TRA. I am not afraid: I am at peace with the dead. A VOICE (_from within_). Hallo! Tranio [3]. TRA. (_in a low voice, near the door_). You won't be calling me, if you are wise. (_Aloud, as if speaking to the_ APPARITION.) 'Tis not I that's guilty; I did not knock at the door. THEU. Pray, what is it that's wrong? What matter is agitating you, Tranio? To whom are you saying these things? TRA. Prithee, was it you that called me? So may the Gods bless me, I fancied it was this dead man expostulating because you had knocked at the door. But are you still standing there, and not doing what I advise you? THEU. What am I to do? TRA. Take care not to look back. Fly; cover up your head! THEU. Why don't you fly? TRA. I am at peace with the dead. THEU. I recollect. Why then were you so dreadfully alarmed just now? TREA. Have no care for me, I tell you; I'll see to myself. You, as you have begun _to do_, fly as quick as ever you can; Hercules, too [4], you will invoke. THEU. Hercules, I do invoke thee! (_Runs off._) TRA. (_to himself._) And I, as well, old fellow, that this day he'll send some heavy mishap upon you. O ye immortal Gods, I do implore your aid. Plague on it! what a mess I have got into to-day. (_Exit._ [Footnote 1: _Touch you the ground_)--Ver. 457. The ancients were in the habit of reverentially touching the earth, when engaged in any affairs that related to the dead or the infernal Deities.] [Footnote 2: _Guilty of a capital offence_)--Ver. 464. "Capitalis aedes facta est;" meaning that a murder had been committed in it.] [Footnote 3: _Hallo! Tranio_)--Ver. 502. Weise's Edition gives these words to Theuropides. Rost, no doubt rightly, suggests that these words are spoken by Philolaches from inside (perhaps in a low voice, to ask Tranio how matters are going on). On this, Tranio turns it to good account, by pretending that the Ghost is calling out to him for his supposed impiety in daring to knock at the door.] [Footnote 4: _Hercules, too_)--Ver. 514. Hercules having slain so many monsters, was naturally regarded as a Deity likely to give aid in extreme danger.] ACT III.--SCENE I. _Enter a_ BANKER, _at the end of the stage._ BAN. (_to himself_). I never knew any year worse for money upon interest, than this year has turned out to me. From morning even until night, I spend my time in the Forum; I cannot lend out a coin of silver to any one. _Enter_ TRANIO.