SIM. Ha! have you at last found that out only just now, Pamphilus? Long since {did} that expression, long since, when you made up your mind, that what you desired must be effected by you at any price; from that very day did that {expression} aptly befit you. But yet why do I torment myself? Why vex myself? Why worry my old age with this madness? Am I to suffer the punishment for his offenses? Nay then, let him have her, good-by to him, let him pass his life with her. PAM. My father---- SIM. How, “my father?” As if you stood in any need of this father. Home, wife, {and} children, provided {by you} against the will of your father! People suborned, {too,} to say that she is a citizen of this place! You have gained your point. PAM. Father, may I {say} a few words? SIM. What can you say to me? CHREM. But, Simo, do hear him. SIM. I, hear him? Why should I hear him, Chremes? CHREM. Still, however, do allow him to speak. SIM. Well then, let him speak: I allow him. PAM. I own that I love her; if that is committing a fault, I own that also. To you, father, do I subject myself. Impose on me any injunction you please; command me. Do you wish me to take a wife? Do you wish me to give her up? As well as I can, I will endure it. This only I request of you, not to think that this old gentleman has been suborned by me. Allow me to clear myself, and to bring him here before you. SIM. To bring him here? PAM. Do allow me, father. CHREM. He asks what’s reasonable; do give him leave. PAM. Allow me to obtain thus much of you. SIM. I allow it. I desire any thing, so long as I find, Chremes, that I have not been deceived by him. (_PAMPHILUS goes into the house of GLYCERIUM._) CHREM. For a great offense, a slight punishment ought to satisfy a father. SCENE V. _Re-enter PAMPHILUS with CRITO._ CRI. (_to PAMPHILUS, as he is coming out._) Forbear entreating. Of these, any one reason prompts me to do it, either your own sake, or the fact that it is the truth, or that I wish well for Glycerium herself. CHREM. (_starting._) Do I see Crito of Andros? Surely it is he. CRI. Greetings to you, Chremes. CHREM. How is it that, so contrary to your usage, you are at Athens? CRI. {So} it has happened. But is this Simo? CHREM. {It is} he. CRI. Simo, were you asking for me? SIM. How now, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place? CRI. Do you deny it? SIM. (_ironically._) Have you come here so well prepared? CRI. For what purpose? SIM. Do you ask? Are you to be acting this way with impunity? Are you to be luring young men into snares here, inexperienced in affairs, and liberally brought up, by tempting them, and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises? CRI. Are you in your senses? SIM. And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage? PAM. (_aside._) I’m undone! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this. CHREM. If, Simo, you knew this person well, you would not think thus; he is a worthy man.