What could I long for more than something I haven’t got a trace of--a round eighty pounds to give this girl’s mother? _Lib._ Dabuntur, animo sis bono face, exoptata optingent. Forthcoming. Keep your courage up: your longing will be gratified. _Argyr._ Ut consuevere, homines Salus frustratur et Fortuna. (_incredulous_) Salvation is at her old tricks, fooling people, and Fortune too. _Leon._ Ego caput huic argento fui hodie reperiundo. In lighting on this cash to-day--I’m the one that’s been the head of it! _Lib._ Ego pes fui. I’m the one that’s been the foot of it! _Argyr._ Quin nec caput nec pes sermoni apparet. nec quid dicatis scire nec me cur ludatis possum. 730 And upon my soul, your discourse is a puzzle from head to foot. I can’t understand your talk, or why you’re making game of me. _Lib._ Satis iam delusum censeo. nunc rem ut est eloquamur. animum. Argyrippe, advorte sis. pater nos ferre hoc iussit argentum ad ted. (_aside to Leonida_) I move he’s been fooled with long enough. Come on, let’s out with it. (_to Argyrippus_) Your kind attention, Argyrippus! Your father told us to bring this money to you. (_holding up wallet_) _Argyr._ Ut temperi opportuneque attulistis. Oh, you’ve brought it just in time, just at the right moment! _Lib._ Hic inerunt viginti minae bonae, mala opera partae; has tibi nos pactis legibus dare iussit. You’ll find in here eighty good sovereigns ill-gotten: he said to give ’em to you according to terms agreed upon. _Argyr._ Quid id est, quaeso? Terms? What terms, for mercy’s sake? _Lib._ Noctem huius et cenam sibi ut dares. That you’re to give him an evening with this lady, and a dinner. _Argyr._ Iube advenire quaeso: meritissimo eius quae volet faciemus, qui hosce amores nostros dispulsos compulit. Tell him to come along, yes, yes! We’ll do what he wants, and quite right we should, after the way he’s gathered our scattered love to the fold. (_takes wallet from Libanus_) _Leon._ Patierin, Argyrippe, patrem hanc amplexari tuom? Going to put up with your father’s hugging her, are you, Argyrippus? _Argyr._ Haec faciet facile ut patiar Leonida, curre obsecro, patrem huc orato ut veniat. 740 (_waving wallet_) This will easily enable me to put up with it. Leonida, for heaven’s sake run and beg my father to come here. _Leon._ Iam dudum est intus. (_pointing to Cleareta’s house_) He was in there long ago. _Argyr._ Hac quidem non venit. He certainly didn’t come this way. _Leon._ Angiporto illac per hortum circum ut clam, ne quis se videret. huc ire familiarium: ne uxor resciscat metuit de argento si mater tua sciat ut sit factum--