Gryn. Because it is the nature of man to listen gladly to those who profess that they will announce secret things or what is about to happen.
Vel. Why are the Scaevolae so called?
Gryn. As if scaevae; from scaea, which is the left hand. They say that there are more of the female sex left-handed than in our sex.
Vel. What is vola?
Gryn. The hollow of the hand in which the lines are.
Vel. What does involare mean?
Gryn. That which you are doing. Gladly to steal, to snatch and hide as if in the hollow of the hand, and as the raving Lucretia did when she snatched at the eyes of her serving-women.
[Then follows the Latin for the different parts of the trunk of the body.]
Vel. Do you know the seat of the virtues in the body?
Gryn. No; where are they placed?