This is a very overbearing fellow.LIBANUS(to the ASS-DEALER.)Woe to me this day!LEONIDAI bid welcome to Libanus, the freed-man! Are you set at liberty now?LIBANUSI do implore you. LEONIDAIn good sooth, to your great misfortune surely have you fallen in my way. Why didn’t you come to the barber’s shop, as I ordered you?LIBANUS(pointing to the ASS-DEALER.)This person detained me.LEONIDAI’ faith, if in fact you were now to say that supreme Jove had detained you,and he were present to sue for you, you shouldn’t escape the evil consequences. Whip-knave, did you disobey my orders?(Offers to strike him.)LIBANUS(to the ASS-DEALER.)Stranger, I’m done for.THE ASS-DEALERPrithee, Saurea, for my sake, don’t beat him.LEONIDAI wish, now, I had a whip in my hand—THE ASS-DEALERPrithee, do be appeased. LEONIDA—With which to lash your sides, which have grown callous with blows.(To the ASS-DEALER, who interposes.)Stand off this way; let me be the death of this fellow who is continually inflaming me with anger—a thief to whom I can never once enjoin a single thing, but that I must command the same things a hundred times, and din them in his earsDin them in his ear: Obganniam. This word literally signifies to bark like a fox.. For that reason, now, by my troth, what with bawling and passion, I cannot endure the labour. Have you, you rascal, (pointing) ordered this dirt to be removed hence from the door? Have you ordered the labours of the spiders to be swept down from the pillars? Have you ordered those bosses on our doorBosses on our door: The bullae, or bosses, here mentioned, were large heads of brass or gilt nails with which the doors of the Romans were ornamented. to be brought to brightness? It’s of no use; I must walk about with a stick, as though I were a lame man. Because only for these single three days I have been giving my constant attendance at the Forum, in order to find some one who requires money upon interest, here, in the meantime, are you sleeping at home, and my master is living in a pigstye, not in a house.(He strikes LIBANUS.) There now, take you that.LIBANUS(to the ASS-DEALER.)Prithee, stranger, do take my part.