Again I salute you.DAEMONESAnd I you. Are you he who, not long since, went away from here to fetch his master?TRACHALIOI am he.DAEMONESWhat now is it that you want?TRACHALIO(pointing to GRIPUS.)This is your servant, you say?DAEMONESHe is mine.TRACHALIOThat is very good, since he is yours. DAEMONESWhat’s the matter?TRACHALIO(pointing to GRIPUS.)That’s a rascally fellow there. DAEMONESWhat has the rascally fellow done to you?TRACHALIOI wish the ancles of that fellow were smashed.DAEMONESWhat’s the thing about which you are now disputing between yourselves?TRACHALIOI’ll tell you. GRIPUSNo, I’ll tell you.TRACHALIOI fancy I’m to move the matter first.GRIPUSIf indeed you were a decent person, you would be moving yourself off from here.DAEMONESGripus, give attention, and hold your tongueGRIPUSIn order that that fellow may speak first?DAEMONESAttend, Itell you. (To TRACHALIO.) Do you say on.GRIPUSWill you give the right of speaking to a stranger sooner than to your own servant?TRACHALIOO dear! how impossible it is for him to be kept quiet.As I was beginning to say, that Procurer, whom some little time since you turned out of the Temple of Venus—see (pointing at the wallet), he has got his wallet.GRIPUSI haven’t got it. TRACHALIODo you deny that which I see with my own eyes?GRIPUSBut I only wish you couldn’t see. I have got it, and I haven’t got it; why do you trouble yourself about me, what things I do?TRACHALIOIn what way you got it does matter, whether rightfully or wrongfully.GRIPUSIf I didn’t take it in the sea, there’s not a reason why you shouldn’t deliver me up to the cross. If I took it in the sea with my net, how is it yours rather than my own?TRACHALIO(to DAEMONES.)He is deceiving you; the matter happened in this way, as I am telling you.GRIPUSWhat do you say? TRACHALIOSo long as the person that has the first right to speak is speaking, do (to DAEMONES) put a check on him, please, if he belongs to you.