But that person has gone this way; this way I perceive the imprint of his shoeOf his shoe: Socci. The soccus was a loose shoe worn especially by the Comic actors. Its use was probably derived from Greece.; this way I’ll follow him. (She moves along, still looking on the ground.) In this spot now has he stopped, along with another person. Here now a circleHere now a circle: Turbo. Schmieder thinks that this means a whirlwind, and that she intends to say that she has lost the track, in consequence of the wind blowing round the dust, and so obliterating the footmarks. Perhaps, however, she means, that just there the track is lost by its being all in confusion, without beginning or end, so far as she can see. Some would read turba, a multitude, as meaning that the throng in the street hinders her from clearly seeing the imprints of the feet. presents itself to my sight, nor did he go straight forward this way; here he came to a pause. This way did he come out of that circle. Here was a conference with some one. It points to two persons now. Who are these? Heyday I see the footsteps of only one. But he has gone this way. I’ll consider it: hither he went from thence; from hence he has never gone. I’m troubling myself to no purpose. What’s lost is lost; my hideMy hide: She alludes to the flogging which she may expect for her carelessness, which will cause her to lose her skin, or literally, as Plautus says (quite in accordance with our vulgar parlance), her leather. along with the casket. I’ll go in-doors again.(Going towards the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)PHANOSTRATA(calling out.) Hallo, woman-stop; there are some persons who wish to meet with you.HALISCA Who’s calling me back?LAMPADISCUS A good female and a bad male want you.HALISCA Away with you, bad male; I want a good one. (To herself.) After all, he who calls knows better what he wants than I who am called; I’ll return. (Aloud.) Prithee, have you seen any person hereabouts pick up a casket with some trinkets, which I, to my misfortune, have lost here? For when, just now, we were running into the house of Alcesimarchus, that he mightn’t put an end to his life, at that moment I think that, through terror, the casket fell down from me here.LAMPADISCUS(aside to PHANOSTRATA.) This woman’s to our purpose; let’s then give heed to her a little, mistress.HALISCA To my sorrow, I’m utterly undone. What shall I say to my mistress, who bade me with such earnestness take care of it, through which Silenium might the more readily recognize her parents—who, when little, was adopted by my mistress as her own,