Hegio, hic homo rabiosus habitus est in Alide, ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris immittas tuas. nam istis hastis insectatus est domi matrem et patrem, et illic isti qui insputatur morbus interdum venit. 550 proin tu ab istoc procul recedas. (_dragging Hegio aside_) Hegio, this fellow was looked upon as a raving maniac in Elis, so don’t you let him fill your ears with his babble. Why, at home he chased his father and mother about with a spear, and every once in a while he has an attack of the disease that people spit on.[D] So get out of his reach, then,--well away. [Footnote D: Epilepsy.] _Hegio_ Ultro istum a me. (to slaves) Keep him off! Keep him off! _Arist._ Ain, verbero? me rabiosum atque insectatum esse hastis meum memoras patrem, et eum morbum mi esse, ut qui me opus sit insputarier? What’s that, you rascal? I’m a raving maniac and chased my own father with a spear, you say? I have the disease that calls for my being spat upon? _Hegio_ Ne verere, multos iste morbus homines macerat, quibus insputari saluti fuit atque is profuit. (_cheeringly_) Never you mind! Many a man’s consumed by that disease of yours, who’s been helped by being spat on, and it’s brought him through. _Arist._ Quid tu autem? etiam huic credis? (_to Hegio, hotly_) How’s this? You, too? Do you actually believe him? _Hegio_ Quid ego credam huic? Believe him in what? _Arist._ Insanum esse me? That I’m insane? _Tynd._ Viden tu hunc, quam inimico voltu intuetur? concedi optumumst, Hegio: fit quod tibi ego dixi, gliscit rabies, cave tibi. (_to Hegio_) Do you see him--that angry glare of his? You’d better leave, Hegio. It’s just as I said: a fit’s coming on. Look out for yourself! _Hegio_ Credidi esse insanum extemplo, ubi te appellavit Tyndarum. (_hastily moving farther off_) I thought so, I thought he was crazy, from the moment he called you Tyndarus. _Tynd._ Quin suom ipse interdum ignorat nomen neque scit qui siet. 560 Why, at times he positively forgets his own name and doesn’t know who he is. _Hegio_ At etiam te suom sodalem esse aibat. But he was even saying you were an intimate friend of his. _Tynd._ Haud vidi magis. et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestes et Lycurgus postea una opera mihi sunt sodales qua iste. (_dryly_) Quite so! And the fact is that Alcumeus,[E] in that case, and Orestes,[E] and Lycurgus[E] too are intimate friends of mine, just exactly as much. [Footnote E: Madmen, celebrated in Greek mythology. Alcumeus = Alcmaeon.] _Arist._ At etiam, furcifer, male loqui mi audes? non ego te novi? Ha! You scoundrel, do you dare go on maligning me? Don’t I know you? _Hegio_