Cébès: By these victorious hands, dear friend!

Tête-d'or: Give me a brotherly welcome.

(They embrace.

Cébès: O man with the power to conquer!

Tête-d'or: I bayed at their heels! I made them rise from the dung in which they sat.

Then I saw that what I wished for was.

Cébès: But how?

Tête-d'or: I am telling you! I was more firm on my horse than on a rock.

—But I wanted to talk with you and there you are still in your bed.

Cébès: Do not pity me.