Chrem. What is the matter?
Clit. Do you know this neighbor of ours, Menedemus?
Chrem. Very well.
Clit. Do you know that he has a son?
Chrem. I have heard that he has; in Asia.
Clit. He is not in Asia, father; he is at our house.
Chrem. What is it you say?
Clit. Upon his arrival, after he had just landed from the ship, I immediately brought him to dine with us; for from our very childhood upward I have always been on intimate terms with him.
Chrem. You announce to me a great pleasure. How much I wish that Menedemus had accepted my invitation to make one of us: that at my house I might have been the first to surprise him, when not expecting it, with this delight!—and even yet there’s time enough——
Clit. Take care what you do; there is no necessity, father, for doing so.