(_with dignity_) Be good enough to grant us one request. _Lor._ _Over._ Quidnam id est? Well, what is it? _Tynd._ Ut sine hisce arbitris atque vobis nobis detis locum loquendi. Merely this--give us an opportunity to talk together without being overheard by these good fellows (_pointing to slaves_) and yourselves. _Lor._ _Over._ Fiat. abscedite hinc: nos concedamus huc. sed brevem orationem incipisse. All right. (_to slaves_) Away with you! (_to other overseer_) Let’s drop back here. (_to captives_) Make it short, though. _Tynd._ Em istuc mihi certum erat. concede huc. Oh yes, that was my intention. (_to Philocrates, drawing him farther from slaves_) Come this way. _Lor._ _Over._ Abite ab istis. (_to slaves still hanging about_) Get out and leave ’em alone. (_slaves obey_) _Tynd._ Obnoxii ambo vobis sumus propter hanc rem, quom quae volumus nos copia est; ea[6] facitis nos compotes. (_to overseers_) We are much obliged to you, both of us, for the privilege of doing as we wish; we owe it to you. _Philocr._ Secede huc nunciam, si videtur, procul. ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari queant 220 neu permanet palam haec nostra fallacia. nam doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas, sed malum maxumum, si id palam provenit. (_to Tyndarus_) Step over here now, if you please, come over, so that no one may catch what we say and leave us with a scheme that has leaked out. (_they move still farther from the overseers_) Shrewd management is what makes a trick a trick, you know: once it gets out, it becomes an instrument of torture. nam si erus mihi es tu atque ego me tuom esse servom assimulo, tamen viso opust, cauto est opus, ut hoc sobrie sineque arbitris accurate agatur, docte et diligenter; tanta incepta res est: haud somniculose hoc agendum est. No matter if you are passing as my master and I as your slave, even so we’ve got to be wary, we’ve got to be cautious, so that our plan may be worked out in a clear- headed way, quietly and carefully, with discretion and diligence. It’s a big job we’ve got in hand: we can’t go to sleep over it. _Tynd._ Ero ut me voles esse. I will be all you wish me to be, sir. _Philocr._ Spero. I hope so. _Tynd._ Nam tu nunc vides pro tuo caro capite carum offerre me meum caput vilitati. 230 For that matter, sir, you already see that to save a man I love, I am holding my own life cheap, much as I love it. _Philocr._ Scio. I realize it. _Tynd._