on't let him set a foot out
here anywhere without a guard. I shall soon be home myself.
I'll just step over to my brother's for a look at my other
captives: at the same time I'll inquire if any one of them
knows this young gentleman. (_to Philocrates_) Come, my man,
so that I may send you off; I want to attend to that first.
[EXEUNT _Hegio_ AND _Philocrates_.

ACTVS III

ACT III

(_An hour has elapsed._)

ENTER _Ergasilus_, MUCH DEPRESSED

_Erg._

Miser homo est, qui ipse sibi quod edit quaerit et id aegre invenit,
sed ille est miserior, qui et aegre quaerit et nihil invenit;
ille miserrimust, qui cum esse cupit, tum quod edit non habet.
nam hercle ego huic die, si liceat, oculos effodiam libens,
ita malignitate oneravit omnis mortalis mihi;

It's sad when a man has to spend his time looking for his
food and has hard work finding it. It's sadder, though, when
he has hard work looking for it and doesn't find it. But
it's saddest of all when a man is pining to eat, and no food
in range. By gad, if I only could, I'd like to dig the eyes
out of this day, it's made every living soul so damnably
mean to me!

neque ieiuniosiorem neque magis ecfertum fame
vidi nec quoi minus procedat quidquid facere occeperit,
ita venter gutturque resident esurialis ferias.
ilicet parasiticae arti maximam malam crucem,
ita iuventus iam ridicules inopesque ab se segregat. 470

A more hungriful day, a more bulged-out- with-starvation
day, a more unprogressive day for every undertaking, I never
did see! Such a famine feast as my inside is having! Devil
take the parasitical profession! How the young fellows
nowadays do sheer off from impecunious wits!

nil morantur iam Lacones unisubselli viros,
plagipatidas, quibus sunt verba sine penu et pecunia
eos requirunt, qui libenter, quom ederint, reddant domi;
ipsi obsonant, quae parasitorum ante erat provincia,
ipsi de foro tam aperto capite ad lenones eunt
quam in tribu aperto capite sontes condemnant reos;
neque ridiculos iam terrunci faciunt, sese omnes amant.

Not a bit of use have they nowadays for us Spartans, us
valiant benchenders, us descendants of old Takesacuff, whose
capital is talk without cash and comestibles. The guests
they're after are the ones that