This old fellow’s crack-brained, surely. PHANISCUS You are entirely mistaken, respected sir Respected sir : Pater. Literally, father. ; for unless he moved from here to-day or yesterday, I know for certain that he’s living here. THEUROPIDES Why, no one has been living here for these six months past. ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates You are dreaming. THEUROPIDES What, I? ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates You. THEUROPIDES Don’t you be impertinent. Let me speak to the lad. (Pointing to PHANISCUS.) PHANISCUS No one lives there? O dear— THEUROPIDES It’s the fact. PHANISCUS Really! why, yesterday and the day before, Part of 956b in the Latin. four, five, six days ago, all along, in fact, since his father went abroad from here, eating and drinking have never ceased for a single three days here. THEUROPIDES What is it you say? PHANISCUS That eating and drinking have never stopped for a single three days here, bringing in wenches, living like Greeks, hiring harpists and music-girls. THEUROPIDES Who was it did this? PHANISCUS Philolaches. THEUROPIDES What Philolaches? PHANISCUS He whose father I take to be Theuropides. THEUROPIDES (apart.) O dear, O dear! I’m utterly undone, if he says the truth in this. I’ll continue to question him still Do you say that this Philolaches, whoever he is, has been in the habit of drinking here together with your master? PHANISCUS Here, I tell you. THEUROPIDES My lad, contrary to your appearance, you are a fool. See now, please, that you’ve not perchance been dropping in somewhere for an afternoon’s whet An afternoon’s whet : Merendam. According to some, this meal was the same as the prandium, or breakfast; while others take it to have been a slight meal or luncheon, taken at about four or five in the afternoon. , and have been drinking there a little more than was enough. PHANISCUS What do you mean? THEUROPIDES Just what I say: don’t be going by mistake to other persons’ houses. PHANISCUS I know where I ought to go, and the place to which I was to come. Philolaches lives here, whose father is Theuropides; and who, after his father went away to trade, made free a music-girl here. THEUROPIDES Philolaches, say you? PHANISCUS Just so; Philematium, I mean. THEUROPIDES For how much? ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates For thirty talents. PHANISCUS No, by Apollo No, by Apollo : Ma τὸν Ἀπόλλω. He uses a Greek adjuration ; you mean minae.