HEG. What reason is there, then, that if he doesn't return, you should not pay me twenty minae for him? TYND. Yes--very good. HEG. (_to the_ SLAVES, _who obey_). Release him now forthwith; and, indeed, both of them. (_On being released_, PHILOCRATES _goes into the house_.) TYND. May all the Gods grant you all your desires, since you have deigned me honor so great, and since you release me from my chains. Really, this is not _so_ irksome now, since my neck is free from the collar-chain. HEG. The kindnesses that are done to the good, thanks for the same are pregnant with blessings. Now, if you are about to send him thither, direct, instruct him, give him the orders which you wish to be carried to your father. Should you like me to call him to you? TYND. Do call him. (HEGIO _goes to the door, and calls_ PHILOCRATES.) [Footnote 1: _The only cowards_)--Ver. 267. He alludes to the notion in the heroic times, that it was the duty of a warrior to conquer or to die, and that it was disgraceful to be made prisoner.] [Footnote 2: _Wielding the razor_)--Ver. 271. It is hard to say whether by the word "cuttros," in this passage, razors or scissors are meant.] [Footnote 3: _To put on the barber's cloth_)--Ver. 272. He probably means by this expression that Philocrates has made no preamble, and shown no hesitation, in commencing at once to dupe the old man.] [Footnote 4: _Or trim him_)--Ver. 273. He alludes here to the two kinds of shaving and trimming the beard used by the barbers among the ancients. The one was close "strictim," when they shaved to the skin; the other was, when with a pair of scissors they clipped the hair, with the interposition of a comb. The former fashion was called by the Greeks [Greek: _skaphion_]; the latter method, which was borrowed from the Persians, [Greek: _kaepos_]. "Esse in tonstrina," "to be in the barber's shop," was a proverbial expression to denote "being imposed upon." Tyndarus is wondering to what extent Philocrates is going to impose upon Hegio.] [Footnote 5: _Through the comb_)--Ver. 273. The Greeks and Romans made their combs of boxwood, much of which was imported from Paphlagonia. The Egyptians used them made of wood and of ivory, and toothed on one side only; while those of the Greeks had teeth on both sides.] [Footnote 6: _Thales the Milesian_)--Ver. 279. A talent would be a low price for such a learned slave as Thales the Milesian, who was one of the seven wise men of Greece. He says, however, that Thales at such a low price would be nothing in comparison with Philocrates for the same money.] [Footnote 7: _The Polyplusian_)--Ver. 282. This word is coined by Philocrates for the occasion, as being the name of his family, from the Greek word _[Greek: polyplousios]_, "very wealthy;" probably with the idea of raising the expectations of Hegio and making him the more ready to promote an exchange of his own son for a member of so opulent a family.]