Perde 5
[Textpart 4]
But see, my master’s before the door; and lo! my other master has returned from Elis.
1005
HEGIO
Hail to you, my much wished-for son.
TYNDARUS
Ha! how—my son? Aye, aye, I know why you pretend yourself to be the father, and me to be the son; it is because, just as parents do, you give me the means of seeing the lightOf seeing the light: He says, You can only resemble a parent in the fact that you have given me the opportunity of seeing the light of day by taking me out of the dark stone-quarries..
PHILOCRATES
Hail to you, Tyndarus.
TYNDARUS
And to you, for whose sake I am enduring these miseries.
PHILOCRATES
But now I’ll make you in freedom come to wealth. For (pointing to HEGIO) this is your father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) that is the slave who stole you away from here when four years old, and sold you to my father for six minae. He gave you, when a little child, to me a little child for my own service. He (pointing to STALAGMUS) has made a confession, for we have brought him back from Elis.
1010
TYNDARUS
How, where’s Hegio’s son?
1015
PHILOCRATES
Look now; indoors is your own brother.
1015
TYNDARUS
How do you say? Have you brought that captive son of his?
PHILOCRATES
Why, he’s in-doors, I say.
TYNDARUS
By my faith, you’ve done both well and happily.
PHILOCRATES
Now this is your own father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) this is the thief who stole you when a little child.
TYNDARUS
But now, grown up, I shall give him grown up to the executioner for his thieving.
PHILOCRATES
He deserves it.
1020
TYNDARUS
I’ faith, I’ll deservedly give him the reward that he deserves. (To HEGIO.) But tell me I pray you, are you my father?
1020
TYNDARUS
Now, at length, I bring it to my recollection, when I reconsider with myself: troth, I do now at last recall to memory that I had heard, as though through a mist, that my father was called Hegio.
PHILOCRATES
I pray that your son may be lightened of these fetters, and this slave be loaded with them.
1025
HEGIO
I’m resolved that that shall be the first thing attended to. Let’s go in-doors, that the blacksmith may be sent for, in order that I may remove those fetters from you, and give them to him. (They go into the house.)
