Give your attention then, and take care and please mind your promise. What do you say? Do you know that my son is in love with a certain music-girl?PSEUDOLUSYea, verily Yea, verily: Ναὶ γάρ. This and the two following remarks of Pseudolus are in Greek. The Romans affected curtness of repartee in Greek, in much the same manner as we do in French. A cant tone has been attempted in the translation to be given to the remarks so made by Pseudolus..SIMOWhom he is trying to make free?PSEUDOLUSYea, verily and indeed.SIMOAnd you are scheming by cajolery and by cunning tricks to get twenty minae in ready money out of me?PSEUDOLUSI, get them out of you?SIMOJust so; to give them to my son, with which to liberate his mistress. Do you confess it? Speak out.PSEUDOLUSYea, verily; yea, verily.SIMOHe confesses it.Didn’t I tell you so just now, Callipho?CALLIPHOSo I remember.SIMOWhy, directly you knew of these things, were they kept concealed from me? Why wasn’t I made acquainted with them?PSEUDOLUSI’ll tell you: because I was unwilling that a bad custom should originate in me, for a servant to accuse his master before his master.SIMOWouldn’t you order this fellow to be dragged head first to the treadmills To the treadmill: Pistrinum. The establishment of each wealthy person had its pistrinum, or handmill, where the mill for grinding corn was worked by the hand of slaves. The most worthless and refractory were employed at this labour, and as the task was deemed a degradation, the pistrinum was the usual place of punishment for the slaves of the household. Throughout this translation, the liberty has been in general taken of conveying the meaning of the term by the use of the word treadmill.?CALLIPHOHas he done anything amiss, Simo?SIMOYes, very much so.PSEUDOLUS(to CALLIPHO.)Be quiet, I quite well understand my own affairs, Callipho. Is this a fault? Now then, give your attention to the reason why I you kept ignorant of this amour. I knew that the treadmill was close at hand, if I told you.SIMOAnd didn’t you know, as well, that the treadmill would be close at hand when you kept silent on it?PSEUDOLUSI did know it.SIMOWhy wasn’t it told me?PSEUDOLUSThe one evil was close at hand, the other at a greater distance; the one was at the moment, the other was a few days off.SIMOWhat will you be doing now? For assuredly the money cannot be got in this quarter out of me, who have especially detected it. I shall forthwith give notice to all that no one is to trust him the money.PSEUDOLUSI’ faith, I’ll never go begging to any person, so long, at all events, as you shall be alive; troth, you shall find me the money; and as for me, I shall take it from you.SIMOYou, take it from me?PSEUDOLUSUndoubtedly.SIMOTroth, now, knock out my eye, if I do find it.PSEUDOLUSYou shall provide it. I warn you then to be on your guard against me.SIMOBy my troth, I know this for sure; if you do take it away, you will have done a wonderful and a great exploit.PSEUDOLUSI will do it, however.