These two captives (_pointing to_ PHILOCRATES _and_ TYNDARUS),
whom you see standing here, are standing here because--they are both [1]
standing, _and_ are not sitting. That I am saying this truly, you
are my witnesses. The old man, who lives here (_pointing to_
HEGIO's _house_), is Hegio--his father (_pointing to_
TYNDARUS). But under what circumstances he is the slave of his own
father, that I will here explain to you, if you give attention. This old
man had two sons; a slave stole one child when four years old, and
flying hence, be sold him in Elis [2], to the father of this
_captive_ (_pointing to_ PHILOCRATES). Now, do you understand
this? Very good. I' faith, that man at a distance [3] there
(_pointing_) says, no. Come nearer _then_. If there isn't room
for you to sit down, there is for you to walk; since you'd be compelling
an actor to bawl like a beggar [4]. I'm not going to burst myself for
your sake, _so_ don't you be mistaken. You who are enabled by your
means to pay your taxes [5], listen to the rest [6]; I care not to be in
debt to another. This runaway _slave_, as I said before, sold his
_young_ master, whom, when he fled, he had carried off, to this
one's father. He, after he bought him, gave him as his own private slave
[7] to this son of his, because they were of about the same age. He is
now the slave at home of his own father, nor does his father know it.
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