By the powers, but they are good, both of them. ARGYRIPPUS I shall know it, when they have conferred anything that’s good. LEONIDA Wish for that which you desire to befall you. ARGYRIPPUS What if I do wish it? LEONIDA It shall come to pass. ARGYRIPPUS I wish for her to be devoted to me alone this whole year round. LEONIDA You have obtained it. ARGYRIPPUS Do you really say so? LEONIDA I do say so for certain. LIBANUS Come to me, in my turn, and make trial: wish ardently for that which you especially desire to happen to you; it shall be done. ARGYRIPPUS What other thing could I ardently wish for rather than that of which I am in want? Oblige me with twenty silver minae to give to her mother. LIBANUS They shall be given: take care and be of good courage, your wishes shall be fulfilled. ARGYRIPPUS Just as they are wont, Salvation and Fortune are deceiving mortals. LEONIDA I this day have been the head in finding this money for you. LIBANUS I have been the foot. ARGYRIPPUS Why, neither head nor foot of your talking is visible; I can understand neither what you mean, nor why you are trifling with me. LIBANUS I think that now you’ve been teased enough; now let’s disclose the matter as it really stands. Give your attention, Argyrippus, if you please. Your father has ordered us to bring this money to you. ARGYRIPPUS How very à propos and opportunely you have brought it. LIBANUS (giving him the bag.) Here, in this, there will be twenty good minae, obtained by bad means: these, on certain conditions, he bade us give you. ARGYRIPPUS Prithee, what are they? LIBANUS That you would grant him her favours and an entertainment. ARGYRIPPUS Bid him come, I beg. For him who deserves it right well, we’ll do what he wishes, him who has brought these scattered loves of ours to a happy result. LEONIDA You’ll permit your father then, Argyrippus, to caress her? ARGYRIPPUS She, by being restored to me, will easily cause me to permit it. Prithee, Leonida, run, and beg my father to come here. LIBANUS He has been in the house some time. ARGYRIPPUS He hasn’t come this way, at all events.