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

## 2. Lines 354–660

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

[¶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—