TRANIO:Why so?
Tranio:Quapropter?
THEUROPIDES:Because, i’ faith, the woodworm has split them both from the bottom.
Theopropides:Quia edepol ambo ab infimo tarmes secat.
TRANIO:I think they were cut at an improper season; that fault damages them; but even as it is, they are quite good enough, if they are covered with pitch. But it was no foreign pulse-eating artisan did this work. Don’t you see the joints in the door? (Pointing.)
Tranio:Intempestivos excisos credo, id eis vitium nocet.atque etiam nunc satis boni sunt, si sunt inducti pice;non enim haec pultiphagus opifex opera fecit barbarus.viden coagménta in foribus?
THEUROPIDES:I see them.
Theopropides:Video.
TRANIO:Look, how close together they are sleeping.
Tranio:Specta, quam arte dormiunt.
THEUROPIDES:Sleeping?
Theopropides:Dormiunt?
TRANIO:That is, how they wink, I intended to say. Are you satisfied?
Tranio:Illud quidem, ut conivent, volui dicere.satin habes?
THEUROPIDES:The more I look at each particular, the more it pleases me.
Theopropides:Vt quidquid magis contemplo, tanto magis placet.
TRANIO: (pointing.)Don’t you see the painting, where one crow is baffling two vultures?The crow stands there; it’s pecking at them both in turn.This way, look, prithee, towards me, that yon may be able to see the crow.(THEUROPIDES turns towards him.) Now do you see it?
Tranio:Viden pictum, ubi ludificat cornix una volturios duos?
THEUROPIDES: (looking about.)For my part, I really see no crow there.
Theopropides:Non edepol video.
TRANIO:But do you look in that direction, towards yourselves, since you cannot discover the crow, if perchance you may be able to espy the vultures. (THEUROPIDES turns towards SIMO.) Now do you see them?
Tranio:At ego video. nam inter volturios duoscornix astat, ea volturios duo vicissim vellicat.quaeso huc ad me specta, cornicem ut conspicere possies.iam vides?
THEUROPIDES:Upon my faith, I don’t see them.
Theopropides:Profecto nullam equidem illic cornicem intuor.
TRANIO:But I can see two vultures.
Tranio:At tu isto ad vos optuere, quoniam cornicem nequisconspicari, si volturios forte possis contui.
THEUROPIDES:To make an end of it with you, I don’t see any bird at all painted here.
Theopropides:Omnino, ut te absolvam, nullam pictam conspicio hic avem.
TRANIO:Well then, I give it up. I excuse you; it is through age you cannot see.
Tranio:Age, iam mitto, ignosco: aetate non quis optuerier.
THEUROPIDES:These things which I can see, really they do all please me mightily.
Theopropides:Haec, quae possum, ea mihi profecto cuncta vehementer placent.
SIMO: (coming forward.)Now, at length, it’s worth your while to move further on.
Simo:Latius démum est operae pretium ivisse.
THEUROPIDES:Troth, you give good advice.
Theopropides:Recte edepol mones.
SIMO: (calling at the door.)Ho there, boy! take this person round this house and the apartments. But I myself would have shown you round, if I hadn’t had business at the Forum.
Simo:Eho istum, puere, circumduce hasce aedis et conclavia.nam egomet ductarem, nisi mi esset apud forum negotium.
THEUROPIDES:Away with any one to show me over. I don’t want to be shown over. Whatever it is, I’d rather go wrong than any one should show me over.
Theopropides:Apage istum a me perductorem, nil moror ductarier.quidquid est, errabo potius quam perductet quispiam.
SIMO:The house I’m speaking of.
Simo:Aedis dico.
THEUROPIDES:Then I’ll go in without any one to show me over.
Theopropides:Ergo intro eo igitur sine perductore.
SIMO:Go, by all means.
Simo:Ilicet.
THEUROPIDES:I’ll go in-doors, then.
Theopropides:Ibo intro igitur.
TRANIO: (holding him back.)Stop, please; let me see whether the dog—
Tranio:Mane sis videam, ne canis—
THEUROPIDES:Very well then, look.(TRANIO looks into the passage.)
Theopropides:Agedum vide.
TRANIO:There is one.THEUROPIDES: (looking in.)Where is it?TRANIO: (to the dog.)Be off and be hanged!’st, won’t you be off to utter perdition with you? What, do you still linger?’st, away with you from here!
Tranio:Est! abi, canis. est! abin diérecta? abin hinc in malam crucem?at etiam restas? est! ábi istinc.
SIMO: (coming nearer to the door.)There’s no danger. You only move on. It’s as gentle as a woman in childbed. You may boldly step in-doors wherever you like. I’m going hence to the Forum.
Simo:Nil pericli est, age ⟨modo⟩.tam placidast, quam feta. quam vis ire intro audacter licet.eo ego hinc ad forum.—
THEUROPIDES:You’ve acted obligingly. Good speed to you. (Exit SIMO.) Tranio, come, make that dog move away from the door inside,although it isn’t to be feared.
Theopropides:Fecisti commode, bene ambula.Tranio, age, canem istam a foribus ⟨aliquis⟩ abducat face,etsi non metuenda est.
TRANIO:Nay but (pointing), you look at it, how gently it lies. Unless you’d like yourself to appear troublesome and cowardly—
Tranio:Quin tu illam aspice ut placide accubat;nisi molestum vis videri te atque ignavom.
THEUROPIDES:Very well, just as you like.
Theopropides:Iam ut lubet.sequere hac me igitur.—
TRANIO:Follow me this way then.THEUROPIDES:For my part, I shall not move in any direction from your feet.(They go into the house.)
Tranio:Equidem haud usquam a pedibus apscedam tuis.—
(Enter PHANISCUS.)PHANISCUS: (to himself.)Servants who, though they are free from fault, still stand in awe of punishment, those same are wont to be serviceable to their masters.But those who fear nothing, after they have merited punishment, hit upon foolish plans for themselves: they exercise themselves in running; they take to flight. But, if they are caught, they acquire from punishment a hoard, which by good means they cannot.They increase from a very little, and from that they lay by a treasure. The resolution that’s in my mind is to be determined to be on my guard against punishment, before my back comes to lose its state of soundness. As hitherto it has been, so does it become my hide still to be, without a bruise, and such that I should decline its being beaten.If I have any control over it, I shall keep it well covered up. When punishment is being showered down on others, don’t let it be showered down on me. But as servants wish their master to be, such is he wont to be. He is good to the good, bad to the bad. But now at our house at home there do live so many rogues,lavish of their property, bearers of stripes. When they are called to go fetch their master, “I shan’t go; don’t be plaguing me; I know where you are hurrying off to,” is the reply. “Now, faith, you mule, you’re longing to go to pasturage out of doors.” With better deserts, this advantage have I reaped from them, and, in consequence, I have come from home.I alone, out of so many servants, am going to fetch my master. When, to-morrow, my master comes to know this, in the morning he will chastise them with bull’s-hide spoils. In fine, I care less for their backs than for my own. Much rather shall they be bull’s-hide-scourged than I be rope-scourged.(Moves on.)
Phaniscvs:Serví qui, quom culpá carent, tamén malum metuont,ei sólent esse eris utíbiles.nam illí qui nil metuónt postquam sunt málum meriti,stultá sibi expetunt consília:exércent sese ad cúrsuram, [fugiunt] sed eí si reprehensí sunt,fáciunt de maló peculiúm quod nequeunt ⟨dé bono⟩.augent ex pauxillo … de parant.mihi in pectore consili … malam rem priusquam ut meum …ut adhúc fuit, mihi corium ésse oportet,sincérum atque ut votem vérberari.si huíc imperábo, probé tectum habébo,malúm quom impluít ceteris, ne impluát mi.nam ut sérvi volúnt esse erum, ita solet …boní sunt: ⟨bonúst⟩; improbí sunt, malús fit.nam núnc domi nostrae tot péssimi vivont,pecúli suí prodigí, plagigéruli.ubi adversum ut eant vocantur ero: “non eo, molestus ne sis.scio quo properas: gestis aliquo; iam hercle ire vis, mula, foras pastum.”béne merens hóc preti inde ábstuli. abií foras.sólus nunc eo advórsum ero ex plúrimis servis.hóc die crástini quóm erus rescíverit,máne castigábit eos búbulis exuviis.póstremo minoris pendo tergum illorum, quam meum:illi erunt bucaedae multo potius, quam ego sim restio.
(Enter a SERVANT.)ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Hold you and stop this instant. Phaniscus! look round, I say!PHANISCUS: (not turning round.)Don’t be annoying to me.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Do see how scornful the monkey is!
Pinacivm:Máne tu atque adsiste ílico,Phánisce. etiam respicis?Phaniscvs:Míhi molestus ne sies.Pinacivm:Víde ut fastidit simia.manésne ilico, ímpure párasite?
PHANISCUS:I am so for myself; I choose to be. Why do you trouble yourself about it?(Walking on.)ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Are you going to stop this instant, you dirty parasite?
Phaniscvs:…quí parasitus sum?Pinacivm:Égo enim dicam: cíbo perduci pótis es quovis.
PHANISCUS: (turning round.)How am I a parasite?ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Why, I’ll tell you: you can be drawn anywhere by victuals.Do you give yourself airs, because your master’s so fond of you?
Phaniscvs:Mihi súm, libet esse. quid íd curas?Pinacivm:Ferócem facís, quia te érus amat.
PHANISCUS: (rubbing his eyes.)O dear, my eyes do ache.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Why so?
Phaniscvs:Vah,oculí dolent.Pinacivm:Cur?
PHANISCUS:Because the smoke’s so troublesome.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Hold your tongue, will you, you clever workman, who are in the habit of coining money out of lead.
Phaniscvs:Quia fúmus molestust.Pinacivm:Tace sís, faber, qui cúdere soles plúmbeos nummos.
PHANISCUS:You cannot compel me to be abusive to you. My master knows me.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Why, really, his own pillow he ought to know, for resting on when drunk.
Phaniscvs:Nón potes tu cógere me, ut tíbi male dicam.novít erus me.Pinacivm:Suám quidem pól culcitulam opórtet.
PHANISCUS:If you were sober, you wouldn’t be abusive.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Am I to give heed to you, when you won’t to me.
Phaniscvs:Si sóbrius sis, male nón dicas.Pinacivm:Tibi obtémperem, cum tu míhi nequeas?
PHANISCUS:But, you rascal, you come along with me to fetch him.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Troth now, Phaniscus, prithee, do leave off talking about these matters.PHANISCUS:I’ll do so, and knock at the door. (Knocks at the door of the house of THEUROPIDES.) Hallo there! is there any person here to protect this door from a most serious injury? (Knocking again.) Is any one, is any one, I say, coming out here and going to open it?Why, really, no one comes out here. Just as befits such worthless fellows, so they are. But on that account, I’ve the more need to be cautious that no one may come out and use me ill.(They stand aside.)
Phaniscvs:Át tu mecum, péssime, ito advérsus; quaeso hercle abstineiám sermonem de istis rebus.Pinacivm:Faciam, et pultabo fores.heus, écquis hic est, máximam qui hís iniuriamforibús defendat? écquis has aperít foris?nemo hínc quidem foras éxit.ut esse áddecet nequam hominés, ita sunt. sed eó magis cauto est ópus, ne hucexeát qui male me múlcet.
(Enter TRANIO and THEUROPIDES, from the house of SIMO.)TRANIO:What’s your opinion of this bargain?
Tranio:Quíd tibi visum est mercimoni?
THEUROPIDES:I am quite delighted.
Theopropides:… totus gaudeo.
TRANIO:Does it seem to you to have been bought too dear?
Tranio:Num nimio emptae tibi videntur?
THEUROPIDES:I’ faith, I’m sure that I never anywhere saw a house thrown away, this one only excepted.
Theopropides:Numquam edepol ego me sciovidisse usquam abiectas aedes, nisi modo hasce.
TRANIO:Does it please you, then?
Tranio:Ecquid placent?
THEUROPIDES:Does it please me, do you ask me? Why yes, upon my faith, it really does please me very much.
Theopropides:Ecquid placeant me rogas? immo hercle vero perplacent.
TRANIO:What a fine set of rooms for the women! What a porch!
Tranio:Cuius modi gynaeceum? quid porticum?
THEUROPIDES:Exceedingly fine. For my part, I don’t think that there is any Porch larger than this in the public buildings.
Theopropides:Insanum bonam.non equidem ullam in publico esse maiorem hac existimo.
TRANIO:Why, I myself and Philolaches have taken the measure sure of all the porches in the public buildings.
Tranio:Quin ego ipse et Philolaches in publico omnis porticussumus commensi.
THEUROPIDES:Well, what then?
Theopropides:Quid igitur?
TRANIO:This is far larger than all of them.
Tranio:Longe omnium longissima est.
THEUROPIDES:Immortal Gods—a splendid bargain! On my word, if he were now to offer six great talents of silver, ready money, for it, I would never take it.
Theopropides:Di immortales, mercimoni lepidi. ⟨si⟩ hercle nunc feratsex talenta magna argenti pro istis praesentaria,numquam accipiam.
TRANIO:Upon my faith, if you were inclined to take it, I would never let you.
Tranio:Si hercle accipere cupies, ego numquam sinam.
THEUROPIDES:My money has been well invested upon this purchase.
Theopropides:Bene res nostra conlocata est istoc mercimonio.
TRANIO:Boldly confess that by my advice and prompting it was done, who urged him to take up the money of the Banker upon interest, which we paid this person by way of deposit.
Tranio:Me suasore atque impulsore id factum audacter dicito,qui subegi, faenore argentum ab danista ut sumeret,quod isti dedimus arraboni.
THEUROPIDES:You’ve saved the whole ship. Eighty minae, you say, are owing for it?
Theopropides:Servavisti omnem ratem.nempe octoginta debentur huic minae?
TRANIO:Not a coin more.
Tranio:Hau nummo amplius.
THEUROPIDES:He may have it to-day.
Theopropides:Hodie accipiat.
TRANIO:By all means so, that there may be no dispute arising; or else pay them over to me, I’ll then pay them over to him.
Tranio:Ita enim vero, ne qua causa subsiet.vel mihi denumerato, ego illi porro denumeravero.
THEUROPIDES:But still, don’t let there be any taking me in, if I do give them to you.
Theopropides:At enim ne quid captioni mihi sit, si dederim tibi.
TRANIO:Could I venture to deceive you in deed or word even in jest only?
Tranio:Egone te ioculo modo ausim dicto aut facto fallere?
THEUROPIDES:Could I venture not to be on my guard against you, so as not to trust anything to you?
Theopropides:Egone aps te ausim non cavere, ne quid committam tibi?
TRANIO:Why, have I ever imposed upon you in anything, since I was your servant?
Tranio:Quid? tibi umquam quicquam, postquam tuos sum, verborum dedi?
THEUROPIDES:But I’ve taken good care of that; I owe thanks to myself and my own judgment for that. If I’m only on my guard against you solely, I’m quite wise enough.
Theopropides:Ego enim cavi recte: eam mihi des gratiam atque animo meo.sat sapio, si aps te modo uno caveo.
TRANIO: (aside.)I agree with you.
Tranio:Tecum sentio.
THEUROPIDES:Now be off into the country; tell my son that I’ve arrived.
Theopropides:Nunc abi rús, dic me advenisse filio.
TRANIO:I’ll do as you wish.
Tranio:Faciam, ut iubes.
THEUROPIDES:Run with all speed; bid him come to the city at once together with you.
Theopropides:Curriculo iube in urbem veniat iam simul tecum.
TRANIO:Very well. (Aside.) Now I’ll betake myself this way by the back-door to my boon-companions; I’ll tell them that things are quiet here, and how I have kept him away from here.(Exit.) (THEUROPIDES, PHANISCUS, and another SERVANT.)
Tranio:Licet.nunc ego me illac per posticum ad congerrones conferam.dicam ut hic res sint quietae atque hunc ut hinc amoverim.—
PHANISCUS: (coming forward.)Really, I don’t hear either the sound of revellers here, as once it was, nor yet the music-girl singing, nor any one else.(Goes towards the door.)
Phaniscvs:Hic quidem neque convivarum sonitus, item ut antehac fuit,neque tibicinam cantantem neque alium quemquam audio.
THEUROPIDES:What’s the matter here? What are these people seeking at my house? What do they want? What are they peeping in for?
Theopropides:Quae illaec res est? quid illisce homines quaerunt apud aedis meas?quid volunt? quid intro spectant?Pinacivm:Pergam pultare ostium.heus, reclude, heus, Tranio, etiamne aperis?Theopropides:Quae haec est fabula?Pinacivm:Etiamne aperis? Callidamati nostro adversum venimus.Theopropides:Heus vos, pueri, quid istic agitis? quid istas aedis frangitis?
PHANISCUS:I shall proceed to knock at the door. (Knocks.) Hallo there, unlock the door! Hallo, Tranio! are you going to open it, I say?
Phaniscvs:Heus senex, quid tu percontare ad te quod nihil attinet?
THEUROPIDES: (advancing.)What story’s this, I wonder?
Theopropides:Nihil ad me attinet?
PHANISCUS: (aloud.)Are you going to open it, I say? I’ve come to fetch my master Callidamates.
Phaniscvs:Nisi forte factus esfactu's praefectus novos,qui res alienas procures, quaeras videas audias.
THEUROPIDES:Harkye, you lads! what are you doing there? Why are you breaking down that door?
Theopropides:Non sunt istae aedis, ubi statis.
PHANISCUS:Our master’s at a drinking-party here.
Phaniscvs:Quid ais? an iam vendiditaedis Philolaches? aut quidem iste nos defrustratur senex.
THEUROPIDES:Your master at a drinking-party here?
Theopropides:Vera dico. sed quid vobis est negoti hic?
PHANISCUS:I say so.
Phaniscvs:Eloquar.erus hic noster potat.
THEUROPIDES:You’re carrying the joke too far, my lad.
Theopropides:Erus hic voster potat?
PHANISCUS:We’ve come to fetch him.
Phaniscvs:Ita loquor.
THEUROPIDES:What person?
Theopropides:Puere, nimium delicatus esdelicatu's.
PHANISCUS:Our master. Prithee, how often must I tell you?
Phaniscvs:Ei advorsum venimus.
THEUROPIDES:There’s no one living here my lad; for I do think that you are a decent lad.
Theopropides:Cui homini?
PHANISCUS:Doesn’t a young gentleman called Philolaches live in this house?ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates: (aside.)This old fellow’s crack-brained, surely.
Phaniscvs:Ero nostro. quaeso, quotiens dicendumst tibi?Theopropides:Puere, nemo hic habitat. nam te esse arbitror puerum probum.
PHANISCUS:You are entirely mistaken, respected sir; for unless he moved from here to-day or yesterday, I know for certain that he’s living here.
Phaniscvs:Non hic Philolaches adulescens habitat hisce in aedibus?
THEUROPIDES:Why, no one has been living here for these six months past.ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:You are dreaming.
Theopropides:Habitavit, verum emigravit iam diu ex hisce aedibus.Pinacivm:Senex hic elleborosust certe.Phaniscvs:Erras pervorse, pater.nam nisi hinc hodie emigravit aut heri, certo sciohic habitare.
THEUROPIDES:What, I?ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:You.
Theopropides:Quin sex menses iam hic nemo habitat.Pinacivm:Somnias.
THEUROPIDES:Don’t you be impertinent. Let me speak to the lad. (Pointing to PHANISCUS.)
Theopropides:Egone?Pinacivm:Tu.Theopropides:Tu ne molestus esmolestu's. sine me cum puero loqui.nemo habitat.
PHANISCUS:No one lives there? O dear—
Phaniscvs:Habitat profecto, nám heri et nudius tertius,quartus, quintus, sextus, usque postquam hinc peregre eius paterabiit, numquam hic triduom unum desitum est potarier.
THEUROPIDES:It’s the fact.
Theopropides:Quid ais?
PHANISCUS:Really! why, yesterday and the day before, four, five, six days ago, all along, in fact, since his father went abroad from here, eating and drinking have never ceased for a single three days here.
Phaniscvs:Triduom unum est haud intermissum hic esse et bibi,scorta duci, pergraecari, fidicinas tibicinas†ducere.
THEUROPIDES:What is it you say?
Theopropides:Quis istaec faciebat?Phaniscvs:Philolaches.Theopropides:Qui Philolaches?
PHANISCUS:That eating and drinking have never stopped for a single three days here,bringing in wenches, living like Greeks, hiring harpists and music-girls.
Phaniscvs:Quoius patrem Theopropidem esse opinor.
THEUROPIDES:Who was it did this?
Theopropides:Ei ⟨mihi⟩, occidi,si haec hic vera memorat. pergam porro percontarier.ain tu istic potare solitum Philolachem istum, quisquis est,cúm ero vostro?
PHANISCUS:Philolaches.
Phaniscvs:Hic, inquam.
THEUROPIDES:What Philolaches?
Theopropides:Puere, praeter speciem stultus es.vide sis, ne forte ad merendam quopiam devorterisatque ibi ampliuscule quam sátis fuerit biberis.
PHANISCUS:He whose father I take to be Theuropides.
Phaniscvs:Quid est?
THEUROPIDES: (apart.)O dear, O dear! I’m utterly undone, if he says the truth in this. I’ll continue to question him still Do you say that this Philolaches, whoever he is, has been in the habit of drinking here togetherwith your master?
Theopropides:Ita dico, ne ad alias aedis perperam deveneris.
PHANISCUS:Here, I tell you.
Phaniscvs:Scio qua me ire oportet et quo venerim novi locum.Philolaches hic habitat, cuius est pater Theopropides.qui, postquam pater ad mercatum hinc abiit, hic tibicinamliberavit.
THEUROPIDES:My lad, contrary to your appearance, you are a fool. See now, please, that you’ve not perchance been dropping in somewhere for an afternoon’s whet, and have been drinking there a little more than was enough.
Theopropides:Philolachesne ergo?
PHANISCUS:What do you mean?
Phaniscvs:Ita, Philematium quidem.
THEUROPIDES:Just what I say: don’t be going by mistake to other persons’ houses.
Theopropides:Quanti?
PHANISCUS:I know where I ought to go, and the place to which I was to come.Philolaches lives here, whose father is Theuropides; and who, after his father went away to trade, made free a music-girl here.
Phaniscvs:Triginta.
THEUROPIDES:Philolaches, say you?
Theopropides:Talentis?
PHANISCUS:Just so; Philematium, I mean.
Phaniscvs:μὰ τὸν … ʼαπόλλω, sed minis.
THEUROPIDES:For how much?ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:For thirty talents.
Theopropides:Liberavit?
PHANISCUS:No, by Apollo; you mean minae.
Phaniscvs:Liberavit valide, triginta minis.
THEUROPIDES:Do you say that a mistress was purchased for Philolaches for thirty minae?
Theopropides:Ain minis triginta amicam destinatam Philolachi?
PHANISCUS:I do say so.
Phaniscvs:Aio.
THEUROPIDES:And that he gave her her freedom?
Theopropides:Atque eam manu emisisse?
PHANISCUS:I do say so.
Phaniscvs:Aio.
THEUROPIDES:And that after his father had departed hence abroad, he has been carousing here continually with your master?
Theopropides:Et, postquam eius hinc patersit profectus peregre, perpotasse assiduo, ác simultuo cum domino?
PHANISCUS:I do say so.
Phaniscvs:Aió.
THEUROPIDES:Well, has he made purchase of the house next door here?
Theopropides:Quid? is aedis emit has hinc proxumas?
PHANISCUS:I don’t say so.
Phaniscvs:Non aio.
THEUROPIDES:Has he given forty minae, too, to this person, to be as a deposit?
Theopropides:Quadraginta etiam dedit huic quae essent pignori?
PHANISCUS:Nor yet do I say so.
Phaniscvs:Neque istud aio.
THEUROPIDES:Ah me! you’ve proved my ruin!
Theopropides:Ei, perdis.
PHANISCUS:Aye, and he has proved the ruin of his father.
Phaniscvs:Immo suom patrem illic perdidit.
THEUROPIDES:You prophesy the truth! I could wish it false!
Theopropides:Vera cantas.
PHANISCUS:A friend of his father, I suppose?
Phaniscvs:Vana vellem. patris amicus esamicu's videlicet.
THEUROPIDES:Ah me! Upon my faith, you do pronounce him to be a wretched father.
Theopropides:Eu edepol patrem eius miserum praedicas.
PHANISCUS:Why really, this is nothing at all—thirty minae, in comparison with the other expenses he has incurred in good living.He has ruined his father.There’s one servant there a very great scoundrel, Tranio by name; he could even waste the revenue of a Hercules.On my word, I’m sadly distrest for his father; for when he comes to know that things have gone on thus, a hot coal will be scorching his breast, poor man.
Phaniscvs:Nihil hoc quidem est,triginta minae, prae quam alios dapsilis sumptus facit.
THEUROPIDES:If, indeed, this is the truth.
Theopropides:Perdidit patrem.
PHANISCUS:What am I to gain, that I should tell a lie?(Knocks again at the door.) Hallo, you! is any one coming to open this door?ANOTHER SERVANT of Callidamates:Why do you knock in this way, when there’s no one in the house?
Phaniscvs:Vnus istic servos est sacerrimus,Tranio: is vel Herculi conterere quaestum possiet.edepol ne me eiús patris mísere miseret, qui cum istaec scietfacta ita, amburet ei misero corculum carbunculus.Theopropides:Si quidem istaec vera sunt.
PHANISCUS:I fancy that he’s gone elsewhere to carouse. Now then, let’s begone.(They move as if going.)
Phaniscvs:Quid meream, quam ob rem mentiar?Pinacivm:Heus vos, ecquis hasce aperit?Phaniscvs:Quid istas pultas, ubi nemo intus est?alio credo comissatum abiisse. abeamus nunciamatque porro quaeritemus ⟨illos⟩. sequere hac me.Pinacivm:⟨Sequor⟩.
THEUROPIDES:What, my lad, are you off then?Liberty’s the overcoat for your back.
Theopropides:Puere, iamne abis?
PHANISCUS:Nothing have I with which to cover my back, except to pay respect and service to my master.(Exeunt PHANISCUS and SERVANT.)
Phaniscvs:Libertas paenulast tergo tuo:mihi, nisi ut erum metuam et curem, nihil est qui tergum tegam.—
THEUROPIDES: (to himself.)By my troth, I am undone! What need is there of talking? According to the words I have heard, I surely haven’t lately voyaged hence to Aegypt,but even to some desolate land and the most remote shores have I been borne about, so much am I at a loss to know where I now am. But I shall soon know; for see, here’s the person of whom my son bought the house. (Enter SIMO.)
Theopropides:Perii hercle, quid opust verbis? ut verba audio,non equidem in Aegyptum hinc modo vectus fui,sed etiam in terras solas orasque ultumassum circumvectus, ita ubi nunc sim nescio.verum iam scibo, nam eccum unde aedis filiusmeus emit. quid agis tu?Simo:A foro incedo domum.
THEUROPIDES:What are you about?
Theopropides:Numquid processit ad forum hodie novi?
SIMO:I’m coming home from the Forum.
Simo:Etiam.
THEUROPIDES:Has anything new been going on at the Forum to-day?
Theopropides:Quid tandem?
SIMO:Why yes.
Simo:Vidi efferri mortuom.
THEUROPIDES:What is it, pray?
Theopropides:Hem.
SIMO:I saw a dead man being carried to burial.
Simo:[Novom unum: vidi mortuom efferri foras.]modo eum vixisse aiebant.
THEUROPIDES:Dear me!that is something new!
Theopropides:Vae capiti tuo.
SIMO:I saw one who was dead being carried out to burialThey said that he had been alive but just before.
Simo:Quid tu otiosus res novas requiritas?
THEUROPIDES:Woe to that head of yours for your nonsense!
Theopropides:Quia hodie adveni peregre.
SIMO:Why are you, thus idling about, enquiring after the news?
Simo:Promisi foras,ad cenam ne me te vocare censeas.
THEUROPIDES:Because I’ve just arrived from abroad.
Theopropides:Haud postulo edepol.
SIMO:I’m engaged out to dine: don’t suppose I shall invite you.
Simo:Verum cras, nisi ⟨quis⟩ priusvocaverit me, vel apud te cenavero.
THEUROPIDES:I’ faith, I don’t want.
Theopropides:Ne istuc quidem edepol postulo. nisi quid magises occupatus, operam mihi da.
SIMO:But, to-morrow, unless any person invites me first, I’ll even dine with you.
Simo:Maxime.
THEUROPIDES:I’ faith, and that, too, I don’t want. Unless you are engaged with something of greater importance, lend me your attention.
Theopropides:Minas quadraginta accepisti, quod sciam,a Philolachete?
SIMO:By all means.
Simo:Numquam nummum, quod sciam.
THEUROPIDES:You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
Theopropides:Quid, a Tránione servo?
SIMO:Never a coin, so far as I know.
Simo:Multo ⟨hercle⟩ id minus.
THEUROPIDES:What? Not from my servant Tranio?
Theopropides:Quas arraboni tibi dedit?
SIMO:Much less is that the case.
Simo:Quid somnias?
THEUROPIDES:Which he gave you by way of deposit?
Theopropides:Egone? at quidem tu, qui istoc te speras modopotesse dissimulando infectum hoc reddere.
SIMO:What are you dreaming about?
Simo:Quid autem?
THEUROPIDES:What, I? Why, really,’tis yourself, who hope that, by dissembling in this manner,you’ll be able to make void this bargain.
Theopropides:Quod me apsente hic tecum filiusnegoti gessit.
SIMO:Why, what do you mean?
Simo:Mecum ut ille hic gesserit,dum tu hinc abes, negoti? quidnam aut quo die?
THEUROPIDES:The business that, in my absence, my son transacted with you here.
Theopropides:Minas tibi octoginta argenti debeo.
SIMO:How did your son,in your absence, transact any business with me? What pray, or on what day?
Simo:Non mihi quidem hercle. verum, si debes, cedo.fides servanda est, ne ire infitias postules.
THEUROPIDES:I owe you eighty minae of silver.
Theopropides:Profecto non negabo debere, et dabo;tu cave quadraginta accepisse hinc te neges.
SIMO:Not to me, indeed, upon my faith; but still, if you do owe them, give them me. Faith must be kept. Don’t be attempting to deny it.
Simo:Quaeso edepol huc me aspecta, et responde mihi.⟨quadraginta istas cur mih⟩i argenti minasfil⟨ius, ut ais, debebat?⟩
THEUROPIDES:Assuredly, I shall not deny that I owe them; and I shall pay them.Do you take care how you deny that you received the forty from him.
Theopropides:Ego dicam tibi.ta⟨lentis duobus, Tranio ut dixit⟩ mihi,de te aedis ⟨emit.⟩
SIMO:Troth now, prithee, look this way at me, and answer me.He said that you were wishful to give a wife to your son; for that reason, he said that you intended building on your own premises.
Simo:⟨De me⟩ ille aedis emerit?…Simo:Te velle uxorem aiebat tuo nato dare,ideo aedificare hic velle aiebat in tuis.
THEUROPIDES:I, intended building here?
Theopropides:Hic aedificare volui?
SIMO:So he told me.
Simo:Sic dixit mihi.
THEUROPIDES:Ah me! I’m ruined outright! I’ve hardly any voice left. Neighbours, I’m undone, ruined quite!
Theopropides:Ei mihi, disperii. vocis non habeo satis.vicine, perii, interii.
SIMO:Has Tranio been causing any confusion?
Simo:Numquid Tranioturbavit?
THEUROPIDES:Yes; he has thrown everything into confusion. He has made a fool of me to-day in a disgraceful manner.
Theopropides:Immo éxturbavit omnia.deludificatust mé hodie indignis modis.
SIMO:What is it you say?
Simo:Quid tú ais?
THEUROPIDES:This matter is just as I am telling you:he has this day made a fool of me in an outrageous manner. Now I beseech you that you’ll kindly aid me, and lend me your assistance.
Theopropides:Haec res sic est ut narro tibi:deludificatust me hodie in perpetuom modum.nunc te obsecro, ut me bene iuves operamque des.
SIMO:What would you have?
Simo:Quid vis?
THEUROPIDES:I beg of you, come this way together with me.
Theopropides:I mecum ⟨hinc⟩, obsecro, ⟨ad te⟩ una simul.
THEUROPIDES:Lend me the assistance of your slaves and some scourges.
Theopropides:Servorumque operam et lora mihi cedo.
SIMO:Take them by all means.
Simo:Sume.
THEUROPIDES:At the same time I’ll tell you about this,in what a fashion he has this day imposed upon me.(They go into the house of SIMO.)
Theopropides:Eademque opera haéc tibi narravero,quis med exemplis hodie ludificatus est.
(Enter TRANIO.)TRANIO: (to himself.)The man that shall prove timid in critical matters, will not be worth a nutshell. And, really, to say what that expression, “worth a nutshell,” means, I don’t know. But after my master sent me into the country to fetch his son hither,I went that way (pointing) slily through the lane to our garden. At the entrance to the garden that’s in the lane, I opened the door; and by that road I led out all the troop, both men and women. After, from being in a state of siege, I had led out my troops to a place of safety, I adopted the plan of convoking a senate of my comrades,and when I had convoked it, they forthwith banished me from the senate. When I myself perceived that the matter must be decided by my own judgment, as soon as ever I could, I did the same as many others do, whose affairs are in a critical or a perplexed state; they proceed to render them more perplexed, so that nothing can be settled.But I know full well, that now by no means can this be concealed from the old man.But how’s this, that our next neighbour’s door makes a noise? Why, surely this is my master: I’d like to have a taste of his talk.(Goes aside, out of sight of THEUROPIDES.) (Enter THEUROPIDES, from SIMO’s house.)
Tranio:Quí homo timidus erit in rebus dubiis, nauci non erit;atque equidem quid id esse dicam verbum nauci, nescio.nám erus me postquam rus misit, filium ut suom arcesserem,abii illac per angiportum ad hortum nostrum clanculum,ostium quod in angiportu est horti, patefeci fores,eaque eduxi omném legionem, ét maris et feminas.postquam ex opsidione in tutum eduxi maniplares meos,capio consilium, ut senatum congerronum convocem.quoniam convocavi, atque illi me ex senatu segregant.ubi ego me video venire in meo foro, quantum potestfacio idem quod plurimi alii, quibus res timida aut turbidast:pergunt turbare usque, ut ne quid possit conquiescere.nam scio equidem nullo pacto iam esse posse haec clam senem.non amicus alius quisquamst …aut …pro …ille qui … ero simul. …praeoccupabo atque anteveniam et foedus feriam. me moror.sed quid hoc ést, quod foris concrepuit proxima vicinia?erus meús hic quidem est. gustare ego eius sermonem volo.
THEUROPIDES: (in the doorway, speaking to SIMO’s SLAVES.)Do you stand there, in that spot within the threshold; so that, the very instant I call,you may sally forth at once. Quickly fasten the handcuffs upon him. I’ll wait before the house for this fellow that makes a fool of me, whose hide I’ll make a fool of in fine style, if I live.
Theopropides:Ilico intra limen isti astate, ut, cum extemplo vocem,continuo exiliatis. manicas celeriter conectite.ego illum ante aedis praestolabor ludificatorem meum,cuius ego hodie ludificabor corium, si vivo, probe.
TRANIO: (apart.)The affair’s all out. Now it’s best for you, Tranio, to consider what you are to do.
Tranio:Res palam est. nunc te videre meliust quid agas, Tranio.
THEUROPIDES: (to himself.)I must go to work to catch him cleverly and artfully when he comes here.I’ll not disclose to him my feelings all at once; I’ll throw out my line; I’ll conceal the fact that I know anything of these matters.
Theopropides:Docte atque astu mihi captandumst cum illo, ubi huc advenerit.non ego illi éxtemplo hamum ostendam, sensim mittam lineam.dissimulabo me horum quicquam scire.
TRANIO: (apart.)O cunning mortal! not another person in Athens can be pronounced more clever than he. One can no more this day deceive him than he can a stone. I’ll accost the man; I’ll address him.
Tranio:O mortalem malum,alter hoc Athenis nemo doctior dici potest.verba illi non magis dare hodie quisquam quam lapidi potest.adgrediar hominem, appellabo.
THEUROPIDES: (to himself.)Now I do wish that he would come here.
Theopropides:Nunc ego ille húc veniat velim.
TRANIO: (apart.)I’ faith, if me indeed you want, here I am ready at hand for you. (Comes forward.)
Tranio:Siquidem pol me quaeris, adsum praesens praesenti tibi.
THEUROPIDES:Bravo! Tranio, what’s being done?
Theopropides:Euge, Tranio, quid agitur?
TRANIO:The country people are coming from the country Philolaches will be here in a moment.
Tranio:Veniunt rure rustici.Philolaches iam hic aderit.
THEUROPIDES:I’ faith, he comes opportunely for me. This neighbour of ours I take to be a shameless and dishonest fellow.
Theopropides:Edepol mi opportune advenerit.nostrum ego hunc vicinum opinor esse hominem audacem et malum.
TRANIO:Why so?
Tranio:Quidum?
THEUROPIDES:Inasmuch as he denies that he knows you.
Theopropides:Quia negat novisse vos.
TRANIO:Denies it?
Tranio:Negat?
THEUROPIDES:And declares that you never gave him a single coin of money
Theopropides:Nec vos sibinummum umquam argenti dedisse.
TRANIO:Out with you, you are joking me, I do believe; he doesn’t deny it.
Tranio:Abi, lúdis me, credo haud negat.
THEUROPIDES:How so?
Theopropides:Quid iam?
TRANIO:I am sure now that you are joking; for surely he doesn’t deny it.
Tranio:Scio, iocaris nunc tu. nam ille quidem ⟨edepol⟩ haud negat.
THEUROPIDES:Nay but, upon my faith, he really does deny it; or that he has sold this house to Philolaches.
Theopropides:Immo edepol negat profecto, neque se hasce aedis Philolachivendidisse.
TRANIO:Well now, pray, has he denied that the money was paid him?
Tranio:Eho, an negavit sibi datum argentum, obsecro?
THEUROPIDES:Nay more, he offered to take an oath to me, if I desired it,that he had neither sold this house, nor had any money him paid been.I told him the same that you told me.
Theopropides:Quin ius iurandum pollicitust dare se, si vellem, mihi,neque se hasce aedis vendidisse neque sibi argentum datum [est].…Theopropides:Dixi ego istuc idem illi.
TRANIO:What did he say?
Tranio:Quid ait?
THEUROPIDES:He offered to give up all his servants for examination.
Theopropides:Servos pollicitust daresuos mihi omnes quaestioni.
TRANIO:Nonsense! On my faith, he never will give them up.
Tranio:Nugas. numquam edepol dabit.
THEUROPIDES:He really does offer them.
Theopropides:Dat profecto.
TRANIO:Why then, do you summon him to trial.
Tranio:Quin i cum illo in ius. sine inveniam.
THEUROPIDES:Wait a bit;I’ll make trial as I fancy. I’m determined on it.
Theopropides:Mane.experiar, ut opinor. certum est.
TRANIO:Bring the fellow here to me.
Tranio:⟨Immo⟩ mihi hominem cedo.vel hominem iube aedis † mancipio poscere.
THEUROPIDES:What then, if I go fetch some men?
Theopropides:Immo hoc primum volo,quaestioni accipere servos.
TRANIO:It ought to have been done already;or else bid the young man to demand possession of the house.
Tranio:Faciundum edepol censeo.
THEUROPIDES:Why no, I want to do this first—to put the servants under examination.
Theopropides:Quid si igitur ego accersam homines?
TRANIO:I’ faith, I think it ought to be done.Meantime, I’ll take possession of this altar.(Runs to the altar.)
Tranio:Factum iam esse oportuit.ego interim hanc aram occupabo.
THEUROPIDES:Why so?
Theopropides:Quid ita?
TRANIO:You can understand nothing.Why, that those may not be able to take refuge here whom he shall give up for examination, I’ll keep guard here for you; so that the examination may not come to nothing.
Tranio:Nullam rem sapis.né enim illi huc confugere possint, quaestioni quos dabit.hic ego tibi praesidebo, ne interbitat quaestio.
THEUROPIDES:Get up from the altar.
Theopropides:Surge.
TRANIO:By no means.
Tranio:Minime.
THEUROPIDES:Prithee, don’t you take possession of the altar.
Theopropides:Ne occupassis, obsecro, aram.
TRANIO:Why so?
Tranio:Cur?
THEUROPIDES:You shall hear; why, because I especially want this, for them to be taking refuge there. Do let them; so much the more easily shall I get him fined before the judge.
Theopropides:Scies.quia enim id maxime volo, ut illi ístoc confugiant. sine:tanto apud iúdicem hunc argenti condemnabo facilius.
TRANIO:What you intend to do, do it. Why do you wish to sow further strife? You don’t know how ticklish a thing it is to go to law.
Tranio:Quod agas id agas. quid tu porro serere vis negotium?nescis quam metuculosa res sit ire ad iudicem?
THEUROPIDES:Just get up, (beckoning) this way; it’s, then, to ask your advice upon something that I want you.
Theopropides:Surgedum huc igitur. consulere quiddam est quod tecum volo.
TRANIO:Still, as I am, I’ll give my advice from this spot: my wits are much sharper when I’m sittings. Besides, advice is given with higher sanction from holy places.
Tranio:Sic tamen hinc consilium dedero. nimio plus sapio sedens.tum consilia firmiora sunt de divinis locis.
THEUROPIDES:Get up; don’t be trifling. Just look me in the face.
Theopropides:Surge, ne nugare. aspicedum contra me.
TRANIO: (looking at him.)I am looking.
Tranio:Aspexi.
THEUROPIDES:Do you see me?
Theopropides:Vides?
TRANIO:I do see—that if any third person were to step in here, he would die of hunger.
Tranio:Video. huc si quis intercedat tertius, pereat fame.
THEUROPIDES:Why so?
Theopropides:Quidum?
TRANIO:Because he would get no profit; for, upon my faith, we are both artful ones.
Tranio:Quia nil ⟨illi⟩ quaesti sit. mali hercle ambo sumus.
THEUROPIDES:I’m undone!
Theopropides:Perii.
TRANIO:What’s the matter with you?
Tranio:Quid tibi est?
THEUROPIDES:You have deceived me.
Theopropides:Dedisti verba.
TRANIO:How so, pray?
Tranio:Qui tandem?
THEUROPIDES:You’ve wiped me clean.
Theopropides:Probemed emunxti.
TRANIO:Consider, please, if it wasn’t well done; is your nose running still?
Tranio:Vide sis, satine recte: num mucci fluont?
THEUROPIDES:Aye, all my brains besides have you been wiping out of my head as well. For all your villanies I have discovered from their very roots; and not from the roots, indeed, i’ faith, but even from beneath the very roots.Never this day, by my troth, will you have planned all this without being punished.I shall at once, you villain, order fire and faggots to be placed around you.
Theopropides:Immo etiam cerebrum quoque omne é capite emunxti meo.nam omnia male facta vestra repperi radicitus,non radicitus quidem hercle, verum etiam exradicitus.
TRANIO:Don’t do it; for it’s my way to be sweeter boiled than roasted.
Tranio:Numquam edepol hodie ⟨hinc, si vivo,⟩ invitus desistam tibi.
THEUROPIDES:Upon my faith, I’ll make an example of you.
Theopropides:Iam iubebo ignem et sarmenta, carnifex, circumdari.
TRANIO:Because I please you, you select me for an example.
Tranio:Ne faxis, nam elixus esse quam assus soleo suavior.
THEUROPIDES:Say now: what kind of a person did I leave my son, when I went away from here?
Theopropides:Exempla edepol faciam ego in te.
TRANIO:One with feet and hands, with fingers, ears, eyes, and lips.
Tranio:Quia placeo, exemplum expetis?
THEUROPIDES:I asked you something else than that.
Theopropides:Loquere: quoius modi reliqui, quom hinc abibam, filium?
TRANIO:For that reason I now answer you something else.But look, I see Callidamates, the friend of your son, coming this way. Deal with me in his presence, if you want anything
Tranio:Cum pedibus, manibus, cum digitis, auribus, oculis, labris.Theopropides:Aliud te rogo.Tranio:Aliud ergo nunc tibi respondeo.sed eccum tui gnati sodalem video húc incedereCallidamatem: illo praesente mecum agito, si quid voles.
(Enter CALLIDAMATES, at a distance.)CALLIDAMATES: (to himself.)When I had buried all drowsiness, and slept off the debauch, Philolaches told me that his father had arrived here from abroad; in what a way too his servant had imposed upon the man on his arrival;he said that he was afraid to come into his presence. Now of our company I am deputed sole ambassador, to obtain peace from his father. And look, most opportunely here he is. (Accosting THEUROPIDES.) I wish you health, Theuropides, and am glad that you’ve got back safe from abroad. You must dine here with us to-day. Do so.
Callidamates:Vbi somno sepelivi omnem atque édormivi crapulam,Philolaches venisse ⟨dixit⟩ mihi suom peregre huc patremquoque modo hominem ad⟨venientem⟩ servos ludificatus sit,ait se metuere in conspe⟨ctum sui patris pr⟩ocedere.nunc ego de sodalitate solus sum orator datus,qui a patre eius conciliarem pacem. átque eccum optime.iubeo te salvere et salvos cum advenis, Theopropides,peregre, gaudeo. hic apud nos hodie cenes, sic face.
THEUROPIDES:Callidamates, may the Gods bless you. For your dinner I offer you my thanks.
Theopropides:Callidamates, dei te ament. de cena facio gratiam.
CALLIDAMATES:Will you come then?
Callidamates:Quin venis?
TRANIO: (To THEUROPIDES.)Do promise him; I’ll go for you, if you don’t like.
Tranio:Promitte: ego ibo pro te, si tibi non libet.
THEUROPIDES:Whip-scoundrel, laughing at me still?
Theopropides:Verbero, etiam inrides?
TRANIO:What, because I say that I’ll go to dinner for you?
Tranio:Quian me pro te ire ad cenam autumo?
THEUROPIDES:But you shan’t go. I’ll have you carried to the cross, as you deserve.
Theopropides:Non enim ibis. ego ferare faxo, ut meruisti, in crucem.Callidamates:Age mitte ista ac te ad me ad cenam dic venturum.
TRANIO:Come, let this pass, and say that I shall go to the dinner.Why are you silent?
Tranio:Quid taces?
CALLIDAMATES: (to TRANIO.)But why, you greatest of simpletons, have you taken refuge at the altar?
Callidamates:Sed tu, istuc quid confugisti in aram?
TRANIO:He frightened me on his arrival. (To THEUROPIDES.) Say now, what I have done amiss. Look, now there’s an umpire for us both; come, discuss the matter.
Tranio:Inscitissimusadveniens perterruit me. loquere nunc quid fecerim:nunc utrisque disceptator eccum adest, age disputa.
THEUROPIDES:I say that you have corrupted my son.
Theopropides:Filium corrupisse aio te meum.
TRANIO:Only listen. I confess that he has done amiss; that he has given freedom to his mistress; that in your absencehe has borrowed money at interest; that, I admit, is squandered away. Has he done anything different to what sons of the noblest families do?
Tranio:Ausculta modo.fateor potavisse, amicam liberasse absente te,faenore argentum sumpsisse; id esse absumptum praedico.numquid aliud fecit nisi quod [faciunt] summis gnati generibus?
THEUROPIDES:Upon my faith, I must be on my guard with you; you are too clever a pleader.
Theopropides:Hercle mihi tecum cavendum est, nimis qui es orator catus.
CALLIDAMATES:Just let me be umpire in this matter. (TO TRANIO.) Get up; I’ll seat myself there.
Callidamates:Sine me dum istuc iudicare. surge, ego isti adsedero.
THEUROPIDES:By all means: take the management of this dispute to yourself.(Pushes him to one side of the altar.)
Theopropides:Maxime, accipito hanc ⟨tute⟩ ad te litem.
TRANIO:Why, this is surely a trick.Make me, then, not to be in a fright, and yourself to be in a fright in my stead.
Tranio:Enim istic captio est.fac ego ne metuam … ut tu meam timeas vicem.
THEUROPIDES:I consider now everything of trifling consequence, compared with the way in which he has fooled me.
Theopropides:Iam minoris ⟨omnia alia fa⟩cio, prae quam quibus modisme ludificatust.
TRANIO:I’ faith,’twas cleverly done, and I rejoice that it was done. Those who have white heads ought at that age to be wiser.
Tranio:Bene hercle factum, et factum gaudeo:sapere istac aetate oportet, qui sunt capite candido.
THEUROPIDES:What am I now to doif my friend Demipho or Philonides—
Theopropides:Quid ego nunc faciam?
TRANIO:Tell them in what way your servant made a fool of you. You would be affording most capital plots for Comedies.
Tranio:Si amicus Diphilo aut Philemoni es,dicito eis, quo pacto tuos te servos ludificaverit:optumas frustrationes dederis in comoediis.
CALLIDAMATES:Hold your tongue awhile; let me speak in my turn.—Listen.
Callidamates:Tace parumper, sine vicissim me loqui, ausculta.
THEUROPIDES:By all means.
Theopropides:Licet.
CALLIDAMATES:In the first place of all then, you know that I am the companion of your son;he has gone to my house, for he is ashamed to come into your presence, because he knows that you are aware what he has done. Now, I beseech you, do pardon his simplicity and youthfulness. He is your son; you know that this age is wont to play such pranks; whatever he has done, he has done in company with me. We have acted wrong:the interest, principal, and all the sum at which the mistress was purchased, all of it we will find, and will contribute together, at our own cost, not yours.
Callidamates:Omnium primum sodalem me esse scis gnato tuo.is adiit me, nam eum prodire pudet in conspectum tuompropterea quia fecit quae te scire scit. nunc te obsecro,stultitiae adulescentiaeque éius ignoscas: tuost;scis solere illanc aetatem tali ludo ludere.quidquid fecit, una nobiscum fécit: nos deliquimus.faenus, sortem sumptumque omnem, quí amica ⟨empta⟩ est, omnianos dabimus, nos conferemus, nostro sumptu, non tuo.
THEUROPIDES:No mediator could have come to me more able to influence me than yourself. I am neither angry with him, nor do I blame him for anything: nay more, in my presence, wench on, drink, do what you please.If he’s ashamed of this, that he has been extravagant, I have sufficient satisfaction.
Theopropides:Non potuit venire orator magis ad me impetrabilisquam tu; neque ⟨iam⟩ illi sum iratus neque quicquam suscenseo.immo me praesente amato bibito, facito quod lubet:si hoc pudet, fecisse sumptum, supplicí habeo satis.
CALLIDAMATES:I’m quite ashamed myself
Callidamates:Dispudet.
TRANIO:He grants pardon thus far; now then, what is to become of me?
Tranio:⟨Post⟩ istam veniam quid me fiet nunciam?
THEUROPIDES:Filth, tied up as you hang, you shall be beaten with stripes.
Theopropides:Verberibus caedere multum pendens.
TRANIO:Even though I am ashamed?
Tranio:Tamen etsi pudet?
THEUROPIDES:Upon my faith, I’ll be the death of you, if I live!
Theopropides:Interimam hercle ego ⟨te⟩, si vivo.
CALLIDAMATES:Make this pardon general; do, pray, forgive Tranio this offence, for my sake.
Callidamates:Fac istam cunctam gratiam:Tranioni amitte quaeso hanc noxiam causa mea.
THEUROPIDES:I would more readily put up with your obtaining any other request of me than that I should forbear sending to perdition this fellow for his most villanous doings.
Theopropides:Aliud quidvis impetrari perferam a me facilius,quam ut non égo istum pro suis factis pessumis pessum premam.
CALLIDAMATES:Pray, do pardon him.TRANIO:Do pardon me?
Callidamates:Mitte quaeso.
THEUROPIDES:Look there, don’t you see how the villain sticks there?(Pointing to the altar.)
Theopropides:Istumne ⟨ut mittam⟩? viden ut astat furcifer?
CALLIDAMATES:Tranio, do be quiet, if you are in your senses.
Callidamates:Tranio, quiesce, si sapis.
THEUROPIDES:Only do you be quiet in urging this matter. I’ll subdue him with stripes, so that he shall be quiet.
Theopropides:Tu quiesce hanc rem modopetere: ego illum, ut sit quietus, verberibus subegero.Tranio:Nihil opust profecto.
CALLIDAMATES:Really, there is no need.Come now, do allow yourself to be prevailed upon.
Callidamates:Áge iam, sine te ⟨hoc⟩ exorarier.
THEUROPIDES:I wish you would not request me.
Theopropides:Nolo ores.
CALLIDAMATES:Troth now, I do entreat you.
Callidamates:Quaeso hercle.
THEUROPIDES:I wish you would not request me, I tell you.
Theopropides:Nolo, inquam, ores.
CALLIDAMATES:It’s in vain you wish me not; only do grant this one pardon for his offence, pray, for my sake, I do entreat you.
Callidamates:Nequiquam nevis.hanc modo noxiam unam, quaeso, ⟨missam⟩ fac causa mea.
TRANIO:Why make this difficulty? As if to-morrow I shouldn’t be very soon committing some other fault; then, both of them, both this one and that, you’ll be able to punish soundly.
Tranio:Quid gravaris? quasi non cras iam commeream aliam noxiam:ibi utrúmque, et hoc et illud, poteris ulcisci probe.
CALLIDAMATES:Do let me prevail upon you.
Callidamates:Sine te exorem.
THEUROPIDES:Well then, have it so; begone, unpunished! (TRANIO jumps down from the altar.) There now, (pointing to CALLIDAMATES) return him thanks for it. (Coming forward.) Spectators, this Play is finished; grant us your applause.
Theopropides:Age abi, abi impune. em huic habeto gratiam.spectatores, fabula haec est acta, vos plausum date.