I’m all right, if, indeed, his adherence to that sentiment is immoveable and lasting.DEMIPHO: (aside.)
Charinvs:Salvos sum, siquidem ísti dicto solida et perpetuast fides.
Why is it that he calls himself aside into counsel with himself?
Demipho:Quid illuc est quod ille á me solus se in consilium sevocat?
I’m not afraid now lest he should be able to come to know that I’m in love with her, because I’ve not as yet done anything in a foolish manner, as people in love are wont to do.CHARINUS: (aside.)
[iam] nón vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere;quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci, amantes ut solent.
I’ faith, the affair for the present is really quite safe; for I’m quite certain that he doesn’t know anything about that mistress of mine; if he did know, his talk would have been different.DEMIPHO: (aside.)
Charinvs:Res adhuc quidem hercle in tutost, nam hunc nescire sat sciode illa amica; quod si sciret, esset alia oratio.
Why don’t I accost him about her?CHARINUS: (aside.)Why don’t I betake myself off hence?
Demipho:Quin ego hunc adgredior de illa?Charinvs:Quin ego hinc me amolior?
(Aloud.) I’m going to deliver the commissions from my friends to their friends.(Moves as if going.)DEMIPHO:Nay, but stop; I still want to make a few enquiries of you first.
eo ego, ut quae mandata amicus amicis tradam.Demipho:Immo mane;paucula etiam sciscitare prius volo.
CHARINUS:Say what it is you wish.
Charinvs:Dic quid velis.
DEMIPHO:Have you all along been well?
Demipho:Vsquene valuisti?
CHARINUS:Quite well all the time, so long, indeed, as I was there; but as soon as I had arrived here in harbour, I don’t know what faintness it was came over me.
Charinvs:Perpetuo recte, dum quidem illic fui;verum in portum huc ut sum advectus, nescio qui animus mihi dolet.
DEMIPHO:I’ faith, I suppose it arose from sea-sickness; but it will be going off just now.
Demipho:Nausea edepol factum credo; verum actutum abscesserit.
But how say you? What servant-maid is this that you have brought from Rhodes for your mother?
sed quid ais? ecquam tu advexti tuae matri ancillam e Rhodo?
CHARINUS:I’ve brought one.
Charinvs:Advexi.
DEMIPHO:Well, what sort of a woman is she as to appearance?
Demipho:Quid? ea ut videtur mulier?
CHARINUS:Not an ill-favored one, i’ faith.
Charinvs:Non edepol mala.
DEMIPHO:How is she as to manners?
Demipho:Vt moratast?
CHARINUS:In my way of thinking, I never saw one better.
Charinvs:Nullam vidi melius mea sententia.
DEMIPHO:So, indeed, i’ faith, she seemed to me when I saw her.
Demipho:Mihi quidem edepol visast, quom illam vidi.
CHARINUS:How now, have you seen her, father?
Charinvs:Eho an vidisti, pater?
DEMIPHO:I have seen her; but she doesn’t suit our ways, and so she doesn’t please me.
Demipho:Vidi. verum non ex usu nostrost, neque adeo placet.
CHARINUS:Why so?
Charinvs:Qui vero?
DEMIPHO:Because she hasn’t a figure suitable to our establishment; we stand in need of no female servant but one who can weave, grind, chop wood, make yarn, sweep out the house, stand a beating, and who can have every day’s victuals cooked for the household. This one will be able to do not any single one of these things.
Demipho:Quia †non nostra formam habet dignam domo.nihil opust nobis ancilla nisi quae texat, quae molat,lignum caedat, pensum faciat, aedis verrat, vapulet,quaé habeat cottidianum familiae coctum cibum:horunc illa nihilum quicquam facere poterit.
CHARINUS:Why, in fact,for this reason I purchased her, to make a present of her to my mother.
Charinvs:Admodum.ea causa equidem illam emi, dono quam darem matri meae.
DEMIPHO:Don’t you be giving her, nor mention that you have brought her.
Demipho:Ne duas, neve te advexisse dixeris.
CHARINUS: (aside.)The Deities favour me.DEMIPHO: (aside.)
Charinvs:Di me adiuvant.
I’m shaking him by slow degrees. (Aloud.) But, what I omitted to say,—she can neither with due propriety follow your mother as an attendant;nor will I allow it.CHARINUS:But why?
Demipho:Labefacto paulatim. verum quod praeterii dicere,neque illa matrem satis honeste tuam sequi poterit comes,neque sinam.Charinvs:Qui vero?
DEMIPHO:Because, with those good looks, it would be scandalous if she were to be following a matron when she’s walking through the streets; all people would be staring, gazing, nodding, winking, hissing, twitching, crying out, be annoying, and singing serenades at our door; my door, perhaps, would be filled with the charcoal marks of her praises;
Demipho:Quia illa forma matrem familiasflagitium sit si sequatur; quando incedat per vias,contemplent, conspiciant omnes, nutent, nictent, sibilent,vellicent, vocent, molesti sint; occentent ostium:impleantur élegeorum meae fores carbonibus.
and, according as persons are scandalizing at the present day, they might throw it in the teeth of my wife and myself, that we are carrying on the business of a Procurer. Now what occasion is there for this?
atque, ut nunc sunt maledicentes homines, uxori meaemihique obiectent lenocinium facere. nam quid eost opus?
CHARINUS:Why, faith, you say what’s just, and I agree with you. But what shall be done with her now?
Charinvs:Hercle qui tu recte dicis, et tibí adsentior.sed quid illá nunc fiet?
DEMIPHO:Exactly; I’ll buy for your mother some stout wench of a female slave, not a bad servant, but of ungainly figure,as befits the mistress of a family—either a Syrian or an Egyptian woman: she shall do the grinding, spin out the yarn, and stand a lashing; and on her account no disgrace at all will be befalling our doors.
Demipho:Recte. ego emero matri tuaeancillam viraginem aliquam non malam, forma mala,ut matrem addecet familias, aut Syram aut Aegyptiam:ea molet, coquet, conficiet pensum, pinsetur flagro,neque propter eam quicquam eveniet nostris foribus flagiti.
CHARINUS:What then if she is restored to the person of whom she was purchased?
Charinvs:Quid si igitur reddatur illi unde empta est?
DEMIPHO:By no means in the world.
Demipho:Minime gentium.
CHARINUS:He said that he would take her back, if she didn’t suit.
Charinvs:Dixit se redhibere, si non placeat.
DEMIPHO:There’s no need of that;
Demipho:Nihil istoc opust:
I don’t want you to get into litigation, nor yet your honor to be called in question. I’ troth, I would much rather, if any must be endured, put up with the loss myself, than that disgrace or scandal on account of a woman should be brought upon my house. I think that I am able to sell for you at a good profit.CHARINUS:I’ faith, so long, indeed, as you don’t be selling her at a less price than I bought her at, father.
litigari nolo ego usquam, tuam autem accusari fidem;multo edepol si quid faciendumst facere damni mavolo,quam opprobramentum aut flagitium muliebre exferri domo.me tibi illam posse opinor luculente vendere.Charinvs:Dum quidem hercle ne minoris vendas quám ego emi, pater.
DEMIPHO:Do you only hold your tongue; there is a certain old gentleman who commissioned me to buy one for him of just that same appearance.
Demipho:Tace modo: senex est quidam, qui illam mandavit mihiut emerem ⟨aut⟩ ad istanc faciem.
CHARINUS:But, father, a certain young man commissioned me to buy one for him of just that same appearance that she is of.
Charinvs:At mihi quidam adulescens, pater,mandavit ad illam faciem, ita ut illaec est, emerem sibi.
DEMIPHO:I think that I am able to dispose of her for twenty minae.
Demipho:Viginti minis opinor posse me illam vendere.
CHARINUS:But, if I had chosen, there have been already seven-and-twenty minae offered.
Charinvs:At ego si velim, iam dantur septem et viginti minae.
DEMIPHO:But I—
Demipho:At ego—
CHARINUS:Nay, but I, I say—
Charinvs:Quin ego, inquam—
DEMIPHO:But you don’t know what I was going to say; do hold your tongue. I can add three minae even to that, so that there will be thirty.(Looks as though on one side at a distance.)
Demipho:Ah, nescis quid dicturus sum, tace.tris minas accudere etiam possum, ut triginta sient.
CHARINUS:What are you turning yourself towards?
Charinvs:Quo vortisti?
DEMIPHO:Towards him who’s making the purchase.
Demipho:Ad illum qui emit.
CHARINUS: (staring about.)Why, where in the world is this person?
Charinvs:Vbinamst is homo gentium?
DEMIPHO:Look there, I see him, yonder (pointing); he’s bidding me even still to add five minae.CHARINUS: (aside.)
Demipho:Eccillum video. iubet quínque me addere etiam nunc minas.
By my troth, may the Gods send a curse upon him, whoever he is!DEMIPHO: (looking in the distance.)There he is again, making a sign to me, even still, for me to add six minae.
Charinvs:Hercle illunc divi infelicent, quisquis est.Demipho:Ibidem mihietiam nunc adnutat addam sex minas.
CHARINUS:My man is bidding seven minae,for her, full weight, father.(Aside.)
Charinvs:Septem mihi.
I’ faith, he shall never this day outdo me.DEMIPHO:He’s bidding in vain; I will have her!
Demipho:Numquam edepol me vincet hodie.
CHARINUS:But the other one made the first offer.
Charinvs:Commodis poscit, pater.Demipho:Nequiquam poscit: ego habeo.Charinvs:At illic pollicitust prior.
DEMIPHO:I care nothing for that.
Demipho:Nihili facio.
CHARINUS:He bids fifty.
Charinvs:Quinquaginta poscit.
DEMIPHO:No, a hundred’s the offer. Can’t you desist from bidding against the determination of my mind. I’ troth, you’ll be having an immense profit, in such a way is this old gentleman for whom she’s being purchased. He’s not in his senses by reason of his love; whatever you ask, you’ll get.
Demipho:Non centum datur.potine ut ne licitere advorsum ⟨mei⟩ animi sententiam?maximam hercle habebis praedam: ita ille est, quoi emitur, senex;sanus non est ex amore illius. quod posces feres.
CHARINUS:I’ faith, that young man, for whom I’m purchasing, is assuredly dying with distraction for love of her.
Charinvs:Certe edepol adulescens ille, cui ego emo, efflictim periteius amore.
DEMIPHO:Troth, very much more so is that old gentleman, if you did but know it.
Demipho:Multo hercle ille magis senex, si tu scias.
CHARINUS:I’ faith, that old man never was nor ever will be more distracted with love than that young man, father, to whom I’m lending this assistance.
Charinvs:Numquam edepol fuit neque fiet ille senex insaniorex amore quam ille adulescens cui ego do hanc operam, pater.
DEMIPHO:Do be quiet, I tell you; I’ll see to that matter, that it’s all right.
Demipho:Quiesce, inquam. istanc rém ego recte videro.
CHARINUS:How say you—?
Charinvs:Quid ais?
DEMIPHO:What is it?
Demipho:Quid est?
CHARINUS:I didn’t take her for a slave; but it was he that took her for such.
Charinvs:Non ego illám mancupio accepi.
DEMIPHO:Let me alone.
Demipho:Sed ille illam accipiet. sine.
CHARINUS:By law you cannot put her up for sale.
Charinvs:Non potes tu lege vendere illam.
DEMIPHO:I’ll somehow see to that.
Demipho:Ego aliquid videro.
CHARINUS:And then besides, she’s the common property of myself and another person; how do I know how he’s disposed, whether he does wish or doesn’t wish to sell her?
Charinvs:Post autem communest illa mihi cum álio. qui scioquid sit ei animi, venirene eam velit an non velit?
DEMIPHO:I’m sure he does wish.
Demipho:Ego scio velle.
CHARINUS:But, i’ faith, I believe that there’s a certain person who doesn’t wish.
Charinvs:At pol ego esse credo aliquem qui non velit.
DEMIPHO:What matters that to me?
Demipho:Quid id mea refert?
CHARINUS:Because it’s right that he should have the disposal of his own property.
Charinvs:Quia illi suam rem esse aequomst in manu.
DEMIPHO:What is it you say?
Demipho:Quid ais?
CHARINUS:She is the common property of myself and another person; he isn’t here at present.
Charinvs:Communis mihi illa est cum illo: is hic nunc non adest.
DEMIPHO:You are answering me before I ask.
Demipho:Prius respondes quam rogo.
CHARINUS:You are buying, father, before I sell. I don’t know, I say, whether he chooses to part with her or not.
Charinvs:Prius tú emis quam vendo, pater.nescio, inquam, velit ille illam necne abalienarier.
DEMIPHO:But if she is purchased for that certain person who gave you the commission, will he choose it then? If I purchase her for that person who gave me the commission, will he then not choose it? You avail nothing.
Demipho:Quid? illi quoidam qui mandavit tibi si emetur, tum volet,sí ego emo illi qui mandavit, tum ille nolet? nihil agis.
Never, on my faith, shall any person have her in preference to the person that I wish. That I’m resolved upon.
numquam edepol quisquam illam habebit potius quam ille quem ego volo.
CHARINUS:Have you made up your mind that it is resolved upon?
Charinvs:Certumnest?
DEMIPHO:Why, I’m going hence at once to the ship; there she shall be sold.
Demipho:Censen certum esse? quin ad navem iam hinc eo,ibi venibit.
CHARINUS:Do you wish me to go there with you?
Charinvs:Vin me tecum illo ire?
DEMIPHO:I don’t wish you.
Demipho:Nolo.
CHARINUS:You don’t choose it, then.
Charinvs:Non places.
DEMIPHO:It’s better for you to give your earliest attention to the business which you’ve been commissioned upon.
Demipho:Meliust te, quae sunt mandatae res tibi, praevortier.
CHARINUS:You are hindering me from doing so.
Charinvs:Tu prohibes.
DEMIPHO:Then do you make your excuse that you have used all diligence.
Demipho:At me incusato: te fecisse sedulo.
Don’t you go to the harbour, I tell you that now.CHARINUS:That shall be attended to.DEMIPHO: (aside.)
ad portum ne bitas, dico iam tibi.Charinvs:Auscultabitur.
I’ll be off to the harbour, and (I have need of caution lest he should find it out) I’ll not buy her myself, but commission my friend Lysimachus; he said just now that he was going to the harbour. I’m delaying while I’m standing here.(Exit.) (CHARINUS, alone.)CHARINUS: (wringing his hands, and crying aloud.)I’m lost—I’m undone.
Demipho:Ibo ad portum. ne hic resciscat, cauto opust: non ipse emam,sed Lysimacho amico mandabo. is se ad portum dixeratire dudum. me moror quom hic asto.—Charinvs:Nullus sum, occidi.
They say that the Bacchanals tore Pentheus to pieces. I do believe that that was the merest trifle compared with the manner in which I am rent asunder in different ways.
Charinvs:Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas: nugas maximasfuisse credo, praeut quo pacto égo divorsus distrahor.
Why do I exist? Why don’t I die? What good is there for me in life? I’m determined, I’ll go to a doctor, and there I’ll put myself to death by poison, since that is being taken from me for the sake of which I desire to remain in existence.(He is going off.)EUTYCHUS: (Enter EUTYCHUS, from the house of LYSIMACHUS.)
cur ego vivo? cur non morior? quid mihist in vita boni?certumst, ibo ad medicum atque ibi me toxico morti dabo,quando id mi adimitur, qua causa vitam cupio vivere.
Stop, prithee, stop, Charinus.CHARINUS: (turning.)Who is it, that calls me back?
Evtychvs:Mane, mane obsecro, Charine.Charinvs:Quis me revocat?
EUTYCHUS:Eutychus,your friend and companion, your nearest neighbour as well.
Evtychvs:Eutychus,tuos amicus et sodalis, simul vicinus proxumus.
CHARINUS:You don’t know what a vast weight of my woes I am enduring.
Charinvs:Non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam.
EUTYCHUS:I do know. I listened to it all at the door: I know the whole matter.
Evtychvs:Scio;omnia ego istaec auscultavi ab ostio, omnem rem scio.
CHARINUS:What is it that you know?
Charinvs:Quid id est quod scis?
EUTYCHUS:Your father wishes to sell—
Evtychvs:Tuos pater volt vendere—
CHARINUS:You have the whole matter.
Charinvs:Omnem rem tenes.
EUTYCHUS:—Your mistress—
Evtychvs:Tuam amicam.
CHARINUS:You know by far too much.
Charinvs:Nimium multum scis.
EUTYCHUS:—Against your wish.
Evtychvs:Tuis ingratiis.
CHARINUS:You know everything. But how do you know that this woman is my mistress?
Charinvs:Plurimum tu scis. sed qui scis esse amicam illam meam?
EUTYCHUS:You yourself told me yesterday.
Evtychvs:Tute heri ipsus mihi narrasti.
CHARINUS:Isn’t it the fact that I had quite forgotten that I told you yesterday?
Charinvs:Satin ut oblitus fui,tibi me narravisse?
EUTYCHUS:It’s not surprising it is so.
Evtychvs:Hau mirumst factum.
CHARINUS:I now consult you. Answer me; by what death do you think that I should die in preference?
Charinvs:Te nunc consulo.responde: quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?
EUTYCHUS:Won’t you hold your peace? Take you care how you say that.
Evtychvs:Non taces? cave tu istuc dixis.
CHARINUS:What then do you wish me to say?
Charinvs:Quid vis me igitur dicere?
EUTYCHUS:Should you like me to trick your father nicely?
Evtychvs:Vin patri sublinere pulchre me os tuo?
CHARINUS:I really should like it.
Charinvs:Sane volo.
EUTYCHUS:Should you like me to walk to the harbour—
Evtychvs:Visne eam ad portum—
CHARINUS:What, rather than that you should fly?
Charinvs:Qui potius quam voles?
EUTYCHUS:And release the fair one for a sum.
Evtychvs:Atque eximammulierem pretio?
CHARINUS:What, rather than you should pay her weight in gold?
Charinvs:Qui potius quam auro expendas?
EUTYCHUS:Whence is it to come?
Evtychvs:Vnde erit?
CHARINUS:I’ll entreat Achilles to lend me the gold with which Hector was ransomed
Charinvs:Achillem orabo, aurum ut mihi det, Hector qui expensus fuit.
EUTYCHUS:Are you in your senses?
Evtychvs:Sanun es?
CHARINUS:I’ faith, if I were in my senses, I shouldn’t be seeking you for my physician.
Charinvs:Pol sanus si sim, non te medicum mi expetam.
EUTYCHUS:Do you wish her to be purchased for as high a price as he asks?
Evtychvs:Tanti quanti poscit, vin tanti illam emi?
CHARINUS:Throw in something by way of surplus; even a thousand didrachms more than he shall demand.
Charinvs:Auctariumadicito vel mille nummum plus quam poscet.
EUTYCHUS:Now, do hold your peace. But what say you as to this? Whence will the money come, for you to give, when your father asks for it?
Evtychvs:Iam tace.sed quid ais? unde erit argentum quod des, quom poscet pater?
CHARINUS:It shall be found, it shall be sought out, something shall be done.
Charinvs:Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet; enicas.
EUTYCHUS:You are worrying me to death. For I’m afraid of that “Something shall be done.”
Evtychvs:Iam istuc 'aliquid fiet' metuo.
CHARINUS:Why won’t you hold your tongue?
Charinvs:Quin taces?
EUTYCHUS:You give your commands to one who is dumb.
Evtychvs:Muto imperas.
CHARINUS:Is this matter sufficiently pointed out to you?
Charinvs:Satin istuc mandatumst?
EUTYCHUS:Can’t you possibly be attending to something else?
Evtychvs:Potin ut aliud cures?
CHARINUS:It isn’t possible.EUTYCHUS: (going.)
Charinvs:Non potest.
Kindly fare you well.CHARINUS:I’ faith, I cannot fare well, before you come back to me.
Evtychvs:Bene vale.Charinvs:Non edepol possum prius quam tu ad me redieris.
EUTYCHUS:To better purpose, recover your senses.
Evtychvs:Melius sanus sis.
CHARINUS:Farewell, and prevail, and be my preserver.
Charinvs:Vale, vince ét me serva.
EUTYCHUS:I’ll do so. Wait for me at home.
Evtychvs:Ego fecero.domi maneto me.
CHARINUS:Do you take care, then, to betake yourself back just now with the booty.(Exit EUTYCHUS, and CHARINUS goes into DEMIPHO’S house.) (Enter LYSIMACHUS, with PASICOMPSA, weeping.)
Charinvs:Ergo actutum face cum praeda recipias.—
LYSIMACHUS: (to himself.)I’ve lent my assistance to my friend in a friendly manner; this piece of goods, which my neighbour requested me, I’ve purchased. (Turning to PASICOMPSA.) You are my own; then follow me.
Lysimachvs:Amíce amico operam dedi: vicinus quod rogavit,hoc emi mercimonium. mea es tu, sequere sane.
Don’t weep. You are acting very foolishly; spoiling such eyes. Why, really you have more reason to laugh than to be crying.
ne plora: nimis stulte facis, oculos corrumpis tales.quin tibi quidem quod rideas magis est, quam ut lamentere.
PASICOMPSA:In the name of heaven, prithee, my good old gentleman, do tell me—
Pasicompsa:Amabo ecastor, mi senex, eloquere—
LYSIMACHUS:Ask me what you please.
Lysimachvs:Exquire quidvis.
PASICOMPSA:Why have you bought me?
Pasicompsa:Cur emeris me.
LYSIMACHUS:What, I, bought you? For you to do what you are bidden;in like manner what you bid me, I’ll do.
Lysimachvs:Tene ego? ut quod imperetur facias,item quod tu mihi si imperes, ego faciam.
PASICOMPSA:I am determined, to the best of my ability and skill, to do what I shall think you desire.
Pasicompsa:Facere certumstpro copia et sapientia quae te velle arbitrabor.
LYSIMACHUS:I shall bid you do nothing of laborious work.
Lysimachvs:Laboriosi nil tibi quicquam operis imperabo.
PASICOMPSA:Why, really, for my part, my good old gentleman, I haven’t learnt, i’ faith, to carry burdens, or to feed cattle at the farm, or to nurse children.
Pasicompsa:Namque edepol equidem, mi senex, non didici baiolarenec pecua ruri pascere nec pueros nutricare.
LYSIMACHUS:If you choose to be a good girl, it shall be well for you.
Lysimachvs:Bona si esse vis, bene erit tibi.
PASICOMPSA:Then, i’ faith, to my sorrow, I’m undone.
Pasicompsa:Tum pol ego perii misera.
LYSIMACHUS:Why so?
Lysimachvs:Qui?
PASICOMPSA:Because in the place from which I have been conveyed hither, it used to be well with the worthless.
Pasicompsa:Quia illim unde huc advecta sum, malis bene esse solitumst.
LYSIMACHUS: (aside.)
Lysimachvs:Quasi dicas nullam mulierem bonam esse.Pasicompsa:Haud equidem dico,nec mos meust ut praedicem quod ego omnis scire credam.
By my troth, her talk alone is worth more than the sum that she was purchased at.(To PASICOMPSA.)As though you would say that no woman is good.PASICOMPSA:Indeed I don’t say so; nor is it my way, to say a thing which I believe all people are acquainted with.LYSIMACHUS:I want to ask this one thing of you.
Lysimachvs:Oratio edepol pluris est huius quam quanti haec emptast.rogare hoc unum te volo.
PASICOMPSA:I’ll answer you when you ask.
Pasicompsa:Roganti respondebo.
LYSIMACHUS:What say you now? What am I to say your name is?
Lysimachvs:Quid ais tu? quid nomen tibi dicam esse?
PASICOMPSA:Pasicompsa.
Pasicompsa:Pasicompsae.
LYSIMACHUS:The name was given you from your good looks. But what say you, Pasicompsa? Can you, if occasion should arise, spin a fine woof?
Lysimachvs:Ex forma nomen inditumst. sed quid ais, Pasicompsa?possin tu, si usus venerit, subtemen tenue nere?
PASICOMPSA:I can.
Pasicompsa:Possum.
LYSIMACHUS:If you know how to do a fine one, I’m sure you can spin a coarser one.
Lysimachvs:Si tenue scis, scio te uberius posse nere.
PASICOMPSA:For spinning, I fear no woman that’s of the same age.
Pasicompsa:De lanificio neminem metuo, una aetate quae sit.
LYSIMACHUS:Upon my faith, I take it that you are good and industrious, since, young woman, now that you are grown up, you know how to do your duty.
Lysimachvs:Bonam hercle te et frugi arbitror, matura iam † inde aetatequom scis facere officium tuom, mulier.
PASICOMPSA:I’ faith, I learned it from a skilful mistress. I won’t let my work be called in question.
Pasicompsa:Pol docta didici.operam accusari non sinam meam.
LYSIMACHUS:Well, thus the matter stands, i’ faith. Look now, I’ll give you a sheep for your own, one sixty years old.
Lysimachvs:Em istaec hercle res est.ovem tibi eccillam dabo, natam annos sexaginta,peculiarem.
PASICOMPSA:My good old gentleman, one so old as that?
Pasicompsa:Mi senex, tam vetulam?
LYSIMACHUS:It’s of the Grecian breed. If you take care of it, it is a very good one; it is shorn very easily.
Lysimachvs:Generis graecist;eam si curabis, perbonast, tondetur nimium scite.
PASICOMPSA:For the sake of the compliment, whatever it is that shall be given me, I shall receive it with thanks.
Pasicompsa:Honoris causa quidquid est quod dabitur gratum habebo.
LYSIMACHUS:Now, damsel, that you mayn’t be mistaken, you are not mine; so don’t think it.
Lysimachvs:Nunc, mulier, ne tu frustra sis, mea non es, ne arbitrere.
PASICOMPSA:Prithee, tell me, then, whose I am?
Pasicompsa:Dic igitur quaeso, quoia sum?
LYSIMACHUS:You’ve been bought back for your own master.
Lysimachvs:Tuo ero redempta es rursum;
I’ve bought you back for him; he requested me to do so.PASICOMPSA:My spirits have returned, if good faith is kept with me.
ego te redemi, ílle mecum oravit.Pasicompsa:Animus rediit,si mecum servatur fides.
LYSIMACHUS:Be of good courage; this person will give you your liberty. I’ troth, he did so dote upon you this day as soon as ever he had seen you.
Lysimachvs:Bono animo es, liberabitille te homo: ita edepol deperit, atque hodie primum vidit.
PASICOMPSA:I’ faith, it’s now two years since he commenced his connexion with me. Now, as I’m sure that you are a friend of his, I’ll disclose it.
Pasicompsa:Ecastor iam bienniumst, quom mecum rem coëpit.nunc, quando amicum te scio esse illius, indicabo.
LYSIMACHUS:How say you? Is it now two years since he formed the connexion with you?
Lysimachvs:Quid ais tu? iam bienniumst, quom tecum rém habet?
PASICOMPSA:Certainly, it is; and we agreed, on oath, between ourselves, I with him, and he with me, that I would never have intercourse with any man except himself, nor he with any woman except myself.
Pasicompsa:Certo;et intér nos coniuravimus, ego cum illo et ille mecum:ego cum viro et ílle cum muliere, nisi cum illo aut ille mecum,neuter stupri causa caput limaret.
LYSIMACHUS:Immortal Gods! Isn’t he even to sleep with his wife?
Lysimachvs:Di immortales,etiam cum uxore non cubet?
PASICOMPSA:Prithee, is he a married man? He neither is nor will he be.
Pasicompsa:Amabo, án maritust?neque est neque erit.
LYSIMACHUS:Indeed, I wish he wasn’t. I’ faith, the fellow has been committing perjury.
Lysimachvs:Nolim quidem. homo hercle periuravit.
PASICOMPSA:No young man do I more ardently love.
Pasicompsa:Nullum adulescentem plus amo.
LYSIMACHUS:Why, really he’s a child, you simpleton; for, in fact, it’s not so very long a time since his teeth fell out.
Lysimachvs:Puer est ille quidem, stulta.nam illi quidem hau sane diust quom dentes exciderunt.
PASICOMPSA:What? His teeth?
Pasicompsa:Quid, dentes?
LYSIMACHUS:It’s no matter? Follow me this way, please; he requested that I would find you room for one day in my house, since my wife is away in the country.(He goes into his house, followed by PASICOMPSA.) (Enter DEMIPHO.)
Lysimachvs:Nihil est. sequere sis. hunc me diem unum oravitut apud me praehiberem locum, ideo quia uxor rurist.—
DEMIPHO: (to himself.)At last I’ve managed to ruin myself;
Demipho:Tandem impetravi ut egomet me corrumperem:
a mistress has been purchased for me without the knowledge of my wife and son. I’m resolved on it; I’ll have recourse again to former habits and enjoy myself. In my allotment of existence, almost now run through, the little that there remains of life, I’ll cheer up with pleasure, wine, and love. For it’s quite proper for this time of life to enjoy itself.
emptast amica clam uxorem et clam filium.certumst, antiqua recolam et servibo mihi.decurso spatio breve quod vitae relicuomstvoluptáte, vino et amore delectavero.nam hanc se bene habere aetatem nimiost aequius.
When you are young, then, when the blood is fresh, it’s right to devote your exertions to acquiring your fortune; and then when at last, you are an old man, you may set yourself at your ease; drink, and be amorous; this, the fact that you are living, is now so much profit. This, as I say, I’ll carry out in deed.(Turning to his house.)
adulescens quom sis, tum quom est sanguis integer,rei tuae quaerundae convenit operam dare;demum igitur quom sis iam senex, tum in otiumte conloces, dum potes ames: id iam lucrumstquod vivis. hoc ut dico, factis persequar.
Meanwhile, however, I’ll take a look in-doors here at my house; my wife has been some time expecting me at home quite hungry: now, she’ll be worrying me to death with her scolding, if I go in-doors. But, in fine, whatever comes of it, i’ faith, I’ll not go, but I’ll first meet this neighbour of mine before I return home;I want him to hire some house for me, where this damsel may dwell. And, see, he’s coming out of doors.(Enter LYSIMACHUS, from his house.)LYSIMACHUS: (to PASICOMPSA, within.)
interea tamen huc intro ad me invisam domum:uxor me exspectat iam dudum esuriens domi;iam iurgio enicabit, si intro rediero.verum hercle postremo, utut est, non ibo tamen,sed hunc vicinum prius conveniam quam domumredeam; ut mihi aedis aliquas conducat volo,ubi habitet istaec mulier. atque eccum it foras.
I’ll bring him to you directly, if I meet him.DEMIPHO: (behind.)
Lysimachvs:Adducam ego illum iam ad te, si convenero.
He’s meaning me.LYSIMACHUS: (turning about.)How say you, Demipho?
Demipho:Me dicit.Lysimachvs:Quid ais, Demipho?
DEMIPHO:Is the damsel at your house?
Demipho:Est mulier domi?
LYSIMACHUS:What do you suppose?
Lysimachvs:Quid censes?
DEMIPHO:What if I go see her?(Moves towards the house.)
Demipho:Quid si visam?
LYSIMACHUS:Why making such haste? Stay.
Lysimachvs:Quid properas? ⟨mane.⟩
DEMIPHO:What am I to do?
Demipho:Quid faciam?
LYSIMACHUS:What you ought to do; take care and consider.
Lysimachvs:Quod opust facto facito ut cogites.
DEMIPHO:Consider what? Why troth, for my own part, I think there’s need for my doing this, going in-doors there, I mean.
Demipho:Quid cogitem? equidem hercle opus hoc facto existimo,ut illo íntro eam.
LYSIMACHUS:What, is it so, you old wether? Would you be going in?
Lysimachvs:Itane vero, vervex? intro eas?
DEMIPHO:What should I do else?
Demipho:Quid aliud faciam?
LYSIMACHUS:First listen to this, and attend; there’s something even before this that I think it proper you should do.
Lysimachvs:Prius hoc ausculta, atque ades:prius etiamst, quod te facere ego aequom censeo.
For if you now go in-doors to her, you’ll be wishing to embrace her, chatting with her, and kissing her.DEMIPHO:Really you know my feelings; you understand what I would be at.
nam nunc si illuc intro ieris, amplecti voles,confabulari atque osculari.Demipho:Tu quidemmeum animum gestas: scis quid acturus siem.
LYSIMACHUS:You will be doing wrong.
Lysimachvs:Pervorse facies.
DEMIPHO:What, with that which you love?
Demipho:Quodne ames—
LYSIMACHUS:So much the less reason. Would you, full of hungriness, with a foul breath,a stinking old fellow, be kissing a woman? And wouldn’t you, as you approached, be setting a female vomiting?
Lysimachvs:Tanto minus.ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida,senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem?utíne adveniens vomitum excutias mulieri?scio pol te amare, quom istaec praemonstras mihi.
DEMIPHO:I’ faith, I’m sure that you’re in love, as you point out these things beforehand to me. What then, if I give a dinner? If you approve of this, let’s lay hold of some cook, who may be cooking away a mealhere at your house, even until the evening.
Demipho:Quid si igitur unum faciam hoc? si censes, coquomaliquem arripiamus, prandium qui percoquatapud te hic usque ad vesperum.
LYSIMACHUS:Well, I’m of that way of thinking. Now you are talking wisely, and like a lover.
Lysimachvs:Em istuc censeo.nunc tu sapienter loquere atque amatorie.
DEMIPHO:Why are we standing here? Why then don’t we be off and procure the provisions, that we may be comfortable?
Demipho:Quid stamus? quin ergo imus atque obsoniumcuramus, pulchre ut simus?
LYSIMACHUS:For my part, I’ll follow you. And, i’ troth, you’ll be finding out a lodging for her, if you are prudent;
Lysimachvs:Equidem te sequor.atque hercle invenies tu locum illi, si sapis:
for, i’ faith, she shan’t be at my house a single day beyond the present; I’m afraid of my wife, lest, if she should return from the country to-morrow, she’ll be finding her here.(Exeunt.) (Enter CHARINUS, from DEMIPHO’s house.)CHARINUS: (to himself.)Am I not a wretched mortal, who can rest quietly nowhere? If I’m at home, my mind’s abroad; but if I’m abroad, my mind’s at home.
nullum hercle praeter hunc diem illa apud med erit.metuo ego uxórem, cras si rure redieritne illam hic offendat.Demipho:Res parata est, sequere me.—Charinvs:Súmne ego homo miser, qui nusquam bene queo quiescere?si domi sum, foris est animus, sin foris sum, animus domist.
To such a degree. has love kindled a flame in my breast and in my heart; did not the tears fall from my eyes, why then, I doubt, my head would be on fire. I cling to hope; safety I’ve lost; whether she’ll return or no, I know not. If my father seizes her, as he has said, then my welfare is gone in exile; but if my companion has done what he promised, then my welfare has not departed.
ita mi in pectore atque in corde facit amor incendium:ni ex oculis lacrumae defendant, iam ardeat credo caput.spem teneo, salutem amisi; redeat an non, nescio:si opprimit pater quod dixit, exsulatum abiit salus;sin sodalis quod promisit fecit, non abiit salus.
But still, even if Eutychus had had gouty feet, he could have been back from the harbour by this. This is a very great fault of his, that he is too slow, against the wishes of my feelings. But (looking towards the side) isn’t this he whom I espy running?’Tis he himself; I’ll go meet him. (Clasps his hands.) Thou who art the overlooker of Gods and of men and the mistress of mortals as well, inasmuch as thou hast indulged me in this hope that I entertained, I do return thee thanks. Does any hope remain? Alas! I’m utterly undone. His countenance by no means pleases me!
sed tamen dem si podagrosis pedibus esset Eutychus,iam a portu rediisse potuit. id illi vitium maxumumst,quod nimis tardus est advorsum mei animi sententiam.sed in est, quem currentem video? ípsus est. ibo obviam.nunc, quod restat, ei disperii: voltus neutiquam huius placet;
He moves along in sadness. My breast burns. I am in doubt. He shakes his head. Eutychus!(Enter EUTYCHUS.)EUTYCHUS:Alas! Charinus.(He pants.)
tristis incédit (pectus ardet, haereo), quassat caput.Eutyche.Evtychvs:Eu, Charine.
CHARINUS:Before you take breath, in one word, speak out. Where am I? Here, or among the dead?
Charinvs:Prius quam recipias anhelitum,uno verbo eloquere: ubi égo sum? hicine an apud mortuos?
EUTYCHUS:You are neither among the dead nor here.
Evtychvs:Neque apud mortuos neque hic es.
CHARINUS:I’m saved, immortality has been vouchsafed me—he has purchased her. He has nicely tricked my father.
Charinvs:Salvos sum, immortalitasmihi data est: hic emit illam, pulchre os sublevit patri.
There’s no one living more clever at gaining his purpose. Prithee, do tell me; if I’m neither here nor at Acheron, where am I?EUTYCHUS:Nowhere in the world.
impetrabilior qui vivat nullus est. dice, obsecro:si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, úbi sum?Evtychvs:Nusquam gentium.
CHARINUS:I’m utterly undone! That speech has just put an end to me here.
Charinvs:Disperii, illaec interemit me modó oratio.Evtychvs:Odiosast oratio, cum rém agas longinquom loqui.
Whatever it is, do come to the material points of the matter.EUTYCHUS:First of all,we are ruined.
Charinvs:Quidquid est, ad capita rerum perveni.Evtychvs:Primum omnium:periimus.
CHARINUS:But why don’t you in preference tell me that which I don’t know?It is an annoying way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to be beating about the bush.
Charinvs:Quin tu illud potius nuntias quod nescio?
EUTYCHUS:The damsel has been taken away from you.
Evtychvs:Mulier alienata est abs te.
CHARINUS:Eutychus, you are guilty of a capital offence.
Charinvs:Eutyché, capital facis.
EUTYCHUS:How so?
Evtychvs:Qui?
CHARINUS:Because you are killing your year’s-mate and friend, a free citizen.
Charinvs:Quia aequalem et sodalem, liberum civem, enicas.
EUTYCHUS:May the Gods forbid it!
Evtychvs:Ne di sierint.
CHARINUS:You’ve thrust a sword into my throat; this moment I shall fall.
Charinvs:Demisisti gladium in iugulum: iam cadam.
EUTYCHUS:Troth now, prithee, don’t be desponding in mind.
Evtychvs:Quaeso hercle, animum ne desponde.
CHARINUS:I have none to be desponding in.
Charinvs:Nullust quem despondeam.
Tell on, then, the rest of your bad news; for whom has she been purchased?EUTYCHUS:I don’t know. She had been already knocked down to the bidder and taken off by him, when I got to the harbour.
loquere porro aliam malam rem. cui est empta?Evtychvs:Nescio.iam addicta atque abducta erat, quom ad portum venio.
CHARINUS:Ah me! Already, indeed, have you heaped burning mountains of woe upon me. Proceed, executioner, torment me on, since you have once begun.
Charinvs:Vae mihi,montis tu quidem mali in me ardentis iam dudum iacis.perge, excrucia, carnufex, quandoquidem occepisti semel.
EUTYCHUS:This is not more a cause of anguish to yourself, than it has proved to me this day.
Evtychvs:[Non tibi istuc mágis dividiaest, quam mihí hodie fuit.]
CHARINUS:Tell me, who bought her?
Charinvs:[Dic, quis emit?]
EUTYCHUS:I’ faith, I do not know.
Evtychvs:[Nescio hercle.]
CHARINUS:Well, is this a good friend giving one his aid?
Charinvs:[Em istúcinest operam dare][bonum sodalem?]
EUTYCHUS:What would you have me do?
Evtychvs:[Quid me facere vis?]
CHARINUS:The same that you see me doing, die with grief. But did you make enquiry, what was the appearance of the person that had bought her? Perhaps the damsel might have been traced out by that means.
Charinvs:[Idem quod me vides,][ut pereas. quin percontatu'spercontatus es, hominis quae facies foret][qui illam emisset: eo si pacto posset indagarier][mulier? heu me miserum.]
EUTYCHUS:Ah! wretch that I am—CHARINUS:Do cease lamenting; attend to that which you are now about.
Evtychvs:[Flere omitte, istuc quod nunc agis.]
EUTYCHUS:What have I done?
Evtychvs:Quid ego feci?
CHARINUS:Proved the destruction of myself, and with myself of your own word.
Charinvs:Perdidisti me et fidem mecum tuam.
EUTYCHUS:The Gods know that that is not any fault of mine.
Evtychvs:Di sciunt culpam meam istanc non esse ullam.
CHARINUS:A fine thing, indeed! You mention the Gods, who are absent, as witnesses; how am I to believe you in that?
Charinvs:Eugepae,deos absentis testis memoras: quí ego istuc credam tibi?
EUTYCHUS:Why, it rests with your own self what to believe; with myself, what to say, that rests with me.
Evtychvs:Quia tibi in manu est quod credas, ego quod dicam, id mi in manust.
CHARINUS:On that point you are ready, so as to give answer like for like;but as to what you are requested, you are lame, blind, dumb, defective, and weak. You promised that you would trick my father; I myself supposed that I was entrusting the matter to a skilful person, and I entrusted it to an utter stone.
Charinvs:De istac ré argutus es, ut par pari respondeas,ad mandata claudus caecus mutus mancus debilis.promittebas te os sublinere meo patri: egomet credidihomini docto rem mandare, is lapidi mando maximo.
EUTYCHUS:What could I do?
Evtychvs:Quid ego facerem?
CHARINUS:What could you do, do you ask me? You should have enquired, and asked who he was or whence he was, of what lineage;whether he was a citizen or a foreigner—
Charinvs:Quid tu faceres? men rogas? requireres,rogitares quis esset aut unde esset, qua prosapia,civisne esset an peregrinus.
EUTYCHUS:They said that he was a citizen of Attica.
Evtychvs:Civem esse aibant Atticum.
CHARINUS:At least, you should have found out where he lives, if you couldn’t the name.
Charinvs:Vbi habitaret invenires saltem, si nomen nequis.
EUTYCHUS:No person was able to say he knew.
Evtychvs:Nemo aiebat scire.
CHARINUS:But at least you should have enquired what was the appearance of the man.
Charinvs:At saltem hóminis faciem exquireres.
EUTYCHUS:I did do so.
Evtychvs:Feci.
CHARINUS:Of what figure, then, did they say he was?
Charinvs:Qua forma esse aiebant ⟨igitur⟩?
EUTYCHUS:I’ll tell you: grey-headed, bandy-legged, pot-bellied, wide-mouthed, of stunted figure,with darkish eyes, lank jaws, splay-footed rather.
Evtychvs:Ego dicam tibi:canum, varum, ventriosum, bucculentum, breviculum,subnigris oculis, oblongis malis, pansam aliquantulum.
CHARINUS:You are mentioning to me not a human being, but a whole storehouse, I don’t know what, of deformities. Is there anything else that you can tell about him?
Charinvs:Non hominem mihi, sed thensaurum nescio quem memoras mali.numquid est quod dicas aliud de illo?
EUTYCHUS:It is just as much as I know.
Evtychvs:Tantum, quod sciam.
CHARINUS:I’ troth, for sure, with his lank jaws he has caused my jaw to drop. I cannot endure it; I’m determined that I’ll go hence in exile.
Charinvs:Edepol ne ille oblongis malis mihi dedit magnum malum.non possum durare, certumst exulatum hinc ire me.
But what state in especial to repair to, I’m in doubt; Megara, Eretria, Corinth, Chalcis, Crete, Cyprus, Sicyon, Cnidos, Zacynthus, Lesbos, or Bœotia.
sed quam capiam civitatem, cogito, potissimum:Megares, Eretriam, Corinthum, Chalcidem, Cretam, Cyprum,Sicyonem, Cnidum, Zacynthum, Lesbiam, Boeotiam.
EUTYCHUS:Why are you adopting that design?
Evtychvs:Cur istuc coeptas consilium?
CHARINUS:Why, because love is tormenting me.
Charinvs:Quia enim me adflictat amor.
EUTYCHUS:What say you as to this? Suppose, if when you have arrived there, whither you are now intending to go,you begin there to fall desperately in love, and there, too, you fail of success, then you’ll be taking flight from there as well, and after that, again, from another place, if the same shall happen, what bounds, pray, will be set to your exile, what limits to your flight? What country or home can possibly be certain for you? Tell me that. Say now, if you leave this city, do you fancy that you’ll leave your love here behind?
Evtychvs:Quid tu ais? quid cum illuc, quo nunc ire paritas, veneris,sí ibi amare forte occipias atque item eius sit inopia,iam inde porro aufugies, deinde item illinc, sí item evenerit?quis modus tibi exílio tandem eveniet, qui finis fugae?quae patria aut domus tibi stabilis esse poterit? dic mihi.cedo, si hac urbe abis, amorem te hic relicturum putas?
If it is so fully taken as certain in your mind that so it will be, if you hold that as a point resolved upon, how much better is it for you to go away somewhere in the country, to be there, to live there, until the time when desire for her and passion have set you at liberty?
si id fore ita sat animo acceptum est, certum id, pro certo si habes,quanto te satiust rus aliquo abire, ibi esse, ibi vivereadeo dum illius te cupiditas atque amor missum facit?
CHARINUS:Have you now said your say?
Charinvs:Iam dixisti?
EUTYCHUS:I have said it.
Evtychvs:Dixi.
CHARINUS:You have said it to no purpose; this is my full determination. I’ll be off home, to pay my duty to my father and my mother; after that,unknown to my father, I’ll fly from this country, or adopt some other plan.(Goes into DEMIPHO’S house, leaving EUTYCHUS alone)
Charinvs:Frustra dixti. hoc mihi certissumumst.eo domum, patrem atque matrem ut meos salutem, posteaclam patrem patria hac effugiam, aut aliquid capiam consili.—
EUTYCHUS: (to himself.)How suddenly he has taken himself off and gone away. Ah! wretch that I am! if he goes away, all will say that it has happened through my remissness. I’m determined at once to order as many criers as possible to be hired to search for her to find her; after that, I’ll go to the Praetor forthwith,and beg him to give me search-warrant officers in all the quarters of the city; for I find that nothing else whatever is now left for me to do.(Exit.) (Enter DORIPPA.)
Evtychvs:Vt corripuit se repente atque abiit. heu misero mihi,si ille abierit, mea factum omnes dicent esse ignavia.certumst praeconum iubere iam quantum est conducier,qui illam investigent, qui inveniant. post ad praetorem ilicoibo, orabo, ut conquaestores det mi in vicis omnibus;nam mihi nil relicti quicquam áliud iam esse intellego.—
DORIPPA: (to herself.)Since a messenger came to me in the country from my husband, that he couldn’t come into the country, I made up my mind, and came back to follow after him who fled from me.
Dorippa:Quoniam a viro ad me rus advenit nuntius,rus non iturum, feci ego ingenium meum,reveni, ut illum persequar qui me fugit.
But (looking round) I don’t see our old woman Syra following. Aye, look, there she comes at last. (Enter SYRA with a bundle of green sprigs.) Why don’t you go quicker?
sed anum non video consequi nostram Syram.atque eccam incedit tandem. quin is ocius?
SYRA:By my troth, I cannot; so great is this burden that I’m carrying.
Syra:nequeo mecastor, tantum hoc onerist quod fero.
DORIPPA:What burden?
Dorippa:Quid oneris?
SYRA:Fourscore years and four, and to that are added servitude, sweat, and thirst;
Syra:Annos octoginta et quattuor;et eodem accedit servitus, sudor, sitis:
these things as well which I am carrying weigh me down.DORIPPA:Give me something, Syra, with which to decorate this altar of our neighbour.SYRA: (holding out a sprig.)
simul haec quae porto deprimunt.Dorippa:Aliquid cedoqui hánc vicini nostri áram augeam.
Present this sprig of laurel, then.DORIPPA:Now do you go into the house.SYRA:I’m going.(Goes into the house of LYSIMACHUS.)
da sane hanc virgam lauri. abi tu intro.Syra:Eo.—
DORIPPA: (laying the sprig on the altar.)Apollo, I pray thee that thou wilt propitiously grant peace, safety, and health, unto our household,and that in thy propitiousness thou wilt show favour to my son.(rushes out of the house, clapping her hands.)
Dorippa:Apollo, quaeso te, ut des pacem propitius,salutem et sanitatem nostrae familiae,meoque ut parcas gnato pace propitius.
SYRA:I’m utterly undone! Wretch that I am, I’m ruined! Ah! wretched me!
Syra:Disperii, perii misera, vae miserae mihi.
DORIPPA:Prithee, are you quite in your senses? What are you howling for?
Dorippa:Satin tu sana es, obsecro? quid eiulas?
SYRA:Dorippa, my dear Dorippa!
Syra:Dorippa, mea Dorippa.
DORIPPA:Prithee, why are you crying out?
Dorippa:Quid clamas, obsecro?
SYRA:Some woman, I know not who, is here in-doors in the house.
Syra:Nescio quaest mulier intus hic in aedibus.
DORIPPA:What? A woman?
Dorippa:Quid, mulier?
SYRA:A harlot woman.
Syra:Mulier meretrix.
DORIPPA:Is it so, really?
Dorippa:Veron serio?
SYRA:In serious truth. You know how to act very prudently, in not remaining in the country. A fool even could have found it out that she was the mistress of your very pretty husband.
Syra:Nimium scis sapere, ruri quae non manseris.quamvis insipiens poterat persentiscere…illam esse amicam tui viri bellissumi.
DORIPPA:By heavens, I believe it.
Dorippa:Credo mecastor.
SYRA: (taking her arm.)Step this way with me, that you, my Juno, may see as well your rival Alcmena.
Syra:Ei hac mecum, ut videas semultuam Alcumenam paelicem, Iuno mea.—
DORIPPA:I’ troth, I certainly shall go there, as fast as I can.(They go into the house of LYSIMACHUS.) (Enter LYSIMACHUS.)
Dorippa:Ecastor vero istuc eo quantum potest.—
LYSIMACHUS: (to himself.)Is this too little of a misfortune that Demipho’s in love, that he must be extravagant as well? If he had been inviting ten men of highest rank to dinner,he has provided too much. But the cooks he directed in such a way just as at sea the time-keeper is wont to direct the rowers. I hired a Cook myself, but I’m surprised that he hasn’t come as I directed him. But who’s this, I wonder, that’s coming out of my house? The door’s opening.(He stands aside.) (Enter DORIPPA, from the house of LYSIMACHUS.)DORIPPA: (weeping.)
Lysimachvs:Parumne ést malai rei, quod amat Demipho,ni sumptuosus insuper etiam siet?decem sí vocasset summos ad cenam viros,nimium obsonavit. sed coquos, quasi in marisolét hortator remiges hortarier,ita hortabatur. egomet conduxi coquom.sed eum demiror non venire, ut iusseram.sed quinam hinc a nobis exit? aperitur foris.