TYND. I wish you, then, to mind what message it is I want you to carry hence to my country to my father. PHIL. Philocrates, as up to this moment I have done, I will take all due care to endeavour that which may especially conduce to your interest, and to pursue the same with heart and soul, and with my ears. TYND. You act just as you ought to act; now I wish you to give attention. In the first place of all, carry my respects to my mother and my father, and to my relations, and if any one else you see well-disposed _towards me_: _say_ that I am in health here, and that I am a slave, in servitude to this most worthy man, who has ever honored me more and more with his respect, and does _so still_. PHIL. Don't you be instructing me as to that; I can, still, easily bear that in mind. TYND. For, indeed, except that I have a keeper, I deem myself to be a free man. Tell my father on what terms I have agreed with this party about his son. PHIL. What I remember, it is sheer delay to be putting me in mind of. TYND. To redeem me, and to send him back here in exchange for both of us. PHIL. I'll remember it. HEG. But as soon as he can that is especially to the interest of us both. PHIL. You _are_ not more _anxious_ to see your son, than he _is to see_ his. HEG. My son is dear to myself, _and_ his own to every man. PHIL. (_to_ TYNDARUS). Do you wish any other message to be carried to your father? TYND. _Say_ that I am well here; and do you boldly tell him, Tyndarus, that we have been of dispositions for uninterrupted harmony between ourselves, and that you have neither been deserving of censure, nor that I have proved your enemy; and that still, amid miseries so great, you have shown implicit obedience to your master, and that you have never abandoned me, either in deed or in fidelity, amid my wavering, unprosperous fortunes. When my father shall know this, Tyndarus, how well-disposed you have proved towards his son and himself, he will never be so avaricious but that he'll give you your liberty for nothing. And by my own endeavours, if I return hence, I'll make him do so the more readily. For by your aid and kindness, and good disposition and prudence, you have caused me to be allowed to return to my parents once again, inasmuch as to _Hegio_ you have confessed both my rank and my wealth; by means of which, through your wisdom, you have liberated your master from his chains. PHIL. The things which you mention I have done, and I am pleased that you remember this. Deservedly have they been done for you by me; for now, Philocrates, if I, too, were to mention the things that you have kindly done for me, the night would cut short the day. For, had you been my slave _even_, no otherwise were you always obliging to me. HEG. Ye Gods, by our trust in you! _behold_ the kindly disposition of _these_ persons! How they draw _the very_ tears from me! See how cordially they love each other, _and_ with what praises the servant has commended his master.