Ne perpauxillum modo, nam istoc me assiduo victu delecto domi, age sis, roga emptum. nisi qui meliorem adferet quae mi atque amicis placeat condicio magis, 180 quasi fundum vendam, meis me addicam legibus

Yes, only don’t make it very, very, very little, for that is what I regale myself on constantly at home.  Come on, come on, do please say “Done!” (after a pause, formally) In the event of no party making a better offer, more satisfactory to myself and associates, I’ll knock myself down to you—­on my own terms—­just as if I was selling an estate by auction.

Hegio

  Profundum vendis tu quidem, haud fundum, mihi
  sed si venturu’s, temperi.

      An estate indeed!  You mean an empty state.  But if you intend
      to come, come in season.

Erg.

  Em, vel iam otium est.

      Oho!  I’m at leisure this minute, for that matter.

Hegio

  I modo, venare leporem:  nunc irim tenes;
  nam meus scruposam victus commetat viam.

      No, no, go hunt your hare:  you’ve got only a hedge-hog so
      far.  For it is a rocky road my table travels.

Erg.

  Numquam istoc vinces me, Hegio, ne postules: 
  cum calceatis dentibus veniam tamen.

      You’ll never down me that way, Hegio, and don’t you think to
      do it:  I’ll be with you just the same—­with my teeth shod.

Hegio

  Asper meus victus sane est.

      My meals are perfect terrors, really.

Erg.

  Sentisne essitas?

      Tearers?  Do you eat brambles?

Hegio

  Terrestris cena est.

      Well, things that root in the earth.

Erg.

  Sus terrestris bestia est.

      A porker does that.

Hegio

  Multis holeribus.

      Mostly vegetables, I mean.

Erg.

  Curato aegrotos domi. 190
  numquid vis?

      Open a sanitarium, then. (turning to go) Anything else I
      can do for you?

Hegio

  Venias temperi.

      Come in season.

Erg.

  Memorem mones.

      (cheerfully) The suggestion is superfluous. [EXIT.

Hegio

  Ibo intro atque intus subducam ratiunculam,
  quantillum argenti mi apud trapezitam siet.
  ad fratrem, quo ire dixeram, mox ivero.

(sighing as he looks at the back of his prospective guest) I must go in and reckon up my bit of a bank balance, and see how low it is.  Then to my brother’s, where I spoke of going before. [EXIT INTO HOUSE.

ACTVS II