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And if he sometimes stumbles over a metre or lets his private friendships and preferences run away with his cool discretion and judgment, why, bonus dormitat Homerus, let us, like the miser Euclio, be thankful for the good the gods vouchsafe us.
The cooks, however, worked on, seemingly heedless of the apparition of Diomed. 'Ho, Euclio, your egg-pan! What, is this the largest? it only holds thirty-three eggs: in the houses I usually serve, the smallest egg-pan holds fifty, if need be! 'The unconscionable rogue! thought Diomed; 'he talks of eggs as if they were a sesterce a hundred!
The applauses which were justly due to his conduct at Walcourt could not altogether drown the voices of those who muttered that, wherever a broad piece was to be saved or got, this hero was a mere Euclio, a mere Harpagon; that, though he drew a large allowance under pretence of keeping a public table, he never asked an officer to dinner; that his muster rolls were fraudulently made up; that he pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead, of men who had been killed in his own sight four years before at Sedgemoor; that there were twenty such names in one troop; that there were thirty-six in another.
"Whisht, man, whisht, man," said the king; "ye needna nicher that gait, like a cusser at a caup o' corn, e'en though it was a pleasing jest, and our ain framing. And yet to see Jingling Geordie, that bauds himself so much the wiser than other folk to see him, ha! ha! ha! in the vein of Euclio apud Plautum, distressing himself to recover what was lying at his elbow
Now you must explain all this to me, unless you would have me use you as ill as Euclio does Staphyla in the Aulularia." "Lordsake, sir," replied the mendicant, "what do I ken about your Howlowlaria? it's mair like a dog's language than a man's." "You knew, however, of the box of treasure being there?" continued Oldbuck.
The Aulularia, or Pot of Gold, a commonplace story of middle-class life, is a mere framework for the portrait of the old miser, Euclio in itself a sketch full of life and brilliance, and still more famous as the original of Moliere's Harpagon, which is closely studied from it.
Now you must explain all this to me, unless you would have me use you as ill as Euclio does Staphyla in the Aulularia." "Lordsake, sir," replied the mendicant, "what do I ken about your Howlowlaria? it's mair like a dog's language than a man's." "You knew, however, of the box of treasure being there?" continued Oldbuck.
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