[For when a slave’s slaving it like I am for a master who is in love, if he sees his master’s heart is running away with him, it’s the slave’s duty, in my opinion, to hold him in and save him and not hurry him on the way he’s headed. It’s like boys learning to swim: they lie on a rush float so as not to have to work so hard and so as to swim more easily and use their arms. In the same way I hold that a slave ought to be his master’s float, if his master’s in love, so as to support him and not let him go to the bottom like--] [Footnote 14: Corrupt (Leo): _eri ille_ Wagner.] [Footnote 15: Corrupt (Leo): _revideam_ Bothe.] [Footnote 16: Corrupt (Leo): _res_ excised by Hare.] [Footnote 17: _praedam atque eloquar_ MSS: Leo brackets _atque eloquar_.] [Footnote 18: Leo notes lacuna here. _Non te habere dicis aurum_ Leo.] [Footnote 19: Leo notes lacuna here. _Verberibus caedere donec reddideris_ Leo.] * * * * * [Transcriber’s Corrections: _Aulularia_ (_The Pot of Gold)_ Argument II a rascally servant of the girl’s assailant text reads _the girls’ assailant_ ] II. 1. l. 141 nec tibi advorsari certum est text reads _ned tibi_ II. 3. l. 270 _Eucl._ Vascula intus... _Eucl._ Hurry up with the dishes... speaker not named (continues from previous scene) III. 6. l. 537 _Eucl._ Nimium lubenter... _Eucl._ Gratified, highly gratified... Latin scene break adjusted to agree with English ] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BACCHIDES * * * * * PERSONAE DRAMATIS PERSONAE PISTOCLERVS ADVLESCENS BACCHIS - SOROR MERETRIX BACCHIS - SOROR MERETRIX LYDVS PAEDAGOGVS CHRYSALVS SERVVS NICOBVLVS SENEX MNESILOCHVS ADVLESCENS PHILOXENVS SENEX PARASITVS PVER ARTAMO LORARIVS CLEOMACHVS MILES PISTOCLERUS, _son of Philoxenus._ BACCHIS OF ATHENS, _courtesan._ BACCHIS OF SAMOS, _her sister, courtesan._ LYDUS, _slave of Philoxenus and tutor of Pistoclerus._ CHRYSALUS, _slave of Nicobulus and Mnesilochus._ NICOBULUS, _an old gentleman of Athens._ MNESILOCHUS, _his son._ PHILOXENUS, _an old gentleman of Athens._ A PARASITE, _a retainer of the Captain’s._ A PAGE _in the service of the Captain._ ARTAMO, _Nicobulus’s slave overseer._ CLEOMACHUS, _a Captain._ _Scene:--Athens. A street with the houses of Bacchis and Nicobulus side by side._ _The first part of the play is lost, save for a few fragments, together with the last part of THE POT OF GOLD: Leo’s summary of it follows:_