that line, sir: I can remember
to mind that easily enough, without.

_Tynd._

Nam equidem, nisi quod custodem habeo, liberum me esse arbitror.
dicito patri, quo pacto mihi cum hoc convenerit de huius filio.

For really, aside from the fact that I have a guard, I feel
that I am a free man. Tell my father what arrangement this
gentleman and I have made regarding his son.

_Philocr._

Quae memini, mora mera est monerier.

Mere waste of time, sir, to remind me of what I remember.

_Tynd._

Ut eum redimat et remittat nostrum huc amborum vicem.

That he is to ransom him and send him back here in exchange
for us both.

_Philocr._

Meminero.

I'll remember.

_Hegio_

At quamprimum pote: istuc in rem utriquest maxime.

Yes, but just as quickly as possible: that's of the highest
importance to each of us.

_Philocr._

Non tuom tu magis videre quam ille suom gnatum cupit.

You don't long to see your son any more than he does his,
sir.

_Hegio_

Meus mihi, suos cuique est carus.

My son is dear to me, as his own son is to every father.

_Philocr._

Numquid aliud vis patri 400
nuntiari?

No further message for him, eh?

_Tynd._

Me hic valere et--tute audacter dicito,
Tyndare--inter nos fuisse ingenio haud discordabili,
neque te commeruisse culpam--neque me adversatum tibi--
beneque ero gessisse morem in tantis aerumnis tamen;

(_somewhat at a loss_) Say I am in good health here, and--
(_earnestly_) Tyndarus, speak up boldly to him, yourself,--
say that we have never been at variance, that I have never
had reason to find fault with you (nor you to think me
obstinate) and that you have served your master to the
full even in such adversity.

neque med umquam deseruisse te neque factis neque fide,
rebus in dubiis egenis. haec pater quando sciet,
Tyndare, ut fueris animatus erga suom gnatum atque se,
numquam erit tam avarus, quin te gratiis emittat manu[12];
et mea opera, si hinc rebito, faciam ut faciat facilius.

Say that a treacherous act, a disloyal thought were things
undreamed of even in the dark hours of distress. When my
father knows of this, Tyndarus, knows what your spirit
toward his son and himself has been, he will never be so
niggardly as not to set you f