ovided he only gives the money. But I suspect
this; when I have said that I will sell her for so much, he'll be
getting witnesses forthwith that I have sold her.[36] As to getting
the money, it's all a dream. {Call again} by and by; come back
to-morrow. I could bear with that too, hard as it is, if he would only
pay it. But I consider this to be the fact; when you take up this
trade, you must brook and bear in silence the affronts of {these}
young fellows. However, no one will pay me; it's in vain for me to be
reckoning upon that.

SCENE III.

_Enter SYRUS, from the house of MICIO._

SYR. (_speaking to AESCHINUS within._) Say no more; I myself will
arrange with him; I'll make him glad to take the money at once, and
say besides that he has been fairly dealt with. (_Addressing SANNIO._)
Sannio, how is this, that I hear you have been having some dispute or
other with my master?

SAN. I never saw a dispute on more unequal terms[37] than the one that
has happened to-day between us; I, with being thumped, he, with
beating me, were both of us quite tired.

SYR. Your own fault.

SAN. What could I do?

SYR. You ought to have yielded to the young man.

SAN. How could I more so, when to-day I have even afforded my face to
his blows?

SYR. Well-- are you aware of what I tell you? To slight money on some
occasions is sometimes the surest gain. What! --were you afraid, you
greatest simpleton alive, if you had parted with ever so little[38] of
your right, and had humored the young man, that he would not repay you
with interest?

SAN. I do not pay ready money for hope.

SYR. {Then} you'll never make a fortune. Get out with you, Sannio; you
don't know how to take in mankind.

SAN. I believe that to be the better {plan}-- but I was never so
cunning as not, whenever I was able to get it, to prefer getting ready
money.

SYR. Come, come, I know your spirit; as if twenty minae were any thing
at all to you in comparison to obliging him; besides, they say that
you are setting out for Cyprus----

SAN. (_aside._) Hah!

SYR. That you have been buying up many things to take thither; {and}
that the vessel is hired. This I know, your mind is in suspense;
however, when you return thence, I hope you'll settle the matter.

SAN. Not a foot {do I stir}: Heavens! I'm undone! (_Aside._) It was
upon this hope they devised their project.

SYR. (_aside._) He is alarmed. I've brought the fellow into a fix.

SAN. (_aside._) Oh, wha