Or, in other words, for four times five minae, whichever you please, to a Macedonian Captain; and I’ve already got fifteen of the minae at home.CALIDORUSWhat is it that I hear of you?BALLIOThat your mistress has been turned into money.CALIDORUSWhy did you dare to do so?BALLIO’Twas my pleasure; she was my own.CALIDORUSHallo! Pseudolus. Run, fetch me a sword.PSEUDOLUSWhat need is there of a sword?CALIDORUSWith which to kill this fellow this instant, and then myself.PSEUDOLUSBut why not kill yourself only rather? For famine will soon be killing him.CALIDORUSWhat do you say, most perjured of men as many as are living upon the earth? Did you not take an oath that you would sell her to no person besides myself?BALLIOI confess it.CALIDORUSIn solemn form In solemn form: To take an oath in solemn form, or, concepts verbis, was when the oath was repeated by another person, and the party swearing him followed in his words. The Roman formula for swearing was Ex animi mei sententiâ iuro., to wit.BALLIOAye, and well considered too.CALIDORUSYou have proved perjured, you villain.BALLIOI sacked the money at home, however. Villain as I am, I am now able to draw upon a stock of silver in my house; whereas you who are so dutiful, and born of that grand family, haven’t a single coin.CALIDORUSPseudolus, stand by him on the other side and load this fellow with imprecations.PSEUDOLUSVery well. Never would I run to the Praetor Run to the Praetor: The Praetor was the public officer at Rome who liberated slaves at the request of their owners. The ceremony was performed by his lictor laying a rod called vindicta on the head of the person manumitted. with equal speed that I might be made free.(Stands on the other side of BALLIO.)CALIDORUSHeap on him a multitude of curses.PSEUDOLUSNow will I publish you with my rebukes. Thou lackshame!BALLIO’Tis the fact.PSEUDOLUSVillain!BALLIOYou say the truth.PSEUDOLUSWhipping-post!BALLIOWhy not?PSEUDOLUSRobber of tombs!BALLIONo doubt.PSEUDOLUSGallows-bird!BALLIOVery well done.