of the nobility being given daws or ducks or quails for
playfellows: my own case exactly--the moment I arrived they
gave me this crow to have a lark with. (_looking toward
Hegio's house_) But there's my master in front of the door--
and, yes, my other master back from Elis!

_Hegio_

Salve, exoptate gnate mi.

Oh, how are you, my own longed-for son?

_Tynd._

Hem, quid gnate mi?
attat. scio cur te patrem adsimules esse et me filium:
quia mi item ut parentes lucis das tuendi copiam.

Eh? "My son?" How's that? (_pauses, then with a weary
laugh_) Ah, yes, yes, I see the point of your father and
son chaff: just as parents do, you give me a chance to
behold the light of day.

_Philocr._

Salve, Tyndare.

God bless you, Tyndarus!

_Tynd._

Et tu, quoius causa hanc aerumnam exigo.

And you, sir, for whose sake I'm undergoing this confounded
experience.

_Philocr._

At nunc liber in divitias faxo venies. nam tibi 1010
pater hic est; hic servos, qui te huic hinc quadrimum surpuit.
vendidit patri meo te sex minis, is te mihi
parvolum peculiarem parvolo puero dedit:
illic indicium fecit; nam hunc ex Alide huc reduximus.

But now you shall be a free man, Tyndarus, and a rich one,
I promise you. For here is (_indicating Hegio_) your father;
this slave (_indicating Stalagmus_) stole you away from him
here when you were four years old and sold you to my father
for twenty-four pounds. And when we were both small boys,
father gave you to me for my own. That fellow there has
proved it all; you see we brought him back here from Elis.

_Tynd._

Quid huius filium?

(_dazed_) What about his son?

_Philocr._

Intus eccum fratrem germanum tuom.[28] (1015)

Look--inside there--your own brother!

_Tynd._

Nunc edepol demum in memoriam regredior, audisse me (1023)
quasi per nebulam, Hegionem meum patrem vocarier.

Great heavens! When I think back I do now at last remember
hearing--in a cloudy sort of way--my father called Hegio!

_Hegio_

Is ego sum.

(_embracing him_) I am that Hegio!

_Philocr._

Compedibus quaeso ut tibi sit levior filius
atque huic gravior servos.

(_to Hegio, pointing to the shackles on Tyndarus_). Those
irons, sir,--for mercy's sake get