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.