Captivi: The Captives (1005-1010)

But see, my master’s before the door; and lo! my other master has returned from Elis.

Hail to you, my much wished-for son.

Ha! how—my son? Aye, aye, I know why you pretend yourself to be the father, and me to be the son; it is because, just as parents do, you give me the means of seeing the light[*].

Hail to you, Tyndarus.

And to you, for whose sake I am enduring these miseries.

But now I’ll make you in freedom come to wealth. For (pointing to HEGIO) this is your father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) that is the slave who stole you away from here when four years old, and sold you to my father for six minae. He gave you, when a little child, to me a little child for my own service. He (pointing to STALAGMUS) has made a confession, for we have brought him back from Elis.