His father has sent him out to the farm. As for the lady, she has gone to the Acropolis to visit Minerva’s temple. It’s open now. Go and see if she isn’t there. _Cleom._ Abeo ad forum igitur. In that case, I’ll be off to the forum. _Chrys._ Vel hercle in malam crucem. Or to blazes, if you like, by gad! _Cleom._ Hodie exigam aurum hoc? Shall I get the money out of him to-day? _Chrys._ Exige, ac suspende te: ne supplicare hunc censeas tibi, nihili homo, ille est amotus. sine me--per te, ere, opsecro deos immortales--ire huc intro ad filium. Get it, and be hanged to you! You needn’t think he will sue for favours from you, you riffraff. [EXIT _Cleomachus_] He’s sent packing. (_fervently_) In the name of heaven, sir, do let me go in here and see your son, I beseech you. _Nic._ Quid eo intro ibis? Go in this house? Why? _Chrys._ Ut eum dictis plurumis castigem, cum haec sic facta ad hunc faciat modum. So that I may reprove him roundly for acting in such a way as this. _Nic._ Immo oro ut facias, Chrysale, et ted opsecro, cave parsis in eum dicere. Let you? I beg you to, Chrysalus, and I beseech you, don’t spare him in the slightest! _Chrys._ Etiam me mones? 910 satin est si plura ex me audiet hodie mala, quam audivit umquam Clinia ex Demetrio? (_virtuously indignant_) D’ye warn me of that, me? Is it enough, if he hears more hard words from me this day than ever Clinia[L] heard from Demetrius?[L] [EXIT _Chrysalus_ INTO HOUSE OF _Bacchis_. [Footnote L: Characters in some familiar play.] _Nic._ Lippi illic oculi servos est simillimus: si non est, nolis esse neque desideres; si est, abstinere quin attingas non queas. nam ni illic hodie forte fortuna his foret, miles Mnesilochum cum uxore opprimeret sua atque obtruncaret moechum manufestarium. (_ruefully_) That servant of mine is very much like a sore eye: if you haven’t got one, you don’t want one and don’t miss it; if you have, you can’t keep your hands off it. Why, if he hadn’t happened by good luck to be here to-day, the Captain would have surprised Mnesilochus with his wife and cut him to pieces for an adulterer caught in the act. nunc quasi decentis Philippis emi filium, quos dare promisi militi: quos non dabo 920 temere etiam prius quam filium convenero. numquam edepol quicquam temere credam Chrysalo; verum lubet etiam ni has perlegere denuo: aequomst tabellis consignatis credere.