What’s that? MILPHIO There’s need of your assistance. HANNO Tell me what you wish. Really, you shall have my services just as you please. What is the business? MILPHIO Can you act the cheat? HANNO Towards an enemy, I can; to a friend, it would be mere folly. MILPHIO I’ faith, it is an enemy of his. (Pointing at AGORASTOCLES.) HANNO I could do him a mischief with pleasure. MILPHIO He’s in love with a person who belongs to a Procurer. HANNO I deem that he acts discreetly. MILPHIO This Procurer lives close at hand. HANNO I could do him a mischief with pleasure. MILPHIO He has two slave girls, courtesans, sisters; one of these he is desperately in love with, nor has he ever taker any liberties with her. HANNO It’s an unhappy kind of passion. MILPHIO The Procurer plays upon him. HANNO He’s enhancing his own profits thereby. MILPHIO He wishes to do him an evil turn. HANNO He’s right, if he does do it. MILPHIO Now I adopt this plan, and prepare this contrivance, that we should cite you; you are to affirm that they are your daughters, and that they were stolen when little from Carthage, and to maintain the cause of both in an action on their freedom, as though they were both your own daughters. Do you understand? HANNO On my faith, I do understand; for I likewise did have two daughters who were stolen away when little children, together with their nurse. MILPHIO Upon my word, you do feign it cleverly. At the very commencement this amuses me. HANNO (aside, weeping.) Much more, i’ troth, than I could wish. MILPHIO (aside to AGORASTOCLES.) Dear me! a subtle person, upon my word, artful and knowing, both tricky and crafty! How he does whimper, in order that with his gestures he may effect this all the more easily. Even myself, now, the master-workman, does he excel in skill. HANNO But their nurse But their nurse : It did not escape the accurate Schmieder that the fact has not been hitherto communicated to Hanno that the damsels had a nurse who was stolen. This, then, is either an oversight of Plautus, or he must mean that Hanno thinks he has asked the question, and has received an answer in the affirmative. , of what appearance was she? Tell me. MILPHIO Of stature not tall, of a dusky complexion Of a dusky complexion : Aquilo. Of the hue of deep water. . HANNO ’Tis the very person. MILPHIO Of agreable form, with a small mouth, and very dark eyes.