Perde 4
[Textpart 8]
You may make terms with him for a little money.
865
NICOBULUS
Make terms, then, I beg, for what you like; so that he mayn’t, in our presence, fall upon the young man, or kill him outright.
CLEOMACHUS
Unless the two hundred Philippeans are repaid to me at once, I’ll this instant swallow the lives of them both outright.
NICOBULUS
Make terms with him, if you can; prithee, do make haste; agree for any sum you like.
870
CHRYSALUS
I’ll go, and do it carefully. (Goes up to CLEOMACHUS.) Why are you exclaiming so?
CLEOMACHUS
Where’s your master?
CHRYSALUS
Nowhere; I don’t know. Do you wish the two hundred pieces to be promised you at once, so as to make no riot or disturbance here?
CLEOMACHUS
There’s nothing that I would desire more.
875
CHRYSALUS
And that I may heap many a curse upon you?
875
CLEOMACHUS
Just as you please.
CHRYSALUS
How the villain does cringe.
(To CLEOMACHUS.) This is the father of Mnesilochus: follow me; he shall promise it you. Do you ask for the gold. As to the rest, a word’s enoughA word’s enough: He says this, as he is afraid that if the conversation proceeds to any length, the old man will discover that she is not the Captain’s wife..
NICOBULUS
What has been done?
CHRYSALUS
I’ve struck the bargain for two hundred Philippeans.
NICOBULUS
Well done! Goddess SalvationSalvation: It was a proverbial expression with the Romans to day that the Goddess Salus, health, or salvation, had saved, or could not save a person, as the case might be.,
thou hast saved me. Well, how soon am I to say I’ll pay it?
880
CHRYSALUS
Do you ask it of him; and (to NICOBULUS) do you promise it him.
NICOBULUS
I promise it. (To CLEOMACHUS.) Come, ask me.
CLEOMACHUS
Will you give me two hundred golden Philippean pieces, lawful money?
CHRYSALUS
They shall be given, say: do answer him.
