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Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer (471-496)

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By my faith, to your own great misfortune now are you talking uncivilly to him.
Dirty, worthless fellow, don’t you see he’s angry?
LEONIDA
(to the ASS-DEALER.)
Be off then.
LIBANUS
(to the ASS-DEALER.)
Scoundrelly fellow. (Aside to him.) Prithee, do give him the money lest he should abuse you.
THE ASS-DEALER
On my word, you are seeking evil for yourselves.
LEONIDA
(to LIBANUS.)
By the powers, your legs shall be broken[*],
if you don’t proclaim this shameless fellow.
LIBANUS
Troth, I’m undone. Be off, you shameless fellow.
LEONIDA
You rascal.
LIBANUS
(to the ASS-DEALER.)
Won’t you venture to assist me, you rascal?
LEONIDA
Do you persist in soliciting the scamp?
THE ASS-DEALER
How’s this? (To LEONIDA.) Do you, rascal, who are a slave, speak abusively to a free man?
LEONIDA
Give him a beating.
THE ASS-DEALER
By my faith, that surely shall befall yourself to get a beating as soon as ever I shall see Demaenetus this day.
I summon you to judgments[*].
LEONIDA
I shan’t go.
THE ASS-DEALER
You won’t go? Remember—
LEONIDA
I do remember.
THE ASS-DEALER
I’ faith, I’ll have satisfaction out of your back.
LEONIDA
Woe unto you? What, villain—satisfaction to be given by us to you indeed?
THE ASS-DEALER
Aye, and even this very day satisfaction shall be given me for your abusive language.
LEONIDA
How now, whip-knave? How say you, hang-dog? Do you suppose that we shall run away from our master? Go this instant then to our master, where you were citing us just now, and where you were wishing to go.
THE ASS-DEALER
What, now at last? Still, you shall never get a coin of money away from me, unless Demaenetus shall order me to give it.
LEONIDA
Do so. Come, move on then. Are you to offer insults to another person, and are they not to be repeated to yourself?
I’m a man as much as you are.
THE ASS-DEALER
No doubt such is the fact.
LEONIDA
Follow me this way, then. With your good leave[*] I would now say this: not a person has ever accused me by reason of my deserving it, nor is there in Athens one other individual, this day, whom they would think they could as safely trust.
THE ASS-DEALER
Perhaps so: but still, you shall never this day persuade me to entrust to you, whom I don’t know, this money.
A man to a man is a wolf[*], not a man, when the other doesn’t know of what character he is.
LEONIDA
Now at last you are appeasing me[*]: I was sure that this day you would give satisfaction to this poor head of mine; although I’m in mean garb, still, I’m well to do, nor can an estimate of my means be formed from it.

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