I wish the same. Ever, if you are wise, so bestow your love, that if the public should know the object which you love, it may be no disgrace to you. Ever do you take care that you be not disgracedBe not disgraced: Intestabilis. One who is, infamous, and whose evidence cannot be taken as a witness in the courts of law. Lambinus suggests that here, as in other instances where the word is used by Plautus, an indelicate pun is intended.. PHAEDROMUS What means that expression? PALINURUS For you to proceed with caution on your path; the object that you love, love in the presence of witnesses.PHAEDROMUS Why, ’tis a Procurer that lives here.(He points.)PALINURUS No one drives you away from there, nor yet forbids you, if you have the money, to buy what’s openly on sale. No one forbids any person from going along the public road, so long as he doesn’t make a path through the field that’s fenced around; so long as you keep yourself away from the wife, the widow, the maiden, youthful age, and free-born children, love what you please.PHAEDROMUS This is the house of a Procurer.PALINURUS A curse befall it. PHAEDROMUSWhy so?PALINURUS Because it serves in an infamous service.PHAEDROMUS You speak out. PALINURUS Be it so, most especially.PHAEDROMUS Once more, will you hold your tongue?PALINURUS You bade me speak outBade me speak out: Phaedromus had said to Palinurus, Obloquere, which may either mean you are abusive or do you speak out. Phaedromus intends it in the former sense, but Palinurus pretends to understand it in the latter; and when his master tells him to be quiet, he says, Why, I thought you told me to speak out., I thought.PHAEDROMUS Then, now I forbid you. But, as I had begun to say, he has a young female slave—PALINURUS This Procurer, you mean, who’s living here?PHAEDROMUS You have hold of it exactly.