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Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer (480c-500)

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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.
THE ASS-DEALER
Perhaps so.
LEONIDA
Still more then I tell you: Periphanes, a merchant of Rhodes, a rich man,
in the absence of my master, himself alone paid over to me, in private, a talent of silver, and trusted me, nor was he deceived in it.

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