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

# Casina

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

Father and son both want the same girl, and the mother outwits them.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi006, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi006.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 1–353](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-casina/1.md)
2. [Lines 354–660](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-casina/2.md)
3. [Lines 657–1018](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-casina/3.md)

## 1. Lines 1–353

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

[¶0] THE PROLOGUE:
I bid you, most worthy Spectators, welcome; who most highly esteem the Goddess Faith, and Faith esteems you. If I have said the truth, then give me loud applause, that even now, from the very beginning forward, I may know that you are favourably disposed towards me.

> Latin: PROLOGVS:
Salvere iubeo spectatores optumos,
fidem qui facitis maxumi, et vos Fides.
si verum dixi, signum clarum date mihi,
ut vos mi esse aequos iam inde a principio sciam.

[¶1] Those who make use of aged wine, I deem to be wise; and those as well, who, through choice, are the spectators of ancient Plays. Since antique works and words are pleasing to you,’tis just that ancient Plays should in preference please you; for the new Comedies which come out now-a-days
are much more worthless than the new-coined money. We, since we have heard the report in public, that you ardently wish for the Plays of Plautus, have brought forward this ancient Comedy of his, which you, who are among the older ones, have formerly approved.

> Latin: qui utuntur vino vetere sapientis puto
et qui libenter veteres spectant fabulas;
⟨atque⟩ antiqua opera et verba cum vobis placent,
aequom est placere ante ⟨alias⟩ veteres fabulas:
nam nunc novae quae prodeunt comoediae
multo sunt nequiores quam nummi novi.
nos postquam populi rumore intelleximus
studiose expetere vos Plautinas fabulas,
antiquam éius edimus comoediam,
quam vos probastis qui estis in senioribus;

[¶2] But I am aware that those who are among the younger ones are not acquainted with it; still, that they may make acquaintance with it, we will carefully use our best endeavours. When this was first represented, it surpassed all other Plays. In those days there was the very elite of the poets, who have now departed hence to the place common to all.

> Latin: nam iuniorum qui sunt non norunt, scio;
verum ut cognoscant dabimus operam sedulo.
haec cum primum acta est, vicit omnis fabulas.
ea tempestate flos poetarum fuit,
qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum.

[¶3] But though departed, yet do they prove of advantage to those who are still existing. All of you, with the greatest earnestness, I would have entreated that you’ll kindly lend attention to this our company. Dismiss from your thoughts cares and monies due; let no man stand in dread of his duns.

> Latin: sed tamen absentes prosunt ⟨pro⟩ praesentibus.
vos omnes opere magno esse oratos volo,
benigne ut operam detis ad nostrum gregem.
eicite ex animo curam atque alienum aes …
ne quis formidet flagitatorem suom:

[¶4] ’Tis a holiday this—to the bankers a holiday has been given.’Tis now a calm; about the Forum these are Halcyon days. Reasonably do they act: during the games they ask no man for money; but during the games to no one do they pay. If your ears are disengaged, give me your attention;

> Latin: ludi sunt, ludus datus est argentariis;
tranquillum est, Alcedonia sunt circum forum:
ratione utuntur, ludis poscunt neminem,
secundum ludos reddunt autem nemini.
aures vocivae si sunt, animum advortite:

[¶5] I wish to mention to you the name of the Play. “Clerumenae ” this Comedy is called in Greek; in Latin, “Sortientes.” Diphilus wrote it in Greek, and after that, over again, Plautus with the barking name in Latin afresh.
(Pointing to the house of STALINO.)

> Latin: comoediai nomen dare vobis volo.
Clerumenoe vocatur haec comoedia
graece, latine Sortientes. Deiphilus
hanc graece scripsit, post id rursum denuo
latine Plautus cum latranti nomine.

[¶6] An old married man is living here; he has a son; he, with his father, is dwelling in this house. He has a certain slave, who with disease is confined—aye, faith, to his bed, he really is, that I may tell no lie. But sixteen years ago, it happened that on a time this servant,
at early dawn, beheld a female child being exposed. He went at once to the woman who was exposing it, and begged her to give it to himself. He gained his request: he took it away, and carried it straight home. He gave it to his mistress, and entreated her to take care of it, and bring it up.

> Latin: senex híc maritus habitat; éi est filius,
is una cum patre in illisce habitat aedibus.
est éi quidam servos, qui in morbo cubat,
immo hercle vero in lecto, ne quid mentiar;
is servos, sed abhinc annos factum est sedecim,
quom conspicatust primulo crepusculo
puellam exponi. adít extemplo ad mulierem
quae illam exponebat, orat ut eam det sibi:
exorat, aufert; detulit recta domum,
dat erae suae, orat ut eam curet, educet.

[¶7] His mistress did so; with great care she brought it up, as though it had been her own daughter, not much different. Since then she has grown up to that age to be able to prove an attraction to the men; but this old gentleman loves this girl distractedly, and, on the other hand, so does his son as well.

> Latin: era fecit, educavit magna industria,
quasi si esset ex se nata, non multo secus.
postquam ea adolevit ad eam aetatem, ut viris
placere posset, eam puellam hic senex
amat efflictim, et item contra filius.

[¶8] Each of them now, on either side, is preparing his legions, both father and son, each unknown to the other. The father has deputed his bailiff to ask her as his wife; he hopes that, if she’s given to him, an attraction out of doors will be, unknown to his wife, provided for him.

> Latin: nunc sibi utérque contra legiones parat,
paterque filiusque, clam alter alterum:
pater adlegavit vilicum, qui posceret
sibi istánc uxorem: is sperat, si ei sit data,
sibi fore paratas clam uxorem excubias foris;

[¶9] But the son has deputed his armour-bearer to ask her for himself as a wife. He knows that if he gains that request, there will be an object for him to love, within his abode. The wife of the old gentleman has found out that he is gratifying his amorousness; for that reason, she is making common cause together with her son.

> Latin: filius is autem armigerum adlegavit suom,
qui sibi eam uxorem poscat: scit, si id impetret,
futurum quod amat intra praesepis suas.
senis uxor sensit virum amóri operam dare,
propterea úna consentit cum filio.

[¶10] But this father, when he found out that his son was in love with this same woman, and was a hindrance to him, sent the young man hence upon business abroad. His mother, understanding this, still lends him, though absent, her assistance. Don’t you expect it; he will not, in this Play, to-day,
return to the city. Plautus did not choose it: he broke down the bridge that lay before him in the way. There are some here, who, I fancy, are now saying among themselves, “Prithee, what means this, i’ faith?—the marriage of a slave Are slaves to be marrying wives, or asking them for themselves?”

> Latin: ille autem postquam filium sensit suom
eandem illam amare et esse ímpedimento sibi,
hinc adulescentem peregre ablegavit pater;
sciens ei mater dat operam absenti tamen.
is, ne exspectetis, hodie in hac comoedia
in urbem non redibit: Plautus noluit,
pontem interrupit, quí erat ei in itinere.
sunt hic, inter se quos nunc credo dicere:
“quaeso hercle, quíd istuc est? serviles nuptiae?
servin uxorem ducent aut poscent sibi?

[¶11] “They’ve introduced something new—a thing that’s done nowhere in the world.” But I affirm that this is done in Greece, and at Carthage, and here in our own country, and in the Apulian country; and that the marriages of slaves are wont to be solemnized there with more fuss than even those of free persons.

> Latin: novom attulerunt, quod fit nusquam gentium.”
at ego aio id fieri in Graecia et Carthagini,
et hic in nostra terra † in Apulia;
maioreque opere ibi serviles nuptiae
quam liberales etiam curari solent;

[¶12] If this is not the fact, if any one pleases, let him bet with me a stake towards a jug of honied wine, so long as a Carthaginian is the umpire in my cause, or a Greek in fact, or an Apulian. (A pause.) What now? You don’t take it? No one’s thirsty, I find. I’ll return to that foundling girl,
whom the two slaves are, with all their might, contending for as a wife. She’ll be found to be both chaste and free, of freeborn parents, an Athenian girl, and assuredly of no immodesty at all will she be guilty in this Comedy at least. But i’ faith, for sure, directly afterwards, when the Play is over,
if any one offers the money, as I guess, she’ll readily enter into matrimony with him, and not wait for good omens. Thus much I have to say. Farewell; be prosperous in your affairs, and conquer by true valour, as hitherto you’ve done.
(Enter OLYMPIO, CHALINUS following him.

> Latin: id ni fit, mecum pignus si quis volt dato
in urnam mulsi, Poenus dum iudex siet
vel Graecus adeo, vel mea causa Apulus.
quid nunc? nihil agitis? sentio, nemo sitit.
revortar ád illam puellam éxpositiciam:
quam servi summa vi sibi uxorem expetunt,
ea invenietur et pudica et libera,
ingenua Atheniensis, neque quicquam stupri
faciet profecto in hac quidem comoedia.
mox hercle vero, post transactam fabulam,
argentum si quis dederit, ut ego suspicor,
ultro ibit nuptum, non manebit auspices.
tantum est. valete, bene rem gerite et vincite
virtute vera, quod fecistis antidhac.

[¶13] OLYMPIO:
Isn’t it to be allowed me for myself to speak and think about my own affairs by myself, just as I choose, without you as an overlooker? Why the plague are you following me about?

> Latin: Olympio:
Non mihi licere meam rem me solum, ut volo,
loqui atque cogitare, sine ted arbitro?
quid tu, malum, me sequere?

[¶14] CHALINUS:
Because I’m resolved, just like your shadow, wherever you go, to follow you about. Why troth, even if you are ready to go to the cross, I’m determined to follow you. Hence judge of the sequel,
whether you can or not, by your artifices, slily deprive me of Casina for a wife, just as you are attempting.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quia certum est mihi,
quasi umbra, quoquo tu ibis, te semper sequi;
quin edepol etiam si in crucem vis pergere,
sequi decretumst. dehinc conicito ceterum,
possisne necne clam me sutelis tuis
praeripere Casinam uxorem, proinde ut postulas.

[¶15] OLYMPIO:
What business have you with me?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid tibi negotist mecum?

[¶16] CHALINUS:
What say you, impudence? Why are you creeping about in the city, you bailiff, so very valuable in this place?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid ais, impudens?
quid in urbe reptas, vilice haud magni preti?

[¶17] OLYMPIO:
Because I choose.

> Latin: Olympio:
Lubet.

[¶18] CHALINUS:
But why ain’t you in the country, at your post of command?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quin ruri es in praefectura tua?

[¶19] Why don’t you rather pay attention to the business that has been entrusted to you, and keep yourself from meddling in city matters? Have you come hither to deprive me of my betrothed? Be off to the country—be off to your place of command, and be hanged to you.

> Latin: quin potius quod legatum est tibi negotium,
id curas atque urbanis rebus te apstines?
huc mihi venisti sponsam praereptum meam:
abi rus, abi dierectus tuam in provinciam.

[¶20] OLYMPIO:
Chalinus, I have not forgotten my duty.

> Latin: Olympio:
Chaline, non sum oblitus officium meum:

[¶21] I’ve given charge to one who will still take care that all’s right in the country. When I’ve got that for which I came hither to the city, to take her as my wife whom you are dying for—the fair and charming Casina, your fellow-servant—when I’ve carried her off with myself into the country as my wife,
I’ll then stick fast in the country, at my post of command.

> Latin: praefeci ruri recte qui curet tamen.
ego huc quod veni in urbem si impetravero,
uxorem ut istam ducam, quam tu deperis,
bellam et tenellam Casinam, conservam tuam,
quando ego eam mecum rus uxorem abduxero,
ruri incubabo usque in praefectura mea.

[¶22] CHALINUS:
What, you marry her? By my faith,’twere better I should die by a halter, than that you should be the winner of her.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Tun illam ducas? hercle me suspendio,
quam tu eius potior fias, satiust mortuom.

[¶23] OLYMPIO:
She’s my prize; do you put yourself in a halter at once.

> Latin: Olympio:
Mea praedast illa: proin tu te in laqueum induas.

[¶24] CHALINUS:
Fellow, dug up from your own dunghill, is she to be your prize?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Ex sterculino effosse, tua illaec praeda sit?

[¶25] OLYMPIO:
You’ll find that such is the fact.
Woe be unto you!
in what a many ways, if I only live, I’ll have you tormented at my wedding!

> Latin: Olympio:
Scies hóc ita esse.
Chalinvs:
Vae tibi.
Olympio:
Quot te modis,
si vivo, habebo in nuptiis miserum meis.

[¶26] CHALINUS:
What will you do to me?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid tu mihi facies?

[¶27] OLYMPIO:
What will I do to you? In the first place of all, you shall hold the lighted torch for this new-made bride of nine; that always, in future, you may be worthless, and not esteemed.

> Latin: Olympio:
Egone quid faciam tibi?
primum omnium huic lucebis novae nuptae facem;
postilla, ut semper, improbus nihilique eris:

[¶28] Then next after that, when you get to the country-house, a single pitcher shall be found you, and a single path, a single spring, a single brass cauldron, and eight casks; and unless these shall be always kept filled, I’ll load you with lashes. I’ll make you so thoroughly bent with carrying water,
that a horse’s crupper might be manufactured out of you. And then, in future, unless in the country you either feed on pulse, or, like a worm, upon the soil, should you require to taste of any better food, never, upon my faith, is hunger as full of hungriness as I’ll make you to be in the country.

> Latin: post id locorum quando ad villam veneris,
dabitur tibi amphora una et una semita,
fons unus, unum ahenum et octo dolia:
quae nisi erunt semper plena, ego te implebo flagris.
ita te aggerunda curvom aqua faciam probe,
ut postilena possit ex te fieri.
post autem érvi nisi tu acervom éderis
aut quasi lumbricus terram, quod te postules
gustare quicquam, numquam edepol ieiunium
ieiunumst aeque atque ego te ruri reddibo.

[¶29] After that, when you’re tired out, and starved with famine, care shall be taken that, at night, you go to bed as you deserve.

> Latin: post id, quom lassus fueris et famelicus,
noctu ut condigne te cubes curabitur.

[¶30] CHALINUS:
What will you do?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid facies?

[¶31] OLYMPIO:
You shall be shut up fast in a nook with bars, where you can listen while I’m caressing her, while she is saying to me, “My soul, my own Olympio,”
“my life, my sweet, my delight, do let me kiss your dear eyes, my love! do, there’s a dear, let yourself be loved! my own day of happiness, my sparrow-chick, my own dove, my leveret!” When these expressions shall be being uttered to me, then will you, you villain,
be wriggling about like a mouse in the middle of the wall. Now, that you mayn’t be trying to give me an answer, I’ll off in-doors; I’m tired of your talk.
(Goes into the house of STALINO.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Concludere in fénestram firmiter,
unde auscultare possis quóm ego illam ausculer:
quom mi illa dicet “mi animule, mi Olympio,
mea vita, mea mellilla, mea festivitas,
sine tuos ocellos deosculer, voluptas mea,
sine amabo ted amari, meus festus dies,
meus pullus passer, mea columba, mi lepus”,
quom mi haec dicentur dicta, tum tu, furcifer,
quasi mus, in medio pariete versabere.
nunc ne tu te mihi respondere postules,
abeo intro. taedet tui sermonis.—

[¶32] CHALINUS:
I’ll follow you. Here, indeed, on my word, assuredly you shall do nothing without me for an overlooker.
(Follows him into the house.) (Enter CLEOSTRATA and PARDALISCA, from the house of STALINO.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Te sequor.
hic quidem pol certo nil ages síne med arbitro.—

[¶33] CLEOSTRATA: (at the door, to the SERVANTS, within.)
Seal fast the store-rooms, bring back the signet to me.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Obsígnate céllas, reférte anulum ád me:

[¶34] I’m going here to my next door neighbour; if my husband wants me for anything, take care and send for me thence.

> Latin: ego húc transeo ín proxumum ád meam vicínam.
vir sí quid volét me, facite hínc accersátis.

[¶35] PARDALISCA:
The old gentleman ordered a breakfast to be got ready for him to-day.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Prándium iússerat sénex sibi parari.

[¶36] CLEOSTRATA:
Tut! Hold your tongue, and be off. (PARDALISCA goes into the house.) I don’t prepare it, and it shan’t be cooked; since he sets himself against myself and his son,
for the sake of his passion and his appetite. A disgraceful fellow that! I’ll punish this lover with hunger, I’ll punish him with thirst, with abuse, with hardships.
By my faith, I’ll thoroughly worry him with disagreable speeches; I’ll make him to pass a life in future just as he deserves—fit food for Acheron, a hunter after iniquity, a stable of infamy!

> Latin: Cleostrata:
St! tace átque abi; néque paro néque hodie coquetur,
quándo is mi et fílio ádvorsatúr suo
ánimi amorísque causá sui,
flágitium illud hóminis. ego illúm fame, ego illúm siti,
maledíctis, malefáctis amátorem ulcíscar,
ego pól illum probe íncommodís dictis ángam,
fáciam uti proínde ut est dígnus vitám colat,
Ácheruntis pábulum,
flágiti persequentem†
stabulúm nequitiae.

[¶37] Now I’ll away hence to my neighbours, to lament my lot. But the door makes a noise; and see, she’s coming out of doors herself. On my word, I’ve not started for my call at a convenient time.
(Enter MYRRHINA, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)
MYRRHINA: (to her SERVANTS, at the door.)
Follow me, my attendants, here next door. You there! Does any one hear this that I say? I shall be here, if my husband or any person shall seek me. Did I order my distaff to be taken there? For when I’m at home alone, drowsiness takes effect upon my hand.

> Latin: nunc húc meas fortúnas eo quéstum ad vicínam.
séd foris concrépuit, atque eápse eccam egreditúr foras:
non pól per tempus iter húc mi incepi.
Myrrhina:
Sequimíni, comites, in próxumum me huc. heus vós, ecquis haec quae lóquor audit?
ego hic éro, vir si aut quispiám quaeret.
nam úbi domi sóla sum, sópor manus cálvitur.
iussín colum ferrí mihi?

[¶38] CLEOSTRATA:
Myrrhina, good morrow.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Myrrhína, salve.

[¶39] MYRRHINA:
Good morrow, my dear Cleostrata. But, prithee, why are you sad?

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Salvé mecastor. séd quid tu es tristís, amabo?

[¶40] CLEOSTRATA:
So all are wont to be who are unfortunately married; at home and abroad, there’s always enough to make them sad. But I was going to your house.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Itá solent omnes quae súnt male nuptae:
domi ét foris aegre quód siet, satis sémper est.
nam ego íbam ad te.

[¶41] MYRRHINA:
And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind? For the thing that distresses you, that same is a trouble to me.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Et pol ego ístuc ad te.
sed quíd est quod tuo nunc ánimo aegrest?
nam quód tibi est aégre, idem mi ést dividiae.

[¶42] CLEOSTRATA:
On my word, I do believe you. For with good reason no female neighbour of mine do I love better than yourself, nor any one with whom I have more ties of intimacy, to afford me pleasure.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Credo écastor, nam vícinam nemínem amo merito mágis quam te
nec † qua in plura sint mihi quae ego velim.

[¶43] MYRRHINA:
I thank you kindly, and I long to know what this is.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Amó te, atque istúc expetó scire quíd sit.

[¶44] CLEOSTRATA:
My husband has put slights upon me in a most unworthy manner.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Péssumis mé modis déspicatúr domi.

[¶45] MYRRHINA:
Hah! What is it? Prithee, repeat that same again; for, on my word, I don’t in my mind sufficiently comprehend your complaints.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Hém, quid est? díc idem (nám pol hau sátis meo
córde accepí querellas tuas) ópsecro.

[¶46] CLEOSTRATA:
My husband has put slights upon me in a most unworthy manner,
and I have not the advantage of enjoying my own rights.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Vír me habet péssumis déspicatám modis,
néc mihi iús meum óptinendi optio est.

[¶47] MYRRHINA:’Tis surprising, if you say the truth; for husbands can scarce obtain from their wives what’s their own right.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Míra sunt, véra si praédicas, nám viri
iús suom ad múlieres óptinere haúd queunt.

[¶48] CLEOSTRATA:
Why, against my will, he demands a female servant of me, who belongs to myself, and was brought up at my own expense,
for him to give to his bailiff. But he is in love with her himself.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quín mihi ancíllulam ingrátiis póstulat,
quaé mea est, quaé meo edúcta sumptú siet,
vílico suo sé dare,
séd ipsus eam amat.

[¶49] MYRRHINA:
Pray, do hold your tongue.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Obsecro
táce.

[¶50] CLEOSTRATA: (looking round.)
But here we may speak at present; we are alone—

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Nam hic nunc licet dícere:
nós sumus.

[¶51] MYRRHINA:
It is so. But whence did you get her? For a good wife ought to have no property
unknown to her husband; and she who has got any, it is not to her credit, for she must either have purloined it from her husband, or obtained it by unfaithfulness. Whatever is your own, all that I take to be your husband’s.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Ita est. unde éa tibi est?
nám peculí probam níl habere áddecet
clám virum, ét quae habet, pártum ei haud cómmode est,
quín viro aut súbtrahat aut stupro invénerit.
hóc viri cénseo esse ómne, quidquíd tuom est.

[¶52] CLEOSTRATA:
Surely, you’re saying all this out of opposition to your friend.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Tu quidem advorsum tuam amicam omnia loqueris.

[¶53] MYRRHINA:
Do hold your tongue, will you, simpleton, and attend to me. Do you forbear to oppose him, will you. Let him love on; that which he chooses let him do, so long as nothing’s denied you at home.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Tace sís, stulta, et mi auscúlta. nolí sis tu illi advórsari,
sine amét, sine quod libet íd faciat, quandó tibi nil domi délicuom est.

[¶54] CLEOSTRATA:
Are you quite in your senses? For really, you are saying these things against your own interest.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Satin sána es? nam tu quidem ádvorsus tuam istaéc rem loquere.

[¶55] MYRRHINA:
Silly creature, do you always take care and be on guard against this expression from your husband—

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Insípiens,
sempér tu huic verbo vítato abs tuo víro.

[¶56] CLEOSTRATA:
What expression?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Cui verbo?

[¶57] MYRRHINA:
“Woman! out of doors with you!”
CLEOSTRATA: (in a low voice.)

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Ei fóras, mulier.

[¶58] ’St! be quiet.
MYRRHINA:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
St, táce,
Myrrhina:
Quid est?

[¶59] CLEOSTRATA:
Hush!
(Looks in a particular direction.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Ém.

[¶60] MYRRHINA:
Who is it that you see?

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Quis est, quém vides?

[¶61] CLEOSTRATA:
Why look, my husband’s coming; go you in-doors. Make all haste; be off, there’s a dear.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Vir
eccum ít; intro ábi, adpropera, áge amabó.

[¶62] MYRRHINA:
You easily prevail; I’m off.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Impetrás, abeo.

[¶63] CLEOSTRATA:
At a future time, when you and I shall have more leisure, then I’ll talk to you. For the present, adieu!

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Mox mágis cum otium mi et tibi érit, igitur
tecúm loquar. nunc vale.

[¶64] MYRRHINA:
Adieu! (Goes into her house. CLEOSTRATA stands aside.)
(Enter STALINO.)

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Váleas.—

[¶65] STALINO: (to himself.)
I do believe that love excels all things and delights that are exquisite. It is not possible for anything to be mentioned, that has more relish and more that’s delicious in it. Really, I do much wonder at the cooks, who employ sauces so many,
that they don’t employ this one seasoning, which excels them all. For where love shall be the seasoning, that I do believe will please every one; nor can there be anything relishing or sweet, where love is not mixed with it. The gall which is bitter, that same it will make into honey; a man from morose into one cheerful and pleasant. This conjecture do I form rather from myself at home than from anything I’ve heard;

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Omnibus rebus ego amorem credo et nitoribus nitidis antevenire,
nec potis quicquam commemorari quod plus salis plusque leporis hodie
habeat; cocos equidem nimis demiror, ⟨tot⟩ qui utuntur condimentis,
eos eo condimento uno ⟨non⟩ utier, omnibus quod praestat.
nam úbi amor condiméntum inerit, cuivís placituram ⟨escam⟩ crédo;
neque sálsum neque suave ésse potest quicquam, úbi amor non admíscetur:
fel quód amarumst, id mél faciet, hominem éx tristi lepidum ét lenem.
hanc égo de me coniécturam domi fácio magis quam ex aúditis;

[¶66] who, since I’ve been in love with Casina, more than in my young days have excelled Neatness herself in neatness; I give employment to all the perfumers; wherever an unguent is excellent, I perfume myself, that I may please her. And I do please her, as I think. But inasmuch as she keeps living on, my wife’s a torment. (Catches sight of his WIFE, and speaks in a low voice.) I espy her standing there in gloominess. This plaguy baggage must be addressed by me with civility. (Going towards her.) My own wife and my delight, what are you about?
(Takes hold of her.)
CLEOSTRATA: (shaking him off.)
Get you gone, and keep your hand off!

> Latin: qui quóm amo Casinam, mágis niteo, mundítiis munditiam ántideo:
myropólas omnes sollicito, ubicúmque est lepidum unguéntum, unguor,
ut illí placeam; et placeo, út videor. sed uxór me excruciat, quía vivit.
tristem ástare aspició. blande haec mihi mála res appellánda est.
uxór mea meaque amoénitas, quid tu agis?
Cleostrata:
Abi atque abstine manum.

[¶67] STALINO:
O fie! my Juno. You shouldn’t be so cross to your own Jupiter. Where art come now?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Heiá, mea Iuno, nón decet esse té tam tristem tuó Iovi.
quo núnc abis?

[¶68] CLEOSTRATA:
Let me alone. (Moves as if going.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Mítte me.

[¶69] STALINO:
Do stay.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Mane.

[¶70] CLEOSTRATA: (still going.)
I shan’t stay.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Non máneo.

[¶71] STALINO:
I’ troth, then I’ll follow you. (Follows her.)
CLEOSTRATA: (turning round.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At pol ego té sequar.

[¶72] Prithee, are you in your senses?
STALINO:
In my senses, inasmuch as I love you.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Óbsecro, sanun est?
Lysidamvs:
Sánus quom téd amo.

[¶73] CLEOSTRATA:
I don’t want you to love me.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Nólo ames.

[¶74] STALINO:
You can’t have your way there.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Nón potes ímpetrare.

[¶75] CLEOSTRATA:
You plague me to death.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Énecas.

[¶76] STALINO:
I only wish you spoke the truth.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Véra dicás velim.

[¶77] CLEOSTRATA:
There I believe you. (Moves on.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Crédo ego istúc tibi.

[¶78] STALINO:
Do look back, O my sweet one.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Réspice, o mi lepos.

[¶79] CLEOSTRATA:
About as much, I suppose, as you are to me. Whence is this strong smell of perfumes, prithee?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Nempe ita ut tú mihi es.
unde híc, amabo, unguénta olent?

[¶80] STALINO: (aside.)
O dear, I’m undone; to my misfortune, I’m caught in the fact. Why delay to rub it off my head with my cloak? (Rubs his head with his cloak.) May good Mercury confound you, you perfumer, who provided me with this.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Oh périi, manufestó miser
téneor. cessó caput pállio detérgere?
út te bonus Mercúrius perdat, mýropola, quia haec míhi dedisti.

[¶81] CLEOSTRATA:
How now, you worthless grey gnat! I can hardly restrain myself from saying what you deserve.
In your old age, good-for-nothing, are you walking along the streets reeking with perfumes?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Ého tu nihili, cána culex, vix téneor quin quae décent te dicam,
sénecta aetate únguentatus pér vias, ignáve, incedis?

[¶82] STALINO:
I’ faith, I lent my company to a certain friend of mine, while he was purchasing some perfumes.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Pól ego amico dédi cuidam operam, dum émit unguenta.

[¶83] CLEOSTRATA:
How readily he did trump that up. Are you ashamed of anything?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Vt cito comméntust.
écquid te pudet?

[¶84] STALINO:
Of everything that you like.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ómnia quae tu vís.

[¶85] CLEOSTRATA:
In what dens of iniquity have you been lying?
STALINO: (with an air of surprise.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Vbi in lustrá iacuisti?

[¶86] I, in dens of iniquity?
CLEOSTRATA:
I know more than you think I do.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Égone in lustra?
Cleostrata:
Scío plus quam tu me árbitrare.

[¶87] STALINO:
What is it that you know?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quíd id est? quid scis?

[¶88] CLEOSTRATA:
That not one among all the old men is more worthless than yourself, an old man.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Té sene omniúm † senem néminem esse ignáviorem.

[¶89] Whence come you, good-for-nothing? Where have you been? In what den amusing yourself? Where have you been drinking? You are come, on my word; look at his cloak, how it’s creased. (Points at it.)
STALINO:
May the Gods confound both me and yourself, if I this day have put a drop of wine into my mouth.

> Latin: únde is, nihili? ubí fuisti? ubí lustratu'slustratus es? úbi bibisti?
mádes mecastor: víde, palliolum ut rúgat.
Lysidamvs:
Di me et te ínfelicent,
si égo in os méum hodie viní guttam índidi.

[¶90] CLEOSTRATA:
Very well then; just as you like:
drink, eat, and squander away your property!

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Immo age, út lubet,
bíbe, es, disperde rem.

[¶91] STALINO:
Hold, wife; there’s now enough of it; you din me too much. Do leave a little of your talk, that you may wrangle with me to-morrow. But what say you? Have you by this time subdued your temper, so as to do that in preference which your husband wishes to be done, rather than strive against him?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Óhe, iam satis, uxór, comprime te, nímium tinnis,
relínque aliquantum orátionis, crás quod mecum lítiges.
séd quid ais? iam domuisti animum, potius ut quod vir velit
fieri, id facias, quam adversere contra?

[¶92] CLEOSTRATA:
About what matter are you speaking?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Qua de re?

[¶93] STALINO:
Do you ask me? About the handmaid Casina—that she may be given in marriage to our bailiff,
an honest servant, where she’ll be well off, in wood, warm water, food, and clothing, and where she may properly bring up the children which she may have, in preference to that rascally servant of an armour-bearer, a good-for-nothing and dishonest, a fellow that hasn’t this day a leaden dump of money his own.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Rogas?
super ancilla Casina, ut detur nuptum nostro vilico,
servo frugi atque ubi illi bene sit ligno, aqua calida, cibo,
vestimentis, ubique educat pueros quos pariat † potius
quam illi servo nequam des, armigero nili atque improbo,
cui hominí hodie peculi nummus non est plumbeus.

[¶94] CLEOSTRATA:
Upon my faith, I am surprised that in your old age you
do not remember your duty.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Mirum ecastor, te senecta aétate officium tuom
non meminisse.

[¶95] STALINO:
How so?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid iam?

[¶96] CLEOSTRATA:
Because if you were to act rightly or becomingly, you’d let me manage the maid-servants, which is my own province.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quia, si facias recte aut commode,
me sinas curare ancillas, quae mea est curatio.

[¶97] STALINO:
Why the plague do you wish to give her to a fellow that carries a shield?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Qui, malum, homini scutigerulo dáre lubet?

[¶98] CLEOSTRATA:
Because it’s our duty to gratify our only son.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quía enim filio
nos oportet opitulari único.

[¶99] STALINO:
But although he is an only one, not a bit the more is he my only son than I am his only father.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At quamquam unicust,
nihilo magis ille unicust mihi filius quam ego illi pater:

[¶100] It’s more becoming for him to conform to me, than for me to him.

> Latin: illum mi aequiust quam me illi quae volo concedere.

[¶101] CLEOSTRATA:
By my troth, sir, you’re providing for yourself a serious piece of trouble.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Tu ecastor tibi, homo, malam rem quaeris.

[¶102] STALINO: (aside.)
She suspects it, I find that. (To his wife.) What, I, do you mean?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Subolet, sentio.
egone?

[¶103] CLEOSTRATA:
You; but why do. you stammer so? Why do you wish for this with such anxiety?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Tu. nam quid friguttis? quid istuc tam cupide cupis?

[¶104] STALINO:
Why, that she may rather be given to a servant that’s honest, than to a servant that’s dishonest.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt enim frugi servo detur potius quam servo improbo.

[¶105] CLEOSTRATA:
What if I prevail upon, and obtain of the bailiff, that for my sake
he’ll give her up to the other one?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quid si ego impetro atque exoro a vilico, causa mea
ut eam illi permittat?

[¶106] STALINO:
But what if I prevail upon the armour-bearer to give her up to the other one? And I think that I can prevail upon him in this.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid si ego autem ab armigero impetro,
⟨ut⟩ eam illi permittat? atque hóc credo impetrassere.

[¶107] CLEOSTRATA:
That’s agreed upon. Should you like that, in your name, I should call Chalinus hither out of doors? Do you beg of him, and I’ll beg of the bailiff.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Convenit. vin tuis Chalinum huc evocem verbis foras?
tú eum orato, ego autem orabo vilicum.

[¶108] STALINO:
I’m quite willing.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Sane volo.

[¶109] CLEOSTRATA:
He’ll be here just now. Now we’ll make trial which of us two is the most persuasive. (She goes into the house.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Iam hic erit. nunc experiemur, nostrum uter sit blandior.—

[¶110] STALINO: (to himself.)
May Hercules and the Gods confound her!—a thing that now I’m at liberty to say. I’m wretchedly distracted with love; but she, as though on purpose, thwarts me. My wife has some suspicion now of this that I’m planning; for that reason is she purposely lending her assistance to the armour-bearer.
(Enter CHALINUS, from the house.)
STALINO: (aside, on seeing him.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Hercules dique istam perdant, quod nunc liceat dicere.
ego discrucior miser amore, illa autem quasi ob industriam
mi advorsatur. subolet hoc iam uxori quod ego machinor:
propter eam rem magis armigero dat operam de industria.

[¶111] May all the Gods and Goddesses confound him!
CHALINUS: (addressing him.)
Your wife said that you were calling me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
qui illum di omnes deaeque perdant.
Chalinvs:
Te uxor aiebat tua
me vocare.

[¶112] STALINO:
Why yes, I did order you to be sent for.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ego énim vocari iussi.

[¶113] CHALINUS:
Tell me what you want.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Eloquere quid velis.

[¶114] STALINO:
In the first place, I want you to speak to me with a more cheerful countenance.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Primum ego te porrectiore fronte volo mecum loqui;

[¶115] CHALINUS:
It would be folly for me to be morose toward you whose rule is the strongest.

> Latin: stultitia est ei te esse tristem, cuius potestas plus potest.

[¶116] STALINO:
Indeed! I consider you to be an honest fellow.
CHALINUS:
So I find.
But if you think so, why don’t you give me my freedom?

> Latin: probum te et frugi hominem iam pridem esse arbitror.
Chalinvs:
Intellego.
quin, si ita arbitrare, emittis me manu?

[¶117] STALINO:
Why so I wish to do; but it’s of no use for me to wish a thing to be done, unless you aid me with your actions.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quin id volo.
sed nihil est, me cupere factum, nisi tu factis adiuvas.

[¶118] CHALINUS:
What you wish, I only wish myself to be acquainted with it.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid velis modo id velim me scire.

[¶119] STALINO:
Listen then; I’ll tell you. I’ve promised to give Casina as a wife to our bailiff.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ausculta, ego eloquar.
Casinam ego uxorem promisi vilico nostro dare.

[¶120] CHALINUS:
But your wife and your son have promised her to me.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
At tua uxor filiusque promiserunt mihi.

[¶121] STALINO:
I know it;

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Scio.

[¶122] but whether now would you prefer yourself to be single and a free man, or, as a married man, to pass your lives, yourself and your children, in slavery? This choice is your own: whichever condition of these two you prefer, take it.

> Latin: sed utrum nunc tu caelibem te ésse mavis liberum
an maritum servom aetatem degere et gnatos tuos?
optio haec tua est: utram harum vis condicionem accipe.

[¶123] CHALINUS:
If I am free, I live at my own cost; at present I live at yours. As to Casina, I’m resolved to give way to no born man.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Liber si sim, meo periclo vivam; nunc vivo tuo.
de Casina certum est concedere homini nato nemini.

[¶124] STALINO:
Go in-doors, and at once be quick and call my wife here, out of doors; and bring hither together with you an urn, with some water, and the lots.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Intro abi atque actutum uxorem huc evoca ante aedis cito,
et sitellam huc tecum efferto cúm aqua, et sortis.

[¶125] CHALINUS:
I’m quite agreable.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Satis placet.

[¶126] STALINO:
I’ faith, in some way or other I’ll now ward off this weapon of yours; for if, as it is, I shall not be able to prevail by persuasion, at least I’ll try it by lot. There I shall take vengeance upon you and your abettors.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ego pol istam iam aliquovorsum tragulam decidero.
nam si sic nihil impetrare potero, saltem sortiar.
ibi ego te et suffragatores tuos ulciscar.

[¶127] CHALINUS:
Still, for all that the lot will fall to me—

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Attamen
mi obtinget sors.

[¶128] STALINO:
Aye, faith, for you to go to perdition with direful torments.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt quidem pol pereas cruciatu malo.

[¶129] CHALINUS:
She shall marry me, contrive what you will, in any way you please.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Mi illa nubet, machinare quid lubet quo vis modo.

[¶130] STALINO:
Won’t you away hence from my sight?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Abin hinc ab oculis?

[¶131] CHALINUS:
Unwillingly you look upon me, still I shall live on. (Goes into the house.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Invitus me vides, vivam tamen.—

[¶132] STALINO: (to himself.)
Am I not a wretched man? Don’t all things go quite contrary with me? I’m now afraid that my wife will prevail upon Olympio not to
marry Casina. If that’s done, why look, it’s all over with me in my old age! If she does not prevail, there is still some tiny hope in the lots. But if the lots fail me, I’ll make a pillow of a sword, and lay me down upon it. But see, most opportunely Olympio’s coming out of doors.
(Enter OLYMPIO, from the house, speaking to CLEOSTRATA, within.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Sumne ego miser homo? satin omnes ⟨res⟩ sunt advorsae mihi?
iam metuo, ne Olympionem mea uxor exoraverit
ne Casinam ducat: si id factum est, ecce me nullum senem;
si non impetravit, etiam specula in sortist mihi.
si sors autem decolassit, gladium faciam culcitam
eumque incumbam. sed progreditur optume eccum Olympio.

[¶133] OLYMPIO:
By my faith, all in an instant shut me up in a hot furnace,
and parch me there for a hard-baked biscuit, good mistress, before you shall gain that point of me which you desire.
STALINO: (apart.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Vna edepol opera in furnum calidum condito
atque ibi torreto me pro pane rubido,
era, qua istuc opera a me impetres quod postulas.

[¶134] I’m all right. My hope’s realized, according as I hear his words.
OLYMPIO: (at the door, to his MISTRESS, within.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Salvos sum, salva spes est, ut verba audio.

[¶135] But why do you frighten me about liberty? Why, even though you should oppose it, and your son as well,
against your wills and in spite of you both, for a single penny I can become free.
STALINO: (stepping forward.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid tu me tua, era, libertate territas?
qui si tu nolis filiusque etiam tuos,
vobis invitis atque amborum ingratiis
una libella liber possum fieri.

[¶136] What’s this? Who are you wrangling with, Olympio?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid istúc est? quicum litigas, Olympio?

[¶137] OLYMPIO:
With the same person that you always are.

> Latin: Olympio:
Cum eadem qua tu semper.

[¶138] STALINO:
What, with my wife?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Cum uxoré mea?

[¶139] OLYMPIO:
What wife are you speaking of to me? Really you are a hunter, as it were:

> Latin: Olympio:
Quam tu mi uxorem? quasi venator tu quidem es:

[¶140] your nights and days you pass with a female cur.

> Latin: dies átque noctes cum cane aetatem exigis.

[¶141] STALINO:
What does she say? What’s she talking to you about?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid agit, quid loquitur tecum?

[¶142] OLYMPIO:
She’s begging and entreating of me that I won’t be taking Casina as my wife.

> Latin: Olympio:
Orat, obsecrat,
ne Casinam uxorem ducam.

[¶143] STALINO:
What did you say after that?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid tu postea?

[¶144] OLYMPIO:
Why, I declared that I wouldn’t give way to Jupiter himself, if he were to entreat me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Negavi enim ipsi me concessurum Iovi,
si is mecum oraret.

[¶145] STALINO:
May the Gods preserve you for me!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Di te servassint mihi.

[¶146] OLYMPIO:
She’s now all in a ferment; she’s swelling so against me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Nunc in fermento totast, ita turget mihi.

[¶147] STALINO:
By my troth, I could like her to burst in the middle.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ego edepol illam mediam diruptam velim.

[¶148] OLYMPIO:
I’ faith, I fancy she will, if indeed you manage cleverly. But your amorousness, i’ faith, is a cause of trouble to me; your wife is at enmity with me, your son at enmity,
my fellow-servants at enmity.

> Latin: Olympio:
Credo edepol esse, siquidem tu frugi bonae es.
verum edepol tua mihi odiosa est amatio:
inimica est tua uxor mihi, inimicus filius,
inimici familiares.

[¶149] STALINO:
What matters that to you? So long as (pointing to himself) this Jupiter only is propitious to you, do you take care and esteem the lesser Gods at a straw’s value.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid id refert tua?
unus tibi hic dum propitius sit Iuppiter,
tu istos minutos cave deos flocci feceris.

[¶150] OLYMPIO:
That’s great nonsense; as if you didn’t know how suddenly your human Jupiters take to dying.

> Latin: Olympio:
Nugae sunt istae magnae. quasi tu nescias,
repente ut emoriantur humani Ioves.

[¶151] So after all, if you, my Jupiter, are dead and gone, when your realm devolves upon the lesser Gods, who shall then come to the rescue of my back, or head, or legs?

> Latin: responde: si tu Iuppiter sis mortuos,
cum ad deos minoris redierit regnum tuom,
quis mihi subveniet tergo aut capiti aut cruribus?

[¶152] STALINO:
Affairs will go with you better than you expect, if I obtain this—the enjoyment of my Casina.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Opinione melius res tibi habeát tua,
si hoc impetramus, ut ego cum Casina cubem.

[¶153] OLYMPIO:
I’ faith, I do not think it possibly can be; so earnestly is your wife striving that she shall not be given to me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Non hercle opinor posse, ita uxor acriter
tua instat, ne mihi detur.

[¶154] STALINO:
But this way I’ll proceed: I’ll put the lots in an urn, and draw the lots for yourself and Chalinus. I find that the business has come to this pass; it’s necessary to fight with swords hand to hand.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At ego sic agam:
coniciam sortis in sitellam et sortiar
tibi et Chalino. íta rem natam intellego:
necessum est vorsis gladiis depugnarier.

[¶155] OLYMPIO:
What, if the lot should turn out different from what you wish?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid si sors aliter quam voles evenerit?

[¶156] STALINO:
Speak with good omen. I rely upon the Gods; we’ll trust in the Gods.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Bene dice. dis sum fretus, deos sperabimus.

[¶157] OLYMPIO:
That expression I wouldn’t purchase at a rotten thread, for all people are relying upon the Gods; but still I’ve frequently seen many of those deceived who relied upon the Gods.

> Latin: Olympio:
Non ego istud verbum émpsim tittibilicio;
nam omnes mortales dis sunt freti, sed tamen
vidi ego dis fretos saepe multos decipi.

[¶158] STALINO:
But hold your tongue a little while. (Pointing.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
St, táce parumper.

[¶159] OLYMPIO:
What is it you mean?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid vis?

[¶160] STALINO:
Why look; here’s Chalinus coming from the house, out here, with the urn and the lots. Now, with standards closing, we shall fight.
(Enter CLEOSTRATA and CHALINUS, with the urn and lots.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Eccum exit foras
Chalinus intus cum sitella et sortibus.
nunc nos conlatis signis depugnabimus.

[¶161] CLEOSTRATA:
Let me know, Chalinus, what my husband wants with me.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Fáce, Chaline, certiorem me, quid meus vir me velit.

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[¶0] CHALINUS:
By my troth, he wants to see you burning outside of the Metian gate.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Ille edepol videre ardentem te extra portam mortuam.

[¶1] CLEOSTRATA:
I’ faith, I believe he does want that.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Credo ecastor velle.

[¶2] CHALINUS:
But, by my troth, I don’t believe it, but I know it for certain.
STALINO: (aside to OLYMPIO.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
At pol ego hau credo, sed certo scio.

[¶3] I’ve got more men of business than I imagined: I’ve got this fellow, a Diviner, in my house. What, if we move our standards nearer, and go to meet them? Follow me. (Goes up to CLEOSTRATA and CHALINUS.) What are you about?
CHALINUS:
All the things are here which you ordered; your wife, the lots, the urn, and myself.
STALINO:
By yourself only, there is more here than I want.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Plus artificum est mihi quam rebar: hariolum hunc habeo domi.
quid si propius attollamus signa eamusque obviam?
sequere. quid vos agitis?
Chalinvs:
Adsunt quae imperavisti omnia:
uxor, sortes, situla atque egomet.
Olympio:
Te uno adest plus quam ego volo.

[¶4] CHALINUS:
I’ faith, so it seems to you indeed. I’m a stinger to you now; I’m pricking that dear little heart of yours; even now it’s palpitating from alarm.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Tibi quidem edepol ita videtur; stimulus ego nunc sum tibi,
fodico corculum; adsudascis iam ex metu, mastigia.

[¶5] STALINO:
Whip-knave—
CLEOSTRATA:
Hold your tongue, Chalinus,

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tace, Chaline.
Chalinvs:
Comprime istum.

[¶6] OLYMPIO:
Do make that fellow be quiet.
CHALINUS:
No, that fellow rather (pointing to OLYMPIO), who has learned to misbehave.
STALINO: (to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Immo istunc, qui didicit dare.

[¶7] Set the urn down here. (CHALINUS puts it down.) Give me the lots: lend your attention now. But I did think, my wife, that I could have prevailed upon you thus far,
for Casina to be given me as my wife, and even now I think so.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Adpone hic sitellam, sortis cedo mihi. animum advortite.
atque ego censui aps te posse hoc me impetrare, uxor mea,
Casina ut uxor mihi daretur; et nunc etiam censeo.

[¶8] OLYMPIO.:
She, given to you?
STALINO:
Why yes, to me—dear me, I didn’t mean to say that. While I meant for myself, I said him; (aside) why really, while I’m wanting her for myself, I’ve already, i’ faith, been chattering at random.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Tibi daretur illa?
Lysidamvs:
Mihi enim—ah, non id volui dicere:
dum mihi volui, huic dixi, atque adeo mihi dum cupio—perperam
iam dudum hercle fabulor.

[¶9] CLEOSTRATA: (overhearing him.)
Upon my word, you really have; and you are still doing so.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Pol tu quidem, atque etiam facis.

[¶10] STALINO:
For him—no, no; for myself, i’ faith. Plague take it, at last, with great difficulty, I’ve got into the right road!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Huic—immo hercle mihi—vah, tandem redii vix veram in viam.

[¶11] CLEOSTRATA:
Very often, i’ faith, you are making your mistakes.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Per pol saepe peccas.

[¶12] STALINO:
Such is the case when you desire anything very much. But each of us, both he (pointing to OLYMPIO) and I, apply to you for our rights—

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ita fit, ubi quid tanto opere expetas.
sed te uterque tuo pro iure, ego atque hic, oramus.

[¶13] CLEOSTRATA:
How’s that?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quid est?

[¶14] STALINO:
Why, I’ll tell you, my sweet. As to this Casina, you must make a present of her to this bailiff of ours.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Dicam enim, mea mulsa: de istac Casina huic nostro vilico
gratiam facias.

[¶15] CLEOSTRATA:
But, i’ faith, I neither do make it, nor do I in tend it.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
At pol ego néque facio neque censeo.

[¶16] STALINO:
In that case, then, I’ll divide the lots between them.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tum igitur ego sortis utrimque … iam.

[¶17] CLEOSTRATA:
Who forbids you?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quis votat?

[¶18] STALINO:
I judge with reason that that is the best and fairest way. In fine, if that happens which we desire, we shall be glad; but if otherwise, we’ll bear it with equanimity. (Giving a lot to OLYMPIO.) Take, this lot—take it; see what’s written on it.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Optimum atque aequissimum istud esse iure iudico.
postremo, ⟨si⟩ illuc quod volumus eveniet, gaudebimus;
sin secus, patiemur animis aequis. tene sortem tibi.
vide quid scriptum est.

[¶19] OLYMPIO: (looking at it.)
Number one.

> Latin: Olympio:
Vnum.

[¶20] CHALINUS:
It isn’t fair, be cause that fellow has got one before me.
STALINO: (giving one to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Iniquom est, quia isti prius quam mihi dedit.

[¶21] Take this, will you.
CHALINUS: (taking it.)
Give it me. Stop though; one thing has just now come into my mind.
(To CLEOSTRATA.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Accipe hanc sis.
Chalinvs:
Cedo. mane, unum venit in mentem modo:

[¶22] Do you see that there’s no other lot in there by chance at the bottom of the water.
STALINO:
Whip-rascal! do you take me to be your own self?
(To CLEOSTRATA.)
There is none; only set your feelings at rest.
OLYMPIO: (to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: vide ne quae illic insit alia sortis sub aqua.
Lysidamvs:
Verbero,
men te censes esse?
Cleostrata:
Nulla est. habe quietum animum modo.

[¶23] May it prove lucky and fortunate to me, a great mischance to you!
CHALINUS:
I’ faith, it will certainly fall to you, I fancy; I know your pious ways. But stop a bit; is that lot of yours of poplar or of fir?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quod bonum atque fortunatum sit mihi—
Olympio:
Magnum malum
tibi quidem edepol credo eveniet; novi pietatem tuam.
sed mane dum: num ista aut populna sors aut abiegnast tua?

[¶24] OLYMPIO:
Why do you trouble yourself about that?
CHALINUS:
Why, because I’m afraid that it may float on the surface of the water. (They go up to the urn.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid tu id curas?
Olympio:
Quia enim metuo, né in aqua summa natet.

[¶25] STALINO:
Capital!—take care! Now then, both of you, throw your lots in here. (Pointing to the urn.) Look now, wife, all’s fair. (They throw them in.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
†Auge cave. conicite sortes nunciam ambo huc. eccere.
uxor, aequa.

[¶26] OLYMPIO:
Don’t you trust your wife.

> Latin: Olympio:
Noli uxori credere.

[¶27] STALINO:
Be of good courage.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Habe animum bonum.

[¶28] OLYMPIO:
Upon my faith, I do believe that she’ll lay a spell upon the lots this very day, if she touches them.

> Latin: Olympio:
Credo hercle, hodie devotabit sortis si attigerit.

[¶29] STALINO:
Hold your tongue.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tace.

[¶30] OLYMPIO:
I’ll hold my tongue. I pray the Gods—

> Latin: Olympio:
Taceo. deos quaeso—

[¶31] CHALINUS:
Aye, that this day you may have to endure the chain and the bilboes.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Vt quidem tu hodie canem et furcam feras.

[¶32] OLYMPIO:
That the lot may fall to me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Mihi ut sortito eveniat—

[¶33] CHALINUS:
Aye, faith, that you may hang up by the feet.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Vt quidem hercle pedibus pendeas.

[¶34] OLYMPIO:
Aye, that you may blow your eyes out of your head through your nose.
CHALINUS: (to STALINO.)

> Latin: Olympio:
At tu ut oculos emungare ex capite per nasum tuos.

[¶35] What are you afraid of? It must be ready by this— (Turning to OLYMPIO.) A halter for you, I mean.
OLYMPIO: (to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid times? paratum oportet esse iam laqueum tibi.

[¶36] You’re undone!
STALINO:
Give attention, both of you.

> Latin: Olympio:
Periisti.
Lysidamvs:
Animum advortite ambo.

[¶37] OLYMPIO:
I’ll be mum.

> Latin: Olympio:
Taceo.

[¶38] STALINO:
Now you, Cleostrata, that you may not say that anything has been done cheatingly by me in this matter, or suspect it,
I give you leave, do you yourself draw the lots.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Nunc tu, Cleostrata,
ne a me memores malitiose de hac re factum aut suspices,
tibi permitto: tute sorti.

[¶39] OLYMPIO: (to STALINO.)
You are ruining me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Perdis me.

[¶40] CHALINUS:
He’s gaining an advantage rather.
CLEOSTRATA: (to STALINO.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Lucrum facit.

[¶41] You do what’s fair.
CHALINUS: (to OLYMPIO.)
I pray the Gods that your lot say run away out of the urn.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Bene facis.
Chalinvs:
Deos quaeso—ut tua sors ex sitella effugerit.

[¶42] OLYMPIO:
Say you so? Because you are a runaway yourself, do you wish all to follow your example? I wish, indeed, that that lot of yours, as they say that of the descendants of Hercules once did, may melt away while the lots are drawing.

> Latin: Olympio:
Ain tu? quia tute es fugitivos, omnes te imitari cupis?
utinam tua quidem, sicut ⟨factum esse⟩ Herculeis praedicant
quondam prognatis, in sortiendo sors deliquerit.

[¶43] CHALINUS:
And you, that you may melt away yourself, and just now be made hot with twigs.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Tu ut liquescas ipse, actutum virgis calefactabere.

[¶44] STALINO:
Attend, will you, to the business in hand, Olympio!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Hoc age sis, Olympio.

[¶45] OLYMPIO:
Yes, if this thrice-dotted fellow ’ll let me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Si hic litteratus me sinat.

[¶46] STALINO:
May this prove lucky and fortunate to me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quod bonum atque fortunatum mihi sit.

[¶47] OLYMPIO:
Yes indeed; to me as well.

> Latin: Olympio:
Ita vero, et mihi.

[¶48] CHALINUS:
Not so.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Non.

[¶49] OLYMPIO:
By my troth, yes, I say.

> Latin: Olympio:
Immo hercle.

[¶50] CHALINUS:
By my troth, yes, for myself, I say.
STALINO: (to OLYMPIO.)
He’ll be the winner; you’ll live in wretchedness.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Immo mihi hercle.
Cleostrata:
Hic vincet, tu vives miser.

[¶51] Do you give him a punch in the face this instant! Well, what are you about?
CLEOSTRATA: (to OLYMPIO.)
Don’t you raise your hand.
OLYMPIO: (to STALINO.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Percide os tu illi † hodie. age, ecquid fit? ne obiexis manum.

[¶52] With clenched or open hand am I to strike him?
STALINO:
Do just as you please.

> Latin: Olympio:
Compressan palma an porrecta ferio?
Lysidamvs:
Age ut vis.

[¶53] OLYMPIO: (striking CHALINUS.)
There’s for you, take that!
CLEOSTRATA: (to OLYMPIO.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Em tibi.

[¶54] What business have you to touch him?
OLYMPIO:
Because my Jupiter (pointing to STALINO) commanded me.
CLEOSTRATA: (to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quid tibi istunc tactio est.
Olympio:
Quia Iuppiter iussit meus.

[¶55] Do you slap him in the face in return.
(CHALINUS strikes OLYMPIO in the face.)
OLYMPIO: (calling out to STALINO.)
I’m being murdered, I’m being punched with his fists, Jupiter!
STALINO: (to CHALINUS.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Feri malam, ut ille, rursum.
Olympio:
Perii, pugnis caedor, Iuppiter.

[¶56] What business had you to touch him?
CHALINUS:
Because this Juno of mine (pointing to CLEOSTRATA) ordered me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid tibi tactio hunc fuit?
Chalinvs:
Quia iussit haec Iuno mea.

[¶57] STALINO:
I must put up with it, since, as long as I live, my wife will have the mastery.
CLEOSTRATA: (to STALINO.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Patiundum est, siquidem me vivo mea uxor imperium exhibet.

[¶58] He (pointing to CHALINUS) ought to be allowed to speak as much as that fellow.
OLYMPIO:
Why by his talk does he occasion me an unlucky omens

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Tam huic loqui licere oportet quam isti.
Olympio:
Cur omen mihi
vituperat?

[¶59] STALINO:
I think, Chalinus, you should be on your guard against a mishap.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Malo, Chaline, tibi cavendum censeo.

[¶60] CHALINUS:
Full time, after my face has been battered!

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Temperi, postquam oppugnatum est os.

[¶61] STALINO:
Come, wife, now then draw the lots. (To the SERVANTS.) Do you give your attention. (To CLEOSTRATA.) And give it, you, as well.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Age, uxor, nunciam
sorti. vos advortite animum. prae metu ubi sim nescio.

[¶62] OLYMPIO:
Where I am I know not. I’m undone, I’ve got my heart full of maggots, I think; it’s jumping about already;
with its throbbing it beats against my breast.
CLEOSTRATA: (putting her hand into the urn.)
I’ve got hold of a lot.

> Latin: perii, cor lienósum, opinor, habeo, iam dudum salit,
de labore pectus tundit.
Cleostrata:
Teneo sortem.

[¶63] STALINO:
Draw it out, then.
CHALINUS: (to OLYMPIO.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ecfer foras.

[¶64] Are you not dead now?
OLYMPIO:
Show it. (She shows it.) It’s mine.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Iamne mortuo'smortuus es?
Olympio:
Ostende. mea ⟨haec⟩ est.

[¶65] CHALINUS:
Really this is an unlucky mishap.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Mala crux éast quidem.

[¶66] CLEOSTRATA:
You are beaten, Chalinus.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Victus es, Chaline.

[¶67] STALINO:
Then I’m glad that we are to survive after all, Olympio.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Cum nos di iuvere, Olympio,
gaudeo.

[¶68] OLYMPIO:
Through my own piety and that of my forefathers has it happened.

> Latin: Olympio:
Pietate factum est mea atque maiorum meum.

[¶69] STALINO:
Wife, go in-doors and make ready for the wedding.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Intro abi, uxor, atque adorna nuptias.

[¶70] CLEOSTRATA:
I’ll do as you bid me.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Faciam ut iubes.

[¶71] STALINO:
Do you know that it’s to a distance in the country, at the farm-house, that he is to take her?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Scin tu rus hinc esse ad villam longe quo ducat?

[¶72] CLEOSTRATA:
I know.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Scio.

[¶73] STALINO:
Go in-doors, and although this is disagreable to you, still take care and attend to it.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Intro abi et, quamquam hoc tibi aegre est, tamen fac accures.

[¶74] CLEOSTRATA:
Very well. (Goes into the house.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Licet.—

[¶75] STALINO: (to OLYMPIO.)
Let us, as well, go in-doors; let’s entreat them to make all haste.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Eamus nos quoque intro, hortemur ut properent.

[¶76] OLYMPIO:
Am I delaying at all?
For in his presence (pointing to CHALINUS) I don’t want there to be any further conversation. (They go into the house.)
(CHALINUS, alone.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Numquid moror?—
Lysidamvs:
Nam praesente hoc plura verba ⟨fieri⟩ non desidero.—

[¶77] CHALINUS: (to himself.)
If now I were to hang myself, I should be losing my pains,
and besides my pains, putting myself to the expense of purchasing a rope, and doing a pleasure to my evil-wishers. What need is there for me, who, indeed, am dead even as it is? At the lots I’m beaten; Casina’s to be married to the bailiff. And this now is not so much to be regretted, that the bailiff has got the better,
as the fact that the old man so vehemently desired that she shouldn’t be given me, and should marry him. How frightened he was, how in his misery he did bustle about, how he did caper about after the bailiff had won. By-the-bye, I’ll step aside here; I hear the door opening.
(Sees STALINO and OLYMPIO, coming out.)
My well-wishers and friends are coming out. Here in ambush I’ll lay in wait against them.
(Goes on one side.) (Enter STALINO and OLYMPIO, from the house.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Si nunc me suspendam, meam operam luserim
et praeter operam restim sumpti fecerim
et meis inimicis voluptatem creaverim.
quid opus est, qui sic mortuos? equidem tamen
sorti sum victus, Casina nubet vilico.
atque id non tam aegrest iam, vicisse vilicum,
quam id expetivisse opere tam magno senem,
ne ea mihi daretur atque ut illi nuberet.
ut illé trepidabat, ut festinabat miser;
ut sussultabat, postquam vicit vilicus.
attat, concedam huc, audio aperiri foris,
mei benevolentes atque amici prodeunt.
hinc ex insidiis hisce ego insidias dabo.

[¶78] OLYMPIO:
Only let him come into the country; I’ll send the fellow back into the city to you with his porter’s knot, as black as a collier.

> Latin: Olympio:
Sine modo rus veniat: ego remittam ad te virum
cum furca in urbem tamquam carbonarium.

[¶79] STALINO:
So it ought to be.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ita fieri oportet.

[¶80] OLYMPIO:
I’ll have that done and well taken care of.

> Latin: Olympio:
Factum et curatum dabo.

[¶81] STALINO:
I intended, if he had been at home, to send Chalinus to cater with you; that, even in his sadness, I might, in addition, inflict this misfortune upon our foe.
CHALINUS: (apart, retreating to the wall of the house.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Volui Chalinum, si domi esset, mittere
tecum obsonatum, ut etiam in maerore insuper
inimico nostro miseriam hanc adiungerem.

[¶82] I’ll betake me back again to the wall; I’ll imitate the crab. Their conversation must be secretly picked up by me;

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Recessim cedam ad parietem, imitabor nepam;
captandust horum clanculum sermo mihi.

[¶83] for the one of them is tormenting me, the other wasting me with anguish. Why, this whip-rascal is marching along in his white garb, a very receptacle for stripes. My own death I defer; I’m determined to send this fellow to Acheron before me.

> Latin: nam illorum me alter cruciat, alter macerat.
at candidatus cedit hic mastigia,
stimulorum loculi. protollo mortem mihi;
certum est, hunc Acheruntem praemittam prius.

[¶84] OLYMPIO:
How obsequious have I been found to you! A thing that you especially
desired, that same have I put in your power; this day the object that you love shall be with you, unknown to your wife.

> Latin: Olympio:
Vt tibi ego inventus sum obsequens. quod maxime
cupiebas, eius copiam feci tibi.
erit hodie tecum quod amas clam uxorem.

[¶85] STALINO:
Hush! So may the Deities kindly bless me, I can hardly withhold my lips from kissing you on account of this, my own delight!
CHALINUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tace.
ita me di bene ament, ut ego vix reprimo labra
ob istánc rem quin te deosculer, voluptas mea.

[¶86] What? Kiss him? What’s the meaning of this? What’s this delight of yours?
OLYMPIO:
Do you love me at all now?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Quid, deosculere? quae res? quae voluptas tua?
ecfodere hercle hic volt, credo, vesicam vilico.†
Olympio:
Ecquid amas nunc me?

[¶87] STALINO:
Aye, by my faith, myself even less than you. May I embrace you?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Immo edepol me quam te minus.
licetne amplecti te?
Chalinvs:
Quid, amplecti?

[¶88] OLYMPIO:
You may.
(STALINO embraces him.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Licet.

[¶89] STALINO:
How, when I touch you, I do seem to myself to be tasting honey!
CHALINUS: (apart.)
I really do think he intends to choke the bailiff.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt, quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere.

[¶90] OLYMPIO: (pushing STALINO away.)
Away with you, you lover; get off, with your too close acquaintanceship!

> Latin: Olympio:
Vltro te, amator, apage te a dorso meo.

[¶91] CHALINUS: (apart.)
I’ faith, I think that this very day they’ll be making terms. Surely, this old fellow is an universal admirer.
This is the reason, this is it why he made him his bailiff; some time ago, too, when I came in his way, he wanted to make me his chamberlain upon the like terms.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Illuc est, illuc, quod hic hunc fecit vilicum:
eidem me pridem, cum ei advorsum veneram,
facere atriensem voluerat sub ianua.

[¶92] OLYMPIO:
How subservient have I proved to you to-day, how attentive to your pleasure!

> Latin: Olympio:
Vt tibi morigerus hodie, ut voluptati fui.

[¶93] STALINO:
How surely, so long as I live, will I prove more of a well-wisher to you than to my own self!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt tibi, dum vivam, bene velim plus quam mihi.
Chalinvs:
Hodie hercle, opinor, hi conturbabunt pedes:
solet hic barbatos sane sectari senex.

[¶94] How will I this day give full many a kiss to Casina! How will I, unknown to my wife, right pleasantly enjoy myself!
CHALINUS: (apart.)
Oho! Now, faith, at last I’ve got into the right track.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt ego hodie Casinam deosculabor, ut mihi
bona multa faciam ⟨clam⟩ meam uxorem.
Chalinvs:
Attatae,
nunc pol ego demum in rectam redii semitam.

[¶95] It’s himself that’s dying for Casina. I’ve caught the fellows.

> Latin: hic ipsus Casinam deperit. habeo viros.

[¶96] STALINO:
Even now, by my troth, am I longing to embrace her; even now to be kissing her.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Iam hercle amplexari, iam osculari gestio.

[¶97] OLYMPIO:
Do let her be brought out first from the house. Why the plague are you in such a hurry?

> Latin: Olympio:
Sine prius deduci. quid, malum, properas?

[¶98] STALINO:
I’m in love.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Amo.

[¶99] OLYMPIO:
But I don’t think that this can possibly be managed to-day.

> Latin: Olympio:
At non opinor fieri hoc posse hodie.

[¶100] STALINO:
It can, if, indeed, you think that you can possibly receive your freedom to-morrow.
CHALINUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Potest,
siquidém cras censes te posse emitti manu.

[¶101] Why, really, I must make still better use here of my ears; now, in one thicket, I shall be cleverly catching two boars.
STALINO: (pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.)

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Enim véro huc aures magis sunt adhibendae mihi:
iam ego uno in saltu lepide apros capiam duos.

[¶102] At the house of this friend and neighbour of mine there’s a place provided; I have confided to him all my amorousness: he said that he would find me a room.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Apud hunc sodalem meum atque vicinum mihi
locus est paratus: ei ego amorem omnem meum
concredui; is mihi se locum dixit dare.

[¶103] OLYMPIO:
What will his wife do? Where will she be?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid eius uxor? ubi erit?

[¶104] STALINO:
I’ve cleverly contrived that: my wife will invite her here, to her own house, to the wedding; to be here with her, to help her, to sleep with her. I have requested it, and my wife has said that she will do so. She’ll be sleeping here: I’ll take care her husband is away from home.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Lepide repperi.
mea uxór vocabit huc eam ad se in nuptias,
ut hic sit secum, se adiuvet, secum cubet;
ego iussi, et dixit se facturam uxor mea.
illa hic cubabit, vir aberit faxo domo;

[¶105] You shall take your wife home into the country; that country shall be this house, for a period, until I’ve had my marriage with Casina. Hence, before daylight, you shall afterwards take her home to-morrow. Isn’t it very skilfully managed?
OLYMPIO:
Cleverly!

> Latin: tu rus uxorem duces: id rus hic erit
tantisper dum égo cum Casina faciam nuptias.
hinc tu ante lucem rus cras duces postea.
satin docte?
Olympio:
Astute.

[¶106] CHALINUS: (apart.)
Only do proceed; contrive away. By my troth, to your own mischance are you so clever.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Age modo, fabricamini,
malo hercle vestro tam vorsuti vivitis.

[¶107] STALINO:
Do you know what you must do now?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Scin quid nunc facias?

[¶108] OLYMPIO:
Tell me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Loquere.

[¶109] STALINO: (giving him a purse.)
Take this purse. Be off and buy some provisions: make haste. But I want it nicely done: delicate eatables, just as she herself is a delicate bit.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tene marsuppium,
abi atque obsona, propera, sed lepide volo,
molliculas escas, út ipsa mollicula est.

[¶110] OLYMPIO:
Very well.

> Latin: Olympio:
Licet.

[¶111] STALINO:
Buy some cuttle-fish, mussels, calamaries, barley-fish.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Emito sepiolas, lepadas, lolligunculas,
hordeías.

[¶112] CHALINUS: (apart.)
Aye, wheaten fish, if you know what you’re about.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Immo triticeías, si sapis.

[¶113] STALINO:
Some sole-fish.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Soleas.

[¶114] CHALINUS: (apart.)
Prithee, why those rather than soles of wood, with which your head may be banged, you most vile old fellow?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Qui quaeso potius quam sculponeas,
quibus báttuatur tíbi os, senex nequissime?

[¶115] OLYMPIO:
Should you like some tongue-fish?

> Latin: Olympio:
Vin lingulacas?

[¶116] STALINO:
What need is there, since my wife’s at home? She is our tongue-fish, for she’s never silent.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid opust, quando uxor domi est?
ea lingulaca est nobis, nam numquam tacet.

[¶117] OLYMPIO:
While I’m about it, I must make choice out of the supply of fish what to purchase.

> Latin: Olympio:
In re praesenti ex copia piscaria
consulere quid emam potero.

[¶118] STALINO:
You say what’s good: be off. I don’t care to spare for cost; provide abundantly. But it’s requisite also that I should see this neighbour of mine, that he may attend to what I’ve requested.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Aéquom oras, abi.
argento parci nolo, obsonato ampliter.
nam mihi vicino hoc etiam convento est opus,
ut quod mandavi curet.

[¶119] OLYMPIO:
Am I to go now?

> Latin: Olympio:
Iamne abeo?

[¶120] STALINO:
I wish you.
(Exit OLYMPIO. STALINO goes into the house of ALCESIMUS.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Volo.—

[¶121] CHALINUS: (coming forward.)
By three freedoms I could not be induced
this day to do other than provide a heavy retribution for them, and at once disclose all this matter to my mistress. I’ve caught and fully detected my enemies in their guilt. But if my mistress is ready now to do her duty, the cause is all our own: I’ll cleverly be beforehand with the fellows.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Tribus nón conduci possum libertatibus,
quin ego illis hodie comparem magnum malum
quinque hanc omnem rem meae erae iam faciam palam.
manifesto teneo in noxia inimicos meos.
sed si nunc facere volt era officium suom,
nostra omnis lis est. pulchre praevortar viros.

[¶122] With omens in our favour the day proceeds: just conquered, we are the conquerors. I’ll go indoors, that that which another cook has seasoned, I now, in my turn, may season after another fashion; and that for him for whom it was prepared, it may really not be prepared; and that that may be prepared for him, which before was not prepared.
(Goes into the house.) (Enter ALCESIMUS and STALINO, from the house of the former.)
STALINO:
Now, Alcesimus, I shall know whether you are the very picture of friend or foe to me; now is the proof upon view; now is the contest going on. “But why do I do so;” forbear to correct me; save yourself all that. “With your hoary head, at an age unfit;” save yourself that as well. “One who has a wife;” save yourself that like wise.

> Latin: nostro omine it dies; iam victi vicimus.
ibo intro, ut id quod alius condivit cocus,
ego nunc vicissim ut alio pacto condiam,
quo id quoi paratum est ut paratum ne siet
sitque ei paratum quod paratum non erat.—
Lysidamvs:
Núnc amici ánne inimici sís imago, Alcésime,
mihi sciam, nunc specimen specitur, nunc certamen cernitur.
cur amem me castigare, id ponito ad compendium,
“cano capite” “aetate aliena” eo addito ad compendium,
“cui sit uxor” id quoque illuc ponito ad compendium.

[¶123] ALCESIMUS:
I never saw a person more distracted with love than yourself.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Miseriorem ego ex amore quam te vidi neminem.

[¶124] STALINO:
Do take care that the house is clear.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Fac vacent aedes.

[¶125] ALCESIMUS:
Why, faith, men-servants, maid-servants, all of them I’m determined to send out of the house to yours.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin edepol servos, ancillas domo
certum est omnis mittere ad te.

[¶126] STALINO:
Heyday! with your adroitness you are very adroit! But only take care and remember the lines which Colax repeats; take care that every one comes with his own provisions, as if they were going to Sutrium.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Oh, nimium scite scitus es.
sed facito dum merula † pervorsus quos cantat colas:
cum cibo suo quique facito ut veniant, quasi eant Sutrium.

[¶127] ALCESIMUS:
I’ll remember it.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Meminero.

[¶128] STALINO:
Why now there’s no public ordinance better ordered than yourself, in fact. Attend to this. I’m now going to the Forum; I shall be here just now.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Em, nunc enim te demum nullum scitum scitiust.
cura, ego ad forum modo ibo: iam hic ero.

[¶129] ALCESIMUS:
Luck go with you.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Bene ambula.

[¶130] STALINO:
Take care that your house gets a tongue.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Fac habeant linguam tuae aedes.

[¶131] ALCESIMUS:
Why so?

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quid ita?

[¶132] STALINO:
That when I come, it may invite me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Cum veniam, vocent.

[¶133] ALCESIMUS:
Pooh, pooh! you area person that stands in good need of a basting; you’re making too free with your fun.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Attatae, caedundus tú homo es: nimias delicias facis.

[¶134] STALINO:
Of what use is it for me to be in love, unless I’m quite ready and talkative?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid me amare refert, nisi sim doctus ⟨ac⟩ dicaculus?

[¶135] But take you care that you haven’t to be sought for by me.
ALCESIMUS:
I’ll be at home all the while.
(Exit STALINO; ALCESIMUS goes into his house.) (Enter CLEOSTRATA, from her house.)

> Latin: sed tu cave in quaesitione mihi sis.—
Alcesimvs:
Vsque adero domi.—

[¶136] CLEOSTRATA: (to herself.)
This was the reason, then, i’ faith, why my husband entreated me, with such great earnestness, to make haste and invite my female neighbour to our house— that the house might be clear for him to be taking Casina there. Now, therefore, I shall by no means invite her,
so that liberty of free range shan’t be any way given to worn-out bell-wethers. (ALCESIMUS is coming out of his house.) But look, the pillar of the Senate’s coming forward, the safeguard of the public, my neighbour, the person who is finding free range for my husband. I’ faith, the measure of wit that has been sold to him, was purchased at no cheap rate.
ALCESIMUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Hoc erat ecastor quod me vir tanto opere orabat meus,
ut properarem arcessere hanc ⟨huc⟩ ad me vicinam meam,
liberae aedes ut sibi essent, Casinam quo deducerent.
nunc adeo nequaquam arcessam, ⟨ne illis⟩ ignavissumis
liberi loci potestas sit, vetulis vervecibus.
sed eccum égreditur, senati columen, praesidium popli,
meus vicinus, meo viro qui liberum praehibet locum.
non ecastor vilis emptu est, modio qui venit salis.

[¶137] I’m wondering that my wife, who’s already waiting at home, dressed out, to be sent for, hasn’t been invited by this to my neighbour’s here.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Miror huc iam non arcessi in proxumum uxorem meam,
quae iam dudum, si arcessatur, ornata exspectat domi.

[¶138] But see, here she is; she’s come to fetch her, I guess. (Going up to CLEOSTRATA.) Good day, Cleostrata!
CLEOSTRATA:
And you the same, Alcesimus. Where’s your wife?

> Latin: sed eccam, opino arcessit. salve, Cleostrata.
Cleostrata:
Et tu, Alcesime.
ubi tua uxor?

[¶139] ALCESIMUS:
She’s waiting in-doors for you to send for her; for your husband requested me to send her to help you. Do you wish me to call her?
(Going towards the door.)

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Intus illa te, si se arcessas, manet;
nam tuos vir me orávit, ut eam ístuc ad te adiutum mitterem.
vin vocem?

[¶140] CLEOSTRATA:
Let it alone; I don’t care; … if she’s busy.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Sine eam … nolo si occupata est.

[¶141] ALCESIMUS:
She’s at leisure.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Otium est.

[¶142] CLEOSTRATA:
I don’t care about it; I don’t want to be troublesome to her; I’ll see her at a future time.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Nil moror, molesta ei esse nolo; post convenero.

[¶143] ALCESIMUS:
Are you not getting ready for a wedding there at your house?

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Non ornatis istic apud vos nuptias?

[¶144] CLEOSTRATA:
I am getting ready and making preparations.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Orno et paro.

[¶145] ALCESIMUS:
Don’t you require an assistant then?

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Non ergo opus est adiutrice?

[¶146] CLEOSTRATA:
We have enough at home. When the marriage has taken place, then I’ll call upon her; for the present, farewell, and bid her the same from me. (Goes into her house.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Satis domist. ubi nuptiae
fuerint, tum istam convenibo. nunc vale, atque istanc iube.—

[¶147] ALCESIMUS: (to himself.)
What am I to do now? To my sorrow. I’ve done a most disgraceful action
for the sake of that vile and toothless goat, who has engaged me in this. I’ve promised the aid of my wife out of doors, as though to go lick dishes like a dog. A worthless fellow, to tell me that his wife was going to send for her, whereas she herself declares that she does not want her. And upon my faith, it’s a wonder if this female neighbour of mine hasn’t already her suspicions of this.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quid ego nunc faciam? flagitium maxumum feci miser,
propter operam illius hirqui ímprobi, edéntuli,
qui hoc mihí contraxit; operam uxoris polliceor foras,
quasi catillatum. flagitium hóminis, qui dixit mihi
suam úxorem hanc arcessituram esse; éa se eam négat morarier.
atque edepol mirum ni subolet iam hoc huic vicinae meae.

[¶148] But yet, on the other hand, when I reflect with myself on this notion, if there were anything of that, there would have been enquiries of me. I’ll go in-doors, that I may lay up the ship again in the dockyard.
(Goes into his house.) (Enter CLEOSTRATA, from her house.)
CLEOSTRATA: (to herself.)
Now he has been finely made a fool of. In what a bustle are these unfortunate old fellows. Now I do wish that that good-for-nothing decrepit husband of mine would come,
that I might make a fool of him in his turn, after I have thus fooled the other one. For I long to make a bit of a quarrel between these two. But look, he’s coming. Why, when you see him so serious, you’d think him a decent person. (She stands on one side, unseen.)
(Enter STALINO.)
STALINO: (aloud, to himself.)

> Latin: verum autem altrovorsum quóm eam mecum rationem puto,
si quid eius esset, esset mecum postulatio.
ibo intro, ut subducam navim rusum in pulvinaria.—
Cleostrata:
Iám hic est lepide ludificatus. miseri ut festinant senes.
nunc ego illúm nihili decrepitum meum virum veniat velim,
ut eum ludificem vicissim, postquam hunc delusi alterum.
nam ego aliquid contrahere cupio litigi inter eos duos.
sed eccum incedit. at, quom aspicias tristem, frugi censeas.

[¶149] It’s a great folly, to my notion at least, for any man that’s in love to go to the Forum
on that day on which the object which he loves is close at hand; as I in my folly have been doing; I’ve spent the day, standing pleading for a certain relative of mine, who, faith, I’m very delighted has lost his cause; so that he hasn’t for nothing chosen me as his advocate to-day.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Stultitia magna est, mea quidem sententia,
hominem amatorem ullum ad forum procedere,
in eum diem quoi quod amet in mundo siet;
sicut ego feci stultus: contrivi diem,
dum asto advocatus cuidam cognato meo;
quem hercle ego litem adeo perdidisse gaudeo,
ne me nequiquam sibi hodie advocaverit.

[¶150] He ought first to ask and make enquiry, whether his mind is at home or not at home, whom he’s choosing for his advocate; if he says it isn’t, without his mind he should send him off home. (Catches sight of his wife.) But look, there’s my wife before the house! Alas! wretch that I am!
I’m afraid that she isn’t deaf, and has heard this.
CLEOSTRATA: (apart.)

> Latin: nam meo quidem animo qui advocatos advocet
rogitare oportet prius et ⟨per⟩contarier,
adsitne ei animus necne adsit, quem ádvocet:
si neget adesse, exanimatum amittat domum.
sed uxorem ante aedis eccam. ei misero mihi,
metuo ne non sit surda atque haec audiverit.

[¶151] By my troth, I have heard it to your great cost.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Audivi ecastor cum malo magno tuo.

[¶152] STALINO:
I’ll go nearer to her. (Goes up to CLEOSTRATA.) What are you about, my delight?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Accedam propius. quid agis, mea festivitas?

[¶153] CLEOSTRATA:
I’ faith, I was waiting for you.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Te ecastor praestolabar.

[¶154] STALINO:
Are the things ready now? Have you by this brought over here to our house this female neighbour of yours,
who was to assist you?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Iamne ornata res?
iamne hanc traduxti huc ad nos vicinam tuam,
quae te adiutaret?

[¶155] CLEOSTRATA:
I sent for her as you requested me; but this companion of yours, your very good friend, was in a pet with his wife about something, I don’t know what; he said, when I went to fetch her, that he wouldn’t send her.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Arcessivi, ut iusseras.
verum hic sodalis tuos, amicus optumus,
nescio quid se sufflavit uxori suae:
negavit posse, quoniam arcesso, mittere.

[¶156] STALINO:
That’s your greatest fault; you are not courteous enough.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vitium tibi istuc maxumum est, blanda es parum.

[¶157] CLEOSTRATA:
It’s not the part of matrons, but of harlots, to be showing courtesies, my husband, to the husbands of others. Go yourself and fetch her; I wish to attend in-doors, my husband, to what is requisite to be done.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Non matronarum officiumst, sed meretricium,
viris alienis, mi vir, subblandirier.
i tu atque arcesse illam: égo intus quod factost opus
volo accurare, mi vir.

[¶158] STALINO:
Make haste then.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Propera ergo.

[¶159] CLEOSTRATA:
Very well. (Aside.) Now, faith, I shall inspire some apprehensions in his heart.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Licet.
iam pol ego huic aliquem in pectus iniciam metum;

[¶160] I’ll this day render this lovesick man completely miserable.
(She goes into the house.) (Enter ALCESIMUS, from his house.)
ALCESIMUS: (to himself.)
I’ll go see here if the lover has come back home from the Forum, who, an old ghost, has been making fools of myself and my wife. But see, there he is before his house. (Addressing STALINO.) I’ faith,’twas just in good time I was coming to your house.

> Latin: miserrumum hodie ego hunc habebo amasium.—
Alcesimvs:
Viso huc, amator si a foro rediit domum,
qui me atque uxorem ludificatust, larua.
sed eccum ante aedis. ad te hercle ibam commodum.

[¶161] STALINO:
And, i’ faith, I to yours. How say you, you good-for-nothing fellow? What did I enjoin you? What did I beg of you?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Et hercle ego ad te. quid ais, vir minimi preti?
quid tibi mandavi? quid tecum oravi?

[¶162] ALCESIMUS:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quid est?

[¶163] STALINO:
How nicely you’ve had your house empty for me! How well you have sent your wife over to our house here! Isn’t it through yourself that I and the opportunity are lost, both of us?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vt bene vocivas aedis fecisti mihi,
ut traduxisti huc ad nos uxorem tuam.
satin propter te pereo ego atque occasio?

[¶164] ALCESIMUS:
Why don’t you go hang yourself? Why,’twas you yourself said that
your wife would come and fetch mine from our house?

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin tu suspendis te? nempe túte dixeras,
tuam arcessituram esse uxorem uxorem meam.

[¶165] STALINO:
Then she declares that she has been to fetch her, and that you said you wouldn’t let her go.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ergo arcessivisse ait sese, et dixisse te
eam nón missurum.

[¶166] ALCESIMUS:
But she herself, of her own accord, said to me that she didn’t care for her assistance.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin eapse ultro mihi
negavit eius operam se morarier.

[¶167] STALINO:
But ’tis she herself who has deputed me to come and fetch her.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quin eapse me adlegavit, qui istam arcesserem.

[¶168] ALCESIMUS:
But I don’t care for that.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin nihili facio.

[¶169] STALINO:
But you are proving my ruin.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quin me perdis.

[¶170] ALCESIMUS:
But that’s as it should be. But I shall still go on delaying; but I very much long for—

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin benest,
quin etiam diu morabor, quin cupio tibi—

[¶171] STALINO:
But—

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quin—

[¶172] ALCESIMUS:
nothing but to do you some mischief;
but I’ll do it with pleasure. Never this day shall you have a “but” the more than I.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Aliquid aegre facere.
Lysidamvs:
Quin faciam lubens.
numquam tibi hodie “quin” erit plus quam mihi.

[¶173] But, in fine, really, upon my faith, may the Gods confound you.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Quin hercle di te perdant postremo quidem.

[¶174] STALINO:
What now? Are you going to send your wife to my house?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid nunc? missurusne es ad me uxorem tuam?

[¶175] ALCESIMUS:
You may take her, and be off to utter and extreme perdition, both with her and with that one of yours, and with that mistress of yours as well. A way with you, and attend to something else; I’ll at once bid my wife to pass thither through the garden to your wife.

> Latin: Alcesimvs:
Ducas, easque in maxumam malam crucem
cum hác cum ístac, cumque amica etiam tua.
abi et aliud cura, ego iam per hortum iussero
meam istúc transire uxorem ad uxorem tuam.—

[¶176] STALINO:
Now you are proving yourself a friend to me in genuine style! (ALCESIMUS goes into his house.) Under what auspices am I to say that this passion was inflicted upon me, or what have I ever done amiss towards Venus, that when I’m thus in love crosses so many should befall me in my path? (A noise is heard.) Hey day!
what’s that noise, prithee, that’s going on in our house?
(Enter PARDALISCA, running out of the house.)
PARDALISCA: (bawling out at the door.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Nunc tu mi amicus es in germanum modum.
qua ego hunc amorem mi esse avi dicam datum
aut quid ego umquam erga Venerem inique fecerim,
cui sic tot amanti mi obviam eveniant morae?
attat,
quid illúc clamoris, opsecro, in nostrast domo?

[¶177] I’m undone, I’m undone, I’m utterly, utterly ruined! My heart is deadened with fear. My limbs, in my misery, are all a-trembling! I know not whence to obtain or look for any assistance, safety, or refuge for myself, or any means of relief:

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Núlla sum, núlla sum, tóta, tota óccidi,
cor metu mortuomst, membra miserae tremunt,
nescio unde auxili, praesidi, perfugi
mi aut opis copiam comparem aut expetam:

[¶178] things so surprising, in a manner so surprisingly done, have I just now witnessed in-doors, a new and unusual piece of audacity. Be on your guard, Cleostrata! prithee do get away from her, lest amid such transports she may be doing you some mischief! Tear away that sword from her, who’s not in possession of her senses!

> Latin: tanta factu modo mira miris modis
intus vidi, novam atque integram audaciam.
cave tibi, Cleostrata, apscede ab ista, opsecro,
né quid in té mali fáxit ira pércita.
eripite isti gladium, quae suist impos animi.

[¶179] STALINO:
Why, what is the matter—that she, frightened and half dead with fear, rushes hither out of doors? Pardalisca!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Nam quid est quod haec huc timida atque exanimata exsiluit foras?
Pardalisca.

[¶180] PARDALISCA: (looking wildly about her.)
Whence do my ears catch the sound?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Perii, unde meae usurpant aures sonitum?

[¶181] STALINO:
Just look back at me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Respice modo ad me.

[¶182] PARDALISCA:
My master!

> Latin: Pardalisca:
O ere mi—

[¶183] STALINO:
What’s the matter? What?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid tibi est? quid timida es?

[¶184] PARDALISCA:
I’m undone.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Perii.

[¶185] STALINO:
How undone?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid, periisti?

[¶186] PARDALISCA:
I’m undone, and you are undone.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Perii, et tu periisti.

[¶187] STALINO:
Disclose it, what’s the matter with you?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
A, perii? quid ita?

[¶188] PARDALISCA:
Woe to you!

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Vae tibi.

[¶189] STALINO:
Aye, and the same to yourself.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Immo, vae tibi sit.

[¶190] PARDALISCA:
That I mayn’t fall down, prithee do hold, hold me.
(Staggers, on which STALINO supports her.)

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Ne cadam, amabo, tene me.

[¶191] STALINO:
Whatever it is, tell me quickly.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quidquid est, eloquere mihi cito.

[¶192] PARDALISCA:
Do support my throbbing breast, prithee do make a little air with your cloak.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Contine pectus,
face véntum, amabo, pállio.

[¶193] STALINO: (fanning her with the lappet of his cloak.)
I’m in alarm as to what is the matter; (aside) unless this woman has been somewhere upsetting herself with the pure cream of Bacchus.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Timeo hóc negoti quíd siet,
nisi haéc meraclo se úspiam percússit flore Liberi.

[¶194] PARDALISCA:
Hold my ears, pray do.
(Her head falls on her shoulder.)

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Óptine aurís, amabo.

[¶195] STALINO:
Away to utter perdition; breast, ears, head, and yourself, may the Gods confound! For, unless I quickly learn from you this matter, whatever it is, I’ll forth with be knocking your brains out, you viper,
you hussey, who have thus far been making a laughing-stock of me.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
I ín malam a mé crucem,
péctus, aurís, caput téque di pérduint,
nám nisi ex té scio, quídquid hoc ést, cito, hoc
iám tibi istúc cerebrúm dispércutiam, éxcetra tu,
ludibrio pessuma adhuc quae me habuisti.

[¶196] PARDALISCA:
My master!

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Ere mí—

[¶197] STALINO:
What do you want, my servant?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid vis mea me áncilla?

[¶198] PARDALISCA:
You are too angry.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Nimiúm saevis.

[¶199] STALINO:
You are saying so too soon. But whatever this is, tell it; relate in a few words what has been the disturbance in-doors.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Numeró dicis.
sed hóc quidquid ést eloquere, ín pauca cónfer:
quid íntus tumúlti fuít?

[¶200] PARDALISCA:
You shall know.
Hear this most foul crime which just now in-doors at our house your female slave began to attempt after this fashion, a thing that does not befit the regulations lations of Attica.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Scibis, aúdi.
malúm pessumúmque hic modo intus ápud nos
tua áncilla hoc pácto exordíri coépit,
quod haúd Atticám condecét disciplínam.

[¶201] STALINO:
What is it?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid ést id?

[¶202] PARDALISCA:
Fever prevents the use of my tongue.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Timór praepedít dicta línguae.

[¶203] STALINO:
What is it? Can I possibly learn from you what is the matter?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Possúm scire ego ístuc ex té quid negótist?

[¶204] PARDALISCA:
I’ll tell you. Your female slave, she whom you intend to give as a wife to your bailiff, in-doors she—

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Dicam.
tua áncilla, quám tu tuó vilicó vis
dare úxorem, ea íntus—

[¶205] STALINO:
In-doors what? What is it?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid íntus? quid ést?

[¶206] PARDALISCA:
Is imitating the wicked practices of wicked women, in threatening her husband—

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Imitátur malárum malám disciplínam,
viró quae suo ínterminetur: vitam—

[¶207] STALINO:
What then?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid érgo?

[¶208] PARDALISCA:
Ah!

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Ah—

[¶209] STALINO:
What is it?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid ést?

[¶210] PARDALISCA:
She says that she intends to take her husband’s life.
A sword—

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Interémere ait vélle vitam,
gladium—

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

[¶0] STALINO: (starting.)
Hah!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Hém.

[¶1] PARDALISCA:
A sword—

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Gladium—

[¶2] STALINO:
What about that sword?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid eúm gladium?

[¶3] PARDALISCA:
She has got one.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Habet.

[¶4] STALINO:
Ah! wretch that I am! Why has she got it?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Eí misero mihi, cúr eum habet?

[¶5] PARDALISCA:
She is pursuing them all at home all over the house, and she won’t allow any person to approach her; and so, all, hiding in chests and under beds,
are mute with fear.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Inséctatur ómnis domí per aedis,
nec quémquam prope ád se sínit adire:
ita ómnes sub árcis, sub léctis laténtes
metú mussitánt.

[¶6] STALINO:
I’m murdered and ruined outright! What malady is this that has so suddenly befallen her?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Occidi átque intérii.
quid ílli obiéctumst malí tam repénte?

[¶7] PARDALISCA:
She is mad.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Insánit.

[¶8] STALINO:
I do think that I am the most unfortunate of men!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Sceléstissimum me esse crédo.

[¶9] PARDALISCA:
Aye, and if you were to know the speeches she uttered to-day.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Immó si sciás dicta quaé dixit hódie—

[¶10] STALINO:
I long to know about what she said.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Istúc expetó scire. quíd dixit?

[¶11] PARDALISCA:
Listen.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Aúdi.

[¶12] By all the Gods and Goddesses she swore that she would murder the person with whom she should bed.

> Latin: per ómnis deós et deás deierávit,
occísurum eum hác nocte quícum cubáret.

[¶13] STALINO:
Will she murder me?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Men óccidet?

[¶14] PARDALISCA:
Does that bear reference to yourself in any way?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Án quippiam ád te attinét?

[¶15] STALINO:
Pshaw!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Vah.

[¶16] PARDALISCA:
What business have you with her?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Quid cúm ea negóti tibíst?

[¶17] STALINO:
I made a mistake; him, the bailiff, I meant to say.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Peccavi:
illúc diceré, vilicúm, volébam.

[¶18] PARDALISCA:
It’s on purpose that you are turning aside from the high road into bye-paths.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Sciéns de via ín semitám degrédere.

[¶19] STALINO:
Does she threaten anything against myself?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Numquíd mihi minátur?

[¶20] PARDALISCA:
She is hostile to you individually more than any person.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Tibi ínfesta solist
plús quam cuiquam.

[¶21] STALINO:
For what reason?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quam ob rem?

[¶22] PARDALISCA:
Because you have given her as a wife to Olympio; she says that she’ll neither suffer your life, nor her own, nor that of her husband,
to be prolonged until the morrow. I have been sent hither to tell you this, that you might beware of her.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Quia se dés uxorem Olýmpioni,
neque se tuam nec se suam neque viri vitam sinere in
crástinum protólli: id huc míssa sum tibi ut dícerem,
áb ea uti caveás tibi.

[¶23] STALINO: (aside.)
By my troth, to my misery I’m quite undone!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Perii hércle egó miser.
Pardalisca:
Dígnus ⟨es⟩.

[¶24] There neither is nor ever was any old man in love so wretched as I.
PARDALISCA: (aside, to the AUDIENCE.)
Don’t I play him off cleverly? For everything that I’ve been telling him as taking place, I’ve been telling him falsely. My mistress and she who lives next door have concocted this scheme. I’ve been sent to fool him.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Neque ést neque fuít me senéx quisquam amátor
adaéque misér.
Pardalisca:
Ludo ego húnc facete;
nam quaé facta díxi omnia huíc falsa díxi:
era átque haec dolum éx proxumo húnc protulérunt,
ego húnc missa súm ludere.

[¶25] STALINO:
Hark you, Pardalisca!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Heús Pardalísca.

[¶26] PARDALISCA:
What is it?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Quid ést?

[¶27] STALINO:
There is —

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Est—

[¶28] PARDALISCA:
What?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Quid?

[¶29] STALINO:
There is something that I want to enquire of you about.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ést quod volo éxquirere éx te.

[¶30] PARDALISCA:
You are causing me delay.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Moram óffers mihi.

[¶31] STALINO:
Why, you are causing me sorrow. But has Casina got that sword even still?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Át tu mihi óffers maerórem.
sed étiamne habét nunc Cásina gladium?

[¶32] PARDALISCA:
She has; but two of them.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Habét, sed duós.

[¶33] STALINO:
Why two?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid, duós?

[¶34] PARDALISCA:
She says that this very day she’ll murder you with the one, the bailiff with the other.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Alteró te
occísurum aít, alteró vilicum hódie.

[¶35] STALINO:
I am now the most utterly murdered of all people that do exist.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Occísissimús sum omniúm qui vivont.

[¶36] I’ll put on me a coat of mail; I think that’s the best. What did my wife do? Didn’t she go and take them away from her?

> Latin: lorícam induám mi optumum ésse opinor.
quid úxor mea? nón adiit átque ademit?

[¶37] PARDALISCA:
No person dares go near her.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Nemo aúdet prope áccedere.

[¶38] STALINO:
She should have prevailed on her.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Éxoret.

[¶39] PARDALISCA:
She is entreating her. She declares that assuredly she will lay them down on no other terms, unless she understands that she shall not be given to the bailiff.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Órat:
negát ponere álio modo úllo profécto,
nisí se sciát vilicó non datum íri.

[¶40] STALINO:
But whether she likes it or no, because she refuses, she shall marry him this day. For why shouldn’t I carry this out that I’ve begun, for her to marry me?—that, indeed, I didn’t intend to say—but, our bailiff?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Atque íngratiís, quia non vólt, nubet hódie.
nam quór non ego íd perpetrém quod coépi,
ut núbat mihi? íllud quidém volebam,
nostró vilico.

[¶41] PARDALISCA:
You’re making your mistakes pretty often.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Saepícule peccas.

[¶42] STALINO:
It’s alarm that impedes my words. But, prithee,
do tell my wife, that I entreat her to prevail upon her to put down the sword, and allow me to return in-doors.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Timór praepedít verba. vérum, obsecró te,
dic méd uxorem órare ut éxoret íllam,
gládium ut ponat ét redire me íntro ut liceat.

[¶43] PARDALISCA:
I’ll tell her.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Núntiabo.

[¶44] STALINO:
And do you entreat her.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ét tu orato.

[¶45] PARDALISCA:
And I’ll entreat her.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Et ego órabo.

[¶46] STALINO:
And in soft language, in your usual way. But do you hear me? If you manage this, I’ll give you a pair of shoes and a gold ring for your finger, and plenty of nice things.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At blande órato, ut solés. sed audin?
si efféxis hoc, soleás tibi dabo, et ánulum in digitum aúreum et bona plúruma.

[¶47] PARDALISCA:
I’ll do my best.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Operám dabo.

[¶48] STALINO:
Take care and prevail.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Face ut ímpetres.

[¶49] PARDALISCA:
Now then I’ll be off; unless you detain me for anything.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Eo núnciam, nisi quíppiam
remoráre me.

[¶50] STALINO:
Be off, and take care.
PARDALISCA: (aside.)
Look, his assistant is returning, at last, with the provisions; he’s bringing a train after him. (She goes into the house.)
(Enter OLYMPIO, a COOK, and his ASSISTANTS, with provisions.)
OLYMPIO: (to the COOK.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Abi et cúra.
redit éccum tandem opsónatu meus ádiutor, pompám ducit.

[¶51] See, you thief, that you lead on your briars beneath their banners.
A COOK:
But how are they briars?

> Latin: Olympio:
Vide, fúr, sentis súb signis ducás.
Citrio:
Qui vero hi súnt sentis?

[¶52] OLYMPIO:
Because that which they have touched, they instantly seize hold of; if you go to snatch it from them, they instantly rend it; so, wherever they come, wherever they are, with a twofold loss do they mulct their masters.

> Latin: Olympio:
Quia quód tetigere, ilíco rapiunt, si eás ereptum, ilíco scindunt:
ita quóquo adveniunt, úbiubi sunt, duplicí damno dominós multant.

[¶53] A COOK:
Heyday, indeed!
OLYMPIO:
Well, well! This way I’m delaying to go meet my master with a magnificent, patrician, and patronizing air. (He struts along.)

> Latin: Citrio:
Heia.
Olympio:
Áttat. cesso mágnufice patriciéque amicirier átque ita ero meo ire ádvorsum?

[¶54] STALINO:
My good man, save you.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Bone vír, salve.

[¶55] OLYMPIO:
I admit that so I am.

> Latin: Olympio:
Fateór.

[¶56] STALINO:
How goes it?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid fit?

[¶57] OLYMPIO:
You are in love, but I’m hungering and thirsting.

> Latin: Olympio:
Tu amás: ego ésurio et sitio.

[¶58] STALINO:
You have come capitally provided.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Lepide éxcuratus incéssisti.

[¶59] OLYMPIO:
Pooh! pooh!
(Goes towards the door.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Aha, hodie …

[¶60] STALINO:
But stop you, although you do hold me in contempt—

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Mane véro, quamquam fástidis.

[¶61] OLYMPIO:
O dear, O dear! your converse has a bad smell to me. (Moving away.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Fu fú, fetet tuos míhi sermo.

[¶62] STALINO:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quae rés?

[¶63] OLYMPIO: (pointing to the baskets of provisions.)
That’s the matter.
STALINO:
Will you not stop there?
OLYMPIO:
Why, really, you are causing me ennui.

> Latin: Olympio:
Haec res. etiámne adstas? enim véro πράγματά μοι παρέχεις.

[¶64] STALINO:
I shall be giving you a grand coup, I fancy, if you don’t stand still forthwith. (Catches hold of him.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Dabo tibi μέγα κακόν,
ut ego opinor, nisi resistis.

[¶65] OLYMPIO:
O mon Dieu! Can’t you get away from me, unless you would like me to be sick just now?

> Latin: Olympio:
ὦ Ζεῦ,
potin a me abeas, nisi me vis vomere hodie?

[¶66] STALINO:
Do stop a bit.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Máne.

[¶67] OLYMPIO:
How’s this? (Staring at him.) What person’s this?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid est? quis hic ést homo?

[¶68] STALINO:
I’m your master.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Erus súm.

[¶69] OLYMPIO:
What master?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quis erus?

[¶70] STALINO:
He whose slave you are.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Cuius tú servo'sservus es.

[¶71] OLYMPIO:
I, a slave?

> Latin: Olympio:
Servós ego?

[¶72] STALINO:
Aye, and mine.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Atqué meus.

[¶73] OLYMPIO:
Am I not a free man? Remember! remember!

> Latin: Olympio:
Non súm ego líber?
meménto, meménto.

[¶74] STALINO:
Stop and stay you there!
(Catches hold of him.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Mane átque asta.

[¶75] OLYMPIO:
Let me alone.

> Latin: Olympio:
Omítte.

[¶76] STALINO:
I am your slave.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Servós sum tuós.

[¶77] OLYMPIO:
That’s very good.

> Latin: Olympio:
Optumést.

[¶78] STALINO:
My dear little Olympio, my father, my patron, I do beg of you—

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Opsecró te,
Olýmpisce mí, mi patér, mi patróne.

[¶79] OLYMPIO:
Well, you certainly are in your senses.

> Latin: Olympio:
Em,
sapis sáne.

[¶80] STALINO:
Of course I am your slave.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tuos sum équidem.

[¶81] OLYMPIO:
What need have I of so worthless a slave?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid mi ópust servo tam néquam?

[¶82] STALINO:
Well now, how soon are you going to provide me some amusement?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid núnc? quam mox recreás me?

[¶83] OLYMPIO:
If the dinner were but drest.

> Latin: Olympio:
Cená modo si sit cócta.

[¶84] STALINO:
Then let them be off this instant in-doors.
(To the COOK and his ASSISTANTS.)
Go you into the house and despatch with all haste.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Hisce érgo abeant.
Olympio:
Properé cito intró ite ét cito deproperáte.

[¶85] I’ll come in just now. Have the dinner charmingly sauced up for me; I want to have a charming meal. I really don’t care, now, to be eating in the style of your sumptuous foreigners. Be off, will you; but for the present, however, I take up my abode here.
(The COOK and his ASSISTANTS go into the house.)
OLYMPIO:
Is there anything that detains you here?

> Latin: ego iam íntus ero, facite cenam mihi ut ebria sit.
séd lepide nitidéque volo, níl moror barbaricó bliteo.
stasne etiam? i sis, ego hic habeo. numquid est ceterum quod morae sit?

[¶86] STALINO:
The servant-maid says that Casina has got a sword in-doors, to deprive you and me of life with it.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Gladiúm Casinam intus habére ait, qui me átque te intérimat.

[¶87] OLYMPIO:
I understand it. Just let her alone with it. They are imposing on you: I know these worthless baggages. However, do you now go into the house with me.

> Latin: Olympio:
Scio. síc sine habére;
nugás agunt: nóvi
ego illás malas mérces.
quin tu í modo mécum
domum.

[¶88] STALINO:
But, i’ faith, I’m fearful of mischief:

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At pól malum métuo.

[¶89] only do you go. Reconnoitre, first, what’s going on within.

> Latin: i tú modo, perspicitó prius quid íntus agátur.

[¶90] OLYMPIO:
My life’s as dear to me as yours is to you.

> Latin: Olympio:
Tam míhi mea víta
quam túa tibi cárast.

[¶91] STALINO:
But only do go now.
OLYMPIO:
If you’ll go yourself, I’ll go in with you.
(They go into the house.) (Enter PARDALISCA, from the house, laughing aloud.)

> Latin: verum í modo.
Lysidamvs:
Si tú iubes, em íbitur tecum.

[¶92] PARDALISCA: (to herself.)
Upon my faith, I do not believe that at Nemea, nor do I think that at Olympia,
or anywhere else, there ever where such funny games as these ridiculous games that are going on in-doors here with our old gentleman and our bailiff Olympio. In-doors, all over the house, all are in a bustle; the old man is bawling away in the kitchen, and urging on the cooks.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Nec pol ego Nemeae credo neque ego Olympiae
neque usquam ludos tam festivos fieri
quam hic intus fiunt ludi ludificabiles
seni nóstro et nostro Olympioni vilico.
omnes festinant intus totis aedibus,
senex ín culina clamat, hortatur coquos:

[¶93] “Why don’t you go to work at once? Why don’t you serve up, if you are going to serve up? Make haste; the dinner ought to have been cooked by this.” And then this bailiff is strutting about with his chaplet, clothed in white and finely rigged out. And then these women are dressing up the armour-bearer in the bedroom,
to give him to be married to our bailiff in place of Casina; but the artful baggages very cleverly conceal what the upshot of this is really to be. Then too, in a manner quite worthy of them, the cooks are very cleverly doing their best to the end that the old gentleman mayn’t get his dinner. They are upsetting the pots, and putting out the fire with the water.

> Latin: “quin agitis hodie? quin datis, si quid datis?
properate, cenam iam esse coctam oportuit.”
vilicus is autem cum corona, candide
vestitus, lautus exornatusque ambulat.
illae autem armigerum in cubiculo exornant duae,
quem dent pro Casina nuptum nostro vilico.
sed nimium lepide dissimulant, quasi nil sciant
fore huius quod futurumst; digne autem coqui
nimis lépide ei rei dant operam, ne cenet senex,
aulas pervortunt, ignem restingunt aqua:

[¶94] At the request of these ladies they are so doing; they, too, are determined to bundle the old fellow dinnerless out of doors, that they by themselves may blow out their own stomachs. I know these female gluttons; a merchant-ship full of victuals they can devour. But the door is opening.
(Enter STALINO, from the house.)
STALINO: (speaking to CLEOSTRATA, within.)

> Latin: illarum oratu faciunt; illae autem senem
cupiunt extrudere incenatum ex aedibus,
ut ipsae solae ventres distendant suos.
novi ego illas ambestrices: corbitam cibi
comesse possunt. sed aperitur ostium.

[¶95] If you are wise, wife, you’ll dine, after all, when the dinner’s cooked. I shall dine in the country, for I’m desirous to attend the new-made husband and the newly-made bride into the country (I know the mischievous habits of persons), that no one may carry her off. Do you people indulge your appetite.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Si sapitis, uxor, vos tamen cenabitis,
cena ubi erit cocta; égo ruri cenavero.
nam novom maritum ét novam nuptam volo
rus prosequi, novi hominum mores maleficos,
ne quis eam abripiat. facite vostro animo volup.

[¶96] But do make haste and send him and her out immediately, that at least we may get there in daylight. I shall be here tomorrow; to-morrow, wife, I’ll be having a banquet still.
PARDALISCA: (aside.)

> Latin: sed properate istum atque istam actutum emittere,
tandem ut † veniamus luci; égo cras hic ero.
cras habuero, uxor, ego tamen convivium.

[¶97] ’Tis as I said it would be; the women are packing the old fellow dinnerless out of doors.
STALINO: (to PARDALISCA.)
What are you doing here?

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Fit quod futurum dixi: incenatum senem
foras extrudunt mulieres.
Lysidamvs:
Quid tu hic agis?

[¶98] PARDALISCA:
I’m going whither she sent me.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Ego eo quo me ipsa misit.

[¶99] STALINO:
Really?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Veron?

[¶100] PARDALISCA:
Seriously.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Serio.

[¶101] STALINO:
What are you looking for here?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid hic speculare?

[¶102] PARDALISCA:
Really I’m looking for nothing at all.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Nil equidem speculor.

[¶103] STALINO:
Be off; you are loitering here; the others are bustling about in-doors.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Abi:
tu hic cunctas, intus alii festinant.

[¶104] PARDALISCA:
I’m off.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Eo.—

[¶105] STALINO:
Be off, then, will you, away from here, you jade of jades. (PARDALISCA goes into the house.) Is she gone then? I may now say here anything I please.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Abi hinc sis ergo, pessumarum pessuma.
iamne abiit illaec? dicere hic quidvis licet.

[¶106] He that’s in love, i’ faith, even if he is hungry, isn’t hungry at all. But see, the bailiff, my associate, companion, and husband-in-copartnership, is coming out of doors with wreath and torch.
(Enter OLYMPIO, dressed in white, with a wreath on his head, and a torch in his hand, accompanied by MUSICIANS)
OLYMPIO: (to one of the MUSICIANS.)

> Latin: qui amat, tamen hercle, si esurit, nullum esurit.
sed eccúm progreditur cum corona et lampade
meus socius, compar, commaritus vilicus.

[¶107] Come, piper, while they are escorting the new-made bride out of doors, make the whole of this street resound with a sweet wedding-tune.
(He sings aloud.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Áge tibicen, dum íllam educunt húc novam nuptám foras,
suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc plateam hymenaeo.

[¶108] Io Hymen hymenaee! Io Hymen!
STALINO: (accosting him.)

> Latin: hymen hymenaee o hymen.

[¶109] How fare you, my preserver?
OLYMPIO:
I’m very hungry, faith; and, in fact, I’m not thirsty a little.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid agis, mea salus?
Olympio:
Esurio hercle, atque adeo hau salubriter.

[¶110] STALINO:
But I’m in love.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
At ego amó.

[¶111] OLYMPIO:
Still, upon my faith, love, I shan’t be making any trial of you. For some time past my inside has been grumbling with emptiness.

> Latin: Olympio:
At ego hercle nihili facio. tibi amor pro cibost,
mihi ieiunitate iam dudum intestina murmurant.

[¶112] STALINO:
But why is she now delaying so long in-doors, just as though on purpose?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Nam quid illaéc nunc tam diu intus remorantur remeligines?

[¶113] The greater the haste I’m in, in so much the less is she.

> Latin: quasi ob industriam, quanto ego plus propero, procedit minus.

[¶114] OLYMPIO:
What if I were even to trill an hymeneal lay?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quid si etiam suffundam hymenaeum, si qui citius prodeant?

[¶115] STALINO:
I agree to that; and I’ll help you at these our common nuptials.
OLYMPIO: (STALINO joining, they sing.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Censeo, et ego te adiutabo in nuptiis communibus.

[¶116] Hymen hymenaee! Io Hymen!
STALINO:
Upon my faith, I’m dreadfully done up; one may burst one’s self with singing this hymeneal lay; if I do burst this way, I can’t burst any other, that I may make sure of.

> Latin: Lysidamvs Olympio:
Hymen hymenaee o hymen.
Lysidamvs:
Perii hercle ego miser, dirumpi hymenaeum cantando licet:
illo morbo quo dirumpi cupio, non est copia.

[¶117] OLYMPIO:
Upon my faith, for sure, if you were a horse, you’d never be broken in.

> Latin: Olympio:
Edepol ne tu, sí equos esses, esses indomabilis.

[¶118] STALINO:
On what grounds?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quo argumento?

[¶119] OLYMPIO:
You are too hard-mouthed.

> Latin: Olympio:
Nimis tenax es.

[¶120] STALINO:
Have you ever found me so?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Num me expertu'sexpertus esuspiam?

[¶121] OLYMPIO:
The Gods forbid! But the door makes a noise; they are coming out.

> Latin: Olympio:
Di melius faciant. sed crepuit ostium, exitur foras.

[¶122] STALINO:
I’ troth, the Gods do will me to be preserved at last. I already smell Casina at a distance. (They move to a distance.)
(Enter, from the house, two FEMALE SERVANTS leading CHALINUS, veiled and dressed in women’s clothes, as CASINA.)
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
Move on, and raise your feet a little over the threshold, newly-married bride; prosperously commence this journey, that you may always be alive for your husband, that you may be his superior in power, and the conqueror, and that your rule may gain the upper hand. Let your husband find you in clothes; you plunder your husband;

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Di hercle me cupiunt servatum. iam oboluit Casinus procul.
Pardalisca:
Sensim supera tolle limen pedes, mea nova nupta;
sospes iter incipe hoc, uti viro tuo
sémper sis superstes,
tuaque út potior polléntia sit vincásque virum victríxque sies,
tua vóx superet tuomque imperium: vir te vestiat, tu virum despolies.

[¶123] by night and day to be tricking your husband, prithee, do remember.
OLYMPIO: (to STALINO.)
Upon my faith, at her downright peril, the instant she offends me ever so little!

> Latin: noctúque et diu ut viro súbdola sis,
ópsecro, memento.
Olympio:
Malo máxumo suo hercle ílico, ubi tántillum peccássit.

[¶124] STALINO:
Hold your tongue.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tace.

[¶125] OLYMPIO:
I shall not hold my tongue.

> Latin: Olympio:
Nón taceo.

[¶126] STALINO:
What’s the matter

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quae rés?

[¶127] OLYMPIO:
These wicked jades are wickedly teaching her wicked lessons.

> Latin: Olympio:
Mala malaé male monstrat.

[¶128] STALINO:
Instead of being all ready, they’ll be bringing this matter all into confusion for me. They are striving at that, wishing for it, that they may have it all undone.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Faciés tu hanc rém mi ex paráta imparátam.
id quaérunt volúnt, haec ut ínfecta fáciant.

[¶129] TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
Come, Olympio, as soon as you please, receive this wife of yours from us.
(They present CHALINUS to him.)

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Age Olýmpio, quando vís, uxorem
áccipe hanc ab nobis.

[¶130] OLYMPIO:
Hand her to me then, if you are going to hand her to me at all to-day.
(They hand CHALINUS to him.)
STALINO: (to the FEMALE SERVANTS.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Date érgo, datúrae si umquam éstis hodie.

[¶131] Be off in-doors.
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
Prithee, do deal gently with her who is so young and inexperienced.
STALINO:
It shall be so.
Farewell; be off now.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Abíte intro.
Pardalisca:
Amábo, integrae átque imperítae huic
impército.
Olympio:
Futurum est.

[¶132] TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
Farewell.
(They go into the house.)

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Valéte.
Olympio:
Ite iám.
Lysidamvs:
Ite.
Pardalisca:
Iám valete.

[¶133] STALINO:
Is my wife now gone?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Iamne ábscessit úxor?

[¶134] OLYMPIO:
She’s in the house; don’t be afraid.

> Latin: Olympio:
Domíst, ne time.

[¶135] STALINO:
Hurra! Now, faith, I’m free at last. (Addressing himself to CHALINUS as CASINA.) My sweetheart, my spring-flower, my little honey!
(Embraces him.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Eúax,
nunc pól demum ego sum líber.
meúm corculúm, melculúm, verculum.

[¶136] OLYMPIO:
But, hark you! you’ll beware, if you are wise, of some mishap: she’s mine.

> Latin: Olympio:
Heús tu,
malo, sí sapies, cavébis;
meást haec.

[¶137] STALINO:
I know that; but mine’s the first enjoyment.
OLYMPIO: (holding him the torch.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Sció, sed meus fructus est prior.

[¶138] Hold this torch for me.
STALINO:
Why, no, I’ll hold her in my arms in preference. All-powerful Venus, a happy existence hast thou given me in giving me the possession of her! A dear little body! a dear little honey! (Hugs CHALINUS, who pretends to struggle.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Tene hánc lampadem.
Lysidamvs:
Ímmo ego hánc tenebo.
Venus múltipotens, bona múlta mihi
dedísti, huius cúm copiám mihi dedísti.

[¶139] OLYMPIO: (shouting aloud.)
O my dear little wife! (Jumps about on one leg.)

> Latin: Olympio:
O
corpúsculum malaculum,
mea uxórcula. quae res?

[¶140] STALINO:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid est?

[¶141] OLYMPIO:
She has trod upon my toes.

> Latin: Olympio:
Ínstitit plantam
quasi lúca bos.

[¶142] STALINO: (aside.)
I’ll compliment her, as it were. A mist is not so soft as is— her breast.
(Pulls CHALINUS about.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tacé sis,
nebula haúd est mollis aeque atque huius pectus est.

[¶143] A pretty little bosom, upon my faith. (CHALINUS gives him a thrust with his elbow, on which he roars out.) Woe to unfortunate me!

> Latin: Olympio:
Edepol papillam bellulam—ei misero mihi.

[¶144] OLYMPIO:
What’s the matter?
STALINO:
She struck me in the breast with her elbow.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid est?
Olympio:
Péctus mi icit non cubito, verum ariete.

[¶145] OLYMPIO:
Why then, pray, do you maul her about? But she does not do so to me, who touch her gently.
(CHALINUS gives him a poke with his elbow.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Quid tu ergo hanc, quaeso, tractas tam dura manu?
at mihi, qui belle hanc tracto, non bellum facit.

[¶146] O me!
STALINO:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Olympio:
Vah.
Lysidamvs:
Quid negotist?

[¶147] OLYMPIO:
Prithee, how robust she is! she has almost laid me flat with her elbow.

> Latin: Olympio:
Opsecro, ut valentulast,
paene exposivit cubito.

[¶148] STALINO:
She wishes, then, to go to bed.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Cubitum ergo ire volt.

[¶149] OLYMPIO:
Nay but, why don’t we be off?

> Latin: Olympio:
Quin imus ergo?

[¶150] STALINO: (taking hold of CHALINUS.)
My pretty, pretty little dear!
(They go into the house of ALCESIMUS.) (Enter MYRRHINA and PARADALISCA, from the house of STALINO.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
I, belle belliatula.—

[¶151] MYRRHINA:
Having been well and handsomely entertained indoors, we’ve come out here in the street to see the wedding-sports.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Accéptae bene ét commode éximus íntus
ludós visere húc in viam nuptiális.
numquam écastor úllo dié risi adaéque,
neque hóc quod relícuom est plus rísuram opínor.

[¶152] I’d like to know how Chalinus gets on—the newly-married bride with her new-made husband.
Never, upon my faith, any day did I laugh so much, nor in the time that’s to come do I think I shall laugh more;

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Lúbet Chalinum quíd agat scire, nóvom nuptum cum nóvo marito.

[¶153] and no poet ever did con trive a more artful plot than this was skilfully contrived by us.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Nec fállaciam ástutiórem ullus fécit
poéta, atque ut haéc est fabré facta ab nóbis.

[¶154] I’d now very much like the old fellow to come out, with his face well battered, than whom there is not a more wicked old man alive.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Optúnso ore núnc pervelím progredíri
seném, quo senéx nequiór nullus vívit.

[¶155] Not even him do I deem to be more wicked who finds the room for him. Now, Pardalisca, do you be guard here (pointing to the door of her house); that whoever comes out from here, you may have some sport with him.

> Latin: ne illum quidem
néquiorem árbitror ésse, qui locum
praébet illí … ⟨té⟩ nunc praesidem
volo híc, Pardalísca, esse, qui hínc exeat
eum ut lúdibrio hábeas.

[¶156] PARDALISCA:
I’ll do it with pleasure, and in my usual way.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Libens fecero et solens.

[¶157] MYRRHINA:
Observe from here everything that’s going on indoors.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
… spectato: hinc omnia, intus quid agant …

[¶158] PARDALISCA:
Prithee, get behind me.

> Latin: Pardalisca:
… pone me, amabo.

[¶159] MYRRHINA:
You have liberty, too, to say freely and boldly to him anything you like.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Et ibi audacius licet
quaé velis líbere próloqui.

[¶160] PARDALISCA: (in a low voice.)
Be quiet; your door makes a noise. (They hide themselves.)
(Enter OLYMPIO, in great alarm, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)
OLYMPIO: (bawling aloud.)

> Latin: Pardalisca:
Tace,
vostrá foris crépuit.

[¶161] Neither where to fly to, nor where to conceal myself, nor how to hide this disgrace, do I know; so much have my master and myself been supereminently disgraced at these nuptials of ours. I’m now so ashamed, and now so afraid, and so ridiculous are we both. But, a simpleton, I’m now doing what’s new to me: I’m ashamed at that which has never shamed me before. (To the AUDIENCE.) Lend me your attention, while I repeat my exploits; it’s worth your while to catch them with your ears;
so ridiculous to be heard, to be repeated, are these mishaps which I have met with in the house. [When straightway I had led my new-made bride into the room, I fastened the bolt; but, however, the gloom there was just like the night. I placed, I propped things against the door; I struggled hard that before the old fellow … with my bride.

> Latin: Olympio:
Neque quó fugiam neque ubí lateam neque hoc dédecus quo modo célem
scio, tántum erus atque ego flágitio superávimus nuptiis nóstris,
ita núnc pudeo atque ita núnc paveo atque ita inrídiculo sumus ámbo.
sed ego ínsipiens nova núnc facio: pudet quém prius non puditum úmquamst.
operám date, dum mea fácta itero: est operaé pretium auribus áccipere,
ita rídicula auditu, íteratu ea súnt quae ego intus túrbavi.
ubi intro hánc novam nuptam déduxi, rectá via in conclave ábduxi.
sed ténebrae ibi erant tamquam ín puteo; dum sénex abest “decumbe” ínquam.
cónloco fúlcio móllio blándior,
út prior quám senex núp⟨tias pérpetrem⟩.

[¶162] Then I began to be slow in my proceedings, for I looked behind me every now and then, lest the old fellow should break in …, a kiss, that provocative to lust, I asked of her first. She pushed back my hand, and allowed me not to give her a kiss in a quiet way.
But then the more anxious was I, the more desirous to assert my privilege with Casina, and I longed to do the old fellow out of that task. The door I blocked up, so that the old man might not over-power me. (from the house.)
MYRRHINA: (apart to CLEOSTRATA.)

> Latin: tárdus esse ílico coépi, quoniam …
respecto identidem, ne senex …
inlecebram stupri principio eam savium posco,
réppulit míhi manum, néque enim dare sibi sávium me sivit.
enim iám magis adproperó, magis iam libet ín Casinam inruere …
cupio íllam operam seni súrripere, forem óbdo, ne senex me ópprimeret.

[¶163] Come now, you accost him. (Pointing to OLYMPIO.)
CLEOSTRATA: (accosting OLYMPIO.)
Where is your newly-made bride?

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Ágedum, tuadi hunc.
Cleostrata:
Ópsecro, ubi túa nova núptast?

[¶164] OLYMPIO: (aside.)
By heavens, I’m utterly undone; the thing’s all out.

> Latin: Olympio:
Perii hércle ego, manifésta res.

[¶165] CLEOSTRATA: (overhearing him.)
It’s right, then, that you should relate the whole affair as it happened. What’s going on in-doors? How fares Casina? Is she quite obsequious to your will?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Omnem órdine rem
fatéri ergo aequom est. quíd intus agitur? quíd agit Casina?
satin mórigera est?

[¶166] OLYMPIO:
I’m ashamed to tell it.

> Latin: Olympio:
Pudet dícere.

[¶167] CLEOSTRATA:
Relate it in its order just as you proceeded.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Memora órdine, ut occéperas.

[¶168] OLYMPIO:
Upon my faith, I am ashamed.

> Latin: Olympio:
Pudet hércle.

[¶169] CLEOSTRATA:
Proceed boldly. After you went to bed, I want you to tell what took place after that.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Age audacter …
⟨post⟩quám decubuisti, índe volo memoráre quid est factum …

[¶170] OLYMPIO:
But it’s a disgraceful matter.

> Latin: Olympio:
… flagitium est.

[¶171] CLEOSTRATA:
I’ll take care that those who hear it shall be on their guard as to mentioning it.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Cavebunt qui audierint. faciant …

[¶172] OLYMPIO:
That’s the principal thing.

> Latin: Olympio:
… hoc magnus est.

[¶173] CLEOSTRATA:
You kill me with weariness. Why don’t you proceed?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Perdis. quin tu pergis?

[¶174] OLYMPIO:
—Ubi … us subtus porro …
quid.

> Latin: Olympio:
Vbi
… us suptus porro …
Cleostrata:
Quid?

[¶175] OLYMPIO:
Babae!

> Latin: Olympio:
Babae.

[¶176] CLEOSTRATA:
Quid?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quid?

[¶177] OLYMPIO:
Papae!

> Latin: Olympio:
Papae.

[¶178] … quid est?
OLYMPIO:
Oh, erat maximum. Gladium ne haberet metui; id quaerere occœpi. Dum, gladiumne habeat, quaero, arripio capulum.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
… est?
Olympio:
Oh, erat maximum.
… ⟨ferrum ne⟩ haberet metui: id quaerere occepi …
dum gladium quaero, … ne habeat, arripio capulum.

[¶179] Sed, quom cogito, non habuit gladium; nam id esset frigidius.

> Latin: séd cum cogitó, non habuit gládium, nam esset frígidus.

[¶180] CLEOSTRATA:
Eloquere.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Éloquere.

[¶181] OLYMPIO:
At pudet.

> Latin: Olympio:
At pudét.

[¶182] CLEOSTRATA:
Num radix fuit?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Num radix fúit,

[¶183] OLYMPIO:
Non fuit.

> Latin: Olympio:
Non fuít.

[¶184] CLEOSTRATA:
Num cucumis?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Num cucumis?

[¶185] OLYMPIO:
Profecto hercle non fuit quidquam olerum; Nisi quidquid erat, calamitas profecto attigerat nunquam. Ita, quidquid erat, grande erat.

> Latin: Olympio:
Profecto hercle … non fuit quicquam holerum,
nisí, quidquid erat, cálamitas profécto attigerat númquam.
íta, quidquid erat, grande erat.

[¶186] MYRRHINA:
Quid fit denique? Edisserta.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Quíd fit denique? edisserta.

[¶187] OLYMPIO:
—sepit veste id, quî estis. Ubi illum saltum video obseptum; Rogo, ut altero sinat ire. Ita, quidquid erat, grande erat. Tollo ut obvortam cubitissim … Ullum mutire …
Surge, ut ineam in … Atque illam in …

> Latin: Olympio:
Vbi appello Casinam, †inquit
“amábo, mea uxórcula, cur vírum tuom sic me spérnis?
nimis tú quidem hercle immérito
meó mi haec facís, quia mihí te expetívi.”
ílla haud verbum fácit et saepit véste id qui estis ⟨múlieres⟩.
úbi illum saltum vídeo opsaeptum, rógo ut alteró sinat ire.
volo, ut obvertam, cubitis im …
ullum muttit e …
surgo, ut in eam in …
atque illam in …

[¶188] MYRRHINA:
Perlepide narrat …

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Perlepide narrat …

[¶189] OLYMPIO:
When I addressed Casina, “Casina,” said I, “my dear wife, why do you slight your husband in this fashion? Really, upon my faith, you do this quite without my deserving it, inasmuch as I have given you the preference as my wife.”
She answered not a word.
When I attempted a kiss, a beard pricked my lips just like briars.
Forthwith, as I was upon my knees, she struck my head with her feet. I tumbled headlong from the bed; she leapt down upon me and punched my face. From there in silence out of doors I came in this guise; by your leaves I say it; may the old fellow drink of the same cup that I have been drinking of.

> Latin: Olympio:
Savium …
itá quasi saetis lábra mihi compúngit barba,
contínuo in genua ut ástiti, pectús mihi pedibus pércutit.
decído de lecto praécipes: subsílit, optundit ós mihi.
indé foras tacitus prófugiens exeo hóc ornatu quó vides,
ut sénex hoc eodem póculo, quo egó bibi, biberet.

[¶190] CLEOSTRATA:
Most excellent. But where’s your cloak?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Óptume est.
séd ubi est palliolúm tuom?

[¶191] OLYMPIO: (pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.)
I left it here in-doors.

> Latin: Olympio:
Hic íntus relíqui.

[¶192] CLEOSTRATA:
Well now; hasn’t a very nice trick been played you?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quid núnc? satin lepide adita est vobís manus?

[¶193] OLYMPIO:
Yes, and deservedly. Hush! the door makes a noise. What, is she following me, I wonder? (They go to a distance.)
(Enter STALINO, in haste, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)
STALINO: (aloud to himself.)

> Latin: Olympio:
Mérito.
séd concrepuerúnt fores. num illa mé nunc séquitur?

[¶194] I’m branded with the greatest disgrace, nor what, under my circumstances to do, do I know. Nor yet how to look my wife in the face; so utterly undone am I! All my misdeeds are discovered.
In every way, to my confusion, I am ruined! So clearly am I hooked fast by the jaws! nor know I in what way to clear myself before my wife; wretch that I am, to have been stripped of my cloak! … These clandestine nuptials are all discovered.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Máxumo ego ardeo flágitio néc quid agam meis rébus scio,
néc meam ut uxorem áspiciam cóntra oculis, ita dísperii;
⟨óm⟩nia palam súnt probra,
ómnibus modis óccidi miser.
… ita mánufesto faucíbus teneor
… ⟨nec⟩ quibus modis purgem scio me meae uxori.
… ⟨at⟩que expálliatus súm miser,
… ⟨cla⟩ndestinae núptiae.

[¶195] … I judge it best for me … She taught my wife … the way … But who is there, what person would be ready to undertake this office
for me? What now to do I know not, except to imitate worthless slaves, and fly from the house; for there’s no safety for my shoulder-blades if I return home. I may tell lies there; i’ faith, I shall get a basting, though much against my will, although I have earned my punishment.

> Latin: … censeo
… mihi optumum est.
… intro ad uxorem meam
súfferamque eí meum térgum ob iniúriam.
séd ecquis est quí homo munús velit fúngier
pró me? quid núnc agam néscio, nisi ut ímprobos
famulos imiter ac domo fugiam.
nam salus nulla est scapulis, si domum redeo.
… nugas istic dicere licet. vapulo hercle ego invitus tamen
etsi malum merui.

[¶196] I’ll at once betake myself in this direction in flight.
(He begins to run.)
OLYMPIO: (coming forward with the others.)
Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!
STALINO: (to himself.)
I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.
(Runs on.] (Enter CHALINUS, from the house of ALCESIMUS, dressed in woman’s clothes.)

> Latin: hac dabo protinam ⟨me⟩ et fugiam.
Chalinvs:
Heus, sta ílico, amátor.
Lysidamvs:
Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.

[¶197] CHALINUS:
Where are you, you who imitate the morals of the Massilians? Now, if you wish to be taking liberties with me, is a good opportunity
[… at your risk. By my troth, you are undone. Come, only step this way. … Now I fancy that when a witness out of … I’ll find … thus out of the street I order … a murmur I …

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Úbi tu es, qui cólere mores Mássilienses póstulas?
nunc tu si vis subigitare me, probast occasio.
redi sis in cubiculum; periisti hercle. age, accede huc modo.
nunc ego tecum aequom arbitrum extra considium captavero.

[¶198] STALINO:
Now am I in extreme danger, between the stone and the sacrifice, nor know I which way to fly … The wolf-dogs … it was …
CHALINUS:
I’ faith, I do think … old there now like new.]

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Perii, fusti defloccabit iam illic homo lumbos meos.
hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst obviam.
Cleostrata:
Iubeo te salvere, amator.

[¶199] STALINO: (turning about.)

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ecce autem uxor obviamst:
[nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sum nec quo fugiam scio.]
hac lupi, hac canes: lupina scaeva fusti rem gerit;
hercle opinor permutabo ego illuc nunc verbum vetus:

[¶200] I’ll go this way. I trust that the omen of a bitch’s barking will prove the better.
CLEOSTRATA:
What are you doing, my husband, my good man? Whence come you in this guise?

> Latin: hac ibo, caninam scaevam spero meliorem fore.
Myrrhina:
Quid agis, dismarite?
Cleostrata:
Mi vir, unde hoc ornatu advenis?

[¶201] What have you done with your walking-stick, or how disposed of the cloak you had?

> Latin: quid fecisti scipione aut quod habuisti pallium?

[¶202] TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
While he was playing his loving pranks with Casina, he lost it, I fancy.
STALINO: (aside.)

> Latin: Myrrhina:
In adulterio, dum moechissat Casinam, credo perdidit.

[¶203] Utterly undone!
CHALINUS: (coming up to STALINO.)
Shall we go to bed again? I am Casina.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Occidi.
Chalinvs:
Etiamne imus cubitum? Casina sum.

[¶204] STALINO:
Away with you to utter perdition!

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
I in malam crucem.

[¶205] CHALINUS:
Don’t you love me?

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Non amas me?

[¶206] CLEOSTRATA:
Nay, but answer me; what has become of your cloak?
STALINO: (running about, exclaiming.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Quin responde, tuo quid factum est pallio?

[¶207] [Upon my faith, wife, the Bacchantes!
Bacchantes!
Bacchantes!
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
He’s making pretence on purpose
for, upon my word, no Bacchantes are exhibiting at the present time.
STALINO:
I forgot that. But still, the Bacchantes!—
CLEOSTRATA:
How, the Bacchantes?
Why, that cannot be.
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:
By my troth, you are in a fright.
STALINO:
What I?
CLEOSTRATA: (to the SERVANT.)
I’ faith, do tell no lies, for it’s quite clear. … ]
OLYMPIO:
[… who even made a notorius man of me with his flagrant acts.]

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Bacchae hercle, uxor—
Cleostrata:
Bacchae?
Lysidamvs:
Bacchae hercle, uxor—
Myrrhina:
Nugatur sciens,
nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt.
Lysidamvs:
Oblitus fui,
sed tamén Bacchae—
Cleostrata:
Quid, Bacchae?
Lysidamvs:
Sin id fieri non potest—
Cleostrata:
Times ecastor.
Lysidamvs:
Egone?
Cleostrata:
Mentire hercle. nam palles male.
ṇ … quid me ṿẹ … ụṣ … am me rog̣ạs?
… ṃạḷẹ ṛ … mihi
… g̣̣ṛatulor.
… q̣ụ … ṣẹṇex
ḥọ … ọṇ … ụ
… ụṇc̣ cạsiṇụst | — |
quị ḥịc̣ … lem frus … ṛạm … ḍịs
(Olympio):
qui étiam me miserum famosum fecit flagitiis suis.

[¶208] STALINO:
Won’t you hold your tongue?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Non taces?

[¶209] OLYMPIO:
I’ troth, I certainly shall not hold my tongue; for with the greatest earnestness you begged me to ask for Casina as my wife.

> Latin: Olympio:
Non herle vero taceo. nam tu maxumo
me opsecravisti opere, Casinam ut poscerem uxorem mihi
túi amoris causa.

[¶210] STALINO:
That I did
on account of my love for you.
CLEOSTRATA:
I’ faith, of her rather. (Turning to CHALINUS.)
He’d have been making an attack upon you, in fact.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Ego istuc feci?
Olympio:
Immo Hector Ilius
te quidem oppresset.

[¶211] STALINO:
I been doing these things that you mention?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Feci égo istaec dicta quae vos dicitis?

[¶212] CLEOSTRATA:
And do you ask me that?

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Rogitas etiam?

[¶213] STALINO:
If indeed I have done so, I’ve been doing wrong.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Si quidem hercle feci, feci nequiter.

[¶214] CLEOSTRATA:
Just come back in-doors here; I’ll remind you, if you have forgotten anything.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Redi modo huc intro: monebo, si qui meministi minus.

[¶215] STALINO:
Troth, I think, I’ll believe you in preference as to what you say.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Hercle, opinor, potius vobis credam quod vos dicitis.

[¶216] But, wife, do grant pardon to your husband for this; Myrrhina, do entreat Cleostrata! If ever, from this time forward, I love Casina, or even think of it, should I love her, I say, should I ever hereafter, in fact, be guilty of such a thing, there’s no reason, wife, why you shouldn’t lash me with twigs as I hang up by the arms.

> Latin: sed, uxor, da viro ⟨tuo⟩ hanc veniam. Myrrhina, ora Cleostratam;
si umquam posthac aut amasso Casinam aut occepso modo,
ne ut eam amasso, sí ego umquam adeo posthac tale admisero
nulla causast, quin pendentem me, uxor, virgis verberes.

[¶217] MYRRHINA:
On my word, I do think that forgiveness may be granted for this.

> Latin: Myrrhina:
Censeo ecastor veniam hanc dandam.

[¶218] CLEOSTRATA: (to MYRRHINA.)
I’ll do as you request me.
(To STALINO.)

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Faciam ut iubes.

[¶219] On this account with the less difficulty do I now grant you this pardon, that, from being a long one, we mayn’t be making this Play still longer.

> Latin: propter eam rem hanc tibi nunc veniam minus gravate prospero,
hanc ex longa longiorem ne faciamus fabulam.

[¶220] STALINO:
You are not angry?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Non irata es?

[¶221] CLEOSTRATA:
I am not angry.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Non sum irata.

[¶222] STALINO:
Am I to trust your word?

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Tuaen fidei credo?

[¶223] CLEOSTRATA:
You may my word.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Meae.

[¶224] STALINO:
No person ever did have a more amiable wife than I’ve got.

> Latin: Lysidamvs:
Lepidiorem uxorem nemo quisquam quam ego habeo hanc habet.

[¶225] CHALINUS:
Keep to her, then.
CLEOSTRATA: (to CHALINUS.)
Come you, give him back his walking-stick and cloak.

> Latin: Cleostrata:
Age tu, redde huic scipionem et pallium.

[¶226] CHALINUS: (taking them from behind him, where he had held them.)
Take them, if you wish.

> Latin: Chalinvs:
Tene, si lubet.

[¶227] Upon my faith, a great injustice has really been most egregiously done me; I’ve been married to two husbands; neither has behaved to me as to a new-made bride.

> Latin: mihi quidem edepol insignite factast magna iniuria:
duobus nupsi, neuter fecit quod novae nuptae solet.

[¶228] The PLAYERS.:
Spectators, what’s to be done within, we’ll tell you here. This Casina will be discovered to be the daughter of this person next door, and she’ll be married to Euthynicus, our master’s son.

> Latin: Spectatores, quod futurumst intus, id memorabimus.
haec Casina huius reperietur filia esse ex proxumo
eaque nubet Euthynico nostro erili filio.

[¶229] Now it’s only fair that with your deserving hands you should give us deserved applause. He who does so, may he always keep his mistress without the knowledge of his wife. But he who doesn’t with his hands clap as loud as he can, in place of a mistress, may a he-goat, soused in bilge-water, be palmed off upon him.

> Latin: nunc vos aequomst manibus meritis meritam mercedem dare:
qui faxit, clam uxorem ducet semper scortum quod volet;
verum qui non manibus clare, quantum poterit, plauserit,
ei pro scorto supponetur hircus unctus nautea.