h it now, I know
you will. (_looking down street_) Hullo! Who's this! It's
he, the very man! I'll hurry back here soon! You keep him
here while I'm gone. I must tell the old man. (_stops to
look again_)

_Lib._

Quin tuom officium facis ergo ac fugis? 380

(_sneeringly_) Why don't you play your part then, and--run
away? [EXIT _Leonida_.

II. 3.

Scene 3.

ENTER _Trader_, WITH SERVANT.

_Merc._
_Trader_

Ut demonstratae sunt mihi, hasce aedis esse oportet,
Demaenetus ubi dicitur habitare. i, puere, pulta
atque atriensem Sauream, si est intus, evocato huc.

(_looking at house of Demaenetus_) According to directions,
this must be the house where they say Demaenetus lives. (_to
servant_) Go knock, my lad, and if steward Saurea is in
there, call him out. (_servant goes toward house_)

_Lib._

Quis nostras sic frangit fores? ohe, inquam, si quid audis.

(_stepping forward_) Who's that battering our door so?
Whoa there, I say--if you're not deaf!

_Merc._
_Trader_

Nemo etiam tetigit. sanun es?

No one has touched it yet. Are you in your senses?

_Lib._

At censebam attigisse
propterea, huc quia habebas iter. nolo ego fores conservas
meas a te verberarier. sane ego sum amicus nostris.

Well, I was thinking you had touched it, seeing you were
making this way. I don't want you to beat that door--it's a
fellow servant of mine. I tell you what, I love my fellow
servants.

_Merc._
_Trader_

Pol haud periclum est, cardines ne foribus effringantur,
si istoc exemplo omnibus qui quaerunt respondebis.

Gad! No danger of the door being battered off its hinges,
if you answer all callers in that style.

_Lib._

Ita haec morata est ianua: extemplo ianitorem 390
clamat, procul si quem videt ire ad se calcitronem.
sed quid venis? quid quaeritas?

Here's the way this door has been trained: once it sights
some bully in the distance coming towards it, it bawls for
the porter directly. But what's your business? What are you
after?

_Merc._
_Trader_

Demaenetum volebam.

I wished to see Demaenetus.

_Lib._

Si sit domi, dicam tibi.

If he was at home, I'd tell you.

_Merc._
_Trader_

Quid eius atriens