Do you persist, then ?SYRUS I’ faith, I’m saying the truth, as it appears to me.CLITIPHO May I not go near them?CHREMES How now—pray, is there but one wayIs there but one way: And that an immodest one. of going near them ?SYRUS(aside.)Confusion! He’ll be betraying himself before I’ve got the money. (Aloud.) Chremes, will you give attention to me, who am but a silly person?CHREMES What am I to do?SYRUS Bid him go somewhere out of the way. CLITIPHO Where am I to go?SYRUS Where you please; leave the place to them; be off and take a walk.CLITIPHO Take a walk! where?SYRUS Pshaw! Just as if there was no place to walk in. Why, then, go this way, that way, where you will.CHREMES He says right, I’m of his opinion.CLITIPHO May the Gods extirpate you, Syrus, for thrusting me away from here.SYRUS(aside to CLITIPHO.)Thendo you for the future keep those hands of yours within bounds. (Exit CLITIPHO.) Really now (to CHREMES), what do you think? What do you imagine will become of him next, unless, so far as the Gods afford you the means, you watch him, correct and admonish him ?CHREMES I’ll take care of that.SYRUS But now, master, he must be looked after by you.CHREMES It shall be done.SYRUS If you are wise,—for now he minds me less and less every day.CHREMES What say you? What have you done, Syrus, about that matter which I was mentioning to you a short time since? Have you any plan that suits you, or not yet even?SYRUS You mean the design upon Menedemus? I have; I have just hit upon one.CHREMES You are a clever fellow; what is it? Tell me.SYRUS I’ll tell you; but, as one matter arises out of another—CHREMES Why, what. is it, Syrus?SYRUS This Courtesan is a very bad woman.CHREMES So she seems.SYRUS Aye, if you did but know.O shocking! just see what she is hatching. There was a certain old woman here from Corinth,—this Bacchis lent her a thousand silver drachmae.CHREMES What then?