inclination. He buys up men that have been made captives, if
_perchance_ he may be able to find some one for whom to gain his
son in exchange. An object which I really do much desire that he may
gain, for unless he finds him, there's nowhere for me to find myself. I
have no hopes in the young men; they are all _too_ fond of
themselves. He, in fine, is a youth with the old-fashioned manners,
whose countenance I never rendered cheerful without a return. His father
is worthily matched, as endowed with like manners. Now I'll go to him;--
but his door is opening, _the door_ from which full oft I've
sallied forth drunk with excess of cheer (_He stands aside._)

[Footnote 1: _Because invocated_)--Ver. 70. "Invocatus." The
following Note is extracted from Thornton's Translation of this Play: --
"The reader's indulgence for the coinage of a new term (and perhaps not
quite so much out of character from the mouth of a Parasite) is here
requested in the use of the word 'invocated' in a sense, which it is
owned, there is no authority for, but without it no way occurs to
explain the poet's meaning--which, such as it is, and involved in such a
pun, is all that can be aimed at. The word 'invocatus' means both
'called upon' and 'not called upon.' Ergasilus here quibbles upon it;
for, though at entertainments be attends, as it is the common character
of Parasites to do, without invitation, that is 'not called upon;' and
as mistresses are 'called upon' that their names so invoked may make
their lovers throw the dice with success; still, according to the double
sense of the word, they may be compared to each other, as they are both,
according to the Latin idiom, 'invocati.'"]

[Footnote 2: _That buffoons_)--Ver. 71. "Derisores," "buffoons." By
this word he means that particular class of Parasites who earned their
dinners by their repartees and bon-mots.]