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Servants (paidōn). Not douloi (bondslaves) as in Luk 15:22. The Greeks often used pais for servant like the Latin puer. It could be either a hired servant (misthios, Luk 15:17) or slave (doulos).
He inquired (epunthaneto). Imperfect middle, inquired repeatedly and eagerly.
What these things might be (ti an eiē tauta). Not “poor” Greek as Easton holds, but simply the form of the direct question retained in the indirect. See the direct form as the apodosis of a condition of the fourth class in Act 17:18. In Act 10:17 we have the construction with an eiē of the direct retained in the indirect question. So also in Luk 1:62 : See Robertson, Grammar, p. 1044.