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485

Labrax

Qui homo sese miserum et mendicum volet,†
485

Neptuno credat sese atque aetatem suam:

nam si quis cúm eo quid rei commiscuit,

ad hoc exemplum amittit ornatum domum.

edepol, Libertas, lepida es, quae numquam pedem

voluisti in navem cum Hercule una imponere.
490

sed ubi ille meus est hospes, qui me perdidit?

atque eccum incedit.

Charmides

Quo malum properas, Labrax?

nam equidem te nequeo consequi tam strenue.

Labrax

Vtinam te prius quam óculis vidissem meis,

malo cruciatu in Sicilia perbiteres,
495

quem propter hoc mihi optigit misero mali.

Charmides

Vtinam, quom in aedis me ad te adduxisti tuas,

in carcere illo potius cubuissem die.

deosque ímmortales quaeso, dum vivas uti

omnes tui símiles hospites habeas tibi.
500

Labrax

Malam fortunam in aedis te adduxi meas.

quid mihi scelesto tibi erat auscultatio,

quidve hinc abitio quidve in navem inscensio?

ubi perdidi etiam plus boni quam mihi fuit.

Charmides

Pol minime miror, navis si fractast tibi,
505

scelus te ét sceleste parta quae vexit bona.

Labrax

Pessum dedisti me blandimentis tuis.

Charmides

Scelestiorem cenam cenavi tuam,

quam quae Thyestae quondam aut posita est Tereo.

Labrax

Perii, animo male fit. contine quaeso caput.
510

Charmides

Pulmoneum edepol nimis velim vomitum vomas.

Labrax

Eheu, Palaestra atque Ampelisca, ubi estis nunc?

Charmides

Piscibus in alto, credo, praebent pabulum.

Labrax

Mendicitatem mi optulisti opera tua,

dum tuis ausculto magnidicis mendaciis.
515

Charmides

Bonam est quod habeas gratiam merito mihi,

qui te ex insulso salsum feci opera mea.

Labrax

Quin tu hinc is a me in maxumam malam crucem?

Charmides

Eas. easque res agebam commodum.

Labrax

Eheu, quis vivit me mortalis miserior?
520

Charmides

Ego multo tanto miserior quam tu, Labrax.

Labrax

Qui?

Charmides

Quia ego indignus sum, tu dignus qui sies.

Labrax

O scirpe, scirpe, laudo fortunas tuas,

qui semper servas gloriam aritudinis.

Charmides

Equidem me ad velitationem exerceo,
525

nam omnia corusca prae temore fabulor.

Labrax

Edepol, Neptune, es balineator frigidus:

cum vestimentis postquam aps té abii, algeo.

Charmides

Ne thermipolium quidem ullum ínstruit,

ita salsam praehibet potionem et frigidam.
530

Labrax

Vt fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii,

qui apud carbones adsident: semper calent.

Charmides

Vtinam fortuna nunc anetina úterer,

ut quom exiissem éx aqua, arerem tamen.

Labrax

Quid si aliquo ad ludos me pro manduco locem?
535

Charmides

Quapropter?

Labrax

Quia pol clare crepito dentibus.

Charmides

Iure optumo me élavisse árbitror.

Labrax

Qui?

Charmides

Qui una auderem tecum in navem ascendere,

qui a fundamento mi usque movisti mare.

Labrax

Tibi auscultavi, tu promittebas mihi
540

illi esse quaestum maximum meretricibus,

ibi me conruere posse aiebas ditias.

Charmides

Iam postulabas te, impurata belua,

totam Siciliam devoraturum insulam?

Labrax

Quaenam ballaena meum voravit vidulum,
545

aurum atque argentum ubi omne compactum fuit?

Charmides

Eadem illa, credo, quae meum marsuppium,

quod plenum argenti fuit in sacciperio.

Labrax

Eheu, redactus sum usque ad unam hanc tuniculam

et ad hoc misellum pallium. perii oppido.
550

Charmides

Vel consociare mihi quidem tecum licet:

aequas habemus partes.

Labrax

Saltem si mihi

mulierculae essent salvae, spes aliquae forent.

nunc si me adulescens Plesidippus viderit,

quo ab arrabonem pro Palaestra acceperam,
555

iam is exhibebit hic mihi negotium.

Charmides

Quid, stulte, ploras? tibi quidem edepol copiast,

dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus.

Rudens. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1896.

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Rudens (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 2. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1896.)

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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 2.6 focus

485 (Enter LABRAX, dripping wet, followed by CHARMIDES, at a distance, in the same plight.)

LABRAX

(grumbling to himself.)

The person that chooses himself to be wretched and a beggar, let him trust himself and his life to Neptune. For if any one has any dealings at all with him, he sends him back home equipped in this guise.
485

(Surveying himself.) By my troth, Liberty, you were a clever one, who were never willing¹ to put even a foot, I’ faith, on board ship with me.

But (looking round) where’s this guest of mine that has proved my ruin? Oh, see, here he comes.

CHARMIDES

Where the plague are you hurrying to, Labrax? For really I cannot follow you so fast.

LABRAX

I only wish that you had perished by direful tornments in Sicily before I had looked upon you with my eyes,

you on whose account this misfortune has befallen me.

CHARMIDES

I only wish that on the day on which you admitted me into your house, I had laid me down in a prison sooner. I pray the immortal Gods, that so long as you live,

you may have all your guests just like your own self.
500

LABRAX

In your person I admitted misfortune into my house. What business had I to listen to a rogue like you, or what to depart hence? Or why to go on board ship, where I have lost even more wealth² than I was possessor of?

CHARMIDES

Troth, I’m far from being surprised if your ship has been wrecked, which was carrying yourself, a villain, and your property villanously acquired.
505

LABRAX

You’ve utterly ruined me with your wheedling speeches.

CHARMIDES

A more accursed dinner of yours have I been dining upon than the ones that were set before Thyestes and Tereus³.

LABRAX

I’m dying; I’m sick at heart. Prithee, do hold up my head.
510

CHARMIDES

By my troth, I could very much wish that you would vomit up your lungs.

LABRAX

Alas! Palaestra and Ampelisca, where are you now?

CHARMIDES

Supplying food for the fishes at the bottom, I suppose.

LABRAX

You have brought beggary upon me by your means,

while I was listening to your bragging lies.
515

CHARMIDES

You have reason deservedly to give me many hearty thanks, who from an insipid morsel by my agency have made you salt⁴.

LABRAX

Nay, but do you get out from me to extreme and utter perdition.

CHARMIDES

You be off; I was just going to do that very thing.

LABRAX

Alas! what mortal being is there living more wretched than I?
520

CHARMIDES

I am by very far much more wretched, Labrax, than yourself.

LABRAX

How so?

CHARMIDES

Because I am not deserving of it, whereas you are deserving.

LABRAX

O bulrush, bulrush, I do praise your lot, who always maintain your credit for dryness.

CHARMIDES

(his teeth chattering.)

For my part, I’m exercising myself for a skirmishing fight⁵, for, from my shivering, I utter all my words in piecemeal flashes.
525

LABRAX

By my troth, Neptune, you are a purveyor of chilly baths; since I got away from you with my clothes, I’ve been freezing.

No hot liquor-shop⁶ at all for sure does he provide;

so salt and cold the potions that he prepares.
530

CHARMIDES

How lucky are the blacksmiths who are always sitting among hot coals; they are always warm.

LABRAX

I only wish that I were now enjoying the lot of the duck, so as, although I had just come from out of the water, still to be dry.

CHARMIDES

What if I some way or other let myself out at the games for a hobgoblin⁷?
535

LABRAX

For what reason?

CHARMIDES

Because, I’ faith, I’m chattering aloud with my teeth.

But I’m of opinion that, with very good reason, I’ve had this ducking.

LABRAX

How so?

CHARMIDES

Why, haven’t I ventured to go on board ship with yourself, who have been stirring up the ocean for me from the very bottom?

LABRAX

I listened to you when advising me; you assured me that there in Sicily was very great profit from courtesans; there, you used to say, I should be able to amass wealth.
540

CHARMIDES

Did you expect, then, you unclean beast, that you were going to gobble up the whole island of Sicily ?

LABRAX

What whale, I wonder, has gobbled up my wallet where all my gold and silver was packed up?
545

CHARMIDES

That same one, I suppose, that has swallowed my purse, which was full of silver in my travelling-bag.

LABRAX

Alas! I’m reduced even to this one poor tunic (stretching it out)

and to this poor shabby cloak; I’m done for to all intents.
550

CHARMIDES

Then you may even go into partnership with me; we have got equal shares.

LABRAX

If at least my damsels had been saved, there would have been some hope. Now, if the young man Plesidippus should be seeing me,

from whom I received the earnest for Palaestra, he’ll then be causing me some trouble in consequence.
555
(He begins to cry.)

CHARMIDES

Why cry, you fool? Really, by my troth, so long as your tongue shall exist, you have abundance with which to make payment to everybody⁸.

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Charmides Quo malum properas, Labrax? nam equidem te nequeo consequi tam strenue.

Labrax Vtinam te prius quam óculis vidissem meis, malo cruciatu in Sicilia perbiteres, 495 quem propter hoc mihi optigit misero mali.

Charmides Vtinam, quom in aedis me ad te adduxisti tuas, in carcere illo potius cubuissem die. deosque ímmortales quaeso, dum vivas uti omnes tui símiles hospites habeas tibi. 500

Labrax Malam fortunam in aedis te adduxi meas. quid mihi scelesto tibi erat auscultatio, quidve hinc abitio quidve in navem inscensio? ubi perdidi etiam plus boni quam mihi fuit.

Charmides Pol minime miror, navis si fractast tibi, 505 scelus te ét sceleste parta quae vexit bona.

Labrax Pessum dedisti me blandimentis tuis.

Charmides Scelestiorem cenam cenavi tuam, quam quae Thyestae quondam aut posita est Tereo.

Labrax Perii, animo male fit. contine quaeso caput. 510

Charmides Pulmoneum edepol nimis velim vomitum vomas.

Labrax Eheu, Palaestra atque Ampelisca, ubi estis nunc?

Charmides Piscibus in alto, credo, praebent pabulum.

Labrax Mendicitatem mi optulisti opera tua, dum tuis ausculto magnidicis mendaciis. 515

Charmides Bonam est quod habeas gratiam merito mihi, qui te ex insulso salsum feci opera mea.

Labrax Quin tu hinc is a me in maxumam malam crucem?

Charmides Eas. easque res agebam commodum.

Labrax Eheu, quis vivit me mortalis miserior? 520

Charmides Ego multo tanto miserior quam tu, Labrax.

Labrax Qui?

Charmides Quia ego indignus sum, tu dignus qui sies.

Labrax O scirpe, scirpe, laudo fortunas tuas, qui semper servas gloriam aritudinis.

Charmides Equidem me ad velitationem exerceo, 525 nam omnia corusca prae temore fabulor.

Labrax Edepol, Neptune, es balineator frigidus: cum vestimentis postquam aps té abii, algeo.

Charmides Ne thermipolium quidem ullum ínstruit, ita salsam praehibet potionem et frigidam. 530

Labrax Vt fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii, qui apud carbones adsident: semper calent.

Charmides Vtinam fortuna nunc anetina úterer, ut quom exiissem éx aqua, arerem tamen.

Labrax Quid si aliquo ad ludos me pro manduco locem? 535

Charmides Quapropter?

Labrax Quia pol clare crepito dentibus.

Charmides Iure optumo me élavisse árbitror.

Labrax Qui?

Charmides Qui una auderem tecum in navem ascendere, qui a fundamento mi usque movisti mare.

Labrax Tibi auscultavi, tu promittebas mihi 540 illi esse quaestum maximum meretricibus, ibi me conruere posse aiebas ditias.

Charmides Iam postulabas te, impurata belua, totam Siciliam devoraturum insulam?

Labrax Quaenam ballaena meum voravit vidulum, 545 aurum atque argentum ubi omne compactum fuit?

Charmides Eadem illa, credo, quae meum marsuppium, quod plenum argenti fuit in sacciperio.

Labrax Eheu, redactus sum usque ad unam hanc tuniculam et ad hoc misellum pallium. perii oppido. 550

Charmides Vel consociare mihi quidem tecum licet: aequas habemus partes.

Labrax Saltem si mihi mulierculae essent salvae, spes aliquae forent. nunc si me adulescens Plesidippus viderit, quo ab arrabonem pro Palaestra acceperam, 555 iam is exhibebit hic mihi negotium.

Charmides Quid, stulte, ploras? tibi quidem edepol copiast, dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus.

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CHARMIDES Where the plague are you hurrying to, Labrax? For really I cannot follow you so fast.

LABRAX I only wish that you had perished by direful tornments in Sicily before I had looked upon you with my eyes, you on whose account this misfortune has befallen me.

CHARMIDES I only wish that on the day on which you admitted me into your house, I had laid me down in a prison sooner. I pray the immortal Gods, that so long as you live, you may have all your guests just like your own self. 500

LABRAX In your person I admitted misfortune into my house. What business had I to listen to a rogue like you, or what to depart hence? Or why to go on board ship, where I have lost even more wealth 2 than I was possessor of?

CHARMIDES Troth, I’m far from being surprised if your ship has been wrecked, which was carrying yourself, a villain, and your property villanously acquired. 505

LABRAX You’ve utterly ruined me with your wheedling speeches.

CHARMIDES A more accursed dinner of yours have I been dining upon than the ones that were set before Thyestes and Tereus 3 .

LABRAX I’m dying; I’m sick at heart. Prithee, do hold up my head. 510

CHARMIDES By my troth, I could very much wish that you would vomit up your lungs.

LABRAX Alas! Palaestra and Ampelisca, where are you now?

CHARMIDES Supplying food for the fishes at the bottom, I suppose.

LABRAX You have brought beggary upon me by your means, while I was listening to your bragging lies. 515

CHARMIDES You have reason deservedly to give me many hearty thanks, who from an insipid morsel by my agency have made you salt 4 .

LABRAX Nay, but do you get out from me to extreme and utter perdition.

CHARMIDES You be off; I was just going to do that very thing.

LABRAX Alas! what mortal being is there living more wretched than I? 520

CHARMIDES I am by very far much more wretched, Labrax, than yourself.

LABRAX How so?

CHARMIDES Because I am not deserving of it, whereas you are deserving.

LABRAX O bulrush, bulrush, I do praise your lot, who always maintain your credit for dryness.

CHARMIDES (his teeth chattering.) For my part, I’m exercising myself for a skirmishing fight 5 , for, from my shivering, I utter all my words in piecemeal flashes. 525

LABRAX By my troth, Neptune, you are a purveyor of chilly baths; since I got away from you with my clothes, I’ve been freezing. No hot liquor-shop 6 at all for sure does he provide; so salt and cold the potions that he prepares. 530

CHARMIDES How lucky are the blacksmiths who are always sitting among hot coals; they are always warm.

LABRAX I only wish that I were now enjoying the lot of the duck, so as, although I had just come from out of the water, still to be dry.

CHARMIDES What if I some way or other let myself out at the games for a hobgoblin 7 ? 535

LABRAX For what reason?

CHARMIDES Because, I’ faith, I’m chattering aloud with my teeth. But I’m of opinion that, with very good reason, I’ve had this ducking.

LABRAX How so?

CHARMIDES Why, haven’t I ventured to go on board ship with yourself, who have been stirring up the ocean for me from the very bottom?

LABRAX I listened to you when advising me; you assured me that there in Sicily was very great profit from courtesans; there, you used to say, I should be able to amass wealth. 540

CHARMIDES Did you expect, then, you unclean beast, that you were going to gobble up the whole island of Sicily ?

LABRAX What whale, I wonder, has gobbled up my wallet where all my gold and silver was packed up? 545

CHARMIDES That same one, I suppose, that has swallowed my purse, which was full of silver in my travelling-bag.

LABRAX Alas! I’m reduced even to this one poor tunic (stretching it out) and to this poor shabby cloak; I’m done for to all intents. 550

CHARMIDES Then you may even go into partnership with me; we have got equal shares.

LABRAX If at least my damsels had been saved, there would have been some hope. Now, if the young man Plesidippus should be seeing me, from whom I received the earnest for Palaestra, he’ll then be causing me some trouble in consequence. 555 (He begins to cry.)

CHARMIDES Why cry, you fool? Really, by my troth, so long as your tongue shall exist, you have abundance with which to make payment to everybody 8 .

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Charmides

Quo malum properas, Labrax?

nam equidem te nequeo consequi tam strenue.

Labrax

Vtinam te prius quam óculis vidissem meis,

malo cruciatu in Sicilia perbiteres,
495

quem propter hoc mihi optigit misero mali.

Charmides

Vtinam, quom in aedis me ad te adduxisti tuas,

in carcere illo potius cubuissem die.

deosque ímmortales quaeso, dum vivas uti

omnes tui símiles hospites habeas tibi.
500

Labrax

Malam fortunam in aedis te adduxi meas.

quid mihi scelesto tibi erat auscultatio,

quidve hinc abitio quidve in navem inscensio?

ubi perdidi etiam plus boni quam mihi fuit.

Charmides

Pol minime miror, navis si fractast tibi,
505

scelus te ét sceleste parta quae vexit bona.

Labrax

Pessum dedisti me blandimentis tuis.

Charmides

Scelestiorem cenam cenavi tuam,

quam quae Thyestae quondam aut posita est Tereo.

Labrax

Perii, animo male fit. contine quaeso caput.
510

Charmides

Pulmoneum edepol nimis velim vomitum vomas.

Labrax

Eheu, Palaestra atque Ampelisca, ubi estis nunc?

Charmides

Piscibus in alto, credo, praebent pabulum.

Labrax

Mendicitatem mi optulisti opera tua,

dum tuis ausculto magnidicis mendaciis.
515

Charmides

Bonam est quod habeas gratiam merito mihi,

qui te ex insulso salsum feci opera mea.

Labrax

Quin tu hinc is a me in maxumam malam crucem?

Charmides

Eas. easque res agebam commodum.

Labrax

Eheu, quis vivit me mortalis miserior?
520

Charmides

Ego multo tanto miserior quam tu, Labrax.

Labrax

Qui?

Charmides

Quia ego indignus sum, tu dignus qui sies.

Labrax

O scirpe, scirpe, laudo fortunas tuas,

qui semper servas gloriam aritudinis.

Charmides

Equidem me ad velitationem exerceo,
525

nam omnia corusca prae temore fabulor.

Labrax

Edepol, Neptune, es balineator frigidus:

cum vestimentis postquam aps té abii, algeo.

Charmides

Ne thermipolium quidem ullum ínstruit,

ita salsam praehibet potionem et frigidam.
530

Labrax

Vt fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii,

qui apud carbones adsident: semper calent.

Charmides

Vtinam fortuna nunc anetina úterer,

ut quom exiissem éx aqua, arerem tamen.

Labrax

Quid si aliquo ad ludos me pro manduco locem?
535

Charmides

Quapropter?

Labrax

Quia pol clare crepito dentibus.

Charmides

Iure optumo me élavisse árbitror.

Labrax

Qui?

Charmides

Qui una auderem tecum in navem ascendere,

qui a fundamento mi usque movisti mare.

Labrax

Tibi auscultavi, tu promittebas mihi
540

illi esse quaestum maximum meretricibus,

ibi me conruere posse aiebas ditias.

Charmides

Iam postulabas te, impurata belua,

totam Siciliam devoraturum insulam?

Labrax

Quaenam ballaena meum voravit vidulum,
545

aurum atque argentum ubi omne compactum fuit?

Charmides

Eadem illa, credo, quae meum marsuppium,

quod plenum argenti fuit in sacciperio.

Labrax

Eheu, redactus sum usque ad unam hanc tuniculam

et ad hoc misellum pallium. perii oppido.
550

Charmides

Vel consociare mihi quidem tecum licet:

aequas habemus partes.

Labrax

Saltem si mihi

mulierculae essent salvae, spes aliquae forent.

nunc si me adulescens Plesidippus viderit,

quo ab arrabonem pro Palaestra acceperam,
555

iam is exhibebit hic mihi negotium.

Charmides

Quid, stulte, ploras? tibi quidem edepol copiast,

dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus.

CHARMIDES

Where the plague are you hurrying to, Labrax? For really I cannot follow you so fast.

LABRAX

I only wish that you had perished by direful tornments in Sicily before I had looked upon you with my eyes,

you on whose account this misfortune has befallen me.

CHARMIDES

I only wish that on the day on which you admitted me into your house, I had laid me down in a prison sooner. I pray the immortal Gods, that so long as you live,

you may have all your guests just like your own self.
500

LABRAX

In your person I admitted misfortune into my house. What business had I to listen to a rogue like you, or what to depart hence? Or why to go on board ship, where I have lost even more wealth² than I was possessor of?

CHARMIDES

Troth, I’m far from being surprised if your ship has been wrecked, which was carrying yourself, a villain, and your property villanously acquired.
505

LABRAX

You’ve utterly ruined me with your wheedling speeches.

CHARMIDES

A more accursed dinner of yours have I been dining upon than the ones that were set before Thyestes and Tereus³.

LABRAX

I’m dying; I’m sick at heart. Prithee, do hold up my head.
510

CHARMIDES

By my troth, I could very much wish that you would vomit up your lungs.

LABRAX

Alas! Palaestra and Ampelisca, where are you now?

CHARMIDES

Supplying food for the fishes at the bottom, I suppose.

LABRAX

You have brought beggary upon me by your means,

while I was listening to your bragging lies.
515

CHARMIDES

You have reason deservedly to give me many hearty thanks, who from an insipid morsel by my agency have made you salt⁴.

LABRAX

Nay, but do you get out from me to extreme and utter perdition.

CHARMIDES

You be off; I was just going to do that very thing.

LABRAX

Alas! what mortal being is there living more wretched than I?
520

CHARMIDES

I am by very far much more wretched, Labrax, than yourself.

LABRAX

How so?

CHARMIDES

Because I am not deserving of it, whereas you are deserving.

LABRAX

O bulrush, bulrush, I do praise your lot, who always maintain your credit for dryness.

CHARMIDES

(his teeth chattering.)

For my part, I’m exercising myself for a skirmishing fight⁵, for, from my shivering, I utter all my words in piecemeal flashes.
525

LABRAX

By my troth, Neptune, you are a purveyor of chilly baths; since I got away from you with my clothes, I’ve been freezing.

No hot liquor-shop⁶ at all for sure does he provide;

so salt and cold the potions that he prepares.
530

CHARMIDES

How lucky are the blacksmiths who are always sitting among hot coals; they are always warm.

LABRAX

I only wish that I were now enjoying the lot of the duck, so as, although I had just come from out of the water, still to be dry.

CHARMIDES

What if I some way or other let myself out at the games for a hobgoblin⁷?
535

LABRAX

For what reason?

CHARMIDES

Because, I’ faith, I’m chattering aloud with my teeth.

But I’m of opinion that, with very good reason, I’ve had this ducking.

LABRAX

How so?

CHARMIDES

Why, haven’t I ventured to go on board ship with yourself, who have been stirring up the ocean for me from the very bottom?

LABRAX

I listened to you when advising me; you assured me that there in Sicily was very great profit from courtesans; there, you used to say, I should be able to amass wealth.
540

CHARMIDES

Did you expect, then, you unclean beast, that you were going to gobble up the whole island of Sicily ?

LABRAX

What whale, I wonder, has gobbled up my wallet where all my gold and silver was packed up?
545

CHARMIDES

That same one, I suppose, that has swallowed my purse, which was full of silver in my travelling-bag.

LABRAX

Alas! I’m reduced even to this one poor tunic (stretching it out)

and to this poor shabby cloak; I’m done for to all intents.
550

CHARMIDES

Then you may even go into partnership with me; we have got equal shares.

LABRAX

If at least my damsels had been saved, there would have been some hope. Now, if the young man Plesidippus should be seeing me,

from whom I received the earnest for Palaestra, he’ll then be causing me some trouble in consequence.
555
(He begins to cry.)

CHARMIDES

Why cry, you fool? Really, by my troth, so long as your tongue shall exist, you have abundance with which to make payment to everybody⁸.