PALAESTRIO:Why consult me what you are to do? So far as I am concerned, I have told you by what method that can be effected in the gentlest manner. The gold trinkets and female clothing with which you have furnished her, let her keep it all for herself: let her take it, be off, and carry it away:
Palaestrio:Quid me consultas quid agas? dixi equidem tibiquo id pacto fieri possit clementissime.aurum atque vestem muliebrem omnem habeat sibi,quae illi instruxisti: sumat, habeat, auferat;
tell her that it is high time for her to go home; say that her twin-sister and her mother are come, in company with whom she may go straight home.
dicasque tempus maxume esse, ut eat domum:sororem geminam adesse et matrem dicito,quibus cóncomitata recte deveniat domum.
PYRGOPOLINICES:How do you know that they are here?
Pyrgopolynices:Qui tu scis eas adesse?
PALAESTRIO:Because, with my own eyes, I’ve seen her sister here.
Palaestrio:Quia oculis meisvidi hic sororem esse eius.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Have you met her?
Pyrgopolynices:Convenitne eam?
PALAESTRIO:I have met her.
Palaestrio:Convenit.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And did she seem a brisk wench?
Pyrgopolynices:Ecquid fortis visast?
PALAESTRIO:You are wishing to have everything.
Palaestrio:Omniavis optinere.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Where did the sister say her mother was?
Pyrgopolynices:Vbi matrem esse aiebat soror?
PALAESTRIO:The captain that brought them told me that she was in bed, on board the ship, with sore and inflamed eyes.
Palaestrio:Cubare in navi lippam atque oculis turgidisnauclerus dixit, qui illas advexit, mihi.
This captain of the ship is lodging with them next door.
is ad hos nauclerus hospitio devortitur.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And he, too, is he a very fine fellow?
Pyrgopolynices:Quid is? ecquid fortis?
PALAESTRIO:Away with you, if you please. What have you to do with him? You have your hands quite full enough with the women. Attend to this for the present.
Palaestrio:Abi sis hinc, nam tu quidemad equas fuisti scitus admissarius,qui consectare qua maris qua feminas.hoc age nunc.
PYRGOPOLINICES:As to that advice you were giving me,I wish you to have a few words with her upon that subject. For, really, a conversation on that subject with her is more becoming for you.
Pyrgopolynices:Istuc quod das consilium mihi,te cum illa verba facere de ista re volo;nam cum illa sane congruos sermo tibi.
PALAESTRIO:What is more advisable than for you to go yourself, and transact your own concerns? You must say that it is absolutely necessary for you to marry: that your relations are persuading, your friends are urging, you.
Palaestrio:Qui potius quam tute adeas, tuam rem tute agas?dicas uxorem tibi necessum ducere;cognatos persuadere, amicos cogere.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And do you think so?
Pyrgopolynices:Itan tu censes?
PALAESTRIO:Why shouldn’t I think so?
Palaestrio:Quid ego ní ita censeam?
PYRGOPOLINICES:I’ll go in, then. Do you, in the mean time, keep watch here before the house, that when the other woman comes out you may call me out.
Pyrgopolynices:Ibo igitur intro. tu hic ante aedis interimspeculare, ut, ubi illaec prodeat, me provoces.
PALAESTRIO:Do you only mind the business that you are upon.
Palaestrio:Tu modo istuc cura quod agis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:That, indeed, is resolved upon. For if she will not go out of her own accord, I’ll turn her out by force.
Pyrgopolynices:Curatum id quidemst.quin si voluntáte nolet, vi extrudam foras.
PALAESTRIO:Do you take care how you do that; but rather let her go from your house with a good grace, and give her those things that I mentioned. The gold trinkets and apparel, with which you furnished her, let her take away.
Palaestrio:Istuc cave fáxis; quin potius per gratiambonam abeat abs te. atque illaec quae dixi dato,aurum, ornamenta quae illi instruxisti ferat.
PYRGOPOLINICES:By my troth, I wish she would.
Pyrgopolynices:Cupio hercle.
PALAESTRIO:I think you’ll easily prevail upon her. But go indoors; don’t linger here.
Palaestrio:Credo te facile impetrassere.sed abi intro. noli stare.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I obey you.(Goes into his house.)
Pyrgopolynices:Tibi sum oboediens. —
PALAESTRIO: (to the AUDIENCE.)Now, does he really appear to be anything different from what, awhile ago, I told you he was, this wenching Captain? Now it is requisite that Acroteleutium should come to me, her maid too, and Pleusicles. O Jupiter! and does not opportunity favour me in every respect?
Palaestrio:Numquid videtur demutare alio atque utidixi esse vobis dudum hunc moechum militem?nunc ad me ut veniat usust Acroteleutium autancillula eius aut Pleusicles. pro Iuppiter,satine ut Commoditas usquequaque me adiuvat?
For those whom I especially wished to see, I perceive at this moment coming out here from our neighbour’s.(Enter ACROTELEUTIUM, MILPHIDIPPA, and PLEUSICLES from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
nam quos videre exoptabam me maxume,una exeuntis video hínc e proxumo.
ACROTELEUTIUM:Follow me; at the same time look around, that there may be no overlooker.
Acrotelevtivm:Séquimini, simul círcumspicite, né quis adsit árbiter.
MILPHIDIPPA:Faith, I see no one, only him whom we want to meet.
Milphidippa:Neminem pol video, nísi hunc quem volumus conventum.
PALAESTRIO:Just as I want you.
Palaestrio:Et ego vos.
MILPHIDIPPA:How do you do, our master-plotter?
Milphidippa:Quid agis, noster architecte?
PALAESTRIO:I, the master-plotter? Nonsense.
Palaestrio:Egone architectus? vah.
MILPHIDIPPA:How so?
Milphidippa:Quid est?
PALAESTRIO:Because, in comparison with yourself, I am not worthy to fix a beam in a wall.
Palaestrio:Quia enim non sum dignus prae te, ut figam palum in parietem.
ACROTELEUTIUM:Aye, indeed so.
Acrotelevtivm:Heia vero.
PALAESTRIO:She’s a very fluent and a very clever hand at mischief. How charmingly she did polish off the Captain.
Palaestrio:Nimis facete nimisque facunde malast.ut lepide deruncinavit militem.
MILPHIDIPPA:But still, not enough.
Milphidippa:At etiam parum.
PALAESTRIO:Be of good courage all the business is now prospering under our hands. Only do you, as you have begun, still give a helping hand;
Palaestrio:Bono animo es: negotium omne iam succedit sub manus;vos modo porro, ut occepistis, date operam adiutabilem.
for the Captain himself has gone in-doors, to entreat his mistress to leave his house, with her mother and sister, for Athens.PLEUSICLES:Very good—well done.
nam ipse miles concubinam intro abiit oratum suam,ab se ut abeat cum sorore et matre Athenas.Plevsicles:Eu, probe.
PALAESTRIO:Besides, all the gold trinkets and apparel which he himself has provided for the damsel, he gives her to keep as a present for herself—so have I recommended him.
Palaestrio:Quin etiam aurum atque ornamenta, quae ipse instruxit, mulieriomnia dat dono, a se ut abeat: ita ego consilium dedi.
PLEUSICLES:Really, it’s easily done, if both she wishes it, and he desires it as well.
Plevsicles:Facile istuc quidemst, si et illa volt et ille autem cupit.
PALAESTRIO:Don’t you know that when, from a deep well, you have ascended up to the top, there is the greatest danger lest you should thence fall back again from the top. This affair is now being carried on at the top of the well. If the Captain should have a suspicion of it, nothing whatever of his will be able to be carried off. Now, most especially, we have need of clever contrivances.PLEUSICLES:I see that there is material enough at home for that purpose—three women, yourself the fourth, I am the fifth, the old gentleman the sixth.
Palaestrio:Non tu scis, quom ex alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis,maxumum periclum inde esse ab summo ne rusum cadas?nunc haec res apud súmmum puteum geritur: si praesenseritmiles, nihil ecferri poterit huius: nunc cum maxumeopust dolis: domi esse ad eam rem video silvai satis,mulieres tres, quartus tute es, quintus ego, sextus senex;
PALAESTRIO:What an edifice of stratagems has been erected by us! I know for certain. that any town seems as though it could be taken by these plans: only do you lend your assistance.ACROTELEUTIUM:For that purpose are we come to you, to see if you wish for anything.
quod apud nos fallaciarum sex situmst, certo sciooppidum quodvis, si detur, posse expugnari dolis.date modo operam.Acrotelevtivm:Id nos ad te, si quid velles, venimus.
PALAESTRIO:You do what’s à propos. Now to you do I assign this department.
Palaestrio:Lepide facitis. nunc hanc tibi ego ímpero provinciam.
ACROTELEUTIUM:General, you shall assign me whatever you please, so far as I am capable.
Acrotelevtivm:Impetrabis, imperator, quod ego potero, quod voles.
PALAESTRIO:I wish this Captain to be played off cleverly and adroitly.
Palaestrio:Militem lepide, et facete ⟨et⟩ laute ludificariervolo.
ACROTELEUTIUM:I’ faith, you’re assigning me what’s a pleasure to me.
Acrotelevtivm:Voluptatem mecastor mi imperas.
PALAESTRIO:But do you understand how?
Palaestrio:Scin quem ad modum?
ACROTELEUTIUM:You mean that I must pretend that I am distracted with love for him.
Acrotelevtivm:Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri.
PALAESTRIO:Right—you have it.
Palaestrio:Tenes.
ACROTELEUTIUM:And as though by reason of that love I had foregone my present marriage, longing for a match with him.
Acrotelevtivm:Quasique istius causa amoris ex hoc matrimonioabierim, cupiens istius nuptiarum.
PALAESTRIO:Everything exactly in its due order; except only this one point; you must say that this house (pointing to the house of PERIPLECOMENUS) was your marriage-portion; that the old man had departed hence from you after you had carried out the divorce, lest he should be afraid just now to come here into the house of another man.
Palaestrio:Omne ordine.nisi modo unum hoc: hasce esse aedis dicas dotalis tuas,hinc senem aps te abiisse, postquam feceris divortium:ne ille mox vereatur intro íre in alienam domum.
ACROTELEUTIUM:You advise me well.
Acrotelevtivm:Bene mones.
PALAESTRIO:But when he comes out from in-doors, I wish you—standing at a distance there—so to make pretence, as though in comparison with his beauty you despised your own, and as though you were struck with awe at his opulent circumstances; at the same time, too, praise the comeliness of his person, the beauty of his face. Are you tutored enough?
Palaestrio:Sed ubi ille exierit intus, istinc te proculita volo adsimulare, prae illius forma quasi spernas tuamquasique eiús opulentitatem reverearis, et simulformam, amoenitatem illius, faciem, pulchritudinemconlaudato. satin praeceptumst?
ACROTELEUTIUM:I understand it all. Is it enough that I give you my work so nicely finished off that you cannot find a fault with it.
Acrotelevtivm:Teneo. satinest, si tibimeum opus ita dabo expolitum, ut improbare non queas?
PALAESTRIO:I’m content. Now (addressing PLEUSICLES), in your turn, learn what charge I shall give to you. So soon as this shall be done, when she shall have gone in, then do you immediately take care to come here dressed in the garb of a master of a ship. Have on a broad-brimmed hat of iron-grey, a woollen shade before your eyes; have on an iron-grey cloak (for that is the seaman’s colour);have it fastened over the left shoulder, your right arm projecting out, … your clothes some way well girded up, pretend as though you are some master of a ship. And all these requisites are at the house of this old gentleman, for he keeps fishermen.
Palaestrio:Sat habeo. nunc tibi vicissim quae imperabo ea discito.quom extemplo hoc erit factum, ubi intro haec abierit, ibi tu ilicofacito uti venias ornatu húc ad nos nauclerico;causeam habeas ferrugineam, et scutulam ob oculos laneam,palliolum habeas ferrugineum (nam is colos thalassicust),id conexum in umero laevo, exfafillato bracchio,praecinctus aliqui: adsimulato quasi gubernator sies;atque apud hunc senem omnia haec sunt, nam is piscatores habet.
PLEUSICLES:Well, when I’m dressed out, why don’t you tell me what I’m to do then?
Plevsicles:Quid? ubi ero exornatus quin tu dicis quid facturus sim?
PALAESTRIO:Come here, and, in the name of her mother, bring word to Philocomasium, that, if she would return to Athens, she must go with you to the harbour directly, and that she must order it to be carried down to the ship if she wishes anything to be put on board; that if she doesn’t go, you must weigh anchor, for the wind is favourable.
Palaestrio:Huc venito et matris verbis Philocomasium arcessito,ut, si itura sit Athenas, eat tecum ad portum cito,atque ut iubeat ferri in navim si quid imponi velit.nisi eat, te soluturum esse navim: ventum operam dare.
PLEUSICLES:I like your plan much: do proceed.
Plevsicles:Satis placet pictura. perge.
PALAESTRIO:The Captain will at once advise her to go speedily that she may not delay her mother.
Palaestrio:Ille extemplo illam hortabiturut eat, ut properet, ne morae sit matri.
PLEUSICLES:Every way you are clever.
Plevsicles:Multimodis sapis.
PALAESTRIO:I shall tell him that she asks for me as a helper to carry her baggage down to the harbour. I shall go, and, understand you, I shall immediately be off with you straight to Athens.
Palaestrio:Ego illi dicam, ut me adiutorem, qui onus feram ad portum, roget.ille iubebit me ire cum illa ad portum. ego adeo, ut tu scias,prorsum Athenas protinus abibo tecum.
PLEUSICLES:And when you have reached there, I’ll never let you be ashore three days before you’re free.
Plevsicles:Atque ubi illo veneris,triduom servire numquam te, quin liber sis, sinam.
PALAESTRIO:Be off speedily and equip yourself.
Palaestrio:Abi cito atque orna te.
PLEUSICLES:Is there anything besides?
Plevsicles:Numquid aliud?
PALAESTRIO:Only to remember all this.
Palaestrio:Haec ut memineris.
PLEUSICLES:I’m off.(Exit.)
Plevsicles:Abeo. —
PALAESTRIO:And do you (to ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA) be off hence in-doors this instant, for I’m quite sure that he’ll just now be coming out hence from in-doors.
Palaestrio:Et vos abite hinc intro actutum; nam illum huc sat scioiam exiturum esse intus.
ACROTELEUTIUM:With us your command is as good as law.
Acrotelevtivm:Celebre apud nos imperium tuomst. —
PALAESTRIO:Come, then, begone. But see, the door opens opportunely.(The women go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.) (Enter PYRGOPOLINICES from his house.)
Palaestrio:Agite abscedite ergo. ecce autem commodum aperitur foris.hilarus exit: impetravit. inhiat quod nusquam est miser.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What I wished I have obtained just as I wished, on kind and friendly terms, that she would leave me.
Pyrgopolinices:Quod volui ut volui impetravi, per amicitiam et gratiam,a Philocomasio.
PALAESTRIO:For what reason am I to say that you have been so long in-doors?
Palaestrio:Quid tam intus fuisse te dicam diu?
PYRGOPOLINICES:I never was so sensible that I was beloved by that woman as now.
Pyrgopolynices:Numquam ego me tam sensi amari quam nunc ab illa muliere.
PALAESTRIO:Why so?
Palaestrio:Quid iam?
PYRGOPOLINICES:How many words she did utter! How the matter was protracted! But in the end I obtained what I wanted, and I granted herwhat she wanted and what she asked of me. I made a present of you also to her.
Pyrgopolynices:Vt multa verba feci, ut lenta materies fuit.verum postremo impetravi ut volui: donavi dediquae voluit, quae postulavit; ⟨te⟩ quoque ⟨ei⟩ dono dedi.
PALAESTRIO:What—me, too? In what way shall I exist without you?
Palaestrio:Etiam me? quo modo ego vivam sine te?
PYRGOPOLINICES:Come, be of good heart; I’ll make you free from exit, too. But I used all endeavours, if I could by any method persuade her to go away, and not take you with her, she forced me, however.
Pyrgopolynices:Age, animo bono ⟨es⟩,eidem ego te illim liberabo. nam si possem ullo modoimpetrare ut abiret, ne te abduceret, operam dedi;verum oppressit.
PALAESTRIO:In the Gods and yourself I’ll place my trust. Yet, at the last,although it is bitter to me that I must be deprived of an excellent master, yourself, at least it is a pleasure to me that, through my means, by reason of the excellence of your beauty, this has happened to you with regard to this lady neighbour, whom I am now introducing to you.
Palaestrio:Deos sperabo teque. postremo tamenetsi istuc mi acerbumst, quia ero te carendum est optimo,saltem id volup est, quom ex virtute formae évenit tibimea opera super hac vicina, quam ego nunc concilio tibi.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What need of words? I’ll give you liberty and wealth if you obtain her for me.
Pyrgopolynices:Quid opust verbis? libertatem tibi ego et divitias dabo,si impetras.
PALAESTRIO:I’ll win her.
Palaestrio:Reddam impetratum.
PYRGOPOLINICES:But I’m impatient.
Pyrgopolynices:At gestio.
PALAESTRIO:But moderation is requisite;
Palaestrio:At modice decet:
curb your desires; don’t be over anxious. But see, here she is herself; she is coming out of doors.(Enter ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)MILPHIDIPPA: (in a low voice.)Mistress, see! the Captain’s near.
moderare animo, ne sis cupidus. séd eccam ipsam, egreditur foras.Milphidippa:Era, éccum praesto mílitem.
ACROTELEUTIUM: (in a low voice.)Where is he?
Acrotelevtivm:Vbi est?
MILPHIDIPPA:Only look to the left.
Milphidippa:Ad laevam.Acrotelevtivm:Video.
Eye him askance, that he mayn’t perceive that we are looking at him.
Milphidippa:Aspicito limis [oculis], ne ille nos se sentiat videre.
ACROTELEUTIUM:I see him. Troth, now’s the time, in our mischief, for us to become supremely mischievous.
Acrotelevtivm:Video. edepol nunc nos tempus est malas peioris fieri.
MILPHIDIPPA:’Tis for you to begin.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)Prithee, did you see him yourself?
Milphidippa:Tuomst principium.Acrotelevtivm:Obsecro, tute ipsum convenisti?
(Aside.) don’t spare your voice, so that he may hear.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)By my troth, I talked with his own self, at my ease, as long as I pleased, at my leisure, at my own discretion, just as I wished.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)
ne parce vocem, ut audiat.Milphidippa:Cum ipso pol sum locuta,placide, ipsi dum libitum est mihi, otiose, meo arbitratu [ut volui].
Do you hear what she says?PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)I hear. How delighted she is because she had access to you.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Pyrgopolynices:Audin quae loquitur?Palaestrio:Audio. quam laeta est, quia ted adiit.
O happy woman that you are!PYRGOPOLINICES:How I do seem to be loved!
Acrotelevtivm:O, fortunata mulier es.Pyrgopolynices:Vt amari videor.
PALAESTRIO:You are deserving of it.MILPHIDIPPAACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Palaestrio:dignus esDignu's.
By my troth,’tis passing strange what you say, that you had access to him and prevailed. They say that he is usually addressed, like a king, through letters or messengers.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Permirum ecastor praedicas, te adiisse atque exorasse;per epistulam aut per nuntium, quasi regem, adiri eum aiunt.
But, i’ faith,’twas with difficulty I had an opportunity of approaching and beseeching him.PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)
Milphidippa:Namque edepol vix fuit cópia adeundi atque impetrandi.
How renowned you are among the fair.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)I shall submit, since Venus wills it so.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Palaestrio:Vt tu inclitus esinclitu's apud múlieres.Pyrgopolynices:Patiar, quando ita Venus volt.
By heavens! I return to Venus grateful thanks, and her I do beseech and entreat, that I may win him whom I love and whom I seek to win,and that to me he may prove gentle, and not make a difficulty about what I desire.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Veneri pol habeo gratiam, eandémque et oro et quaeso,ut eius mihi sit copia quem amo quemque expetessobenignusque erga me ⟨ut⟩ siet, quod cupiam ne gravetur.
I hope it may be so; although many ladies are seeking to win him for themselves, he disdains them and estranges himself from all but you alone.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Milphidippa:Spero ita futurum, quamquam illum multae sibi expetessunt:ille illas spernit segregat ab se omnis, extra te unam.
Therefore this fear torments me, since he is so disdainful, lest his eyes, when he beholds me, should change his sentiments,and his own gracefulness should at once disdain my form.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Ergo iste metus me macerat, quod ille fastidiosust,ne óculi eius sententiam mutent, ubi viderit me,atque eius elegantia meam extémplo speciem spernat.
He will not do so; be of good heart.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)How she does slight herself!ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Milphidippa:Non faciet, bonum animum habe. †Pyrgopolynices:Vt ipsa se contemnit.
I fear lest your account may have surpassed my looks.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Metuo, ne praedicatio tua nunc meam formam exsuperet.
I’ve taken care of this, that you shall be fairer than his expectations.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Milphidippa:Istuc curavi, ut opínione illius pulchrior sis.
Troth, if he shall refuse to take me as his wife, by heavens I’ll embrace his kneesand entreat him! If I shall be unable to prevail on him, in some way or other, I’ll put myself to death. I’m quite sure that without him I cannot live.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)
Acrotelevtivm:Si pol me nolet ducere uxórem, genua amplectaratque obsecrabo; alio modo, si non quibo impetrare,consciscam letum: vivere sine illó scio me non posse.
I see that I must prevent this woman’s death. Shall I accost her?PALAESTRIO:By no means; for you will be making yourself cheap if you lavish yourself away of your own accord. Let her come spontaneously, seek you, court you, strive to win you.Unless you wish to lose that glory which you have, please have a care what you do. For I know that this was never the lot of any mortal, except two persons, yourself and Phaon of Lesbos, to be loved so desperately.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Pyrgopolynices:Prohibendam mortem mulieri videó. adibon?Palaestrio:Minime;nam tu te vilem feceris, si te ultro largiere:sine ultro veniat; quaeritet, desideret, exspectetsine: perdere istam gloriam vis, quám habes? cave sis faxis.nam nulli mortali scio obtigisse hoc, nisi duobus,tibi et Phaoni Lesbio, tam mulier sé ut amaret.
I’ll go in-doors —or, my dear Milphidippa, do you call him out of doors.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Eo íntro, aut tu illum huc evoca foras, mea Milphidippa.
Aye; let’s wait until some one comes out.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)I can’t restrain myselffrom going in to him.
Milphidippa:Immo opperiamur, dum exeat aliquis.Acrotelevtivm:Durare nequeo,quin eam intro.
MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)The door’s fastened.
Milphidippa:Occlusae sunt foris.
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)I’ll break it in then.
Acrotelevtivm:Exfringam.
MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)You are not in your senses.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Milphidippa:Sana non es.
If he has ever loved, or if he has wisdom equal to his beauty, whatever I may do through love, he will pardon me by reason of his compassionate feelings.PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)
Acrotelevtivm:Si amavit umquam aut si parem sapientiam habet ac formam,per amorem si quid fecero, clementi ánimo ignoscet.
Prithee, do see, how distracted the poor thing is with love.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)’Tis mutual in us.
Palaestrio:Vt, quaeso, amore perditast tuo misera.Pyrgopolynices:Mutuom fit.
PALAESTRIO:Hush! don’t you let her hear.
Palaestrio:Tace, ne aúdiat.
MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)Why do you stand stupefied? Why don’t you knock?ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Milphidippa:Quid astitisti obstupida? cur non pultas?
Because he is not within whom I want.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)How do you know?
Acrotelevtivm:Quia non est intus quem ego volo.Milphidippa:Qui scis?
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)By my troth, I do know it easily; for my nose would scent him if he were within.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)She is a diviner.
Acrotelevtivm:Scio pol ego, olfacio;nam odore nasum sentiat, si intus sit.Palaestrio:Hariolatur.
Because she is in love with me, Venus has made her prophesy.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Pyrgopolynices:Quia mé amat, propterea Venus fecit eam ut divinaret.
He is somewhere or other close at hand whom I do so long to behold. I’m sure I smell him.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)
Acrotelevtivm:Nescio ubi hic prope adest quem expeto videre: olet profecto.
Troth, now, she really sees better with her nose than with her eyes.PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)She is blind from love.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Pyrgopolynices:Naso pol iam haec quidem plús videt quam óculis.Palaestrio:Caeca amore est.
Prithee, do support me.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)Why?
Acrotelevtivm:Tene me óbsecro.Milphidippa:Quor?
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)Lest I should fall.
Acrotelevtivm:Ne cadam.
MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)Why?
Milphidippa:Quid ita?
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)Because I cannot stand; my senses—my senses are sinking so by reason of my eyes.
Acrotelevtivm:Quia stare nequeo,ita animus per oculos meos ⟨meus⟩ defit.
MILPHIDIPPA:(aloud.) Heavens! you’ve seen the Captain.
Milphidippa:Militem poltu aspexisti.
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)I have.
Acrotelevtivm:Ita.
MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)I don’t see him. Where is he?
Milphidippa:Non video. ubi est?
ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)Troth, you would see him if you were in tove.MILPHIDIPPA: (aloud.)
Acrotelevtivm:Videres pol, si amares.
I’ faith, you don’t love him more than I do myself, with your good leave.PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)
Milphidippa:Non edepol tu illum magis amas, quam ego amem, si per te liceat.
No doubt all of the women, as soon as each has seen you, are in love with you.
Palaestrio:Omnes profecto mulieres te amant, ut quaeque aspexit.
PYRGOPOLINICES:(to PALAESTRIO.) I don’t know whether you have heard it from me or not; I’m the grandson of Venus.ACROTELEUTIUM: (aloud.)
Pyrgopolynices:Nescio, tu ex me hoc audiveris an non: nepos sum Veneris.
My dear Milphidippa, prithee do approach and accost him.PYRGOPOLINICES: (to PALAESTRIO.)How she does stand in awe of me!PALAESTRIO: (to PYRGOPOLINICES.)
Acrotelevtivm:Mea Milphidippa, adi obsecro et congredere.Pyrgopolynices:Vt me veretur.
She is coming towards us.MILPHIDIPPA: (advancing.)I wish to speak with you.
Palaestrio:Illa ad nos pergit.Milphidippa:Vos volo.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And we with you.
Pyrgopolynices:Et nos te.
MILPHIDIPPA:I have brought my mistress out of the house, as you requested me.
Milphidippa:Vt iussisti,eram meam eduxi foras.
PYRGOPOLINICES:So I see.
Pyrgopolynices:Video.
MILPHIDIPPA:Request her, then, to approach.
Milphidippa:Iube ergo adire.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Since you have entreated it, I have prevailed upon my mind not to detest her just like other women.
Pyrgopolynices:Induxi in animum, ne oderim item ut alias, quando orasti.
MILPHIDIPPA:I’ faith she wouldn’t be able to utter a word if she were to come near you; while she was looking at you, her eyes have in the meantime tied her tongue.
Milphidippa:Verbum edepol facere non potis, si accesserit prope ad te.dum te obtuetur, interim linguam oculi praeciderunt.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I see that this woman’s disorder must be cured.
Pyrgopolynices:Levandum morbum mulieri video.
MILPHIDIPPA:See how terrified she is since she beheld you.
Milphidippa:Vt tremit atque extimuit,postquam te aspexit.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Even armed men are the same; don’t wonder at a woman being so. But what does she wish me to do?
Pyrgopolynices:Víri quoque armáti idem istuc faciunt,ne tu mirere eius mulierem. sed quid ⟨illa⟩ volt me facere?
MILPHIDIPPA:You to come to her house; she wishes to live and to pass her life with you.
Milphidippa:Ad se ut eas: tecum vivere volt atque aetatem exigere.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What!—I come home to her, when she is a married woman? Her husband is to be stood in fear of.
Pyrgopolynices:Egon ád illam eam, quae nupta sit? vir eius me deprehendat.
MILPHIDIPPA:Why,—for your sake, she has turned her husband out of her house.
Milphidippa:Quin tua causa exegit virum ab sé.
PYRGOPOLINICES:How? How could she do so?
Pyrgopolynices:Qui id facere potuit?
MILPHIDIPPA:The house was her marriage-portion.
Milphidippa:Quia aedís dotalis huius sunt.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Was it so?
Pyrgopolynices:Itane?
MILPHIDIPPA:It was so, on my word.
Milphidippa:Ita pol.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Bid her go home; I’ll be there just now.
Pyrgopolynices:Iube domum ire.iam ego illi ero.
MILPHIDIPPA:Take care, and don’t keep her in expectation; don’t torment her feelings.
Milphidippa:Vide né sies in exspectatione,ne illam animi excrucies.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Not I, indeed. Do you go then.
Pyrgopolynices:Non ero profecto. abite.
MILPHIDIPPA:We are going. (ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
Milphidippa:Abimus. —
PYRGOPOLINICES:But what do I see?
Pyrgopolynices:Sed quid ego video?
PALAESTRIO:What do you see?
Palaestrio:Quid vides?
PYRGOPOLINICES:See there, some one is coming, I know not who, but in a sailor’s dress.
Pyrgopolynices:Nescio quis eccum inceditornatu quidem thalassico.
PALAESTRIO:He is surely wanting us, now; really, it is the shipmaster.
Palaestrio:It ad nos, volt te profecto.nauclerus hic quidem est.
PYRGOPOLINICES:He’s come, I suppose, to fetch her.
Pyrgopolynices:Videlicet accersit hanc iam.
PALAESTRIO:I fancy so.(Enter PLEUSICLES, at a distance, in a Sailor’s dress.)PLEUSICLES: (to himself.)
Palaestrio:Credo.
Did I not know that another man in other wayshas done many a thing unbecomingly on account of love, I should be more ashamed by reason of love for me to be going in this garb. But since I have learned that many persons by reason of love have committed many actions, disgraceful and estranged from what is good, … for I pass by how Achilles suffered his comrades to be slain—But there’s Palaestrio, he’s standing with the Captain. My talk must now be changed for another kind. Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. For every other delay, which is a delay just as much, seems a less delay than that which is on account of a woman.
Plevsicles:Alium alio pacto propter amorem ni sciamfecisse multa nequiter, verear magisme amoris causa hóc ornatu incedere.verum quom multos multa admisse acceperiminhonesta propter amorem atque aliena a bonis:mitto iam, ut occídi Achilles civis passus est —sed eccúm Palaestrionem, stat cum milite:oratio alio mihi demutandast mea.mulier profecto natast ex ipsa Mora;nam quaevis alia quae morast aeque, moraminor ea videtur quam quae propter mulieremst.
I really think that this is done merely from habit. But I shall call for this Philocomasium. I’ll knock at the door then. Hallo! is there any one here?(Knocks at the CAPTAIN’S door.)PALAESTRIO:Young man—what is it? What do you want? Why are you knocking?
hoc adeo fieri credo consuetudine.nam ego hanc accerso Philocomasium. sed forespultabo. heus, ecquis hic est?Palaestrio:Adulescens, quid est?quid vis? quid pultas?
PLEUSICLES:I’m come to inquire for Philocomasium; I’m come from her mother. If she’s for going, let her set off.
Plevsicles:Philocomasium quaerito.a matre illius venio. si iturast, eat.
She is delaying us all; we wish to weigh anchor.
omnis moratur: navim cupimus solvere.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Her things have been some time in readiness. Hearkye, Palaestrio, take some assistants with you to carry to the ship her golden trinkets, her furniture, apparel, all her precious things. All the articles are already packed up which I gave her.
Pyrgopolynices:Iam dudum res paratast. i, Palaestrio,aurum, ornamenta, vestem, pretiosa omniaduc adiutores tecum ad navim qui ferant.omnia conposita sunt quae donavi: auferat.
PALAESTRIO:I’ll go.(Goes into the house.)
Palaestrio:Eó. —
PLEUSICLES:Troth now, prithee, do make haste.
Plevsicles:Quaeso hercle propera.
PYRGOPOLINICES:There shall be no delay. Pray, what is it that has been done with your eye?
Pyrgopolynices:Non morabitur.quid istuc, quaeso? quid oculo factumst tuo?
PLEUSICLES:Troth, hut I have my eye.(Points to the right one.)
Plevsicles:Habeo equidem hercle oculum.
PYRGOPOLINICES:But the left one I mean.
Pyrgopolynices:At laevom dico.
PLEUSICLES:I’ll tell you. On account of the sea, I use this eye less; but if I kept away from the sea, I should use the one like the other.
Plevsicles:Eloquar.maris causa hercle hoc ego oculo utor minus,nam si abstinuissem amare, tamquam hoc uterer.
But they are detaining me too long.PYRGOPOLINICES:See, here they are coming out.(Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.)
sed nimis morantur me diu.Pyrgopolynices:Eccos exeunt.
PALAESTRIO: (to PHILOCOMASIUM.)Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?
Palaestrio:Quid modi flendó quaeso hodie fácies?
PHILOCOMASIUM:What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.
Philocomasivm:Quid ego ní fleam?ubi pulcherrume egi aetatem, ábeo.
PALAESTRIO:See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister.(pointing to PLEUSICLES.)
Palaestrio:Em hominem tibi,qui a matre et sorore venit.
PHILOCOMASIUM:I see him.
Philocomasivm:Video.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Palaestrio, do you hear?
Pyrgopolynices:Audin, Palaestrio?
PALAESTRIO:What is your pleasure?
Palaestrio:Quid vis?
PYRGOPOLINICES:Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?
Pyrgopolynices:Quin tu iubes ecferri ómnia quae isti dedi?
PLEUSICLES:Health to you, Philocomasium.
Plevsicles:Philocomasium, salve.
PHILOCOMASIUM:And health to you.
Philocomasivm:Et tu salve.
PLEUSICLES:Your mother and sister bade me give their love to you.
Plevsicles:Materque et sorortibi salutem me iusserunt dicere.
PHILOCOMASIUM:Heaven prosper them.
Philocomasivm:Salvae sient.
PLEUSICLES:They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have come together with me.
Plevsicles:Orant te, ut eas, ventus operam dum dat, ut velum explicent;nam matri oculi si valerent, mecum venissent simul.
PHILOCOMASIUM:I’ll go; although I do it with regret—duty compels me.
Philocomasivm:Ibo; quamquam invita facio, impietas sit nisi eam.
PLEUSICLES:You act wisely.
Plevsicles:Sapis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.
Pyrgopolynices:Si non mecum aetatem egisset, hodie stulta viveret.
PHILOCOMASIUM:I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.(Pretends to cry.)
Philocomasivm:Istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier,nam tu quemvis potis es facere ut afluat facetiis;et quia tecum eram, propterea ánimo eram ferocior:eam nobilitatem amittendam video.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Don’t weep.
Pyrgopolynices:Ne fle.
PHILOCOMASIUM:I can’t help it when I look upon you.
Philocomasivm:Non queo,quom te video.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Be of good courage.
Pyrgopolynices:Habe bonum animum.
PHILOCOMASIUM:I know what pain it is to me.
Philocomasivm:Scio ego quid doleat mihi.
PALAESTRIO:I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant—as I look at him, weep because we are parting (pretends to cry), so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.
Palaestrio:Nam nil miror, si libenter, Philocomasium, híc eras,⟨si⟩ forma huius, mores, virtus, animum attinuere hic tuom,quóm ego servos quando aspicio hunc, lacrumo quia diiungimur.
PHILOCOMASIUM:Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?
Philocomasivm:Obsecro licet complecti prius quam proficisco?
PYRGOPOLINICES:By all meansPHILOCOMASIUM: (embracing him.)
Pyrgopolynices:Licet.
O my eyes! O my life!PALAESTRIO:Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.(He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.)
Philocomasivm:O mi ócule, o mi ánime.Palaestrio:Obsecro, tene mulierem,ne adfligatur.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What means this?
Pyrgopolynices:Quid istuc quaesost?
PALAESTRIO:Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.
Palaestrio:Quia abs te abit, animo malefactum est huic repente miserae.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Run in and fetch some water.
Pyrgopolynices:Curre intro atque ecferto aquam.
PALAESTRIO:I want no water; but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don’t you interfere till she comes to.
Palaestrio:Nihil aquam moror, quiescat malo. ne interveneris,quaeso, dum resipiscit.
PYRGOPOLINICES: (observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.)They have their heads too closely in contact between them;
Pyrgopolynices:Capita inter se nimis nexa hisce habent.
I don’t like it; he is soldering his lips to hers. What the plague are you about?
non placet. labra ab labellis aufer, nauta, cave malo.
PLEUSICLES:I was trying whether she was breathing or not.
Plevsicles:Temptabam spiraret an non.
PYRGOPOLINICES:You ought to have applied your ear then.
Pyrgopolynices:Aurem admotam oportuit.
PLEUSICLES:If you had rather, I’ll let her go.
Plevsicles:Si magis vís, eam omittam.
PYRGOPOLINICES:No, I don’t care; do you support her.PALAESTRIO:To my misery, I’m quite distracted.
Pyrgopolynices:Nolo, retine.Plevsicles:At ultro misero.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Go and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.
Pyrgopolynices:Exite atque ecferte huc intus omnia quae isti dedi.
PALAESTRIO:And even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart;
Palaestrio:Etiam nunc saluto te, ⟨Lar⟩ familiaris, prius quam eo.
my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well.
conservi conservaeque omnis, bene valete et vivite,bene quaeso inter vos dicatis mi med absenti tamen.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Come, Palaestrio, be of good courage.
Pyrgopolynices:Age, Palaestrio, bono animo es.
PALAESTRIO:Alas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.
Palaestrio:Eheu, nequeo quin fleam,quom abs te abeám.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Bear it with patience.PHILOCOMASIUM: (feigning to recover.)
Pyrgopolynices:Fer aequo ánimo.Palaestrio:Scio ego quid doleat mihi.
Ha! how’s this? What means it? Hail, O light!PLEUSICLES:Are you recovered now?
Philocomasivm:Sed quid hoc? quae res? quid video? lux, salve …Plevsicles:Iam resipisti? …
PHILOCOMASIUM:Prithee, what person am I embracing? I’m undone. Am I myself?
Philocomasivm:Obsecro, quem amplexa sumhominem? perii. sumne ego apud me?
PLEUSICLES: (in a low voice.)Fear not, my delight.
Plevsicles:Ne time, voluptas mea.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What means all this?
Pyrgopolynices:Quid istuc est negoti?
PALAESTRIO:Just now she swooned away here. … I fear and dread that this at last may take place too openly.
Palaestrio:Animus hanc modo hic reliquerat.† metuoque ut timeo, ne hoc tandem propalam fiat nimis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:What is that you say?
Pyrgopolynices:Quid id est?
PALAESTRIO:I fear that some one may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.
Palaestrio:Nos secundum ferri nunc per urbem haec omnia,ne quis tibi hoc vítio vortat.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.
Pyrgopolynices:Mea, non illorum dedi:parvi ego illos fácio. agite, íte cum dis benevolentibus.
PALAESTRIO:’Tis for your sake I say it.PYRGOPOLINICES:I believe you.
Palaestrio:Tua ego hoc causa dico.Pyrgopolynices:Credo.
PALAESTRIO:And now farewell!
Palaestrio:Iam vale.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And heartily farewell to you!PALAESTRIO: (to PLEUSICLES and PHILOCOMASIUM as they leave.)
Pyrgopolynices:Et tu bene vale.
Go you quickly on; I’ll overtake you directly; I wish to speak a few words with my master. (To PYRGOPOLINICES.) Although you have ever deemed others more faithful to yourself than me,still do I owe you many thanks for all things; and if such were your feelings, I would rather be a slave to you by far than be the freedman of another.PYRGOPOLINICES:Be of good courage.
Palaestrio:Ite cito, iam ego adsequar vos: cúm ero pauca volo loqui. —quamquam alios fideliores semper habuisti tibiquam me, tamen tibi habeo magnam gratiam rerum omnium;et, si íta sententia esset, tibi servire maluimulto, quám alii libertus esse.Pyrgopolynices:Habe bonum animum.
PALAESTRIO:Ah me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!
Palaestrio:Eheu, quom venit mi in mentem, ut mores mutandi sient,muliebris mores discendi, obliscendi stratiotici.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Take care and be honest.
Pyrgopolynices:Fac sis frugi.
PALAESTRIO:I can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination.
Palaestrio:Iam non possum, amisi omnem lubidinem.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Go, follow them; don’t linger.
Pyrgopolynices:I, sequere illos, ne morere.
PALAESTRIO:Fare you right well.
Palaestrio:Bene vale.
PYRGOPOLINICES:And heartily fare you well.
Pyrgopolynices:Et tu bene vale.
PALAESTRIO:Prithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I’ll send the news to you; don’t you forsake me.
Palaestrio:Quaeso memineris, si forte liber fieri occeperim(mittam nuntium ad te), ne me deseras.
PYRGOPOLINICES:That is not my habit.
Pyrgopolynices:Non est meum.
PALAESTRIO:Consider every now and then how faithful I have been to you.
Palaestrio:Cogitato identidem, tibi quam fidelis fuerim.
If you do that, then at last you’ll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest.
si id facies, tum demum scibis, tibi qui bonus sit, qui malus.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.
Pyrgopolynices:Scio et perspexi saepe.
PALAESTRIO:Do you know it? Aye, and this day I’ll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.
Palaestrio:Verum cum antehac, hodie maxumescies: immo hodie me tuom factum faxo post dices magis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.
Pyrgopolynices:Vix reprimor quin te manere iubeam.
PALAESTRIO:Take you care how you do that. They may say that you are a liar and not truthful, that you have no honor;they may say that no one of your slaves is trustworthy except my-self. If, indeed, I thought you could do it with honor, I should advise you. But it cannot be; take care how you do so.
Palaestrio:Cave istuc feceris:dicent te mendacem nec verum esse, fide nulla esse te,dicent servorum praeter me esse ⟨hic⟩ fidelem neminem.nam si honeste censeam te facere posse, suadeam;verum non potest. cave fáxis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Be off;I’ll be content then, whatever happens.
Pyrgopolynices:Abi iam.Palaestrio:Patiar quidquid est.
PALAESTRIO:Then, fare you well.PYRGOPOLINICES:’Twere better you should go with a good heart.PALAESTRIO:Still, once more, farewell.(Exit.)
Pyrgopolynices:Bene vale igitur.Palaestrio:Ire meliust strenue. —Pyrgopolynices:Etiam nunc vale.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Before this affair, I had always thought that he was a most rascally servant;
ante hoc factum hunc sum arbitratus semper servom pessumum:
still, I find that he is faithful to me. When I consider with myself, I have done unwisely in parting with him. I’ll go hence at once now to my love here: the door, too, I perceive, makes a noise there.(Enter a BOY from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)A BOY.: (to some one within.)
eum fidelem mi esse invenio. cum egomet mecum cogito,stulte feci qui hunc amisi. íbo hinc intro nunciamad amores meos. sed, sensi, hinc sonitum fecerunt foris.
Don’t you be advising me; I remember my duty; this moment I’ll find him. Wherever on earth he may chance to be,I’ll search him out; I’ll not be sparing of my pains.
Pver:Ne me moneatis, memini ego officium meum,ego † nam conveniam illum, ubi ubi est gentium;investigabo, óperae non parcam meae.
PYRGOPOLINICES:’Tis I he is looking for, I’ll go and meet this boy.
Pyrgopolynices:Me quaerit illic. ibo huic puero obviam.
A BOY.:O, I’m looking for you; save you, dearest sir, one loaded by opportunity with her gifts, and whom before all others two Divinities do favour.PYRGOPOLINICES:What two?A BOY.:Mars and Venus.
Pver:Ehem, te quaero. salve, vir lepidissime,cumulate commoditate, praeter ceterosduo dí quem curant.Pyrgopolynices:Qui duo?Pver:Mars et Venus.
PYRGOPOLINICES:A sprightly boy.A BOY.:She entreats that you will go in; she wishes—she longs for you, and while expecting you, she’s dying for you. Do succour one in love. Why do you stay? Why don’t you go in?
Pyrgopolynices:Facetum puerum.Pver:Intro te ut eas obsecrat,te volt, te quaerit, teque exspectans expetit.amanti fer opem. quid stas? quin intro is?
PYRGOPOLINICES:Well, I’ll go.(Enters the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)A BOY.:There has he entangled himself at once in the toils. The snare is prepared: the old gentleman is standing at his postto attack the letcher, who is so boastful of his good looks; who thinks that, whatever woman sees him, all are in love with him; whom all, both men and women, detest. Now I will on to the uproar; I hear a tumult within.(Enter PERIPLECOMENUS from his house, with CARIO and other SERVANTS, dragging PYRGOPOLINICES.
Pyrgopolynices:Eo. —Pver:Ipsus illic sese iam impedivit in plagas;paratae insidiae sunt: in statu stat senex,ut adoriatur moechum, qui formast ferox,qui omnis se amare credit, quaeque aspexeritmulier: eum oderunt qua viri qua mulieres.nunc in tumultum ibo: intus clamorem audio. —
PERIPLECOMENUS:Bring that fellow along. If he doesn’t follow, drag him, lifted on high, out of doors.Make him to be between heaven and earth; cut him in pieces.(They beat him.)
Periplectomenvs:Dúcite istum; sí non sequitur, rápite sublimén foras,facite inter terram atque caelum ut sit ⟨situs⟩, discindite.
PYRGOPOLINICES:By my troth, I do entreat you, Periplecomenus.
Pyrgopolinices:Obsecro hercle, Periplectomene, te.
PERIPLECOMENUS:By my troth, you do entreat in vain. Take care, Cario, that that knife of yours is very sharp.
Periplectomenvs:Nequiquam hercle obsecras.vide ut istic tibi sit acutus, Cario, culter probe.
CARIO:Why, it’s already longing to rip up the stomach of this letcher. I’ll make his entrails hang just as a bauble hangs from a baby’s neck.
Cario:Quin iamdudum gestit moecho hóc abdomen adimere,ut ea iam quasi puero in collo pendeant crepundia.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I’m a dead man.
Pyrgopolynices:Perii.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Not yet; you say so too soon.
Periplectomenvs:Haud etiam, numero hoc dicis.
CARIO:Shall I have at this fellow now?
Cario:Iamne in hominem ínvolo?
PERIPLECOMENUS:Aye,—but first let him be thrashed with cudgels.
Periplectomenvs:Immo etiam prius vérberetur fustibus.
CARIO:True, right lustily.
Cario:Multum quidem.…
PERIPLECOMENUS:Why have you dared, you disgraceful fellow, to seduce another man’s wife?
Periplectomenvs:Cur es ausus subigitare álienam uxorem, impudens?
PYRGOPOLINICES:So may the Gods bless me, she came to me of her own accord.
Pyrgopolynices:Ita me di ament, ultro ventumst ad me.
PERIPLECOMENUS:It’s a lie. Lay on.(They are about to strike.)
Periplectomenvs:Mentitur, feri.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Stay, while I tell—
Pyrgopolynices:Mane, dum narro.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Why are you hesitating?
Periplectomenvs:Quid cessatis?
PYRGOPOLINICES:Will you not let me speak?
Pyrgopolynices:Non licet mihi dicere?
PERIPLECOMENUS:Speak, then.
Periplectomenvs:Dic.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I was entreated to come here.
Pyrgopolynices:Oratus sum, ad eam ut irem.
PERIPLECOMENUS:How did you dare? There’s for you, take that.(Strikes him.)
Periplectomenvs:Quor ire ausus esausu's? em tibi.
PYRGOPOLINICES:O! O! I’ve had enough. Prithee, now.
Pyrgopolynices:Oiei, satis sum verberatus. obsecro.
CARIO:Am I to begin cutting him up at once?
Cario:Quam mox seco?
PERIPLECOMENUS:As soon as you like. Stretch the fellow out, and spread out his pinions in opposite ways.
Periplectomenvs:Vbi lubet: dispennite hominem divorsum et distendite.
PYRGOPOLINICES:By heavens, prithee, do hear my words before he cuts me.
Pyrgopolynices:Obsecro hercle te, ut mea verba aúdias prius quam secat.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Speak before you’re made of no sex.
Periplectomenvs:Loquere.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I supposed that she was a widow; and so her maid, who was her go-between, informed me.
Pyrgopolynices:Non volui nec factum est: viduam hercle esse censui,itaque ancilla, conciliatrix quaé erat, dicebat mihi.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Now take an oath that you won’t injure any person for this affair, because you have been beaten here today, or shall be beaten hereafter, if we let you go safe hence, you dear little grandson of Venus.
Periplectomenvs:Iura te non nociturum esse hómini de hac re nemini,quod tu hódie hic verberatus esverberatu's aut quod verberabere,si te salvom hinc amittemus Venerium nepotulum.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I swear by Dione and Mars that I will hurt no onebecause I have been beaten here this day; and I think that it was rightfully done; and if I don’t go hence further injured, I am rightly punished for the offence.
Pyrgopolynices:Iuro per Iovem et Mavortem, me nociturum nemini,quod ego hic hodie vapularim, iureque id factum arbitror;et si intestatus non abeo hinc, bene agitur pro noxia.
PERIPLECOMENUS:But what if you don’t do so?
Periplectomenvs:Quid si id non faxis?
PYRGOPOLINICES:Then, may I always have my word not to be trusted
Pyrgopolynices:Vt vivam semper intestabilis.
CARIO:Let him be beaten once more; after that I think he may be dismissed.
Cario:Verberetur etiam, postibi amittendum censeo.
PYRGOPOLINICES:May the Gods ever bless you, since you so kindly come as my advocate.
Pyrgopolynices:Di tibi bene faciant semper, quom advocatus mihi venis.
CARIO:Give us a golden mina, then.
Cario:Ergo des minam auri nobis.
PYRGOPOLINICES:For what reason?
Pyrgopolynices:Quam ob rem?
CARIO:That we may now let you go hence unmaimed, you little grandson of Venus; otherwise you shall not escape from here; don’t you deceive yourself.
Cario:Salvis testibusut te hódie hinc amittamus Venerium nepotulum;aliter hinc non ibis, ne sis frustra.
PYRGOPOLINICES:It shall be given you.
Pyrgopolynices:Dabitur.
CARIO:You’re very wise. As for your tunic, and your scarf, and sword, don’t at all hope for them; you shan’t have them.
Cario:Magis sapis.de tunica et chlamyde et machaera ne quid speres, non feres.
A SERVANT.:Shall I beat him again, or do you let him go?PYRGOPOLINICES:I’m tamed by your cudgels. I do entreat you.
Cario:Verberon etiam, an iam mittis?Pyrgopolynices:Mitis sum equidem fustibus.opsecro vos.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Loose him.
Periplectomenvs:Solvite istunc.
PYRGOPOLINICES:I return you thanks.
Pyrgopolynices:Gratiam habeo tibi.
PERIPLECOMENUS:If I ever catch you here again, I’ll insert a disqualifying clause.
Periplectomenvs:Si posthac prehendero ego te híc, carebis testibus.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Well: I make no objection.
Pyrgopolynices:Causam haud dico.
PERIPLECOMENUS:Let’s go in, Cario.(PERIPLECOMENUS, CARIO, and SERVANTS go into his house.) (Enter SCLEDRUS and other SERVANTS of the CAPTAIN.)
Periplectomenvs:Eamus intro, Cario. —
PYRGOPOLINICES:Here are some of my servants, I see. Tell me, is Philocomasium off yet.
Pyrgopolynices:Servos meoseccos video. Philocomasium iam profecta est? dic mihi.
SCELEDRUS:Aye, some time since.
Servvs:Iam dudum.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Ah me!
Pyrgopolynices:Ei mihi.
SCELEDRUS:You would say that still more if you were to know what I know,for that fellow who had the wool before his eye was no sailor.
Servvs:Magis dícas, si scias quod ego scio.nam ille qui lánam ob oculum habebat ⟨laevom⟩, nauta non erat.
PYRGOPOLINICES:Who was he, then?
Pyrgopolynices:Quis erat igitur?
SCELEDRUS:A lover of Philocomasium’s.
Servvs:Philocomasio amator.
PYRGOPOLINICES:How do you know?
Pyrgopolynices:Qui tu scis?
SCELEDRUS:I do know: for after they had got out of the city gate, they didn’t wait a moment before falling to kissing and embracing each other at once.
Servvs:Scio.nam postquam porta exierunt, nil cessarunt ilicoosculari atque amplexari inter se.
PYRGOPOLINICES:O wretched fool that I am! I see that I have been gulled. That scoundrel of a fellow, Palaestrio,it was he that contrived this plot against me.
Pyrgopolynices:Vae misero mihi,verba mihi data esse video. scelus viri Palaestrio,is me in hanc inlexit fraudem. iure factum iudico;
SCELEDRUS:I think it was properly done. If it were so done to other letchers, there would be fewer letchers here; they would stand more in awe, and give their attention less to these pursuits.PYRGOPOLINICES:Let’s go into my house.AN ACTOR: (to the AUDIENCE.)Give us your applause.
si sic aliis moechis fiat, minus hic moechorum siet,magis metuant, minus has res studeant. eamus ad me. plaudite.