ercle est, et trahi et trudi simul. 750

(_dryly_) Well, well! This is positive violence, being
pushed and pulled at the same time. [EXEUNT.

_Hegio_

Illic est abductus recta in phylacam, ut dignus est.
ego illis captivis aliis documentum dabo,
ne tale quisquam facinus incipere audeat.
quod absque hoc esset, qui mihi hoc fecit palam,
usque offrenatum suis me ductarent dolis.

That rascal is bound straight for the prison cell he's
entitled to. I'll make an example of him for the benefit of
those other prisoners, so that none of them will dare engage
in such deviltry. If it hadn't been for this fellow here who
disclosed it all, they'd have bitted me and led me along
with their tricks till the end of time.

nunc certum est nulli posthac quicquam credere.
satis sum semel deceptus. speravi miser
ex servitute me exemisse filium:
ea spes elapsa est. perdidi unum filium,
puerum quadrimum quem mihi servos surpuit, 760
neque eum servom umquam repperi neque filium;

Never again do I trust a soul in anything, that's settled.
Once cheated is enough. (_pauses, then gloomily_) I hoped,
poor fool, that I had ransomed my son from slavery--a hope
that's slipped away! I lost one son, a four-year-old boy
that a slave kidnapped, and never a trace of slave or son
since.

maior potitus hostium est. quod hoc est scelus?
quasi in orbitatem liberos produxerim.
sequere hac. reducam te ubi fuisti. neminis
miserere certum est, quia mei miseret neminem.

And my older boy in the hands of enemies! What curse am
I under? As if I'd begotten children so as to be left
childless! (_to Aristophontes_) This way, you. (_going
toward brother's house_) Back you go where you were before.
I am determined to pity no one, since no one pities me.

_Arist._

Exauspicavi ex vinclis. nunc intellego
redauspicandum esse in catenas denuo.

(_wryly_) It seemed a good omen, my getting out of irons.
Now I perceive I must omen myself back to chains again.
[EXEUNT.

ACTVS IV

ACT IV

(_It is to be assumed that several hours only have elapsed._)

ENTER _Ergasilus_, ELATED.

_Erg._

Iuppiter supreme, servas me measque auges opes,
maximas opimitates opiparasque o