Hegio

  Quid ego credam huic?

      Believe him in what?

Arist.

  Insanum esse me?

      That I’m insane?

Tynd.

  Viden tu hunc, quam inimico voltu intuetur? concedi optumumst,
  Hegio:  fit quod tibi ego dixi, gliscit rabies, cave tibi.

      (to Hegio) Do you see him—­that angry glare of his?  You’d
      better leave, Hegio.  It’s just as I said:  a fit’s coming on. 
      Look out for yourself!

Hegio

  Credidi esse insanum extemplo, ubi te appellavit Tyndarum.

      (hastily moving farther off) I thought so, I thought he
      was crazy, from the moment he called you Tyndarus.

Tynd.

  Quin suom ipse interdum ignorat nomen neque scit qui siet. 560

      Why, at times he positively forgets his own name and doesn’t
      know who he is.

Hegio

  At etiam te suom sodalem esse aibat.

      But he was even saying you were an intimate friend of his.

Tynd.

  Haud vidi magis.
  et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestes et Lycurgus postea
  una opera mihi sunt sodales qua iste.

      (dryly) Quite so!  And the fact is that Alcumeus,[E] in
      that case, and Orestes,[E] and Lycurgus[E] too are intimate
      friends of mine, just exactly as much.

        [Footnote E:  Madmen, celebrated in Greek mythology. 
        Alcumeus = Alcmaeon.]

Arist.

  At etiam, furcifer,
  male loqui mi audes? non ego te novi?

      Ha!  You scoundrel, do you dare go on maligning me?  Don’t I
      know you?

Hegio

  Pol planum id quidem est,
  non novisse, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate.
  quem vides, eum ignoras:  illum nominas quem non vides.

      Good heavens!  It’s quite plain you don’t know him—­calling
      him Tyndarus instead of Philocrates!  The man you see you
      don’t know:  you name the man you don’t see.

Arist.

  Immo iste eum sese ait, qui non est, esse, et qui vero est, negat.

      No, sir!  This fellow says he’s the man he isn’t, and says he
      isn’t the man he really is.

Tynd.

  Tu enim repertu’s, Philocratem qui superes veriverbio.

      (to Aristophontes, meaningly) So you have turned up to
      beat Philocrates in stating facts!

Arist.

  Pol ego ut rem video, tu inventu’s, vera vanitudine
  qui convincas. sed quaeso hercle, agedum aspice ad me.

      Good Lord!  As I look at it, you have been unearthed to
      browbeat facts by stating falsehoods.  But come now, confound
      it, look me in the eye!

Tynd.