ce put into his inside. Heaven help the poor wretch
whose larder has set him up so!

_Erg._

Tum pistores scrofipasci, qui alunt furfuribus sues,
quarum odore praeterire nemo pistrinum potest:
eorum si quoiusquam scrofam in publico conspexero,
ex ipsis dominis meis pugnis exculcabo furfures. 810

And as for the millers that keep sows, and feed waste stuff
to their swine, that raise such a stench nobody can go by
the mill,--if I spy a sow of any one of 'em on the public
highway, I'll up with my fists and stamp the stuffing out of
those sows'--owners.

_Hegio_

Basilicas edictiones atque imperiosas habet:
satur homost, habet profecto in ventre confidentiam.

(_aside_) Right royal and imperious pronunciamentos. The man
is gorged: he certainly has got some assurance stowed away
inside.

_Erg._

Tum piscatores, qui praebent populo pisces foetidos,
qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti cantherio,
quorum odos subbasilicanos omnes abigit in forum,
eis ego ora verberabo surpiculis piscariis,
ut sciant, alieno naso quam exhibeant molestiam.

Then the fishmongers that travel around on a jogging,
jolting gelding, and offer folk stale fish so strong it
drives every last lounger in the arcade out into the forum--
I'll whack their faces with their own fish baskets, just to
teach 'em what an abomination they are to the public nose.

tum lanii autem, qui concinnant liberis orbas oves,
qui locant caedundos agnos et duplam agninam danunt,
qui petroni nomen indunt verveci sectario, 820
eum ego si in via petronem publica conspexero
et petronem et dominum reddam mortales miserrumos.

Yes, and the butchers, too, that bereave sheep of their
little ones, that engage to sell you lambs fit for slaughter,
and then give you lamb as old as two lambs, and pass off a
tough old ram as a prime wether--if I spy that ram on a city
thoroughfare, I'll make ram and owner the saddest men alive!

_Hegio_

Eugepae, edictiones aedilicias hic quidem habet,
mirumque adeost ni hunc fecere sibi Aetoli agoranomum.

(_aside_) Splendid! Why, he is issuing edicts like a
Comptroller of the Victualling: I shouldn't be surprised if
the Aetolians have made him market inspector.

_Erg._

Non ego nunc parasitus sum, sed regum rex regalior,
tan