Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part I/XIX
XIX.TIT FOR TAT.
88.Scipio Nasica was most friendly with (lit. used most friendly) the poet Ennius. One day he came to his house (lit. to him) and asked about him at the door: but the maid said, ‘Ennius is not at home.’ But Nasica could see Ennius; yet he said nothing, but returned home. A few days after Ennius came to Nasica. Nasica himself called out to him, ‘I am not at home.’ Then (said) Ennius: ‘What! do I not recognise your voice?’ But Nasica replied: ‘You are an unconscionable fellow; for I believed your maid: you don’t believe myself.’