[Footnote 8: _Melting out the tallow_)--Ver. 286. Hegio asks him if his riches are very abundant, and in doing so uses the word "opimae," of which the primary meaning was "fat;" the other answers, "Yes, so fat that he can be melting the tallow out of them even when he is an old man;" meaning thereby that he is amply provided with means.]. [Footnote 9: _Thesaurochrysonicocraesides_)--Ver. 290. This is a name made up of several Greek words, and seems to mean "a son of Croesus, abounding in treasures of gold," in allusion to Croesus, the wealthy king of Lydia. The author indulges in similar pleasantry in the Miles Gloriosus.] [Footnote 10: _To his own Genius_)--Ver. 295. As the Genius of a man was not only his guardian Deity through life, but the word was also used to signify his capacity for enjoyment; the term "to sacrifice to his Genius," is supposed by some Commentators to mean, "to indulge the appetite in feasting and good cheer." This, however, seems not to be the meaning in this instance; and he probably intends to be understood as alluding, literally, to the domestic sacrifice to the Genius.] [Footnote 11: _Or to the public_)--Ver. 339. Some captives were employed in the public service, while others fell into the hands of private individuals.] [Footnote 12: _With a price set_)--Ver. 845. "Aestimatus" here means "entrusted to a person at a fixed value, and at his risk for the due return of it."] SCENE III.--_Enter_ PHILOCRATES, _from the house._ HEG. May this affair turn out happily for myself and for my son, and for yourselves. (_To_ PHILOCRATES.) Your new master wishes you to pay faithful obedience to your former owner in what he wishes. For I have presented you to him, with the price of twenty minae set upon you: and he says that he is desirous to send you away hence to his father, that he may there redeem my son, _and_ that an exchange may be made between me and him for our _respective_ sons. PHIL. My disposition takes its course straight in either direction, both to yourself and to him; as a wheel [1] you may make use of me; either this way or that can I be turned, whichever way you shall command me. HEG. You yourself profit the most from your own disposition, when you endure slavery just as it ought to be endured. Follow me. (_To_ TYNDARUS.) See here's _your_ man. TYND. I return you thanks, since you give me this opportunity and permission to send this messenger to my parents, who may relate all the matter in its order to my father, what I'm doing here, and what I wish to be done. (_To_ PHILOCRATES.) Now, Tyndarus, thus is it arranged between myself and him, that I'm to send you, valued at a fixed price, to my father in Elis; so that, if you don't return hither, I'm to give twenty minae for you. PHIL. I think that you've come to a right understanding. For your father expects either myself or some messenger to come from here to him.