(_to Libanus_) By heaven, you’ll soon pay dear for it, if you don’t abuse him! _Lib._ Impure, nihili. non vides irasci? (_loudly to trader_) You dirty thing, you, you good for nothing! (_in lower tone_) Don’t you see he’s angry? _Leon._ Perge porro. (_to Libanus_) Go on, get at him! _Lib._ Flagitum hominis. da, obsecro, argentum huic, ne male loquatur. (_loudly_) You scandal of a man! (_in lower tone_) Do give him the money, for heaven’s sake, so that he won’t call you bad names. _Merc._ _Trader_ Malum hercle vobis quaeritis. Gad! It’s a bad time you two are looking for. _Leon._ Crura hercle diffringentur, ni istum impudicum percies. (_to Libanus_) By the Lord, your legs shall be broken to splinters, if you don’t give that shameless rascal a blowing up. _Lib._ Perii hercle. age impudice, sceleste, non audes mihi scelesto subvenire? (_to trader in low tone_) Oh Lord! I’m in for it! (_loudly_) Come, you shameless rascal, you wretch, won’t you help me, poor wretch that I am? _Leon._ Pergin precari pessimo? (_to Libanus_) Continuing to coax that criminal, are you? _Merc._ _Trader_ Quae res? tun libero homini male servos loquere? (_getting indignant_) How is this? You dare to abuse a free man, you, you slave? _Leon._ Vapula. You be thrashed! _Merc._ _Trader_ Id quidem tibi hercle fiet, ut vapules, Demaenetum simulac conspexero hodie.[12] 479 Be thrashed? Precisely what will be done to you, by gad, the moment I set eyes on Demaenetus to-day! _Leon._ Quid, verbero? ain tu, furcifer? erum nos fugitare censes? 484-485 ei nunciam ad erum, quo vocas, iam dudum quo volebas. What, you whipping post? So, you gallows-bird? D’ye think we skulk from our master? On with you straight to the master you summon us to, the master you’ve wanted to see this long time past. (_goes toward forum_) _Merc._ _Trader_ Nunc demum? tamen numquam hinc feres argenti nummum, nisi me dare iusserit Demaenetus. At last, eh? But never a penny do you get from me, unless I am instructed to give it to you by Demaenetus. _Leon._ Ita facito, age ambula ergo. tu contumeliam alteri facias, tibi non dicatur? tam ego homo sum quam tu. All right, all right! Come, step along, then! Do you want to insult another man and not get it back? I’m as much of a man as you are! _Merc._ _Trader_ Scilicet. ita res est. No doubt. Quite so. _Leon._ Sequere hac ergo 490 praefiscini hoc nunc dixerim: nemo etiam me accusavit merito meo, neque me alter est Athenis hodie quisquam, cui credi recte aeque putent.