Too, thank you, namesake mine! Martinus, here!

Take back your mother’s tetradrachm!

Martinus [the Schoolboy].

[Accepting the coin his friend holds out to him.]

Malchus,

I say, that’s fine!

Serapíon [the Sleeper].

My Æsop’s fables must I get by heart! “A nightingale

did sing ... did sing ... did sing....”

Serapíon [the Schoolboy].