re.

THRA. I am quite aware.

PHAED. Why, then, do I see you in this neighborhood?

THRA. Depending on your {kindness}.

PHAED. Do you know what sort of dependence you have? Captain, I give
you notice, if ever I catch you in this street again, even if you
should say to me, "I was looking for another person, I was on my road
this way," you are undone.

GNA. Come, come, that's not handsome.

PHAED. I've said it.

GNA. I didn't know you gave yourself such airs.

PHAED. So it shall be.

GNA. First hear a few words from me; and when I have said the thing,
if you approve of it, do it.

PHAED. Let's hear.

GNA. Do you step a little that way, Thraso. (_THRASO stands aside._)
In the first place, I wish you both implicitly to believe me in this,
that whatever I do in this matter, I do it entirely for my own sake;
but if the same thing is of advantage to yourselves, it would be folly
for you not to do it.

PHAED. What is it?

GNA. I'm of opinion that the Captain, your rival, should be received
{among you}.

PHAED. (_starting._) Hah!

CHAE. Be received?

GNA. (_to PHAEDRIA._) Only consider. I'faith, Phaedria, at the free
rate you are living with her, and indeed very freely you are living,
you have but little to give; and it's necessary for Thais to receive a
good deal. That all this may be supplied for your amour and not at
your own expense, there is not an individual better suited or more
fitted for your purpose {than the Captain}. In the first place, he
both has got enough to give, and no one does give more profusely. He
is a fool, a dolt, a blockhead; night and day he snores away; and you
need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him; you may easily
have him discarded whenever you please.

CHAE. (_to PHAEDRIA._) What shall we do?

GNA. And this besides, which I deem to be of even greater
importance,-- not a single person entertains in better style or more
bountifully.

CHAE. It's a wonder if this sort of man can not be made use of in some
way or other.

PHAED. I think so too.

GNA. You act properly. One thing I have still to beg of you,-- that
you'll receive me into your fraternity; I've been rolling that
stone[112] for a considerable time past.

PHAED. We admit you.

CHAE. And with all my heart.

GNA. Then I, in return for this, Phaedria, and you, Chaerea, make him
over to you[113] to be eaten and drunk to the dregs.

CHAE. Agreed.

PHAED. He quite deserves it.[114]

GNA. (_call