oes--with my coming into
damned unpleasant prominence this day. Alas for those poor
whips that are doomed this day to die upon my back!

_Hegio_

Verba mihi data esse video.

I see I've been duped!

_Tynd._

Quid cessatis, compedes,
currere ad me meaque amplecti crura, ut vos custodiam?

(_aside_) Come on, ye shackles, run up and embrace my
shanks, so that I may keep you safe!

_Hegio_

Satin med illi hodie scelesti capti ceperunt dolo?
illic servom se assimulabat, hic sese autem liberum.
nuculeum amisi, retinui pignori putamina.
ita mihi stolido sursum versum os sublevere offuciis.
his quidem me numquam irridebit. Colaphe, Cordalio, Corax,
ite istinc, ecferte lora.

Well, haven't those rascal captives taken me in with this
day's trickery? The other one pretended he was the slave,
while this fellow here played the freeman. I've lost the
kernel and kept the shell for surety. That's the way they've
daubed my face up for me, ass that I am! (_grimly_) This one
shall never have the laugh on me, at any rate. (_stepping to
door and calling_) Box! Buffum! Bangs! Come! Out with you!
Bring your straps!

III. 5.

Scene 5.

ENTER OVERSEERS, CARRYING HEAVY RAWHIDES.

_Cola._
_Box_

Num lignatum mittimur?

(_merrily cracking a whip_) You don't want us to go and
tie up faggots, do you, sir?

_Hegio_

Inicite huic manicas[17] mastigiae.

Clap handcuffs on this rogue. (_pointing to Tyndarus_)

_Tynd._

Quid hoc est negoti? quid ego deliqui?

(_as they obey_) What does this mean? What have I done?

_Hegio_

Rogas. 660
sator sartorque scelerum, et messor maxume?

Done! You sower and hoer of sin--(_more savagely_) and
reaper, especially!

_Tynd._

Non occatorem dicere audebas prius?
nam semper occant prius quam sariunt rustici.

(_politely_) Couldn't you manage to slip in "harrower"?
Why, farmers always harrow before they hoe.

_Hegio_

At tu confidenter[18] mihi contra astitit.

(_angrily_) Now look at that! the bold way he stands up to
me!

_Tynd._

Decet innocentem servom atque innoxium
confidentem esse, suom apud erum potissimum.

A guiltless, harmless slave ought to face his own master
boldly, his own master, of all men.

_H