Great heavens! When I think back I do now at last remember hearing--in a cloudy sort of way--my father called Hegio! _Hegio_ Is ego sum. (_embracing him_) I am that Hegio! _Philocr._ Compedibus quaeso ut tibi sit levior filius atque huic gravior servos. (_to Hegio, pointing to the shackles on Tyndarus_). Those irons, sir,--for mercy’s sake get yourself a lighter son, and him a heavier slave. (_indicating Stalagmus_) _Hegio_ Certum est principio id praevortier. eamus intro, ut arcessatur faber, ut istas compedes tibi adimam, huic dem. Yes, yes, I must see to that first of all. Let’s go inside and have a blacksmith sent for, so that I may get those irons off of you and make this fellow (_turning to Stalagmus_) a present of them. _Stal._ Quoi peculi nihil est, recte feceris. Thanks awfully--seeing I haven’t a thing I can call my own. [EXEUNT OMNES. CATERVA EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY THE COMPANY. Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabula est, neque in hac subigitationes sunt neque ulla amatio 1030 nec pueri suppositio nec argenti circumductio, neque ubi amans adulescens scortum liberet clam suom patrem. Spectators, this play was composed with due regard to the proprieties: here you have no vicious intrigues, no love affair, no supposititious child, no getting money on false pretences, no young spark setting a wench free without his father’s knowledge. huius modi paucas poetae reperiunt comoedias, ubi boni meliores fiant. nunc vos, si vobis placet et si placuimus neque odio fuimus, signum hoc mittite: qui pudicitiae esse voltis praemium, plausum date. Dramatists find few plays such as this which make good men better. Now, if you so please, and if we have pleased you and have not been boring, intimate as much: you who wish virtue to be rewarded, give us your applause. * * * * * [Footnote 1: Corrupt (Leo): _vincti quia astant_ Fleckeisen.] [Footnote 2: Leo notes lacuna here: _(cette), iam hoc tenetis_ Schoell.] [Footnote 3: _vel_ precedes in MSS: Leo brackets.] [Footnote 4: Leo notes lacuna here: _cupio (fieri)_ Schoell.] [Footnote 5: Leo’s correction of _multa miraclitis_ of the MSS.] [Footnote 6: Corrupt (Leo): _ea_ MSS: _consili_ Schoell.] [Footnote 7: Leo brackets the following v., 237: _quod tibi suadeam, suadeam meo patri._] [Footnote 8: Leo notes lacuna here: _huius (ille)_ Camerarius.] [Footnote 9: Leo brackets the following v., 280: Hegio _Tum igitur ei cum in Aleis tanta gratia est, ut praedicas._] [Footnote 10: Leo brackets the following v., 288: _nam ille quidem Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine._] [Footnote 11: Leo brackets the following v., 324: