(_half aside_) So I've no mind at all, eh--no power to
control myself?

_Bacch._

Quid est quod metuas?

What is it you're afraid of?

_Pistoc._

Nihil est, nugae. mulier, tibi me emancupo:
tuos sum, tibi dedo operam.

(_pauses, then ardently_) Nothing! Bagatelles! I surrender
myself to you, my lady: I'm all your own; command me.

_Bacch._

Lepidu's. nunc ego te facere hoc volo.
ego sorori meae cenam hodie dare volo viaticam:
eo tibi argentum iubebo iam intus ecferri foras;
tu facito opsonatum nobis sit opulentum opsonium.

That's a nice boy! (_petting him_) Now this is what I want
you to do. I want to give my sister a dinner to-day to
celebrate her coming. I'll tell them to bring you out some
money at once, and you're to see to provisioning us in
perfectly splendid style. (_turns to call to servant
hither_)

_Pistoc._

Ego opsonabo, nam id flagitium meum sit, mea te gratia
et operam dare mi et ad eam operam facere sumptum de tuo.

(_eagerly_) I'll stand the provisioning myself: why, it
wouldn't be decent of me to let you give me a good time, in
your kindness, and pay the bills for it too.

_Bacch._

At ego nolo dare te quicquam.

(_glancing slyly at her sister_) But I don't want it to
cost you anything.

_Pistoc._

Sine.

Do let me.

_Bacch._

Sino equidem, si lubet
propera, amabo.

Oh, very well, if you really want to. Hurry along, there's a
dear.

_Pistoc._

Prius hic adero quam te amare desinam. 100

(_fondly_) I'll be back before I've stopped loving you.
[EXIT _Pistoclerus_.

_Soror_

Bene me accipies advenientem, mea soror.

You're going to entertain me finely on my arrival, sister
mine.

_Bacch._

Quid ita, obsecro?

Indeed? Why do you say that?

_Soror_

Quia piscatus meo quidem animo hic tibi hodie
evenit bonus.

Well, that's something fine in the fish line (_with a smile
toward the retreating figure of Pistoclerus_) you've landed
to-day, at least I think so.

_Bacch._

Meus ille quidemst. tibi nunc operam dabo de
Mnesilocho, soror,
ut hic accipias potius aurum, quam hinc eas cum milite.

Oh yes, I've caught him all right. Now I must help you out
in regard to Mnesilochus, my dear, so