While he’s alive, you may know a person; when he’s dead, you may keep yourself quiet. I used to know you when you were alive.DINARCHUSDo you consider me to be dead?ASTAPHIUMPrithee, how can it be plainer? He who formerly was esteemed a first-rate lover, for him to be bringing to his mistress nought but lamentationsNought but lamentations: Meras querimonias Literally, mere complaints..DINARCHUSI’ faith, through your own faults it was done, who in former days were in haste to plunder me. You ought to have done it leisurely, that, unscathed, I might last the longer for you.ASTAPHIUMA lover is like an enemy’s fortress.DINARCHUSOn what ground? ASTAPHIUMThe sooner the lover can be taken by storm, the better it is for the mistress. DINARCHUSI confess it; but far different is the friend from the lover. I’ faith, for sure, the oldest friend’s the best one possible for a man.I’ faith, my lands and tenements are not yet all gone.