Mene. Chremes! I wish’d for you.—’Tis in your power,

And I beseech you do it, to preserve

My son, myself, and family.

Chrem. I’ll do’t.

Wherein can I oblige you?

Mene. You to-day

Have found a daughter.

Chrem. True. What then?

Mene. My Clinia

Begs your consent to marry her.