(_aside_) I’ll go meet him. No doubt he’s followed instructions and been to see that old woman I mentioned, my girl’s nurse. _Strob._ Quin ego illi me invenisse dico hanc praedam[17]? igitur orabo ut manu me emittat. ibo atque eloquar. repperi-- (_aside_) Why not tell him I’ve found this prize? Then I’ll beg him to set me free. I’ll up and let him have the whole story. (_to Lyconides, as they meet_) I’ve found-- _Lyc._ Quid repperisti? (_scoffingly_) Found what? _Strob._ Non quod pueri clamitant in faba se repperisse. No such trifle as youngsters hurrah over finding in a bean.[E] [Footnote E: It is uncertain what they did find.] _Lyc._ Iamne autem, ut soles? deludis. At your old tricks? You’re chaffing. (_pretends to be about to leave_) _Strob._ Ere, mane, eloquar iam, ausculta. Hold on, sir: I’ll tell you all about it this minute. Listen. _Lyc._ Age ergo loquere. Well, well, then, tell away. _Strob._ Repperi hodie, 820 ere, divitias nimias. Sir, to-day I’ve found--boundless riches! _Lyc._ Ubinam? (_interested_) You have? Where? _Strob._ Quadrilibrem, inquam, aulam auri plenam. A four pound pot, sir, I tell you, a four pound pot just full of gold! _Lyc._ Quod ego facinus audio ex te? Euclioni hic seni subripuit. ubi id est aurum? What’s all this you’ve done? He’s the man that robbed old Euclio. Where is this gold? _Strob._ In arca apud me. nunc volo me emitti manu. In a box at home. Now I want you to set me free. _Lyc._ Egone te emittam manu, scelerum cumulatissime? (_angrily_) I set you free, you, you great lump of iniquity? _Strob._ Abi, ere, scio quam rem geras. lepide hercle animum tuom temptavi. iam ut eriperes apparabas: quid faceres, si repperissem? (_crestfallen, then laughing heartily_) Go along with you, sir! I know what you’re after. Gad! that was clever of me, testing you in that way! And you were just getting ready to drop on it! Now what would you be doing, if I really had found it? _Lyc._ Non potes probasse nugas. i, redde aurum. No, no, that won’t pass. Off with you: hand over the gold. _Strob._ Reddam ego aurum? Hand over the gold? I? _Lyc._ Redde, inquam, ut huic reddatur. Yes, hand it over, so that it may be handed over to Euclio. _Strob._ Unde? Gold? Where from? _Lyc._ Quod modo fassu’s esse in arca. The gold you just admitted was in the box. _Strob._ Soleo hercle ego garrire nugas. 830 _Lyc._ [18] _Strob._ Ita loquor. That’s what I say. _Lyc._ At scin quomodo?[19] (_seizing him_) See here, do you know what you’ll get? _Strob._ Vel hercle enica, numquam hinc feres a me.