iniuste.

(_angrily_) Look out for yourself, and stop speaking about
the lad unfairly!

_Lydus_

Tace.
stultus es qui illi male aegre patere dici qui facit.[16] (464)

Peace! fool that you are to be pained at hearing him badly
spoken of, when he is bad![16]

_Mnes._

Quid sodalem meum castigas, Lyde, discipulum tuom? (467)

(_innocently_) Why are you finding fault with my chum,
Lydus, your own pupil?

_Lydus_

Periit tibi sodalis.

(_tragically_) Your chum has perished!

_Mnes._

Ne di sirint.

God forbid!

_Lydus_

Sic est ut loquor.
quin ego cum peribat vidi, non ex audito arguo.

It's just as I tell you. Ah yes, I myself beheld him in the
act: I am not accusing him on hearsay.

_Mnes._

Quid factum est?

What has happened?

_Lydus_

Meretricem indigne deperit.

He is shockingly infatuated with a courtesan.

_Mnes._

Non tu taces? 470

(_apparently scandalized_) Oh, don't say such a thing!

_Lydus_

Atque acerrume aestuosam: absorbet ubi quemque attigit.

Yes, and a perfect maelstrom of a woman: she sucks down
every man who comes within her reach.

_Mnes._

Ubi ea mulier habitat?

Where does this woman live?

_Lydus_

Hic.

(_pointing_) Here.

_Mnes._

Unde esse eam aiunt?

Where do they say she is from?

_Lydus_

Ex Samo.

Samos.

_Mnes._

Quae vocatur?

What is her name?

_Lydus_

Bacchis.

Bacchis.

_Mnes._

Erras, Lyde: ego omnem rem scio
quem ad modumst. tu Pistoclerum falso atque insontem arguis.
nam ille amico et benevolenti suo sodali sedulo
rem mandatam exsequitur. ipsus neque amat nec tu creduas.

(_with an air of relief_) You're mistaken, Lydus: I know all
about the matter, just how it stands. That's a false charge
of yours, and Pistoclerus is innocent. Why, he's fulfilling
a commission for a friend and well-wisher of his, a chum,
and doing it zealously. He doesn't love her himself, and
you mustn't think he does.

_Lydus_

Itane oportet rem mandatam gerere amici sedulo