GRU. Are you going to give me the tares for me to take for the cattle? If you are not, give me the money. Go on, still persist in the way in which you've commenced! Drink, live like Greeks, eat, stuff yourselves, slaughter your fatlings! TRA. Hold your tongue, and be off into the country; I intend to go to the Piraeus to get me some fish for the evening. To-morrow I'll make some one bring you the tares to the farm. What's the matter? Why now are you staring at me, gallows-bird? GRU. I' faith, I've an idea that will be your own title before long. TRA. So long as it is as it is, in the meantime I'll put up with that "before long." GRU. That's the way; and understand this one thing, that that which is disagreable comes much more speedily than that which you wish for. TRA. Don't you be annoying; now then, away with you into the country, and betake yourself off. Don't you deceive yourself, henceforth you shan't be causing me _any_ impediment. (_Exit._ GRU. (_to himself_). Is he really gone? Not to care one straw for what I've said! O immortal Gods, I do implore your aid, do cause this old gentleman of ours, who has now been three years absent from here, to return hither as soon as possible, before everything is gone, both house and land. Unless he does return here, remnants to last for a few months _only_ are left. Now I'll be off to the country; but look! I see my master's son, one who has been corrupted from having been a most excellent young man. (_Exit._ [Footnote 1: In the country)--Ver. 7. Grumio appears to have been cook and herdsman combined, and perhaps generally employed at the country farm of Thenropides. On this occasion he seems to have been summoned to town to cook for the entertainment which Philolaches is giving to his friends.] [Footnote 2: _The iron-bound race_)--Ver. 18. The gang of slaves, who, for their malpractices, are working in the country in chains.] [Footnote 3: _Live like Greeks_)--Ver. 21. "Pergraescamini." Though the Scene is at Athens, Plautus consults the taste of a Roman Audience, as on many other occasions, in making the Greeks the patterns of riotous livers. Asconius Pedianus says that at these entertainments the Greeks drank off a cup of wine every time they named a Divinity or mentioned a friend.] [Footnote 4: _Riddle for the executioner_)--Ver. 52. Riddled with holes by the scourge of the executioner.] [Footnote 5: _You carry your gibbet_--Ver. 53. Bearing his own cross; a refinement of torture which was too often employed upon malefactors.] SCENE II.--_Enter_ PHILOLACHES, _from the house of_ THEUROPIDES.