If you do make purchase of her, never, on my word, do I think that she’ll remain your slave throughout the month. DORDALUS And so indeed I’d hope, i’ faith. TOXILUS That what you wish may come to pass, employ your own energies. (Aside.) In nothing even as yet has she made a slip. DORDALUS Where were you born? DAUGHTER According to what my mother told me,in the kitchen In the kitchen : This is the first of her evasions of a direct answer to Dordalus. The cleverness of all of them is admirable, and shows a wish, if possible, to save her conscience in the awkward position in which she has been placed by the gluttony of her father. , in a corner on the left hand. TOXILUS (to DORDALUS.) This woman will prove a lucky Courtesan for you; she has been born in a warm spot, where full oft there is an abundance of all good things. (Aside.) The Procurer was taken in when he asked where she was born. She has played him off nicely. DORDALUS But I ask of you, what is your country? DAUGHTER What should be mine but that where I now am? DORDALUS But this I’m asking, what was? DAUGHTER Everything that was, do I consider as nothing, since it was, and is not now. Just like a man when he has breathed forth his spirit; why enquire of him who he was? TOXILUS (aside.) So may the Deities kindly favour me, right cleverly. And yet I really do pity her. DORDALUS But still, young woman, come, tell me at once which is your country? Why are you silent? DAUGHTER For my part, I really am telling you my country. Since I’m in servitude here, this is my country. TOXILUS Do cease now making enquiries about that. Don’t you see that she’s unwilling to declare, lest you should recall to her the remembrance of her misfortunes? DORDALUS What’s the matter? Is your father in captivity? DAUGHTER Not in captivity; but what he had, he has lost. TOXILUS She will prove to be born of a good family; she knows how to say nothing but the truth. DORDALUS Who was he? Tell me his name? DAUGHTER Why should I tell of him, wretched man, who he was? For the present ’twere proper for him to be called Miserable, and me Miserable. DORDALUS What kind of a person was he considered by the public? DAUGHTER Not a person more acceptable; slaves and free persons all liked him. TOXILUS You do speak of a miserable man, inasmuch as he’s almost lost himself, and has lost his friends. DORDALUS I shall purchase her, I think. TOXILUS What, still I think? DORDALUS I imagine that she’s of a noble family. Part of line 651b in the Latin. TOXILUS You’ll make riches by her. DORDALUS May the Gods grant it so.