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title: "The Captives · Captivi"
author: "Plautus"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 2 of 3
url: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/2/
cite: "Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Captives · Captivi, section 2. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-captivi/2/"
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# 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.

## 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?