ve to her, the
girl I had entrusted to you, and trying this underhand trick
on me?

_Pistoc._

Sanun es?

Are you sane?

_Mnes._

Rem repperi omnem ex tuo magistro. ne nega.
perdidisti me.

I have the whole story from your tutor. You needn't deny it.
You have ruined me.

_Pistoc._

Etiamne ultro tuis me prolectas probris?

(_getting irritated_) Can it be you're bent on provoking me
with this uncalled for abuse of yours?

_Mnes._

Quid? amas Bacchidem?

Eh? You do love Bacchis?

_Pistoc._

Duas ergo his intus eccas Bacchides.

Well, but look you, there are two Bacchises in here.

_Mnes._

Quid? duas?

(_astonished_) What? Two?

_Pistoc._

Atque ambas sorores.

And sisters, too.

_Mnes._

Loqueris nunc nugas sciens.

Now you're talking rot, and you know it.

_Pistoc._

Postremo, si pergis parvam mihi fidem arbitrarier, 570
tollam ego ted in collum atque intro hinc auferam.

See here now, if you go on making light of my word, I'll
perch you up on my neck and carry you off inside. (_seizes
him_)

_Mnes._

Immo ibo, mane.

No, no, I'll go: wait.

_Pistoc._

Non maneo, neque tu me habebis falso suspectum.

I won't wait, and I won't have you suspecting me falsely,
either. (_pulls him toward door_)

_Mnes._

Sequor.

I'm coming. [EXEUNT INTO HOUSE.

ACTVS IV

ACT IV

ENTER _Parasite_ WITH _Cleomachus's_ PAGE.

_Par._

Parasitus ego sum hominis nequam atque improbi,
militis, qui amicam secum avexit ex Samo.
nunc me ire iussit ad eam et percontarier,
utrum aurum reddat anne eat secum semul.
tu dudum, puere, cum illae usque isti semul:
quae harum sunt aedes, pulta. adi actutum ad fores.

The parasite of a worthless reprobate is what I am, the
parasite of the Captain that carried the wench off from
Samos with him. Now he has ordered me to call on her and
inquire whether she intends to pay him back his money, or
go along with him. (_scanning the houses_) Boy, you came
along to the place with her a short time ago: whichever
house it is here, knock. Up to the door with you directly:
(_page obeys, knocking timidly_)

recede hinc dierecte. ut pulsat propudium!
comesse panem tris pedes latum potes,