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

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A slave’s schemes for his master’s son go wrong and right again.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi009, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi009.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

## 2. Lines 371–733

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

[¶0] CHAERIBULUS:
You are more versatile than a potter’s-wheel.

> Latin: Chaeribvlvs:
Vorsutior es quam rota figularis.

[¶1] EPIDICUS:
Now I’ll get ready some artful music-girl, who’s hired at a didrachm, to pretend that she has been purchased, and cleverly to trick the two old fellows: Apaecides, together with her, will bring her to your father.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Iam ego parabo
aliquam dolosam fidicinam, nummo conducta quae sit,
quae se emptam simulet, quae senes duo dócte ludificetur.
eam ducet simul Apoecides ad tuom patrem.

[¶2] STRATIPPOCLES:
How adroitly managed!

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Vt parate.

[¶3] EPIDICUS:
Her, prepared beforehand with my devices, and provided with my schemes, I shall send to him. But I’m talking at too great length; you have delayed me too long: you now know these things how they are to be; I’ll be off.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Eam pérmeditatam, meis dolis astutiisque onustam
mittam. sed nimis longum loquor, diu me éstis demorati.
haec scitis iam ut futura sint. abeo.—

[¶4] STRATIPPOCLES:
Success attend you!
(Exit EPIDICUS.)

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Bene ambulato.

[¶5] CHAERIBULUS:
He is very clever at artful tricks.

> Latin: Chaeribvlvs:
Nimis dóctus ille ⟨est⟩ ad male faciendum.

[¶6] STRATIPPOCLES:
Indeed, by his plans, he has saved me, that’s sure.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Me equidem certo
servavit consiliis suis.

[¶7] CHAERIBULUS:
Let’s go hence into my house.

> Latin: Chaeribvlvs:
Abeamus intro hinc ad me.

[¶8] STRATIPPOCLES:
Yes, and a little more joyfully than I came out of your house, by the courage and conduct of Epidicus, do I return into camp with the spoil.
(They go into the house.) (Enter PERIPHANES.)

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Atque aliquantó lubentius quam abs te sum egressus intus;
virtute atque auspicio Epidici cum praeda in castra redeo.—

[¶9] PERIPHIANES: (to herself.)
Not only for the sake of the face were it right for men to have a mirror for themselves wherein to look at their faces; but one with which they might be enabled to examine the heart of discretion,
and therefore be able to examine the resources of the mind; when they had looked in that, they might afterwards consider how they had once passed their lives in youth. Just as myself, for instance, who, for the sake of my son, began to torment myself in mind, as though my son
had been guilty of some offence against, me, or as though my own misdeeds had not been most heavy in my youth. In truth, we old fellows are out of our senses sometimes. This, in my own opinion at least, has proved advantageous. But my friend Apaecides is coming with the spoil.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Non oris causa modo homines aequom fuit
sibi habere speculum, ubi os contemplarent suom,
sed qui perspicere possent cor sapientiae,
[igitur perspicere ut possent cordis copiam]
ubi id inspexissent, cogitarent postea,
vitam ut vixissent olim in adulescentia.
vel ego, qui dudum fili causa coeperam
ego med excruciare animi, quasi quid filius
meus déliquisset me erga aut quasi non plurima
male facta mea essent solida in adulescentia.
profecto deliramus interdum senes.
[fuit conducibile hoc quidem mea sententia.]
sed meus sodalis it cum praeda Apoecides.

[¶10] I’m glad that the negotiator has returned safe.
(Enter APAECIDES, with a MUSIC-GIRL.)

> Latin: venire salvom mercatorem gaudeo.

[¶11] PERIPHIANES:
How goes it?
APAECIDES:
The Gods and Goddesses are favouring you.

> Latin: quid fit?
Apoecides:
Di deaeque te adiuvant.

[¶12] PERIPHIANES:
The omen pleases me.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Omen placet.

[¶13] APAECIDES:
A person with whom all things go on prosperously. But do you order her to be taken in-doors.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Quin omini omnes suppetunt res prospere.
sed tu hanc iubé sis intro abduci.

[¶14] PERIPHIANES: (going to the door of his house, and calling.)
Hallo there! come out of doors here, some one. (A SERVANT comes out.) Take that woman into the house!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Heus, foras
exite huc aliquis. duce istam intro mulierem.

[¶15] And, do you hear?
SERVANT:
What do you desire?
PERIPHIANES:
Take care you don’t permit this woman to associate with my daughter, or to see her. Now do you understand? I wish her to be shut up apart in that little chamber; there’s a great difference between the manners of a maiden and a courtesan.
(The SERVANT leads the MUSIC-GIRL into the house.)

> Latin: atque audin?
Servvs:
Quid vis?
Periphanes:
Cave siris cum filia
mea cópulari hanc neque conspicere. iam tenes?
in aediculam istanc sorsum concludi volo.
divortunt mores virgini longe ac lupae.

[¶16] APAECIDES:
You speak cleverly and judiciously; each man cannot keep too strict a guard upon the chastity of his daughter.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Docte et sapienter dicis. † num nimis potest
pudicitiam quisquam suae servare filiae.

[¶17] Upon my faith, we certainly did forestall this woman from your son just in time.
PERIPHIANES:
Why so?

> Latin: edepol ne ístam temperi gnato tuo
sumus praémercati.
Periphanes:
Quid iam?

[¶18] APAECIDES:
Because another person told me that he had just seen your son here.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Quia dixit mihi
iam dudum se alius tuom vidisse hic filium:

[¶19] PERIPHIANES:
I’ troth, he was stirring in this business.
APAECIDES:
Upon my faith, it really is so, clearly.

> Latin: hanc edepol rem apparabat.
Periphanes:
Planum hercle hoc quidem est.

[¶20] You really have a clever servant, and worth any price.
PERIPHIANES:
At his weight in gold he would not be dear.
APAECIDES:
How well he kept that Music-girl quite in ignorance that she was purchased for you; so full of joke and fun did he bring her hither along with him.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Ne tú habes servom graphicum et quantivis preti,
non carust auro contra. ut ille fidicinam
fecit ⟨sese ut⟩ nesciret esse emptam tibi!
ita ridibundam atque hilaram huc adduxit simul.

[¶21] PERIPHIANES:
It’s wonderful how that could be managed.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Mirum hoc qui potuit fieri.

[¶22] APAECIDES:
He said that you were going to offer a sacrifice at home for your son,
because he had returned safe from Thebes.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Te pro filio
facturum dixit rem esse divinam domi,
quia Thebis salvos redierit.

[¶23] PERIPHIANES:
He hit upon the right thing.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Rectam institit.

[¶24] APAECIDES:
Yes, and he himself told her that she had been hired to assist you here in the sacrifice. He said that you were about to perform it, and that you had a sacrifice at home.
But I then made pretence that I was ignorant, as it were, inasmuch as I made myself out half-witted.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Immo ipsus illi dixit conductam esse eam,
quae hic administráret ad rem divinam tibi.
[facturum hoc dixit rem esse divinam tibi domi]
ego illic me autem sic assimulabam: quasi
stolidum, combardum me faciebam.

[¶25] PERIPHIANES:
Why yes; it was right to do so.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Em istuc decet.

[¶26] APAECIDES:
An important trial of a friend is going on at the Forum; I want to go as his advocate.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Res magna amici apud forum agitur, ei volo
ire advocatus.

[¶27] PERIPHIANES:
Go, and when you have leisure, return to me mediately.

> Latin: Periphanes:
At quaeso, ubi erit otium,
revortere ad me extemplo.

[¶28] APAECIDES:
I’ll be here just now.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Apoecides:
Continuo hic ero.—

[¶29] PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)
Nothing is there more opportune to man than a friend in need; without labour of your own, what you want is done nevertheless. If I had commissioned any one upon this business, a less skilful person, and less fitted for this matter, he would have been gulled; and so, grinning with his white teeth,
my son would have most deservedly laughed at me.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Nihil homini amicost opportuno amicius:
sine tuo labore quod velis actumst tamen.
ego si allegavissem aliquem ad hoc negotium
minus hominem doctum minusque ad hanc rem callidum,
os sublitum esset, itaque me albis dentibus
meus dérideret filius meritissumo.

[¶30] But who is this I see coming this way, that with his swaggering makes his scarf to be streaming in the wind?
(He stands aside.) (Enter a CAPTAIN, with his SERVANT.)
A CAPTAIN: (to his SERVANT.)

> Latin: sed quis hic est quém ⟨ego⟩ huc advenientem conspicor,
suam qui undantem chlamydem quassando facit?

[¶31] Take care not to pass by any house without asking where lives the old gentleman, Periphanes of Plothea. Take care that you don’t return to me without knowing it.
PERIPHIANES: (coming forward.)

> Latin: Miles:
Cave praéterbitas ullas aedis, quin roges,
senex híc ubi habitat Periphanes Platenius.
incertus tuom cave ad me rettuleris pedem.

[¶32] Young man, if I point out to you the person whom you are in search of, what thanks shall I get of you?
A CAPTAIN:
In arms, by the might of war, I’ve deserved that all people ought to give me thanks.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Adulescens, si istunc hominem, quem tu quaeritas,
tibi commonstrasso, ecquam abs te inibo gratiam?
Miles:
Virtute belli armatus promerui, ut mihi
omnis mortalis agere deceat gratias.

[¶33] PERIPHIANES:
You haven’t found out, young man, a tranquil spot
where to recount your virtues as you wish; for, if an inferior vaunts his battles to a superior, by his lips they become soiled; but this Periphanes of Plothea whom you are seeking, I am he, if you want him for anything.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Non repperisti, adulescens, tranquillum locum,
ubi tuas virtutes explices, ut postulas.
nam strenuiori deterior si praedicat
suas pugnas, de illius illae fiunt sordidae.
sed istúm quem quaeris Periphanem Platenium,
ego sum, si quid vis.

[¶34] A CAPTAIN:
Him, you mean, who in his youth
among kings in arms, by his skill in war, gained vast wealth?

> Latin: Miles:
Nempe quem in adulescentia
memorant apud réges armis, arte duellica
divitias magnas indeptum?

[¶35] PERIPHIANES:
Aye, if you were to hear of my achievements, drop ping your hands you would run off home.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Immo si audias
meas púgnas, fugias manibus dimissis domum.

[¶36] A CAPTAIN:
I’ faith, I’m rather in search of one to whom to speak of my own, than of one to be speaking of his to me.

> Latin: Miles:
Pol égo magis unum quaero, meas cui praedicem,
quam illum qui memoret suas mihi.

[¶37] PERIPHIANES:
This is not the place for it.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Hic non est locus;

[¶38] Do you then look out for another person, into whom to stuff your scraps of nonsense.
(Aside.)

> Latin: proin tu alium quaeras cui centones sarcias.

[¶39] And yet this is folly, for me to impute that to him as a fault, which I myself used to do in my youth when I was a soldier; in recounting my battles I used to tear out men’s ears by the roots, when I had once begun.

> Latin: atque haec stultitiast me illi vitio vortere
egomet quod factitavi in adulescentia,
cum militabam: pugnis memorandis meis
eradicabam hominum auris, quando occeperam.

[¶40] A CAPTAIN:
Lend your attention, that you may learn what I’ve come to you about. I’ve heard that you have purchased my mistress.

> Latin: Miles:
Animum advorte, ut quod ego ad te advenio intellegas.
meam amicam audivi te esse mercatum.

[¶41] PERIPHIANES: (aside.)
Heyday! now at last I know who he is; the officer whom Epidicus was telling me about a short time since. (To the OFFICER.) Young man, it is
as you say; I have purchased her.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Attatae,
nunc demum scio ego hunc qui sit: quem dudum Epidicus
mihi praedicavit militem. adulescens, itast
ut dicis, emi.

[¶42] A CAPTAIN:
I want a few words with you, if it is not inconvenient to you.

> Latin: Miles:
Volo te verbis pauculis,
si tibi molestum non est.

[¶43] PERIPHIANES:
Upon my faith, I don’t know whether it’s convenient or not, until perhaps you say what you want.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Non edepol scio,
molestum necne sit, nisi dicis quid velis.

[¶44] A CAPTAIN:
I want you to transfer her to me, and take the ransom.
PERIPHIANES:
You may have her.

> Latin: Miles:
Mi illam ut tramittas, argentum accipias: adest.

[¶45] A CAPTAIN:
But why should I hesitate to speak out to you? I wish at once to make her my freed-woman, that she may be my mistress.
PERIPHIANES:
I’ll make short work with you; she was bought for me for fifty minae of silver; if sixty minae are paid down to me, I’ll let the damsel employ your holidays,
and so assuredly so, that, if you like, you may remove her from this country.

> Latin: nam quid ego apud te vera parcam proloqui?
ego illám volo hodie facere libertam meam,
mihi concubina quae sit.
Periphanes:
Te absolvam brevi:
argenti quinquaginta mi illa empta est minis;
si sexaginta mihi denumerantur minae,
tuas póssidebit mulier faxo ferias;
atque ita profecto, ut eam ex hoc exoneres agro.

[¶46] A CAPTAIN:
Is she then purchased by me?

> Latin: Miles:
Estne empta mi istis legibus?

[¶47] PERIPHIANES:
On those terms you may have her.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Habeas licet.

[¶48] You have made a good bargain.
(Going to the door of his house.)
Hallo there! bring out of doors the Music-girl you took in. The harp, too, as well, that was thrown in with her, I’ll make you a present of it for nothing.
PERIPHIANES: (MUSIC-GIRL.) (taking her by the hand and leading her to the CAPTAIN.)

> Latin: Miles:
Conciliavisti pulchre.
Periphanes:
Heus, fóras educite
quam introduxistis fidicinam. atque etiam fides,
ei quae accessere, tibi addam dono gratiis.

[¶49] Come, take her, please.
A CAPTAIN:
What madness possesses you? What mystery are you devising for me? Why don’t you order the Music-girl to be brought from in-doors?

> Latin: age accipe hanc sis.
Miles:
Quae te intemperiae tenent?
quas tu mihi tenebras trudis? quin tu fidicinam
produci íntus iubes.

[¶50] PERIPHIANES:
Why, this is the Music-girl. There’s no other one here.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Haec ergo est fidicina.
hic alia nullast.

[¶51] A CAPTAIN:
You can’t impose on me. Why don’t you bring out here the Music-girl Acropolistis?

> Latin: Miles:
Non mihi nugari potes.
quin tu huc producis fidicinam Acropolistidem?

[¶52] PERIPHIANES:
This, I tell you, is she.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Haec inquamst.

[¶53] A CAPTAIN:
This, I tell you, is not she. Do you suppose that I can’t know my own mistress?

> Latin: Miles:
Non haec inquamst. non novisse me
meam rere amicam posse?

[¶54] PERIPHIANES:
It was this Music-girl, I tell you, for whom my son was dying with love.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Hanc, inquam, filius
meus deperibat fidicinam.

[¶55] A CAPTAIN:
This is not she.

> Latin: Miles:
Haec non est ea.

[¶56] PERIPHIANES:
How, not she?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid? non est?

[¶57] A CAPTAIN:
It is not.

> Latin: Miles:
Non est.

[¶58] PERIPHIANES:
Where in the world, then, does, she come from? For my part, i’ faith, I certainly paid the money for her.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Vnde haec igitur gentiumst?
equidem hercle argentum pro hac dedi.

[¶59] A CAPTAIN:
Foolishly paid, I guess, and a mighty mistake.

> Latin: Miles:
Stulte datum
reor et peccatum largiter.

[¶60] PERIPHIANES:
Nay, but this is she; for I sent the servant who is in the habit of attending my son; he himself this moment purchased the Music-girl.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Immo haec east.
nam servom misi, qui illum sectari solet
meum gnátum: is ipse hanc destinavit fidicinam.

[¶61] A CAPTAIN:
Well then, this fellow has cut you up joint by joint, old gentleman, this servant of yours.

> Latin: Miles:
Em istíc homo te articulatim concidit, senex,
tuos servos.

[¶62] PERIPHIANES:
How, cut me up?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid? concidit?

[¶63] A CAPTAIN:
Such is my suspicion;
for she has been palmed upon you for that Music-girl. Old gentleman, you’ve been bubbled clearly and cleverly. I shall now go seek her wherever she is.
Warrior, farewell!
(Exeunt the OFFICER and SERVANT.)

> Latin: Miles:
Sic suspiciost,
nam pro fidicina haec cerva supposita est tibi.
senex, tibi os est sublitum plane et probe.
ego illám requiram iam ubi ubi est.—

[¶64] PERIPHIANES: (stamnping with rage.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Bellator, vale.

[¶65] Bravo, bravo! Epidicus You’re a clever fellow! You have fought well—you’re a man! you’ve wiped my nose when snivelling, worthless fellow that I am!
(To the MUSIC-GIRL.)

> Latin: euge, euge, Epidice, frugi es, pugnavisti, homo es,
qui me emunxisti mucidum, minimi preti.

[¶66] Did Apaecides purchase you to-day of the procurer? (A pause.) Come now, tell me.

> Latin: mercatus te hodie est de lenone Apoecides?

[¶67] MUSIC-GIRL:
I never heard of that person before to-day, nor, indeed, was any one able to purchase me for any money; I’ve been free now for more than five years.

> Latin: Fidicina:
Fando ego istunc hominem numquam audivi ante hunc diem,
neque me quidem emere quisquam ulla pecunia
potuit: plus iam sum libera quinquennium.

[¶68] PERIPHIANES:
What business have you, then, at my house?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid tibi negotist meae domi igitur?

[¶69] MUSIC-GIRL:
You shall hear;

> Latin: Fidicina:
Audies.

[¶70] I came, being hired to perform for an old gentleman while he was sacrificing.
PERIPHIANES:
I do confess that I am the most worthless of all men in Athens of Attica. But do you know Acropolistis the Music-girl?

> Latin: conducta veni, ut fidibus cantarem seni,
dum rem divinam faceret.
Periphanes:
Fateor me omnium
hominum esse Athenis Atticis minimi preti.
sed tu novistin fidicinam Acropolistidem?

[¶71] MUSIC-GIRL:
As well as my own self.

> Latin: Fidicina:
Tam facile quam me.

[¶72] PERIPHIANES:
Where does she live?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Vbi habitat?

[¶73] MUSIC-GIRL:
Since she has been made free,
I don’t know for certain.

> Latin: Fidicina:
Postquam liberast
ubi habitet dicere admodum incerte scio.

[¶74] PERIPHIANES:
Well now, I should like to know who has made her free, if you know?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Eho an libera illa est? quis eam liberaverit,
volo scíre, si scis.

[¶75] MUSIC-GIRL:
That which I have heard, you shall hear; I heard that Stratippocles, the son of Periphanes, had provided in his absence that she should be made free.

> Latin: Fidicina:
Id quod audivi audies.
Stratippoclem aiunt Periphanai filium
absentem curavisse ut fieret libera.

[¶76] PERIPHIANES:
By heavens, I’m undone, most clearly, if these things are true. Epidicus has disembowelled my purse!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Perii hercle, si istaec vera sunt; planissume
meum exenteravit Epidicus marsuppium.

[¶77] MUSIC-GIRL:
I’ve heard to that effect. Do you want me for anything else?

> Latin: Fidicina:
Haec sic audivi. numquid me vis ceterum?

[¶78] PERIPHIANES:
Away to perdition in the veriest torments, and off this instant!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Malo cruciatu ut pereas atque abeas cito.

[¶79] MUSIC-GIRL:
Won’t you give me back my harp?
PERIPHANES:
Neither harp nor pipes.

> Latin: Fidicina:
Fides non reddis?
Periphanes:
Neque fides neque tibias.

[¶80] Make haste, then, and escape from here, if the Gods love you!
MUSIC-GIRL:
I’ll be off. At a future time, however, you’ll restore it, with the greater disgrace to yourself.
(Exit.)

> Latin: propera igitur fugere hinc, si te di amant.
Fidicina:
Abiero.
flagitio cum maiore post reddes tamen.—

[¶81] PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)
What now? Shall I, who have been placed before so many edicts, allow him to get with impunity? No; even though as much again should be required to be lost, I’ll lose it rather than
allow myself to be held in derision with impunity and plundered by them. That I should have been thus cheated openly to my face, and that I should have been set at nought before this Apaecides, who is famed as being the framer and founder of all the laws and ordinances! He too declares that he is a wise man! that the hammer,
forsooth, should be wiser than the handle!
(He stands aside.) (Enter PHILIPPA, at a distance.)
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid nunc? qui in tantis positus sum sententiis, †
[eamne egó sinam impune? immo etiam si alterum]
[tantum perdundumst, perdam potius quam sinam]
[me impune irrisum esse, habitum depeculatui]
ei sic data esse verba praesenti palam!
atque mé minoris facio prae illo, qui omnium
legum atque iurum fictor, conditor cluet;
is etiam sese sapere memorat: malleum
sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio.

[¶82] If a mortal being has aught of misery, through which, miserable creature, to be wretched from the heart, that same do I experience, for whom full many a woe unites in the same spot, which, all, at the same instant are beating against my breast. A multitude of troubles keep me in suspense.
Poverty and misery alarm the thoughts of my heart; nor have I anywhere a spot of safety where to fix my hopes; in such a way has my daughter fallen into the power of the enemy; nor do I know where she now is.
PERIPHIANES: (apart.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Sí quid est homini míseriarum quód miserescat, míser ex animost.
íd ego expérior, cui múlta in unúm locum
cónfluont, quaé meum péctus pulsánt simul:
multiplex aerumna me exercitam habet,
paupértas, pavór territát mentem ánimi,
neque úbi meas spes cóllocem habeo úsquam munitúm locum.
ita gnáta mea hostiumst potita, neque ea nunc ubi sit scio.

[¶83] Who is this woman coming from a distance with a breast filled with alarms, and who thus bewails her lot?
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)
It was told me that Periphanes was living in this neighbourhood.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quis illaec est mulier, timido pectore peregre adveniens
quae ipsa se miseratur?
Philippa:
In his dictust locis habitare mihi
Periphanes.

[¶84] PERIPHIANES: (apart.)
She’s mentioning me; need of hospitality has befallen her, I suppose.
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Me nominat haec; credo ego illi hospitio usus venit.

[¶85] I would be very willing to give a reward to any one who would point me out that man, or where he dwells.
PERIPHIANES: (apart.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Pervelim mercedem dare, qui monstret eum mihi hominem aut ubi habitet.

[¶86] I recognize her; for I think I have seen her before; where, I know not. Is it, or is it not she, whom my mind suspects her to be?
PHILIPPA: (seeing him.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Noscito ego hanc, nam videor nescio ubi mi vidisse prius.
éstne ea an nón east quam animus retur meus?

[¶87] Good Gods! I have seen this person before!
PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Di boni, visitavi … antidhac?

[¶88] It surely is she, a poor woman whom I remember having an intrigue with at Epidaurus.
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Certo eást … quam in Épidauro paupérculam memini cómprimere.

[¶89] Surely it is he, who at Epidaurus first violated my maiden modesty.
PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Plane hícine est, qui mihi in Épidauro primús pudicitiam pépulit.

[¶90] She who had the daughter by me whom I’ve now got at home.
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quaé meo compréssu peperit fíliam quam dómi nunc habeo.

[¶91] What if I accost him?
PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)
I don’t know whether to make up to her.
If this is she—
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)
But if it is the man, as length of years renders me doubtful—
PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)

> Latin: quíd si adeam—
Philippa:
Hau scio án congrediar—
Periphanes:
Si haéc east.
Philippa:
Si is ést homo, sicut
ánni multi dúbia dant.

[¶92] Length of time renders my mind uncertain. But if it is she, whom with some doubt I conjecture it to be, I’ll accost her circumspectly.
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Lónga dies meum incértat animum. sín east quam incerte aútumo,
hánc congrediar ástu.

[¶93] A woman’s artfulness must be employed by me.
PERIPHIANES: (to himself.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Múliebris adhibenda míhi malitia nunc est.

[¶94] I’ll address her.
PHILIPPA: (to herself.)
I’ll bring my powers of conversation to bear against him.
PERIPHIANES: (accosting her.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Cómpellabo.
Philippa:
Orátionis áciem contra cónferam.

[¶95] Health to you!
PHILIPPA:
That health I accept for me and mine.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Salva sis.
Philippa:
Salutem accipio mi et meis.

[¶96] PERIPHIANES:
What besides?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid ceterum?

[¶97] PHILIPPA:
Health to yourself; what you lent me, I return.

> Latin: Philippa:
Salvos sis: quod credidisti reddo.

[¶98] PERIPHIANES:
I don’t impeach your punctuality.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Haud accuso fidem.

[¶99] Don’t I know you?
PHILIPPA:
If I know you, I’ll move your feelings, so that you shall know me.

> Latin: novin ego te?
Philippa:
Si ego te novi, animum inducam, ut tu noveris.

[¶100] PERIPHIANES:
Where have I been in the habit of seeing you?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Vbi te visitavi?

[¶101] PHILIPPA:
You are unfairly hard upon me.

> Latin: Philippa:
Inique iniuriu'siniurius es.

[¶102] PERIPHIANES:
Why so?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid iam?

[¶103] PHILIPPA:
Because you think it right that I should be the prompter of your memory.

> Latin: Philippa:
Quia
tuae memoriae interpretari me aequom censes.

[¶104] PERIPHIANES:
You speak to the purpose.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Commode
fabulata es.

[¶105] PHILIPPA:
You say what’s strange to me, Periphanes.

> Latin: Philippa:
Mira memoras.

[¶106] PERIPHIANES:
Ah now! that’s better.

> Latin: Periphanes:
⟨Te memini⟩—
Philippa:
Em istuc rectius.

[¶107] Do you remember, Philippa—
PHILIPPA:
Yes, I remember that.

> Latin: Perphanes:
Meministin—
Philippa:
Memini id quod memini.

[¶108] PERIPHIANES:
At Epidaurus—

> Latin: Periphanes:
At in Epidauro—

[¶109] PHILIPPA:
Ah! you have moistened my burning breast with a little drop of comfort.

> Latin: Philippa:
Ah, guttula
pectus ardens mi aspersisti.

[¶110] PERIPHIANES:
How I relieved the poverty of you, a poor young maiden, and your mother?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Virgini pauperculae,
tuaeque matri me levare paupertatem?

[¶111] PHILIPPA:
What, are you he who for your own gratification brought heavy troubles upon me?

> Latin: Philippa:
Tun is es,
qui per voluptatem tuam in me aerumnam obsevisti gravem?

[¶112] PERIPHIANES:
I am he. Health to you.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Ego sum. salve.

[¶113] PHILIPPA:
I am in health, since I see you in health.

> Latin: Philippa:
Salva sum, quia te esse salvom sentio.

[¶114] PERIPHIANES:
Give me your hand.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Cedo manum.

[¶115] PHILIPPA: (extending her hand, which he takes.)
Take it—you hold by the hand a woman distrest and full of woes.

> Latin: Philippa:
Accipe. aerumnosam et miseriarum compotem
mulierem retines.

[¶116] PERIPHIANES:
What is it that disturbs your features?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid est quod voltus turbatust tuos?

[¶117] PHILIPPA:
The daughter whom I had by you—

> Latin: Philippa:
Filiam quam ex te suscepi—

[¶118] PERIPHIANES:
What of her?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid eam?

[¶119] PHILIPPA:
When I had brought her up, I lost her; she fell into the hands of the enemy.

> Latin: Philippa:
Eductam perdidi.
hostium est potita.

[¶120] PERIPHIANES:
Keep your mind in quiet and at rest. Why look, she’s here at my house safe and sound. For immediately I heard from my servant that she was a captive, instantly I gave the money for her to be purchased;
he managed this affair as discreetly and frugally as in other matters he is egregiously—dishonest.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Habe animum lenem et tranquillum. tace.
domi meae eccam salvam et sanam. nam postquam audivi ilico
ex meo servo, illam esse captam, continuo argentum dedi,
ut emeretur. ille eam rem ádeo sobrie et frugaliter
accuravit, ut⟨ut⟩ ad alias res est impense inprobus.

[¶121] PHILIPPA:
Let me see her, whether it is she or no.

> Latin: Philippa:
Fac videam, si mea, si salva ⟨mihi sit⟩.

[¶122] PERIPHIANES: (going to the door of his house.)
Hallo there! you—Canthara, this instant bid my daughter come out before the house, that she may see her mother.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Eho, istinc, Canthara,
iube Telestidem huc prodire filiam ante aedis meam,
ut suam videat matrem.

[¶123] PHILIPPA:
My spirits now at last return to me.
(Enter ACROPOLISTIS from the house.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Remigrat animus nunc demum mihi.

[¶124] ACROPOLISTIS:
Why is it, father, that you have called me out before the house?

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Quid est, pater, quod me excivisti ante aedis?

[¶125] PERIPHIANES:
That you may see and accost your mother, and wish her health on her arrival, and give her kisses.
ACROPOLISTIS: (looking about.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Vt matrem tuam
videas, adeas, advenienti des salutem atque osculum.

[¶126] What mother of mine?
PERIPHIANES: (pointing to PHILIPPA.)
She who, half dead, is following your gaze.

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Quam meam matrem?
Periphanes:
Quae exanimata exsequitur aspectum tuom.

[¶127] PHILIPPA:
Who is this that you are requesting to kiss me?

> Latin: Philippa:
Quis istaec est quam tu osculum mihi ferre iubes?

[¶128] PERIPHIANES:
Your own daughter.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Tua filia.

[¶129] PHILIPPA:
What, she?

> Latin: Philippa:
Haecine?

[¶130] PERIPHIANES:
She.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Haec.

[¶131] PHILIPPA:
What—am I to kiss her?

> Latin: Philippa:
Egone osculum huic dem?

[¶132] PERIPHIANES:
Why not, her who was born of you?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quor non, quae ex te nata sit?

[¶133] PHILIPPA:
Man, you are mad.

> Latin: Philippa:
Tú homo insanis.

[¶134] PERIPHIANES:
What, I?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Egone?

[¶135] PHILIPPA:
Yes, you.
PERIPHANES:
Why?

> Latin: Philippa:
Tune.
Periphanes:
Quor?

[¶136] PHILIPPA:
Because this woman—I neither know nor understand who she is, nor have I beheld her with my eyes before this day.

> Latin: Philippa:
Quia ego hanc quae siet
neque scio neque novi, neque ego hanc oculis vidi ante hunc diem.

[¶137] PERIPHIANES:
I know why you are mistaken; because this woman has her dress and ornaments changed.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Scio quid erres: quia vestitum atque ornatum immutabilem
habet haec, …

[¶138] PHILIPPA:
Puppies have one smell, pigs quite another;

> Latin: Philippa:
… aliter catuli longe olent, aliter suis.

[¶139] I say that I do not know her, who she is.
PERIPHIANES: (stamping with rage.)
Oh! by our trust in Gods and men, what is this? Am I following the calling of a Procurer, to be keeping strange women in my house, and to be emptying my house of my money? (To ACROPOLISTIS.) What are you to be calling me your father and kissing me? Why stand you stupidly there? Why do you keep silent?

> Latin: ne ego eam novisse …
Periphanes:
Pro deum atque hominum fidem,
quid? ego lenocinium facio, quí habeam alienos domi
atque argentum egurgitem domo prosus? quid tu, quae patrem
tuom vocas me atque osculare, quid stas stupida? quid taces?

[¶140] ACROPOLISTIS:
What do you want me to say?

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Quid loquar vis?

[¶141] PERIPHIANES: (pointing to PHILIPPA.)
She denies that she is your mother.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Haec negat se tuam esse matrem.

[¶142] ACROPOLISTIS:
Don’t let her be so,
if she don’t choose. For my own part, whether she likes it or not, I shall be my mother’s daughter still. It isn’t right for me to compel this woman to be my mother if she doesn’t like.

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Ne fuat,
si non volt: equidem hac invita támen ero matris filia;
non med istanc cogere aequom est meam esse matrem, si nevolt.

[¶143] PERIPHIANES:
Why then did you call me father?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Cur me igitur patrem vocabas?

[¶144] ACROPOLISTIS:
That is your own fault, not mine; ought I not to call you father when you call me daughter? Her too, as well (pointing to PHILIPPA) if she were to call me daughter, I should call mother.

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Tua istaec culpast, non mea.
non patrem ego te nominem, ubi tu tuam me appellas filiam?
hanc quoque etiam, si me appellet filiam, matrem vocem.

[¶145] She declares that I am not her daughter; then she is not my mother. In fine, this is no fault of mine; what I’ve been taught, I’ve told you all of it. Epidicus was my instructor.
PERIPHIANES:
I’m undone! I’ve upset my waggon!

> Latin: negat haec filiám me suam ésse: non ergo haec mater mea est.
postremo haec mea culpa non est: quae didici dixi omnia;
Epidicus mihi fuit magister.
Periphanes:
Perii, plaustrum perculi.

[¶146] ACROPOLISTIS:
Have I done anything amiss towards that?

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Numquid ego ibi, pater, peccavi?

[¶147] PERIPHIANES:
Upon my faith, if I ever hear you call me father, I’ll put an end to your life, you jade!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Si hercle te umquam audivero
me patrem vocare, vitam tuam ego interimam.

[¶148] ACROPOLISTIS:
I shan’t call you so.

> Latin: Acropolistis:
Non voco.

[¶149] When you want to be my father, then be so; when you don’t want, don’t be my father.
PHILIPPA: (to PERIPHANES.)

> Latin: ubi voles pater esse, ibi esto; ubi noles, ne fueris pater.

[¶150] What? Did you purchase her for that reason, because you supposed her to be your daughter? By what signs did you recognize her?
PERIPHIANES:
By none.

> Latin: Philippa:
Quid, ⟨si⟩ ob eam rem hanc emisti, quia tuam gnatam es ratus,
quibus de signis agnoscebas?
Periphanes:
Nullis.

[¶151] PHILIPPA:
Why did you suppose her to be our daughter?

> Latin: Philippa:
Qua re filiam
credidisti nostram?

[¶152] PERIPHIANES:
My servant Epidicus told me so.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Servos Epidicus dixit mihi.

[¶153] PHILIPPA:
What if it had seemed to your servant otherwise? Prithee, could you not have known?

> Latin: Philippa:
Quid si servo aliter visumst, non poteras novisse, obsecro? †

[¶154] PERIPHIANES:
How should I, who had never seen her after having once beheld her.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid ego, qui illam ut primum vidi, numquam vidi postea?

[¶155] PHILIPPA:
Wretched creature, I’m quite undone!
(Begins to weep.)

> Latin: Philippa:
Perii misera.

[¶156] PERIPHIANES:
Don’t weep, madam; go in-doors; be of good courage; I’ll find her out.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Ne fle, mulier. intro abi, habe animum bonum;
ego illam reperiam.

[¶157] PHILIPPA:
An Attic citizen from Athens here purchased her Indeed, they said it was a young man who had bought her.

> Latin: Philippa:
Hinc Athenis civis eam émit Atticus:
adulescentem equidem dicebant emisse.

[¶158] PERIPHIANES:
I will find her; hold your peace. Only do go in-doors, and keep an eye upon this Circe, this daughter of the Sun.
(She goes into the house, followed by ACROPOLISTIS.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Inveniam, tace.
abi modo intro atque hanc asserva Circam Solis filiam.

[¶159] All business laid aside, I’ll give my attention to seeking for Epidicus. If I find him, I’ll make this day become the final one for him.
(Exit.) (Enter STRATIPPOCLES, from the house of CHAERIBULUS.)
STRATIPPOCLES: (to himself.)
The Banker is inattentive to me, not to seek the money of me, or bring this woman who has been purchased out of the spoil. But see—here comes Epidicus How’s this, that in gloominess his brow is wrinkled?
(at a distance.)
EPIDICUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: ego relictis rebus Epidicum operam quaerendo dabo:
si invenio, exitiabilem égo illi faciam hunc ut fiat diem.—
Stratippocles:
Male morigerus mi est danista, qui a me argentum non petit
neque illam adducit quae ⟨empta⟩ ex praedast. séd eccum incedit Epidicus.
quid illuc est quod illí caperrat frons severitudine?

[¶160] If Jupiter unto himself were to take the eleven Gods beside himself, even then, all of them would not be able to rescue Epidicus from torture. I’ve seen Periphanes buying the thongs; Apaecides was together with him; now, I do believe that these persons are in search of me. They have found it out; they know that they’ve been imposed upon.
STRATIPPOCLES: (coming forward.)
What are you about, my ready occasion?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Si undecim deos praeter sese secum adducat Iuppiter,
ita non omnes ex cruciatu poterunt eximere Epidicum.
Periphanem emere lora vidi, ibi aderat una Apoecides;
nunc homines me quaeritare credo. senserunt, sciunt
sibi data esse verba.
Stratippocles:
Quíd agis, mea commoditas?

[¶161] EPIDICUS:
That which a wretched fellow is about.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quod miser.

[¶162] STRATIPPOCLES:
What’s the matter with you?

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Quid est tibi?

[¶163] EPIDICUS:
Why don’t you prepare for me the necessaries for flight before I’m quite undone? For the two fleeced old gentlemen are hunting for me through the city; they are carrying in their hands handcuffs an inch and a half thick.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quin tu mi adornas ad fugam viaticum,
prius quam pereo? nam per urbem duo defloccati senes
quaeritant me, in manibus gestant copulas secum simul.

[¶164] STRATIPPOCLES:
Be of good heart—

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Habe bonum animum.

[¶165] EPIDICUS:
Of course I will, whose freedom is so close at hand.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quippe ego quoi libertas in mundo sitast.

[¶166] STRATIPPOCLES:
I will preserve you.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Ego te servabo.

[¶167] EPIDICUS:
I’ faith, they’ll do it better for me, if they catch me.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Edepol me illi melius, si nacti fuant.

[¶168] But who’s this young woman, this greyish old fellow, too, that’s coming along?
(are seen at a distance.)

> Latin: sed quis haec ést muliercula et ille gravastellus qui venit?

[¶169] STRATIPPOCLES:
This is the Banker, and this is the woman whom I purchased out of the spoil.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Hic est danista, haec illa est autem, quam emi de praeda.

[¶170] EPIDICUS:
What, is this she?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Haecinest?

[¶171] STRATIPPOCLES:
It is she. Isn’t she just like what I told you? Look at her.
EPIDICUS:
Is it she?

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Haec est. estne ita ut tibi dixi? aspecta et contempla, Epidice:

[¶172] STRATIPPOCLES:
Survey her, Epidicus. Even from her nail to the top of her hair she is most lovely! Is she not? Do look at her! Observe her! You’ll be looking at a picture beautifully painted.

> Latin: usque ab unguiculo ad capillum summumst festivissuma.
estne consímilis quasi cum signum pictum pulchre aspexeris?

[¶173] EPIDICUS:
Judging from your words you are foretelling that my hide will be beautifully painted; me, whom Apelles and Zeuxis, the pair of them, will be painting with elm-tree pigments.
(Enter the BANKER and TELESTIS.)
STRATIPPOCLES: (to the BANKER.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ex tuis verbis meum futurum corium pulchrum praedicas,
quém Apella atque Zeuxis duo pingent pigmentis ulmeis.

[¶174] Immortal Gods! I’m surprised at your slowness. The man that’s spoken of in the proverb with swollen feet, would have got here sooner than you have arrived for me.
A BANKER.: (pointing to TELESTIS.)

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Di immortales, sicin iussi ad me ires? pedibus † pulmunes
qui perhíbetur prius venisset quam tu advenisti mihi.

[¶175] I’ faith,’twas she delayed me.
STRATIPPOCLES:
If indeed you delayed for her sake,
because she wished it, you have come too quickly.

> Latin: Danista:
Haec edepol remorata med est.
Stratippocles:
Siquidem istius gratia
id remoratu'sremoratus es quod ista voluit, nimium advenisti cito.

[¶176] A BANKER:
Well, well, dispatch with me and count out the money, that I mayn’t be detaining my friends.

> Latin: Danista:
Age age, absolve ⟨me⟩ atque argentum numera, ne comites morer.

[¶177] STRATIPPOCLES:
It has been counted out.
A BANKER.: (giving him a bag.)
Take this bag; put it into it.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Pernumeratumst.
Danista:
Tene cruminam: huc inde.

[¶178] STRATIPPOCLES:
You come discreetly provided! Wait till I bring out the money to you.
A BANKER:
Make haste.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Sapienter venis.
opperire, dum effero ad te argentum.
Danista:
Matura.

[¶179] STRATIPPOCLES:
It’s at home.
(Goes into the house of CHAERIBULUS.)

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Domist.—

[¶180] EPIDICUS: (looking steadily at TELESTIS.)
Have I the use of my eyes quite unimpaired, or is it otherwise?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Satin ego oculis utilitatem optineo sincere an parum?

[¶181] Do I not behold in you, Telestis, the daughter of Periphanes, born at Thebes of your mother Philippa, and conceived at Epidaurus?

> Latin: videon ego Telestidem te, Periphanai filiam,
ex Philippa matre natam Thebis, Epidauri satam?

[¶182] TELESTIS:
What person are you who are making mention of the name of my parents and my own?

> Latin: Telestis:
Quis tu homo es, qui meum parentum nomen memoras et meum?

[¶183] EPIDICUS:
Don’t you know me?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Non me nosti?

[¶184] TELESTIS:
Not, indeed, so far as recurs to my mind just now.

> Latin: Telestis:
Quod quidem nunc veniat in mentem mihi.

[¶185] EPIDICUS:
Don’t you remember my bringing you a crescent upon your birthday, and a little gold ring for your finger?
(STRATIPPOCLES returns with the money.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Non meministi me auream ad te afferre natali die
lunulam atque anellum aureolum ín digitum?

[¶186] TELESTIS:
I remember it. What, are you that person?

> Latin: Telestis:
Memini, mi homo.
tune is es?

[¶187] EPIDICUS:
I am, and (pointing to STRATIPPOCLES, at a distance) he there is your brother by another mother and the same father.
TELESTIS: (in agitation.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ego sum, ét istic frater, qui te mercatust, tuos.
… ália matre, uno patre.

[¶188] What of my father? Is he alive?
EPIDICUS:
Be of calm and composed feelings; hold your peace.

> Latin: Telestis:
Quid pater meus? vivit?
Epidicvs:
Animo liquido et tranquillo es, tace.

[¶189] TELESTIS:
The Gods will that from being lost I should be saved, if you speak the truth.

> Latin: Telestis:
Di me ex perdita servatam cupiunt, si vera autumas.

[¶190] EPIDICUS:
I have no occasion to be telling untruths to you.
STRATIPPOCLES: (to the BANKER.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Non habeo ullam occasionem, ut apud te falsa fabuler.

[¶191] Take this money, Banker; here are forty minae. If any piece shall be doubtful I’ll change it.
(Gives him the money.)
A BANKER:
You do well. Kindly farewell.
(Exit.)
STRATIPPOCLES: (to TELESTIS.)
Now then you are my own—

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Accipe argentum hoc, danista. hic sunt quadraginta minae.
siquid erit dubium, immutabo.
Danista:
Bene fecisti, bene vale.—
Stratippocles:
Nunc enim tú mea es.

[¶192] TELESTIS:
Why yes—sister, i’ faith, that you may know it as well. Greetings to you, brother.

> Latin: Telestis:
Soror quidem edepol, ut tu aeque scias.
salve, frater.

[¶193] STRATIPPOCLES: (to EPIDICUS.)
Is this woman in her senses?

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Sanan haec est?

[¶194] EPIDICUS:
In her senses, if she calls you her brother.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Sana, si appellat suom.

[¶195] STRATIPPOCLES:
How’s this? Have I just now become her brother while going in-doors and coming out?

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Quid? ego modo ⟨amator sum⟩ huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo?

[¶196] EPIDICUS:
What good fortune there is, do you in silence keep your peace thereon and rejoice.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quod boni est id tacitus taceas tute tecum et gaudeas.

[¶197] STRATIPPOCLES:
Sister, you have both lost and found me!

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Perdidisti et repperisti me, soror.

[¶198] EPIDICUS:
Simpleton, hold your tongue! Through my endeavours, there’s ready for you at home, in fact, a Music-girl for you to make love to; I too, through my endeavours, have restored your sister to liberty.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Stultu'sstultus es, tace.
tibi quidem quod ames domi praéstost, fidicina, opera mea;
et sororem in libertatem idem opera concilio mea.

[¶199] STRATIPPOCLES:
Epidicus, I confess—

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Epidice, fateor—

[¶200] EPIDICUS:
Be off into the house, and order the water to be made warm for her. The rest I’ll let you know afterwards, when there’s leisure.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Abi intro ac iúbe huic aquam calefieri;
cetera haec posterius faxo scibis, ubi erit otium.

[¶201] STRATIPPOCLES:
Follow me this way, sister.

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Sequere hac me, soror.

[¶202] EPIDICUS:
I’ll bid Thesprio come across to you. But remember, if the old gentlemen are at all savage, you, with your sister, to run and help me.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ego ad vos Thesprionem iussero
huc transire. sed memento, si quid saevibunt senes,
suppetias mihi cum sorore ferre.

[¶203] STRATIPPOCLES:
That will be easy.
(He and TELESTIS go into the house of PERIPHANES.)

> Latin: Stratippocles:
Facile istuc erit.—

[¶204] EPIDICUS: (going to the door of the house of CHAERIBULUS.)
Thesprio, come this way through the garden. Come to my rescue at home! The matter’s of importance! (To himself.) I care much less for the old fellows than I did just now. I’ll return in-doors, that the strangers may be attended to on their arrival. I’ll tell these same things that I know, in-doors to Stratippocles. I shall not take to flight; I’m determined to be there at home, and he shan’t throw it in my teeth
that he has been provoked by my running away. I’ll away in-doors; I’ve been talking too long.
(Goes into the house of PERIPHANES.) (Enter PERIPHANES and APAECIDES, with thongs in their hands.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Thesprio, exi istac per hortum, adfer domum auxilium mihi,
magnast res. minoris multo facio quam dudum senes.
remeabo intro, ut accurentur advenientes hospites.
eádem haec intus edocebo quae ego scio Stratippoclem.
non fugio, domi adesse certumst; neque ille haud obiciet mihi
pedibus sese provocatum. abeo intro, nimis longum loquor.—

[¶205] PERIPHIANES:
Hasn’t this fellow quite made a laughing-stock of us two decrepit old people?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Satine illic homo ludibrio nos vetulos decrepitos duos
habet?

[¶206] APAECIDES:
Why yes, I’ faith, you’ve really kept me plagued in a shocking fashion.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Immo edepol tu quidem míserum med habes miseris modis.

[¶207] PERIPHIANES:
Now do hold your tongue. Only let me catch the fellow!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Tace sis, modo sine me hóminem apisci.

[¶208] APAECIDES:
I’ll tell you now, that you may know it. It’s best for you to seek another companion; so much, while I’ve been following you,
has the congested blood, from weariness, come down into the knees of poor me.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Dico ego tibi iam, ut scias:
alium tibi te comitem meliust quaerere; ita, dum te sequor,
lassitudine invaserunt misero in genua flemina.

[¶209] PERIPHIANES:
After how many fashions has this fellow made sport of me and you to-day! besides, how he has disembowelled my silver resources for me!

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quot illic homo hodie me exemplis ludificatust atque te,
ut illic autem exenteravit mihi opes argentarias!

[¶210] APAECIDES:
Away with him from me; for surely he’s the son of Vulcan in his wrath: wherever he touches, he sets all on fire; if you stand by him, he scorches you with his heat.
(unperceived, from the house.)
EPIDICUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Apoecides:
Apage illum a me, nam ille quidem Volcani iratist filius:
quaqua tangit, omne amburit, si astes, aestu calefacit.

[¶211] More than the twelve Gods, the immortal Gods as many as are in the heavens, are now assistants in my rescue, and are fighting on my side. As to whatever I have offended in, I have aid and assistance at home. All my enemies I quite spurn by the heels.
PERIPHIANES: (looking about.)
Where in the world shall I look for him?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Duodecim deis plus quam in caelo deorumst immortalium
mihi nunc auxilio adiutores sunt et mecum militant.
quidquid ego malefeci, auxilia mi et suppetiae sunt domi,
apolactizo inimicos omnis.
Periphanes:
Vbi illum quaeram gentium?

[¶212] APAECIDES:
So long as you look for him without me, you may look for him even in the middle of the sea, as far as I’m concerned.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Dum sine me quaeras, quaeras mea causa vel medio in mari.

[¶213] EPIDICUS: (coming forward, and addressing PERIPHANES)
Why are you looking for me? Why are you taking this trouble? Why are you worrying him? (Pointing to APAECIDES.) See, here I am. Have I run away from you? Have I betaken myself from the house? Have I hid myself from your sight? I don’t entreat you either. Do you wish to bind me? Look then, I present my hands. (Holding out his hands.) You have got thongs; I saw you purchase them. Why do you delay now? Do bind me!

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quid me quaeris? quid laboras? quid hunc sollicitas? ecce me.
num te fugi, num ab domo apsum, num oculis concessi tuis?
…
nec tibi supplico. vincire vis? em, ostendo manus;
tú habes lora, ego te emere vidi: quid nunc cessas? colliga.

[¶214] PERIPHIANES:
It’s all over. He gives bail to me of his own accord for his appearance.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Ilicet, vadimonium ultro mi hic facit.

[¶215] EPIDICUS:
Why don’t you bind me?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quin colligas?

[¶216] APAECIDES:
A wicked slave, upon my faith!

> Latin: Apoecides:
Edepol mancipium scelestum.

[¶217] EPIDICUS:
Really, Apaecides, I don’t want you to intercede for me.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Te profecto, Apoecides,
nil moror mihi deprecari.

[¶218] APAECIDES:
You easily obtain your wish, Epidicus.
EPIDICUS: (to PERIPHANES.)

> Latin: Apoecides:
Facile exoras, Epidice.

[¶219] Are you going to do anything?
PERIPHIANES:
What, at your pleasure?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ecquid agis?
Periphanes:
Tuon arbitratu?

[¶220] EPIDICUS:
Troth, at my own, indeed, and not at yours, are these hands to be bound by you to-day.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Meo hercle vero atque hau tuo
colligandae haec sunt tibi hodie.

[¶221] PERIPHIANES:
But I don’t choose; I shan’t bind them.
APAECIDES: (to PERIPHANES.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
At non lubet, non colligo.

[¶222] He’s preparing to throw a dragnet over you; he’s framing some plan, I know not what.

> Latin: Apoecides:
Tragulam in te inicere adornat, nescio quam fabricam facit.

[¶223] EPIDICUS:
You are causing delay to yourself, while I stand unbound; bind them, I tell you, bind them together.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Tibi moram facis, cum égo solutus asto. age, inquam, colliga.

[¶224] PERIPHIANES:
But I choose rather to question you unbound.

> Latin: Periphanes:
At mihi magis lubet solutum te rogitare.

[¶225] EPIDICUS:
But you shall know nothing.
PERIPHIANES: (turning to APAECIDES.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
At nil scies.

[¶226] What am I to do?
APAECIDES:
What are you to do? Let him be complied with.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid ago?
Apoecides:
Quid agas? mos geratur.

[¶227] EPIDICUS:
You are a worthy person, Apaecides.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Frugi es tú homo, Apoecides.

[¶228] PERIPHIANES:
Hold out your hands then.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Cedo manus igitur.

[¶229] EPIDICUS: (holding out his hands.)
They don’t at all object; bind them fast together too.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Morantur nihil. atque arte colliga.

[¶230] Don’t be afraid.
(PERIPHANES binds his hands.)
I’m submissive.
When the job is done, then pronounce your judgment.
PERIPHIANES:
There, that is good.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Nihil moror.
Epidicvs:
Obnoxiose.
Periphanes:
Facto opere arbitramino.

[¶231] EPIDICUS:
Now then, to the point, with your enquiries of me; ask me what you please.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Bene hoc habet. age nunciam ex me exquire, rogita quod lubet.

[¶232] PERIPHIANES:
In the first place, with what assurance did you presume to say that she who was bought the day before yesterday was my daughter?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Qua fiducia ausu'sausus es primum, quae emptast nudiustertius,
filiam meam dicere esse?

[¶233] EPIDICUS:
I chose to; on that assurance.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Libuit: ea fiducia.

[¶234] PERIPHIANES:
Do you say so? You chose to?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Ain tu? libuit?

[¶235] EPIDICUS:
I do say so. Even lay me a wager that she is not the daughter—

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Aio. vel da pignus, ni ea sit filia.

[¶236] PERIPHIANES:
A woman whom the mother declares she doesn’t know?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quam negat novisse mater?

[¶237] EPIDICUS:
Then, if she isn’t the daughter of her mother, make me a bet about it, my didrachm to your talent.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ni ergo matris filia est,
in meum nummum, in tuom talentum pignus da.

[¶238] PERIPHIANES:
Why, that’s a mere catch. But who is this woman?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Enim istaec captiost.
sed quis east mulier?

[¶239] EPIDICUS:
The mistress of your son, that you may know the whole matter.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Tui gnati amica, ut omnem ⟨rem⟩ scias.

[¶240] PERIPHIANES:
Did I not give you the thirty minae for my daughter?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Dedin tibi minas triginta ob filiam?

[¶241] EPIDICUS:
I confess that they were given, and that with that money I purchased this Music-girl, your son’s mistress,
instead of your daughter. As to those thirty minae, in fact, I imposed upon you.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Fateor datas
et eo argento illam me emisse amicam fili fidicinam
pro tua filia: is te eam ob rem tetigi triginta minis.

[¶242] PERIPHIANES:
For what reason did you play a trick upon me about that hired Music-girl?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quo modo mé ludos fecisti de illa conducticia
fidicina?

[¶243] EPIDICUS:
I’ faith, I really did do it, and I think it was rightly done.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Factum hercle vero, et recte factum iudico.

[¶244] PERIPHIANES:
In the last place, what has been done with the silver I gave you?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid postremo argento factum est quod dedi?

[¶245] EPIDICUS:
I’ll tell you; I gave it to a person neither bad nor yet good —your son Stratippocles.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Dicam tibi:
neque malo homini neque maligno tuo dedi Stratippocli.

[¶246] PERIPHIANES:
Why did you dare to give it him?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quor dare ausu'sausus es?

[¶247] EPIDICUS:
Because it pleased me.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quia mi libitum est.

[¶248] PERIPHIANES: (stamping.)
Plague on it! what insolence is this?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quae haec, malum, impudentiast?

[¶249] EPIDICUS:
Am I to be bawled at just as if I were a slave?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Etiam inclamitor quasi servos?

[¶250] PERIPHIANES: (ironically.)
As you are a free man, I rejoice.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Cum tu es liber, gaudeo.

[¶251] EPIDICUS:
I have deserved to become so.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Merui ut fierem.

[¶252] PERIPHIANES:
You—deserved?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Tu meruisti?

[¶253] EPIDICUS:
Go look in-doors; I’ll let you know that this is the truth.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Vise intro: ego faxo scies
hoc ita esse.

[¶254] PERIPHIANES:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid est negoti?

[¶255] EPIDICUS:
The thing itself will tell you so at once. Only do go in-doors.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Iam ipsa res dicet tibi.
abi modo intro.
Apoecides:
Ei, non illuc temerest.

[¶256] PERIPHIANES:
Aye, aye! this is not without its meaning.
Do you keep an eye on him, Apaecides.
(Goes into his house.)

> Latin: Periphanes:
Adserva istum, Apoecides.—

[¶257] APAECIDES:
What’s the meaning of this, Epidicus?

> Latin: Apoecides:
Quid illuc, Epidice, est negoti?

[¶258] EPIDICUS:
I’ faith, it’s with the greatest injustice that I’m standing here bound, through whose aid his daughter has been discovered to-day.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Maxima hercle iniuria
vinctus asto, cuius haec hodie ópera inventast filia.

[¶259] APAECIDES:
Do you say that you have found his daughter?

> Latin: Apoecides:
Ain tu te illius invenisse filiam?

[¶260] EPIDICUS:
I have found her, and she is at home. But how hard it is, when, for services done, you reap a harvest of evil.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Inveni, et domi est.
sed ut acerbum est, pro bene factis cum mali messim metas.

[¶261] APAECIDES:
What, her whom this day we’ve both been weary with seeking throughout the city?

> Latin: Apoecides:
Quamne hodie per urbem uterque sumus defessi quaerere?

[¶262] EPIDICUS:
I’m weary with finding, you weary with seeking.
(from the house.)
PERIPHIANES: (at the door, to those within.)

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ego sum defessus reperire, vos defessi quaerere.

[¶263] Why do you entreat me thus earnestly in his behalf? For I find that he does deserve that I should be pleased to act according to his deserts. (To EPIDICUS.) Hold out your hands, you, that I may unbind them.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Quid isti oratis opere tanto? mi ⟨orandum⟩ esse intellego,
ut liceat merito huius facere. cedo tu ut exsolvam manus.

[¶264] EPIDICUS:
Don’t you touch them.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Ne attigas.

[¶265] PERIPHIANES:
But do you present them to me.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Ostende vero.

[¶266] EPIDICUS:
I don’t choose.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Nolo.

[¶267] PERIPHIANES:
You don’t do right.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Non aequom facis.

[¶268] EPIDICUS:
Upon my faith, I’ll never allow myself to be unbound this day, unless you give me satisfaction.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Numquam hercle hodie, nisi supplicium mihi das, me solvi sinam.

[¶269] PERIPHIANES:
You ask what’s very fair and very just. Shoes, a tunic, and a cloak I’ll give you.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Optumum atque aequissumum oras. soccos, tunicam, pallium
tibi dabo.

[¶270] EPIDICUS:
What next, after that?

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Quid deinde porro?

[¶271] PERIPHIANES:
Your freedom.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Libertatem.

[¶272] EPIDICUS:
But after that? There’s need for a new-made freed-man to pick a bit.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
At postea?
novo liberto opus est quod pappet.

[¶273] PERIPHIANES:
It shall be given; I’ll find you food.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Dabitur, praebebo cibum.

[¶274] EPIDICUS:
On my word, never this day shall you release me, unless you beg my pardon.

> Latin: Epidicvs:
Numquam hercle hodie, nisi me orassis, solves.

[¶275] PERIPHIANES:
I do entreat you, Epidicus, to forgive me, if unawares in fault I’ve done anything wrong.

> Latin: Periphanes:
Oro te, Epidice,
mihi ut ignoscas, siquid imprúdens culpa peccavi mea.

[¶276] But by way of return for this matter, be a free man.
EPIDICUS:
Against my inclination do I grant you this pardon, but I’m compelled by necessity. Unbind them then, if you choose.
(He holds out his hands, which are unbound by PERIPHANES, and they go into his house.)

> Latin: at ob eam rem liber esto.
Epidicvs:
Invitus do hanc veniam tibi,
nisi necessitate cogar. solve sane, si lubet.

[¶277] (coming forward.) This is that man who by his roguery has gained his freedom. Clap your hands, and fare you well! Stretch your loins, and rise from your seats.

> Latin: Poeta:
Hic is homo est qui libertatem malitia invenit sua.
plaudite et valete. lumbos porgite atque exsurgite.