You ask what’s very right and very just, and you are the very kindest person of all mankind. But whether is he in servitude to a private person or to the publicOr to the public: Some captives were employed in the public service, while others fell into the hands of private individuals.?HEGIOIn private servitude to Menarchus, a physician.PHILOCRATESBy my faith, that person’s surely his father’s dependant. Why really, that’s down as pat for you, as the shower is when it rains.HEGIO Do you then cause this person, my son, to be redeemed.TYNDARUS I’ll do so: but this I beg of you, Hegio—HEGIO Whatever you wish, so that you request nothing against my interest, I’ll do.