Well, well, I’ll wait your pleasure, even, in fact, till you die. LEONIDA Where’s our master, pray? LIBANUS The old one is at the Forum, the young one is here in-doors. LEONIDA That’s enough for me then. LIBANUS Is it then that you’ve become a rich man? LEONIDA Leave off your raillery. LIBANUS I’ll have done; for my ears are in expectation of what you are bringing me. LEONIDA Give your attention, that equally with myself you may learn this. LIBANUS I’m silent, then. LEONIDA You oblige me. Don’t you remember that our chamberlain sold some Arcadian asses to a dealer of Pella Dealer of Pella : Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia , famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great ? LIBANUS I remember it; after that, what then? LEONIDA Well, he has sent some money here then to be paid to Saurea, for the asses; a young man has just now come who has brought this money. LIBANUS Where is this person? LEONIDA You think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him. LIBANUS Aye, to be sure. But, however, you are speaking, I suppose, of those asses, aged and lame, whose hoofs were quite worn away to their very thighs? LEONIDA Those same ones, that carried the elm twigs hither from the country, for your use.