(_examining the provisions disappointedly_) Whose festival are they going to celebrate, Pythodicus? Ceres’? _Pyth._ Qui? Why hers? _Staph._ Quia temeti nihil allatum intellego. Well, no tipple’s[B] been brought, as I notice. [Footnote B: The use of wine was forbidden at the festival called the _Cereris nuptiae_.] _Pyth._ At iam afferetur, si a foro ipsus redierit. But there’ll be some all right when the old gent gets back from the forum. _Staph._ Ligna hic apud nos nulla sunt. We haven’t got any firewood in the house. _Cong._ Sunt asseres? Any rafters in it? _Staph_ Sunt pol. Mercy, yes. _Cong._ Sunt igitur ligna, ne quaeras foris. There’s firewood in it, then: never mind going for any. _Staph._ Quid, impurate? quamquam Volcano studes, cenaene causa aut tuae mercedis gratia 360 nos nostras aedis postulas comburere? Hey? You godless thing! even though you are a devotee of Vulcan, do you want us to burn our house down, all for your dinner or your pay? (_advances on him_) _Cong._ Haud postulo. (_shrinking back_) I don’t, I don’t! _Pyth._ Duc istos intro. Take ’em inside. _Staph._ Sequimini. (_brusquely_) This way with you. [EXEUNT _Congrio_ AND OTHERS INTO _Euclio’s_ HOUSE. II. 7. Scene 7. _Pyth._ Curate. ego intervisam quid faciant coqui; quos pol ut ego hodie servem, cura maxuma est. nisi unum hoc faciam, ut in puteo cenam coquant: inde coctam sursum subducemus corbulis. (_as they leave_) Look out for things. (_starting for Megadorus’s house_) I’ll go see what the cooks are at. By gad, it’s the devil’s own job keeping an eye on those chaps. The only way is to make ’em cook dinner in the dungeon and then haul it up in baskets when it’s done. si autem deorsum comedent, si quid coxerint, superi incenati sunt et cenati inferi. sed verba hic facio, quasi negoti nil siet, rapacidarum ubi tantum sit in aedibus. 370 Even so, though, if they’re down there gobbling up all they cook, it’s a case of starve in heaven and stuff in hell. But here I am gabbling away just as if there wasn’t anything to do, and the house all full of those young Grabbits. [EXIT _Pythodicus._ II. 8. Scene 8. ENTER _Euclio_ FROM FORUM CARRYING A SMALL PACKAGE AND A FEW FORLORN FLOWERS. _Eucl._ Volui animum tandem confirmare hodie meum, ut bene me haberem filiai nuptiis. venio ad macellum, rogito pisces: indicant caros; agninam caram, caram bubulam, vitulinam, cetum, porcinam: cara omnia. atque eo fuerunt cariora, aes non erat. abeo iratus illinc, quoniam nihil est qui emam.