I, too, want to know whether my property will be safe in my house. LYCONIDES I only wish to carry the things away safe that I brought here! I don’t care for yours; should I be coveting your things? EUCLIO I understand; don’t teach me; I know. LYCONIDES What is it, on account of which you now hinder us from cooking the dinner here? What have we done? What have we said to you otherwise than you could wish? EUCLIO Do you even ask me, you rascally fellow? You who’ve been making a thoroughfare of every corner of my house, and the places under lock and key? If you had stopped by the fireside, where it was your business, you wouldn’t have had your head broken. It has been done for you deservedly! Therefore that you may now know my determination; if you come nearer to the door here, unless I order you, I’ll make you to be the most wretched of creatures. Do you now know my determination? (He goes into his house.) LYCONIDES Where are you going? Come you back again! So may Laverna So may Laverna : Laverna was a Goddess worshipped by the thievish fraternity at Rome , as their tutelar Divinity. Horace makes mention of her in his Epistles, B. 1, Ep. 16. love me well, I’ll expose you at once with loud abuse here before the house, if you don’t order my utensils to be restored to me! What shall I do now? Verily, by my faith, I came here with unlucky auspices; I was hired for a didrachm For a didrachm : Nummo. It has been remarked, in the Notes to the Pseudolus, that a nummus, or didrachm, of nearly twenty-pence of our money, was the wages of a good cook for a day’s employment. See the Pseudolus, ll. 800—810. ; I stand in more need now of a surgeon than of wages. (Enter EUCLIO, from his house, with the pot of money under his cloak.) EUCLIO (to himself, as he enters.) This, by my faith, wherever I shall go, really shall be with me, and with myself will I carry it,