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for it, and so will all my friends and ‘neighbours.
Cario, go and call them; it is only right that they
should have a share of my good luck. And now,
Plutus, come into my house.”

Plu. “T tell you that I don’t at all like going into
another man’s house. I never got any good ftom
doing it. If my host has been of the frugal sort,
he has buried me in the ground; aye, and if a good
fellow came to borrow a silver coin, has sworn that
he has.never set eyes upon me. If he has been one
of the wild young fellows, then I am given over to
bad company and dice, and turned naked out of
doors. at a moment’s notice.” :

Chrem. “*That is because you never ne to
light upon a moderate man. I like to save; no man
more. And I like to spend, at the proper time.
But come in; I should like you to see my wife and
my son. He is my only son, you must understand;
and-I love him better than anything else in the
world, — of course after. you.”

Meanwhile Cario had been inviting the neighbours
‘to come to his master’s house. They were not slow
to answer the call, but left their work in the fields,
and hurried up, followed by one Blepsidemus, who
was the principal person among them. Blepside-
mus was suspicious. His friend, he had heard, had
- become suddenly rich. This was in itself an unusual
circumstance, and, put together with the mysterious
answers which he got to. his questions, inclined him