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?
Palinvrvs:Quo ted hoc noctis dicam proficisci forasCum istoc ornatu cumque hac pompa, Phaedrome?
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.
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.
PALINURUS:But pray, pray—
Palinvrvs:At tandem, tandem—
PHAEDROMUS:Pray — you are annoying to me.
Phaedromvs:Tandem es odiosus mihi.
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.
Palinvrvs:Istuc quidem nec bellum est nec memorabile:tute tibi puer es, lautus luces cereum.
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?
Phaedromvs:Egon apicularum congestum opera non feram,ex dulci oriundum melculo dulci meo?
PALINURUS:But whither must I say that you are going?
Palinvrvs:Nam quo te dicam ego ire?
PHAEDROMUS:If you ask me that, I’ll tell, so that you may know.
Phaedromvs:Si tu me roges,dicam ut scias.
PALINURUS:If I make the enquiry, what would you answer me?
Palinvrvs:Si rogitem, quid respondeas?
PHAEDROMUS:This is the Temple (pointing to it) of Aesculapius.
Phaedromvs:Hoc Aesculapi fanum est.
PALINURUS:That I have known for more than a twelvemonth past.
Palinvrvs:Plus iam anno scio.
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?
Phaedromvs:Huic proxumum illud ostiumst oculissimum.salve, valuistin?
PALINURUS:Did a fever leave you but yesterday, or the day before, and did you take your dinner yesterday?
Palinvrvs:Ostium occlusissimum,caruitne febris te herí vel nudiustertiuset heri cenavistine?
PHAEDROMUS:Are you laughing at me?
Phaedromvs:Deridesne me?
PALINURUS:Why then, madman, are you enquiring whether the door is well or not?
Palinvrvs:Quid tu ergo, insane, rogitas valeatne ostium?
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.
Phaedromvs:Bellissimum hercle vidi et taciturnissimum,numquam ullum verbum muttit: cum aperitur tacet,cum ílla noctu clanculum ad me exit, tacet.
PALINURUS:And are you not, Phaedromus, doing, or contemplating the doing of, some deed which is unworthy of yourself or of your family?
Palinvrvs:Numquid tu quod te aut genere indignum sit tuofacis aut inceptas facinus facere, Phaedrome?
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.
num tu pudicae cuipiam insidias locasaut quam pudicam ésse oportet?Phaedromvs:Nemini,nec me ille sirit Iuppiter.
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.
Palinvrvs:Ego item volo.ita tuom conferto amare semper, si sapis,ne id quod ames populus si sciat, tibi sit probro.
Ever do you take care that you be not disgraced.
semper curato ne sis intestabilis.
PHAEDROMUS:What means that expression?
Phaedromvs:Quid istúc est verbi?
PALINURUS:For you to proceed with caution on your path; the object that you love, love in the presence of witnesses.
Palinvrvs:Caute ut incedas via:quod amas amato testibus praesentibus.
PHAEDROMUS:Why,’tis a Procurer that lives here.(He points.)
Phaedromvs:Quin leno hic habitat.
PALINURUS:No one drives you away from there, nor yet forbids you, if you have the money, to buy what’s openly on sale.
Palinvrvs:Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat,quin quod palam est venale, si argentum est, emas.
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.
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.
PHAEDROMUS:This is the house of a Procurer.
Phaedromvs:Lenonis hae sunt aedes.
PALINURUS:A curse befall it.
Palinvrvs:Male istis evenat.
PHAEDROMUS:Why so?
Phaedromvs:Qui?
PALINURUS:Because it serves in an infamous service.
Palinvrvs:Quia scelestam servitutem serviunt.
PHAEDROMUS:You speak out.
Phaedromvs:Obloquere.
PALINURUS:Be it so, most especially.
Palinvrvs:Fiat maxume.
PHAEDROMUS:Once more, will you hold your tongue?
Phaedromvs:Etiam taces?
PALINURUS:You bade me speak out, I thought.
Palinvrvs:Nempe obloqui me iusseras.
PHAEDROMUS:Then, now I forbid you. But, as I had begun to say, he has a young female slave—
Phaedromvs:At nunc veto.sed ita uti occepi dicere: ei ancillula est.
PALINURUS:This Procurer, you mean, who’s living here?
Palinvrvs:Nempe huic lenoni qui hic habitat?
PHAEDROMUS:You have hold of it exactly.
Phaedromvs:Recte tenes.
PALINURUS:The less shall I be in dread of its falling.
Palinvrvs:Minus fórmidabo, ne excidat.
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.
Phaedromvs:Odiosus es.eam vólt meretricem facere. éa me deperit,ego autem cum illa facere nolo mutuom.
PALINURUS:Why so?
Palinvrvs:Quid ita?
PHAEDROMUS:Because I’m for having her as my own; I love her equally as well.
Phaedromvs:Quia proprium facio: amo pariter simul.
PALINURUS:Clandestine courtship is bad;’tis utter ruin.
Palinvrvs:Malus clándestinus est amor, damnumst merum.
PHAEDROMUS:I’ troth,’tis so as you say.
Phaedromvs:Est hercle ita ut tu dicis.
PALINURUS:Has she as yet submitted to the yoke of Venus?
Palinvrvs:Iamne ea fert iugum?
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.
Phaedromvs:Tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisisi est osculando quippiam impudicior.
PALINURUS:Always, do you understand, flame follows very close on smoke; with smoke, nothing can be burnt, with flame, it can.
Palinvrvs:Semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxima;fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest.
He who wishes to eat the kernel of the nut, first breaks the nut; he who wishes to seduce, opens the dance with kisses.
qui é nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem:qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.
PHAEDROMUS:But she is chaste, and never yet has bestowed her favours upon man.
Phaedromvs:At illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris.
PALINURUS:That I could believe, if any Procurer had any shame.
Palinvrvs:Credam, pudor si cuiquam lenoni siet.
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.
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 incubatin Aesculapi fano, is me excruciat.
PALINURUS:How so?
Palinvrvs:Quid est?
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.
Phaedromvs:Alias me poscit pro illa triginta minas,alias talentum magnum; neque quicquam queoaequi bonique ab eo impetrare.
PALINURUS:You are too exacting, in requiring that of him which no Procurer possesses.
Palinvrvs:Iniuriu's iniurius es,qui quod lenoni nulli est id ab eo petas.
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.
Phaedromvs:Nunc hinc parasitum in Cariam misi meumpetitum argentum a meo sodali mutuom.quod si non affert, quo me vortam nescio.
PALINURUS:If you salute the Deities, towards the right I think; now this is this altar of Venus before their door.
Palinvrvs:Si deos salutas, dextrovorsum censeo.
PHAEDROMUS:I have already vowed to bring me an early breakfast for my Venus.
Phaedromvs:Nunc ara Veneris haec est ante horunc fores;me inferre Veneri vovi ieientaculum.
PALINURUS:What? Will you then be giving up yourself as a breakfast to Venus?
Palinvrvs:Quid? tu te pones Veneri ieientaculo?
PHAEDROMUS:Myself, and you, and all of these.(Pointing to the SLAVES.)
Phaedromvs:Me, te atque hosce omnis.
PALINURUS:Then you would have Venus to be sick outright.PHAEDROMUS: (to an ATTENDANT.)
Palinvrvs:Tum tu Venerem vomere vis.
Here, boy, give me the bowl.PALINURUS:What are you going to do?
Phaedromvs:Cedo, puere, sinum.Palinvrvs:Quid facturu's facturus es?
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.”
Phaedromvs:Iam scies.anus hic solet cubitare custos ianitrix,nomen Leaenae est, multibiba atque merobiba.
PALINURUS:Just as you would speak of a flagon, in which Chian wine is wont to be.
Palinvrvs:Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi vinum Chiumsolet ésse.
PHAEDROMUS:What need is there of words? She is a most vinous soul;
Phaedromvs:Quid opust verbis? vinosissima est;
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.
eaque extemplo ubi ⟨ego⟩ vino has conspersi fores,de odore adesse me scit, aperit ilico.
PALINURUS:Is it for her the bowl is brought with the wine?
Palinvrvs:Eine hic cum vino sinus fertur?
PHAEDROMUS:Unless you object.
Phaedromvs:Nisi nevis.
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.
Palinvrvs:Nolo hercle, nam istunc qui fert afflictum velim;ego nobis afferri cénsui.
PHAEDROMUS:Why don’t you hold your tongue?
Phaedromvs:Quin tu taces?
If any’s left after her, it will be enough for ourselves.
si quid super illi fuerit, id nobis sat est.
PALINURUS:What river is it, pray, that the sea does not receive?
Palinvrvs:Quisnam istic fluviust, quem non recipiat mare?
PHAEDROMUS:Follow me this way, Palinurus, to the door; do you be obedient to me.
Phaedromvs:Sequere hac, Palinure, me ad fores, fi mi obsequens.
PALINURUS:I’ll do so.(They advance to the door of the PROCURER’S house.)
Palinvrvs:Ita faciam.
PHAEDROMUS: (sprinkling the door with wine.)Come, drink, you joyous door, quaff on, readily prove propitious unto me.PALINURUS: (in an afected tone.)
Phaedromvs:Agite bibite, festivae fores;potate, fite mihi volentes propitiae.
Door, would you like some olives or a tit-bit, or some capers?
Palinvrvs:Voltisne olivas [aut] pulpamentum [aut] capparim?
PHAEDROMUS:Arouse and send out here to me your portress.
Phaedromvs:Exsuscitate vostram huc custodem mihi.
PALINURUS:You’re spilling the wine; what matter is it that possesses you? (Takes hold of his arm.)
Palinvrvs:Profundis vinum: quae te res agitant?
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.
Phaedromvs:Sine.viden út aperiuntur aedes festivissumae?num muttit cardo? est lepidus.
PALINURUS:Why don’t you then give it a kiss?
Palinvrvs:Quin das savium?
PHAEDROMUS:Hold your tongue; let’s keep back the light and our noise.
Phaedromvs:Tace, occultemus lumen et vocem.
PALINURUS:Be it so.(They stand apart, leaving the bowl near the door.) (Enter the PROCURESS, from the house of CAPPADOX.)
Palinvrvs:Licet.
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;
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.
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.)
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 expetotangere, invergere in me liquores tuos,sine, ductim. sed hac abiit, hac persequar.
This old lady’s thirsty;how limited is her thirst?PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)She’s a moderate person; she swallows eight gallons only.
Phaedromvs:Sitit haéc anus.
PALINURUS: (apart.)
Palinvrvs:Quantillúm sitit?Phaedromvs:Modica ést, capit quadrántal.
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.
Palinvrvs:Pol ut praédicas, vindémia [haec] huic ánui non sat est sóli.canem esse hánc quidem magis pár fuit: sagax násum habet.
PROCURESS:Prithee, whose voice is it that I hear at a distance.
Leaena:Amábo,cúia vox sonát procul?
PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)I think that this old hag should be accosted. I’ll approach her. (Aloud.) Come back, Procuress, and look back towards me.
Phaedromvs:Cénseo hanc áppellandam anum.adíbo. redi ét respice ád me, Leaéna.
PROCURESS:Who is it that gives his commands?
Leaena:Imperatór quis est?
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.
Phaedromvs:Vínipollens lépidus Liber,tibí qui screánti, siccaé, semisómnaeadfért potiónem et sitím ⟨iam⟩ sedátum it.
PROCURESS:How far is he away from me?
Leaena:Quám longe a me abest?
PHAEDROMUS: (holding up the torch.)See this light.
Phaedromvs:Lúmen hoc vide.
PROCURESS:Then, prithee, do quicken your pace towards me.
Leaena:Grándiorém gradum ergó fac ad me, óbsecro.
PHAEDROMUS:Health to you.
Phaedromvs:Sálve.
PROCURESS:How can I have health, who am parched with thirst?
Leaena:Egon sálva sim, quaé siti sícca sum?
PHAEDROMUS:But you shall drink in a moment.PROCURESS:’Tis long a-coming.PHAEDROMUS: (extending the bowl.)
Phaedromvs:At iám bibes.Leaena:Diu fit.
Here’s for you, jolly old dame.PROCURESS:Health to you, gentleman dear as my very eyes.
Phaedromvs:Ém tibi anus lepida.Leaena:Sálve, oculissime homo.
PALINURUS:Come, toss this off quickly into your abyss; scour out your sink right speedily.
Palinvrvs:Age, effúnde hoc cito in barathrúm, propereprolúe cloacam.
PHAEDROMUS:Hold your tongue; I won’t have her ill spoken to.
Phaedromvs:Tace. Nólo huic male dicí.
PALINURUS: (aside.)In preference, then, I’ll do her ill.PROCURESS: (pouring some of the residue on the altar.)
Palinvrvs:Faciam igitur mále potius.
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.)
Leaena:Venús, de paulo paúlulum hoc tíbi dabo haud lubénter.nam tíbi amantes própitiantes vínum potantés danuntomnés, mihi haud saepe évenunt talés hereditátes.
PALINURUS:Do look at that, please, how greedily the filthy hag swills down the pure wine into herself with distended gullet.
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.
PROCURESS: (patting her stomach and chuckling.)Ha, ha, ha
Leaena:Ah.
PALINURUS:How is it? Do you like it?
Palinvrvs:Quíd est? ecquid lubet?
PROCURESS:I do like it.
Leaena:Lúbet.
PALINURUS:And I, too, should like to goad with a spur as well.PHAEDROMUS: (aside to PALINURUS.)
Palinvrvs:Etiam mihi quóque stimulo foderé lubet te.
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.
Phaedromvs:Tace, ⟨né⟩—
PALINURUS:Why, the same thing that you said to me.
Palinvrvs:Noli, taceo. écce autem bibit árcus, pluet credo hércle hodie.
PHAEDROMUS:What’s that?
Phaedromvs:Iamne égo huic dico?
PALINURUS:Say that you’re quite undone.
Palinvrvs:Quid díces?
PHAEDROMUS:May the Gods confound you.
Phaedromvs:Me periísse.
PALINURUS:Say so to her.
Palinvrvs:Age dice.
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.
Phaedromvs:Anus, aúdi.hóc volo scíre te: pérditus súm miser.
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?
Leaena:At pól ego oppidó servata.séd quid est? quid lubet pérditum dícerete essé?
PHAEDROMUS:Because I’m deprived of the object which I love. (Pretends to weep)
Phaedromvs:Quia id quod amo cáreo.
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.)
Leaena:Phaedrome mi, ne plora amabo.tu mé curato né sitiam, ego tibi quód amas iam huc addúcam.—
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?
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?
PALINURUS:By my faith, he who is in love, if he is in want as well, is afflicted with a dreadful malady.
Palinvrvs:Edepol qui amát, si eget, misera ádficitur, ⟨ere⟩, aerúmna.
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.
Phaedromvs:Non íta res est, nam cónfido parasítum hodie adventúrumcum argénto ad me.
PALINURUS:You attempt something mighty, if you expect that which nowhere exists.
Palinvrvs:Magnum ínceptas, si id éxpectas quod núsquamst.
PHAEDROMUS:What if I approach the door, and trill a carol?
Phaedromvs:Quid si ádeam ad fores atque óccentem?
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.)
Palinvrvs:Si lúbet, neque veto neque iúbeo,quando égo te video immútatis moribus esse, ere, atque ingénio.
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.)
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 pessuminec mea gratia commovent se ocius.
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.
re spicio, nihili meam vos gratiam facere.st tace, tace.Palinvrvs:Taceo hercle equidem.
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.)
Phaedromvs:Sentio sonitum.tandem edepol mihi morigeri pessuli fiunt.
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.
Leaena:Plácide egredere et sónitum prohibe fórium et crepitum cárdinum,ne quod hic agimus erus percipiat fieri, mea Planesium.
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.)
mane, suffundam aquolam.Palinvrvs:Viden ut anus tremula medicinam facit?eapse merum condidicit bibere, foribus dat aquam quam bibant.
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.)
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.
Here I am; for could I be absent, I wouldn’t repine for any misfortune to befall me, my honey.
Phaedromvs:Assum; nam si absim, haud recusem quin mihi male sit, mel meum.
PLANESIUM:My life, it is not becoming for one thus in love to be at a distance.
Planesivm:Anime mi, ⟨me⟩ procul amantem abesse haud consentaneumst.
PHAEDROMUS:Palinurus, Palinurus!
Phaedromvs:Palinure, Palinure.
PALINURUS:Say on; why is it that you call upon Palinurus?PHAEDROMUS: (aside.)
Palinvrvs:Eloquere, quid est quod Palinurum voces?
She is a charming one.PALINURUS: (aside.)Aye, too charming.
Phaedromvs:Est lepida.Palinvrvs:Nimis lepida.
PHAEDROMUS:I am a God.
Phaedromvs:Sum deus.
PALINURUS:Why, no—a mortal, of no great value.
Palinvrvs:Immo homo haud magni preti.
PHAEDROMUS:What have you seen, or what will you see, more nearly to be compared with the Gods?
Phaedromvs:Quid vidisti aut quid videbis magis dis aequiparabile?
PALINURUS:You are not in your senses, master; a thing that’s grievous to me.
Palinvrvs:Male valere te, quod mi aegrest.
PHAEDROMUS:You are not sufficiently respectful to me: hold your tongue.
Phaedromvs:Male mi morigeru's morigerus es, tace.
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.
Palinvrvs:Ipsus se excruciat qui homo quod amat videt nec potitur dum licet.
PHAEDROMUS:Rightly does he rebuke me; really there’s nothing which for this long time past I have more eagerly desired.
Phaedromvs:Recte obiurgat. sane haud quicquamst, magis quod cupiam iam diu.
PLANESIUM:Clasp me, embrace me then.
Planesivm:Tene me, amplectere ergo.
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.
Phaedromvs:Hoc etiam est quam ob rem cupiam vivere.quia te prohibet erus, clam [ero] potior.
PLANESIUM:Restrain me? He neither can restrain me, nor will he restrain me, unless death should separate my soul from you.
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.
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;
Phaedromvs:Sibi sua habeant regna reges, sibi divitias divites,sibi honores, sibí virtutes, sibi pugnas, sibi proelia:
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.
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.
PHAEDROMUS:Do hold your tongue.
Phaedromvs:Tace.
PALINURUS:Why hold my tongue? What, are you going to sleep?
Palinvrvs:Quid, taceam? quin tu is dormitum?
PHAEDROMUS:I am asleep; don’t you make a noise.
Phaedromvs:Dormio, ne occlamites.
PALINURUS:Why, but you’re broad awake.
Palinvrvs:Tu quidem vígilas.
PHAEDROMUS:Aye, but after my own fashion I’m asleep; this is my slumber.PALINURUS: (to PLANESIUM.)
Phaedromvs:At meo more dormio: hic somnust mihi.
A word with you, madam;’tis thoughtlessness to treat amiss one who deserves it not.
Palinvrvs:Heus tu, mulier, male mereri de inmerente inscitia est.
PLANESIUM:You would be angry, if, when you are eating, he were to drive you away from your food.
Planesivm:Irascere, si te edentem hic a cibo abigat.
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?
Palinvrvs:Ilicet,pariter hos perire amando video, uterque insaniunt.viden ut misere moliuntur? nequeunt complecti satis.etiam dispertimini?
PLANESIUM:No human being has blessings that last for ever. To this pleasure, then, is that plague added.
Planesivm:Nullum homini est perpetuom bonum:iam huic voluptati hoc adiunctum est odium.
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?
Palinvrvs:Quid ais, propudium?tun etiam cum noctuinis oculis odium me vocas?ebrióla, persollae nugae.
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.)
Phaedromvs:Tun meam Venerem vituperas?† quod quidem mihi polluctus virgis servos sermonem serat?at ne tu hercle cum cruciatu magno dixisti id tuo.
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.)
em tibi male dictis pro istis, dictis moderari ut queas.
Your aid, I pray, you night-watching Venus.PHAEDROMUS:What, do you still persist, whip-scoundrel? (Strikes hint.)
Palinvrvs:Tuam fidem, Venus noctuvigila.Phaedromvs:Pergin etiam, verbero?
PLANESIUM:Don’t, there’s a dear, be beating a stone, lest you should hurt your hand.
Planesivm:Noli, amabo, verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum.
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.
Palinvrvs:Flagitium probrumque magnum, Phaedrome, expergefacis:bene monstrantem pugnis caedis, hanc amas, nugas meras.
Is it right that you should behave yourself in this unreasonable manner?
hocine fieri, ut inmodestis hic te moderes moribus?
PHAEDROMUS:Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold; here, take the gold of me.(Holds out his purse.)
Phaedromvs:Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem: a me aurum accipe.
PALINURUS:Do you find me a person for me to serve in his sound senses against his weight in double-distilled gold.
Palinvrvs:Cedo mihi contra aurichalco cui ego sano serviam.
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 mannershall we always enjoy our love by stealth?
Planesivm:Bene vale, ocule mi, nam sonitum et crepitum claustrorum audio,aeditumum aperire fanum … quo usque, quaeso, ad hunc moduminter nos amore utemur semper surrepticio?
PHAEDROMUS:Far from it; for I sent my Parasite four days since to Caria to fetch some money; he’ll be here to-day.
Phaedromvs:Minime, nam parasitum misi nudiusquartus Cariampetere argentum, is hodie hic aderit.
PLANESIUM:You are very long in your contriving.
Planesivm:Nimium consultas diu.
PHAEDROMUS:So may Venus love me, I’ll never allow you to be three days in this house here, before I procure your liberty.
Phaedromvs:Ita me Venus amet, ut ego te hoc triduom numquam sinamin domo esse istac, quin ego te liberalem liberem.
PLANESIUM:Take care to remember it. Once more, before I go hence, take this kiss.(Kisses him.)
Planesivm:Facito ut memineris. tene etiam, prius quam hinc abeo, savium.
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?
Phaedromvs:Siquidem herclé mihi regnum detur, numquam id potius persequar.quando ego te videbo?
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.)
Planesivm:Em istoc verbo vindictam para:sí amas, eme, ne rogites, facito ut pretio pervincas tuo.bene vale.
PHAEDROMUS:And am I then left behind? Palinurus, I’m Lilled outright.
Phaedromvs:Iamne ego relinquor? pulcre, Palinure, occidi.
PALINURUS:And I as well, who am dying with thumps and sleepiness.
Palinvrvs:Ego quidem, qui et vapulando et somno pereo.
PHAEDROMUS:Do you follow me.(They go into the house of PHAEDROMUS.) (Enter CAPPADOX, from the Temple of AESCULAPIUS.)
Phaedromvs:Sequere me.—
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.
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;
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.)
nam iam quasi zona liene cinctus ambulo,geminos in ventre habere videor filios.nil metuo nisi ne medius disrumpar miser.
If you do right, Phaedromus, you’ll listen to me, and banish this sorrow from your feelings.
Palinvrvs:Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihiatque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem.
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.)
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.
What person is it that speaks?PALINURUS: (to himself.)Whose voice is it that I hear?
Cappadox:Quis hic est qui loquitur?Palinvrvs:Quoiam vocem ego audio?
CAPPADOX:Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus?
Cappadox:Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi?
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.
Palinvrvs:Quis hic est homocum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis?de forma novi, de colore non queonovisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox.congrediar.
CAPPADOX:Save you, Palinurus.
Cappadox:Salve, Palinure.
PALINURUS:O source of villanies, save you; how are you?
Palinvrvs:O scelerum caput,salveto. quid agis?
CAPPADOX:I’m just alive.
Cappadox:Vivo.
PALINURUS:Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?
Palinvrvs:Nempe ut dignus es.sed quid tibi est?
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.
Cappadox:Lien enecat, renes dolent,pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur,radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.
PALINURUS:The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.
Palinvrvs:Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.
CAPPADOX:My spleen is expanded.
Cappadox:Facile est miserum inridere.
PALINURUS:Take walking exercise; that’s the best thing for the spleen.CAPPADOX:’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted.
Palinvrvs:Quin tu aliquot diesperdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi,nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris,venire poteris intestinis vilius.Cappadox:Lien díerectust.
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.
Palinvrvs:Ambula, id lieni optumumst.
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?
Cappadox:Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo.potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibihac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?
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;
Palinvrvs:Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus.quin coniectores a me consilium petunt:
the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand.(Enter a COOK, from the house of PHAEDROUMS.)
quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia.
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.
Cocvs:Palinure, quid stas? quin depromuntur mihiquae opus súnt, parasito ut sit paratum prandium,quom veniat?
PALINURUS:Wait, please, until I interpret his dream. (Pointing to CAPPADOX.)
Palinvrvs:Mane sis, dum huic conicio somnium.
COOK:Why, you your own self, if you’ve had any dream, always apply to me.
Cocvs:Tute ipse, si quid somniasti, ad me refers.
PALINURUS:I confess it.
Palinvrvs:Fateór.
COOK:Be off, then, and serve out the things.
Cocvs:Abi, déprome.
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.)
Palinvrvs:Age tu interea huic somniumnarra, meliorem quam ego sum suppono tibi.nam quod scio omne ex hoc scio.
CAPPADOX:Let him give his attention then.
Cappadox:Operam ut det.
PALINURUS:He’ll give it.
Palinvrvs:Dabit.—
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.)
Cappadox:Facit hic quod pauci, ut sit magistro óbsequens.da mi igitur operam.
COOK:Although I don’t know you, I’ll give it you.
Cocvs:Tam etsi non novi, dabo.
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.
Cappadox:Hac nocte in somnis visus sum viderierprocul sedere longe a me Aesculapium,neque eum ad me adire neque me magni penderevisumst.
COOK:The other Gods will do the same, you must know; in fact, among themselves they agree with perfect unanimity.
Cocvs:Item alios deos facturos scilicet:sane illi inter se congruont concorditer.
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.
nihil est mirandum, melius si nil fit tibi,namque incubare satius te fuerat Iovi,qui tibi auxilio in iure iurando fuit.
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.
Cappadox:Siquidem íncubare vélint qui periuraverint,locus nón praeberi potis est in Capitolio.
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.
Cocvs:Hoc animum advorte: pacem ab Aesculapiopetas, ne forte tibi évenat magnum malum,quod in quiete tibi portentumst.
CAPPADOX:You do well in advising me; I’ll go and pray to him. (Goes into the Temple.)
Cappadox:Bene facis.ibo atque orabo.—
COOK:And ill speed you with it …(Goes into the house of PHAEDROMUS.)
Cocvs:Quae res male vortat tibi.—
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.)
Palinvrvs:Pro di immortales, quem conspicio? quis illic est?
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.)
estne hic parasitus qui missust in Cariam?heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius.
PHAEDROMUS:Why are you making this noise here?
Phaedromvs:Quid istíc clamorem tollis?
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.
Palinvrvs:Parasitum tuomvideo currentem ellum usque in plátea ultima.hinc auscultemus quid agat.
PHAEDROMUS:I think it’s as well.(They stand aside.) (Enter CURCULIO, at a distance, walking fast.)CURCULIO: (to himself.)
Phaedromvs:Sane censeo.
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.)
Cvrcvlio:Dáte viam mihi, nóti [atque] ignoti, dúm ego hic officiúm meumfacio: 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.
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.)
Phaedromvs:Recte hic monstrat, si imperare possit. nam ita nunc mos viget,ita nunc servitiumst: profecto modus haberi non potest.
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.)
Cvrcvlio:Ecquis est qui mihi commonstret Phaedromum genium meum?ita res subita est, celeriter mihi [hoc] hómine convento est opus.
He’s looking for you.PHAEDROMUS: (apart.)What if we accost him? (Aloud.) Hallo! Curculio, I want you.CURCULIO: (looking round.)
Palinvrvs:Te ille quaerit.Phaedromvs:Quid si adeamus? heus, Curculio, te volo.
Who’s calling me? Who’s mentioning my name?PHAEDROMUS:One who wishes to meet with you.CURCULIO: (seeing him.)
Cvrcvlio:Quis vocat? quis nominat me?Phaedromvs:Qui te conventum cupit.
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.
Cvrcvlio:Haud magis ⟨me⟩ cupis quam ego te cupio.Phaedromvs:O mea opportunitas,Curculio exoptate, salve.
CURCULIO:Greetings to you.
Cvrcvlio:Salve.
PHAEDROMUS:I’m glad that you have arrived safe; give me your right hand. How stand my hopes? Troth now, prithee, do speak out.
Phaedromvs:Salvom gaudeote advenire. cedo tuam mi dexteram. ubi sunt spes meae?eloquere, obsecro hércle.
CURCULIO:To you, troth now, prithee, do speak out, how stand my own. (Makes curious gestures.)
Cvrcvlio:Eloquere, te óbsecro, ubi súnt meae?
PHAEDROMUS:What’s the matter with you?
Phaedromvs:Quid tibist?
CURCULIO:A dimness is beginning to come, my knees are failing through fasting.
Cvrcvlio:Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inedia succidunt.
PHAEDROMUS:I’ faith, through lassitude, I think.
Phaedromvs:Lassitudine hercle credo.
CURCULIO: (staggering.)Support me, prithee, do support me.
Cvrcvlio:Retine, retine me, obsecro.
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?
Phaedromvs:Viden ut expálluit? datin isti sellam, ubi assidat, citoet aqualem cum aqua? properatin ocius?
CURCULIO:I’m faint.
Cvrcvlio:Animo male est.
PHAEDROMUS:Would you like some water?CURCULIO:If it’s full of bits of meat, prithee, give it me to swallow down, i’ faith.
Palinvrvs:Vin aquam?Cvrcvlio:Si frustulenta est, da, obsecro hercle, obsorbeam.
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.)
Palinvrvs:Vae capiti tuo.Cvrcvlio:Obsecro hercle, facite ventum ut gaudeam.
By all means.CURCULIO:Prithee, what’s this you’re about.PHAEDROMUS:Some air.
Palinvrvs:Maxume.Cvrcvlio:Quid facitis, quaeso?Palinvrvs:Ventum.
CURCULIO:Really, for my part, I don’t want a breath to be raised.
Cvrcvlio:Nolo equidem mihifieri ventulum.
PHAEDROMUS:What then?
Phaedromvs:Quid igitur vis?
CURCULIO:To eat, that I may rejoice on my arrival.
Cvrcvlio:Esse, ut ventum gaudeam.
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.
Palinvrvs:Iuppiter te dique perdant.Cvrcvlio:Perii, prospicio parum,gramarum habeo dentes plenos, lippiunt fauces fame,ita cibi vacivitate venio lassis lactibus.
PHAEDROMUS:You shall eat something just now.
Phaedromvs:Iám edes aliquid.
CURCULIO:I’ faith, I don’t want “something;” I’d rather have what’s fixed for certain, than your “something.”
Cvrcvlio:Nolo hercle aliquid: certum quam aliquid mavolo.
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.
Palinvrvs:Immo si scias, reliquiae quae sint.Cvrcvlio:Scire nímis lubetubi sient, nam illis conventis sane opus est meis dentibus.
PHAEDROMUS:A gammon of bacon, a sow’s stomach, some udder and kernels of the throat.
Phaedromvs:Pernam, abdomen, sumen sueris, glandium—
CURCULIO:What, all this do you say? Perhaps you mean that they are in the flesh-market?
Cvrcvlio:Ain tu omnia haec?in carnario fortasse dicis.
PHAEDROMUS:In the dishes, I mean; they’ve been got ready for you, since we knew that you were about to arrive.
Phaedromvs:Immo in lancibus,quae tibi sunt parata, postquam scimus venturum.
CURCULIO:Take care you don’t be fooling me.
Cvrcvlio:Videne me ludas.
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.
Phaedromvs:Ita me amabit quám ego amo, ut ego haud mentior.sed quod te misi, nihilo sum certior.
CURCULIO:I’ve brought back nothing.
Cvrcvlio:Nihil attuli.
PHAEDROMUS:You’ve undone me.
Phaedromvs:Perdidisti me.
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.
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.
PHAEDROMUS:By your words you ensure my undoing.
Phaedromvs:Perdis me tuis dictis.
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.
Cvrcvlio:Immo servo et servatum volo.postquam mihi responsum est, abeo ab illo maestus ad forummed illo frustra advenisse. forte aspicio militem.aggredior hominem, saluto adveniens. “salve” inquit mihi,prendit dexteram, seducit, rogat quid veniam Cariam;
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.”
dico me illo advenisse animi causa. ibi me interrogat,ecquem in Epidauro Lyconem tarpezitam noverim.dico me novisse. “quid? lenonem Cappadocem?” annuovisitasse. “sed quid eum vis?” “quia de illo emi virginemtriginta minis, vestem, aurum; et pro ís decem coáccedunt minae.”
“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.
“dédisti tu argentum?” inquam. “ímmo ápud trapezitam situm estillum quem dixi Lyconem, atque ei mandavi, qui anulomeo tabellas obsignatas attulisset, ut daretoperam, 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.
PHAEDROMUS:What, my mistress?
Phaedromvs:Meosne amores?
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.
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.
PHAEDROMUS:I commend you.
Phaedromvs:Laudo.
CURCULIO:Commend me when I’ve brought this thing about which you desire. Now let’s go indoors, that we may seal the letter.
Cvrcvlio:Laudato quando illud quod cupis effecero.…eamus nunc intro, ut tabellas consignemus.
PHAEDROMUS:Do I delay you?
Phaedromvs:Num moror?
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.
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.