Hegio
means to use it in the former sense, but the Parasite, for the sake of
repartee, chooses to take it in the latter.]
[Footnote 9: _Treat your sick people_)--Ver. 191. He means that
such a dinner may suit sick people, but will not be to his taste.]
ACT II.--SCENE I.
_Enter, from the house,_ PHILOCRATES, TYNDARUS, _and_ SLAVES
_and_ CAPTIVES of HEGIO.
SLAVE. If the immortal Gods have so willed it that you should undergo
this affliction, it becomes you to endure it with equanimity; if you do
so, your trouble will be lighter [1]. At home you were free men, I
suppose; now if slavery has befallen you, 'tis a becoming way for you to
put up with it, and by your dispositions to render it light, under a
master's rule. Unworthy actions which a master does must be deemed
Worthy ones.
PHIL. _and_ TYND. Alas! alas! alas! SLAVE. There's no need for
wailing; you cause much injury to your eyes. In adversity, if you use
fortitude of mind, it is of service.
PHIL. _and_ TYND. But we are ashamed, because we are in bonds.
SLAVE. But in the result it might cause vexation to our master, if he
were to release you from chains, or allow you to be loose, whom he has
purchased with his money.
PHIL. _and_ TYND. What does he fear from us? We know our duty, what
it is, if he allows us to be loose.
SLAVE. Why, you are meditating escape. I know what it is you are
devising.
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