siet. 560

Why, at times he positively forgets his own name and doesn't
know who he is.

_Hegio_

At etiam te suom sodalem esse aibat.

But he was even saying you were an intimate friend of his.

_Tynd._

Haud vidi magis.
et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestes et Lycurgus postea
una opera mihi sunt sodales qua iste.

(_dryly_) Quite so! And the fact is that Alcumeus,[E] in
that case, and Orestes,[E] and Lycurgus[E] too are intimate
friends of mine, just exactly as much.

[Footnote E: Madmen, celebrated in Greek mythology.
Alcumeus = Alcmaeon.]

_Arist._

At etiam, furcifer,
male loqui mi audes? non ego te novi?

Ha! You scoundrel, do you dare go on maligning me? Don't I
know you?

_Hegio_

Pol planum id quidem est,
non novisse, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate.
quem vides, eum ignoras: illum nominas quem non vides.

Good heavens! It's quite plain you don't know him--calling
him Tyndarus instead of Philocrates! The man you see you
don't know: you name the man you don't see.

_Arist._

Immo iste eum sese ait, qui non est, esse, et qui vero est, negat.

No, sir! This fellow says he's the man he isn't, and says he
isn't the man he really is.

_Tynd._

Tu enim repertu's, Philocratem qui superes veriverbio.

(_to Aristophontes, meaningly_) So you have turned up to
beat Philocrates in stating facts!

_Arist._

Pol ego ut rem video, tu inventu's, vera vanitudine
qui convincas. sed quaeso hercle, agedum aspice ad me.

Good Lord! As I look at it, you have been unearthed to
browbeat facts by stating falsehoods. But come now, confound
it, look me in the eye!

_Tynd._

Em.

(_doing so coolly_) Well?

_Arist._

Dic modo: 570
tun negas te Tyndarum esse?

Now tell me: do you deny that you are Tyndarus?

_Tynd._

Nego, inquam.

I do, certainly.

_Arist._

Tun te Philocratem
esse ais?

You claim to be Philocrates, you?

_Tynd._

Ego, inquam.

I certainly do.

_Arist._

Tune huic credis?

(_to Hegio, exasperated_) Do you believe him?

_Hegio_

Plus quidem quam tibi aut mihi.
nam ille quidem, quem tu hunc memoras esse, hodie hinc abiit Alidem
ad patrem huius.

More than I do you, surely,--or my