PLUTUS. I will accept them at your fireside, as custom requires. Besides, we shall thus avoid a ridiculous scene; it is not meet that the poet should throw dried figs and dainties to the spectators; 'tis a vulgar trick to make 'em laugh. WIFE. You are right. Look! yonder's Dexinicus, who was already getting to his feet to catch the figs as they flew past him.[787] CHORUS. [_Missing_.] CARIO. How pleasant it is, friends, to live well, especially when it costs nothing! What a deluge of blessings flood our household, and that too without our having wronged ever a soul! Ah! what a delightful thing is wealth! The bin is full of white flour and the wine-jars run over with fragrant liquor; all the chests are crammed with gold and silver, 'tis a sight to see; the tank is full of oil,[788] the phials with perfumes, and the garret with dried figs. Vinegar flasks, plates, stew-pots and all the platters are of brass; our rotten old wooden trenchers for the fish have to-day become dishes of silver; the very night-commode is of ivory. We others, the slaves, we play at odd and even with gold pieces, and carry luxury so far that we no longer wipe ourselves with stones, but use garlic stalks instead. My master, at this moment, is crowned with flowers and sacrificing a pig, a goat and a ram;[789] 'tis the smoke that has driven me out, for I could no longer endure it, it hurt my eyes so. A JUST MAN. Come, my child, come with me. Let us go and find the god. CHREMYLUS. Who comes here? JUST MAN. A man who was once wretched, but now is happy. CHREMYLUS. A just man then? JUST MAN. You have it. CHREMYLUS. Well! what do you want? JUST MAN. I come to thank the god for all the blessings he has showered on me. My father had left me a fairly decent fortune, and I helped those of my friends who were in want; 'twas, to my thinking, the most useful thing I could do with my fortune. CHREMYLUS. And you were quickly ruined? JUST MAN. Entirely. CHREMYLUS. Since then you have been living in misery? JUST MAN. In truth I have; I thought I could count, in case of need, upon the friends whose property I had helped, but they turned their backs upon me and pretended not to see me. CHREMYLUS. They laughed at you, 'tis evident. JUST MAN. Just so. With my empty coffers, I had no more friends. CHREMYLUS. But your lot has changed. JUST MAN. Yes, and so I come to the god to make him the acts of gratitude that are his due. CHREMYLUS. But with what object now do you bring this old cloak, which your slave is carrying? Tell me. JUST MAN. I wish to dedicate it to the god.[790] CHREMYLUS. Were you initiated into the Great Mysteries in that cloak?[791] JUST MAN. No, but I shivered in it for thirteen years. CHREMYLUS. And this footwear? JUST MAN. These also are my winter companions. CHREMYLUS. And you wish to dedicate them too? JUST MAN. Unquestionably. CHREMYLUS. Fine presents to offer to the god!