Quia mi ita lubet. potin ut cures te atque ut ne parcas mihi? mea fiducia opus conduxi et meo periclo rem gero. Because it suits me. Can’t you mind your own business and not bother about me? (_arrogantly_) I was relying on myself when I contracted for this job, and I’ll take the risk myself in doing it. _Mnes._ Aequom dicis. Fairly spoken. _Chrys._ Cedo tabellas. Hand over the tablets. _Mnes._ Accipe. (_doing so_) Here they are. _Chrys._ Animum advortite. Mnesiloche et tu, Pistoclere, iam facite in biclinio cum amica sua uterque accubitum eatis, ita negotiumst, atque ibidem ubi nunc sunt lecti strati potetis cito. Attention now! Mnesilochus, and you too, Pistoclerus, go at once and take your places on your duplex dining-couch, each of you beside his girl--that’s the thing to do--and right there where the couches are set at present you hurry up and begin drinking. _Pistoc._ Numquid aliud? (_turning to go_) Nothing else? _Chrys._ Hoc, atque etiam: ubi erit accubitum semel, ne quoquam exsurgatis, donec a me erit signum datum. Just this--and one thing more: when you’ve once taken your places, don’t move an inch off the couches until you get the signal from me. _Pistoc._ O imperatorem probum! O peerless leader! _Chrys._ Iam bis bibisse oportuit. (_bustling them off_) You should have put down two drinks already. _Mnes._ Fugimus. (_in mock terror_) We’re running away. _Chrys._ Vos vostrum curate officium, ego efficiam meum. 760 (_grinning_) You two do your duty and I’ll attend to mine. [EXEUNT _Pistoclerus_ AND _Mnesilochus_ INTO HOUSE OF _Bacchis_. IV. 5. Scene 5. _Chrys._ insanum magnum molior negotium, metuoque ut hodie possiem emolirier. sed nunc truculento mi atque saevo usus senest; nam non conducit huic sycophantiae senem tranquillum esse ubi me aspexerit. (_doubtfully_) It’s some wild, wild work I’ve got in hand, and what I’m afraid of is that I can’t carry it out. (_pauses_) But now I must make the old man feel fierce and savage. For it won’t suit this swindle of mine, to have him peaceful when he sets eyes on me. versabo ego illum hodie, si vivo, probe. tam frictum ego illum reddam quam frictum est cicer. adambulabo ad ostium, ut, quando exeat, extemplo advenienti ei tabellas dem in manum. I’ll turn him other end up to-day, handsomely, on my life, I will. I’ll see he’s roasted like a roasted pea. I’ll saunter up to the door so that when he comes out I can hand him the letter the minute he appears. (_withdraws as door opens_) IV. 6. Scene 6. ENTER _Nicobulus_ FROM HOUSE. _Nic._ Nimium illaec res est magnae dividiae mihi, 770 supterfugisse sic mihi hodie Chrysalum.