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

# Curculio

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A parasite named Weevil tricks a soldier and a pimp.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi008, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi008.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 1–369](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-curculio/1.md)
2. [Lines 370–729](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-curculio/2.md)

## 1. Lines 1–369

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

[¶0] LYCO, a Banker. CAPPADOX, a Procurer. THE CHOREGUS (or, Director of the Chorus). AN ACTOR. PLANESIUM, a young woman belonging to Cappadox. AN OLD WOMAN, a Procuress.
(Before daybreak.) Enter at one side of the stage PHAEDROMUS, with a lighted torch, and followed by SLAVES with wine and provisions for an entertainment, and PALINURUS on the opposite side.)
PALINURUS:
Whither away must I say that you are going out of doors at this time o’ night, Phaedromus, with that dress and with this train?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quo ted hoc noctis dicam proficisci foras
Cum istoc ornatu cumque hac pompa, Phaedrome?

[¶1] PHAEDROMUS:
Whither Venus and Cupid summon me, and Love persuades me; whether ’tis the midnight or whether the earliest twilight,
if the day is fixed for pleading your cause with your antagonist, still must you go where they command you, whether you will or no.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quo Venus Cupidoque imperat, suadet Amor:
si media nox est sive est prima vespera,
si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies,
tamen est eundum quo imperant ingratiis.

[¶2] PALINURUS:
But pray, pray—

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
At tandem, tandem—

[¶3] PHAEDROMUS:
Pray — you are annoying to me.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tandem es odiosus mihi.

[¶4] PALINURUS:
Really that is neither pretty nor befitting you to say. You are your own servant; in your fine garb you are showing the light with your waxen torch.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Istuc quidem nec bellum est nec memorabile:
tute tibi puer es, lautus luces cereum.

[¶5] PHAEDROMUS:
And ought I not to carry that which is gathered by the labour of the little bees—which has its birth in sweets—to my own sweet one, my little honey?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Egon apicularum congestum opera non feram,
ex dulci oriundum melculo dulci meo?

[¶6] PALINURUS:
But whither must I say that you are going?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nam quo te dicam ego ire?

[¶7] PHAEDROMUS:
If you ask me that, I’ll tell, so that you may know.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Si tu me roges,
dicam ut scias.

[¶8] PALINURUS:
If I make the enquiry, what would you answer me?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Si rogitem, quid respondeas?

[¶9] PHAEDROMUS:
This is the Temple (pointing to it) of Aesculapius.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Hoc Aesculapi fanum est.

[¶10] PALINURUS:
That I have known for more than a twelvemonth past.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Plus iam anno scio.

[¶11] PHAEDROMUS:
Close to it is that door, dear as my very eyes. (Points to the door of CAPPADOX.) Hail to you! door, dear as my very eyes; have you been quite well of late?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Huic proxumum illud ostiumst oculissimum.
salve, valuistin?

[¶12] PALINURUS:
Did a fever leave you but yesterday, or the day before, and did you take your dinner yesterday?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ostium occlusissimum,
caruitne febris te herí vel nudiustertius
et heri cenavistine?

[¶13] PHAEDROMUS:
Are you laughing at me?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Deridesne me?

[¶14] PALINURUS:
Why then, madman, are you enquiring whether the door is well or not?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid tu ergo, insane, rogitas valeatne ostium?

[¶15] PHAEDROMUS:
I’ faith, I’ve known it as a door most comely and most discreet: never one word does it whisper; when it is opened, it is silent; and when, by night, she secretly comes out to me, it holds its peace.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Bellissimum hercle vidi et taciturnissimum,
numquam ullum verbum muttit: cum aperitur tacet,
cum ílla noctu clanculum ad me exit, tacet.

[¶16] PALINURUS:
And are you not, Phaedromus, doing, or contemplating the doing of, some deed which is unworthy of yourself or of your family?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Numquid tu quod te aut genere indignum sit tuo
facis aut inceptas facinus facere, Phaedrome?

[¶17] Are you not laying a snare for some modest fair one, or for one that should be modest?
PHAEDROMUS:
For no one; and may Jupiter not permit me to do so.

> Latin: num tu pudicae cuipiam insidias locas
aut quam pudicam ésse oportet?
Phaedromvs:
Nemini,
nec me ille sirit Iuppiter.

[¶18] PALINURUS:
I wish the same. Ever, if you are wise, so bestow your love, that if the public should know the object which you love, it may be no disgrace to you.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ego item volo.
ita tuom conferto amare semper, si sapis,
ne id quod ames populus si sciat, tibi sit probro.

[¶19] Ever do you take care that you be not disgraced.

> Latin: semper curato ne sis intestabilis.

[¶20] PHAEDROMUS:
What means that expression?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid istúc est verbi?

[¶21] PALINURUS:
For you to proceed with caution on your path; the object that you love, love in the presence of witnesses.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Caute ut incedas via:
quod amas amato testibus praesentibus.

[¶22] PHAEDROMUS:
Why,’tis a Procurer that lives here.
(He points.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quin leno hic habitat.

[¶23] PALINURUS:
No one drives you away from there, nor yet forbids you, if you have the money, to buy what’s openly on sale.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat,
quin quod palam est venale, si argentum est, emas.

[¶24] No one forbids any person from going along the public road, so long as he doesn’t make a path through the field that’s fenced around; so long as you keep yourself away from the wife, the widow, the maiden, youthful age, and free-born children, love what you please.

> Latin: nemo ire quemquam publica prohibet via;
dum ne per fundum saeptum facias semitam,
dum ted abstineas nupta, vidua, virgine,
iuventúte et pueris liberis, ama quid lubet.

[¶25] PHAEDROMUS:
This is the house of a Procurer.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Lenonis hae sunt aedes.

[¶26] PALINURUS:
A curse befall it.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Male istis evenat.

[¶27] PHAEDROMUS:
Why so?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Qui?

[¶28] PALINURUS:
Because it serves in an infamous service.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quia scelestam servitutem serviunt.

[¶29] PHAEDROMUS:
You speak out.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Obloquere.

[¶30] PALINURUS:
Be it so, most especially.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Fiat maxume.

[¶31] PHAEDROMUS:
Once more, will you hold your tongue?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Etiam taces?

[¶32] PALINURUS:
You bade me speak out, I thought.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nempe obloqui me iusseras.

[¶33] PHAEDROMUS:
Then, now I forbid you. But, as I had begun to say, he has a young female slave—

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
At nunc veto.
sed ita uti occepi dicere: ei ancillula est.

[¶34] PALINURUS:
This Procurer, you mean, who’s living here?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nempe huic lenoni qui hic habitat?

[¶35] PHAEDROMUS:
You have hold of it exactly.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Recte tenes.

[¶36] PALINURUS:
The less shall I be in dread of its falling.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Minus fórmidabo, ne excidat.

[¶37] PHAEDROMUS:
You are impertinent. He wishes to make her a courtesan, while she is desperately in love with me; whereas I don’t wish to have her upon loan.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Odiosus es.
eam vólt meretricem facere. éa me deperit,
ego autem cum illa facere nolo mutuom.

[¶38] PALINURUS:
Why so?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid ita?

[¶39] PHAEDROMUS:
Because I’m for having her as my own; I love her equally as well.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quia proprium facio: amo pariter simul.

[¶40] PALINURUS:
Clandestine courtship is bad;’tis utter ruin.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Malus clándestinus est amor, damnumst merum.

[¶41] PHAEDROMUS:
I’ troth,’tis so as you say.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Est hercle ita ut tu dicis.

[¶42] PALINURUS:
Has she as yet submitted to the yoke of Venus?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Iamne ea fert iugum?

[¶43] PHAEDROMUS:
For me she is as chaste as though she were my own sister, unless, indeed, she is any the more unchaste for some kissing.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi
si est osculando quippiam impudicior.

[¶44] PALINURUS:
Always, do you understand, flame follows very close on smoke; with smoke, nothing can be burnt, with flame, it can.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxima;
fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest.

[¶45] He who wishes to eat the kernel of the nut, first breaks the nut; he who wishes to seduce, opens the dance with kisses.

> Latin: qui é nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem:
qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.

[¶46] PHAEDROMUS:
But she is chaste, and never yet has bestowed her favours upon man.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
At illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris.

[¶47] PALINURUS:
That I could believe, if any Procurer had any shame.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Credam, pudor si cuiquam lenoni siet.

[¶48] PHAEDROMUS:
Well, but what think you of her? When she has any opportunity,
she steals away to me; when she has given me a kiss, she’s off again. This happens by reason of this, because this Procurer is lying a-bed ill in the Temple of Aesculapius; that fellow is my torturer.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Immo ut illam censes? ut quaeque illi occasiost,
subripere se ad me; ubi savium oppegit, fugit.
id eo fit, quia hic leno, ⟨hic qui⟩ aegrotus incubat
in Aesculapi fano, is me excruciat.

[¶49] PALINURUS:
How so?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid est?

[¶50] PHAEDROMUS:
At one time he asks me for thirty minae for her, at another for a great talent; and from him I cannot obtain any fair and just dealing.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Alias me poscit pro illa triginta minas,
alias talentum magnum; neque quicquam queo
aequi bonique ab eo impetrare.

[¶51] PALINURUS:
You are too exacting, in requiring that of him which no Procurer possesses.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Iniuriu's iniurius es,
qui quod lenoni nulli est id ab eo petas.

[¶52] PHAEDROMUS:
Now, I’ve sent my Parasite hence to Caria, to ask for money on loan from my friend; if he doesn’t bring me this, which way to turn myself I know not.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Nunc hinc parasitum in Cariam misi meum
petitum argentum a meo sodali mutuom.
quod si non affert, quo me vortam nescio.

[¶53] PALINURUS:
If you salute the Deities, towards the right I think; now this is this altar of Venus before their door.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Si deos salutas, dextrovorsum censeo.

[¶54] PHAEDROMUS:
I have already vowed to bring me an early breakfast for my Venus.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Nunc ara Veneris haec est ante horunc fores;
me inferre Veneri vovi ieientaculum.

[¶55] PALINURUS:
What? Will you then be giving up yourself as a breakfast to Venus?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid? tu te pones Veneri ieientaculo?

[¶56] PHAEDROMUS:
Myself, and you, and all of these.
(Pointing to the SLAVES.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Me, te atque hosce omnis.

[¶57] PALINURUS:
Then you would have Venus to be sick outright.
PHAEDROMUS: (to an ATTENDANT.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Tum tu Venerem vomere vis.

[¶58] Here, boy, give me the bowl.
PALINURUS:
What are you going to do?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Cedo, puere, sinum.
Palinvrvs:
Quid facturu's facturus es?

[¶59] PHAEDROMUS:
You’ll know directly. An old hag is in the habit of sleeping here, as the keeper of the door; the name of the Procuress is “Much-bibber” and “Neat-bibber.”

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Iam scies.
anus hic solet cubitare custos ianitrix,
nomen Leaenae est, multibiba atque merobiba.

[¶60] PALINURUS:
Just as you would speak of a flagon, in which Chian wine is wont to be.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi vinum Chium
solet ésse.

[¶61] PHAEDROMUS:
What need is there of words? She is a most vinous soul;

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid opust verbis? vinosissima est;

[¶62] and the very moment that I’ve sprinkled this door with the wine, she knows by the smell that I’m here, and opens it forthwith.

> Latin: eaque extemplo ubi ⟨ego⟩ vino has conspersi fores,
de odore adesse me scit, aperit ilico.

[¶63] PALINURUS:
Is it for her the bowl is brought with the wine?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Eine hic cum vino sinus fertur?

[¶64] PHAEDROMUS:
Unless you object.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Nisi nevis.

[¶65] PALINURUS:
I’ faith, I do object; for I’d rather have it broken about him who has brought it. I fancied it was brought for ourselves.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nolo hercle, nam istunc qui fert afflictum velim;
ego nobis afferri cénsui.

[¶66] PHAEDROMUS:
Why don’t you hold your tongue?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quin tu taces?

[¶67] If any’s left after her, it will be enough for ourselves.

> Latin: si quid super illi fuerit, id nobis sat est.

[¶68] PALINURUS:
What river is it, pray, that the sea does not receive?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quisnam istic fluviust, quem non recipiat mare?

[¶69] PHAEDROMUS:
Follow me this way, Palinurus, to the door; do you be obedient to me.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sequere hac, Palinure, me ad fores, fi mi obsequens.

[¶70] PALINURUS:
I’ll do so.
(They advance to the door of the PROCURER’S house.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ita faciam.

[¶71] PHAEDROMUS: (sprinkling the door with wine.)
Come, drink, you joyous door, quaff on, readily prove propitious unto me.
PALINURUS: (in an afected tone.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Agite bibite, festivae fores;
potate, fite mihi volentes propitiae.

[¶72] Door, would you like some olives or a tit-bit, or some capers?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Voltisne olivas [aut] pulpamentum [aut] capparim?

[¶73] PHAEDROMUS:
Arouse and send out here to me your portress.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Exsuscitate vostram huc custodem mihi.

[¶74] PALINURUS:
You’re spilling the wine; what matter is it that possesses you? (Takes hold of his arm.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Profundis vinum: quae te res agitant?

[¶75] PHAEDROMUS:
Let me alone. Don’t you see? This most joyous door is opening; does the hinge make a bit of creaking?’Tis a charming one.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sine.
viden út aperiuntur aedes festivissumae?
num muttit cardo? est lepidus.

[¶76] PALINURUS:
Why don’t you then give it a kiss?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quin das savium?

[¶77] PHAEDROMUS:
Hold your tongue; let’s keep back the light and our noise.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tace, occultemus lumen et vocem.

[¶78] PALINURUS:
Be it so.
(They stand apart, leaving the bowl near the door.) (Enter the PROCURESS, from the house of CAPPADOX.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Licet.

[¶79] PROCURESS:
The savour of aged wine has reached my nostrils; the love of it has brought me in my eagerness hither in the dark; wherever it is, it’s near me. O capital, I’ve found it. (Stooping, and smelling at the bowl.) Hail to you, my soul, Joy of dear Bacchus;

> Latin: Leaena:
Flós veteris vini meis náribus obiectust,
éius amor cupidam me huc prólicit per tenebras.
ubi ubi ést, prope me est. euáx, habeo.
salve, ánime mi, Líberi lepos.

[¶80] how enamoured am I of your old age. For in comparison with yours, the odour of all unguents were mere bilge-water; you are my myrrh, you my cinnamon, you my rose, you my saffron unguent and my cassia, you are my vine-palm scent. But, where you have been poured, there would I most earnestly hope to be buried.
PALINURUS: (apart.)

> Latin: ut véteris vetus tui cúpida sum.
nam ómnium unguéntum odor praé tuo naútea est,
tú mihi stácta, tu cínnamum, tú rosa,
tú crocinum et casia es, tu télinum,
nam ubi tú profusu's profusus es, íbi ego me pérvelim sepultam.
séd quom adhuc náso odos óbsecutúst meo,
da vicissim meo gutturi gaudium.
nil ago tecum: ubi est ipsus? ipsum expeto
tangere, invergere in me liquores tuos,
sine, ductim. sed hac abiit, hac persequar.

[¶81] This old lady’s thirsty;
how limited is her thirst?
PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)
She’s a moderate person; she swallows eight gallons only.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sitit haéc anus.

[¶82] PALINURUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quantillúm sitit?
Phaedromvs:
Modica ést, capit quadrántal.

[¶83] I’ faith, according to your account, this year’s vintage is not enough for this old woman alone.
PROCURESS:
But since as yet you, fragrance, alone have penetrated to my nostrils, so in its turn afford some delight to my throat. (Feels for the bowl on the ground, which PALINURUS draws away.) I find you not; where is your own dear self? I’m longing to touch you; do let me pour your liquids into me by sip-sipping. But in this direction it has gone, this way I’ll. follow it.
(Goes in the direction of PALINURUS, who has the bowl.)
PALINURUS: (apart.)
It really had been more proper for her to be a dog; she has a good nose.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Pol ut praédicas, vindémia [haec] huic ánui non sat est sóli.
canem esse hánc quidem magis pár fuit: sagax násum habet.

[¶84] PROCURESS:
Prithee, whose voice is it that I hear at a distance.

> Latin: Leaena:
Amábo,
cúia vox sonát procul?

[¶85] PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)
I think that this old hag should be accosted. I’ll approach her. (Aloud.) Come back, Procuress, and look back towards me.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Cénseo hanc áppellandam anum.
adíbo. redi ét respice ád me, Leaéna.

[¶86] PROCURESS:
Who is it that gives his commands?

> Latin: Leaena:
Imperatór quis est?

[¶87] PHAEDROMUS:
The all-powerful in wine, jolly Bacchus; he who, when you’re hawking, parched, and half asleep, brings you a draught and comes to quench your thirst.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Vínipollens lépidus Liber,
tibí qui screánti, siccaé, semisómnae
adfért potiónem et sitím ⟨iam⟩ sedátum it.

[¶88] PROCURESS:
How far is he away from me?

> Latin: Leaena:
Quám longe a me abest?

[¶89] PHAEDROMUS: (holding up the torch.)
See this light.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Lúmen hoc vide.

[¶90] PROCURESS:
Then, prithee, do quicken your pace towards me.

> Latin: Leaena:
Grándiorém gradum ergó fac ad me, óbsecro.

[¶91] PHAEDROMUS:
Health to you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sálve.

[¶92] PROCURESS:
How can I have health, who am parched with thirst?

> Latin: Leaena:
Egon sálva sim, quaé siti sícca sum?

[¶93] PHAEDROMUS:
But you shall drink in a moment.
PROCURESS:’Tis long a-coming.
PHAEDROMUS: (extending the bowl.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
At iám bibes.
Leaena:
Diu fit.

[¶94] Here’s for you, jolly old dame.
PROCURESS:
Health to you, gentleman dear as my very eyes.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Ém tibi anus lepida.
Leaena:
Sálve, oculissime homo.

[¶95] PALINURUS:
Come, toss this off quickly into your abyss; scour out your sink right speedily.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Age, effúnde hoc cito in barathrúm, propere
prolúe cloacam.

[¶96] PHAEDROMUS:
Hold your tongue; I won’t have her ill spoken to.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tace. Nólo huic male dicí.

[¶97] PALINURUS: (aside.)
In preference, then, I’ll do her ill.
PROCURESS: (pouring some of the residue on the altar.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Faciam igitur mále potius.

[¶98] Venus, of this little, this very little will I give to thee —sore against my will; for all the lovers, in their cups, to propitiate thee, expend their wine upon thee: not such windfalls often fall to me.
(Drinks again.)

> Latin: Leaena:
Venús, de paulo paúlulum hoc tíbi dabo haud lubénter.
nam tíbi amantes própitiantes vínum potantés danunt
omnés, mihi haud saepe évenunt talés hereditátes.

[¶99] PALINURUS:
Do look at that, please, how greedily the filthy hag swills down the pure wine into herself with distended gullet.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Hoc víde ut ingurgitat ímpura in se mérum avariter, faucíbus plenis.
Phaedromvs:
Perii hércle, huic quid primúm dicam nesció.
Palinvrvs:
Em istuc, quod míhi dixti.
Phaedromvs:
Quid id ést?
Palinvrvs:
Periisse ut té dicas.
Phaedromvs:
Male tibi di faciant.
Palinvrvs:
Díc isti.

[¶100] PROCURESS: (patting her stomach and chuckling.)
Ha, ha, ha

> Latin: Leaena:
Ah.

[¶101] PALINURUS:
How is it? Do you like it?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quíd est? ecquid lubet?

[¶102] PROCURESS:
I do like it.

> Latin: Leaena:
Lúbet.

[¶103] PALINURUS:
And I, too, should like to goad with a spur as well.
PHAEDROMUS: (aside to PALINURUS.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Etiam mihi quóque stimulo foderé lubet te.

[¶104] Don’t you—do hold your tongue.
PALINURUS:
I’ll hold my tongue; (the old woman drinks) but see, the rainbow’s drinking; I’ faith, I do believe it will rain to-day.
PHAEDROMUS:
Troth now, I’m quite undone; what first to say to her I know not.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tace, ⟨né⟩—

[¶105] PALINURUS:
Why, the same thing that you said to me.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Noli, taceo. écce autem bibit árcus, pluet credo hércle hodie.

[¶106] PHAEDROMUS:
What’s that?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Iamne égo huic dico?

[¶107] PALINURUS:
Say that you’re quite undone.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid díces?

[¶108] PHAEDROMUS:
May the Gods confound you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Me periísse.

[¶109] PALINURUS:
Say so to her.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Age dice.

[¶110] PHAEDROMUS:
Am I to say then to her—?
PALINURUS:
Say what?
PHAEDROMUS:
That I’m quite undone.
PALINURUS:
Well then, say so.
PHAEDROMUS:
Old lady, do listen. I wish you to know this; to my sorrow, I’m quite undone.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Anus, aúdi.
hóc volo scíre te: pérditus súm miser.

[¶111] PROCURESS:
But, i’ faith, for my part, I’m altogether brought to life. But why is it that you are pleased to say you are quite undone?

> Latin: Leaena:
At pól ego oppidó servata.
séd quid est? quid lubet pérditum dícere
te essé?

[¶112] PHAEDROMUS:
Because I’m deprived of the object which I love. (Pretends to weep)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quia id quod amo cáreo.

[¶113] PROCURESS:
My dear Phaedromus, prithee, do not weep; do you take care that I’m not thirsty, I’ll at once bring out here for you the object which you love. (Goes into the house.)

> Latin: Leaena:
Phaedrome mi, ne plora amabo.
tu mé curato né sitiam, ego tibi quód amas iam huc addúcam.—

[¶114] PHAEDROMUS:
Assuredly, if you keep faith with me, in place of a golden statue, I’ll erect for you one of wine, which shall be a memorial of your gullet Palinurus, who on earth will be so blest as myself, if she comes to me?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tibine égo, si fidem servás mecum, vineám pro aurea statuá statuam,
quae tuó gutturí sit monumentum.
qui me ín terra aeque fórtunatus erít, si illa ad me bítet,
Palinúre?

[¶115] PALINURUS:
By my faith, he who is in love, if he is in want as well, is afflicted with a dreadful malady.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Edepol qui amát, si eget, misera ádficitur, ⟨ere⟩, aerúmna.

[¶116] PHAEDROMUS:
Such is not the case with me; for I feel sure that this very day my Parasite will come hither to me with the money.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Non íta res est, nam cónfido parasítum hodie adventúrum
cum argénto ad me.

[¶117] PALINURUS:
You attempt something mighty, if you expect that which nowhere exists.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Magnum ínceptas, si id éxpectas quod núsquamst.

[¶118] PHAEDROMUS:
What if I approach the door, and trill a carol?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid si ádeam ad fores atque óccentem?

[¶119] PALINURUS:
If you choose; I neither bid nor request you, since, my master, I see that you are of manners and disposition thus changed.
PHAEDROMUS: (sings.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Si lúbet, neque veto neque iúbeo,
quando égo te video immútatis moribus esse, ere, atque ingénio.

[¶120] Bolts, O ye bolts, with pleasure do I salute you. I love you, I court you, I seek you, and you entreat; most kindly lend your aid to me in love;
become, for my sake, as though play-actors from foreign climes; leap upwards pray, and send out of doors this fair one, who drains my blood for me distractedly in love. (Addressing PALINURUS.) Look at that, how those most accursed bolts sleep on, and none the quicker for my sake do they bestir themselves.
(Addressing the door.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Péssuli, heus péssuli, vós salutó lubens,
vos amo, vos volo, vos peto atque obsecro,
gérite amantí mihi mórem, amoeníssumi,
fite causa mea ludii barbari,
sussilite, obsecro, et mittite istanc foras,
quae mihi misero amanti ebibit sanguinem.
hoc vide ut dormiunt pessuli pessumi
nec mea gratia commovent se ocius.

[¶121] I see quite clearly that you don’t value my esteem at all. Hist! hush, hush!
PALINURUS:
I’ troth, for my part I’m silent enough.

> Latin: re spicio, nihili meam vos gratiam facere.
st tace, tace.
Palinvrvs:
Taceo hercle equidem.

[¶122] PHAEDROMUS:
I hear a noise; at last, i’ faith, these bolts have become complaisant to me.
(Re-enter the PROCURESS, with PLANESIUM, from the house of CAPPADOX.)
PROCURESS: (to PLANESIUM, while opening the door.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sentio sonitum.
tandem edepol mihi morigeri pessuli fiunt.

[¶123] Come softly out, and prevent the noise of the doors and the creaking of the hinges, my dear Planesium, that our master mayn’t perceive that that is going on which we are doing here.

> Latin: Leaena:
Plácide egredere et sónitum prohibe fórium et crepitum cárdinum,
ne quod hic agimus erus percipiat fieri, mea Planesium.

[¶124] Stay, I’ll pour a little water on it.
(Pours water on the hinges.)
PALINURUS: (to PHAEDROMUS.)
Do you see how the palsied hag is giving her dose? She herself has learnt right well to drink up the wine; to the door she’s giving water for it to drink.
PLANESIUM: (looking around.)

> Latin: mane, suffundam aquolam.
Palinvrvs:
Viden ut anus tremula medicinam facit?
eapse merum condidicit bibere, foribus dat aquam quam bibant.

[¶125] Where are you—you who have summoned me on the recognizances of Venus? To you do I present myself, and, in the same way do I call on you, on the other hand, to present yourself to me.
PHAEDROMUS: (stepping forward.)

> Latin: Planesivm:
Vbi tu es, qui me convadatu's convadatus es Veneriis vadimoniis?
sisto ego tibi me et mihi contra itidem ⟨tu te⟩ ut sistas suadeo.

[¶126] Here I am; for could I be absent, I wouldn’t repine for any misfortune to befall me, my honey.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Assum; nam si absim, haud recusem quin mihi male sit, mel meum.

[¶127] PLANESIUM:
My life, it is not becoming for one thus in love to be at a distance.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Anime mi, ⟨me⟩ procul amantem abesse haud consentaneumst.

[¶128] PHAEDROMUS:
Palinurus, Palinurus!

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Palinure, Palinure.

[¶129] PALINURUS:
Say on; why is it that you call upon Palinurus?
PHAEDROMUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Eloquere, quid est quod Palinurum voces?

[¶130] She is a charming one.
PALINURUS: (aside.)
Aye, too charming.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Est lepida.
Palinvrvs:
Nimis lepida.

[¶131] PHAEDROMUS:
I am a God.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sum deus.

[¶132] PALINURUS:
Why, no—a mortal, of no great value.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Immo homo haud magni preti.

[¶133] PHAEDROMUS:
What have you seen, or what will you see, more nearly to be compared with the Gods?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid vidisti aut quid videbis magis dis aequiparabile?

[¶134] PALINURUS:
You are not in your senses, master; a thing that’s grievous to me.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Male valere te, quod mi aegrest.

[¶135] PHAEDROMUS:
You are not sufficiently respectful to me: hold your tongue.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Male mi morigeru's morigerus es, tace.

[¶136] PALINURUS:
The person that sees the object which he loves, and enjoys not the opportunity while he may, is one who torments his own self.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ipsus se excruciat qui homo quod amat videt nec potitur dum licet.

[¶137] PHAEDROMUS:
Rightly does he rebuke me; really there’s nothing which for this long time past I have more eagerly desired.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Recte obiurgat. sane haud quicquamst, magis quod cupiam iam diu.

[¶138] PLANESIUM:
Clasp me, embrace me then.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Tene me, amplectere ergo.

[¶139] PHAEDROMUS: (embracing her.)
This, too, is a reason for which I could wish to live; because your master restrains, you, in secret do I court you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Hoc etiam est quam ob rem cupiam vivere.
quia te prohibet erus, clam [ero] potior.

[¶140] PLANESIUM:
Restrain me? He neither can restrain me, nor will he restrain me, unless death should separate my soul from you.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Prohibet? nec prohibere quit,
nec prohibebit nisi mors méum animum aps te abalienaverit.
Palinvrvs:
Enim vero nequeo durare quin ego erum accusem meum:
nam bonum est pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est;
verum totum insanum amare, hóc est quod meus erus facit.

[¶141] PHAEDROMUS:
Let monarchs keep their kingdoms to themselves, the rich their riches to themselves, to themselves their honors, to themselves their prowess, to themselves their combats, to themselves their battles;

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sibi sua habeant regna reges, sibi divitias divites,
sibi honores, sibí virtutes, sibi pugnas, sibi proelia:

[¶142] so long as they abstain from envying me, let each one of them keep what is his own.
PALINURUS: (aside.)
Of a truth, I cannot refrain from giving a lecture to my master; for, really, it is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
(Aloud.)
What say you, sir? Have you made a vow, Phaedromus, you’d watch the night through for Venus? For really, upon my faith, before very long hence the dawn will be breaking.

> Latin: dum mi abstineant invidere, sibi quisque habeant quod suom est.
Palinvrvs:
Quid tu? Venerin pervigilare te vovisti, Phaedrome?
nam hoc quidem edepol haud multo post luce lucebit.

[¶143] PHAEDROMUS:
Do hold your tongue.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tace.

[¶144] PALINURUS:
Why hold my tongue? What, are you going to sleep?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid, taceam? quin tu is dormitum?

[¶145] PHAEDROMUS:
I am asleep; don’t you make a noise.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Dormio, ne occlamites.

[¶146] PALINURUS:
Why, but you’re broad awake.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Tu quidem vígilas.

[¶147] PHAEDROMUS:
Aye, but after my own fashion I’m asleep; this is my slumber.
PALINURUS: (to PLANESIUM.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
At meo more dormio: hic somnust mihi.

[¶148] A word with you, madam;’tis thoughtlessness to treat amiss one who deserves it not.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Heus tu, mulier, male mereri de inmerente inscitia est.

[¶149] PLANESIUM:
You would be angry, if, when you are eating, he were to drive you away from your food.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Irascere, si te edentem hic a cibo abigat.

[¶150] PALINURUS: (aside.)
It’s all over with him. I see that these two are equally in love to distraction; and both of them are mad. D’ye see how intensely they hug each other? They cannot embrace enough. (Addressing them.) Are you going to part yet?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ilicet,
pariter hos perire amando video, uterque insaniunt.
viden ut misere moliuntur? nequeunt complecti satis.
etiam dispertimini?

[¶151] PLANESIUM:
No human being has blessings that last for ever. To this pleasure, then, is that plague added.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Nullum homini est perpetuom bonum:
iam huic voluptati hoc adiunctum est odium.

[¶152] PALINURUS:
What say you, you shocking hussy? What, you little tipsy ninny, are even you with your owlish eyes to be calling me a plague, you whipper-snapper?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quid ais, propudium?
tun etiam cum noctuinis oculis odium me vocas?
ebrióla, persollae nugae.

[¶153] PHAEDROMUS:
What, you abusing my own Venus? And really, is a slave well trounced with the rod to be commencing a discussion with myself? But, by the powers, you’ve surely said that to your own misfortune.
(Strikes him.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tun meam Venerem vituperas?
† quod quidem mihi polluctus virgis servos sermonem serat?
at ne tu hercle cum cruciatu magno dixisti id tuo.

[¶154] There, take that, by way of punishment for this abusive language, that you may be able to put a check upon your speech.
PALINURUS: (to PLANESIUM.)

> Latin: em tibi male dictis pro istis, dictis moderari ut queas.

[¶155] Your aid, I pray, you night-watching Venus.
PHAEDROMUS:
What, do you still persist, whip-scoundrel? (Strikes hint.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Tuam fidem, Venus noctuvigila.
Phaedromvs:
Pergin etiam, verbero?

[¶156] PLANESIUM:
Don’t, there’s a dear, be beating a stone, lest you should hurt your hand.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Noli, amabo, verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum.

[¶157] PALINURUS:
You perpetrate, Phaedromus, a flagitious and a shameful deed of great enormity; one who directs you aright, you pummel with your fists; her you are in love with, a mere nonentity.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Flagitium probrumque magnum, Phaedrome, expergefacis:
bene monstrantem pugnis caedis, hanc amas, nugas meras.

[¶158] Is it right that you should behave yourself in this unreasonable manner?

> Latin: hocine fieri, ut inmodestis hic te moderes moribus?

[¶159] PHAEDROMUS:
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold; here, take the gold of me.
(Holds out his purse.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem: a me aurum accipe.

[¶160] PALINURUS:
Do you find me a person for me to serve in his sound senses against his weight in double-distilled gold.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Cedo mihi contra aurichalco cui ego sano serviam.

[¶161] PLANESIUM:
Kindly fare you well, apple of my eye, for I hear the sound and creaking of doors; I think the keeper is opening the temple. But, prithee, in this same manner
shall we always enjoy our love by stealth?

> Latin: Planesivm:
Bene vale, ocule mi, nam sonitum et crepitum claustrorum audio,
aeditumum aperire fanum … quo usque, quaeso, ad hunc modum
inter nos amore utemur semper surrepticio?

[¶162] PHAEDROMUS:
Far from it; for I sent my Parasite four days since to Caria to fetch some money; he’ll be here to-day.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Minime, nam parasitum misi nudiusquartus Cariam
petere argentum, is hodie hic aderit.

[¶163] PLANESIUM:
You are very long in your contriving.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Nimium consultas diu.

[¶164] PHAEDROMUS:
So may Venus love me, I’ll never allow you to be three days in this house here, before I procure your liberty.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Ita me Venus amet, ut ego te hoc triduom numquam sinam
in domo esse istac, quin ego te liberalem liberem.

[¶165] PLANESIUM:
Take care to remember it. Once more, before I go hence, take this kiss.
(Kisses him.)

> Latin: Planesivm:
Facito ut memineris. tene etiam, prius quam hinc abeo, savium.

[¶166] PHAEDROMUS:
By heavens, really if a kingdom now were offered me, I should not obtain it with greater pleasure. When shall I see you again?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Siquidem herclé mihi regnum detur, numquam id potius persequar.
quando ego te videbo?

[¶167] PLANESIUM:
Why now, for that expression get ready the Praetor’s rod; if you love me, purchase my freedom; don’t make any haggling. Take care to prevail with your offer. Kindly adieu! (Goes into the house of the PROCURER.)

> Latin: Planesivm:
Em istoc verbo vindictam para:
sí amas, eme, ne rogites, facito ut pretio pervincas tuo.
bene vale.

[¶168] PHAEDROMUS:
And am I then left behind? Palinurus, I’m Lilled outright.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Iamne ego relinquor? pulcre, Palinure, occidi.

[¶169] PALINURUS:
And I as well, who am dying with thumps and sleepiness.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ego quidem, qui et vapulando et somno pereo.

[¶170] PHAEDROMUS:
Do you follow me.
(They go into the house of PHAEDROMUS.) (Enter CAPPADOX, from the Temple of AESCULAPIUS.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sequere me.—

[¶171] CAPPADOX: (to himself.)
I am resolved to depart from this Temple out of doors forthwith, since thus I find the determination of Aesculapius, who sets me at nought, and chooses not that I should be healed. My health is declining, my weakness increases.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Migrare certumst iam nunc e fano foras,
quando Aesculapi ita sentio sententiam,
ut qui me nihili faciat nec salvom velit.
valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor;

[¶172] For now I walk, girded with my spleen as though with a belt; in my stomach do I seem to be holding a twin offspring. I’m afraid of nothing, but that, in my misery, I should burst asunder in the middle.
(PHAEDROMUS.)
PALINURUS: (speaking to PHAEDROMUS within as he enters.)

> Latin: nam iam quasi zona liene cinctus ambulo,
geminos in ventre habere videor filios.
nil metuo nisi ne medius disrumpar miser.

[¶173] If you do right, Phaedromus, you’ll listen to me, and banish this sorrow from your feelings.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihi
atque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem.

[¶174] You are anxious because your Parasite hasn’t returned from Caria. I think he’ll bring the money; but if he doesn’t bring it, by a chain of iron he couldn’t be withheld from betaking himself to eat at his manger.
CAPPADOX: (turning round.)

> Latin: paves, parasitus quia non rediit Caria:
adferre argentum credo; nam si non ferat,
tormento non retineri potuit ferreo,
quin reciperet se huc esum ad praesepem suam.

[¶175] What person is it that speaks?
PALINURUS: (to himself.)
Whose voice is it that I hear?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quis hic est qui loquitur?
Palinvrvs:
Quoiam vocem ego audio?

[¶176] CAPPADOX:
Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi?

[¶177] PALINURUS: (aside.)
Who is this fellow with extended paunch, and eyes as green as grass? From his figure I know him; from his complexion I cannot recognize him. O, now I do know him: it’s the Procurer Cappadox. I’ll accost him.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quis hic est homo
cum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis?
de forma novi, de colore non queo
novisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox.
congrediar.

[¶178] CAPPADOX:
Save you, Palinurus.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Salve, Palinure.

[¶179] PALINURUS:
O source of villanies, save you; how are you?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
O scelerum caput,
salveto. quid agis?

[¶180] CAPPADOX:
I’m just alive.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Vivo.

[¶181] PALINURUS:
Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Nempe ut dignus es.
sed quid tibi est?

[¶182] CAPPADOX:
My spleen is killing me, my reins are in torment, my lungs are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in pain.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Lien enecat, renes dolent,
pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur,
radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.

[¶183] PALINURUS:
The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.

[¶184] CAPPADOX:
My spleen is expanded.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Facile est miserum inridere.

[¶185] PALINURUS:
Take walking exercise; that’s the best thing for the spleen.
CAPPADOX:’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Quin tu aliquot dies
perdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi,
nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris,
venire poteris intestinis vilius.
Cappadox:
Lien díerectust.

[¶186] PALINURUS:
Well, then, do you hold out for some days until your intestines become putrid. Now, while the humours are pretty sound, if you do that, you yourself might sell for a worse price than those intestines of yours.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Ambula, id lieni optumumst.

[¶187] CAPPADOX:
Prithee, have done with this, and answer me this which I ask; can you possibly form a conjecture on it, if I relate to you what I dreamt last night in my sleep?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo.
potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibi
hac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?

[¶188] PALINURUS:
Psha, this—(pointing to himself)—this is the sole person that is really skilled in divination; why, the interpreters of dreams ask advice of myself;

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus.
quin coniectores a me consilium petunt:

[¶189] the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand.
(Enter a COOK, from the house of PHAEDROUMS.)

> Latin: quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia.

[¶190] COOK:
Palinurus, why do you delay? Why are not the things served out for me which are needed for the breakfast to be prepared for the Parasite when he comes.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Palinure, quid stas? quin depromuntur mihi
quae opus súnt, parasito ut sit paratum prandium,
quom veniat?

[¶191] PALINURUS:
Wait, please, until I interpret his dream. (Pointing to CAPPADOX.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Mane sis, dum huic conicio somnium.

[¶192] COOK:
Why, you your own self, if you’ve had any dream, always apply to me.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Tute ipse, si quid somniasti, ad me refers.

[¶193] PALINURUS:
I confess it.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Fateór.

[¶194] COOK:
Be off, then, and serve out the things.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Abi, déprome.

[¶195] PALINURUS: (to CAPPADOX.)
Come now, do you in the meantime relate your dream to him. I give you a substitute better than I am myself; for what I do know, all of it I know from him.
(Pointing to the COOK.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Age tu interea huic somnium
narra, meliorem quam ego sum suppono tibi.
nam quod scio omne ex hoc scio.

[¶196] CAPPADOX:
Let him give his attention then.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Operam ut det.

[¶197] PALINURUS:
He’ll give it.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Dabit.—

[¶198] CAPPADOX:
He does what few do, in being attentive to their masters even. (To the COOK.) Do you give me your attention then.
(PALINURUS goes into the house of PHAEDROMUS.)

> Latin: Cappadox:
Facit hic quod pauci, ut sit magistro óbsequens.
da mi igitur operam.

[¶199] COOK:
Although I don’t know you, I’ll give it you.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Tam etsi non novi, dabo.

[¶200] CAPPADOX:
Last night I seemed in my sleep to behold Aesculapius, seated at a distance far away from me; and it seemed that he didn’t come near me, or set any value upon me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Hac nocte in somnis visus sum viderier
procul sedere longe a me Aesculapium,
neque eum ad me adire neque me magni pendere
visumst.

[¶201] COOK:
The other Gods will do the same, you must know; in fact, among themselves they agree with perfect unanimity.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Item alios deos facturos scilicet:
sane illi inter se congruont concorditer.

[¶202] It isn’t to be wondered at, if it fares no better with you. But it had been better for you to pass the night in Jove’s Temple, who has given you his assistance in your oaths.

> Latin: nihil est mirandum, melius si nil fit tibi,
namque incubare satius te fuerat Iovi,
qui tibi auxilio in iure iurando fuit.

[¶203] CAPPADOX:
If, indeed, those should wish to sleep there who have been guilty of perjury, it were not possible for room to be found them in the Capitol.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Siquidem íncubare vélint qui periuraverint,
locus nón praeberi potis est in Capitolio.

[¶204] COOK:
Give your attention to this; ask peace of Aesculapius, lest perchance some great mishap befall you, which has been portended to you in your rest.

> Latin: Cocvs:
Hoc animum advorte: pacem ab Aesculapio
petas, ne forte tibi évenat magnum malum,
quod in quiete tibi portentumst.

[¶205] CAPPADOX:
You do well in advising me; I’ll go and pray to him. (Goes into the Temple.)

> Latin: Cappadox:
Bene facis.
ibo atque orabo.—

[¶206] COOK:
And ill speed you with it …
(Goes into the house of PHAEDROMUS.)

> Latin: Cocvs:
Quae res male vortat tibi.—

[¶207] PALINURUS: (Enter PALINURUS, from the house.) (looking in the distance, as he enters.)
O immortal Gods, whom do I behold? Who’s that yonder?
(Pointing.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Pro di immortales, quem conspicio? quis illic est?

[¶208] Isn’t that the Parasite, who was sent to Caria? (Goes to the door.) Hallo, come out, Phaedromus, come out, come out, come out this instant, I say.
(from the house.)

> Latin: estne hic parasitus qui missust in Cariam?
heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius.

[¶209] PHAEDROMUS:
Why are you making this noise here?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid istíc clamorem tollis?

[¶210] PALINURUS:
I see your Parasite running; see, there he is (pointing), down at the end of the street. Let’s listen from here what he’s about.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Parasitum tuom
video currentem ellum usque in plátea ultima.
hinc auscultemus quid agat.

[¶211] PHAEDROMUS:
I think it’s as well.
(They stand aside.) (Enter CURCULIO, at a distance, walking fast.)
CURCULIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Sane censeo.

[¶212] Known or unknown, make way for me, while here I execute my commission; fly all of you, be off, and get out of the way, lest I should hurt any person in my speed with my head, or elbow, or breast, or with my knee. So suddenly now am I charged with a business of quickness and despatch. And be there no person ever so opulent to stop me in my way,
neither general, nor any tyrant, nor market-officer, nor demarch nor comarch, with their honors so great, but that down he goes, and tumbles head first from the footpath into the carriage-road. And then those Grecians with their cloaks, who walk about with covered heads, who go loaded beneath their cloaks with books, and with baskets,
they loiter together, and engage in gossipping among themselves, the gad-abouts; you may always see them enjoying themselves in the hot liquor-shops; when they have scraped up some trifle, with their covered pates they are drinking mulled wine, sad and maudlin they depart: if I stumble upon them here,
from every single one of them I’ll squeeze out a belch from their pearled-barley diet. And then those servants of your dainty townsmen, who are playing at catch-ball in the road, both throwers and catchers, all of them I’ll pitch under foot. Would they avoid a mishap, why then, let them keep at home.
PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Dáte viam mihi, nóti [atque] ignoti, dúm ego hic officiúm meum
facio: fugite omnes, abite et de via decedite,
ne quem in cursu capite aut cubito aut pectore offendam aut genu.
ita nunc subito, propere et celere obiectumst mihi negotium,
nec ⟨homo⟩ quisquamst tám opulentus, qui mi obsistat in via,
nec strategus nec tyrannus quisquam, nec agoranomus,
nec demarchus nec comarchus, nec cum tanta gloria,
quin cadat, quin capite sistat in via de semita.
tum isti Graeci palliati, capite operto qui ambulant,
qui incedunt suffarcinati cum libris, cum sportulis,
constant, conferunt sermones inter se⟨se⟩ drapetae,
obstant, obsistunt, incedunt cum suis sententiis,
quos semper videas bibentes esse in thermipolio,
ubi quid subripuere: operto capitulo calidum bibunt,
tristes atque ebrioli incedunt: eos ego si offendero,
ex unoquoque eorum exciam crépitum polentarium.
tum isti qui ludunt datatim servi scurrarum in via,
et datores et factores omnis subdam sub solum.
proin se domi contineant …, vitent infortunio.

[¶213] He points out aright, he only requires that he should speak with authority; for such manners are in vogue in the present day,
such at present are the slaves; really, control cannot be held over them.
CURCULIO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Recte hic monstrat, si imperare possit. nam ita nunc mos viget,
ita nunc servitiumst: profecto modus haberi non potest.

[¶214] Is there any one, I wonder, who can point out to me Phaedromus, my good Genius? The matter is of such pressing nature, I really must meet with the man this instant.
PALINURUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Ecquis est qui mihi commonstret Phaedromum genium meum?
ita res subita est, celeriter mihi [hoc] hómine convento est opus.

[¶215] He’s looking for you.
PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)
What if we accost him? (Aloud.) Hallo! Curculio, I want you.
CURCULIO: (looking round.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Te ille quaerit.
Phaedromvs:
Quid si adeamus? heus, Curculio, te volo.

[¶216] Who’s calling me? Who’s mentioning my name?
PHAEDROMUS:
One who wishes to meet with you.
CURCULIO: (seeing him.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quis vocat? quis nominat me?
Phaedromvs:
Qui te conventum cupit.

[¶217] You don’t wish more for me than I wish for you.
PHAEDROMUS:
O my own ready occasion, Curculio, much longed-for, greetings to you.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Haud magis ⟨me⟩ cupis quam ego te cupio.
Phaedromvs:
O mea opportunitas,
Curculio exoptate, salve.

[¶218] CURCULIO:
Greetings to you.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Salve.

[¶219] PHAEDROMUS:
I’m glad that you have arrived safe; give me your right hand. How stand my hopes? Troth now, prithee, do speak out.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Salvom gaudeo
te advenire. cedo tuam mi dexteram. ubi sunt spes meae?
eloquere, obsecro hércle.

[¶220] CURCULIO:
To you, troth now, prithee, do speak out, how stand my own. (Makes curious gestures.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Eloquere, te óbsecro, ubi súnt meae?

[¶221] PHAEDROMUS:
What’s the matter with you?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid tibist?

[¶222] CURCULIO:
A dimness is beginning to come, my knees are failing through fasting.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inedia succidunt.

[¶223] PHAEDROMUS:
I’ faith, through lassitude, I think.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Lassitudine hercle credo.

[¶224] CURCULIO: (staggering.)
Support me, prithee, do support me.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Retine, retine me, obsecro.

[¶225] PHAEDROMUS:
See how pale he has turned; will you give him a seat, for him to be seated at once, and an ewer with some water? Will you make haste, this very instant?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Viden ut expálluit? datin isti sellam, ubi assidat, cito
et aqualem cum aqua? properatin ocius?

[¶226] CURCULIO:
I’m faint.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Animo male est.

[¶227] PHAEDROMUS:
Would you like some water?
CURCULIO:
If it’s full of bits of meat, prithee, give it me to swallow down, i’ faith.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Vin aquam?
Cvrcvlio:
Si frustulenta est, da, obsecro hercle, obsorbeam.

[¶228] PHAEDROMUS:
Woe be to that head of yours.
CURCULIO:
Troth now, prithee do give me cause to rejoice at my arrival.
PHAEDROMUS: (begins to fan him.)

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Vae capiti tuo.
Cvrcvlio:
Obsecro hercle, facite ventum ut gaudeam.

[¶229] By all means.
CURCULIO:
Prithee, what’s this you’re about.
PHAEDROMUS:
Some air.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Maxume.
Cvrcvlio:
Quid facitis, quaeso?
Palinvrvs:
Ventum.

[¶230] CURCULIO:
Really, for my part, I don’t want a breath to be raised.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nolo equidem mihi
fieri ventulum.

[¶231] PHAEDROMUS:
What then?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid igitur vis?

[¶232] CURCULIO:
To eat, that I may rejoice on my arrival.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Esse, ut ventum gaudeam.

[¶233] PHAEDROMUS:
May Jupiter and the Deities confound you.
CURCULIO:
I’m quite undone; I can hardly see;
my mouth is bitter; my teeth, I find, are blunted; my jaws are clammy through fasting; with my entrails thus lank with abstinence from food am I come.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Iuppiter te dique perdant.
Cvrcvlio:
Perii, prospicio parum,
gramarum habeo dentes plenos, lippiunt fauces fame,
ita cibi vacivitate venio lassis lactibus.

[¶234] PHAEDROMUS:
You shall eat something just now.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Iám edes aliquid.

[¶235] CURCULIO:
I’ faith, I don’t want “something;” I’d rather have what’s fixed for certain, than your “something.”

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nolo hercle aliquid: certum quam aliquid mavolo.

[¶236] PHAEDROMUS:
Aye, but if you only knew what has been put by for you.
CURCULIO:
I’d very much like to know where it is; for really it’s necessary for it and my teeth to make acquaintance.

> Latin: Palinvrvs:
Immo si scias, reliquiae quae sint.
Cvrcvlio:
Scire nímis lubet
ubi sient, nam illis conventis sane opus est meis dentibus.

[¶237] PHAEDROMUS:
A gammon of bacon, a sow’s stomach, some udder and kernels of the throat.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Pernam, abdomen, sumen sueris, glandium—

[¶238] CURCULIO:
What, all this do you say? Perhaps you mean that they are in the flesh-market?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Ain tu omnia haec?
in carnario fortasse dicis.

[¶239] PHAEDROMUS:
In the dishes, I mean; they’ve been got ready for you, since we knew that you were about to arrive.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Immo in lancibus,
quae tibi sunt parata, postquam scimus venturum.

[¶240] CURCULIO:
Take care you don’t be fooling me.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Vide
ne me ludas.

[¶241] PHAEDROMUS:
So may the fair one love me whom I love, I don’t say what’s false. But as to what I sent you upon I’m none the wiser yet.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Ita me amabit quám ego amo, ut ego haud mentior.
sed quod te misi, nihilo sum certior.

[¶242] CURCULIO:
I’ve brought back nothing.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nihil attuli.

[¶243] PHAEDROMUS:
You’ve undone me.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Perdidisti me.

[¶244] CURCULIO:
I can find something, if you’ll give me your attention. After, at your request, I had set out, I arrived in Caria;
I saw your friend; I asked him to make me a loan of some money. In answer, you were to know that he was willing to oblige you; he didn’t wish to disappoint you, as it is only proper that a person who is a friend should be ready, and should assist his friend. In a few words he answered me, and quite in confidence, that he also was in the same extreme want of money as yourself.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Invenire possum, si mi operam datis.
postquam tuo iussu profectus sum, perveni in Cariam,
video tuom sodalem, argenti rogo uti faciat copiam.
scires velle gratiam tuam, noluit frustrarier,
ut decet velle hominem amicum amico, atque opitularier:
respondit mihi paucis verbis, atque adeo fideliter,
quod tibi est item sibi esse, magnam argenti ínopiam.

[¶245] PHAEDROMUS:
By your words you ensure my undoing.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Perdis me tuis dictis.

[¶246] CURCULIO:
Why no; I’m saving you, and wish you to be saved. After this answer was given me, I went away from him to the Forum, in sorrow that I had applied to him in vain. By accident I espied a military officer; this person I accosted, and as I approached I saluted him. “Save you,” said he to me, took my right hand, drew me aside, and asked me why I had come to Caria.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Immo servo et servatum volo.
postquam mihi responsum est, abeo ab illo maestus ad forum
med illo frustra advenisse. forte aspicio militem.
aggredior hominem, saluto adveniens. “salve” inquit mihi,
prendit dexteram, seducit, rogat quid veniam Cariam;

[¶247] I said that I had come there for the sake of amusement. Upon this he asked me whether I knew a certain Lyco, a banker of Epidaurus. I said I knew him. “Well, and the Procurer Cappadox?” I answered yes, that I had seen him. “But what do you want of him?” said I. “Because,” said he, “I bought of him a girl for thirty minae, her clothes and golden jewels too; and for these last ten minae more are added.”

> Latin: dico me illo advenisse animi causa. ibi me interrogat,
ecquem in Epidauro Lyconem tarpezitam noverim.
dico me novisse. “quid? lenonem Cappadocem?” annuo
visitasse. “sed quid eum vis?” “quia de illo emi virginem
triginta minis, vestem, aurum; et pro ís decem coáccedunt minae.”

[¶248] “Have you paid the money?” said I. “No,” said he; “it is lodged with this Lyco the banker, whom I was mentioning, and I’ve instructed him that the person who should bring a letter sealed with my own ring, to him he was to give his services, that he might receive the damsel, with her jewels of gold and her clothes, from the Procurer.” After he told me this, I was going away from him. At once he called me back,
invited me to dinner; it was a point of conscience, I was unwilling to refuse him. “What if we go off home, and take our places at table?” said he. The suggestion pleased me; it is neither proper to lengthen out the day, nor to curtail the night. Everything was prepared, and we, for whom it was prepared, were at our places. After we had dined and well drunk, he asked for the dice to be fetched him.
He challenged me to play with him a game of hazard. I staked my cloak, he staked his ring against it; he called on the name of Planesium.

> Latin: “dédisti tu argentum?” inquam. “ímmo ápud trapezitam situm est
illum quem dixi Lyconem, atque ei mandavi, qui anulo
meo tabellas obsignatas attulisset, ut daret
operam, ut mulierem a lenone cum auro et veste abduceret.”
postquam hoc mihi narravit, abeo ab illo. revocat me ilico,
vocat me ad cenam; religio fuit, denegare nolui.
“quid si abeamus ac décumbamus?” inquit. consilium placet:
“neque diem decet morari, neque nocti nocerier.”
“omnis res paratast”. et nos, quibus paratum est, assumus.
postquam cenati atque appoti, talos poscit síbi in manum,
provocat me in aleam, ut ego ludam: pono pallium;
ille suom amiculum opposivit, invocat Planesium.

[¶249] PHAEDROMUS:
What, my mistress?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Meosne amores?

[¶250] CURCULIO:
Be silent a while. He threw a most losing cast. I took up the dice, and invoked Hercules as my genial patron; I threw a first-rate cast, and pledged him in a bumping cup; in return he drank it off,
reclined his head, and fell fast asleep. I slily took away from him the ring, and took my legs quietly from off the couch, so that the Captain mightn’t perceive it. The servants enquired whither I was going; I said that I was going whither persons when full are wont to go. When I beheld the door, at once on the instant I betook myself away from the place.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Tace parumper. iacit volturios quattuor.
talos arripio, invoco almam meam nutricem Hérculem,
iacto basilicum; propino magnum poclum: ille ebibit,
caput deponit, condormiscit. ego ei subduco anulum,
deduco pedes de lecto clam, ne miles sentiat.
rogant me servi quó eam: dico me ire quo saturi solent.
ostium ubi conspexi, exinde me ilico protinam dedi.

[¶251] PHAEDROMUS:
I commend you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Laudo.

[¶252] CURCULIO:
Commend me when I’ve brought this thing about which you desire. Now let’s go indoors, that we may seal the letter.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Laudato quando illud quod cupis effecero.
…
eamus nunc intro, ut tabellas consignemus.

[¶253] PHAEDROMUS:
Do I delay you?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Num moror?

[¶254] CURCULIO:
But let’s cram down something first, the gammon, the udder, and the kernels; these are the foundations for the stomach, with bread and roast beef, a good-sized cup and a capacious pot, that counsel enough may be forthcoming. Do you, yourself, seal the letter; he’ll do the honors (pointing to PALINURUS) while I am eating.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Atque aliquid prius obstrudamus, pernam, sumen, glandium,
haec sunt ventris stabilimenta, pane et assa bubula,
poculum grande, aula magna, ut satis consilia suppetant.
tu tabellas consignato, híc ministrabit, égo edam.

## 2. Lines 370–729

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

[¶0] I’ll dictate after what fashion you’re to write. Follow me this way, in-doors.
PHAEDROMUS:
I follow.
(They go into the house of PHAEDROMUS.) (Enter LYCO.)

> Latin: dicam quem ad modum conscribas. sequere me hac intro.
Phaedromvs:
Sequor.—

[¶1] LYCO:
I seem to be in opulence; I’ve struck my balance, how much money I have, and how much I owe. I’m rich, if I don’t pay those to whom I’m in debt. If I do pay those to whom I’m in debt, my debts are the greatest.

> Latin: Lyco:
Beatus videor: subduxi ratiunculam,
quantum aeris mihi sit quantumque alieni siet:
dives sum, si non reddo eis quibus debeo.
[si reddo illis quibus debeo, plus alieni est.]

[¶2] But really, upon my faith, when I carefully consider, if they press me hard, I’ll resort to the Praetor. Most bankers have this habit, for one to borrow of the other, and to pay nobody, and to discharge the debt with their fists, if any one duns in a loudish tone.

> Latin: verum hercle vero cum belle recogito,
si magis me instabunt, ad praetorem sufferam.
[habent hunc morem plerique argentarii,]
[ut alius alium poscant, reddant nemini,]
[pugnis rem solvant, si quis poscat clarius.]

[¶3] The person that has in a short time acquired wealth, unless in good time he saves it, in good time comes to starvation. I’d like to buy a servant for myself, who now, however, must be sought by me on hire: there’s occasion for my ready money.
(within.)

> Latin: qui homo mature quaesivit pecuniam,
nisi eam mature parsit, mature esurit.
cupio aliquem emere puerum, qui usurarius
nunc mihi quaeratur. usus est pecunia.

[¶4] CURCULIO:
Don’t you be reminding me now I’m full; I recollect and understand.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nil tu me saturum monueris. memini et scio.

[¶5] I’ll render up to you all this cleverly carried out; do hold your peace. I’ faith, I’ve surely filled myself in-doors right well, and still in my stomach I’ve left room for one corner, in which to stow away the remnants of these remnants.
(Seeing LYCO.)

> Latin: ego hoc effectum lepide tibi tradam. tace.
edepol ne ego hic med intus explevi probe,
et quidem reliqui in ventre cellae uni locum,
ubi reliquiarum reliquias reconderem.

[¶6] Who’s this that with covered head is saluting Aesculapius? Heyday, the very man I wanted. (To an ATTENDANT.) Follow me.

> Latin: quis hic est qui operto capite Aesculapium
salutat? attat, quem quaerebam. sequere me.

[¶7] I’ll make pretence as though I didn’t know him. (Aloud.) Hark you; I want you.
LYCO: (turning round.)

> Latin: simulabo quasi non noverim. heus tu, te volo.

[¶8] One-eyed man, save you.
CURCULIO:
Prithee, do you jeer me?

> Latin: Lyco:
Vnocule, salve.
Cvrcvlio:
Quaeso, deridesne me?

[¶9] LYCO:
I suppose that you are of the family of the Coclites; for they are one-eyed.

> Latin: Lyco:
De Coclitum prosapia te esse arbitror,
nam ei sunt unoculi.

[¶10] CURCULIO:
This was knocked out for me by a catapulta,
at Sicyon.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Catapulta hoc ictum est mihi
apud Sicyonem.

[¶11] LYCO:
What matters it to me, pray, if it had been knocked out by a broken pot with cinders in it?
CURCULIO: (aside.)

> Latin: Lyco:
Nam quid id refert mea,
an aula quassa cum cinere effossus siet?

[¶12] This fellow’s a wizard, surely; he tells the truth, for such catapultas are often directed at me.
(Aloud.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Superstitiosus hic quidem est, véra praedicat;
nam illaec catapultae ád me crebro commeant.

[¶13] Young man, as I bear this mark on my face in the service of the public, prithee don’t be uncivil to me.

> Latin: adulescens, ob rem publicam hoc intus mihi
quod insigne habeo, quaeso ne me incomities.

[¶14] LYCO:
May I then inforize you, if I may not incomitiatize?

> Latin: Lyco:
Licetne ínforare, si incomitiare non licet?

[¶15] CURCULIO:
You shan’t be inforizing me, indeed; and really I don’t care at all about your Forum or your Comitia. But if you can point me out this person that I’m seeking,
you will be doing me a real and a great service. I’m looking for Lyco the banker.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Non inforabis me quidem, nec mihi placet
tuom profecto nec forum nec comitium.
sed hunc, quem quaero, commonstrare si potes,
inibis a me solidam et grandem gratiam.
Lyconem quaero tarpezitam.

[¶16] LYCO:
Tell me why you are now seeking for him, or, of what country are you?

> Latin: Lyco:
Dic mihi,
quid eum nunc quaeris? aut cuiati's cuiatis es?

[¶17] CURCULIO:
I’ll tell you: I’m come from Therapontigonus Platagidorus, the Captain.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Eloquar.
ab Therapontigono Platagidoro milite.

[¶18] LYCO:
I’ faith, I know the name: (aside) for with that same name,
when I wrote, I filled four whole sides. (To CURCULIO.) But why are you seeking for Lyco?

> Latin: Lyco:
Novi edepol nomen, nam mihi istoc nomine,
dum scribo, explevi totas ceras quattuor.
sed quid Lyconem quaeris?

[¶19] CURCULIO: (showing the letter.)
I’ve been ordered to deliver this letter to him.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Mandatumst mihi,
ut has tabellas ad eum ferrem.

[¶20] LYCO:
What person are you?

> Latin: Lyco:
Quis tu homo es?

[¶21] CURCULIO:
His freed-man, whom all call Summanus.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Libertus illius, quem omnes Summanum vocant.

[¶22] LYCO:
Summanus, my greetings. But why Summanus? Let me know.

> Latin: Lyco:
Summane, salve. qui Summanu's Summanus es? fac sciam.

[¶23] CURCULIO:
Because, when in my drunken fit I’ve gone to sleep, I “summane ” the garments; for that reason do all people call me Summanus.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quia vestimenta, ubi obdormivi ebrius,
summano, ob eam rem me omnes Summanum vocant.

[¶24] LYCO:’Twere better for you to look out for entertainment for you somewhere else; really in my own house I have no room for a Summanus. But I am the person that you are looking for.
CURCULIO:
Prithee, are you he,
Lyco the banker?

> Latin: Lyco:
Alibi te meliust quaerere hospitium tibi:
apud mé profecto nihil est Summano loci.
sed istúm quem quaeris ego sum.
Cvrcvlio:
Quaeso, tune is es,
Lyco trapezita?

[¶25] LYCO:
I am.

> Latin: Lyco:
Ego sum.

[¶26] CURCULIO:
Therapontigonus requested me to give you a hearty greeting, and to deliver this letter.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Multam me tibi
salutem iussit Therapontigonus dicere,
et has tabellas dare me iussit.

[¶27] LYCO:
What, to me?

> Latin: Lyco:
Mihin?

[¶28] CURCULIO:
Just so. Take it, recognize the seal. Do you know it? (LYCO takes the letter.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Ita.
cape, signum nosce. nostin?

[¶29] LYCO:
Why should I not know it? On which, a man, holding a shield, is cleaving an elephant asunder with a sword.

> Latin: Lyco:
Quidni noverim?
clupeatus elephantum ubi machaera dissicit.

[¶30] CURCULIO:
What’s written there he bade me request you to do immediately, if you wished for his esteem.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quod istic scriptum est, id te orare iusserat
profecto ut faceres, suam si velles gratiam.

[¶31] LYCO:
Step aside; I’ll look what’s written in it.

> Latin: Lyco:
Concede, inspiciam quid sit scriptum.

[¶32] CURCULIO: (stepping aside.)
By all means, at your pleasure, so long as I receive of you that which I’m come for.
LYCO: (reads.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Maxime,
tuo arbitratu, dum auferam abs te id quod peto.

[¶33] “Therapontigonus Platagidorus, the Captain, his guest, sends to his host Lyco, at Epidaurus,”
“right hearty greeting.”
CURCULIO: (aside.)
This fellow’s my own; he’s swallowing the hook.
LYCO: (going on.)

> Latin: Lyco:
“Miles Lyconi ín Epidauro hospiti
suo Thérapontigonus Platagidorus plurimam
salutem dicit.”
Cvrcvlio:
Meus hic est, hamum vorat.

[¶34] “I beg and request of you that, the person who delivers this letter to you, to him be given up the girl whom I purchased there (which I did there in your presence, and you being the negotiator),”
“and the golden trinkets and clothes as well. You know already how it was agreed upon. You give the money to the Procurer, and give the young woman to this person.” (To CURCULIO.) Where is he himself? Why doesn’t he come?
CURCULIO:
I’ll tell you; because it is but four days since we arrived in Caria, from India; there he now intends to order a solid golden statue
to be made of Philippean gold, which is to be seven feet high—a memorial of his exploits.

> Latin: Lyco:
“Tecum oro et quaeso, qui has tabellas adferet
tibi, ut ei detur quam istic emi virginem,
quod te praesente isti egi teque interprete,
et aurum et vestem. iam scis ut convenerit:
argentum des lenoni, is huic det virginem.”
ubi ipsus? cur non venit?
Cvrcvlio:
Ego dicam tibi:
quia nudiusquartus venimus in Cariam
ex India; ibi nunc statuam volt dare auream
solidam faciundam ex auro Philippo, quae siet
septempedalis, factis monumentum suis.

[¶35] LYCO:
For what reason this?

> Latin: Lyco:
Quam ob rem istuc?

[¶36] CURCULIO:
I’ll tell you; why, because within twenty days he singly has subdued the Persians, Paphlagonians, Sinopians, Arabians, Cretans, Syrians, Rhodia and Lycia, Peredia and Bibesia,
Centauromachia and Classia Unomammia, and all Libya, and all Conterebromia; one half even of all nations has he conquered unaided in twenty days.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Dicam. quia enim Persas, Paphlagones,
Sinopes, Arabes, Cares, Cretanos, Syros,
Rhodiam atque Lyciam, Perediam et Perbibesiam,
Centauromachiam et Classiam Vnomammiam,
† Libyamque oram omnem Conterebromniam,
dimidiam partem nationum usque omnium
subegit solus intra viginti dies.

[¶37] LYCO:
Dear me!

> Latin: Lyco:
Vah.

[¶38] CURCULIO:
Why are you surprised?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quid mirare?

[¶39] LYCO:
Why, because if all these people were penned up in a cage
as close as chickens, even so they couldn’t be encompassed in a year. Upon my faith, I do believe that you are come from him; for you do jabber such nonsense.

> Latin: Lyco:
Quia enim in cavea si forent
conclusi, ítidem ut pulli gallinacei,
ita non potuere uno anno circumirier.
credo hercle te esse ab illo, ita nugas blatis.

[¶40] CURCULIO:
Aye, and I can tell you still more, if you like.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Immo etiam porro, si vis, dicam.

[¶41] LYCO:
No; I don’t want it. Follow me this way. I’ll pay you that, on account of which you came;

> Latin: Lyco:
Nil moror.
sequere hac, te absolvam qua advenisti gratia.

[¶42] and lo, I see … (from his house.) Save you, Procurer.
CAPPADOX:
May the Gods prosper you.

> Latin: atque eccum video. leno, salve.
Cappadox:
Di te ament.

[¶43] LYCO:
Do you know what this is about which I’m come to you?

> Latin: Lyco:
Quid hoc quod ad te venio?

[¶44] CAPPADOX:
Say on what you please.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Dicas quid velis.

[¶45] LYCO:
You are to receive the money, and to send away the young woman with him. (Pointing to CURCULIO.)

> Latin: Lyco:
Argentum accipias, cum illo mittas virginem.

[¶46] CAPPADOX:
But what if I’m bound on oath to another?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quid quod iuratus sum?

[¶47] LYCO:
What matters that to you, so long as you get the money?

> Latin: Lyco:
Quid id refert tua,
dum argentum accipias?

[¶48] CAPPADOX:
He who advises is as good as an accomplice. Do you follow.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Qui monet quasi adiuvat.
sequimini.

[¶49] CURCULIO:
Procurer, take care that you don’t cause me any delay.
(They go into the house of CAPPADOX.) (Enter the CHOREGUS, as CHORUS.)
THE CHOREGUS:
By my faith, Phaedromus has cleverly met with this clever rogue; but whether a salt-water rogue or a dry-land one I’m the rather to say he is, I really don’t know. The costume that I’ve lent I fear I shan’t get back.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Leno, cave in té sit mora mihi.—
Choragvs:
Edepol nugatorem lepidum lepide hunc nactust Phaedromus.
halapantam an sycophantam mágis esse dicam nescio.
ornamenta quae locavi metuo ut possim recipere;

[¶50] Although I have nothing whatever to do with him (I trusted Phaedromus himself), still I’ll keep an eye upon him. But until he comes out of doors, I’ll point out in what place you may easily meet with each person, that he mayn’t lose his labour through too much trouble, if any one wishes to meet either a rascal or one without rascality, or an honest man or a dishonest one.

> Latin: quamquam cum istoc mihi negoti nihil est: ipsi Phaedromo
credidi; tamen asservabo. sed dum hic egreditur foras,
commonstrabo, quo in quemque hominem facile inveniatis loco,
ne nimio opere sumat operam si quem conventum velit,
vel vitiosum vel sine vitio, vel probum vel improbum.

[¶51] He who desires to meet with a perjured fellow, let him go into the courts of law; he who wants a liar and a braggart, near the rites of Cloacina. The rich and erring husbands seek you at the magisterial halls of the Basilica. There, too, will be the worn-out harlots, and those who are wont to haggle for them. Contributors to pic-nic dinners you’ll find in the fishmarket.

> Latin: qui periurum convenire volt hominem ito in comitium;
qui mendacem et gloriosum, ápud Cloacinae sacrum,
ditis damnosos maritos sub basilica quaerito.
ibidem erunt scorta exoleta quique stipulari solent,
symbolarum collatores apud forum piscarium.

[¶52] In the lower part of the Forum good men and opulent do walk; in the middle, near the canal, there are the mere puffers-off. Beyond the lake of Curtius are impudent, talkative, and malevolent fellows, who boldly, without reason, utter calumnies about another, and who, themselves, have sufficient that might with truth be said against them.

> Latin: in foro infimo boni homines atque dites ambulant,
in medio propter canalem, ibi ostentatores meri;
confidentes garrulique et malevoli supera lacum,
qui alteri de nihilo audacter dicunt contumeliam
et qui ipsi sat habent quod in se possit vere dicier.

[¶53] There, at the old shops, are these who lend and those who borrow at interest. Behind the Temple of Castor there are those to whom unguardedly you may be lending to your cost. There, in the Etrurian street, are those men who hold themselves on sale. In the Velabrum you’ll find either baker, or butcher, or soothsayer; either those who sell retail themselves, or supply to others things to be sold by retail.

> Latin: sub veteribus, ibi sunt qui dant quique accipiunt faenore.
pone aedem Castoris, ibi sunt subito quibus credas male.
in Tusco vico, ibi sunt homines qui ipsi sese venditant,
[in Velabro vel pistorem vel lanium vel haruspicem]
vel qui ipsi vorsant vel qui aliis ubi vorsentur praebeant.

[¶54] Rich sinning husbands you’ll find at the house of Oppian Leucadia. But, meantime, the door makes a noise; I must curb my tongue.
(Exit.) (Enter, from the house of CAPPADOX, CURCULIO, leading PLANESIUM, followed by LYCO and CAPPADOX.)
CURCULIO:
Maiden, do you go before; what is behind me I cannot keep my eye upon. Both the trinkets of gold, and all the clothing that she had, were his own, he said.

> Latin: [ditis damnosos maritos apud Leucadiam Oppiam.]
sed interim fores crepuere: linguae moderandum est mihi.—
Cvrcvlio:
I tú prae, virgo: nón queo quod póne me est serváre.
et aurum et vestem omnem suam esse aiebat quam haec haberet.

[¶55] CAPPADOX:
No one is going to deny it.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Nemo it infitias.

[¶56] CURCULIO:
Still, however, it’s somewhat better for me to remind you.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
At tamen meliusculum est monere.

[¶57] LYCO:
Remember that you’ve undertaken, that, if any one should assert in course of law that she’s properly free, all the money is to be returned to me-thirty minae.

> Latin: Lyco:
Memento promisisse te, si quisquam hanc liberali
causa manu assereret, mihi omne argentum redditum iri,
minas triginta.

[¶58] CAPPADOX:
I shall remember; be easy about that; and now I say the same.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Meminero, de istoc quietus esto.
et nunc idem dico.

[¶59] CURCULIO:
But I wish you to remember this well.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Et quidem meminisse ego haec volam te.

[¶60] CAPPADOX:
I remember, and I shall deliver her to you on warranty.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Memini, et mancupio tibi dabo.

[¶61] CURCULIO:
And am I to take anything on warranty from a Procurer, people who have nothing of their own except a tongue only;
who, if anything’s entrusted them, deny it upon oath? You Procurers dispose of what belongs to others, you give liberty to what belongs to others, and what belongs to others your give your commands to; no guarantee of ownership is there in the transfer to yourselves, nor are you yourselves guarantees to another person. The race of Procurers, among mortals, in my way of thinking at least,
are just like flies, gnats, bugs, lice, and fleas—a plague, a mischief, and a nuisance; you are of no serviceable use, and no respectable person dares to stand with you in the Forum; he that does associate with you, they censure him, he’s spat upon and abused; they say that he has lost his property and his honor, although he has done nothing at all.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Egon ab lenone quicquam
mancupio accipiam, quibus sui nihil est nisi una lingua,
qui abiurant si quid creditum est? alienos mancupatis,
alienos manu emittitis alienisque imperatis,
nec vobis auctor ullus est nec vosmet estis ulli.
item genus est lenonium inter homines meo quidem animo
ut muscae, culices, cimices pedesque pulicesque:
odio et malo et molestiae, bono usui estis nulli,
nec vobiscum quisquam in foro frugi consistere audet;
qui constitit, culpant eum, conspicitur vituperatur,
eum rem fidemque perdere, tam etsi nil fecit, aiunt.

[¶62] LYCO:
Upon my faith, my clever one-eyed friend, in my way of thinking, you are well acquainted with the Procurers.

> Latin: Lyco:
Edepol lenones meo animo novisti, lusce, lepide.

[¶63] CURCULIO:
You bankers, i’ faith, I put and place in the same rank; you are the very counterparts of them. They, at least, are on sale in dark corners, you in the very Forum. You tear men to pieces with usury, they by persuading them amiss and by means of their dens. Full many a proposed statute has the public confirmed on your account,
which when confirmed you break; some loophole you find out; just as boiling water becomes cold, so do you deem the laws.
LYCO: (aside.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Eodem hércle vos pono et paro: parissimi estis hibus:
hi saltem in occultis locis prostant, vos in foro ipso;
vos faenore homines, hi male suadendo et lustris lacerant.
rogitationis plurimas propter vos populus scivit,
quas vos rogatas rumpitis: aliquam reperitis rimam;
quasi aquam ferventem frigidam esse, ita vos putatis leges.

[¶64] I’d rather I’d held my tongue.
CAPPADOX:
Not wrongfully, and with good reason, are you abusive against them.

> Latin: Lyco:
Tacuisse mavellem.
Cappadox:
Hau male meditate maledicax es.

[¶65] CURCULIO:
If abuse is uttered against those who deserve it not, that I do hold to be abuse; but if it is uttered against those who are deserving, it is fair censure, in my way of thinking, at least.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Indignis si male dicitur, male dictum id esse dico,
verum si dignis dicitur, bene dictumst meo quidem animo.

[¶66] I care nothing about your warranty, nor about any other Procurer whatever. Lyco, do you want anything with me?
LYCO:
Heartily fare you well.

> Latin: ego mancupem te nil moror nec lenonem alium quemquam.
Lyco, numquid vis?
Lyco:
Bene vale.

[¶67] CURCULIO:
Farewell. (Going.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Vale.

[¶68] CAPPADOX:
Hark you! I say to you—

> Latin: Cappadox:
Heus tu, tibi ego dico.

[¶69] CURCULIO:
Say on; what do you want?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Eloquere, quid vis?

[¶70] CAPPADOX:
Prithee do you take care that all’s well with her (pointing to PLANESIUM); I’ve brought her up in my house carefully and in chastity.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quaeso, ut hanc cures, ⟨ut⟩ bene sit isti.
bene ego istam eduxi meae domi et pudice.

[¶71] CURCULIO:
If you have such compassion for her, pray, what would you give for it to be all well with her?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Si huius miseret,
ecquid das qui bene sit?

[¶72] CAPPADOX:
A plaguy mishap for yourself.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Malúm.

[¶73] CURCULIO:
You need take due care on that score about yourself.
CAPPADOX: (to PLANESIUM, who is weeping.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Opust hóc qui te procures.

[¶74] Why, simpleton, do you cry? Don’t be afraid; upon my faith, I’ve sold you favourably. Take care, will you, and be a good girl; now prettily accompany him, pretty one.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quid stulta ploras? ne time, bene hercle vendidi égo te;
fac sis bonae frugi sies, sequere istum bella belle.

[¶75] LYCO:
Summanus, do you want anything with me at present?

> Latin: Lyco:
Summane, numquid nunciam me vis?

[¶76] CURCULIO:
Fare you well, and health attend you. (Aside.) For you’ve kindly given me your services and your money.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Vale atque salve,
nam et operam et pecuniam benigne praebuisti.

[¶77] LYCO:
Give abundant greetings to my patron.

> Latin: Lyco:
Salutem multam dicito patrono.

[¶78] CURCULIO:
I’ll give them.
(Exit with PLANESIUM.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nuntiabo.—

[¶79] LYCO:
Procurer, do you wish for anything?

> Latin: Lyco:
Numquid vis, leno?

[¶80] CAPPADOX:
Give me those ten minae for me to manage for myself with, until things are better with me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Istas minas decem, qui me procurem,
dum melius sit mihi, des.

[¶81] LYCO:
They shall be paid; order them to be fetched to-morrow.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Lyco:
Dabuntur, cras peti iubeto.—

[¶82] CAPPADOX:
Since I’ve successfully finished the matter, I wish to return thanks here in the Temple. For long since, when a little girl, I bought her for ten minae; but him who sold her to me, never since then have I set eyes upon.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quando bene gessi rem, volo hic in fano supplicare.
nam illam minis olim decem puellam parvolam emi,
sed eum qui mi illam vendidit numquam postilla vidi;

[¶83] I think he’s dead. What matters that to me? I’ve got the money. The man to whom the Gods are propitious, for him, no doubt, they throw gain in his way. Now will I give my attention to my devotions; it’s clear that he has a kind regard for me.
(Goes into the Temple.) (Enter THERAPONTIGONUS. and LYCO.)
THERAPONTIGONUS:
I’m come now, inflamed with wrath in no moderate degree, but with that same with which I’ve learned to deal destruction upon cities.

> Latin: periisse credo. quíd id mea refert? ego argentum habeo.
quoi hómini di sunt propitii, lucrum ei profecto obiciunt.
nunc rei divinae operam dabo. certumst bene me curare.—
Therapontigonvs:
Nón ego nunc medíocri incedo irátus iracúndia,
sed eapse illa qua excidionem facere condidici oppidis.

[¶84] At once now, unless this moment you make haste instantly to pay me the thirty minae which I left with you, make haste to lay down your life.

> Latin: nunc nisi tu mihi propere properas dare iam triginta minas,
quas ego apud te deposivi, vitam propera ponere.

[¶85] LYCO:
By my troth, to no little mischief do I now devote you, but to that same to which I am wont to devote that man to whom I owe nothing at all.

> Latin: Lyco:
Non edepol nunc ego te mediocri macto infortunio,
sed eopse illo quo mactare soleo quoi nil debeo.

[¶86] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Don’t you be making yourself bold with me, or suppose that I shall be entreating you.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Ne te mi facias ferocem aut supplicare censeas.

[¶87] LYCO:
And you, indeed, shall never force me to pay you what has been paid, nor shall I give it you.

> Latin: Lyco:
Nec tu me quidem umquam subiges, redditum ut reddam tibi,
nec daturus súm.

[¶88] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I thought this, when I entrusted you with it, that you would repay nothing at all.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Idem ego istuc quom credebam credidi,
te nihil esse redditurum.

[¶89] LYCO:
Why then are you now asking it back of me?

> Latin: Lyco:
Quor nunc a me igitur petis?

[¶90] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I wish to know to whom you have paid it.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Scire volo quoi reddidisti.

[¶91] LYCO:
To your one-eyed freed-man; he said that he was called Summanus; I paid it to him, who brought me this sealed letter.
(Gives him the letter.)

> Latin: Lyco:
Lusco liberto tuo,
is Summanum se vocari dixit, éi reddidi.
[qui has tabellas obsignatas attulit.]

[¶92] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What letter of mine, what one-eyed freed-man, what people called Summanus are you dreaming about? I really have no freed-man at all.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
[Quas tu mihi tabellas?]
quos tu mihi luscos libertos, quos Summanos somnias?
nec mihi quidém libertus ullust.

[¶93] LYCO:
You act more wisely than a portion of the military men who have freed-men, and then forsake them.

> Latin: Lyco:
Fácis sapientius
quam pars † lenonum, libertos quí habent et eos deserunt.

[¶94] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What have you done?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid feci †

[¶95] LYCO:
What you requested me, I’ve done for your sake,
that I mightn’t slight the messenger who had brought your seal’s impression.

> Latin: Lyco:
Quod mandasti feci, túi honoris gratia,
tuom qui signum ad me attulisset, nuntium ne spernerem.

[¶96] THERAPONTIGONUS:
More fool than fool were you to give credit to this letter.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes.

[¶97] LYCO:
To that by which matters both public and private are carried on ought I not to have given credit? I’ll be off; the money has been properly paid you. Warrior, farewell.

> Latin: Lyco:
Quis res publica et privata geritur, nonne eis crederem?
ego abeo, tibi res solutast recte. bellator, vale.

[¶98] THERAPONTIGONUS:
How—farewell?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid valeam?

[¶99] LYCO:
Fare you ill then, if you choose,—aye, all your life, so far as I’m concerned. (Exit.)

> Latin: Lyco:
Aut tu aegrota aetatem, si lubet, per me quidem.—

[¶100] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What shall I do now? Of what use is it that I have caused kings to obey me, if this obscure fellow is this day to laugh at me?
(Enter CAPPADOX, from the Temple.)
CAPPADOX: (to himself.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid ego nunc faciam? quid refert me fecisse regibus
ut mi oboedirent, si hic me hodie umbraticus deriserit?

[¶101] The man to whom the Gods are propitious, they cannot, I think, be angered with him. After I ad finished my devotions, it then came into my mind, lest the banker should abscond, to go fetch the money,
that I may make good cheer rather than he.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
I had left my compliments for you at your house.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quoi homini di sunt propitii, ei non esse iratos puto.
postquam rem divinam feci, venit in mentem mihi,
ne trapezita exulatum abierit, argentum ut petam,
ut ego potius comedim quam ille.
Therapontigonvs:
Iusseram salvere te.

[¶102] CAPPADOX:
Therapontigonus Platagidorus, save you; since you are come safe to Epidaurus this day, at my house—you won’t lick up one grain of salt.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Therapontigone Platagidore, salve; salvos quom advenis
in Epidaurum, hic hodie apud me—numquam delinges salem.

[¶103] THERAPONTIGONUS:
You give me a kind invitation; things, however, are in a train for it to go badly with yourself. But how fares my purchase at your house?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Bene vocas, verum locata res est—ut male sit tibi.
sed quid agit meum mercimonium ápud te?

[¶104] CAPPADOX:
Why, not at my house at all.
Don’t be bringing your witnesses—assuredly, I don’t owe you anything.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Nil apud mé quidem,
ne facias testis, neque equidem debeo quicquam.

[¶105] THERAPONTIGONUS:
How’s that?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid est?

[¶106] CAPPADOX:
What I was bound on oath to do, I’ve done.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quod fui iuratus feci.

[¶107] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Will you give me up the girl or not, before I spit you with this sabre of mine, you whip-scoundrel?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Reddin an non virginem,
prius quam te huic meae machaerae óbicio, mastigia?

[¶108] CAPPADOX:
I bid you go to perdition with all my heart; don’t you be terrifying me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Vapulare ego te vehementer iubeo: ne me territes.

[¶109] She has been carried off; you shall be carried off hence away from me, beyond a doubt, if you persist in abusing me, to whom I owe nothing but a punishing.

> Latin: illa abductast, tu auferere hinc a me, si perges mihi
male loqui, profecto, cuí ego nisi malum nil debeo.

[¶110] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What, threaten me with a punishing?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Mihin malum minitare?

[¶111] CAPPADOX:
Aye, and by my troth, I’ll not be threatening, but I’ll give it, if you persist in being impertinent to me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Atque edepol non minitabor, sed dabo,
mihi si perges mólestus esse.

[¶112] THERAPONTIGONUS:
A Procurer, forsooth, threatening me; and are my combats in battle, so many in number, lying trodden under foot? But so may my sabre and my shield …
trustily aid me when fighting in the field; unless the girl is restored to me, I’ll at once cause the ants to carry you away piecemeal from this spot.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Leno minitatur mihi,
meaeque pugnae proeliares plurimae optritae iacent?
at ita me machaera et clupeus …
bene iuvent pugnantem in acie: nisi mi virgo redditur,
iam ego te faciam ut hic formicae frustillatim differant.

[¶113] CAPPADOX:
And so may my tweezers, my comb, my looking-glass, my crisping-iron, and my hair-scissors and scrubbing-towel love me well,
I don’t value your high-sounding words, nor these big threats of yours, a bit the more than my servant-girl that washes out my sink. I’ve given her up to him who brought the money from you.

> Latin: Cappadox:
At ita me volsellae, pecten, speculum, calamistrum meum
bene me amassint meaque axitia linteumque extersui,
ut ego tua magnifica verba néque istas tuas magnas minas
non pluris facio quam ancillam meam quae latrinam lavat.
ego illam reddidi qui argentum a te attulit.

[¶114] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What person was that?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quis is est homo?

[¶115] CAPPADOX:
He said that he was Summanus, your freed-man.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Tuom libertum ésse aiebat sese Summanum.

[¶116] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Mine? You don’t say so; i’ faith, it’s that Curculio that has put a trick upon me, when I think upon it; he stole my ring from me.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Meum?
attat, Curculio hercle verba mihi dedit, cum cogito.
is mihi anulum subripuit.

[¶117] CAPPADOX: (aside.)
The Captain has been finely appointed to a cashiered company.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Perdidistin tu anulum?
miles pulchre centuriatus est expuncto in manipulo.

[¶118] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Where now shall I find Curculio?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Vbi nunc Curculionem inveniam?

[¶119] CAPPADOX:
In some wheat with the greatest ease I’ll make you find even five hundred Curculios instead of one. Therefore I’m off; fare you well, and my service to you.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Cappadox:
In tritico facillume,
vel quingentos curculiones pro uno faxo reperias.
ego abeo, vale atque salve.—

[¶120] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Fare you ill, a plague attend you. What shall I do? Shall I stop or go away? That I should have been imposed upon in this way!

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Male vale, male sit tibi.
quid ego faciam? maneam an abeam? sicin mi esse os oblitum?

[¶121] I’d like to give a reward to him who would point out that fellow to me.
(Exit.) (Enter CURCULIO, with a ring, from the house of PHAEDROMUS.)

> Latin: cupio dare mercedem qui illunc ubi sit commonstret mihi.

[¶122] CURCULIO:
I’ve heard that an ancient Poet wrote in a Tragedy, that two women are worse than one; such is the fact. But a more crafty woman than is this mistress of Phaedromus, I never saw or heard of, nor, i’ faith, can one be spoken of or imagined;
she, as soon as ever she saw that I had got this ring, asked me whence I got it. “Why do you ask that?” said I. “Because I’ve need to know,” said she. I said I wouldn’t tell her. To get it away, she seized hold of my hand with her teeth. With much ado I betook me out of doors, and made my escape. Away with this slut.
(Enter PLANESIUM, followed by PHAEDROMUS, from his house.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Antiquom poëtam audivi scripsisse in tragoedia,
mulieres duas peiores esse quam unam. res itast.
verum mulierem peiorem quam haec amica est Phaedromi
non vidi aut audivi, neque pol dici nec fingi potest
peior quam haec est: quae ubi me habere hunc conspicatast anulum,
rogat unde habeam. “quid id tu quaeris?” “quia mi quaesitost opus.”
nego me dicere. ut eum eriperet, manum arripuit mordicus.
vix foras me abripui atque effugi. apage istanc canículam.

[¶123] PLANESIUM:
My Phaedromus, make haste.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Phaedrome, propera.

[¶124] PHAEDROMUS:
Make haste for what?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid properem?

[¶125] PLANESIUM:
That you mayn’t let the Parasite escape;

> Latin: Planesivm:
Parasitum ne amiseris.

[¶126] the affair’s of consequence.
PHAEDROMUS:
Nothing have I of consequence; for what I did have I quickly made away with?
(Seizes CURCULIO.)

> Latin: magna res est.
Phaedromvs:
Nulla est mihi, nam quam habui absumpsi celeriter.

[¶127] I’ve got him;
what’s the matter?
PLANESIUM:
Ask him whence he got that ring: my father used to wear it.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Teneo.
Phaedromvs:
Quid negotist?
Planesivm:
Rogita unde istunc habeat anulum.
pater istum meus gestitavit …

[¶128] CURCULIO:
Why, troth, and so did my aunt.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
At mea matertera.

[¶129] PLANESIUM:
My mother gave it him to wear.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Mater ei utendum dederat.

[¶130] CURCULIO:
And your father, in his turn, to me.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Pater † uois rusum tibi.

[¶131] PLANESIUM:
You are talking nonsense.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Nugas garris.

[¶132] CURCULIO:
I’m in the habit; for by reason of it I make a livelihood the more easily. What is the matter now?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Soleo, nam propter eas vivo facilius.

[¶133] PLANESIUM:
I entreat you, don’t be keeping me from finding my parents.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Quid nunc? obsecro, parentes ne meos mihi prohibeas.

[¶134] CURCULIO:
How can I? Have I got your father and mother hidden beneath the stone? (Holding up the ring.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quid ego? sub gemmane abstrusos habeo tuam matrem et patrem?

[¶135] PLANESIUM:
I was born a free woman.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Libera ego sum nata.

[¶136] CURCULIO:
And so were many others, who are now in servitude.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Et alii multi qui nunc serviunt.

[¶137] PLANESIUM:
Really now, I’m vexed.
CURCULIO:
For my part, I’ve told you how this came into my possession. How often must you be told? I cheated the Captain at dice, I tell you.
(THERAPONTIGONUS.)
THERAPONTIGONUS: (eyeing CURCULIO.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Enim vero irascor.
Cvrcvlio:
Dixi equidem tibi, unde ad me hic pervenerit.
quotiens dicendum est? elusi militem, inquam, in alea.

[¶138] I’m all right; see, here he is whom I was looking for. How do you do, good sir?
CURCULIO:
I hear you; three casts of the dice, if you like, even for that scarf of yours.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Salvos sum, eccum quem quaerebam. quid agis, bone vir?
Cvrcvlio:
Audio.
si vis tribus bolis, vel in chlamydem.

[¶139] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Why don’t you go to very perdition, with your casts and catch-pennies? Either give me back the money or the young woman?
CURCULIO: (with an air of surprise.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quin tu is in malam crucem
cum bolis, cum bulbis? redde mihi iam argentum aut virginem.

[¶140] What money? what rubbish are you talking about to me? What young woman are you demanding back of me?
THERAPONTIGONUS:
The one that you took away this day from the Procurer, you scoundrelly fellow.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quod argentum, quas tu mihi tricas narras? quam tu virginem
me reposcis?
Therapontigonvs:
Quam ab lenone ábduxti hodie, scelus viri.

[¶141] CURCULIO:
I took none away.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nullam abduxi.

[¶142] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Why, surely, I see her. There she is. (Pointing to PLANESIUM.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Certe eccistam video.

[¶143] PHAEDROMUS:
This young woman is free.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Virgo haec libera est.

[¶144] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What, my female slave free, to whom I have never given her liberty?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Mean ancilla libera ut sit, quam ego numquam emisi manu?

[¶145] PHAEDROMUS:
Who gave you possession of her, or of whom did you buy her? Let me know that?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quis tibi hanc dedit mancipio? aut unde emisti? fac sciam.

[¶146] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Why, I paid the money for her through my banker—a sum which I’ll have refunded to me fourfold by you and the Procurer.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Ego quidem pro istac rem solvi áb trapezita meo.
quam ego pecuniam quadruplicem ábs te et lenone auferam.

[¶147] PHAEDROMUS:
You, who understand how to traffic in young women, kidnapped and of free birth, come you before the judge.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Qui scis mercari furtivas atque ingenuas virgines,
ambula in ius.

[¶148] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I shan’t come.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Non eo.

[¶149] PHAEDROMUS:
I may call my witness to the summons.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Licet [te] antestari?

[¶150] THERAPONTIGONUS:
No, you mayn’t.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Non licet.

[¶151] PHAEDROMUS:
May Jupiter then utterly confound you: live without witnesses then.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Iuppiter te, miles, perdat, intestatus vivito;

[¶152] CURCULIO:
But I’m a person that he may summon.
PHAEDROMUS: (to CURCULIO.)
Do you step this way.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
What? A slave summoned as a witness?
Take you care.

> Latin: at ego, quem licet, te. accede huc.
Therapontigonvs:
Servom antestari?

[¶153] CURCULIO:
Well, that you may know it, I’m free.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Vide.
em ut scias me liberum esse. ergo ambula in ius.

[¶154] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Then come before the judge.
There’s for you: take that.
(Gives him a blow.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Em tibi.

[¶155] CURCULIO:
O townsmen, townsmen, help.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
O cives, cives.

[¶156] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Why do you bawl so?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid clamas?

[¶157] PHAEDROMUS:
What right have you to strike him?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quid tibi istum tactio est?

[¶158] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Because I choose.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quia mihi lubitum est.

[¶159] PHAEDROMUS: (to CURCULIO.)
Step this way you (pushes him towards the CAPTAIN); there, I’ll give him up to you. Hold your noise.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Accede huc tu, ego illum tibi dedam, tace.

[¶160] CURCULIO:
Phaedromus, prithee do save me.
PHAEDROMUS:
As I would myself and my own good Genius. Captain, prithee, do tell me whence you got that ring,
which this Parasite purloined from you.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Phaedrome, obsecro serva me.
Phaedromvs:
Tamquam me et genium meum.
miles, quaeso ⟨te⟩ ut mihi dicas unde illum habeas anulum,
quem parasitus hic te elusit.

[¶161] PLANESIUM: (kneeling before the CAPTAIN.)
By your knees, I do entreat you to give us that information.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Per tua genua te obsecro,
ut nos facias certiores.

[¶162] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What matters that to you? You might as well ask after this sabre and this scarf, how each came into my possession.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid istuc ad vos attinet?
quaeratis chlamydem et machaeram hanc unde ad me pervenerit.

[¶163] CURCULIO:
What airs the swaggerer does give himself!

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Vt fastidit gloriosus.

[¶164] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Send that fellow away (pointing to CURCULIO); then I’ll tell you all.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Mitte istum, ego dicam omnia.

[¶165] CURCULIO:
It’s nonsense what he says.
PHAEDROMUS:
Prithee, do let me know.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Nihil est quod ille dicit.
Planesivm:
Fac me certiorem, óbsecro.

[¶166] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I’ll tell you: (to PLANESIUM) get up. Listen to this matter, and give attention. My father Periphanes used to wear it.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Ego dícam, surge. hanc rem ágite atque animum advórtite.
pater meus habuit Periplanes †Planesium
is prius quam moritur mihi dedit tamquam suo,
ut aequom fuerat, filio.

[¶167] PLANESIUM:
Ha! Periphanes?
THERAPONTIGONUS:
He, before he died, gave it to me as being his son, as it was right he should.
PLANESIUM:
O Jupiter!

> Latin: Planesivm:
Pro Iuppiter.

[¶168] THERAPONTIGONUS:
And on that occasion he made me his heir.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Et istó me heredem fecit.

[¶169] PLANESIUM:
O filial affection, do thou preserve me, since I have carefully preserved thee. Welcome, my brother.

> Latin: Planesivm:
⟨O⟩ Pietas mea,
serva me, quando ego te servavi sedulo.
frater mi, salve.

[¶170] THERAPONTIGONUS:
How am I to believe that? Tell me, if you are speaking the truth, who was your mother?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Qui credam ego istuc? cedo,
si vera memoras, quae fuit mater tua?

[¶171] PLANESIUM:
Cleobula.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Cleobula.

[¶172] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Who was your nurse?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Nutrix quae fuit?

[¶173] PLANESIUM:
Archestrata.
Amid the sacred rites of Bacchus she had carried me to see the sights … after we had come thither, when now she had found me a place, a whirlwind arose; the scaffolding of the stage there tumbled down; I was greatly alarmed, and then some one, I know not who, seized hold of me trembling and frightened, neither alive nor dead;

> Latin: Planesivm:
Archestrata.
ea me spectatum tulerat per Dionysia.
postquam illo ventum est, iam, ut me collocaverat,
exoritur ventus turbo, spectacla ibi ruont,
ego pertimesco: [tum] ibi mé nescio quis arripit
timidam atque pavidam, nec vivam nec mortuam.

[¶174] and in what manner he carried me off I cannot say.

> Latin: nec quo me pacto abstulerit possum dicere.

[¶175] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I recollect that disturbance happening; but, do you tell me, where is this person, who carried you away?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Memini istanc turbam fieri. sed tu dic mihi,
ubi is est homó qui te surripuit?

[¶176] PLANESIUM:
I know not; but (showing a ring) this ring I have all along preserved by me, with it long since was I lost.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Nescio.
verum hunc servavi semper mecum una anulum;
cum hoc olim perii.

[¶177] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Give it me to look at.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Cedo, ut inspiciam.

[¶178] CURCULIO: (to PLANESIUM.)
Are you in your senses to be trusting it to that fellow?
(Holds her arm.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Sanan es,
quae isti committas?

[¶179] PLANESIUM:
Do you only leave me alone.
(She gives it to the CAPTAIN.)

> Latin: Planesivm:
Sine modo.

[¶180] THERAPONTIGONUS: (examining it.)
O Jupiter! This is the same that I presented you upon your birthday; I recognize it as easily as my own self. Welcome to you, my sister.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Pro Iuppiter,
hic est quem egó tibi misi natali die.
tam facile novi quam me. salve, mea soror.

[¶181] PLANESIUM:
My brother, welcome to you.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Frater mi, salve.

[¶182] PHAEDROMUS:
I trust the Gods will prosper this matter for you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Deos volo bene vortere
istam rem vobis.

[¶183] CURCULIO:
And I, for all of us.
(To the CAPTAIN.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Et ego nobis omnibus:

[¶184] Do you, as having this day arrived, give a dinner in honor of your sister he (pointing to PHAEDROMUS), to-morrow, will give one in honor of his marriage; we promise that.
PHAEDROMUS: (to CURCULIO.)

> Latin: tu ut hodie adveniens cenam des sororiam,
hic nuptialem cras dabit. promittimus.

[¶185] Do you hold your tongue.
CURCULIO:
I shan’t hold my tongue, as things are turning out so well. Captain, do you promise her to him; I’ll give the marriage-portion.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Tace tú.
Cvrcvlio:
Non taceo, quando res vortit bene.
tu istanc desponde huic, miles. ego dotem dabo.

[¶186] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What is the marriage-portion?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid dotis?

[¶187] CURCULIO:
What, that I give? Why, that always as long as he lives he’s to feed me.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Egone? ut semper, dum vivat, me alat.

[¶188] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I’ troth, he says what’s fair;
with my consent you shall do so.

> Latin: verum hercle dico.
Therapontigonvs:
Me lubente feceris.

[¶189] But this Procurer owes me the thirty minae.

> Latin: sed leno hic debet nobis triginta minas.

[¶190] PHAEDROMUS:
For what reason so?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Quam ob rem istuc?

[¶191] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Because he agreed with me on these terms to give it back: that if any one should assert her to be free born in due course of law, he would, without dispute, pay back all the money.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quia ille íta repromisit mihi:
si quisquam hanc liberali asseruisset manu,
sine controversia omne argentum reddere.

[¶192] CURCULIO:
Then let’s go to the Procurer.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
I agree.

> Latin: nunc eamus ad lenonem.
Cvrcvlio:
Laudo.

[¶193] PHAEDROMUS:
This first I wish; to despatch my matter.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Hoc prius volo,
meam rem ágere.

[¶194] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What’s that?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid id est?

[¶195] PHAEDROMUS:
That you will betroth her to me.
(The CAPTAIN considers.)

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Vt mihi hanc despondeas.

[¶196] CURCULIO:
Why do you hesitate, Captain, to give her as a wife to him?

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Quid cessas, miles, hanc huic uxorem dare?

[¶197] THERAPONTIGONUS:
If she is agreable.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Si haec volt.

[¶198] PLANESIUM:
My brother, it is my wish.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Mi frater, cupio.

[¶199] THERAPONTIGONUS:
So be it then.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Fiat.

[¶200] CURCULIO:
You do rightly.

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Bene facis.

[¶201] PHAEDROMUS:
Captain, do you betroth me to her for my wife?

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Spondesne, miles, mi hanc uxorem?

[¶202] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I do betroth her.
PHAEDROMUS: (pointing to CURCULIO.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Spondeo.

[¶203] And to him do I promise support at my expense.
CURCULIO:
You do kindly. But …
THER,:
… But see, here’s the Procurer coming; my treasurer, I mean.
(Enter CAPPADOX, in haste.)
CAPPADOX: (to himself.)

> Latin: Cvrcvlio:
Et ego hoc idem una spondeo.
Therapontigonvs:
Lepide facis.
sed eccúm lenonem, incedit, thensaurum meum.

[¶204] Those who say it’s bad for bankers to be trusted, utter nonsense;

> Latin: Cappadox:
Argentariis male credi qui aiunt, nugas praedicant:

[¶205] I say it’s neither good nor bad for them to be trusted, and that, I’ve fully experienced this day. They are not badly trusted, who never repay, but with whom it is lost outright. As for example, before this Lyco paid me the ten minae, he had to go to every banker’s counter. After there were no proceeds, I summoned the fellow with much noise; he appealed against me to the court. I was most confoundedly afraid that this day he’d be settling accounts with me before the Praetor;

> Latin: nam et bene et male credi dico; id adeo ego hodie expertus sum.
non male creditur qui numquam reddunt, sed prorsum perit.
vel ille, décem minas dum solvit, omnis mensas transiit.
postquam nil fit, clamore hominem posco: ille in ius me vocat;
pessume metui, ne mihi hodie ápud praetorem solveret.

[¶206] but my friends forced him, so he paid the money at home. Now I’m resolved to make haste to my house.
(Runs towards his door.)
THERAPONTIGONUS:
Hallo! you Procurer; I want you.

> Latin: verum amici compulerunt: reddit argentum domo.
nunc domum properare certumst.
Therapontigonvs:
Heus tu, leno, te volo.

[¶207] PHAEDROMUS:
And I want you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Et ego te volo.

[¶208] CAPPADOX:
But I don’t want either of you.

> Latin: Cappadox:
At ego vos nolo ambos.

[¶209] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Stay this instant, will you.
PHAEDROMUS:
And make you haste to disgorge the money with all despatch.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Sta sis ilico,
atque argentum propere propera vomere.

[¶210] CAPPADOX: (to PHAEDROMUS.)
What have you to do with me? (To the CAPTAIN.) Or what have you?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quid mecum est tibi?
aut tibi?

[¶211] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Because this day I shall be making a javelin of you, discharged from a catapulta,
and twist you with the string, just as the catapultas are in the habit of doing.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quía ego ex te hódie faciam pilum catapultarium
atque ita te nervo torquebo, ítidem ut catapultae solent.

[¶212] PHAEDROMUS:
I’ll this day make a coxcomb of you, to be sleeping with a puppy in your bed—an iron one, I mean.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Delicatum te hodie faciam, cum catello ut accubes,
ferreo ego dico.

[¶213] CAPPADOX:
But I’ll make you both to be rotting in a strong-barred prison.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
Seize him by the throat, and away with him to extreme torture.

> Latin: Cappadox:
At ego vos ambo in robusto carcere
ut pereatis.
Phaedromvs:
Collum obstringe, abduce istum in malam crucem.

[¶214] PHAEDROMUS:
However that is, he’ll be going there of his own accord.
(The CAPTAIN seizes him.)
CAPPADOX:
O Gods and men, your aid!
that I, uncondemned, and without evidence against me, should thus be dragged along! Prithee, Planesium, and you, Phaedromus, do give me assistance.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quidquid est, ipse ibit potius.
Cappadox:
Pro deum atque hominum fidem,
hocine pacto indemnatum atque intestatum me abripi?
obsecro, Planesium, et te, Phaedrome, auxilium ut feras.

[¶215] PLANESIUM:
Brother, I do beseech you, don’t ruin him uncondemned; he treated me kindly and modestly at his house.

> Latin: Planesivm:
Frater, obsecro te, noli hunc condemnatum perdere.
bene et pudice me domi habuit.

[¶216] THERAPONTIGONUS:
That was through no inclination of his own; give you thanks to this Aesculapius (pointing to the Temple) that you’ve preserved your chastity;

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Haud voluntate id sua:
Aesculapio huic habeto, quom pudica es, gratiam;

[¶217] for if he had been well, he’d long ago have packed you off wherever he could.

> Latin: nam si valuisset, iam pridem quoquo posset mitteret.

[¶218] PHAEDROMUS:
Now attend to me, both of you, if I can arrange between you. (To the CAPTAIN.) You let him go. Procurer, come you this way. I’ll pronounce my opinion, if indeed you are ready to abide by what I shall decide you should do.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Animum advortite, ⟨ego⟩ si possum hoc inter vos componere.
mitte istunc. accede huc, leno. dicam meam sententiam,
siquidem voltis quod decrero facere.

[¶219] THERAPONTIGONUS:
We leave it to you.
(He lets go of the PROCURER.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Tibi permittimus:

[¶220] CAPPADOX:
So long, i’ faith, as you give a decision to the effect that no one is to take the money away from me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Dum quidem hercle ita iudices, ne quisquam a me argentum auferat.

[¶221] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What, not that which you promised?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quódne promisti?

[¶222] CAPPADOX:
I, promised? How?
THERAPONTIGONUS:
With your tongue.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Qui promisi?
Phaedromvs:
Lingua.

[¶223] CAPPADOX:
With that same tongue I now gainsay it; that was given me by Nature for the purpose of speaking, not of losing my property.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Eadem nunc nego.
dicendi, non rem perdendi gratia haec nata est mihi.

[¶224] THERAPONTIGONUS:
He’s trifling; seize the fellow by the throat.
(Seizes him.)
CAPPADOX:
I’ll at once then do as you bid me.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Nihil agit, collum obstringe homini.
Cappadox:
Iam iam faciam ut iusseris.

[¶225] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Since you are an honest man, answer me this that I ask you.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quando vir bonus es, responde quod rogo.

[¶226] CAPPADOX:
Ask me what you please.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Roga quód lubet.

[¶227] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Did you not promise, that if any one should show that she (pointing to PLANESIUM) was freeborn,
you would pay back all the money?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Promistin, si liberali quisquam hanc assereret manu,
te omne argentum redditurum?

[¶228] CAPPADOX:
I don’t remember saying so.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Non commemini dicere.

[¶229] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What, do you deny it?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid? negas?

[¶230] CAPPADOX:
I’ faith, I really do deny it. In whose presence? In what place was it?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Nego hercle vero. quo praesente? quo in loco?

[¶231] THERAPONTIGONUS:
In my own presence, and that of Lyco the banker.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Me ipso praesente et Lycone tarpezita.

[¶232] CAPPADOX:
Why don’t you hold your tongue?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Non taces?

[¶233] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I shan’t hold my tongue.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Non taceo.

[¶234] CAPPADOX:
I don’t care a rush for you; don’t be bullying me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Non ego te flocci facio; ne me territes.

[¶235] THERAPONTIGONUS:
In my own presence and that of Lyco it took place.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Me ipso praesente et Lycone factum est.

[¶236] PHAEDROMUS: (to the CAPTAIN.)
I quite believe you.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Satis credo tibi.

[¶237] Now, therefore, Procurer, that you may know my judgment, (pointing to PLANESIUM) she is a free woman; he (pointing to the CAPTAIN) is her brother, and she is his sister; she is engaged to me; do you restore him the money; that’s my decision.

> Latin: nunc adeo, ut tu scire possis, leno, meam sententiam:
libera haec est, hic huius frater est, haec autem illius soror, †
haec mihi nubet: tu huic argentum redde. hoc iudicium meum est.
Therapontigonvs:
Tu autem in nervo iam iacebis, nisi mi argentum redditur.

[¶238] CAPPADOX:
Upon my faith, Phaedromus, you have given this decision corruptly.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Hercle istam rem iudicasti perfidiose, Phaedrome.

[¶239] It shall both be bad for you, and you, Captain,—may the Gods and Goddesses confound you.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
And as for you, you shall be clapt in prison at once, unless the money’s returned me.

> Latin: et tibi oberit et te, miles, di deaeque perduint.
tu me sequere.
Therapontigonvs:
Quo sequar te?

[¶240] CAPPADOX:
Then follow me.
THERAPONTIGONUS:
Follow you where?
CAPPADOX:
To my banker—to the Praetor; for it’s there that I pay my money to all persons to whom I’m indebted.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Ad trapezitam meum
ad praetorem. nam inde rem solvo omnibus quibus debeo.

[¶241] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I’ll be carrying you hence to prison, and not to the Praetor, if you don’t pay back the money.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Ego te in nervom, haud ad praetorem hinc rapiam, ni argentum refers.

[¶242] CAPPADOX:
I do most earnestly wish you may come to a bad end, so don’t misunderstand me.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Ego te vehementer perire cupio, ne tu [me] nescias.

[¶243] THERAPONTIGONUS:
Do you really so?

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Itane vero?

[¶244] CAPPADOX:
I’ faith, I really do so.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Ita hercle vero.

[¶245] THERAPONTIGONUS:
I don’t misunderstand these fists of mine.
(Holding them up.)

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Novi ego hos pugnos meos.

[¶246] CAPPADOX:
What then?

> Latin: Cappadox:
Quid tum?

[¶247] THERAPONTIGONUS:
What then, do you ask? With these same fists, if you provoke me, I’ll be making you quiet immediately.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quid tum, rogitas? hisce ego, si tu me irritaveris,
placidum te hodie reddam.

[¶248] CAPPADOX: (taking the money from his girdle.)
Well then, take this back at once.

> Latin: Cappadox:
Age ergo, recipe áctutum.

[¶249] THERAPONTIGONUS: (taking the money.)
By all means.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Licet.

[¶250] PHAEDROMUS:
Captain, you’ll dine with me; the nuptials shall take place to-day.

> Latin: Phaedromvs:
Tu, miles, apud me cenabis. hodie fient nuptiae.

[¶251] THERAPONTIGONUS:
May this matter turn out well for me and for yourselves.
An ACTOR.:
Spectators, give us your applause.

> Latin: Therapontigonvs:
Quae res bene vortat mi et vobis. spectatores, plaudite.