ARIST. From me you shall hear _that_ truth, which now you think to
be false, Hegio. But I wish, in the first place, to clear myself from
this with you--that madness does not possess me, and that I have no
malady, except that I am in captivity; and, so may the King of Gods and
of men make me to regain my native land, that fellow there is no more
Philocrates than either I or you.
HEG. Come, then, tell me who he is?
ARIST. He whom I've told you all along from the beginning. If you shall
find him any other than that person, I show no cause why I shouldn't
suffer the loss with you both of my parents and of my liberty _for
ever_.
HEG. (_to_ TYNDARUS). What say you _to this_?
TYND. That I am your slave, and you my master.
HEG. I didn't ask that--were you a free man?
TYND. I was. ARIST. But he really wasn't; he is deceiving you.
TYND. How do you know? Were you, perchance, the midwife of my mother,
since you dare to affirm this so boldly?
ARIST. When a boy, I saw yourself, a boy.
TYND. But, grown up, I _now_ see you grown up; so, there's for you,
in return. If you did right, you wouldn't be troubling yourself about my
concerns; do I trouble myself about yours?
HEG. Was his father _called_ Thesaurochrysonicocroesides?
ARIST. He was not; and I never heard that name before this day.
Theodoromedes was the father of Philocrates.
TYND. (_aside_).
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