egio_

Adstringite isti sultis vehementer manus.

(_to overseers_) Fasten his hands, tight, mind you!

_Tynd._

Tuos sum, tu has quidem vel praecidi iube.
sed quid negoti est, quam ob rem suscenses mihi?

I am yours. Have them cut off, even, for that matter. But
what does this mean? Why this rage at me?

_Hegio_

Quia me meamque rem, quod in te uno fuit, 670
tuis scelestis falsidicis fallaciis
deartuasti dilaceravisti atque opes
confecisti omnes, res ac rationes meas:
ita mi exemisti Philocratem fallaciis.
illum esse servom credidi, te liberum:
ita vosmet aiebatis itaque nomina
inter vos permutastis.

Because as far as in you lay you've sent me and my hopes to
smash, demolished me, with your rascally deceitful dodges,
and spoiled all my chances, all my prospects and plans.
That's the way you, got Philocrates off--by swindling me!
I supposed he was the slave and you the freeman; that's
what you said yourselves; that's how you exchanged names.

_Tynd._

Fateor, omnia
facta esse ita ut tu dicis, et fallaciis
abiisse eum abs te mea opera atque astutia;
an, obsecro hercle te, id nunc suscenses mihi? 680

(_coolly_) I admit it: it is all as you say--yes, you were
swindled out of him, and it was my support and my scheming
that did it. But heavens and earth, that isn't what sets you
raging at me, is it?

_Hegio_

At cum cruciatu maxumo id factumst tuo.

You shall pay for doing it, though, pay for it with your own
best blood!

_Tynd._

Dum ne ob male facta, peream, parvi aestumo.
si ego hic peribo, ast ille ut dixit non redit,
at erit mi hoc factum mortuo memorabile,
me meum erum captum ex servitute atque hostibus
reducem fecisse liberum in patriam ad patrem,
meumque potius me caput periculo
praeoptavisse, quam is periret, ponere.

(_simply_) Provided it is not for wrongdoing, let me die--it
matters little. If I myself do die here, and if he does fail
to return, as he said he would, what I have done, at least,
will be remembered when I am gone--men will tell how I
saved my captured master from slavery and from his enemies,
restored him, a free man, to his home and his father, and
how I chose to put my own life in peril rather than let him
die.

_Hegio_

Facito ergo ut Ach