Through your doing, and for your sake am I corrupted. 1st BACCHIS I certainly had rather ’twere for your own than for mine. NICOBULUS Come then, however that may be, although it is to my disgrace, I’ll submit; I’ll induce my feelings to do so. 1st BACCHIS Have I that solemnly promised? NICOBULUS What I have once said, I will not alter. 1st BACCHIS The day wears apace. Come into the house, to take your places at table: your sons are expecting within— NICOBULUS How soon, in fact, we may be dead, d’ye mean? 1st BACCHIS ’Tis evening, already; come, follow us. PHILOXENUS Lead us in like bondsmen Like bondsmen : Addicti were those who were made the slaves of their creditors; being thus by law deprived of their liberty until they had paid their debts. . (They go into the house.) 1st BACCHIS (to the SPECTATORS.) Right cleverly are these persons entrapped These persons entrapped : The two old men, at this moment, would form a good companion picture to the Elders, who solicited the chastity of Susanna. themselves, who for their sons had laid a snare. (Goes in.) The COMPANY The company : The whole company of actors ( Caterva ) now comes forward, and chant or repeat the moral of the Play which has just been acted. of COMEDIANS Had not these old men been worthless from their youth upwards, they would not, with their hoary heads, have this day done an action so disgraceful; nor, indeed, should we have represented this, if we had not, before this, seen it happen that fathers became the rivals of their sons in the houses of procurers. Spectators, we wish you Farewell! and that you will grant us loud applause.