---
title: "The Captives · Captivi"
author: "Plautus"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
url: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/
cite: "Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Captives · Captivi. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/"
---

# The Captives · Captivi

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A captured master and his slave swap identities.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi005, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi005.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

## Contents

1. [Lines 1–384](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/1.md)
2. [Lines 371–709](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/2.md)
3. [Lines 705–1036](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/3.md)

## 1. Lines 1–384

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/1/#p-N

[¶0] PROLOGUS:
THESE two captives (pointing to PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS), whom you see standing here, are standing here because—they are both standing, and are not sitting. That I am saying this truly, you are my witnesses. The old man, who lives here (pointing to HEGIO’S house), is Hegio— his father (pointing to TYNDARUS.)

> Latin: PROLOGVS:
Hos quos videtis stare hic captivos duos,
†illi qui astant, hi stant ambo, non sedent;
hoc vos mihi testes estis me verum loqui.
senex qui hic habitat Hegio est huius pater.

[¶1] But under what circumstances he is the slave of his own father, that I will here explain to you, if you give attention. This old man had two sons; a slave stole one child when four years old, and flying hence, he sold him in Elis,
to the father of this captive (pointing to PHIILOCRATES.) Now, do you understand this? Very good. I’ faith, that man at a distance there (pointing) says, no. Come nearer then. If there isn’t room for you to sit down, there is for you to walk; since you’d be compelling an actor to bawl like a beggar. I’m not going to burst myself for your sake, so don’t you be mistaken.

> Latin: sed is quo pacto serviat suo sibi patri,
id ego hic apud vos proloquar, si operam datis.
seni huic fuerunt filii nati duo;
alterum quadrimum puerum servos surpuit
eumque hínc profugiens vendidit in Alide
patri huius. iam hoc tenetis? … optume est.
negát hercle ille ultimus. accedito.
si non ubi sedeas locus est, est ubi ambules,
quando histrionem cogis mendicarier.
ego me tua causa, ne erres, non rupturus sum.

[¶2] You who are enabled by your means to pay your taxes, listen to the rest; I care not to be in debt to another. This runaway slave, as I said before, sold his young master, whom, whom he fled, he had carried off, to this one’s father. He, after he bought him, gave him as his own
private slave to his son of his, because they were of about the same age. He is now the slave at home of his own father, nor does his father know it. Verily, the Gods do treat us men just like footballs. You hear the manner now how he lost one son. Afterwards, the Aetolians are waging war with the people of Elis,
and, as happens in warfare, the other son is taken prisoner. The physician Menarchus buys him there in Elis. On this, this Hegio begins to traffic in Elean captives, if, perchance, he may be able to find one to change for that captive son of his. He knows not that this one who is in his house is his own son.

> Latin: vos qui potestis ope vestra censerier,
accipite relicuom: alieno uti nil moror.
fugitivos ille, ut dixeram ante, huius patri
domo quém profugiens dominum abstulerat vendidit.
is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum huic gnato suo
peculiarem, quia quasi una aetas erat.
hic nunc domi sérvit suo patri, nec scit pater;
enim véro di nos quasi pilas homines habent.
rationem habetis, quo modo unum amiserit.
postquam belligerant Aetoli cum Aleis,
ut fit in bello, capitur alter filius:
medicus Menarchus emit ibidem in Alide.
coepit captivos commercari hic Aleos,
si quem reperire possit qui mutet suom,
illum captivom: hunc suom esse nescit, qui domist.

[¶3] And as he heard yesterday that an Elean knight of very high rank and very high family was taken prisoner, he has spared no expense to rescue his son. In order that he may more easily bring him back home, he buys both of these of the Quaestors out of the spoil.

> Latin: et quoniam heri indaudivit, de summo loco
summoque genere captum esse equitem Aleum,
nil pretio parsit, filio dum parceret:
reconciliare ut facilius posset domum,
emít hosce e praeda ambos de quaestoribus.

[¶4] Now they, between themselves, have contrived this plan, that, by means of it, the servant may send away hence his master home. And therefore among themselves they change their garments and their names. He, there (pointing), is called Philocrates; this one (pointing), Tyndarus; he this day assumes the character of this one, this one of him.

> Latin: hisce autem inter sese hunc confinxerunt dolum,
quo pacto hic servos suom erum hinc amittat domum.
itaque inter se commutant vestem et nomina;
illic vocatur Philocrates, hic Tyndarus:
huius íllic, hic illius hodie fert imaginem.

[¶5] And this one to-day will cleverly carry out this plot, and cause his master to gain his liberty; and by the same means he will save his own brother, and without knowing it, will cause him to return back a free man to his own country to his father. Just as often now, on many occasions,
a person has done more good unknowingly than knowingly. But unconsciously, by their devices, they have so planned and devised their plot, and have so contrived it by their design, that this one is living in servitude with his own father.

> Latin: et hic hódie expediet hanc docte fallaciam,
et suom erum faciet libertatis compotem,
eodemque pacto fratrem servabit suom
reducemque faciet liberum in patriam ad patrem,
imprudens: itidem ut saepe iam in multis locis
plus insciens quis fecit quam prudens boni.
sed inscientes sua sibi fallacia
ita compararunt et confinxerunt dolum
itaque hi commenti, de sua sententia
ut in sérvitute hic ad suom maneat patrem:

[¶6] And thus now, in ignorance, he is the slave of his own father. What poor creatures are men, when I reflect upon it! This plot will be performed by us—a play for your entertainment. But there is, besides, a thing which, in a few words, I would wish to inform you of. Really, it will be worth your while to give your attention to this play.

> Latin: ita nunc ignorans suo sibi servit patri;
homunculi quanti sunt, quom recogito!
haec res agetur nobis, vobis fabula.
sed etiam est, paucis vos quod monitos voluerim.
profecto expediet fabulae huic operam dare.

[¶7] ’Tis not composed in the hackneyed style, nor yet like other plays, nor are there in it any ribald lines unfit for utterance: here is neither the perjured procurer, nor the artful courtesan, nor yet the braggart captain. Don’t you be afraid because I’ve said that there’s war between the Aetolians and the Eleans.

> Latin: non pertractate facta est neque item ut ceterae:
neque spurcidici insunt versus, immemorabiles;
hic neque periurus leno est nec meretrix mala
neque miles gloriosus; ne vereamini,
quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aleis:

[¶8] There (pointing), at a distance, beyond the scenes, the battles will be fought. For this were almost impossible for a Comic establishmen, that we should at a moment attempt to be acting Tragedy. If, therefore, any one is looking for a battle, let him commence the quarrel;
if he shall find an adversary more powerful, I’ll cause him to be the spectator of a battle that isn’t pleasant to him, so that hereafter he shall hate to be a spectator them all. I now retire. Fare ye well, at home, most upright judges, and in warfare most valiant combatants.
(Enter ERGASILUS.)

> Latin: foris íllic extra scaenam fient proelia.
nam hoc paene iniquomst, comico choragio
conari desubito agere nos tragoediam.
proin si quis pugnam expectat, litis contrahat:
valentiorem nactus adversarium
si erit, ego faciam ut pugnam inspectet non bonam,
adeo ut spectare postea omnis oderit.
abeo. valete, iudices iustissimi
domi duellique duellatores optumi.

[¶9] ERGASILUS:
The young men have given me the name of “the mistress,”
for this reason, because invocated I am wont to attend at the banquet. I know that buffoons say that this is absurdly said, but I affirm that it is rightly said. For at the banquet the lover, when he throws the dice, invokes his mistress. Is she then invocated, or is she not? She is, most clearly.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Iuventus nomen indidit Scorto mihi,
eo quía invocatus soleo esse in convivio.
scio absúrde dictum hoc derisores dicere,
at ego aio recte. nam scortum in convivio
sibi amator, talos quom iacit, scortum invocat.
estne invocatum an non ⟨est? est⟩ planissume;

[¶10] But, i’ faith, we Parasites with better reason are so called, whom no person ever either invites or invokes, and who, like mice, are always eating the victuals of another person. When business is laid aside, when people repair to the country, at that same moment is business laid aside for our teeth.

> Latin: verum hercle vero nos parasiti planius,
quos numquam quisquam neque vocat neque invocat.
quasi mures semper edimus alienum cibum;
ubi res prolatae sunt, quom rus homines eunt,
simul prolatae res sunt nostris dentibus.

[¶11] Just as, when it is hot weather, snails lie hidden in secret, and live upon their own juices, if the dew doesn’t fall; so, when business is laid aside, do Parasites lie hidden in retirement, and miserably live upon their own juices, while in the country the persons are rusticating whom they sponge upon.

> Latin: quasi, cum caletur, cocleae in occulto latent,
suo sibi suco vivont, ros si non cadit,
item parasiti rebus prolatis latent
in occúlto miseri, victitant suco suo,
dum ruri rurant homines quos ligurriant.

[¶12] When business is laid aside, we Parasites are greyhounds; when business recommences, like mastiffs, we are annoying-like and very troublesome-like. And here, indeed, unless, i’ faith, any Parasite is able to endure cuffs with the fist, and pots to be broken about his head,
why he may e’en go with his wallet outside the Trigeminian Gate. That this may prove my lot, there is some danger. For since my patron has fallen into the hands of the enemy—(such warfare are the Aetolians now waging with the Eleans; for this is Aetolia; this Philopolemus has been made captive in Elis, the son of this old man Hegio
who lives here (pointing to the house)—a house which to me is a house of woe, and which so oft as I look upon, I weep). Now, for the sake of his son, has he commenced this dishonorable traffic, very much against his own inclination.

> Latin: prolatis rebus parasiti venatici
sumus, quando res redierunt, molossici
odiosicique et multum incommodestici.
et hic quidem hercle, nisi qui colaphos perpeti
potest parasitus frangique aulas in caput,
[vel] ire extra portam Trigeminam ad saccum licet.
quod mihi ne eveniat, non nullum periculum est.
nam postquam meus rex est potitus hostium—
ita nunc belligerant Aetoli cum Aleis;
nam Aetolia haec est, illic est captus in Alide,
Philopolemus, huius Hegionis filius
senis, qui hic habitat, quae aedes lamentariae
mihi sunt, quas quotienscumque conspicio fleo;
nunc hic occepit quaestum hunc fili gratia
inhonestum et maxime alienum ingenio suo:

[¶13] He buys up men that have been made captives, if perchance he may be able to find some one for whom to gain his son in exchange. An object which I really do much desire that he may gain. For unless he finds him, there’s nowhere for me to find myself. I have no hopes in the young men; they are all too fond of themselves.

> Latin: homines captivos commercatur, si queat
aliquem invenire, suom qui mutet filium.
quod quidem ego nimis quam cupio … ut impetret;
nam ni illum recipit, nihil est quo me recipiam.
⟨nam⟩ nulla est spes iuventútis, sese omnis amant;

[¶14] He, in fine, is a youth with the old-fashioned nanners, whose countenance I never rendered cheerful without a return. His father is worthily matched, as endowed with like manners. Now I’ll go to him;—but his door is opening, the door from which full oft I’ve sallied forth drunk with excess of cheer.
(He stands aside.) (Enter, from his house, HEGIO and a SLAVE.)

> Latin: ille démum antiquis est adulescens moribus,
cuius númquam voltum tranquillavi gratiis.
condigne pater est eius moratus moribus.
nunc ad eum pergam. sed aperitur ostium,
unde sáturitate saepe ego exii ebrius.

[¶15] HEGIO:
Now, give attention you, if you please. Those two captives whom I purchased yesterday of the Quaestors out of the spoil, put upon them chains of light weight; take off those greater ones with which they are bound. Permit them to walk, if they wish, out of doors, or if in-doors,
but so that they are watched with the greatest care. A captive at liberty is like a bird that’s wild; if opportunity is once given for escaping, ‘tis enough; after that, you can never catch him.

> Latin: Hegio:
Advorte animum sis tu: istos captivos duos,
heri quos emi de praeda a quaestoribus,
eis indito catenas singularias
istas, maiores, quibus sunt iuncti, demito;
sinito ambulare, si foris si intus volent,
sed uti adserventur magna diligentia.
liber captivos avis ferae consimilis est:
semel fugiendi si data est occasio,
satis est, numquam postilla possis prendere.

[¶16] A SLAVE:
Doubtless we all are free men more willingly than we live the life of slaves.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Omnes profecto liberi lubentius
sumus quám servimus.

[¶17] HEGIO:
You, indeed, don’t seem to think so.

> Latin: Hegio:
Non videre ita tu quidem.

[¶18] A SLAVE:
If I have nothing to give, should you like me to give myself to flight?

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Si non est quod dem, mene vis dem ipse—in pedes?

[¶19] HEGIO:
If you do so give yourself, I shall at once have something to be giving to you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Si dederis, erit extemplo mihi quod dem tibi.

[¶20] A SLAVE:
I’ll make myself just like the wild bird you were telling of.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Avis mé ferae consimilem faciam, ut praedicas.

[¶21] HEGIO:’Tis just as you say; for if you do so, I’ll be giving you to the cage.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ita ut dícis: nam si faxis, te in caveam dabo.

[¶22] But enough of prating; take you care of what I’ve ordered, and be off. (The SLAVE goes into the house.) I’ll away to my brother’s, to my other captives; I’ll go see whether they’ve been making any disturbance last night. From there I shall forthwith betake myself home again.
ERGASILUS: (apart.)

> Latin: sed satis verborumst. cura quae iussi atque abi.
ego ibo ad fratrem ad alios captivos meos,
visam ne nocte hac quippiam turbaverint.
inde mé continuo recipiam rursum domum.

[¶23] It grieves me that this unhappy old man is following the trade of a slave-dealer,
by reason of the misfortune of his son. But, if by any means he can be brought back here, I could even endure for him to become an executioner.
HEGIO: (overhearing him.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Aegre est mi, hunc facere quaestum carcerarium
propter sui gnati miseriam miserum senem.
sed si ullo pacto ille huc conciliari potest,
vel carnificinam hunc facere possum perpeti.

[¶24] Who is it that’s speaking?
ERGASILUS:’Tis I, who am, pining at your affliction, growing thin, waxing old, and shockingly wasting away. Wretched man that I am,
I’m but skin and bone through leanness; nor does anything ever do me good that I eat at home; even that ever so little which I taste out of doors, the same refreshes me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quis hic lóquitur?
Ergasilvs:
Ego, qui tuo maerore maceror,
macesco, consenesco et tabesco miser;
ossa atque pellis sum miser a macritudine;
neque umquam quicquam me iuvat quod edo domi:
foris aliquantillum etiam quod gusto, id beat.

[¶25] HEGIO:
Ergasilus, save you!

> Latin: Hegio:
Ergasile, salve.

[¶26] ERGASILUS: (crying.)
May the Gods kindly bless you, Hegio!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Di te bene ament, Hegio.

[¶27] HEGIO:
Don’t weep.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ne fle.

[¶28] ERGASILUS:
Must I not weep for him? Must I not weep for such a young man?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Egone illum non fleam? égon non defleam
Talem adulescentem?

[¶29] HEGIO:
I’ve always known you to be a friend to my son, and I have understood him to be so to you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Semper sensi, filio
meo te ésse amicum, et illum intellexi tibi.

[¶30] ERGASILUS:
Then at last do we men know our blessings, when we have lost those things which we once had in our power. I, since your son fell into the power of the enemy,
knowing by experience of what value he was, now feel his loss.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Tum denique homines nostra intellegimus bona,
quom quae in potestate habuimus, ea amisimus.
ego, postquam gnatus tuos potitust hostium,
expertus quanti fuerit nunc desidero.

[¶31] HEGIO:
Since you, who are no relation, bear his misfortune so much amiss, what is it likely that I, a father, should do, whose only son he is?

> Latin: Hegio:
Alienus cum eius incommodum tam aegre feras,
quid me patrem par facerest, cui ille est unicus?

[¶32] ERGASILUS:
I, no relation to him? He, no relation to me? Oh, Hegio! never do say that, nor come to such a belief.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Alienus ego? alienus illi? aha, Hegio,
numquam istuc dixis neque animum induxis tuom;

[¶33] To you he is an only child, but to me he is even more only than an only one.

> Latin: tibi ille únicust, mi etiam unico magis unicus.

[¶34] HEGIO:
I commend you, in that you consider the affliction of your friend your own affliction. Now be of good heart.

> Latin: Hegio:
Laudo, malum cum amici tuom ducis malum.
nunc habe bonum animum.

[¶35] ERGASILUS: (crying.)
O dear!
HEGIO: (half-aside.)
’Tis this afflicts him, that the army for guttling is now disbanded.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Eheu, huic illud dolet,
quia nunc remissus est edendi exercitus.

[¶36] Meanwhile, have you found no one to command for you the army that you mentioned as disbanded?

> Latin: Hegio:
Nullumne interea nactu's nactus es, qui posset tibi
remissum quem dixti imperare exercitum?

[¶37] ERGASILUS:
What do you think? All to whom it used to fall are in the habit of declining that province since your son Philopolemus was taken prisoner.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quid credis? fugitant omnes hanc provinciam,
quoi optigerat postquam captust Philopolemus tuos.

[¶38] HEGIO:
I’ faith, ‘tisn’t to be wondered at, that they are in the habit of declining that province. You have necessity for numerous troops, and those of numerous kinds.
Well, first you have need of the Bakerians. Of these Bakerians there are several kinds, You have need of Roll-makerians, you have need too of Confectionerians, you have need of Poultererians, you have need of Beccaficorians; besides, all the maritime forces are necessary for you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Non pol mirandum est fugitare hanc provinciam.
multis et multigeneribus opus est tibi
militibus: primumdum opus est Pistorensibus;
eorum sunt aliquot genera Pistorensium:
opus Pániceis est, opus Placentinis quoque;
opus Turdetanis, opust Ficedulensibus;
iam maritumi omnes milites opus sunt tibi.

[¶39] ERGASILUS:
How the greatest geniuses do frequently lie concealed! How great a general now is this private individual!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Vt saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent;
hic qualis imperator nunc privatus est.

[¶40] HEGIO:
Only have good courage; for I trust that in a few days I shall bring him back home. For see now; there’s a captive here, a young man of Elis,
born of a very high family, and of very great wealth; I trust that it will come to pass that I shall get my son in exchange for him.

> Latin: Hegio:
Habe modo bonum animum, nam illum confido domum
in his diebus me reconciliassere.
nam eccum hic captivom adulescentem ⟨intus⟩ Aleum,
prognatum genere summo et summis ditiis:
hoc illum me mutare confido pote.

[¶41] ERGASILUS:
May the Gods and Goddesses grant it so!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ita di deaeque faxint. sed num quo foras
vocatus ⟨es⟩ ad cenam?

[¶42] HEGIO:
But are you invited out anywhere to dinner?

> Latin: Hegio:
Nusquam, quod sciam.
sed quid tu id quaeris?

[¶43] ERGASILUS:
Nowhere that I know of. But, pray, why do you ask me?
HEGIO:
Because this is my birthday;

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quia mi est natalis dies;

[¶44] for that reason I’d like you to be invited to dinner at my house.

> Latin: propterea te vocari ad te ad cenam volo.

[¶45] ERGASILUS:’Tis kindly said.
HEGIO:
But if you can be content to eat a very little—

> Latin: Hegio:
Facete dictum. sed si pauxillo potes
contentus esse.

[¶46] ERGASILUS:
Aye, even ever so little; for on such fare as that do I enjoy myself every day at home.
HEGIO:
Come, then, please, set yourself up for sale.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ne perpauxillum modo,
nam istoc me assiduo victu delecto domi;

[¶47] ERGASILUS:
I’ll put myself up for purchase, just like a landed estate, unless any one shall privately make a better offer that pleases myself and my friends more, and to my own conditions will I bind myself.

> Latin: age sis, roga emptum: nisi qui meliorem adferet
quae mi atque amicis placeat condicio magis,
quasi fundum vendam, meis me addicam legibus.

[¶48] HEGIO:
You are surely selling me a bottomless pit, and not a landed estate. But if you are coming, do so in time.

> Latin: Hegio:
Profundum vendis tu quidem, haud fundum, mihi.
sed si venturu's venturus es, temperi.

[¶49] ERGASILUS:
Why, for that matter, I’m at leisure even now.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Em, vel iam otium est.

[¶50] HEGIO:
Go then, and hunt for a hare; at present, in me you have but a ferret,
for my fare is in the way of frequenting a rugged road.

> Latin: Hegio:
I modo, venare leporem: nunc irim tenes;
nam meus scruposam victus commetat viam.

[¶51] ERGASILUS:
You’ll never repulse me by that, Hegio, so don’t attempt it. I’ll come, in spite of it, with teeth well shod.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Numquam istoc vinces me, Hegio, ne postules:
cum calceatis dentibus veniam tamen.

[¶52] HEGIO:
Really, my viands are but of a rough sort.

> Latin: Hegio:
Asper meus victus sane est.

[¶53] ERGASILUS:
Are you in the habit of eating brambles?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Sentisne essitas?

[¶54] HEGIO:
Mine is an earthy dinner.

> Latin: Hegio:
Terrestris cena est.

[¶55] ERGASILUS:
A pig is an earthy animal.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Sus terrestris bestia est.

[¶56] HEGIO:
Earthy from its plenty of vegetables.

> Latin: Hegio:
Multis holeribus.

[¶57] ERGASILUS:
Treat your sick peoples at home with that fare? Do you wish anything else?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Curato aegrotos domi.
numquid vis?

[¶58] HEGIO:
Come in good time.

> Latin: Hegio:
Venias temperi.

[¶59] ERGASILUS:
You are putting in mind one who remembers quite well.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Memorem mones.—

[¶60] HEGIO:
I’ll go in-doors, and in the house I’ll make the calculation how little money I have at my banker’s; afterwards I’ll go to my brother’s, whither I was saying I would go.
(Goes into his house.) (Enter, from the house, PHILOCRATES, TYNDARUS, and SLAVES and CAPTIVES of HEGIO.)
A SLAVE:
If the immortal Gods have so willed it that you should undergo this affliction, it becomes you to endure it with equanimity; if you do so, your trouble will be lighter. At home you were free men, I suppose; now if slavery has befallen you, ‘tis a becoming way for you to put up with it, and by your dispositions to render it light, under a master’s rule.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ibo intro atque intus subducam ratiunculam,
quantillum argenti mi ápud trapezitam siet.
ad fratrem, quo ire dixeram, mox ivero.—
Lorarii:
Si di ímmortales íd voluerunt, vós hanc aerumnam éxsequi,
decét id pati animo aéquo: si id faciétis, levior lábos erit.
domi fuístis, credo, líberi:
nunc servitus si evenit, ei vos morigerari mos bonust
et erili imperio eamque ingeniis vostris lenem reddere.

[¶61] Unworthy actions which a master does must be deemed worthy ones.
PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
Alas! alas! alas!

> Latin: indigna digna habenda sunt, erus quae facit.
Captivi:
Oh oh oh.

[¶62] A SLAVE:
There’s no need for wailing; you cause much injury to your eyes. In adversity, if you use fortitude of mind, it is of service.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Éiulatione haud opus est, oculis haud lacrimantibus:
in ré mala animo sí bono utare, ádiuvat.

[¶63] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
But we are ashamed, because we are in bonds.
A SLAVE:
But in the result it might cause vexation to our master, if he were to release you from chains,
or allow you to be loose, whom he has purchased with his money.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At nós pudet, quia cúm catenis súmus.
Lorarivs:
At pigeat póstea
nostrum erum, si vos éximat vínculis,
aút solutós sinat, quós argento émerit.

[¶64] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
What does he fear from us? We know our duty, what it is, if he allows us to be loose.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid a nóbis metuit? scímus nos
nóstrum officiúm quod est, sí solutós sinat.

[¶65] A SLAVE:
Why, you are meditating escape. I know what it is you are devising.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Át fugam fíngitis: séntio quam rem ágitis.

[¶66] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
We, make our escape? Whither should we escape?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Nós fugiamus? quó fugiamus?

[¶67] A SLAVE:
To your own country.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
In patriam.

[¶68] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
Out upon you; it would ill befit us to be following the example of runaways.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Apage, haud nós id deceat,
fúgitivos imitári.

[¶69] A SLAVE:
Why, faith, should there be an opportunity, I don’t advise you not.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Immo edepol, si érit occasio, haúd dehortor.

[¶70] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
Do you allow us to make one request.
A SLAVE:
What is it, pray?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Únum exoráre vos sínite nos.
Lorarivs:
Quídnam id est?

[¶71] PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS:
That you will give us an opportunity of conversing, without these and yourselves for overlookers.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Út sine hisce arbitris
átque vobis nobis détis lócum loquendi.

[¶72] A SLAVE:
Be it so; go you away from here, you people. Let’s step here, on one side.
(To the other CAPTIVES and SLAVES.)

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Fíat. abscédite hinc: nós concedámus huc.

[¶73] But commence upon a short conversation only.
PHILOCRATES:
O yes, it was my intention so to do. Step aside this way.
(to TYNDARUS.)
A SLAVE: (to the other CAPTIVES.)

> Latin: séd brevem orátionem íncipisse.
Tyndarvs:
Em istúc mihi certum erat. cóncede huc.

[¶74] Stand apart from them.
TYNDARUS: (to the SLAVE.)
We are both greatly obliged to you, by reason of your doing so, since you allow us to obtain what we are desirous of.

> Latin: Lorarivs:
Abíte ab ístis.
Tyndarvs:
Obnóxii ámbo
vóbis sumus própter hanc rém, quom quae vólumus nos
copia est † ea facitis nos compotes.

[¶75] PHILOCRATES:
Step here then, at a distance now, if you think fit,
that no listeners may be enabled to overhear our discourse, and that this plan of ours mayn’t be divulged before them for a stratagem is no stratagem, if you don’t plan it with art but it is a very great misfortune if it becomes disclosed. For if you are my master, and I represent myself as your servant,
still there’s need of foresight, and need of caution, that this may be carried out discreetly and without overlookers, with carefulness and with cautious prudence and diligence. So great is the mutter that has been commenced upon; this must not be carried out in any drowsy fashion.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Sécede huc núnciam, sí videtúr, procul,
ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari queant
neu permanet palam haec nostra fallacia.
nam doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas,
sed malum maxumum, si id palam provenit.
nam sí erus mihi es tu átque ego me túom esse servom assímulo,
tamen víso opust, cauto est opus, ut hoc sóbrie sineque árbitris
accúrate agátur, docte ét diligénter;
tanta íncepta rés est: haud sómniculóse hoc
agéndum est.

[¶76] TYNDARUS:
Just as you shall desire me to be, I will be.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ero út me volés esse.

[¶77] PHILOCRATES:
I trust so.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Spéro.

[¶78] TYNDARUS:
For now you see that for your precious life I’m setting at stake my own, as dear to me.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Nam tú nunc vidés pro tuó caro cápite
carum ófferre ⟨mé⟩ meum capút vilitáti.

[¶79] PHILOCRATES:
I know it.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Scio.

[¶80] TYNDARUS:
But remember to know it when you shall be enjoying that which you wish for; for mostly, the greatest part of mankind follow this fashion; what they wish for, until they obtain it, they are rightminded; but when they have now got it in their power,
from being rightminded they become most deceitful, and most dishonest; now I do consider that you are towards me as I wish. What I advise you, I would advise my own father.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At scíre memento, quándo id quód voles habébis;
nam fére maxima pars mórem hunc hominés habent: quod síbi volunt,
dum id ímpetrant, boní sunt;
sed íd ubi iam penes sése habent,
éx bonis péssimi et fraúdulentíssimi
fíunt: nunc út mihi té volo esse aútumo.
[quód tibi suádeam, suádeam meó patri.]

[¶81] PHILOCRATES:
I’ faith, if I could venture, I would call you father; for next to my own father, you are my nearest father.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Pól ego si te aúdeam, meúm patrem nóminem:
nám secundúm patrem tu és pater próximus.

[¶82] TYNDARUS:
I understand.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Aúdio.

[¶83] PHILOCRATES:
And therefore I remind you the more frequently, that you may remember it. I am not your master, but your servant; now this one thing I do beseech you. Inasmuch as the immortal Gods have disclosed to us their wishes, that they desire me to have once been your master, and now to be your fellow-captive; what formerly of my right I used to command you, now with entreaties do I beg of you,
by our uncertain fortunes, and by the kindness of my father towards you, and by our common captivity, which has befallen us by the hand of the enemy, don’t you pay me any greater respect than I did you when you were my slave; and don’t you forget to remember who you were, and who you now are.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Et proptérea saepiús te uti memíneris moneo:
non ego erus tibi, sed servos sum; nunc obsecro te hoc unum—
quoniam nobis di immortales animum ostenderunt suom,
ut qui erum me tibi fuisse atque esse conservom velint,
quom antehac pro iure imperitabam meo, nunc te oro per precem—
per fortunam incertam et per mei te erga bonitatem patris,
perque consérvitium commune, quód hostica evenit manu,
ne me secus honore honestes quam quom servibas mihi,
atque ut qui fueris et qui nunc sis meminisse ut memineris.

[¶84] TYNDARUS:
I know, indeed, that I now am you, and that you are I.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Scio quidem me te esse nunc et te esse me.

[¶85] PHILOCRATES:
Well, if you are able carefully to remember that, 1 have some hope in this scheme of ours.
(Enter HEGIO, from his house, speaking to those within.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Em istuc si potes
memoriter meminisse, inest spes nobis ín hac astutia.

[¶86] HEGIO:
I shall return in-doors just now, when I shall have discovered from these people what I want to know. (To the SLAVES.) Where are those persons whom I ordered to be brought out of doors here, before the house?

> Latin: Hegio:
Iam ego revertar intro, si ex his quae volo exquisivero.
ubi sunt isti quos ante aedis iussi huc produci foras?

[¶87] PHILOCRATES:
By my faith, I find that you have taken due precaution that we shouldn’t be missed by you, so walled in are we with chains and keepers.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Edepol tibi ne in quaestione essemus cautum intellego,
ita vinclis custodiisque circum moeniti sumus.

[¶88] HEGIO:
He that takes precaution that he mayn’t be deceived, is hardly on his guard, even while he’s taking precaution; even when he has supposed that he has taken every precaution, full often is this wary man outwitted. Was there not good reason, indeed, for me to watch you carefully, whom I purchased with so large a sum of ready money?

> Latin: Hegio:
Qui cavet ne decipiatur, vix cavet, cum etiam cavet;
etiam cum cavisse ratus est, saepe is cautor captus est.
an vero non iusta causa est, ut vos servem sedulo,
quos tam grandi sim mercatus praesenti pecunia?

[¶89] PHILOCRATES:
Troth, it isn’t fair for us to hold you to blame, because you watch us closely;
nor yet for you us, if we go away hence, should there be an opportunity.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Neque pol tibi nos, quia nos servas, aequomst vitio vortere,
neque te nobis, sí abeamus hinc, si fuat occasio.

[¶90] HEGIO:
As you are here, so is my son a captive there among your people.

> Latin: Hegio:
Vt vos hic, itidem illic apud vos meus servatur filius.

[¶91] PHILOCRATES:
He, a captive?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Captus est?

[¶92] HEGIO:
Even so.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ita.

[¶93] PHILOCRATES:
We, then, have not proved the only cowards.
HEGIO: (to PHILOCRATES, supposing him to be the SERVANT of the other.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Non igitur nos soli ignavi fuimus.

[¶94] Step you aside this way, for there are some things that I wish to enquire of you in private, on which subjects I would have you not to be untruthful to me.
(They step aside.)
PHILOCRATES:
I will not be,
as to that which I shall know; if I shall not know anything, that which I don’t know I’ll tell you of.
TYNDARUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Secede huc. nam sunt quae éx te solo scitari volo.
quarum rerum te falsilocum mi esse nolo.
Philocrates:
Non ero
quod sciam. si quid nescibo, id nescium tradam tibi.

[¶95] Now is the old fellow in the barber’s shop; now, at this very instant, is Philocrates wielding the razor. He hasn’t cared, indeed, to put on the barber’s cloth, so as not to soil his dress. But whether to say that he’s going to shave him close, or trim him through the comb, I don’t know; but if he’s wise, he’ll scrape him right well to the very quick.
HEGIO: (to PHILOCRATES.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Nunc senex est in tostrina, nunc iam cultros attinet.
ne id quidem, involucrum inicere, voluit, vestem ut ne inquinet.
sed utrum strictimne adtonsurum dicam esse an per pectinem,
nescio; verum, si frugist, usque admutilabit probe.

[¶96] Which would you? Would you prefer to be a slave, or a free man?—Tell me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid tu? servosne esse an liber mavelis, memora mihi.

[¶97] PHILOCRATES:
That which is the nearest to good, and the furthest off from evil, do I prefer; although my servitude hasn’t proved very grievous to me, nor has it been otherwise to me than if I had been a son in the family.
TYNDARUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Proxumum quod sit bono quodque a malo longissume,
id volo; quamquam non multum fuit molesta servitus,
nec mihi secus erat quam si essem familiaris filius.

[¶98] Capital! I wouldn’t purchase, at a talent’s price even, Thales the Milesian;
for compared with this man’s wisdom, he was a very twaddler. How cleverly has he suited his language to the slave’s condition.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Eugepae, Thalem talento non emam Milesium,
nam ad sapientiam huius … nimius nugator fuit.
ut facete orationem ad servitutem contulit.

[¶99] HEGIO:
Of what family is this Philocrates born?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quo de genere natust illic Philocrates?

[¶100] PHILOCRATES:
The Polyplusian; which one family is flourishing there, and held in highest esteem.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Polyplusio:
quod genus illi est unum pollens atque honoratissumum.

[¶101] HEGIO:
What is he himself? In what esteem is he held there?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid ipsus hic? quo honore est illic?

[¶102] PHILOCRATES:
In the highest, and that by the very highest men.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Summo, atque ab summis viris.

[¶103] HEGIO:
Since, then, he is held in such great respect among the Eleans, as you tell of, what substance has he?—Of large amount?

> Latin: Hegio:
[Tum igitur ei cum in Aleis tanta gratia est, ut praedicas,]
quid divitiae, suntne opimae?

[¶104] PHILOCRATES:
Enough for him, even, when an old man, to be melting out the tallow.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Vnde excoquat sebum senex.

[¶105] HEGIO:
What is his father? Is he living?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid pater, vivitne?

[¶106] PHILOCRATES:
When we departed thence, we left him alive; whether he’s living now or not, Orcus, forsooth, must know that.
TYNDARUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Vivom, cum inde abimus, liquimus;
nunc vivat⟨ne⟩ necne, id Orcum scire oportet scilicet.

[¶107] The matter’s all right; he’s not only lying, but he’s even philosophizing now.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Salva res est, philosophatur quoque iam, non mendax modo est.

[¶108] HEGIO:
What’s his name?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid erat ei nomen?

[¶109] PHILOCRATES:
Thesaurochrysonicocrœsides.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Thensaurochrysonicochrysides.

[¶110] HEGIO:
That name has been given, I suppose, by reason of his wealth, as it were.

> Latin: Hegio:
Videlicet propter divitias inditum id nomen quasi est.

[¶111] PHILOCRATES:
Troth, not so, but rather by reason of his avarice and grasping disposition; for, indeed, he was Theodoromedes originally by name.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Immo edepol propter avaritiam ipsius atque audaciam.
[nam ille quidem Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine.]

[¶112] HEGIO:
How say you? Is his father covetous?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid tu ais? tenaxne pater est eius?

[¶113] PHILOCRATES:
Aye, by my faith, he is covetous.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Immo edepol pertinax;

[¶114] Why, that you may even understand it the better,—when he’s sacrificing at any time to his own Genius, the vessels that are needed for the sacrifice he uses of Samian ware, lest the Genius himself should steal them; from this, consider how much he would trust other people.
HEGIO: (addressing TYNDARUS as though PHILOCRATES.)

> Latin: quin etiam ut magis nóscas: Genio suo ubi quando sacruficat,
ad rem divinam quibus est opus, Samiis vasis utitur,
ne ipse Genius surripiat: proinde aliis ut credat vide.

[¶115] Do you then follow me this way. (Aside.) The things that I desire to know, I’ll enquire of him. (Addressing TYNDARUS.) Philocrates, this person has done as it becomes an honest man to do.

> Latin: Hegio:
Sequere hac me igitur. eadem ego ex hoc quae volo exquaesivero.
Philocrates, hic fecit, hominem frugi ut facere oportuit.

[¶116] For from him I’ve learnt of what family you are sprung; he has confessed it to me. If you are willing to own these same things (which, however, understand that I already know from him), you will be doing it for your own advantage.
TYNDARUS:
He did his duty when he confessed the truth to you, although, Hegio, I wished carefully to conceal both my rank and my wealth;
now, inasmuch as I’ve lost my country and my liberty, I don’t think it right for him to be dreading me rather than you. The might of warfare has made my fortunes on a level with himself. I remember the time when he didn’t dare to do it in word; now, in deed, he is at liberty to offend me. But don’t you see? Human fortune moulds and fashions just as she wills.

> Latin: nám ego ex hoc quo genere gnatus sis scio, hic fassust mihi;
haec tu eadem si confiteri vis, tua ⟨ex⟩ re feceris:
quae tamen scio scire me ex hoc.
Tyndarvs:
Fecit officium hic suom,
cum tibi est confessus verum, quam⟨quam⟩ volui sedulo
meam nobilitatem occultare et genus et divitias meas,
Hegio; nunc quando patriam et libertatem perdidi,
non ego istúnc me potius quam te metuere aequom censeo.
vis hostilis cum istoc fecit meas opes aequabiles;
memini, cum dicto haud audebat: facto nunc laedat licet.
sed viden? fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet:

[¶117] Myself, who was a free man she has made a slave, from the very highest the very lowest. I, who was accustomed to command, now obey the mandates of another. And indeed, if I meet with a master just such as I proved the ruler in my own household, I shall not fear that he will rule me harshly or severely. With this, Hegio, I wished you to be acquainted, unless perchance you your self wish it not.

> Latin: me, qui liber fueram, servom fecit, e summo infimum;
qui imperare insueram, nunc alterius imperio obsequor.
et quidem si, proinde ut ipse fui imperator familiae,
habeam dominum, non verear ne iniuste aut graviter mi imperet.
Hegio, hoc te monitum, nisi forte ipse non vis, voluerim.

[¶118] HEGIO:
Speak boldly out.

> Latin: Hegio:
Loquere audacter.

[¶119] TYNDARUS:
As free a man was I till lately as your son. As much did a hostile hand deprive me of my liberty as him of his. As much is he a slave among my people, as I am now a slave here with yourself. There is undoubtedly a God, who both hears and sees the things which we do. Just as you shall treat me here, in the same degree will he have a care for him.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Tam ego fui ante liber quam gnatus tuos,
tam mihi quam illi libertatem hostilis eripuit manus,
tam ille apud nos servit, quam ego nunc hic apud te servio.
est profecto deus, qui quae nos gerimus auditque et videt:
is, uti tu me hic habueris, proinde illum illic curaverit;

[¶120] To the well-deserving will he show favour, to the ill-deserving will he give a like return. As much as you lament your son, so much does my father lament me.

> Latin: bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti par erit.
quam tu filium tuom, tam páter me meus desiderat.

[¶121] HEGIO:
That I am aware of. But do you admit the same that lie has disclosed to me?

> Latin: Hegio:
Memini ego istuc. sed faterin eadem quae hic fassust mihi?

[¶122] TYNDARUS:
I confess that my father has very great wealth at home, and that I am born of a very noble family; but I entreat you, Hegio,
let not my riches make your mind too prone to avarice, lest it should seem to my father, although I am his only son, more suitable that I should be a slave in your house, bountifully supplied at your expense and with your clothing, rather than be living the life of a beggar where ‘twould be far from honorable.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ego patri meo esse fateor summas divitias domi
meque summo genere gnatum. sed te optestor, Hegio,
ne tuom animum avariorem faxint divitiae meae:
ne patri, tam étsi sum unicus, decere videatur magis,
me saturum servire apud te sumptu et vestitu tuo
potius quam illi, ubi minime honestumst, mendicantem vivere.

[¶123] HEGIO:
By the favour of the Gods and of my forefathers, I am rich enough.

> Latin: Hegio:
[Ego virtute deum et maiorum nostrum dives sum satis.]

[¶124] I don’t quite believe that every kind of gain is serviceable to mankind. I know that gain has already made many a man famous; and yet there are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Gold I detest: many a one has it persuaded to many an evil course. Now give your attention to this, that you may know as well what my wishes are.

> Latin: non ego ómnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo:
scio ego, multos iam lucrum lutulentos homines reddidit;
est etiam ubi profecto damnum praestet facere quam lucrum.
odi ego aurum: multa multis saepe suasit perperam.
nunc hoc animum advorte, ut ea quae sentio pariter scias.

[¶125] My son, taken prisoner. is in servitude at Elis there among your people; if you restore him to me, don’t you give me a single coin besides; both you and him, your servant, I’ll send back from here; on no other terms can you depart hence.

> Latin: filius meus illic apud vos servit captus Alide:
eum si reddis mihi, praeterea únum nummum ne duis;
et te et hunc amittam hinc. alio pacto abire non potes.

[¶126] TYNDARUS:
You ask what’s very right and very just, and you are the very kindest person of all mankind. But whether is he in servitude to a private person or to the public?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Optumum atque aequissumum oras optumusque hominum es homo.
sed is privatam servitutem servit illi an publicam?

[¶127] HEGIO:
In private servitude to Menarchus, a physician.
PHILOCRATES:
By my faith, that person’s surely his father’s dependant. Why really, that’s down as pat for you, as the shower is when it rains.

> Latin: Hegio:
Privatam medici Menarchi.
Tyndarvs:
Pol is quidem huius est cliens.
tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi quam imber est quando pluit.

[¶128] HEGIO:
Do you then cause this person, my son, to be redeemed.

> Latin: Hegio:
Fac is homo ut redimatur.

[¶129] TYNDARUS:
I’ll do so: but this I beg of you, Hegio—

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Faciam. sed te id oro, Hegio—

[¶130] HEGIO:
Whatever you wish, so that you request nothing against my interest, I’ll do.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid vis, dum ab re ne quid ores, faciam.

[¶131] TYNDARUS:
Listen then, and you’ll know. I don’t ask for myself to be released, until he has returned.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ausculta, tum scies.
ego me amitti, donicum ille huc redierit, non postulo.

[¶132] But I beg of you to give me him (pointing to PHILOCRATES) with a price set upon him, that I may send him to my father, that this person, your son, may be redeemed there.
HEGIO:
Why no; I’d rather send another person hence, when there shall be a truce, to confer with your father there, and to carry your injunctions which you shall entrust him with, just as you wish.

> Latin: verum quaeso ut aestumatum hunc mihi des, quem mittam ad patrem,
ut is homo redimatur illi.
Hegio:
Immo alium potius misero
hinc, ubi erunt indutiae, illuc, tuom qui conveniat patrem,
qui tua quae tu iusseris mandata ita út velis perferat.

[¶133] TYNDARUS:
But it’s of no use to send to him one that he doesn’t know; you’d be losing your labour.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At nihil est ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris.

[¶134] Send this person; he’ll have it all completed, if he gets there. And you cannot send any person to him more faithful, nor one in whom he places more confidence, nor who is more a servant after his own mind; nor, in fact, one to whom he would more readily entrust your son. Have no fears; at my own peril I’ll make proof of his fidelity,
relying upon his disposition; because he is sensible that I’m kindly disposed towards him.

> Latin: hunc mitte, hic transactum reddet omne, si illuc venerit.
nec quemquam fideliorem neque cui plus credat potes
mittere ad eum nec qui magis sit servos ex sententia,
neque adeo cui suom concredat filium hodie audacius.
ne vereare, meo periclo húius ego experiar fidem,
fretus ingenio eius, quod me ésse scit erga se benevolum.

[¶135] HEGIO:
Well then, I’ll send him with a price set upon him, on the surety of your promise, if you wish it.

> Latin: Hegio:
Mittam equidem istunc aestumatum tua fide, si vis.

[¶136] TYNDARUS:
I do wish it; so soon as ever it can, I want this matter to be brought to completion.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Volo;
quam citissime potest, tam hoc cedere ad factum volo.

[¶137] HEGIO:
What reason is there, then, that if he doesn’t return, you should not pay me twenty minae for him?

> Latin: Hegio:
Num quae causa est quin, si ille huc non redeat, viginti minas
mihi des pro illo?

[¶138] TYNDARUS:
Yes—very good.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Optuma immo.

[¶139] HEGIO: (to the SLAVES, who obey.)
Release him now forthwith;
and, indeed, both of them.
(On being released, PHILOCRATES goes into the house.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Solvite istum nunciam,
atque utrumque.

[¶140] TYNDARUS:
May all the Gods grant you all your desires, since you have deigned me honor so great, and since you release me from my chains. Really, this is not so irksome now, since my neck is free from the collar-chain.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Di tibi omnis omnia optata offerant,
cum me tanto honore honestas cumque ex vinclis eximis.
hoc quidem haud molestumst, iam quod collus collari caret.

[¶141] HEGIO:
The kindnesses that are done to the good, thanks for the same are pregnant with blessings. Now, if you are about to send him thither, direct, instruct him, give him the orders
which you wish to be carried to your father. Should you like me to call him to you?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quod bonis bene fit beneficium, gratia ea gravida est bonis.
nunc tu illum si illo es missurus, dice monstra praecipe
quae ad patrem vis nuntiari. vin vocem huc ad te?

[¶142] TYNDARUS:
Do call him.
(HEGIO goes to the door, and calls PHILOCRATES.) (Enter PHILOCRATES, from the house)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Voca.

[¶143] HEGIO:
May this affair turn out happily for myself and for my son, and for yourselves. (To PHILOCRATES.) Your new master wishes you to pay faithful obedience to your former owner in what he wishes. For I have presented you to him, with the price of twenty minae set upon you:
and he says that he is desirous to send you away hence to his father, that he may there redeem my son, and that an exchange may be made between me and him for our respective sons.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quae res bene vortat mihi meoque filio
vobisque, volt te novos erus operam dare
tuo veteri domino, quod is velit, fideliter.
nam ego te aestumatum huíc dedi viginti minis,
hic autem té ait mittere hinc velle ad patrem,
meum ut illic redimat filium, mutatio
inter me atque illum ut nostris fiat filiis.

[¶144] PHILOCRATES:
My disposition takes its course straight in either direction, both to yourself and to him; as a wheel you may make use of me;

> Latin: Philocrates:
Vtroque vorsum rectumst ingenium meum,
ad te atque ad illum; pro rota me uti licet:

[¶145] either this way or that can I be turned, whichever way you shall command me.

> Latin: vel ego huc vel illuc vortar, quo imperabitis.

[¶146] HEGIO:
You yourself profit the most from your own disposition, when you endure slavery just as it ought to be endured. Follow me. (To TYNDARUS.) See here’s your man.

> Latin: Hegio:
Tute tibi tuopte ingenio prodes plurumum,
cum servitutem íta fers ut ferri decet.
sequere. em tibi hominem.

[¶147] TYNDARUS:
I return you thanks, since you give me this opportunity and permission
to send this messenger to my parents, who may relate all the matter in its order to my father, what I’m doing here, and what I wish to be done. (To PHILOCRATES.) Now, Tyndarus, thus is it arranged between myself and him, that I’m to send you, valued at a fixed price, to my father in Elis;
so that, if you don’t return hither, I’m to give twenty minae for you.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Gratiám habeo tibi,
quom copiam istam mi et potestatem facis,
ut ego ad parentes hunc remittam nuntium,
qui me quid rerum hic agitem et quid fieri velim
patri meo, ordine omnem rem, illuc perferat.
nunc ita convenit inter me atque hunc, Tyndare,
ut te aestumatum in Alidem mittam ad patrem,
si non rebitas huc, ut viginti minas
dem pro te.

## 2. Lines 371–709

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/2/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/2/#p-N

[¶0] PHILOCRATES:
I think that you’ve come to a right understanding. For your father expects either myself or some messenger to come from here to him.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Recte convenisse sentio.
nam pater expectat aut me aut aliquem nuntium,
qui hinc ad se veniat.

[¶1] TYNDARUS:
I wish you, then, to mind what message it is I want you to carry hence to my country to my father.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ergo animum advortas volo
quae nuntiare hinc te volo in patriam ad patrem.

[¶2] PHILOCRATES:
Philocrates, as up to this moment I have done, I will take all due care to endeavour that which may especially conduce to your interest, and to pursue the same with heart and soul, and with my ears.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Phílocrates, ut adhuc locorum feci, faciam sedulo,
ut potissimum quod in rem recte conducat tuam,
id petam idque persequar corde et animo atque viribus.

[¶3] TYNDARUS:
You act just as you ought to act; now I wish you to give attention. In the first place of all, carry my respects to my mother and my father,
and to my relations, and if any one else you see well-disposed towards me: say that I am in health here, and that I am a slave, in servitude to this most worthy man, who has ever honored me more and more with his respect, and does so still.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Facis ita ut te facere oportet. nunc animum advortas volo:
omnium primum salutem dicito matri et patri
et cognatis et si quem alium benevolentem videris;
me hic valere et servitutem servire huic homini optumo,
qui me honore honestiorem semper fecit et facit.

[¶4] PHILOCRATES:
Don’t you be instructing me as to that; I can, still, easily bear that in mind.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Istuc ne praecipias, facile memoria memini tamen.

[¶5] TYNDARUS:
For, indeed, except that I have a keeper, I deem myself to be a free man.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Nam equidem, nisi quod custodem habeo, liberum me esse arbitror.

[¶6] Tell my father on what terms I have agreed with this party about his son.
PHILOCRATES:
What I remember, it is sheer delay to be putting me in mind of.

> Latin: dicito patri, quo pacto mihi cum hoc convenerit
de huius filio.
Philocrates:
Quae memini, mora mera est monerier.

[¶7] TYNDARUS:
To redeem him, and to send him back here in exchange for both of us.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Vt eum redimat et remittat nostrum huc amborum vicem.

[¶8] PHILOCRATES:
I’ll remember it.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Meminero.

[¶9] HEGIO:
But as soon as he can that is especially to the interest of us both.

> Latin: Hegio:
At quamprimum pote: istuc in rem utriquest maxime.

[¶10] PHILOCRATES:
You are not more anxious to see your son, than he is to see his.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Non tuom tu magis videre quam ille suom gnatum cupit.

[¶11] HEGIO:
My son is dear to myself, and his own to every man.

> Latin: Hegio:
Meus mihi, suos cuique est carus.

[¶12] PHILOCRATES: (to TYNDARUS.)
Do you wish any other message to be carried to your father?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Numquid aliud vis patri
nuntiari?

[¶13] TYNDARUS:
Say that I am well here; and do you boldly tell him, Tyndarus, that we have been of dispositions for uninterrupted harmony between ourselves, and that you have neither been deserving of censure, nor that I have proved your enemy; and that still, amid miseries so great, you have shown implicit obedience to your master,
and that you have never abandoned me, either in deed or in fidelity, amid my wavering, unprosperous fortunes. When my father shall know this, Tyndarus, how well-disposed you have proved towards his son and himself, he will never be so avaricious but that he’ll give you your liberty for nothing. And by my own endeavours, if I return hence, I’ll make him do so the more readily.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Me hic valere et (tute audacter dicito,
Tyndare) inter nos fuisse ingenio haud discordabili,
neque te commeruisse culpam (neque me adversatum tibi)
beneque ero gessisse morem in tantis aerumnis tamen;
neque med umquam deseruisse te neque factis neque fide,
rebus in dubiis egenis. haec pater quando sciet,
Tyndare, ut fueris animatus erga suom gnatum atque se,
numquam erit tam avarus, quin te gratiis emittat manu †
et mea opera, si hinc rebito, faciam ut faciat facilius.

[¶14] For by your aid and kindness, and good disposition and prudence, you have caused me to be allowed to return to my parents once again, inasmuch as to Hegio you have confessed both my rank and my wealth; by means of which, through your wisdom, you have liberated your master from his chains.

> Latin: nam tua opera et comitate et virtute et sapientia
fecisti ut redire liceat ad parentis denuo,
cúm apud hunc confessus es et genus et divitias meas:
quo pacto emisisti e vinclis tuom erum tua sapientia.

[¶15] PHILOCRATES:
The things which you mention I have done, and I am pleased that you remember this.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Feci ego ista út commemoras, et te meminisse id gratum est mihi.

[¶16] Deservedly have they been done for you by me; for now, Philocrates, if I, too, were to mention the things that you have kindly done for me, the night would cut short the day. For, had you been my slave even, no otherwise were you always obliging to me.
HEGIO:
Ye Gods, by our trust in you! behold the kindly disposition of these persons! How they draw the very tears from me!

> Latin: merito tibi ea evenerunt a me; nam nunc, Philocrates,
sí ego item memorem quae me erga multa fecisti bene,
nox diem adimat; nam quasi servos meus esses, nihilo setius
⟨tu⟩ mihi obsequiosus semper fuisti.
Hegio:
Di vostram fidem,
hominum ingenium liberale. ut lacrumas excutiunt mihi.

[¶17] See how cordially they love each other, and with what praises the servant has commended his master.
PHILOCRATES:
I’ troth, he hasn’t commended me the one hundredth part of what he himself deserves to be commended in my praises.
HEGIO: (to PHILOCRATES.)

> Latin: videas corde amare inter se. quantis ⟨lautus⟩ laudibus
suom erum servos collaudavit.
Tyndarvs:
Pól istic me haud centesimam
partem laudat quam ipse meritust ut laudetur laudibus.

[¶18] Since, then, you have acted most becomingly, now there’s an opportunity to add to your good deeds in managing this matter with fidelity towards him.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ergo cum optume fecisti, nunc adest occasio
bene facta cumulare, ut erga hunc rem geras fideliter.

[¶19] PHILOCRATES:
I am not able more to wish it done, than by my endeavours to try to bring it about. That you may know this, Hegio, with praises do I call supreme Jove to witness that I will not prove unfaithful to Philocrates —

> Latin: Philocrates:
Magis non factum possum velle, quam opera experiar persequi;
id ut scias, Iovem supremum testem laudo, Hegio,
me infidelem non futurum Philocrati.

[¶20] HEGIO:
You are a worthy fellow.

> Latin: Hegio:
Probus es homo.

[¶21] PHILOCRATES:
And that I will never in anything act otherwise towards him than towards my own self.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Nec me secus umquam ei facturum quicquam quam memet mihi.

[¶22] TYNDARUS:
I wish you to put these speeches to the test, both by your deeds and your actions;

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Istaec dicta te experiri et operis et factis volo;

[¶23] and inasmuch as I have said the less about you than I had wished, I wish you the more to give me your attention, and take you care not to be angry with me by reason of these words. But, I beseech you, reflect that you are sent hence home with a price set upon you at my risk, and that my life is here left as a pledge for you. Do not you forget me the very moment that you have left my presence,
since you will have left me here behind a captive in captivity for yourself, and don’t consider yourself as free, and forsake your pledge, and not use your endeavours for you to bring his son home again, in return for me. Understand that you are sent hence valued at twenty minae. Take care to prove scrupulously faithful; take care that you show not a wavering fidelity.

> Latin: et, quo minus dixi quam volui de te, animum advortas volo,
atque horunc verborum causa caveto mi iratus fuas;
sed, te quaeso, cogitato hinc mea fide mitti domum
te aestimatum, et méam esse vitam hic pro te positam pignori,
ne tu me ignores, quom extemplo meo é conspectu abscesseris,
quom me servom in servitute pro ted hic reliqueris,
tuque te pro libero esse ducas, pignus deseras
neque des operam pro me ut huius reducem facias filium;
[scito te hinc minis viginti aéstumatum mittier.]
fac fidelis sis fideli, cave fidem fluxam geras:

[¶24] For my father, I am sure, will do everything that he ought to do. Preserve me as a constant friend to you, and find out this person so lately discovered. These things, by your right hand, holding you with my own right hand, do I beg of you; do not prove less true to me than I have proved to you. This matter do you attend to; you are now my master, you my patron, you my father;
to you do I commend my hopes and my fortunes.
PHILOCRATES:
You have given injunctions enough. Are you satisfied if I bring back accomplished what you have enjoined?

> Latin: nam pater, scio, faciet quae illum facere oportet omnia;
serva tibi in perpetuom amicum me, atque hunc inventum inveni.
haec per dexteram tuam te dextera retinens manu
opsecro, infidelior mihi ne fuas quam ego sum tibi.
tu hóc age. tu mihí erus nunc es, tu patronus, tu pater,
tibi commendo spes opesque meas.
Philocrates:
Mandavisti satis.
satin habes, mandata quae sunt facta si refero?

[¶25] TYNDARUS:
Satisfied.
PHILOCRATES: (to HEGIO.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Satis.

[¶26] According to your wishes, and (to TYNDARUS) according to yours, will I return hither provided. Is there anything else?
TYNDARUS:
For you to return back as soon as ever you can.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Et tua et tua huc ornatus reveniam ex sententia.
numquid aliud?
Tyndarvs:
Vt quam primum possis redeas.

[¶27] PHILOCRATES:
The business itself reminds me of that.
HEGIO: (to PHILOCRATES.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Res monet.

[¶28] Follow me, that I may give you your expenses for the journey at my banker’s;
on the same occasion I’ll get a passport from the Praetor.
TYNDARUS:
What passport?

> Latin: Hegio:
Sequere me, viaticum ut dem á trapezita tibi,
eadem opera a praetore sumam syngraphum.
Tyndarvs:
Quem syngraphum?

[¶29] HEGIO:
For him to take with him hence to the army, that he may be allowed to go home from here. (To TYNDARUS.) You go in-doors.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quem hic ferat secum ad legionem, hinc ire huic ut liceat domum.
tu intro abi.

[¶30] TYNDARUS:
Speed you well.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Bene ambulato.—

[¶31] PHILOCRATES:
Right heartily, farewell.
(TYNDARUS goes into the house.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Bene vale.

[¶32] HEGIO: (aside.)
I’ faith, I compassed my design, when I purchased these men of the Quaestors out of the spoil. I have released my son from slavery, if so it pleases the Gods;

> Latin: Hegio:
Edepol rem meam
constabilivi, quom illos emi de praeda a quaestoribus;
expedivi ex servitute filium, si dis placet.

[¶33] and yet I hesitated a long time whether I should purchase or should not purchase these persons. Watch that man indoors, if you please, you servants, that he may nowhere move a foot without a guard. I shall soon make my appearance at home; now I’m going to my brother’s, to see my other captives; at the same time I’ll enquire whether any one knows this young man.

> Latin: at etiam dubitavi, hos homines emerem an non emerem, diu.
servate istum sultis intus, servi, ne quoquam pedem
ecferat sine custodela. ⟨iam⟩ ego apparebo domi;
ad fratrem modo captivos alios inviso meos,
eadem percontabor, ecquis hunc ádulescentem noverit.

[¶34] (To PHILOCRATES.) Do you follow, that I may despatch you. I wish attention first to be paid to that matter.
(Exeunt.) (Enter ERGASILUS.)
ERGASILUS:
Wretched is that man who is in search of something to eat, and finds that with difficulty; but more wretched is he who both seeks with difficulty, and finds nothing at all; most wretched is he, who, when he desires to eat, has not that which he may eat. But, by my faith, if I only could, I’d willingly tear out the eyes of this day;
—with such enmity has it filled all people towards me. One more starved out I never did see, nor one more filled with hunger, nor one who prospers less in whatever he begins to do. So much do my stomach and my throat take rest on these fasting holidays. Away with the profession of a Parasite to very utter and extreme perdition!
so much in these days do the young men drive away from them the needy drolls. They care nothing now-a-days for these Laconian men of the lowest benches—these whipping-posts, who have their clever sayings without provision and without money. They now-a-days seek those who, when they’ve eaten at their pleasure, may give them a return at their own houses. They go themselves to market, which formerly was the province of the Parasites.
They go themselves from the Forum to the procurers with face as exposed as the magistrates in court, with face exposed, condemn those who are found guilty; nor do they now value buffoons at one farthing; all are so much in love with themselves. For, when, just now, I went away from here, I came to some young men in the Forum: “Good morrow,” said I; “whither are we going together to breakfast?” On this, they were silent.

> Latin: sequere tu, te ut amittam; ei rei primum praevorti volo.—
Ergasilvs:
Míser homo est, qui ipse sibi quod edit quaerit et id aegre invenit,
sed ille est miserior, qui et aegre quaerit et nihil invenit;
ille miserrimust, qui cum esse cupit, ⟨tum⟩ quod edit non habet.
nam hercle ego huic die, si liceat, oculos effodiam libens,
ita malignitate oneravit omnis mortalis mihi;
neque ieiuniosiorem neque magis ecfertum fame
vidi nec quoi minus procedat quidquid facere occeperit,
ita venter gutturque resident esurialis ferias.
ilicet parasiticae arti maximam malam crucem,
ita iuventus iam ridiculos inopesque ab se segregat.
nil morantur iam Lacones unisubselli viros,
plagipatidas, quibus sunt verba sine penu et pecunia:
eos requirunt, qui libenter, quom ederint, reddant domi;
ipsi obsonant, quae parasitorum ante erat provincia,
ipsi de foro tam aperto capite ad lenones eunt
quam in tribú aperto capite sontes condemnant reos;
neque ridiculos iam terrunci faciunt, sese omnes amant.
nám uti dudum hinc abii, accessi ad adulescentes in foro.
“salvete” inquam. “quo imus una” ínquam “ad prandium?” atque illi tacent.

[¶35] “Who says, ‘here, at my house,’ or who makes an offer?” said I. Just like dumb men, they were silent, and didn’t smile at me. “Where do we dine?” said I. On this they declined. I said one funny saying out of my best bon mots, by which I formerly used to get feasting for a month; not an individual smiled; at once I knew that the matter was arranged by concert.

> Latin: “quis ait ‘hoc’ aut quis profitetur?” inquam. quasi muti silent,
neque me rident. “ubi cenamus?” inquam. átque illi abnuont.
dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus,
quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier:
nemo ridet; scivi extemplo rem de compecto geri;

[¶36] Not even one was willing to imitate a dog when provoked; if they didn’t laugh, they might, at least, have grinned with their teeth. From them I went away, after I saw that I was thus made sport of. I went to some others; then to some others I came; then to some others—the same the result. All treat the matter in confederacy, just like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.

> Latin: ne canem quidem irritatam voluit quisquam imitarier,
saltem, si non arriderent, dentes ut restringerent.
abeo ab illis, postquam video me sic ludificarier;
pergo ad alios, venio ad alios, deinde ad alios: una res.
omnes ⟨de⟩ compecto rém agunt, quasi in Velabro olearii.

[¶37] Now, I’ve returned thence, since I see myself made sport of there. In like manner do other Parasites walk to and fro, to no purpose, in the Forum. Now, after the foreign fashion, I’m determined to enforce all my rights. Those who have entered into a confederacy, by which to deprive us of food and life,—for them I’ll name a day. I’ll demand, as the damages, that they shall give me ten dinners
at my own option, when provisions are dear: thus will I do. Now I’ll go hence to the harbour. There, is my only hope of a dinner; if that shall fail me, I’ll return here to the old gentleman, to his unsavoury dinner.
(Enter HEGIO and ARISTOPHONTES.)
HEGIO: (to himself.)
What is there more delightful than to manage one’s own interests well for the public good, just as I did yesterday,
when I purchased these men. Every person, as they see me, comes to meet me, and congratulates me on this matter. By thus stopping and detaining unlucky me, they’ve made me quite tired. With much ado have I survived from being congratulated, to my misfortune.

> Latin: nunc redeo inde, quoniam mé ibi video ludificarier.
item alii parasiti frustra obambulabant in foro.
nunc barbarica lege certumst ius meum omne persequi:
qui consilium iniere, quo nos victu et vita prohibeant,
is diem dicam, irrogabo multam, ut mihi cenas decem
meo arbitratu dent, cum cara annona sit. sic egero.
nunc ibo ad portum hinc: est illic mi una spes cenatica;
si éa decolabit, redibo huc ad senem ad cenam asperam.—
Hegio:
Quid est suávius, quam bene rém gerere,
bonó publicó, sic ut égo feci herí,
cum emi hósce homines: ubi quísque vident,
eúnt obviam gratulánturque eám rem.
íta me miserum restitando
retinendoque lassum reddiderunt:
vix éx gratulándo misér iam eminebam.

[¶38] At last, to the Praetor did I get. There, scarcely did I rest myself. I asked for a passport; it was given me: at once I delivered it to Tyndarus. He started for home. Thence, straightway, after that was done, I passed by my house; and I went at once to my brother’s, where my other captives are. I asked about Philocrates from Elis, whether any one of them all knew the person.
This man (pointing to ARISTOPHONTES) called out that he had been his intimate friend; I told him that he was at my house. At once he besought and entreated me that I would permit him to see him. Forthwith I ordered him to be released from chains. Thence have I come. (To ARISTOPHONTES.) Now, do you follow me,
that you may obtain what you have besought of me, the opportunity of meeting with this person.
(They go into the house.) (Enter TYNDARUS, from the house.)
TYNDARUS:
Now stands the matter so, that I would much rather that I had once existed, than that I still exist; now do my hopes, my resources, and my succour, desert me and spurn themselves. This is that day, when, for my life, no safety can be hoped; nor yet is death my end; nor hope is there, in fact, to dispel this fear for me;
nor cloak have I anywhere for my deceitful stratagems; nor for my devices or my subterfuges is there anywhere a screen presented to me. No deprecating is there for my perfidy; no means of flight for my offences. No refuge is there anywhere for my trusting; and no escape for my cunning schemes. What was concealed is now exposed; my plans are now divulged.
The whole matter is now laid open; nor is there any ado about this matter, but that I must perish outright, and meet with destruction, both on behalf of my master and myself. This Aristophontes has proved my ruin, who has just now come into the house. He knows me. He is the intimate friend and kinsman of Philocrates. Not Salvation herself can save me now, even if she wishes; nor have I any means of escape,
unless, perchance, I devise some artifice in my mind. (He meditates.) Plague on it!-how? What can I contrive?—what can I think of? Some very great folly and trifling I shall have to begin with. I’m quite at a loss.
(He retires aside.) (Enter HEGIO, ARISTOPHONTES, and SLAVES, from the house)

> Latin: tandem ábii ad praetórem; ibí vix requiévi:
rogo sýngraphum, datur mi ílico; dedi Týndaro: ille abiít domum.
inde ílico praevórtor domúm, postquam id áctum est;
eo prótinus ad fratrém, mei ubi súnt alii captívi.
rogo, Philocratem ex Alide ecquis hominum
noverit: tandem hic exclamat, eum sibi esse sodalem;
dico eum esse apud me; hic extemplo orat obsecratque,
eum sibi ut liceat videre:
iussi ílico hunc exsolvi. nunc tu sequere me,
ut quód me oravisti ímpetres, eum hóminem uti convénias.—
Tyndarvs:
Nunc íllud est, cum mé fuisse quam ésse nimio mávelim:
nunc spes opes auxiliaque a me segregant spernuntque se.
hic illést dies, cum nulla vitae meae salus sperabilest,
neque † exílium exitio est néque adeo spes, quae mi hunc aspellat metum,
nec subdolis mendaciis mihi usquam mantellum est meis,
[nec sycophantiis nec fucis ullum mantellum obviam est]
neque deprecatio perfidiis meis nec male factis fuga est,
nec confidentiae usquam hospitium est nec deverticulum dolis:
operta quae fuere aperta sunt, patent praestigiae,
ómnis res palam est, néque de hac re negotium est,
quín male occidam oppetamque pestem eri vicem meamque.
perdidit me Aristophontes hic qui venit modo intro †
is me novit, is sodalis Philocrati et cognatus est.
neque iám Salus servare, si volt, me potest, nec copia est,
nisi si áliquam corde machinor astutiam.
quám, malum? quid machiner? quid comminiscar? maxumas
nugás ineptus incipisso. haereo.

[¶39] HEGIO:
Whither am I to say, now, that this man has betaken himself from the house out of doors?
TYNDARUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Quo illúm nunc hominem próripuisse fóras se dicam ex aédibus?

[¶40] Now, for a very certainty, I’m done for; the enemies are coming to you, Tyndarus!

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Núnc enim vero ego óccidi: eúnt ad te hostes, Tyndare.

[¶41] What shall I say?—what shall I talk of? What shall I deny, or what confess? All matters are reduced to uncertainty. How shall I place confidence in my resources? I wish the Gods had destroyed you, before you were lost to your own country, Aristophontes, who, from a plot well concerted, are making it disconcerted. This plan is ruined outright, unless I find out for myself some extremely bold device.
HEGIO: (to ARISTOPHONTES.)

> Latin: quíd loquar? quid fabulabor? quid negabo aut quid fatebor?
mihi rés omnis ín incerto sita est. quid rebus confidam meis?
utinám te di prius perderent, quam periisti e patria tua,
Aristophontes, qui ex parata re imparatam omnem facis.
occísa est haec res, nisi reperio atrocem mi aliquam astutiam.

[¶42] Follow me. See, there is the man; go to him and address him.
TYNDARUS: (aside, and turning away.)
What mortal among mortals is there more wretched than myself?
ARISTOPHONTES: (coming up to him.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Sequere. ém tibi hominem. adi, atque adloquere.
Tyndarvs:
Quis homo est me hominum miserior?

[¶43] Why’s this, that I’m to say that you are avoiding my gaze, Tyndarus? And why that you are slighting me as a stranger, as though you had never known me? Why, I’m as much a slave as yourself; although at home I was a free man, you, even from your childhood, have always served in slavery in Elis.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quíd istuc est quod meos te dicam fugitare oculos, Tyndare,
proque ignoto me aspernari, quasi me numquam noveris?
equidem tam sum servos quam tu, etsi ego domi liber fui,
tu usque a puero servitutem servivisti in Alide.

[¶44] HEGIO:
I’ faith, I’m very little surprised, if either he does avoid your gaze, or if he does shun you, who are calling him Tyndarus, instead of Philocrates.

> Latin: Hegio:
Edepol minime miror, si te fugitat aut oculos tuos,
aut si te odit, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate.

[¶45] TYNDARUS:
Hegio, this person was accounted a madman in Elis. Don’t you give ear to what he prates about; for at home he has pursued his father and mother with spears,
and that malady sometimes comes upon him which is spit out Do you this instant stand away at a distance from him.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Hegió, hic homó rabiosus habitus est in Alide,
ne tu quód istic fabuletur auris immittas tuas.
nam istic hastis insectatus est domi matrem et patrem,
et illic isti qui insputatur morbus interdum venit.
proin tu ab istoc procul recedas.

[¶46] HEGIO: (to the SLAVES.)
Away with him further off from me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Vltro istum a me.

[¶47] ARISTOPHONTES:
Do you say, you whipp’d knave, that I am mad, and do you declare that I have followed my own father with spears? And that I have that malady, that it’s necessary for me to be spit upon?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Ain, verbero?
me rabiosum atque insectatum esse hastis meum memoras patrem,
et eum morbum mi esse, ut qui me ópus sit insputarier?

[¶48] HEGIO:
Don’t be dismayed; that malady afflicts many a person
to whom it has proved wholesome to be spit upon, and has been of service to them.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ne verere, multos iste morbus homines macerat,
quibus insputari saluti fuit atque is profuit.

[¶49] ARISTOPHONTES:
Why, what do you say? Do you, too, credit him?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quid tu autem? etiam huic credis?

[¶50] HEGIO:
Credit him in what?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid ego credam huic?

[¶51] ARISTOPHONTES:
That I am mad?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Insanum esse me?

[¶52] TYNDARUS:
Do you see him, with what a furious aspect he’s looking at you?’Twere best to retire, Hegio; it is as I said, his frenzy grows apace; have a care for yourself.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Viden tu hunc, quam ínimico voltu intuetur? concedi optumumst,
Hegio: fit quód tibi ego dixi, glíscit rabies, cave tibi.

[¶53] HEGIO:
I thought that he was mad, the moment that he called you Tyndarus.

> Latin: Hegio:
Credidi esse insanum extemplo, ubi te appellavit Tyndarum.

[¶54] TYNDARUS:
Why, he’s sometimes ignorant of his own name, and doesn’t know what it is.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quin suom ipse interdum ignorat nomen neque scit qui siet.

[¶55] HEGIO:
But he even said that you were his intimate friend.

> Latin: Hegio:
At etiam te suom sodalem esse aibat.

[¶56] TYNDARUS:
So far from that, I never saw him. Why, really, Alcmaeon, and Orestes, and Lycurgus besides, are my friends on the same principle that he is.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Haud vidi magís.
et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestes et Lycurgus postea
una opera mihi sunt sodales qua iste.

[¶57] ARISTOPHONTES:
Villain, and do you dare speak ill of me, as well? Do I not know you?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
At etiam, furcifer,
male loqui mi audés? non ego te novi?

[¶58] HEGIO:
I’ faith, it really is very clear
that you don’t know him, who are calling him Tyndarus, instead of Philocrates. Him whom you see, you don’t know; you are addressing him as the person whom you don’t see.

> Latin: Hegio:
Pol planum id quidem est,
non novisse, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate.
quem vides, eum ignoras: illum nominas quem non vides.

[¶59] ARISTOPHONTES:
On the contrary this fellow’s saying that he is the person who he is not; and he says that he is not the person who he really is.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Immo iste eum sese ait, qui non est, esse, et qui vero est, negat.

[¶60] TYNDARUS:
You’ve been found, of course, to excel Philocrates in truthfulness.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Tu énim repertu's repertus es, Philocratem qui superes veriverbio.

[¶61] ARISTOPHONTES:
By my troth, as I understand the matter, you’ve been found to brazen out the truth by lying. But i’ faith, prithee, come then, look at me.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Pol ego ut rem video, tu inventu's inventus es, vera vanitudine
qui convincas. sed quaeso hercle, agedum aspice ad me.

[¶62] TYNDARUS: (looking at him.)
Well!

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Em.

[¶63] ARISTOPHONTES:
Say, now; do you deny that you are Tyndarus?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Dic modo:
tun negas te Tyndarum esse?

[¶64] TYNDARUS:
I do deny it, I say.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Négo, inquam.

[¶65] ARISTOPHONTES:
Do you say that you are Philocrates?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Tun te Philocratem
esse ais?

[¶66] TYNDARUS:
I do say so, I say.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Égo, inquam.

[¶67] ARISTOPHONTES: (to HEGIO.)
And do you believe him?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Tune huic credis?

[¶68] HEGIO:
More, indeed, than either you or myself. For he, in fact, who you say that he is (pointing to TYNDARUS), has set out hence to-day for Elis, to this person’s father.

> Latin: Hegio:
Plus quidem quam tibi aut mihi.
nam ílle quidem, quem tu hunc memoras esse, hodie hinc abiit Alidem
ad patrem huius.

[¶69] ARISTOPHONTES:
What father, when he’s a slave.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quem patrem, qui servos est?

[¶70] TYNDARUS:
And so are
you a slave, and yet you were a free man; and I trust that so I shall be, if I restore his son here to liberty.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Et tu quidem
servos es, liber fuisti, et ego me confido fore,
si huius huc reconciliasso in libertatem filium.

[¶71] ARISTOPHONTES:
How say you, villain? Do you say that you were born a free man [liber]?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quid ais, furcifer? tun te gnatum ⟨esse⟩ memoras liberum?

[¶72] TYNDARUS:
I really do not say that I am Liber, but that I am Philocrates.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Non equidem me Liberum, sed Philocratem esse aio.

[¶73] ARISTOPHONTES:
How’s this? How this scoundrel, Hegio, is making sport of you now.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quid est?
ut scelestus, Hegio, nunc iste ⟨te⟩ ludos facit.

[¶74] For he’s a slave himself, and never, except his own self, had he a slave.

> Latin: nám is est servos ipse, neque praeter se umquam ei servos fuit.

[¶75] TYNDARUS:
Because you yourself are destitute in your own country, and haven’t whereon to live at home, you wish all to be found like to yourself; you don’t do anything surprising.’Tis the nature of the distressed to be ill-disposed, and to envy the fortunate.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quia tute ipse eges in patria nec tibi qui vivas domist,
omnis inveniri similis tui vis; non mirum facis:
est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis.

[¶76] ARISTOPHONTES:
Hegio, take you care, please, that you don’t persist in rashly placing confidence in this man;

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Hegio, vide sis, ne quid tu huic temere insistas credere.

[¶77] for so far as I see, he is certainly now putting some device in execution, in saying that he is redeeming your son from captivity; that is by no means satisfactory to me.

> Latin: atque, ut perspicio, profecto iam áliquid pugnae edidit.
filium tuom quód redimere se ait, id ne utiquam mihi placet.

[¶78] TYNDARUS:
I know that you don’t wish that to be done; still I shall effect it, if the Gods assist me. I shall bring him back here, and he will restore me to my father, in Elis. For that purpose have I sent Tyndarus hence to my father.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Scio te id nolle fieri; efficiam tamen ego id, si di adiuvant.
illum restituam huic, hic autem in Alidem me meo patri.
propterea ad patrem hinc amisi Tyndarum.

[¶79] ARISTOPHONTES:
Why, you yourself are he;

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quin tute is es:

[¶80] nor is there any slave in Elis of that name, except yourself.

> Latin: neque praeter te in Alide ullus servos istoc nominest.

[¶81] TYNDARUS:
Do you persist in reproaching me with being a slave—a thing that has befallen me through the fortune of war?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Pergin servom me exprobrare esse, id quod vi hostili optigit?

[¶82] ARISTOPHONTES:
Really, now, I cannot contain myself.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Enim iam nequeo contineri.

[¶83] TYNDARUS: (to HEGIO.)
Ha! don’t you hear him? Why don’t you take to flight? He’ll be pelting us just now with stones there, unless you order him to be seized.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Heus, audin quid ait? quin fugis?
iam illic hic nos insectabit lapidibus, nisi illunc iubes
comprehendi.

[¶84] ARISTOPHONTES:
I’m distracted.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Crucior.

[¶85] TYNDARUS:
His eyes strike fire; there’s need of a rope, Hegio.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ardent oculi: fit opus, Hegio;

[¶86] Don’t you see how his body is spotted all over with livid spots? Black bile is disordering the man.
ARISTOPHONTES:
And, by my faith, if this old gentleman is wise, black pitch will be disordering you with the executioner, and giving a light to your head.

> Latin: viden tu illi maculari corpus totum maculis luridis?
atra bilis agitat hominem.
Aristophontes:
At pol te, si hic sapiat senex,
pix atra agitet apud carnificem tuoque capiti inluceat.

[¶87] TYNDARUS:
He’s now talking in his fit of delirium; sprites are in possession of the man.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Iam deliramenta loquitur, laruae stimulant virum.

[¶88] HEGIO:
By my troth, suppose I order him to be seized?
TYNDARUS:
You would be acting more wisely.

> Latin: hercle qui, si hunc comprehendi iusseris, sapias magis.

[¶89] ARISTOPHONTES:
I’m vexed that I haven’t a stone, to knock out the brains of that whip-scoundrel, who’s driving me to madness by his taunts.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Crucior, lapidem non habere mé, ut illi mastigiae
cerebrum excutiam, qui me insanum verbis concinnat suis.

[¶90] TYNDARUS:
Don’t you hear that he’s looking for a stone?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Audin lapidem quaeritare?

[¶91] ARISTOPHONTES:
I wish to speak with you alone, separately, Hegio.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Solus te solum volo,
Hegio.

[¶92] HEGIO:
Speak from where you are, if you want anything; though at a distance, I shall hear you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Istinc loquere, si quid vis, procul. tamen audiam.

[¶93] TYNDARUS:
Yes, for, by my faith, if you approach nearer, he’ll be taking your nose off with his teeth.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Namque edepol si adbites propius, os denasabit tibi
mordicus.

[¶94] ARISTOPHONTES:
By heavens, Hegio, don’t you believe that I am mad, or that I ever was so, or that I have the malady which that fellow avers. But if you fear anything from me, order me to be bound; I wish it, so long as that fellow is bound as well.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Neque pol me insanum, Hégio, esse creduis
neque fuisse umquam, neque esse morbum quem istic autumat.
verum si quid metuis a me, iube me vinciri: volo,
dum istic itidem vinciatur.

[¶95] TYNDARUS:
Why really, Hegio, rather let him be bound that wishes it.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Immo enim vero, Hegio,
istic, qui volt, vinciatur.

[¶96] ARISTOPHONTES:
Now hold your tongue! I’ll make you, you false Philocrates, to be found out this day to be a real Tyndarus.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Tace modo. ego te, Philocrates
false, faciam ut verus hodie reperiare Tyndarus.

[¶97] Why are you making signs at me?
TYNDARUS:
I, making signs at you? (To HEGIO.) What would he do, if you were at a greater distance off?

> Latin: quid mi abnutas?
Tyndarvs:
Tibi ego abnuto?
Aristophontes:
Quid agat, si absis longius?

[¶98] HEGIO:
What do you say? What if I approach this madman?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid ais? quid si adeam hunc insanum?

[¶99] TYNDARUS:
Nonsense; you’ll be made a fool of; he’ll be prating stuff, to you, neither the feet nor the head of which will ever be visible.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Nugas. ludificabitur,
garriet quoi neque pes umquam neque caput compareat.

[¶100] The dress only is wanting; in seeing this man, you behold Ajax himself.

> Latin: ornamenta absunt: Aiacem, hunc cum vides, ipsum vides.

[¶101] HEGIO:
I don’t care; still I’ll approach him.
(Advances to ARISTOPHONTES.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Nihili facio. tamen adibo.

[¶102] TYNDARUS: (aside.)
Now am I utterly undone; now between the sacrifice and the stone do I stand, nor know I what to do.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Nunc ego omnino occidi,
nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sto, nec quid faciam scio.

[¶103] HEGIO:
I lend you my attention, Aristophontes, if there is anything that you would wish with me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Do tibi operam, Aristophontes, si quid est quod me velis.

[¶104] ARISTOPHONTES:
From me you shall hear that truth, which now you think to be false, Hegio.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Ex me audibis vera quae nunc falsa opinare, Hegio.

[¶105] But I wish, in the first place, to clear myself from this with you—that madness does not possess me, and that I have no malady, except that I am in captivity; and, so may the King of Gods and of men make me to regain my native land, that fellow there is no more Philocrates than either I or you.
HEGIO:
Come, then, tell me who he is?

> Latin: sed hoc primúm, me expurigare tibi volo, me insaniam
neque tenere neque mi esse ullum morbum, nisi quod servio.
at ita me rex deorum atque hominum faxit patriae compotem,
ut istic Philocrates non magis est quam aut ego aut tu.
Hegio:
Eho dic mihi,
quis illic igitur est?

[¶106] ARISTOPHONTES:
He whom I’ve told you all along from the beginning.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quem dudum dixi a principio tibi.

[¶107] If you shall find him any other than that person, I show no cause why I shouldn’t suffer the loss with you both of my parents and of my liberty for ever.
HEGIO: (to TYNDARUS.)

> Latin: hoc si secus reperies, nullam causam dico quin mihi
et parentum et libertatis apud te deliquio siet.

[¶108] What say you to this?
TYNDARUS:
That I am your slave, and you my master.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid tu ais?
Tyndarvs:
Me tuom esse servom et te meum erum.

[¶109] HEGIO:
I didn’t ask that—were you a free man?

> Latin: Hegio:
Haud istuc rogo.
fuistin liber?

[¶110] TYNDARUS:
I was.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Fui.

[¶111] ARISTOPHONTES:
But he really wasn’t; he is deceiving you.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Enim vero non fuit, nugas agit.

[¶112] TYNDARUS:
How do you know? Were you, perchance, the midwife of my mother,
since you dare to affirm this so boldly?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Qui tu scis? an tu fortasse fuisti meae matri obstetrix,
qui id tam audacter dicere audes?

[¶113] ARISTOPHONTES:
When a boy, I saw yourself, a boy.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Puerum te vidi puer.

[¶114] TYNDARUS:
But, grown up, I now see you grown up; so, there’s for you, in return. If you did right, you wouldn’t be troubling yourself about my concerns; do I trouble myself about yours?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At ego te video maior maiorem: ém rursum tibi.
meam rem non cures, si recte facias. num ego curo tuam?

[¶115] HEGIO:
Was his father called Thesaurochrysonicocrœsides?

> Latin: Hegio:
Fuitne huic patér Thensaurochrysonicochrysides?

[¶116] ARISTOPHONTES:
He was not; and I never heard that name before this day.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Non fuit, neque ego istuc nomen umquam audivi ante hunc diem.

[¶117] Theodoromedes was the father of Philocrates.
TYNDARUS: (aside.)
I’m downright undone. Why don’t you be quiet, heart of mine? Go and be stretched, and hang yourself; you are throbbing so, that unfortunate I can hardly stand up for my fear.

> Latin: Philocrati Theodoromedes fuit pater.
Tyndarvs:
Pereo probe.
quin quiescis? ⟨i⟩ dierectum cor meum, ac suspende te.
tu sussultas, ego miser vix asto prae formidine.

[¶118] HEGIO:
Is a full assurance given me that this was a slave in Elis, and that he is not Philocrates?

> Latin: Hegio:
Satin istuc mihi exquisitum est, fuisse hunc servom in Alide
neque esse hunc Philocratem?

[¶119] ARISTOPHONTES:
So fully, that you will never find this to be otherwise; but where is he now?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Tam satis quam numquam hoc invenies secus.
sed ubi is nunc est?

[¶120] HEGIO:
Where I the least, and he the most could wish himself. In consequence, then, I’m cut asunder, disjointed, to my sorrow, by the devices of this scoundrel, who has bamboozled me by his tricks just as he has thought fit. But do, please, have a care that you are right.

> Latin: Hegio:
Vbi ego minime atque ipsus se volt maxume.
sed vide sis.

[¶121] ARISTOPHONTES:
Why, I assure you of this, as an ascertained and established fact.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quin exploratum dico et provisum hoc tibi.

[¶122] HEGIO:
For certain?

> Latin: Hegio:
Certon?

[¶123] ARISTOPHONTES:
Why, nothing, I say, will you find more certain than this certainty.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Quin nihil, inquam, invenies magis hoc certo certius.

[¶124] Philocrates, from when a boy, has ever since that time been my friend.
HEGIO:
But of what appearance is your friend Philocrates?

> Latin: Philocrates iam inde usque amicus fuit mihi a puero puer.
Hegio:
Tum igitur ego deruncinatus, deartuatus sum miser
huius scelesti techinis, qui me ut lubitum est ductavit dolis.
sed qua faciest tuos sodalis Philocrates?

[¶125] ARISTOPHONTES:
I’ll tell you:

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Dicam tibi:

[¶126] with a thin face, sharp nose, light hair, dark eyes, somewhat ruddy, with hair rather crisp and curling,
HEGIO:
The description is like.
TYNDARUS: (aside.)

> Latin: macilento ore, naso acuto, corpore albo, oculis nigris,
subrufus aliquantum, crispus, cincinnatus.
Hegio:
Convenit.

[¶127] Aye, so much so, indeed, that I’ve this day, much to my sorrow, got into the midst of this, i’ faith. Woe to those unfortunate rods which this day will be meeting their end upon my back.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Vt quidem hercle in medium ego hodie pessume processerim.
vae illis virgis miseris, quae hodie in tergo morientur meo.

[¶128] HEGIO:
I see that I’ve been imposed upon.

> Latin: Hegio:
Verba mihi data esse video.

[¶129] TYNDARUS: (aside.)
Why, fetters, do you delay to run towards me and to embrace my legs, that I may have you in custody?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid cessatis, compedes,
currere ad me meaque amplecti crura, ut vos custodiam?

[¶130] HEGIO:
And have these two rascally captives really deceived me this day with their tricks? The other one pretended that he was the servant, and this one that he himself was the master.

> Latin: Hegio:
Satin med illi hodie scelesti capti ceperunt dolo?
illic servom se assimulabat, hic sese autem liberum.

[¶131] I’ve lost the kernel; for a security, I’ve left the shell. To such a degree have they imposed upon me, both on this side and that, with their trickeries. Still, this fellow shall never have the laugh against me. Colaphus, Cordalio, Corax (to the SLAVES), go you away and bring out the thongs.
A SLAVE:
Are we to be sent to gather faggots? (The SLAVES go and bring the thongs from the house.)
(HEGIO, TYNDARUS, ARISTOPHONTES, and SLAVES)
HEGIO: (to the SLAVES.)

> Latin: nuculeum amisi, retinui pignori putamina.
ita mihi stólido sursum versum os sublevere offuciis.
hic quidem mé numquam irridebit. Colaphe, Cordalio, Corax,
ite istinc, ecferte lora.
Colaphvs:
Num lignatum mittimur?

[¶132] Put the manacles on this whipp’d villain.
TYNDARUS: (whilst the SLAVES are fastening him.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Inícite huic manicas … mastigiae.

[¶133] What’s the matter? What have I done wrong?
HEGIO:
Do you ask the question? You weeder and sower of villanies, and in especial their reaper.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid hoc ést negoti? quid ego deliqui?
Hegio:
Rogas,
sator sartorque scelerum, et messor maxume?

[¶134] TYNDARUS:
Ought you not to have ventured to say the harrower first? For countrymen always harrow before they weed.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Non occatorem dicere audebas prius?
nam semper occant prius quam sariunt rustici.

[¶135] HEGIO:
Why, with what assurance he stands before me.

> Latin: Hegio:
At ut cónfidenter … mihi contra astitit.

[¶136] TYNDARUS:
It’s proper for a servant, innocent and guiltless, to be full of confidence, most especially before his master.
HEGIO: (to the SLATES.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Decet innocentem servom átque innoxium
confidentem esse, suom apud erum potissimum.

[¶137] Bind this fellow’s hands tightly, will you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Adstringite isti sultis vehementer manus.

[¶138] TYNDARUS:
I am your own—do you command them to be cut off even. But what is the matter on account of which you blame me?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Tuós sum, tu has quidem vel praecidi iube.
sed quid negoti est, quam ob rem suscenses mihi?

[¶139] HEGIO:
Because me and my fortunes, so far as in you singly lay, by your rascally and knavish stratagems you have rent in pieces, and have distracted my affairs and spoiled all my resources and my plans, in that you’ve thus robbed me of Philocrates by your devices,
I thought that he was the slave, you the free man. So did you say yourselves, and in this way did you change names between you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quia me meamque rem, quod in te uno fuit,
tuis scelestis falsidicis fallaciis
deartuasti dilaceravisti atque opes
confecisti omnes, res ac rationes meas:
ita mi exemisti Philocratem fallaciis.
illum esse servom credidi, te liberum;
ita vosmet aiebatis itaque nomina
inter vos permutastis.

[¶140] TYNDARUS:
I confess that all was done so, as you say, and that by a stratagem he has got away from you, through my aid and cleverness;

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Fateor, omnia
facta esse ita ut ⟨tu⟩ dicis, et fallaciis
abiisse eum abs te mea opera atque astutia;

[¶141] and prithee, now, do you blame me for that, i’ faith?

> Latin: an, obsecro hercle te, id nunc suscenses mihi?

[¶142] HEGIO:
Why, it has been done with your extreme torture for the consequence.

> Latin: Hegio:
At cum cruciatu maxumo id factumst tuo.

[¶143] TYNDARUS:
So I don’t die by reason of my misdeeds, I care but little. If I do die here, then he returns not, as he said he would; but when I’m dead, this act will be remembered to my honor,
that I caused my captive master to return from slavery and the foe, a free man, to his father in his native land; and that I preferred rather to expose my own life to peril, than that he should be undone.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Dum ne ob male facta, peream, parvi aestumo.
si ego hic peribo, ast ille ut dixit non redit,
at erit mi hoc factum mortuo memorabile,
⟨me⟩ meum erum captum ex servitute atque hostibus
reducem fecisse liberum in patriam ad patrem,
meumque potius me caput periculo
praeoptavisse, quam is periret, ponere.

[¶144] HEGIO:
Take care, then, to enjoy that fame at Acheron.

> Latin: Hegio:
Facito ergo ut Acherunti clueas gloria.

[¶145] TYNDARUS:
He who dies for virtue’s sake, still does not perish.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Qui per virtutem, periit, at non interit.

[¶146] HEGIO:
When I’ve tortured you in the most severe manner, and for your schemes put you to death, let them say either that you have perished or that you have died; so long as you do die, I don’t think it matters if they say you live.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quando ego te exemplis pessumis cruciavero
atque ob sutelas tuas te morti misero,
vel te interiisse vel periisse praedicent;
dum pereas, nihil intererit: dicant vivere.

[¶147] TYNDARUS:
I’ faith, if you do do so, you’ll do it not without retribution, if he shall return here, as I trust that he will return.
ARISTOPHONTES: (aside.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Pol si istuc faxis, haud sine poena feceris,
si ille huc rebitet, sicut confido affore.

[¶148] O ye immortal Gods! I understand it now; now I know what the case really is. My friend Philocrates is at liberty with his father, in his native land.’Tis well;
nor have I any person to whom I could so readily wish well. But this thing grieves me, that I’ve done this person a bad turn, who now on account of me and my talking is in chains.
HEGIO: (to TYNDARUS.)

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Pro di immortales, nunc ego teneo, nunc scio
quid hoc sít negoti. meus sodalis Philocrates
in libertate est ad patrem in patria. bene est,
nec quisquam est mihi, aeque melius cui velim.
sed hoc mihi aegre est, me huic dedisse operam malam,
qui nunc propter me meaque verba vinctus est.

[¶149] Did I not forbid you this day to utter anything false to me?

> Latin: Hegio:
Votuin te quicquam mi hodie falsum proloqui?

[¶150] TYNDARUS:
You did forbid me.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Votuisti.

[¶151] HEGIO:
Why did you dare to tell me lies?

> Latin: Hegio:
Cur es ausus mentiri mihi?

[¶152] TYNDARUS:
Because the truth would have prejudiced him whom I was serving; now falsehood has advantaged him.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quia vera obessent illi quoi operam dabam:
nunc falsa prosunt.

[¶153] HEGIO:
But it will prejudice yourself.
TYNDARUS:’Tis very good. Still, I have saved my master, whom I rejoice at being saved, to whom my elder master had assigned me as a protector. But do you think that this was wrongly done?

> Latin: Hegio:
At tibi oberunt.
Tyndarvs:
Optumest.
at erum servavi, quem servatum gaudeo,
cui me custodem addiderat erus maior meus.
sed malene id factum árbitrare?

## 3. Lines 705–1036

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/3/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/3/#p-N

[¶0] HEGIO:
Most wrongfully.

> Latin: Hegio:
Pessume.

[¶1] TYNDARUS:
But I, who disagree with you, say, rightly. For consider, if any slave of yours had done this for your son, what thanks you would have given him. Would you have given that slave his freedom or not? Would not that slave have been in highest esteem with you?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At ego aio recte, qui abs te sorsum sentio.
nam cogitato, si quis hoc gnato tuo
tuos servos faxit, qualem haberes gratiam?
emitteresne necne eum servom manu?
essetne apud te is servos acceptissimus?

[¶2] Answer me that.
HEGIO:
I think so.

> Latin: responde.
Hegio:
Opinor.

[¶3] TYNDARUS:
Why, then, are you angry with me?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Cur ergo iratus mihi es?

[¶4] HEGIO:
Because you have proved more faithful to him than to myself.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quia illi fuisti quam mihi fidelior.

[¶5] TYNDARUS:
How now? Did you expect, in a single night and day, for yourself to teach me—a person just made captive, a recent slave, and in his noviciate—that I should rather consult your interest than his,
with whom from childhood I have passed my life?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid? tu una nocte postulavisti et die
recens captum hominem, nuperum novicium,
te perdocere ut melius consulerem tibi,
quam illi, quicum una ⟨a⟩ puero aetatem exegeram?

[¶6] HEGIO:
Seek, then, thanks from him for that. (To the SLAVES.) Take him where he may receive weighty and thick fetters, thence, after that, you shall go to the quarries for cutting stone. There, while the others are digging out eight stones, unless
you daily do half as much work again, you shall have the name of the six-hundred-stripe man.

> Latin: Hegio:
Ergo ab eo petito gratiam istam. ducite,
ubi ponderosas crassas capiat compedes.
inde ibis porro in latomias lapidarias.
ibi quom alii octonos lapides effodiunt, nisi
cotidiano sesquiopus confeceris,
Sescentoplago nomen indetur tibi.

[¶7] ARISTOPHONTES:
By Gods and men, I do entreat you, Hegio, not to destroy this man.

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Per deos atque homines ego te obtestor, Hegio,
ne tu istunc hominem perduis.

[¶8] HEGIO:
He shall be taken all care of For at night, fastened with chains, he shall be watched;
in the daytime, beneath the ground, he shall be getting out stone. For many a day will I torture him; I’ll not respite him for a single day.

> Latin: Hegio:
Curabitur;
nam noctu nervo vinctus custodibitur,
interdius sub terra lapides eximet:
diu ego húnc cruciabo, non uno absolvam die.

[¶9] ARISTOPHONTES:
Is that settled by you?

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Certumne est tíbi istuc?

[¶10] HEGIO:
Not more settled that I shall die. (To the SLAVES.) Take him away this instant to Hippolytus, the blacksmith; bid thick fetters to be rivetted on him.

> Latin: Hegio:
Non moriri certius.
abducite istum actutum ad Hippolytum fabrum,
iubete huic crassas compedes impingier;

[¶11] From there let him be led outside the gate to my freedman, Cordalus, at the stone-quarries. And tell him that I desire this man so to be treated, that he mayn’t be in any respect worse off than he who is the most severely treated.

> Latin: inde extra portam ad meum libertum Cordalum
in lapicidinas facite deductus siet:
atque hunc me velle dicite ita curarier,
ne qui deterius huic sit quam cui pessume est.

[¶12] TYNDARUS:
Why, since you are unwilling, do I desire myself to survive?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Cur ego te invito me esse salvom postulem?

[¶13] At your own hazard is the risk of my life. After death, no evil have I to apprehend in death. Though I should live even to extreme age, still, short is the space for enduring what you threaten me with. Farewell and prosper although you are deserving for me to say otherwise.

> Latin: periclum vitae meae tuo stat periculo.
post mortem in morte nihil est quod metuam mali.
etsi pervivo usque ad summam aetatem, tamen
breve spatium est perferundi quae minitas mihi.
vale atque salve, etsi aliter ut dicam meres.

[¶14] You, Aristophontes, as you have deserved of me, so fare you; for on your account has this befallen me.
HEGIO: (to the SLAVES.)
Carry him off.

> Latin: tu, Aristophontes, de me ut meruisti, ita vale;
nam mihi propter te hoc optigit.
Hegio:
Abducite.

[¶15] TYNDARUS:
But this one thing I beg, that, if Philocrates should come back here, you will give me an opportunity of meeting him.
HEGIO: (to the SLAVES.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At unum hoc quaeso, si huc rebitet Philocrates,
ut mi eius facias conveniundi copiam.

[¶16] At your peril, if you don’t this instant remove him from my sight.
(The SLAVES lay hold of TYNDARUS, and push him along.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Periistis, nisi hunc iam e conspectu abducitis.

[¶17] TYNDARUS:
I’ troth, this really is violence, to be both dragged and pushed at the same time. (He is borne off by the SLAVES.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Vis haec quidem hercle est, et trahi et trudi simul.—

[¶18] HEGIO:
He has been led off straight to prison as he deserves. Let no one presume to attempt such an enterprise. Had it not been for you who discovered this to me,
still would they have been leading me by the bridle with their tricks. Now am I resolved henceforth never to trust any person in anything. This once I have been deceived enough; I did hope, to my sorrow, that I had rescued my son from slavery. That hope has forsaken me. I lost one son,
whom, a child in his fourth year, a slave stole from me; and, indeed, never since have I found either slave or son; the elder one has fallen in the hands of the enemy. What guilt is this of mine? As though I had become the father of children for the purpose of being childless. (To AISTOPHONTES.) Follow this way. I’ll conduct you back where you were.
I’m determined to have pity upon no one, since no one has pity upon me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Illic ést abductus recta in phylacam, ut dignus est.
ego illís captivis aliis documentum dabo,
ne tale quisquam facinus incipere audeat.
quod absque hoc esset, qui mihi hoc fecit palam,
usque offrenatum suis me ductarent dolis.
nunc certum est nulli posthac quicquam credere.
satis súm semel deceptus. speravi miser
ex servitute me exemisse filium:
ea spes elapsa est. perdidi unum filium,
puerum quadrimum quem mihi servos surpuit,
neque eum servom umquam repperi neque filium;
maior potitus hostium est. quod hoc ést scelus?
quasi in orbitatem liberos produxerim.
sequere hac. reducam te ubi fuisti. neminis
miserere certum est, quia mei miseret neminem.—

[¶19] ARISTOPHONTES:
Forth from my chains with evil omen did I come; now I perceive that with like ill omen to my bonds I must return.
(Exeunt.) (Enter ERGASILUS

> Latin: Aristophontes:
Exauspicavi ex vinclis. nunc intellego
redauspicandum esse in catenas denuo.—

[¶20] ERGASILUS:
Supreme Jove! thou dost preserve me, and dost augment my means. Plenty, extreme and sumptuous, dost thou present to me;
celebrity, profit, enjoyment, mirth, festivity, holidays, sights, provisions, carousings, abundance, joyousness. And to no man have I now determined with myself to go a-begging; for I’m able either to profit my friend or to destroy my enemy, to such extent has this delightful day heaped delights upon me in its delightfulness.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Iúppiter supreme, servas me measque auges opes,
máximas opimitates opiparasque offers mihi,
laudém lucrum, ludum iocum, festivitatem ferias,
pompám penum, potationis saturitatem, gaudium,
néc cuiquam homini supplicare … nunc certum est mihi;
nam vél prodesse amico possum vel inimicum perdere,
ita híc me amoenitate amoena amoenus oneravit dies.

[¶21] I have lighted upon a most rich inheritance without incumbrances. Now will I wend my way to this old gentleman Hegio, to whom I am carrying blessings as great as he himself prays for from the Gods, and even greater. Now, this is my determination, in the same fashion that the slaves of Comedy are wont, so will I throw my cloak around my neck, that from me, the first of all, he may learn this matter.

> Latin: síne sacris hereditatem sum aptus effertissimam.
nunc ád senem cursum capessam hunc Hegionem, cui boni
tantum affero quantum ipsus a dis optat, atque etiam amplius.
nunc cérta res est, eodem pacto ut comici servi solent
coníciam in collum pallium, primo ex med hanc rem ut audiat;

[¶22] And I trust that I, by reason of this news, shall find provision up to the end.
(Enter HEGIO, at a distance.)
HEGIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: speróque me ob hunc nuntium aetérnum adepturum cibum.

[¶23] The more that I revolve this matter in my breast, the more is my uneasiness of mind increased. That I should have been duped in this fashion to-day! and that I wasn’t able to see through it!

> Latin: Hegio:
Quanto ín pectore hánc rem meó magis volúto,
tanto mi aegritudo auctiór est in animo.
ad illum modum sublitum os esse mi hodie!
neque íd perspicere quivi.

[¶24] When this shall be known, then I shall be laughed at all over the city. The very moment that I shall have reached the Forum, all will be saying, “This is that clever old gentleman, who had the trick played him.” But is this Ergasilus, that I see coming at a distance? Surely he has got his cloak gathered up; what, I wonder, is he going to do?
ERGASILUS: (advancing, and talking to himself.)

> Latin: quod cúm scibitúr, ⟨tum⟩ per úrbem inridébor.
cum extemplo ad forum advenero, omnes loquentur:
“hic illest senex doctus, quoi verba data sunt.”
sed Ergasilus estne hic, procúl quem video?
conlécto quidem est pallio. quidnam acturust?

[¶25] Throw aside from you all tardiness, Ergasilus, and speed on this business. I threaten, and I strictly charge no person to stand in my way, unless any one shall be of opinion that he has lived long enough. For whoever does come in my way, shall stop me upon his face.
(He runs along, flourishing his arms about.)
HEGIO: (to himself.)
This fellow’s beginning to box.
ERGASILUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Move áps te moram átque, Ergásile, age hanc rem.
éminor interminorque, ne mi obstiterit obviam
nisi quis satis diu vixisse sese homo arbitrabitur.
nam qui obstiterit, ore sistet.
Hegio:
Hic homo pugilatum incipit.

[¶26] I’m determined to do it; so that every one may pursue his own path,
let no one be bringing any of his business in this street; for my fist is a balista, my arm is my catapulta, my shoulder a battering-ram; then against whomsoever I dart my knee, I shall bring him to the ground. I’ll make all persons to be picking up their teeth, whomsoever I shall meet with.
HEGIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Facere certumst. proinde ita omnes itinera insistant sua,
ne quis in hanc plateam negoti conferat quicquam sui.
nam meus est ballista pugnus, cubitus catapultast mihi,
umerus aries, tum genu quemque icero ad terram dabo,
dentilegos omnes mortales faciam, quemque offendero.

[¶27] What threatening is this? For I cannot wonder enough.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quae illaec eminatiost nam? nequeo mirari satis.

[¶28] ERGASILUS:
I’ll make him always to remember this day and place, and myself as well. Whoever stops me upon my road, I’ll make him put a stop to his own existence.
HEGIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Faciam ut huius diei locique meique semper meminerit.
[Qui mihi in cursu opstiterit, faxo vitae is extemplo opstiterit suae.]

[¶29] What great thing is this fellow preparing to do, with such mighty threats?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid hic homo tantum incipissit facere cum tantis minis?

[¶30] ERGASILUS:
I first give notice, that no one, by reason of his own fault, may be caught—keep yourselves in-doors at home, and guard yourselves from my attack.
HEGIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Prius edico, ne quis propter culpam capiatur suam:
continete vos domi, prohibete a vobis vim meam.

[¶31] By my faith, ‘tis strange if he hasn’t got this boldness by means of his stomach. Woe to that wretched man, through whose cheer this fellow has become quite swaggering.

> Latin: Hegio:
Mira edepol sunt, ní hic in ventrem sumpsit confidentiam.
vae misero illi, cuius cibo iste factust imperiosior.

[¶32] ERGASILUS:
Then the bakers, that feed swine, that fatten their pigs upon refuse bran, through the stench of which no one can pass by a baker’s shop; if I see the pig of any one of them in the public way,
I’ll beat the bran out of the masters’ themselves with my fists.
HEGIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Tum pistores scrofipasci, quí alunt furfuribus sues,
quarum odore praeterire nemo pistrinum potest:
eorum si quoiusquam scrofam in publico conspexero,
ex ipsis dominis meis pugnis exculcabo furfures.

[¶33] Royal and imperial edicts does he give out. The fellow is full; he certainly has his boldness from his stomach.

> Latin: Hegio:
Basilicas edictiones atque imperiosas habet:
satur homost, habet profecto in ventre confidentiam.

[¶34] ERGASILUS:
Then the fishmongers, who supply stinking fish to the public—who are carried about on a gelding, with his galloping galling pace —
the stench of whom drives all the loungers in the Basilica into the Forum, I’ll bang their heads with their bulrush fish-baskets, that they may understand what annoyance they cause to the noses of other people. And then the butchers, as well, who render the sheep destitute of their young—who agree with you about killing lamb, and then offer you lamb at double the price—
who give the name of wether mutton to a ram—if I should only see that ram in the public way, I’ll make both ram and owner most miserable beings.
HEGIO: (to hieiself.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Tum piscatores, qui praebent populo pisces foetidos,
qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti cantherio,
quorum odos subbasilicanos omnes abigit in forum,
eis ego ora verberabo surpiculis piscariis,
ut sciant, alieno naso quam exhibeant molestiam.
tum lanii autem, qui concinnant liberis orbas oves,
qui locant caedundos agnos et duplam agninam danunt,
qui petroni nomen indunt verveci sectario,
eum ego si in via petronem publica conspexero,
et petronem et dominum reddam mortales miserrumos.

[¶35] Well done! He really does give out edicts fit for an Aedile, and ‘tis indeed a surprising thing if the Aetolians haven’t made him inspector of markets.

> Latin: Hegio:
Eugepae, edictiones aedilicias hic quidem habet,
mirumque adeost ni hunc fecere sibi Aetóli agoranomum.

[¶36] ERGASILUS:
No Parasite now am I, but a right royal king of kings; so large a stock of provision for my stomach is there at hand in the harbour. But why delay to overwhelm this old gentleman Hegio with gladness? With him, not a person among mankind exists equally fortunate.
HEGIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Non ego nunc parasitus sum, sed regum rex regalior,
tantus ventri commeatus meo adest in portu cibus.
sed ego cesso hunc Hegionem onerare laetitia senem,
quó homine ⟨hominum⟩ adaeque nemo vivit fortunatior?

[¶37] What joy is this, that he, thus joyous, is going to impart to me?
ERGASILUS: (knocking at HEGIO’S door.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Quae illaec est laetitia, quam illic laetus largitur mihi?

[¶38] Hallo, hallo!—where are you? Is any one coming to open this door?
HEGIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Heus ubi estis? ecquis ⟨hic est? ecquis⟩ hoc aperit ostium?

[¶39] This fellow’s betaking himself to my house to dine.
ERGASILUS:
Open you both these doors, before I shall with knocking cause the destruction, piecemeal, of the doors.
HEGIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Hic homo ad cenam recipit se ad me.
Ergasilvs:
Áperite hasce ambas fores
prius quam pultando assulatim foribus exitium adfero.

[¶40] I’d like much to address the fellow. (Aloud.) Ergasilus!
ERGASILUS:
Who’s calling Ergasilus?

> Latin: Hegio:
Perlúbet hunc hominem colloqui. Ergásile.
Ergasilvs:
Ergasilum qui vocat?

[¶41] HEGIO:
Turn round, and look at me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Respíce.

[¶42] ERGASILUS: (not seeing who it is.)
A thing that Fortune does not do for you, nor ever will do, you bid me to do.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Fortuna quod tibi nec fácit nec faciet, me iubes.

[¶43] But who is it.
HEGIO:
Look round at me.’Tis Hegio.

> Latin: séd quis est?
Hegio:
Réspice ad me, Hégio sum.

[¶44] ERGASILUS: (turning round.)
O me! Best of the very best of men, as many as exist, you have arrived opportunely.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Óh mihi,
quántum est hominum óptumorum óptume, in témpore advenis.

[¶45] HEGIO:
You’ve met with some one at the harbour to dine with; through that you are elevated.

> Latin: Hegio:
Nescío quem ad portum náctus es ubi cénes, eo fastídis.

[¶46] ERGASILUS:
Give me your hand.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Cédo manum.

[¶47] HEGIO:
My hand?

> Latin: Hegio:
Manum?

[¶48] ERGASILUS:
Give me your hand, I say, this instant.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Manum, inquam, cedo tuam actutum.

[¶49] HEGIO:
Take it.
(Giving him his hand.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Tene.

[¶50] ERGASILUS:
Rejoice.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Gaude.

[¶51] HEGIO:
Why should I rejoice?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid ego gaudeam?

[¶52] ERGASILUS:
Because I bid you; come now, rejoice.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quia ego impero, age gaude modo.

[¶53] HEGIO:
I’ faith, my sorrows exceed my rejoicings.
ERGASILUS:’Tis not so, as you shall find; I’ll at once drive away every spot of sorrow from your body. Rejoice without restraint.

> Latin: Hegio:
Pol maerores mi antevortunt gaudiis.
Ergasilvs:
[Noli irascier]
iám ego ex corpore exigam omnis maculas maerorum tibi.
gaude audacter.

[¶54] HEGIO:
I do rejoice, although I don’t at all know why I should rejoice.

> Latin: Hegio:
Gaudeo, etsi nil scio quod gaudeam.

[¶55] ERGASILUS:
You do rightly; now order—

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Bene facis. iubé—

[¶56] HEGIO:
Order what?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid iubeam?

[¶57] ERGASILUS:
A large fire to be made.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ignem ingentem fieri.

[¶58] HEGIO:
A large fire?

> Latin: Hegio:
Ignem ingentem?

[¶59] ERGASILUS:
So I say, that a huge one it must be.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ita dico, magnus ut sit.

[¶60] HEGIO:
What, you vulture, do you suppose that for your sake I’m going to set my house on fire?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid? me, volturi,
tuan causa aedis incensurum censes?

[¶61] ERGASILUS:
Don’t be angry. Will you order, or will you not order, the pots to be put on, and the saucepans to be washed out, the bacon and the dainties to be made warm in the heated cooking-stoves, another one, too, to go purchase the fish?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Noli irascier.
iuben an non iubes astitui aúlas, patinas elui,
† laridum atque epulas foveri foculis ferventibus?
alium pisces praestinatum abire?

[¶62] HEGIO:
This fellow’s dreaming while awake.

> Latin: Hegio:
Hic vigilans somniat.

[¶63] ERGASILUS:
Another to buy pork, and lamb, and pullets.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Alium porcinam atque agninam et pullos gallinaceos?

[¶64] HEGIO:
You understand how to feed well, if you had the means.

> Latin: Hegio:
Scis bene esse, si sit unde.

[¶65] ERGASILUS:
Gammons of bacon, too, and lampreys, spring pickled tunny-fish, mackerel, and sting-ray; large fish, too, and soft cheese.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
† Pernam atque ophthalmiam,
horaeum, scombrum et trygonum et cetum, et mollem caseum?

[¶66] HEGIO:
You will have more opportunity, Ergasilus, here at my house, of talking about these things than of eating them.

> Latin: Hegio:
Nominandi istorum tibi erit magis quam edundi copia
hic apud me, Ergasile.

[¶67] ERGASILUS:
Do you suppose that I’m saying this on my own account?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Mean me causa hoc censes dicere?

[¶68] HEGIO:
You will neither be eating nothing here to-day, nor yet much more than usual, so don’t you be mistaken.

> Latin: Hegio:
Nec nihil hodie nec multo plus tu hic edes, ne frustra sis.

[¶69] Do you then bring an appetite to my house for your every-day fare.

> Latin: proin tu tui cottidiani victi ventrem ad me afferas.

[¶70] ERGASILUS:
Why, I’ll so manage it, that you yourself shall wish to be profuse, though I myself should desire you not.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quin ita faciam, ut ⟨tu⟩te cupias facere sumptum, etsi ego vetem.

[¶71] HEGIO:
What, I?

> Latin: Hegio:
Egone?

[¶72] ERGASILUS:
Yes, you.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Tune.

[¶73] HEGIO:
Then you are my master.

> Latin: Hegio:
Tum tu mi igitur erus es.

[¶74] ERGASILUS:
Yes, and a kindly disposed one. Do you wish me to make you happy?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Immo benevolens.
vin te faciam fortunatum?

[¶75] HEGIO:
Certainly I would, rather than miserable.

> Latin: Hegio:
Malim quam miserum quidem.

[¶76] ERGASILUS:
Give me your hand.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Cedo manum.

[¶77] HEGIO: (extending his hand.)
Here is my hand.

> Latin: Hegio:
Em manum.

[¶78] ERGASILUS:
All the Gods are blessing you.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Di te omnes adiuvant.

[¶79] HEGIO:
I don’t feel it so.

> Latin: Hegio:
Nil sentio.

[¶80] ERGASILUS:
Why, you are not in a quickset hedge, therefore you don’t feel it; but order the vessels, in a clean state, to be got for you forthwith in readiness for the sacrifice, and one lamb to be brought here with all haste, a fat one.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Non enim es in senticeto, eo non sentis. sed iube
vasa tibi pura apparari ád rem divinam cito,
atque agnum afferri proprium pinguem.

[¶81] HEGIO:
Why?

> Latin: Hegio:
Cur?

[¶82] ERGASILUS:
That you may offer sacrifice

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Vt sacrufices.

[¶83] HEGIO:
To which one of the Gods?

> Latin: Hegio:
Cui deorum?

[¶84] ERGASILUS:
To myself, i’ faith, for now am I your supreme Jupiter. I likewise am your salvation, your fortune, your life, your delight, your joy.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Mi hercle, nam égo nunc tibi sum summus Iuppiter,
idem ego sum Salus, Fortuna, Lux, Laetitia, Gaudium.

[¶85] Do you at once, then, make this Divinity propitious to you by cramming him.

> Latin: proin tu deum hunc saturitate facias tranquillum tibi.

[¶86] HEGIO:
You seem to me to be hungry.

> Latin: Hegio:
Esurire mihi videre.

[¶87] ERGASILUS:
For myself am I hungry, and not for you.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Mi quidem esurio, non tibi.

[¶88] HEGIO:
I readily allow of it at your own good will.

> Latin: Hegio:
Tuo arbitratu, facile patior.

[¶89] ERGASILUS:
I believe you; from a boy you were in the habit—

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Credo, consuetu's consuetus es puer.

[¶90] HEGIO:
May Jupiter and the Gods confound you.

> Latin: Hegio:
Iuppiter te dique perdant.

[¶91] ERGASILUS:
I’ troth, ‘tis fair that for my news you should return me thanks; such great happiness do I now bring you from the harbour.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Te hercle—mi aequom est gratias
agere ob nuntium; tantum ego nunc porto a portu tibi boni:

[¶92] HEGIO:
Now you are flattering me.
Begone, you simpleton; you have arrived behind time, too late.

> Latin: nunc tu mihi places.
Hegio:
Abi, stultu's stultus es, sero post tempus venis.

[¶93] ERGASILUS:
If I had come sooner, then for that reason you might rather have said that. Now, receive this joyous news of me which I bring you; for at the harbour I just now saw your son Philopolemus in the common fly-boat, alive, safe and sound, and likewise there that other young man together with him,
and Stalagmus your slave, who fled from your house, who stole from you your little son, the child of four years old.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Igitur olim si advenissem, magis tu tum istuc diceres;
nunc hanc laetitiam accipe a me, quam fero. nam filium
tuom modo in portu Philopolemum vivom, salvom et sospitem
vidi in publica celoce, ibidémque illum adulescentulum
Aleum una et tuom Stalagmum servom, qui aufugit domo,
qui tibi surripuit quadrimum puerum filiolum tuom.

[¶94] HEGIO:
Away with you to utter perdition! You are trifling with me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Abi in malam rem, ludis me.

[¶95] ERGASILUS:
So may holy Gluttony love me, Hegio, and so may she ever dignify me with her name, I did see—

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ita me amabit sancta Saturitas,
Hegio, itaque suo me semper condecoret cognomine,
ut ego vidi.

[¶96] HEGIO:
My son?

> Latin: Hegio:
Meum gnatum?

[¶97] ERGASILUS:
Your son, and my good Genius.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Tuom gnatum et genium meum.

[¶98] HEGIO:
That Elean captive, too?

> Latin: Hegio:
Et captivom illum Alidensem?

[¶99] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Apollo

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω.

[¶100] HEGIO:
The slave, too? My slave Stalagmus, he that stole my son—?

> Latin: Hegio:
Et servolum
meum Stalagmum, meum qui gnatum surripuit?

[¶101] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Cora.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
ναὶ τὰν κόραν.

[¶102] HEGIO:
So long a time ago?

> Latin: Hegio:
Iam credo?

[¶103] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Praeneste!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
ναὶ τὰν πραινέστην.

[¶104] HEGIO:
Is he arrived?

> Latin: Hegio:
Venit?

[¶105] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Signia!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
ναὶ τὰν σιγνίαν.

[¶106] HEGIO:
For sure?

> Latin: Hegio:
Certon?

[¶107] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Phrysinone!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
ναὶ τὸν φρουσινῶνα.

[¶108] HEGIO:
Have a care, if you please.

> Latin: Hegio:
Vide sis.

[¶109] ERGASILUS:
Yes, by Alatrium!

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
ναὶ τὸν Ἀλάτριον.

[¶110] HEGIO:
Why are you swearing by foreign cities?

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid tu per barbaricas urbes iuras?

[¶111] ERGASILUS:
Why, because they are just as disagreable as you were declaring your fare to be.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quia enim item asperae
sunt ut tuom victum autumabas esse.

[¶112] HEGIO:
Woe be to you!

> Latin: Hegio:
Vae aetati tuae.

[¶113] ERGASILUS:
Because that you don’t believe me at all in what I say in sober earnestness. But of what country was Stalagmus, at the time when ne departed hence?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Quippe quando mihi nil credis, quod ego dico sedulo.
sed Stalagmus quoius erat tunc nationis, cum hinc abit?

[¶114] HEGIO:
A Sicilian.

> Latin: Hegio:
Siculus.

[¶115] ERGASILUS:
But now he is not a Sicilian—he is a Boian; he has got a Boian woman. A wife, I suppose, has been given to him for the sake of obtaining children.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
At nunc Siculus non est, Boius est, Boiam terit:
liberorum quaerundorum causa ei, credo, uxor datast.

[¶116] HEGIO:
Tell me, have you said these words to me in good earnest?

> Latin: Hegio:
Dic, bonan fide tu mi istaec verba dixisti?

[¶117] ERGASILUS:
In good earnest.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Bona.

[¶118] HEGIO:
Immortal Gods, I seem to be born again, if you are telling the truth.

> Latin: Hegio:
Di immortales, iterum gnatus videor, si vera autumas.

[¶119] ERGASILUS:
Do you say so? Will you still entertain doubts, when I have solemnly sworn to you? In fine, Hegio, if you have little confidence in my oath, go yourself to the harbour and see.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Ain tu? dubium habebis etiam, sancte quom ego iurem tibi?
postremo, Hegio, si parva iuri iurandost fides,
vise ad portum.

[¶120] HEGIO:
I’m determined to do so. Do you arrange in-doors what’s requisite. Use, ask for, take from my larder what you like; I appoint you cellarman.

> Latin: Hegio:
Facere certumst. tu intus cura quod opus est.
sume, posce, prome quid vis. te facio cellarium.

[¶121] ERGASILUS:
Now, by my troth, if I have not prophesied truly to you, do you comb me out with a cudgel.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Nam hercle, nisi mantiscinatus probe ero, fusti pectito.

[¶122] HEGIO:
I’ll find you in victuals to the end, if you are telling me the truth.

> Latin: Hegio:
Aeternum tibi dapinabo victum, si vera autumas.

[¶123] ERGASILUS:
Whence shall it be?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Vnde id?

[¶124] HEGIO:
From myself and from my son.

> Latin: Hegio:
A me meoque gnato.

[¶125] ERGASILUS:
Do you promise that?

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Sponden tu istud?

[¶126] HEGIO:
I do promise it.

> Latin: Hegio:
Spondeo.

[¶127] ERGASILUS:
But I, in return, promise you that your son has arrived.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
At ego tuom tibi advenisse filium respondeo.

[¶128] HEGIO:
Manage as well as ever you can.

> Latin: Hegio:
Cura quam optume potes.—

[¶129] ERGASILUS:
A happy walk there to you, and a happy walk back.
(Exit HEGIO.) (ERGASILUS, alone)

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
Bene ambula et redambula.

[¶130] ERGASILUS:
He has gone away from here, and has entrusted to me the most important concern of catering. Immortal Gods how I shall now be slicing necks off of sides; how vast a downfall will befall the gammon; how vast a belabouring the bacon! How great a using-up of udders, how vast a bewailing for the brawn!
How great a bestirring for the butchers, how great a preparation for the porksellers! But if I were to enumerate the rest of the things which minister to the supply of the stomach, ‘twould be sheer delay. Now will I go off to my government, to give laws to the bacon, and, those gammons that are hanging uncondemned, to give aid to them.
(Goes into the house.) (Enter a LAD, a servant of HEGIO.)
A LAD:
May Jupiter and the Deities confound you, Ergasilus, and your stomach,
and all Parasites, and every one who henceforth shall give a dinner to Parasites. Destruction and devastation and ruin have just now entered our house. I was afraid that he would be making an attack on me, as though he had been an hungry wolf. And very dreadfully, upon my faith, was I frightened at him; he made such a gnashing with his teeth. On his arrival, the whole larder, with the meat, he turned upside down.

> Latin: Ergasilvs:
illic hinc abiit, mihi rem summam credidit cibariam.
di immortales, iam ut ego collos praetruncabo tegoribus,
quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido,
quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas,
quanta laniis lassitudo, quanta porcinariis.
nam si alia memorem, quae ad ventris victum conducunt, morast.
nunc ibo, ut pro praefectura mea ius dicam larido,
et quae pendent indemnatae pernae, eis auxilium ut feram.—
Pver:
Diéspiter te dique, Ergasile, perdant et ventrem tuom,
parasítosque omnis, et qui posthac cenam parasitis dabit.
cladés calamitasque, intemperies módo in nostram advenit domum.
quasi lúpus esuriens ⟨ille⟩ metui ne in me faceret impetum.
ubi … impetum
nimisque hércle ego illum male formidabam, ita frendebat dentibus.
advéniens deturbavit totum cum carne carnarium:

[¶131] He seized a knife, and first cut off the kernels of the neck from three sides. All the pots and cups he broke, except those that held a couple of gallons; of the cook he made enquiry whether the salting pans could be set on the fire to be made hot. All the cellars in the house he has broken into, and has laid the store-closet open. (At the door.) Watch him, servants, if you please; I’ll go to meet the old gentleman.
I’ll tell him to get ready some provisions for his own self, if, indeed, he wishes himself to make use of any. For in this place, as this man, indeed, is managing, either there’s nothing already, or very soon there will be nothing.
(Exit.) (Enter HEGIO, PHILOPOLEMUS, PHILOCRATES, and behind them, STALAGMUS.)
HEGIO:
To Jove and to the Deities I return with reason hearty thanks, inasmuch as they have restored you to your father, and inasmuch as they have delivered me from very many afflictions,
which, while I was obliged to be here without you, I was enduring, and inasmuch as I see that that fellow (pointing to STALAGMUS) is in my power, and inasmuch as his word (pointing to PHILOCIATES) has been found true to me.

> Latin: arrípuit gladium, praetruncavit tribus tegoribus glandia;
aulás calicesque omnes confregit, nisi quae modiales erant.
cocum pércontabatur, possentne seriae fervescere.
cellás refregit omnis intus reclusitque armarium.
adsérvate istunc, sultis, servi. ego ibo, ut conveniam senem,
dicam út sibi penum alium adornet, siquidem sese uti volet;
nam híc quidém, ut adornat, aut iam nihil est aut iam nihil erit.—
Hegio:
Ioví disque agó gratiás merito mágnas,
quom reducem tuo te patri reddiderunt
quomque ex miseriis plurimis me exemerunt,
† quae adhuc carens dum huc fui sustentabam,
quomque hunc conspicor in potestate nostra,
quomque huius reperta est fides firma nobis.

[¶132] PHILOPOLEMUS:
Enough now have I grieved from my very soul, and enough with care and tears have I disquieted myself. Enough now have I heard of your woes, which at the harbour you told me of.

> Latin: Philopolemvs:
Sátis iam dolui ex ánimo, et cura mé satis et lacrumis máceravi,
sátis iam audivi tuás aerumnas, ád portum mihi quás memorasti.

[¶133] Let us now to this business.
PHILOCRATES:
What now, since I’ve kept my word with you, and have caused him to be restored back again to freedom?

> Latin: hóc agamus.
Philocrates:
Quid nunc, quoniam tecum servavi fidem
tibique hunc reducem in libertatem feci?

[¶134] HEGIO:
Philocrates, you have acted so that I can never return you thanks enough, in the degree that you merit from myself and my son.

> Latin: Hegio:
Fecisti ut tibi,
Philocrates, numquam referre gratiam possim satis,
proinde ut tu promeritu's promeritus es de me et filio.

[¶135] PHILOPOLEMUS:
Nay, but you can, father, and you will be able, and I shall be able; and the Divinities will give the means for you
to return the kindness he merits to one who deserves so highly of us; as, my father, you are able to do to this person who so especially deserves it.

> Latin: Philopolemvs:
Immo potes,
pater, et poteris et ego potero, et dí eam potestatem dabunt
ut beneficium bene merenti nostro merito muneres;
sicut nunc potes, pater mi, facere merito maxume.

[¶136] HEGIO:
What need is there of words? I have no tongue with which to deny whatever you may ask of me.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid opust verbis? lingua nullast qua negem quidquid roges.

[¶137] PHILOCRATES:
I ask of you to restore to me that servant whom I left here as a surety for myself; who has always proved more faithful to me than to himself;
in order that for his services I may be enabled to give him a reward.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Postulo abs te, ut mi illum reddas servom, quem hic reliqueram
pignus pro me, qui mihi melior quam sibi semper fuit,
pro bene factis eius ut ei pretium possim reddere.

[¶138] HEGIO:
Because you have acted thus kindly, the favour shall be returned, the thing that you ask; both that and anything else that you shall ask of me, you shall obtain. And I would not have you blame me, because in my anger I have treated him harshly.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quod bene fecisti referetur gratia id quod postulas;
et id et aliud, quod me orabis, impetrabis. atque te
nolim suscensere quod ego iratus ei feci male.

[¶139] PHILOCRATES:
What have you done?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Quid fecisti?

[¶140] HEGIO:
I confined him in fetters at the stone-quarries,
when I found out that I had been imposed upon.

> Latin: Hegio:
In lapicidinas compeditum condidi,
ubi rescivi mihi data esse verba.

[¶141] PHILOCRATES:
Ah wretched me! That for my safety misfortunes should have happened to that best of men.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Vae misero mihi,
propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo.

[¶142] HEGIO:
Now, on this account, you need not give me even one groat of silver for him. Receive him of me without cost that he may be free.

> Latin: Hegio:
At ob eam rem mihi libellam pró eo argenti ne duis:
gratiis a me, ut sit liber, ducito.

[¶143] PHILOCRATES:
On my word, Hegio, you act with kindness; but I entreat that you will order this man to be sent for.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Edepol, Hegio,
facis benigne. sed quaeso, hominem ut iubeas arcessi.

[¶144] HEGIO:
Certainly.

> Latin: Hegio:
Licet.

[¶145] (To the attendants, who immediately obey.) Where are you? Go this instant, and bring Tyndarus here. (To PHILOPOLEMUS and PHILOCRATES.) Do you go in-doors; in the meantime, I wish to enquire of this statue for whipping, what was done with my younger son. Do you go bathe in the meantime.
PHILOPOLEMUS:
Philocrates, follow me this way in-doors.

> Latin: ubi estís vos? ite actutum, Tyndarum huc arcessite.
vos ite intro. interibi ego ex hac statua verberea volo
erogitare, meo minore quid sit factum filio.
vos lavate interibi.
Philopolemvs:
Sequere hac, Philocrates, me intro.—

[¶146] PHILOCRATES:
I follow you. (They go into the house.)
(HEGIO and STALAGMUS.)

> Latin: Philocrates:
Sequor.—

[¶147] HEGIO:
Come you, step this way, you worthy fellow, my fine slave.

> Latin: Hegio:
Age tu illuc procede, bone vir, lepidum mancupium meum.

[¶148] STALAGMUS:
What is fitting for me to do, when you, such a man as you are, are speaking false? I was never a handsome, or a fine, or a good person, or an honest one, nor shall I ever be; assuredly, don’t you be forming any hopes that I shall be honest.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Quid me oportet facere, ubi tu talis vir falsum autumas?
fui ego bellus, lepidus: bonus vir numquam, neque frugi bonae,
neque ero umquam, ne ⟨erres⟩: spem ponas me bonae frugi fore.

[¶149] HEGIO:
You easily understand pretty well in what situation your fortunes are. If you shall prove truth-telling, you’ll make your lot from bad somewhat better.

> Latin: Hegio:
Propemodum ubi loci fortunae tuae sint facile intellegis.
sí eris verax, tua ex re, facies ex mala meliusculam.

[¶150] Speak out, then, correctly and truthfully; but never yet truthfully or correctly have you acted.
STALAGMUS:
Do you think that I’m ashamed to own it, when you affirm it?

> Latin: recte et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque ⟨tu⟩ recte adhuc
fecisti umquam.
Stalagmvs:
Quod ego fatear, credin pudeat cum autumes?

[¶151] HEGIO:
But I’ll make you to be ashamed; for I’ll cause you to be blushes all over.

> Latin: Hegio:
At ego faciam ut pudeat, nam in ruborem te totum dabo.

[¶152] STALAGMUS:
Heyday—you’re threatening stripes, I suppose, to me, quite unaccustomed to them! Away with them, I beg. Tell me what you bring, that you may carry off hence what you are in want of.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Eia, credo ego imperito plagas minitaris mihi.
tandem ista aufer ⟨ac⟩ dic quid fers, ut feras hinc quod petis.

[¶153] HEGIO:
Very fluent indeed. But now I wish this prating to be cut short.

> Latin: Hegio:
Satis facundu's facundus es. sed iam fieri dicta compendi volo.

[¶154] HEGIO:
As you desire, so be it done.
HEGIO: (to the AUDIENCE.)
As a boy he was very obedient; now that suits him not. Let’s to this business; now give your attention, and inform me upon what I ask. If you tell the truth, you’ll make your fortunes somewhat better.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Vt vis fiat.
Hegio:
Bene morigerus fuit puer, nunc non decet.
hoc agamus. iam animum advorte ac mihi quae dicam edissere.
[sí eris verax, ⟨ex⟩ tuis rebus feceris meliusculas.]

[¶155] STALAGMUS:
That’s mere trifling. Don’t you think that I know what I’m deserving of?

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Nugae istaec sunt. non me censes scire quid dignus siem?

[¶156] HEGIO:
Still, it is in your power to escape a small portion of it, if not the whole.

> Latin: Hegio:
At ea subterfugere potis es pauca, si non omnia.

[¶157] STALAGMUS:
A small portion I shall escape, I know; but much will befall me, and with my deserving it, because I both ran away, and stole your son and sold him.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Pauca effugiam, scio; nam multa evenient, et merito meo,
quia et fugi et tibi surripui filium et eum vendidi.

[¶158] HEGIO:
To what person?

> Latin: Hegio:
Cui homini?

[¶159] STALAGMUS:
To Theodoromedes the Polyplusian, in Elis, for six minae.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Theodoromedi in Alide Polyplusio,
sex minis.

[¶160] HEGIO:
O ye immortal Gods! He surely is the father of this person, Philocrates.

> Latin: Hegio:
Pro di immortales, is quidem huius est pater
Philocrati.

[¶161] STALAGMUS:
Why, I know him better than yourself, and have seen him more times.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Quin melius novi quam tu et vidi saepius.

[¶162] HEGIO:
Supreme Jove, preserve both myself and my son for me. (He goes to the door, and calls aloud.) Philocrates, by your good Genius, I do entreat you, come out, I want you.
(Enter PHILOCRATES, from the house)

> Latin: Hegio:
Serva, Iuppiter supreme, et me et meum gnatum mihi.
Philocrates, per tuom te genium óbsecro, exi, te volo.

[¶163] PHILOCRATES:
Hegio, here am I; if you want anything of me, command me.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Hegio, assum. si quid me vis, impera.

[¶164] HEGIO:
He (pointing to STALAGMUS) declares that he sold my son to your father, in Elis, for six minae.
PHILOCRATES: (to STALAGMUS.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Hic gnatum meum
tuo patri ait se vendidisse sex minis in Alide.

[¶165] How long since did that happen?
STALAGMUS:
This is the twentieth year, commencing from it.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Quam diu id factum est?
Stalagmvs:
Hic annus incipit vicensimus.

[¶166] PHILOCRATES:
He is speaking falsely.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Falsa memorat.

[¶167] STALAGMUS:
Either I or you do. Why, your father gave you the little child, of four years old, to be your own slave.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Aut ego aut tu. nam tibi quadrimulum
tuos pater peculiarem parvolo puero dedit.

[¶168] PHILOCRATES:
What was his name? If you are speaking the truth, tell me that, then.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Quid erat ei nomen? si vera dicis, memoradum mihi.

[¶169] STALAGMUS:
Paegnium, he used to be called; afterwards, you gave him the name of Tyndarus.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Paegnium vocitatust, post vos indidistis Tyndaro.

[¶170] PHILOCRATES:
Why don’t I recollect you?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Cur ego te non novi?

[¶171] STALAGMUS:
Because it’s the fashion for persons to forget, and not to know him whose favour is esteemed as worth nothing.

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Quia mos est oblivisci hominibus
neque novisse cuius nihili sit faciunda gratia.

[¶172] PHILOCRATES:
Tell me, was he the person whom you sold to my father, who was given me for my private service?

> Latin: Philocrates:
Dic mihi, isne istíc fuit, quem vendidisti meo patri,
qui mihi peculiaris datus est?

[¶173] STALAGMUS:
It was his son.
(pointing to HEGIO.)

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Huius filius.

[¶174] HEGIO:
Is this person now living?

> Latin: Hegio:
Vivitne is homo?

[¶175] STALAGMUS:
I received the money I cared nothing about the rest.
HEGIO: (to PHILOCRATES.)

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Argentum accepi, nil curavi ceterum.

[¶176] What do you say?
PHILOCRATES:
Why, this very Tyndarus is your son, according, indeed, to the proofs that he mentions. For, a boy himself together with me from boyhood was he brought up, virtuously and modestly, even to manhood.

> Latin: Hegio:
Quid tu ais?
Philocrates:
Quin istic ipsust Tyndarus tuos filius,
ut quidem hic árgumenta loquitur. nam is mecum a puero puer
bene pudiceque educatust usque ad adulescentiam.

[¶177] HEGIO:
I am both unhappy and happy, if you are telling the truth. Unhappy for this reason, because, if he is my son, I have badly treated him.

> Latin: Hegio:
Et miser sum et fortunatus, si ⟨vos⟩ vera dicitis;
eo miser sum quia male illi feci, si gnatust meus.

[¶178] Alas! why have I done both more and less than was his due. That I have ill treated him I am grieved; would that it only could be undone. But see, he’s coming here, in a guise not according to his deserts.
(Enter TYNDARUS, in chains, led in by the SERVANTS.)
TYNDARUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: eheu, quóm ego plus minusve feci quam ⟨me⟩ aequom fuit.
quod male feci crucior; modo si infectum fieri possiet.
sed eccum incedit huc ornatus haúd ex suis virtutibus.

[¶179] I have seen many of the torments which take place at Acheron often represented in paintings; but most certainly there is no Acheron equal
to where I have been in the stone-quarries. There, in fine, is the place where real lassitude must be undergone by the body in laboriousness. For when I came there, just as either jackdaws, or ducks, or quails, are given to Patrician children, for them to play with, so in like fashion, when I arrived, a crow was given me with which to amuse myself.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Vidi ego multa saepe picta, quae Acherunti fierent
cruciamenta, verum enim vero nulla adaeque est Acheruns
atque ubi ego fui, in lapicidinis. illic ibi demumst locus,
ubi labore lassitudo est exigunda ex corpore.
nam ubi illo adveni, quasi patriciis pueris aut monerulae,
aut anites aut coturnices dantur, quicum lusitent,
itidem mi haec advenienti upupa, qui me delectem, datast.

[¶180] But see, my master’s before the door; and lo! my other master has returned from Elis.
HEGIO:
Hail to you, my much wished-for son.

> Latin: sed erus eccum ante ostium, et erus alter eccum ex Alide
rediit.
Hegio:
Salve, éxoptate gnate mi.

[¶181] TYNDARUS:
Ha! how—my son? Aye, aye, I know why you pretend yourself to be the father, and me to be the son; it is because, just as parents do, you give me the means of seeing the light.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Hem, quid gnate mi?
attat, scio cur te patrem adsimules esse et me filium:
quia mi item ut parentes lucis das tuendi copiam.

[¶182] PHILOCRATES:
Hail to you, Tyndarus.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Salve, Tyndare.

[¶183] TYNDARUS:
And to you, for whose sake I am enduring these miseries.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Et tu, quoius causa hanc aerumnam exigo.

[¶184] PHILOCRATES:
But now I’ll make you in freedom come to wealth. For (pointing to HEGIO) this is your father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) that is the slave who stole you away from here when four years old, and sold you to my father for six minae. He gave you, when a little child, to me a little child for my own service. He (pointing to STALAGMUS) has made a confession, for we have brought him back from Elis.

> Latin: Philocrates:
At nunc liber in divitias faxo venies. nam tibi
pater hic est; hic servos, qui te huic hinc quadrimum surpuit,
vendidit patri meo te sex minis, is te mihi
parvolum peculiarem parvolo puero dedit:
illic indícium fecit; nam hunc ex Alide huc reduximus.

[¶185] TYNDARUS:
How, where’s Hegio’s son?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid huius filium?

[¶186] PHILOCRATES:
Look now; indoors is your own brother.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Intus eccum fratrem germanum tuom.

[¶187] TYNDARUS:
How do you say? Have you brought that captive son of his?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Quid tu ais? adduxtin illum huius captivom filium?

[¶188] PHILOCRATES:
Why, he’s in-doors, I say.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Quin, inquam, intus hic est.

[¶189] TYNDARUS:
By my faith, you’ve done both well and happily.
PHILOCRATES: (pointing to HEGIO.)

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Fecisti edepol et recte et bene.

[¶190] Now this is your own father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) this is the thief who stole you when a little child.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Nunc tibi páter hic est: hic fur est tuos, qui parvom hinc te abstulit.

[¶191] TYNDARUS:
But now, grown up, I shall give him grown up to the executioner for his thieving.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
At ego hunc grandis grandem natu ob furtum ad carnificem dabo.

[¶192] PHILOCRATES:
He deserves it.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Meritus est.

[¶193] TYNDARUS:
I’ faith, I’ll deservedly give him the reward that he deserves. (To HEGIO.) But tell me I pray you, are you my father?

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
Ergo edepol ⟨merito⟩ meritam mercedem dabo.
[sed ⟨tu⟩ dic oro: pater meus tune es?]

[¶194] HEGIO:
I am he, my son.

> Latin: Hegio:
[Ego sum, gnate mi.]

[¶195] TYNDARUS:
Now, at length, I bring it to my recollection, when I reconsider with myself: troth, I do now at last recall to memory that I had heard, as though through a mist, that my father was called Hegio.

> Latin: Tyndarvs:
[Nunc demum in memoriam redeo, cum mecum recogito.]
nunc edepol demum in memoriam regredior, audisse me
quasi per nebulam, Hégionem meum patrem vocarier.

[¶196] HEGIO:
I am he.

> Latin: Hegio:
Is ego sum.

[¶197] PHILOCRATES:
I pray that your son may be lightened of these fetters, and this slave be loaded with them.

> Latin: Philocrates:
Compedibus quaeso ut tibi sit levior filius
atque huic gravior servos.

[¶198] HEGIO:
I’m resolved that that shall be the first thing attended to. Let’s go in-doors, that the blacksmith may be sent for, in order that I may remove those fetters from you, and give them to him. (They go into the house.)

> Latin: Hegio:
Certum est principio id praevortier.
eamus intro, ut arcessatur faber, ut istas compedes
tibi adimam, huic dem.

[¶199] STALAGMUS:
To one who has no savings of his own, you’ll be rightly doing so.
COMPANY of PLAYERS: (coming forward.)

> Latin: Stalagmvs:
Quoi peculi nihil est, recte feceris.

[¶200] Spectators, this play is founded on chaste manners.
No wenching is there in this, and no intriguing, no exposure of a child, no cheating out of money; and no young man in love here make his mistress free without his father’s knowledge. The Poets find but few Comedies of this kind, where good men might become better. Now, if it pleases you,
and if we have pleased you, and have not been tedious, do you give this sign of it: you who wish that chaste manners should have their reward, give us your applause.

> Latin: Caterva:
Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabula est,
neque in hac subigitationes sunt neque ulla amatio
nec pueri suppositio nec argénti circumductio,
neque ubi amans adulescens scortum liberet clam suom patrem.
huius modi paucas poetae reperiunt comoedias,
ubi boni meliores fiant. nunc vos, si vobis placet
et si placuimus neque odio fuimus, signum hoc mittite:
qui pudicitiae esse voltis praemium, plausum date.