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It si not yet light, but Cornelia stands up and walks through the house.
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Still sleeping are the fater and the mother and Marcus.
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Cornelia's slave-woman, calles Syram, sees who clean the house and another, called Thressam, who prepares to cook the food.
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Many slaves soon run to the fields where they work strenuously.
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Cornelius looks for Davus who is in the garden.
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Suddnely Cornelius is angry.
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Davus is scolded because he is sitting under the tree and not working.
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The slave-woman cleans the house, cooks the food, and spins the wool.
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Aurelia sclods the slave-women if they are lazy.
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It is necessary to scold neither the slaves nor the slave-women.