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To Faith herself it is not more safely confided. Speak out boldly (there’s room and opportunity); we are here alone.
890
SYNCERASTUS
If your master chooses to act with caution, he’ll prove the ruin of my master.
MILPHIO
Then let me be acquainted with this easily, that he may know it as well.
SYNCERASTUS
Because Adelphasium, whom your master dotes on is free by birth.
SYNCERASTUS
In the same way that her other sister Anterastylis is.
895
MILPHIO
But how am I to believe that?
SYNCERASTUS
Because he bought them at Anactorium, when little children, of a Sicilian pirate.
SYNCERASTUS
For eighteen minae.
MILPHIO
These two for eighteen minae For eighteen minœ?: He asks this question, as thirty minae was about the average price for a single slave. ?
SYNCERASTUS
And their nurse for the third.
He, too, who sold them told him that he was selling persons who had been kidnapped:
he said that they were free-born, and from Carthage.
900
MILPHIO
Ye Gods, by our hopes in you! you mention a most interesting matter; for my master Agorastocles was born in the same place; he was stolen thence when about six years old; after that, the person who stole him brought him here and sold him to my master; that person adopted him as heir to his wealth, when he departed this life.
900
SYNCERASTUS
You mention everything that can render it the more easy; let him assert their freedom, his own countrywomen, in an action on their freedom.
905
MILPHIO
Only do keep silence and hold your tongue.
SYNCERASTUS
He certainly will bring the Procurer to a backgammon, if he gets them away.
