What’s that?MILPHIOThere’s need of your assistance.HANNOTell me what you wish. Really, you shall have my services just as you please. What is the business?MILPHIOCan you act the cheat?HANNOTowards an enemy, I can; to a friend, it would be mere folly.MILPHIOI’ faith, it is an enemy of his.(Pointing at AGORASTOCLES.)HANNOI could do him a mischief with pleasure.MILPHIOHe’s in love with a person who belongs to a Procurer.HANNOI deem that he acts discreetly. MILPHIOThis Procurer lives close at hand.HANNOI could do him a mischief with pleasure.MILPHIOHe has two slave girls, courtesans, sisters; one of these he is desperately in love with, nor has he ever taker any liberties with her.HANNOIt’s an unhappy kind of passion.MILPHIOThe Procurer plays upon him.HANNOHe’s enhancing his own profits thereby.MILPHIOHe wishes to do him an evil turn.HANNOHe’s right, if he does do it.MILPHIONow 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?HANNOOn my faith, I do understand; for I likewise did have two daughters who were stolen away when little children, together with their nurse.MILPHIOUpon 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.HANNOBut their nurseBut 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. MILPHIOOf stature not tall, of a dusky complexionOf a dusky complexion: Aquilo.Of the hue of deep water..HANNO’Tis the very person. MILPHIOOf agreable form, with a small mouth, and very dark eyes.