PHA. You are entirely mistaken, respected sir [1]; for unless he moved from here to-day or yesterday, I know for certain that he's living here. THEU. Why, no one has been living here for these six months past. SER. You are dreaming. THEU. What, I? SER. You. THEU. Don't you be impertinent. Let me speak to the lad. (_Pointing to_ PHANISCUS.) PHA. No one lives _there_? O dear-- THEU. It's the fact. PHA. Really! why, yesterday and the day before, four, five, six days ago, all along, _in fact_, since his father went abroad from here, eating and drinking have never ceased for a single three days here. THEU. What is it you say? PHA. That eating and drinking have never stopped for a single three days here, bringing in wenches, living like Greeks, hiring harpists _and_ music-girls. THEU. Who was it did this? PHA. Philolaches. THEU. What Philolaches? PHA. He whose father I take to be Theuropides. THEU. (_apart_). O dear, O dear! I'm utterly undone, if he says the truth in this. I'll continue to question him still. Do you say that this Philolaches, whoever he is, has been in the habit of drinking here together with your master? PHA. Here, I tell you. THEU. _My_ lad, contrary to your appearance, you are a fool. See now, please, that you've not perchance been dropping in somewhere for an afternoon's whet [2], and have been drinking there a little more than was enough. PHA. What do you mean? THEU. Just what I say; don't be going by mistake to other persons' houses. PHA. I know where I ought to go, and the place to which I was to come. Philolaches lives here, whose father is Theuropides; and who, after his father went away to trade, made free a music-girl here. THEU. Philolaches, say you? PHA. Just so; Philematium, I mean. THEU. For how much? SER. For thirty talents. PHA. _No_, by Apollo [3]; you mean minae. THEU. Do you say that a mistress was purchased for Philolaches for thirty minae? PHA. I do say so. THEU. And that he gave her her freedom? PHA. I do say so. THEU. And that after his father had departed hence abroad, he has been carousing here continually with your master? PHA. I do say _so_. THEU. Well, has he made purchase of the house next door here? PHA. I don't say _so_. THEU. Has he given forty minae, too, to this person, to be as a deposit? PHA. Nor yet do I say _so_. THEU. Ah me! you've proved my ruin! PHA. Aye, and he has proved the ruin of his father. THEU. You prophesy the truth! I could wish it false! PHA. A friend of his father, I suppose? THEU. Ah me! Upon my faith, you do pronounce him _to be_ a wretched father.