VI The Lost Book
Bamb. Yes, at the huckster’s, but so interpolated that I did not at first recognise it.
Nugo. Who had stolen it?
Bamb. Vatinius. And may he be repaid for his misdeed!
Grac. Ah! that man with the hook-like and pitch-black hands! Never let such a man have access to your book-cases, nor to your manuscript-boxes if you wish all your things to be safe and sound. Don’t you know that every one holds Vatinius for a thief of purses and he has been accused of thieving purses before the Principal (gymnasiarcha).