ARIST. (_coming up to him_). Why's this, that I'm to say that you are avoiding my gaze, Tyndarus? And _why_ that you are slighting me as a stranger, as though you had never known me? Why, I'm as much a slave as yourself; although at home I was a free man, you, even from your childhood, have always served in slavery in Elia. HEG. I' faith, I'm very little surprised, if either he does avoid your gaze, or if he does shun you, who are calling him Tyndarus, instead of Philocrates. TYND. Hegio, this person was accounted a madman in Elis. Don't you give ear to what he prates about; for at home he has pursued his father and mother with spears, and that malady sometimes comes upon him which is spit out [1]. Do you this instant stand away at a distance from him. HEG. (_to _the SLAVES). Away with him further off from me. ARIST. Do you say, you whipp'd knave, that I am mad, and do you declare that I have followed my own father with spears? And that I have that malady, that it's necessary for me to be spit upon [2]? HEG. Don't be dismayed; that malady afflicts many a person to whom it has proved wholesome to be spit upon, and has been of service to them. ARIST. Why, what do you say? Do you, too, credit him? HEG. Credit him in what? ARIST. That I am mad? TYND. Do you see him, with what a furious aspect he's looking at you? 'Twere best to retire, Hegio; it is as I said, his frenzy grows apace; have a care for yourself. HEG. I thought that he was mad, the moment that he called you Tyndarus. TYND. Why, he's sometimes ignorant of his own name and doesn't know what it is. HEG. But he even said that you were his intimate friend. TYND. So far from that, I never saw him. Why, really, Alcmaeon, and Orestes, and Lycurgus [3] besides, are my friends on the same principle that he is. ARIST. Villain, and do you dare speak ill of me, as well? Do I not know you? HEG. I' faith, it really is very clear that you don't know him, who are calling him Tyndarus, instead of Philocrates Him whom you see, you don't know; you are addressing him as the person whom you don't see. ARIST. On the contrary this fellow's saying that he is the person who he is not; and he says that he is not the person who he really is. TYND. You've been found, of course, to excel Philocrates in truthfulness. ARIST. By my troth, as I understand the matter, you've been found to brazen out the truth by lying. But i' faith, prithee, come then, look at me. TYND. (_looking at him_). Well! ARIST. Say, now; do you deny that you are Tyndarus? TYND. I do deny it, I say. ARIST. Do you say that you are Philocrates? TYND. I do say so, I say. ARIST. (_to_ HEGIO). And do you believe him? HEG. More, indeed, than either you or myself. For he, in fact, who you say that he is (_pointing to_ TYNDARUS), has set out hence to-day for Elis, to this person's father. ARIST. What father, when he's a slave. [4]