The name, in such a hurry!PAMPHILUSPhania.CHREMES(starting.)Hah! I shall die!CRITOI’faith, I really think it was Phania; this I know for certain, he said that he was a citizen of Rhamnus. A citizen of Rhamnus: Rhamnus was a maritime town of Attica, near which many of the more wealthy Athenians had country-seats. It was famous for the Temple of Nemesis there, the Goddess of Vengeance, who was thence called Rhamnusia. In this Temple was her statue, carved by Phidias out of the marble which the Persians brought to Greece for the purpose of making a statue of Victory out of it, and which was thus appropriately devoted to the Goddess of Retribution. The statue wore a crown, and had wings, and, holding a spear of ash in the right hand, it was seated on a stag.CHREMESO Jupiter!CRITOMany other persons in Andros have heard the same, Chremes.CHREMES(aside.)I trust it may turn out as I hope. (To CRITO.) Come now, tell me, what did he then say about her? Did he say she was his own daughter?CRITONo.CHREMESWhose then?CRITOHis brother’s daughter.CHREMESShe certainly is mine.CRITOWhat do you say?SIMOWhat is this that you say?PAMPHILUS(aside.)Prick up your ears, Pamphilus.SIMOWhy do you suppose so?CHREMESThat Phania was my brother.SIMOI knew him, and I am aware of it.CHREMESHe, flying from the wars, and following me to Asia, set out from here. At the same time he was afraid to leave her here behind; since then, this is the first time I have heard what became of him.PAMPHILUS(aside.)I am scarcely myself, so much has my mind been agitated by fear, hope, joy, and surprise at this so great, so unexpected blessing.SIMOReally, I am glad for many reasons that she has been discovered to be a citizen.PAMPHILUSI believe it, father.CHREMESBut there yet remains one difficulty One difficulty: Scrupus, or scrupulus, was properly a stone or small piece of gravel which, getting into the shoe, hurt the foot; hence the word figuratively came to mean a scruple, difficulty, or doubt. We have a similar expression: to be graveled. with me, which keeps me in suspense.PAMPHILUS(aside.)You deserve to be —, with your scruples, you plague. You are seeking a knot in a bulrush. A knot in a bulrush: Nodum in scirpo quaerer. was a proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficulties where there really were none; there being no knots in the bulrush. The same expression occurs in the Menaechmi of Plautus, 1. 247. CRITO(to CHREMES.)What is that?CHREMESThe names don’t agree.CRITOTroth, she had another when little.CHREMESWhat was it, Crito? Can you remember it?CRITOI’m trying to recollect it.PAMPHILUS(aside.)Am I to suffer his memory to stand in the way of my happiness, when I myself can provide my own remedy in this matter? I will not suffer it. (Aloud.) Hark you, Chremes, that which you are trying to recollect is Pasibula.