Facis ita ut te facere oportet. nunc animum advortas volo: omnium primum salutem dicito matri et patri et cognatis et si quem alium benevolentem videris; 390 me hic valere et servitutem servire huic homini optumo, qui me honore honestiorem semper fecit et facit. The proper spirit. Now I wish you to pay attention. First of all, remember me to my father and mother and my relatives and anyone else you may see who is interested in my welfare; tell them I am in good health here and a slave of this most estimable gentleman who has always accorded me the (_with emphasis_) very extraordinary consideration which I still enjoy. _Philocr._ Istuc ne praecipias, facile memoria memini tamen. No instructions needed along that line, sir: I can remember to mind that easily enough, without. _Tynd._ Nam equidem, nisi quod custodem habeo, liberum me esse arbitror. dicito patri, quo pacto mihi cum hoc convenerit de huius filio. For really, aside from the fact that I have a guard, I feel that I am a free man. Tell my father what arrangement this gentleman and I have made regarding his son. _Philocr._ Quae memini, mora mera est monerier. Mere waste of time, sir, to remind me of what I remember. _Tynd._ Ut eum redimat et remittat nostrum huc amborum vicem. That he is to ransom him and send him back here in exchange for us both. _Philocr._ Meminero. I’ll remember. _Hegio_ At quamprimum pote: istuc in rem utriquest maxime. Yes, but just as quickly as possible: that’s of the highest importance to each of us. _Philocr._ Non tuom tu magis videre quam ille suom gnatum cupit. You don’t long to see your son any more than he does his, sir. _Hegio_ Meus mihi, suos cuique est carus. My son is dear to me, as his own son is to every father. _Philocr._ Numquid aliud vis patri 400 nuntiari? No further message for him, eh? _Tynd._ Me hic valere et--tute audacter dicito, Tyndare--inter nos fuisse ingenio haud discordabili, neque te commeruisse culpam--neque me adversatum tibi-- beneque ero gessisse morem in tantis aerumnis tamen; (_somewhat at a loss_) Say I am in good health here, and-- (_earnestly_) Tyndarus, speak up boldly to him, yourself,-- say that we have never been at variance, that I have never had reason to find fault with you (nor you to think me obstinate) and that you have served your master to the full even in such adversity. neque med umquam deseruisse te neque factis neque fide, rebus in dubiis egenis. haec pater quando sciet, Tyndare, ut fueris animatus erga suom gnatum atque se, numquam erit tam avarus, quin te gratiis emittat manu[12]; et mea opera, si hinc rebito, faciam ut faciat facilius.