ccisus hic homo est. ecquid in mentem est tibi
patrem tibi esse?

He is lost to shame! Great heavens! You gained nothing that
does credit to your years in acquiring this impudence. The
creature is past redemption! Does it ever occur to you that
you have a father?

_Pistoc._

Tibi ego an tu mihi servos es?

Am I your servant, or you mine?

_Lydus_

Peior magister te istaec docuit, non ego.
nimio es tu ad istas res discipulus docilior,
quam ad illa quae te docui, ubi operam perdidi.[9] (165)

It was a wicked, wicked teacher gave you these lessons, not
I! You are a much apter pupil in matters of this sort than
in the subjects I lost my labour teaching you.[9]

_Pistoc._

Istactenus tibi, Lyde, libertas datast (168)
orationis. satis est. sequere hac me ac tace.

(_coolly_) I've let you rant to your heart's content, so
far, Lydus. Now drop it. Follow me this way and keep your
mouth shut.
[EXEUNT INTO THE HOUSE OF _Bacchis_, _Lydus_ RELUCTANTLY.

ACTVS II

ACT II

ENTER _Chrysalus_

_Chrys._

Erilis patria, salve, quam ego biennio, 170
postquam hinc in Ephesum abii conspicio lubens.
saluto te, vicine Apollo, qui aedibus
propinquos nostris accolis, veneroque te,
ne Nicobulum me sinas nostrum senem
prius convenire quam sodalem viderim
Mnesilochi Pistoclerum, quem ad epistulam
Mnesilochus misit super amica Bacchide.

(_jauntily_) Greetings, land of my--master! Land that I
behold with joy after departing hence to Ephesus two years
agone! (_turning toward altar of Apollo in front of house_)
Thee I greet, neighbour Apollo, who dost dwell adjacent to
our house, and I do implore thee not to let our old man
Nicobulus fall in with me ere I see Pistoclerus, the chum
of Mnesilochus, to whom Mnesilochus hath sent a letter about
his mistress, Bacchis.

II. 2.

Scene 2.

ENTER _Pistoclerus_ FROM HOUSE OF _Bacchis._

_Pistoc._

Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere,
qui abire hinc nullo pacto possim, si velim
ita me vadatum amore vinctumque adtines. 180

(_to Bacchis within_) It seems curious, your begging me
so hard to come back, when I couldn't possibly leave you if
I wanted, when you've got me so bound over to you,