Now give me your attention. I want you to understand thoroughly what I have in mind. (_slowly and emphatically_) My son is a prisoner in Elis, a slave there among your countrymen: get him back to me, and without your giving me a single penny in addition, I will let you go home, and your servant, too. On no other terms can you get off. _Tynd_ Optumum atque aequissumum oras optumusque hominum es homo. sed is privatam servitutem servit illi an publicam? A very fair and reasonable proposition, sir, and you are the very fairest of men. Does he belong to some private person, though, or to the state? _Hegio_ Privatam medici Menarchi. To a private person, a doctor named Menarchus. _Tynd_ Pol is quidem huius est cliens. tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi quam amber est quando pluit. (_aside_) Jove! why, he’s a client of master’s! (_aloud_) Why, this will be just as easy for you as rain when it pours. _Hegio_ Fac is homo ut redimatur. Have him ransomed. _Tynd_ Faciam. sed te id oro, Hegio-- I will. But thus much I beg of you Hegio,-- _Hegio_ Quid vis, dum ab re ne quid ores, faciam. (_eagerly_) Anything you please, provided my interests don’t suffer by it. _Tynd._ Ausculta, tum scies. ego me amitti, donicum ille huc redierit, non postulo verum quaeso ut aestumatum bunc mihi des, quem mittam ad patrem 340 ut is homo redimatur illi. Listen, and you can see if they will. I don’t ask to be released myself until my servant gets back. But I do urge you to let me have him under a forfeit, to send to father so that your son there can be ransomed. _Hegio_ Immo alium potius misero hunc, ubi erant indutiae, illuc, tuom qui conveniat patrem, qui tua quae tu iusseris mandata ita ut velis perferat. Oh no, I’ll send some one else instead when we have an armistice; that will be preferable: he shall confer with your father and carry out your orders to your satisfaction. _Tynd._ At nihil est ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. hunc mitte, hic transactum reddet omne, si illuc venerit. nec quemquam fideliorem neque cui plus credat potes mittere ad eum nec qui magis sit servos ex sententia, neque adeo cui suom concredat filium hodie audacius. ne vereare, meo periclo huius ego experiar fidem, fretus ingenio eius, quod me esse scit erga se benevolum. 350