minime miror, si te fugitat aut oculos tuos,
aut si te odit, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate.

Bless my soul! I'm not a bit surprised if he avoids you, or
your eye, no, nor if he detests you, when you call him
Tyndarus instead of Philocrates.

_Tynd._

Hegio, hic homo rabiosus habitus est in Alide,
ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris immittas tuas.
nam istis hastis insectatus est domi matrem et patrem,
et illic isti qui insputatur morbus interdum venit. 550
proin tu ab istoc procul recedas.

(_dragging Hegio aside_) Hegio, this fellow was looked upon
as a raving maniac in Elis, so don't you let him fill your
ears with his babble. Why, at home he chased his father and
mother about with a spear, and every once in a while he has
an attack of the disease that people spit on.[D] So get out
of his reach, then,--well away.

[Footnote D: Epilepsy.]

_Hegio_

Ultro istum a me.

(to slaves) Keep him off! Keep him off!

_Arist._

Ain, verbero?
me rabiosum atque insectatum esse hastis meum memoras patrem,
et eum morbum mi esse, ut qui me opus sit insputarier?

What's that, you rascal? I'm a raving maniac and chased my
own father with a spear, you say? I have the disease that
calls for my being spat upon?

_Hegio_

Ne verere, multos iste morbus homines macerat,
quibus insputari saluti fuit atque is profuit.

(_cheeringly_) Never you mind! Many a man's consumed by that
disease of yours, who's been helped by being spat on, and
it's brought him through.

_Arist._

Quid tu autem? etiam huic credis?

(_to Hegio, hotly_) How's this? You, too? Do you actually
believe him?

_Hegio_

Quid ego credam huic?

Believe him in what?

_Arist._

Insanum esse me?

That I'm insane?

_Tynd._

Viden tu hunc, quam inimico voltu intuetur? concedi optumumst,
Hegio: fit quod tibi ego dixi, gliscit rabies, cave tibi.

(_to Hegio_) Do you see him--that angry glare of his? You'd
better leave, Hegio. It's just as I said: a fit's coming on.
Look out for yourself!

_Hegio_

Credidi esse insanum extemplo, ubi te appellavit Tyndarum.

(_hastily moving farther off_) I thought so, I thought he
was crazy, from the moment he called you Tyndarus.

_Tynd._

Quin suom ipse interdum ignorat nomen neque scit qui