_Erg._ Cedo manum. (_rapturously_) Give me your hand! _Hegio_ Manum? My hand? _Erg._ Manum, inquam, cedo tuam actutum. Your hand, I say--give me your hand this instant! _Hegio_ Tene. (_doing so_) Take it. (_Ergasilus shakes it vigorously_) _Erg._ Gaude. Rejoice! _Hegio_ Quid ego gaudeam? Rejoice--I? What for? _Erg._ Quia ego impero, age gaude modo. Because I bid you to. Come now, rejoice! _Hegio_ Pol maerores mi antevortunt gaudiis.[21] 840 Good Lord, man! grief takes precedence of joy in my case. _Erg._ Iam ego ex corpore exigam omnis maculas maerorum tibi. gaude audacter. I will remove every grief spot from off your person for you this minute. Rejoice, rejoice boldly! _Hegio_ Gaudeo, etsi nil scio quod gaudeam. Well, I am rejoicing, although I haven’t the least idea why I should. _Erg._ Bene facis. iube-- Much obliged! Order-- _Hegio_ Quid iubeam? (_suspiciously_) Order what? _Erg._ Ignem ingentem fieri. --a fire to be built, an enormous fire. _Hegio_ Ignem ingentem? An enormous fire? _Erg._ Ita dico, magnus ut sit. That’s what I say--make it a big one. _Hegio_ Quid? me, volturi, tuan causa aedis incensurum censes? (_angry_) How’s that? Do you think I’m going to burn my house down for your benefit, you vulture? _Erg._ Noli irascier. iuben an non iubes astitui aulas, patinas elui, [22]laridum atque epulas foveri foculis ferventibus? alium pisces praestinatum abire? Calm yourself, sir. Will you order the pots to be set near the oven, or won’t you--and the platters washed--and bacon and lovely things to eat to be warmed up in fire-pans piping hot? And some one to go and lay in fish? _Hegio_ Hic vigilans somniat. Day dreams, poor fellow! _Erg._ Alium porcinam atque agninam et pullos gallinaceos? And some one else to get pork and lamb and spring chicken? _Hegio_ Scis bene esse, si sit unde. You know how to enjoy yourself--given the wherewithal. _Erg._ [23]Pernam atque ophthalmiam, 850 horaeum, scombrum et trygonum et cetum, et mollem caseum? And ham and river-lamprey and pickled fish, mackerel and sting ray and tunny, and nice soft cheese? _Hegio_ Nominandi istorum tibi erit magis quam edundi copia his apud me, Ergasile. You will have more of an opportunity to mention those viands, Ergasilus, than to masticate them here at my house. _Erg._ Mean me causa hoc censes dicere? Do you suppose I’m saying this on my own account? _Hegio_ Nec nihil hodie nec multo plus tu hic edes, ne frustra sis. proin tu tui cottidiani victi ventrem ad me afferas.