Pol planum id quidem est, non novisse, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate. quem vides, eum ignoras: illum nominas quem non vides. Good heavens! It’s quite plain you don’t know him--calling him Tyndarus instead of Philocrates! The man you see you don’t know: you name the man you don’t see. _Arist._ Immo iste eum sese ait, qui non est, esse, et qui vero est, negat. No, sir! This fellow says he’s the man he isn’t, and says he isn’t the man he really is. _Tynd._ Tu enim repertu’s, Philocratem qui superes veriverbio. (_to Aristophontes, meaningly_) So you have turned up to beat Philocrates in stating facts! _Arist._ Pol ego ut rem video, tu inventu’s, vera vanitudine qui convincas. sed quaeso hercle, agedum aspice ad me. Good Lord! As I look at it, you have been unearthed to browbeat facts by stating falsehoods. But come now, confound it, look me in the eye! _Tynd._ Em. (_doing so coolly_) Well? _Arist._ Dic modo: 570 tun negas te Tyndarum esse? Now tell me: do you deny that you are Tyndarus? _Tynd._ Nego, inquam. I do, certainly. _Arist._ Tun te Philocratem esse ais? You claim to be Philocrates, you? _Tynd._ Ego, inquam. I certainly do. _Arist._ Tune huic credis? (_to Hegio, exasperated_) Do you believe him? _Hegio_ Plus quidem quam tibi aut mihi. nam ille quidem, quem tu hunc memoras esse, hodie hinc abiit Alidem ad patrem huius. More than I do you, surely,--or myself. For you see, the fellow you tell me this man is--he went away to Elis to-day to this man’s father. _Arist._ Quem patrem, qui servos est? (_contemptuously_) Father! What do you mean, when he’s a slave? _Tynd._ Et tu quidem servos es, liber fuisti, et ego me confido fore, si huius huc reconciliasso in libertatem filium. Well, you, too, are a slave and once were free: and (_with emphasis_) I hope to be so myself, when I have restored this gentleman’s son to home and liberty. _Arist._ Quid ais, furcifer? tun te gnatum esse memoras liberum? What’s that, you villain? You tell me you were born a freeman? _Tynd._ Non equidem me Liberum, sed Philocratem esse aio. No indeed, my name is not Freeman, but Philocrates, that’s what I say. _Arist._ Quid est? ut scelestus, Hegio, nunc iste te ludos facit. nam is est servos ipse, neque praeter se umquam ei servos fuit. 580 What’s all this? How the rascal’s making game of you, Hegio! Why he’s a slave himself--the only one he ever had. _Tynd._ Quia tute ipse eges in patria nec tibi qui vivas domist, omnis inveniri similis tui vis; non mirum facis: est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis.