(_going to Philocrates_) God bless us all in this, me, and my son, and yourselves! My man, your new master wishes you to do something your old master wishes, and to do it faithfully. The fact is, I have given you over to him, under an eighty pound forfeit, he saying he desires to send you off to his father and let him ransom my son there in Elis, so that he may exchange my boy for his own. _Philocr._ Utroque vorsum rectumst ingenium meum, ad te atque ad illum; pro rota me uti licet: vel ego huc vel illic vortar, quo imperabitis. 370 I’m quite disposed to do both of you a good turn, sirs, you and him both; you can use me like a wheel, I’ll turn your way or his, either way, wherever you like. _Hegio_ Tute tibi tuopte ingenio prodes plurumum, cum servitutem ita fers ut ferri decet. sequere. em tibi hominem. And you are acting very much to your own advantage in being so disposed, and in accepting your slavery as you should. Follow me. (_leading way to Tyndarus_) There’s your man. _Tynd._ Gratiam habeo tibi, quom copiam istam mi et potestatem facis, ut ego ad parentes hunc remittam nuntium, qui me quid rerum his agitem et quid fieri velim patri meo, ordine omnem rem, illuc perferat. (_sedately_) I thank you, sir, for affording me this opportunity, of making him my messenger to my parents, so that he may carry to my father a full account of me and my situation here, and what I wish him to see to. nunc ita convenit inter me atque hunc, Tyndare. ut te aestumatum in Alidem mittam ad patrem, si non rebitas huc, ut viginti minas 380 dem pro te. (_turning to Philocrates_) Tyndarus, this gentleman and I have just arranged that I send you to Elis to father, under a forfeit: if you fail to return, I am to pay him eighty pounds for you. _Philocr._ Recte convenisse sentio. nam pater expectat aut me aut aliquem nuntium, qui hinc ad se veniat. And a good arrangement, too, in my opinion. For the old gentleman’s expecting either me or some messenger to come to him from here. _Tynd._ Ergo animum advortas volo quae nuntiare hinc te volo in patriam ad patrem. Well then, I wish you to pay attention to the message I wish you to take home to him. _Philocr._ Philocrates, ut adhuc locorum feci, faciam sedulo, ut potissimum quod in rem recte conducat tuam, id petam idque persequar corde et animo atque viribus. I’ll do the best I can for you, sir, just as I always have: anything that makes for your good, sir, I’ll work my hardest for, and follow up with all my heart and soul and strength. _Tynd._