Well, well, I’ll wait your pleasure, even, in fact, till you die.LEONIDAWhere’s our master, pray?LIBANUSThe old one is at the Forum, the young one is here in-doors.LEONIDAThat’s enough for me then. LIBANUSIs it then that you’ve become a rich man?LEONIDALeave off your raillery. LIBANUSI’ll have done; for my ears are in expectation of what you are bringing me.LEONIDAGive your attention, that equally with myself you may learn this.LIBANUSI’m silent, then. LEONIDAYou oblige me. Don’t you remember that our chamberlain sold some Arcadian asses to a dealer of PellaDealer of Pella : Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great?LIBANUSI remember it; after that, what then?LEONIDAWell, 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.LIBANUSWhere is this person?LEONIDAYou think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him.LIBANUSAye, 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?LEONIDAThose same ones, that carried the elm twigs hither from the country, for your use.