Tell me, please, what you think of it.CHREMES Extremely good, I declare.SYRUS Why yes, pretty fair. But listen, what a piece of policy still remains. He is then to say that he has seen your daughter—that her beauty charmed him as soon as he beheld her; and that he desires her for a wife.CHREMES What, her that has just been discovered ?SYRUS The same; and, in fact, he’ll request that she may be asked for.CHREMES For what purpose, Syrus? For I don’t altogether comprehend it.SYRUS O dear, you are so dull.CHREMES Perhaps so. SYRUS Money will be given him for the wedding—with which golden trinkets and clothes—do you understand me?CHREMES To buy them—?SYRUS Just so.CHREMES But I neither give nor betroth my daughter to him.SYRUS But why?CHREMES Why, do you ask me? To a fellow—SYRUS Just as you please. I don’t mean that in reality you should give her to him, but that you should pretend it.CHREMES Pretending is not in my way; do you mix up these plots of yours, so as not to mix me up in them. Do you think that I’ll betroth my daughter to a person to whom I will not marry her?SYRUS I imagined so.CHREMES By no means.SYRUS It might have been cleverly managed; and I under-took this affair for the very reason, that a short time since you so urgently requested it.CHREMES I believe you.SYRUS But for my part, Chremes, I take it well and good, either way.CHREMES But still, I especially wish you to do your best for it to be brought about; but in some other way.SYRUS It shall be done: some other method must be thought of; but as to what I was telling you of,—about the money which she owes to Bacchis,—that must now be repaid her. And you will not, of course, now be having recourse to this method; What have I to do with it? Was it lent to me? Did I give any orders? Had she the power to pawn my daughterwithout my consent? They quote that saying, Chremes, with good reason, Riorous lawRigorous law: Cicero mentions the same proverb in his work De Officiis, B. i., ch. 10, substituting the word injuria for malitia. Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become a stale proverb in discourse. The same sentiment is found in the Fragments of Menander. is often rigorous injustice.CHREMES I will not do so.SYRUS On the contrary, though others were at liberty, you are not at liberty; all think that you are in good and very easy circumstances. CHREMES Nay rather, I’ll at once carry it to her myself.SYRUS Why no; request your son in preference.CHREMES For what reason?