But see, my master’s before the door; and lo! my other master has returned from Elis. HEGIO Hail to you, my much wished-for son. TYNDARUS 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 Of seeing the light : He says, You can only resemble a parent in the fact that you have given me the opportunity of seeing the light of day by taking me out of the dark stone-quarries. . PHILOCRATES Hail to you, Tyndarus. TYNDARUS And to you, for whose sake I am enduring these miseries. PHILOCRATES 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.