He did you wrong.

After many years you met him again in the Circus at Antioch." "Messala!" "Yes, Messala.

You are his creditor.

Forgive the past; admit him to friendship again; restore the fortune he lost in the great wager; rescue him.

The six talents are as nothing to you; not so much as a bud lost upon a tree already in full leaf; but to him-- Ah, he must go about with a broken body; wherever you meet him he must look up to you from the ground.