I’m undone, Chrysalus. CHRYSALUS Perhaps you took too little of the gold. MNESILOCHUS How, a plague, too little? Why, yes, indeed, a very great deal less than too little. CHRYSALUS Why the mischief then, simpleton, since by my skill an opportunity was procured for that very purpose, that you might take as much as you pleased, did you thus take it up with the tips of two fingers Two fingers : He says that when he had the opportunity of gathering up the money by handfuls, he contented himself with taking it only with the tips of his fingers, that is, piece by piece; some would take digiti duo primores to mean the two first fingers of the hand. that is, the forefinger and thumb. The meaning, either way, will be just the same. ? Or, didn’t you know how rarely an opportunity of that kind presents itself to a person? MNESILOCHUS You are mistaken. CHRYSALUS Why, surely, ’tis you yourself that were mistaken, when you dip’t your fingers in not deep enough. MNESILOCHUS I’ faith, you’d upbraid me more than now you do, if you knew the matter better. I’m undone. CHRYSALUS My mind is now foreboding further mischief from those words. MNESILOCHUS I’m ruined. CHRYSALUS How so? MNESILOCHUS Because I’ve given all up to my father, with every particle With every particle : Ramentum properly means the filings of scrapings— dust and all. every particle. of it.