I’ll go to meet him, and I’ll mend my pace. (Aloud.) Health to you, Mnesilochus!MNESILOCHUS Hail! PISTOCLERUS As you are arrived safe from abroad, a dinner must be given.MNESILOCHUS A dinner pleases me not, which excites my choler.PISTOCLERUS Has any vexation befallen you on your arrival?MNESILOCHUS Aye, and a very grievous one.PISTOCLERUS From what quarter? MNESILOCHUS From a person whom heretofore I had supposed to be my friend.PISTOCLERUS Many live after that manner and method, who, when you think them to be friends, are found false with their deceitfulness, strong in their talking, slothful in their doing, of faith infirm. Not one is there whom they don’t envy on their enjoying prosperity; through their own indolence do they themselves take right good care that no envy is directed against them.MNESILOCHUS By my troth, you surely understand their ways most thoroughly. But still this one misfortune do they find from their bad disposition; they are the friends of no one, while they themselves are all at enmity against themselves; and these, while they are deceiving themselves, in their foolishness imagine that others are deceived. Just so is he whom I supposed to be as much a friend to me as I am to my own self.He, so far as in him lay, has taken all care to do whatever injury he could towards me, to turn all my own resources against me.PISTOCLERUS This same must me a bad man.