and whom a certain Courtesan gave to her?LAMPADISCUS(aside.) She’s talking about this matter of ours. According as she gives these indications by her talk, she must surely know where your daughter is.HALISCA Now is she desirous of her own accord to restore her to her father and mother, whose daughter she is; prithee, my good sir, you are attending to something else; I commend my matter to you.LAMPADISCUS I’m giving my attention to this, and this is as good as food to me, that you are talking of; but amid my attending to this matter, I was answering this mistress of mine what she was enquiring; now I return to you. If you have need of anything, say you, and give your orders. What were you looking, for?HALISCA My good sir and my good madam, I greet you.PHANOSTRATA And we you. But what are you looking for?HALISCA I’m tracing footsteps here, the way that something has escaped me here, I don’t know how.PHANOSTRATA What is it? LAMPADISCUSWhat is it, pray?Part of line 725b in theLatin. HALISCA Something to bring a loss to another, and a calamity on our family.LAMPADISCUS(aside to PHANOSTRATA.) A worthless baggage is this, mistress, and a crafty one.PHANOSTRATA(aside.) I’ faith, and so she seems.LAMPADISCUS(aside.) She imitates a worthless animal and a mischievous.PHANOSTRATA(aside.)Which one, prithee?LAMPADISCUS(aside.)A caterpillar, which twisting about winds itself in the leaf of the vine; just in the same way does she begin a story that twists about. (To HALISCA.) What are you looking for?HALISCA A casket, my good young man, has flown away from me here. LAMPADISCUS You ought to have put it in a cage.HALISCA I’ faith, the booty was no great one.LAMPADISCUS It’s a wonder, if a whole troop of slavesTroop of slaves: This is said in allusion to the runaway propensities of slaves. isn’t there in the casket.PHANOSTRATA Do let her speak. LAMPADISCUS If indeed she would speak.PHANOSTRATA(to HALISCA.) Come say you, what was in it?HALISCA Trinkets only. LAMPADISCUS There’s a certain man, who declares that he knows where it is.HALISCA But, by my faith, he’ll confer an obligation on a certain woman if he’ll discover it. LAMPADISCUS But this certain man wishes a reward to be given to him.HALISCA But, by my faith, this certain woman, that has lost this casket, declares that she has nothing to give to this certain man.LAMPADISCUS But still this certain man looks for some money.