HEG. Really, my viands are _but_ of a rough sort [8]. ERG. Are you
in the habit of eating brambles?
HEG. _Mine_ is an earthy dinner. ERG. A pig is an earthy animal.
HEG. _Earthy_ from its plenty of vegetables.
ERG. Treat your sick people [9] at home _with that fare?_ Do you
wish anything else?
HEG. Come in good time. ERG. You are putting in mind one who remembers
quite well. (_Exit._
HEG. I'll go in-doors, and in the house I'll make the calculation how
little money I have at my banker's; afterwards I'll go to my brother's,
whither I was saying I would go. (_Goes into his house._)
[Footnote 1: _Chains of light weight_)--Ver. 112. "Singularias"
This word may admit of three interpretations, and it is impossible to
decide which is the right one. It may mean chains weighting a single
"libra," or pound; it may signify chains for the captives singly, in
contradistiniction to those by which they were fastened to each other;
or it may mean single chains, in opposition to double ones. In the Acts
of the Apostles, ch. 12, v. 6, we read that St. Peter was bound with two
chains; and in ch. 13, v. 33, the chief captain orders St. Paul to be
bound with two chains.]
[Footnote 2: _Don't seem to think so_)--Ver. 120. Hegio means to
say that the slave does not seem to think liberty so very desirable, or
he would try more to please his master and do his duty, which might
probably be the right method for gaining his liberty.
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