se conspicor?
non placet nec temere est etiam. quin mihi respondetis? 670

(_to Mnesilochus_) You haven't dropped any of the coin,
have you, sir,--gazing at the ground that way? (_waits for
answer_) What makes you two look so sad and gloomy? (_waits
again_) I don't like it: no indeed, it's not for nothing.
(_waits again_) Why don't you answer me?

_Mnes._

Chrysale, occidi.

Chrysalus, I'm a lost man.

_Chrys._

Fortassis tu auri dempsisti parum?

You took too little of the gold, perhaps?

_Mnes._

Quam, malum, parum? immo vero nimio minus multo parum.

Too little, eh, curse it! No indeed,--much too much less
than too little!

_Chrys._

Quid igitur, stulte? an tu, quoniam occasio ad eam rem fuit
mea virtute parta, ut quantum velles tantum sumeres,
sic hoc digitulis duobus sumebas primoribus?
an nescibas quam eius modi homini raro tempus se daret?

Well, how's that, you blockhead? After my ability won you
this opportunity to help yourself to just as much as you
pleased, you surely didn't pick it up this way
(_illustrating_) with a couple of finger tips? Didn't
you know how seldom a man is offered such a chance?

_Mnes._

Erras.

You're making a mistake.

_Chrys._

At quidem tute errasti, cum parum immersti ampliter.

Well, you made another yourself, by not dipping into it deep
enough.

_Mnes._

Pol tu quam nunc med accuses magis, si magis rem noveris.
occidi.

(_moodily_) Good Lord! You'd lecture me more than you do
now, if you knew more of the facts. I'm a lost man!

_Chrys._

Animus iam istoc dicto plus praesagitur mali.

Now I foresee more trouble coming, after that remark.

_Mnes._

Perii.

I'm done for.

_Chrys._

Quid ita?

Why so?

_Mnes._

Quia patri omne cum ramento reddidi. 680

Because I've handed over every scrap of it to my father.

_Chrys._

Reddidisti?

(_dumbfounded_) Handed it over?

_Mnes._

Reddidi.

Handed it over.

_Chrys._

Omnene?

Every bit?

_Mnes._

Oppido.

Absolutely.

_Chrys._

Occisi sumus.
qui in mentem venit tibi istuc facinus facere tam malum?

We're both lost men! What made it enter your head to do such
a thing, such an awful thing?

_Mnes._

Bacchidem a