II.
THE GHOST.
[From PHILEMON. Translated by PLAUTUS.]

PHILOLACHES, a young Athenian gentleman, had
been left by his father, during the latter’s absence
on mercantile business in Egypt, with considerably
more liberty than was good for him. The business
had kept the old man away.for as much as three
years, and during that time the son had run through
no small amount of money, and had committed a
variety of follies. His adviser and abettor in these
had been a certain slave, Tranio by name.

One evening he was about to sit down to dinner,
when a friend, Callidamates by name, came in with
some companions. The new arrival had already
been drinking deeply at another entertainment, but
growing weary of his host, had thought fit to change
the scene. ‘“ Philolaches,” he said, “is always the
best of fellows and the pleasantest of hosts. I will
go and see him.” It was no easy task for his friends
to pilot him through the streets, for more than once
he manifested a decided inclination to lie ‘down.
When at last he arrived, he could do nothing but
goto sleep. A few minutes after, the slave Tranio

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