SAGARISTIO:State a sum; name a price.
Sagaristio:Indica, fac pretium.
DORDALUS:The commodity is your own; it’s for you to name a sum.TOXILUS: (to SAGARISTIO.)
Dordalvs:Tua mers est, tua indicatiost.
He asks what’s right.SAGARISTIO:Do you wish to buy at a bargain?
Toxilvs:Aequom hic orat.Sagaristio:Vin bene emere?
DORDALUS:Do you wish to sell at a handsome profit?
Dordalvs:Vin tu pulchre vendere?
TOXILUS:I’ faith, I’m sure that both of you would like to do so.
Toxilvs:Ego scio hercle utrumque velle.
DORDALUS:Come, boldly name your price.
Dordalvs:Age, indica prognariter.
SAGARISTIO:I tell you beforehand; no one will dispose of her to you on warranty. Do you so understand it, then?
Sagaristio:Prius dico: hanc mancupio nemo tibi dabit. iam scis?
DORDALUS:I understand it.
Dordalvs:Scio.
Declare what’s the lowest price at which you’ll offer her, for which she may be taken by the purchaser.
indica, minimo daturus qui sis, qui duci queat.
TOXILUS:Hold your tongue, hold your tongue. Really, upon my faith, you are a very simple man, with your childish ways.
Toxilvs:Tace, tace. nimis tú quidem hercle homo stultus es pueriliter.
DORDALUS:Why so?
Dordalvs:Quid ita?
TOXILUS:Why because I wish you first to make enquiries of the damsel which relate to your interest.
Toxilvs:Quia enim te ex puella prius percontari voloquae ad rem referúnt.
DORDALUS:And really, upon my faith, you’ve given me no bad advice. Look at that, will you. I, an experienced Procurer, had almost fallen into the pit,if you had not been here. How important a point it is to have a person your friend at hand when you are about anything.
Dordalvs:Atque hercle tu me monuisti hau male.vide sis, ego ille doctus leno paene in foveam decidi,ni hic adesses. quantum est adhibere hominem amicum, ubi quid geras.
TOXILUS:I want you to make enquiry of her, of what family or in what country she was born, or of what parents, so that you mayn’t say that you’ve bought her at hazard by my persuasion or suggestion.
Toxilvs:Quo genere aut qua in patria nata sit aut quibus parentibus,ne temere hanc te emisse dicas suasu atque impulsu meo,volo te percontari.
DORDALUS:On the contrary, I approve of your counsel, I tell you.TOXILUS: (to SAGARISTIO.)
Dordalvs:Quin laudo, inquam, consilium tuom.
Unless it’s troublesome, he’s desirous to make a few enquiries of her.SAGARISTIO:By all means;at his own pleasure.
Toxilvs:Nisi molestum est, percontari hanc paucis hic volt.Sagaristio:Maxime,suo arbitratu.
TOXILUS: (to DORDALUS.)Why do you delay? Go to him yourself; and do you yourself ask him as well, that you may be allowed to make such enquiries as you please; although he has told me that he gives permission to do so of her, still I had rather that you yourself should go to him, that he mayn’t be holding you in contempt.
Toxilvs:Quid stas? adi sis tute atque ipse itidem roga,ut tibi percontari liceat quae velis; etsi mihidixit dare potestatem eius; sed ego te malo tamen,eumpse adire, ut ne contemnat te ille.
DORDALUS:You give me very proper advice. (Accosting SAGARISTIO.) Stranger, I should like to ask some questions of her.(Pointing to the YOUNG WOMAN.)
Dordalvs:Satis recte mones.hospes, volo ego hanc percontari.
SAGARISTIO:From earth to heaven, whatever you like.
Sagaristio:A terra ad caelum, quid lubet.
DORDALUS:Just bid her to step this way to me.
Dordalvs:Iube dum eam hoc accedat ad me.
SAGARISTIO: (to the YOUNG WOMAN.)Go you, then, and humour him. (To DORDALUS.) Make enquiry, question her, just as you please.
Sagaristio:I sane ac morem illi gere.percontare, exquire quid vis.
TOXILUS: (to DORDALUS.)Well, well, get on then; make your preparations. (Aside to the YOUNG WOMAN.) Take you care to commence with a good omen.
Toxilvs:Age, age nunc tu, in proeliumvide ut ingrediare auspicato.
DAUGHTER:The auspices are favourable.TOXILUS: (Aside to the YOUNG WOMAN.)
Virgo:Liquidumst auspicium, tace.curabo ut praedati pulchre ad castra convertamini.
Hold your tongue. (To DORDALUS.) Step you aside here; I will now conduct her to you.DORDALUS:Do what you think is most for my interest.
Toxilvs:Concede istuc, ego illam adducam.Dordalvs:Age, ut rem esse in nostram putas.
TOXILUS: (to the YOUNG WOMAN, who advances with him.)
Toxilvs:Ehodum huc, virgo. vide sis quid agas.Virgo:Taceas, curabo ut voles.
Follow me. (To DORDALUS.) I’ve brought her, if you are wishful to make any enquiries of her.
Toxilvs:Sequere me. adduco hanc, si quid vis ex hac percontarier.
DORDALUS:But I want you to be present.
Dordalvs:Enim volo te adesse.
TOXILUS:I cannot do otherwise than pay attention to this stranger (pointing to SAGARISTIO.) whom my master bade me show courtesy to. What if he doesn’t choose that I should be present together with you?
Toxilvs:Hau possum quin huic operam dem hospiti,quoí erus iussit. quid si hic non volt mé adesse una?
SAGARISTIO:Yes, but do come.TOXILUS: (to DORDALUS.)
Sagaristio:Immo i modo.
I’ll lend you my assistance, then.DORDALUS:You’re lending it yourself as well when you are assisting your friend.
Toxilvs:Do tibi ego operam.Dordalvs:Tibi ibidem das, ubi tu tuom amicum adiuvas.
TOXILUS:Examine her. (Aside to the YOUNG WOMAN.) Hark you, be on your guard.
Toxilvs:Exquire. heus tu, advigila.
DAUGHTER: (aside.)Enough has been said to me. (Aloud.) Although I am a slave, I know my duty, so that whatever he asks I’ll tell the truth as I have heard it.TOXILUS: (pointing to DORDALUS.)
Virgo:Satis est dictum: quamquam ego serva sum,scio ego officium meum, ut quae rogiter vera, ut accepi, eloquar.
Young woman, this is an honorable man.DAUGHTER:I believe you.
Toxilvs:Virgo, híc homo probus est.Virgo:Credo.
TOXILUS:You’ll not be long in servitude with him.
Toxilvs:Non diu apud hunc servies.
DAUGHTER:I’ faith, and so I trust, if my parents do their duty.
Virgo:Ita pol spero, si parentes facient officium suom.
DORDALUS:I do not wish you to be surprised, if we make enquiries of youabout either your country or your parents.
Dordalvs:Nolo ego te mirari, si nos ex te percontabimuraut patriam tuam aut parentes.
DAUGHTER:Why should I be surprised at that, my dear sir? My state of servitude has forbidden me to be surprised at any misfortune of my own.
Virgo:Quor ego id mirer, mi homo?servitus mea mi interdixit, ne quid mirer meum malum.Dordalvs:Noli flere.
TOXILUS: (aside.)May the Gods confound her! so cunning and crafty is she. She has got shrewd sense: how readily she does say what’s needed.
Toxilvs:Ah, di istam perdant, ita catast et callida.ut sapiens habet cór, quam dicit quod opust!
DORDALUS:What’s your name?TOXILUS: (aside.)
Dordalvs:Quid nomen tibist?
Now I’m afraid she’ll be tripping.DAUGHTER:My name was Lucris in my own country.
Toxilvs:Nunc metuo ne peccet.Virgo:Lucridi nomen in patria fuit.
TOXILUS:The name and the omen are worth any price. Why don’t you make purchase of her? (Aside.) I was greatly afraid that she would be tripping. She has got herself free.
Toxilvs:Nomen atque omen quantivis iam est preti. quin tu hanc emis?nimis pavebam, ne peccaret. expedivit.
DORDALUS:If I make purchase of you, I trust that you’ll prove Lucris to myself as well.
Dordalvs:Si te emam,mihi quoque Lucridem confido fore te.
TOXILUS:If you do make purchase of her, never, on my word, do I think that she’ll remain your slave throughout the month.
Toxilvs:Tu si hanc emeris,numquam hercle hunc mensem vortentem, credo, servibit tibi.
DORDALUS:And so indeed I’d hope, i’ faith.
Dordalvs:Ita velim quidem hercle.
TOXILUS:That what you wish may come to pass, employ your own energies.
Toxilvs:Optata ut evenant, operam addito.
(Aside.) In nothing even as yet has she made a slip.DORDALUS:Where were you born?
nihil adhuc peccavit etiam.Dordalvs:Vbi tu nata es?
DAUGHTER:According to what my mother told me, in the kitchen, in a corner on the left hand.TOXILUS: (to DORDALUS.)
Virgo:Vt mihimater dixit, in culina, in angulo ad laevam manum.
This woman will prove a lucky Courtesan for you; she has been born in a warm spot, where full oft there is an abundance of all good things. (Aside.) The Procurer was taken in when he asked where she was born.She has played him off nicely.DORDALUS:But I ask of you, what is your country?
Toxilvs:Haec erit tibi fausta meretrix: natast in calido loco,ubi rerum omnium bonarum copiast saepissume.tactust leno; qui rogaret, ubi nata esset diceret,lepide lusit.Dordalvs:At ego patriam te rogo quae sit tua.
DAUGHTER:What should be mine but that where I now am?
Virgo:Quae mihi sít, nisi haec ubi nunc sum?
DORDALUS:But this I’m asking, what was?
Dordalvs:At ego illam quaero quae fuit.
DAUGHTER:Everything that was, do I consider as nothing, since it was, and is not now. Just like a man when he has breathed forth his spirit; why enquire of him who he was?TOXILUS: (aside.)
Virgo:Omne ego pro nihilo esse duco quod fuit, quando fuit:tamquam hominem, quando animam ecflavit, quid eum quaeras qui fuit?
So may the Deities kindly favour me, right cleverly. And yet I really do pity her.
Toxilvs:Ita me di bene ament, sapienter. atque equidem miseret tamen.
DORDALUS:But still, young woman, come, tell me at once which is your country? Why are you silent?DAUGHTER:For my part, I really am telling you my country. Since I’m in servitude here, this is my country.
sed tamen, virgo, quae patriast tua, age mi actutum expedi.quid taces?Virgo:Dico equidem: quando hic servio, haec patriast mea.
TOXILUS:Do cease now making enquiries about that. Don’t you see that she’s unwilling to declare, lest you should recall to her the remembrance of her misfortunes?
Toxilvs:Iam de istoc rogare omitte (non vides nolle eloqui?)ne suarúm se miseriarum in memoriam inducas.
DORDALUS:What’s the matter? Is your father in captivity?
Dordalvs:Quid est?captusne est pater?
DAUGHTER:Not in captivity; but what he had, he has lost.
Virgo:Non captus, sed quod habuit perdidit.
TOXILUS:She will prove to be born of a good family; she knows how to say nothing but the truth.
Toxilvs:Haec erit bono genere nata: nil scit nisi verum loqui.
DORDALUS:Who was he? Tell me his name?
Dordalvs:Quis fuit? dic nomen.
DAUGHTER:Why should I tell of him, wretched man, who he was? For the present ’twere proper for him to be called Miserable, and me Miserable.
Virgo:Quid illum miserum memorem qui fuit?nunc et illúm miserum et me miseram aéquom est nominarier.
DORDALUS:What kind of a person was he considered by the public?
Dordalvs:Quoius modi is ⟨suo⟩ ín populo habitust?
DAUGHTER:Not a person more acceptable; slaves and free persons all liked him.
Virgo:Nemo quisquam acceptior:servi liberique amabant.
TOXILUS:You do speak of a miserable man,inasmuch as he’s almost lost himself, and has lost his friends.
Toxilvs:Hominem miserum praedicas,quom ét ipsus prorsus perditust et benevolentis perdidit.
DORDALUS:I shall purchase her, I think.
Dordalvs:Emam, opinor.
TOXILUS:What, still “I think?”DORDALUS:I imagine that she’s of a noble family.
Toxilvs:Etiam opinor? summo genere esse arbitror;
TOXILUS:You’ll make riches by her.DORDALUS:May the Gods grant it so.
divitias tu ex istac facies.Dordalvs:Ita di faxint.
TOXILUS:Do you only buy her.
Toxilvs:Eme modo.
DAUGHTER:Now this I tell you: my father will be here directly, when he knows that I’ve been sold, and will ransom me thus separated from him.
Virgo:Iam hoc tibi dico: [iam] actutum ecastor meus pater, ubi me scietveniisse, ipse aderit et me abs te redimet.
TOXILUS:What say you now?
Toxilvs:Quid nunc?
DORDALUS:What’s the matter?
Dordalvs:Quid est?
TOXILUS:Do you hear what she says?
Toxilvs:Audin quid ait?
DAUGHTER:For although his fortunes are broken, he still has friends.(Pretends to cry.)
Virgo:Nam etsi res sunt fractae, amici sunt tamen.
DORDALUS:Don’t weep, please; you’ll soon be at liberty, if—you have sweethearts enough. Would you like to belong to me?
Dordalvs:Ne sis plora; libera eris actutum, si crebro cades.vin mea esse?
DAUGHTER:So long, indeed, as I don’t belong to you too long. I’d like.
Virgo:Dum quidem ne nímis diu tua sim, volo.
TOXILUS:How well she does keep in mind her liberty. She’ll be producing you fine hauls. About it, if you are about it. I’ll go back to him. (To the YOUNG WOMAN.) Do you follow me. (To SAGARISTIO) I’ve brought her back to you.
Toxilvs:Satin ut meminit libertatis? dabit haec tibi grandis bolos.age si quid agis. ego ad hunc redeo. sequere. redduco hanc tibi.
DORDALUS:Young man, are you disposed to sell her?
Dordalvs:Adulescens, vin vendere istanc?
SAGARISTIO:I’d like it, rather than lose her.
Sagaristio:Magis libet quam perdere.
DORDALUS:Do you compress it then into a few words; state the price at which she’s offered.
Dordalvs:Tum tu pauca in verba confer: qui datur, tanti indica.
SAGARISTIO:I’ll do so, as I see you wish it. Take her for a hundred minae.
Sagaristio:Faciam ita ut te velle video, út emas. habe centum minis.
DORDALUS:That’s too much.
Dordalvs:Nimiumst.
SAGARISTIO:For eighty.
Sagaristio:Octoginta.
DORDALUS:That’s too much.
Dordalvs:Nimiumst.
SAGARISTIO:There can’t a didrachm be abated from the price which I shall now name.
Sagaristio:Nummus abesse hinc non potest,quod nunc dicam.
DORDALUS:What is it, then? Speak out at once and name it.
Dordalvs:Quid id est ergo? eloquere actutum atque indica.
SAGARISTIO:At your own risk, she’s offered at sixty minae.
Sagaristio:Tuo periclo sexaginta haec dabitur argenti minis.
DORDALUS:Toxilus, what am I to do?
Dordalvs:Toxilé, quid ago?
TOXILUS: (aside to DORDALUS.)The Gods and Goddesses are pursuing you with their vengeance, you rogue, for not making haste to purchase her.
Toxilvs:Di deaeque te agitant irati, scelus,qui hanc non properes destinare.
DORDALUS:Take them, then.
Dordalvs:Habeto.
TOXILUS:Well done, you have got a rich prize! Be off, and fetch the money out here. On my faith, she’s not dear at three hundred minae.
Toxilvs:Eu, praedatu's praedatus es probe.non edepol minis trecentis carast. fecisti lucri.
SAGARISTIO:Hark you, for her clothing there’ll be ten minae added to this as well.
Sagaristio:Heus tu, etiam pro vestimentis huc decem accedent minae.
DORDALUS:Yes, be deducted, not added.
Dordalvs:Abscedent enim, nón accedent.
TOXILUS:Do hold your tongue, will you; don’t you see that he’s seeking an excuse to have the bargain broken? Why don’t you be off and fetch the money?DORDALUS: (to TOXILUS, as he is going.)
Toxilvs:Tace sis, non tu illum videsquaerere ansam, infectum ut faciat? abin atque argentum petis?… atque ut dignust perit.
Hark you, do you keep an eye upon him.TOXILUS:Why don’t you then go in?
Dordalvs:Heus tu serva istum.Toxilvs:Quin tu is intro?
DORDALUS:I’ll go and fetch the money.(Goes into his house.) (The DAUGHTER of SATURIO, TOXILUS, and SAGARISTIO.)
Dordalvs:Abeo atque argentum affero.—
TOXILUS:Upon my word, young lady, you have given us praiseworthy aid, good. and wise, and sensible.
Toxilvs:Edepol dedisti, virgo, operam adlaudabilem,probam et sapientem et sobriam.
DAUGHTER:If for good personsanything good is done, the same is wont to be both important and pleasing.
Virgo:Si quid bonisboni fit, esse id et grave et gratum solet.
TOXILUS:Do you hear, you Persian, when you’ve got the money of him, do you pretend as though you are going straight to the ship.
Toxilvs:Audin tu, Persa? ubi argentum ab hoc acceperis,simulato, quasi eas prorsum in navem.
SAGARISTIO:Don’t teach me.
Sagaristio:Ne doce.
TOXILUS:Betake yourself back again to our house, that way (pointing.) down the lane through the garden.
Toxilvs:Per angiportum rursum te ad me recipitoillac per hortum.
SAGARISTIO:You are naming what’s intended to be done.
Sagaristio:Quod futurum est praedicas.
TOXILUS:But don’t you at once be changing your quarters with the money, I recommend you.
Toxilvs:At ne cum argento protinam permittas domum,moneo, te.
SAGARISTIO:What’s worthy of yourself, do you take to be worthy of me?
Sagaristio:Quod te dignumst, me dignum esse vis?
TOXILUS:Hold your tongue; lower your voice; the spoil is coming out of doors.(Re-enter DORDALUS, from his house, with a bag of money.)
Toxilvs:Tace, párce voci: praeda progreditur foras.
DORDALUS:Sixty minae of assayed silver are here (pointing at the bag.) less two didrachms.
Dordalvs:Probae hic argenti sunt sexaginta minae,duobus nummis minus est.
SAGARISTIO:What’s the meaning of those didrachms?
Sagaristio:Quid ei nummi sciunt?
DORDALUS:To pay for this bag, or else to cause it to come home again.
Dordalvs:Cruminam hanc emere aut facere uti remigret domum.
SAGARISTIO:Lest you mightn’t be enough of a Procurer, did you fear, wretched, filthy, avaricious creature, that you might lose your bag?
Sagaristio:Ne non sat esses leno, id metuebas miser,impure, avare, ne crumillam amitteres?
TOXILUS:Pray, let him alone; since he is a Procurer, he isn’t doing anything surprising.
Toxilvs:Sine quaeso. quando lenost, nil mirum facit.
DORDALUS:I’ve judged from omens that I should make some profit to-day;
Dordalvs:Lucro faciundo ego auspicavi in hunc diem:
nothing is of value so small to me, but that I grudge to lose it. Come, take this, will you?(Holds out the bag to SAGARISTIO.)SAGARISTIO:Place it around my neck, if it is not too much trouble.
nil mihi tam parvist, quin me id pigeat perdere.age, accipe hoc sis.Sagaristio:Hunc in collum, nisi piget,impone.
DORDALUS:Certainly, it shall be done.(Hangs it round his neck.)
Dordalvs:Vero fiat.
SAGARISTIO:Is there anything else that you wish with me?
Sagaristio:Numquid ceterumme voltis?
TOXILUS:Why are you in such haste?
Toxilvs:Quid tam properas?
SAGARISTIO:My business is of that nature; the letters that have been entrusted me, I want to deliver;
Sagaristio:Ita negotiumst:mandatae quae sunt, volo deferre epistulas;
and I’ve heard that my twin-brother’s a slave here; I wish to be off to seek him out, and redeem him.
geminum autem fratrem servire audivi hic meum,eum ego ut requiram átque uti redimam volo.
TOXILUS:And, i’ faith, you’ve not badly put me in mind of it; I think that I’ve seen here one very like you in figure, of just the same size.
Toxilvs:Atque edepol tu me commonuisti haú male.videor vidisse hic forma persimilem tui,eadém statura.
SAGARISTIO:Why, it must surely be my brother.
Sagaristio:Quippe qui frater siet.
DORDALUS:But we’d like to know what your name is.
Dordalvs:Quid est tibi nomen?Toxilvs:… quod ad te attinet.
TOXILUS:What does it matter to us to know?SAGARISTIO:Listen then, that you may know; my name is Lying- speakerus, Virgin-seller-onides, Trifle-great-talker-ides, Silver-screwer-outides, Thee-worthy-to-talk-to-ides, Wheedler-out-of-coin-ides,What-he-has-once-got-hold-of-ides, Never-again-part-with-it-ides.
Dordalvs:Quid attinet non scire?Sagaristio:Ausculta ergo, ut scias:Vaniloquidorus VirginesvendonidesNugiepiloquides Argentumexterebronides[Tedigniloquides Nugides Palponides]Quodsemelarripides Numquameripides. em tibi.
DORDALUS:Dear me; upon my faith, this name of yours is written in many ways.
Dordalvs:Eu hercle, nomen multimodis scriptumst tuom.
SAGARISTIO:Such is the way with the Persians; we have long names of many words twisted together. Do you wish for anything else?
Sagaristio:Ita sunt Persarum mores, longa nomina,contortiplicata habemus. numquid ceterumvoltis?
DORDALUS:Farewell!
Dordalvs:Vale.
SAGARISTIO:And you farewell; for my mind’s aboard ship already.
Sagaristio:Et vos, nam animus iam in navist meus.
DORDALUS:You’d better have gone to-morrow, and dined here to-day.(SAGARISTIO is going.) Farewell!(Exit SAGARISTIO.) (TOXILUS, DORDALUS, and the DAUGHTER of SATURIO.)TOXILUS:Since that fellow’s gone, I may say here whatever I please. This day has assuredly shone a gainful one for you; for you’ve not been buying her, but making a clear profit of her.
Toxilvs:Cras ires potius, hodie hic cenares.Sagaristio:Vale.—Toxilvs:Postquam illic ⟨hinc⟩ abiit, dicere hic quidvis licet.ne hic tibi dies inluxit lucrificabilis.nam non emisti hanc, verum fecisti lucri.
DORDALUS:He indeed quite understands what he has been about,in having sold me a stolen woman at my own risk; he has got the money, and taken himself off. How do I know now whether she mayn’t be claimed at once? Whither am I to follow him? To the Persians, nonsense.
Dordalvs:Ille quidem iam scit, quid negoti gesserit,qui mihi furtivam meo periclo vendidit,argentum accepit, abiit. quí ego nunc scio,an iam adseratur haec manu? quo illum sequar?in Persas? nugas.
TOXILUS:I imagined that my services would be a cause for thankfulness with you.
Toxilvs:Credidi gratum forebeneficium meum apud te.
DORDALUS:Why, yes, indeed, I do return you thanks,Toxilus, for I found that you zealously gave me your assistance.
Dordalvs:Immo equidem gratiamtibi, Toxile, habeo; nam te sensi sedulomihi dare bonam operam.
TOXILUS:What, I, to you?
Toxilvs:Tibine ego? immo sedulo.
DORDALUS:In seriousness, yes. By-the-bye, I forgot just now to give some directions in-doors, which I intended to be given. Do keep watch on her.(Pointing to the YOUNG WOMAN.)
Dordalvs:Attat, oblitus sum intus dudum edicerequae volui edicta. adserva hanc.—
TOXILUS:She’s all safe, for certain.(DORDALUS goes into his house.)
Toxilvs:Salvast haec quidem.
DAUGHTER:My father’s delaying now.
Virgo:Pater nunc cessat.
TOXILUS:What, if I put him in mind?
Toxilvs:Quid si admoneam?
DAUGHTER:It’s full time.TOXILUS: (going to the side of the stage, and calling aloud.)
Virgo:Tempus est.
Hallo! Saturio, come forward; now’s the opportunity for taking vengeance on the enemy.(SATURIO.)SAGARISTIO:See, here I am. Have I delayed at all?
Toxilvs:Heus, Saturio, exi. nunc est illa occasioinimicum ulcisci.Satvrio:Ecce me. numquid moror?
TOXILUS:Well, go you off there at a distance out of sight; keep silence. When you see me talking to the Procurer, do you then make a row.SATURIO:A word’s enough to the wise.(He withdraws out of sight.) (Enter DORDALUS, from his house, with a whip in his hand.)
Toxilvs:Age, illúc abscede procul e conspectu, tace;ubi cum lenone me videbis conloqui,tum turbam facito.Sagaristio:Dictum sapienti sat est.Toxilvs:Tunc, quando abiero—Sagaristio:Quin taces? scio quid velis.
DORDALUS:On coming into the house, I lashed them all with the whip; my house and furniture are in such a dirty state.
Dordalvs:Transcidi loris omnis adveniens domi,ita mihi supellex squalet atque aedes meae.
TOXILUS:Are you returned at last?
Toxilvs:Redis tu tandem?
DORDALUS:I’m returned.
Dordalvs:Redeo.
TOXILUS:Assuredly, I have this day done you many services.
Toxilvs:Ne ego hodie tibibona multa feci.
DORDALUS:I confess it; I give you thanks.
Dordalvs:Fateor, habeo gratiam.
TOXILUS:Do you want anything else with me?
Toxilvs:Num quippiam aliud me vis?
DORDALUS:That happiness may. attend you.
Dordalvs:Vt bene sit tibi.
TOXILUS:I’ faith, all that indeed I shall surely enjoy at home now; for I shall now go take my place at table with your freed-woman.You, when I’m gone—DORDALUS:Why don’t you hold your tongue? I know what it is you want.(TOXILUS goes into the house.) (Enter SATURIO, in a seeming rage.)
Toxilvs:Pol istúc quidem omen iám ego usurpabo domi,nam iam inclinabo me cum liberta tua.
SATURIO:If I don’t prove the destruction of that fellow—DORDALUS:I’m undone.SATURIO:And most luckily there he is, himself, before the door.
Satvrio:Nisi ego illum hominem perdo, perii. atque optumeeccum ipsum ante aedes.
DAUGHTER: (running towards him.)Most welcome, my dear father.(She embraces him.)
Virgo:Salve multum, mi pater.
SATURIO:Welcome, my child.
Satvrio:Salve, mea gnata.
DORDALUS: (aside.)That Persian has utterly ruined me!DAUGHTER: (to DORDALUS.)
Dordalvs:Ei, Persa me pessum dedit.
This is my father.DORDALUS:Ha!—what?—father? I’m utterly undone! Why then, in my misery, do I delay to bewail my sixty minae?
Virgo:Pater hic meus est.Dordalvs:Hem, quid? pater? perii oppido.quid ego igitur cesso infelix lamentarierminas sexaginta?
SATURIO:By my faith, you scoundrel, I’ll give you cause to bewail your own self as well.
Satvrio:Ego pol te faciam, scelus,te quoque etiam ipsum ut lamenteris.
DORDALUS:I’m undone!
Dordalvs:Occidi.
SATURIO:Come, walk before a magistrate, Procurer.
Satvrio:Age ambula in ius, leno.
DORDALUS:Why do you summon me before a magistrate?
Dordalvs:Quid me in ius vocas?
SATURIO:I’ll tell you there, before the Praetor. But before the magistrate I summon you.
Satvrio:Illi apud praetorem dicam. sed ego in ius voco.
DORDALUS:Don’t you summon a witness?
Dordalvs:Nonne antestaris?
SATURIO:What, for your sake, hangdog, am I to be touching the ear of any being that’s free—you, who are here trading in persons, free citizens?
Satvrio:Tuan ego causa, carnufex,cuiquam mortali libero auris atteram,qui hic commercaris civis homines liberos?
DORDALUS:Let me but speak—
Dordalvs:Sine dicam.
SATURIO:I won’t.
Satvrio:Nolo.
DORDALUS:Hear me.
Dordalvs:Aúdi.
SATURIO:I’m deaf. Walk on—follow me this way (dragging him.) you villanous mouser after maidens! Follow after me this way, my daughter, to the Praetor.
Satvrio:Surdus sum. ambula.sequere hac, sceleste, feles virginaria.sequere hac, mea gnata, me usque ad praetorem.—
DAUGHTER:I’ll follow.(Exit SATURIO, dragging DORDALUS, his DAUGHTER following.) (Enter TOXILUS, from the house.)
Virgo:Sequor.—
TOXILUS: (to himself.)The foe subdued, the citizens safe, the state in tranquillity, peace fully ratified, the war finished, our affairs prospering, the army and the garrisons untouched;inasmuch, Jupiter, and all you other Deities potent in the heavens, you have kindly aided us, for that reason do I return and give you thanks; because I have been fully revenged upon my foe. Now, for this reason, among my partners will I divide and allot the spoil.
Toxilvs:Hostíbus victis, civíbus salvis, re plácida, pacibus pérfectis,bello éxstincto, re béne gestá, integró exércitu et praésidiis,cum béne nos, Iuppiter, iúvisti, dique álii omnes caelípotentes,eas vóbis habeo grátes atque ago, quía probe sum últus meum ínimicum.nunc ób eam rem inter párticipes didám praedam et partícipabo.
(To the SLAVES in the house, who obey his orders.) Come out of doors; here, before the entrance and the door, I wish to entertain my commates with hospitality. Lay down the couches here; place here the things that are usual.Here am I determined that my eagle shall be first pitched;from which spot I’ll cause all to become merry, joyous, and delighted, by the aid of whom those things which I wished to be effected have been rendered for me easy to be done; for worthless is the man who knows how to receive a kindness, and knows not how to return it.(Enter LEMNISELENE, SAGARISTIO, and PAEGNIUM, from the house.)
íte foras: híc volo ante óstium et iánuammeos párticipes bene accípere.státuite hic léctulos, pónite hic quae ádsolent.hic státui volo primum † aliqua mihi,unde égo omnis hilaros, lúdentis, laetíficantis faciam út fiant,quorum ópera mihi facilía factu facta haéc sunt, quae volui éffieri.nam impróbus est homo qui béneficium scit áccipere et reddére nescit.
LEMNISELENE:My Toxilus, why am I without you? And why are you without me?
Lemnisilenis:Toxíle mi, cur ego síne te sum, cur tu aútem sine me es?
TOXILUS:Come then, my own one, approach me, and embrace me, please.
Toxilvs:Ágedum ergo,accéde ad me atque ampléctere sis.
LEMNISELENE:Indeed I will.(Embraces him.)
Lemnisilenis:Ego véro.
TOXILUS:O, nothing is there more sweet than this.
Toxilvs:Oh, nihil hoc mágis dulcest.
But, there’s a dear, apple of my eye, why don’t we at once betake us to the couches?
sed, amábo, oculus meus, quín lectis nos áctutum comméndamus?
LEMNISELENE:Everything that you wish, the same do I desire.
Lemnisilenis:Omnía quae tu vis, éa cupio.
TOXILUS:It’s mutual. Come, come-come then. You, Sagaristio, recline in the upper place.
Toxilvs:Mutúa fiunt a me. age, age ergo,tu Ságaristio, accumbe ín summo.
SAGARISTIO:I don’t at all care for it. Give ne but equal shares in what I’ve earned.
Sagaristio:Ego níl moror: cedo parem, quém pepigi.
TOXILUS:All in good time.
Toxilvs:Temperí.
SAGARISTIO:For me that “good time” is too late.
Sagaristio:Mi istuc temperí serost.
TOXILUS:Attend to the matter in hand. Take your place; this delightful day let’s keep as a joyous birthday of mine. (To the SLAVES.) Bring water for our hands; arrange the table.
Toxilvs:Hoc age, accúmbe. hunc diém suavemmeum nátalem agitemús amoenum. date aquám manibus, apponíte mensam.
(The SLAVES obey, and the GUESTS take their places.) To you, blooming one (addressing LEMNISELENE.) I give this blooming wreath. (Places a garland on her head.) You shall be our governess here.Come, lad, commence these games from the top with a round of seven cups.
do hanc tíbi florentem flórenti. tu hic éris dictatrix nóbis.Lemnisilenis:Age, púere, ab summo séptenis cyathís committe hos lúdos.
Bestir your hands; make haste. Paegnium, you are slow in giving me the cups; really, do give them. Here’s luck to me, luck to you, luck to my mistress, luck to us all. This much wished-for day has been sent me by the Gods this day, inasmuch as I am allowed to embrace you a free woman.(He drinks.)LEMNISELENE:By your own agency it was effected.
Toxilvs:Move mánus, propera, Paegniúm, tarde cyathós mihi das, cedo sáne.bene míhi, bene vobis, béne meae amicae, optátus hic míhi dies dátus hodiést.ab dís, quia te licet líberam med amplécti.Lemnisilenis:Tua factum ópera.
(Giving him the cup.) This cup my hand presents to you, as it becomes a mistress to her love.TOXILUS:Give it me.
Toxilvs:Bene omníbus nobis. hoc méa manus tuaé poclúm donat, ut amántemamantí decet.
LEMNISELENE:Take it.(Gives him the cup.)
Lemnisilenis:Cédo.
TOXILUS:Here’s luck to him who envies me, and to him who rejoices in this joy.(Drinks.) (Enter DORDALUS, at a distance.)DORDALUS: (to himself.)
Toxilvs:Accípe.Toxilvs:Bene eí qui invidét mi et eí qui hoc gaúdet.
Those who are, and those who shall be, and those who have been, and those who are to be hereafter, all of them I singly by far surpass, in being the most wretched of men alive.I’m undone, ruined quite! This day has shone upon me the most unfortunate of days; that ruiner Toxilus has so outmanœuvred me, and has so laid waste my property! A whole cartload of silver, to my misfortune, have I upset, and lost, and have not that for which I did upset it. May all the Deities utterly confound that Persian, and all Persians, and all persons besides! in such a way has Toxilus, the wretch, conjured this up against me.
Dordalvs:Qui súnt † qui erunt quiqué fuerunt quiqué futuri sunt pósthac,solus ego omnibus antideo facilé, miserrímus hominum út vivam.perii, ínterii. pessímus hic mi dies hódie inluxit córruptor,ita mé Toxilus perfábricavit itaqué meam rem divéxavit.vehiclum árgenti miser éieci [amisi], neque quam ób rem eieci, hábeo.qui illúm Persam atque omnís Persas atque étiam omnis persónasmale di ómnes perdant, íta misero Toxílus haec mihi concívit.
Because I didn’t trust him for the money, for that reason has he contrived this plan against me,—a fellow, that, by my faith, if I only live, I’ll bring to torture and the fetters; if, indeed, his master ever returns here, as I trust he will. (Catching sight of the REVELLERS.) But what is it I see? Do look at that. What play is this? By my troth, they’re carousing here surely. I’ll accost them. (He goes up to them.) O worthy sir (to TOXILUS.) my greetings to you—you, too (to LEMNISELENE.) my worthy freed-woman.TOXILUS:Why surely this is Dordalus.
quia eí fidem non habui árgenti, eo míhi eas machinas mólitust;quem pól ego ut non in crúciatum atque in cómpedis cogam, sí vivam,siquidem húc umquam erus rediérit eius, quod spéro—sed quid ego áspicio?hoc víde, quae haec fabulast? híc quidem pol potánt. adgrediar. ó bone vir,salvéto, et tu, bona líberta.Toxilvs:Dordálus hic quidemst.
SAGARISTIO:Invite him, then, to come.TOXILUS: (to DORDALUS.)
Sagaristio:Quin iúbe adire.
Come here, if you like.(Aside.) Come, let’s sing his praises.(Aloud.) Dordalus, most delightful fellow, welcome, here’s a place for you; take your place here (pointing to a couch.) Bring water for his feet (to the SLAVES.) Are you going to give it, lad?(Is going to pat DORDALUS on the shoulder.)
Toxilvs:Adi, sí libet.Sagaristio:Agite, adplaúdamus.Toxilvs:Dordále, homo lepidissúme, salve.locus híc tuos est, hic accumbe. férte aquam pédibus. praeben tú puere?
DORDALUS:Don’t you, please, be touching me with a single finger, lest I should fell you to the ground, you villain.PAEGNIUM: (holding up a cup.)
Dordalvs:Ne sís me uno digito áttigeris, ne te ád terram, scelus, ádfligam.
And I this very instant will be striking out your eye with this tankard.
Paegnivm:At tíbi ego hoc continuó cyatho oculum éxcutiam † tuum.
DORDALUS:What do you say, gallows, you wearer-away of the whip? How have you imposed upon me to-day? Into what embarrassments have you thrown me? How have I been baulked about the Persian?
Dordalvs:Quid aís, crux, stimulorúm tritor? quo módo me hodie versávisti,ut me ín tricas coniécisti, quo módo de Persa mánus mi aditast?
TOXILUS:You’ll be off with your abuse from here, if you are wise.DORDALUS: (to LEMNISELENE.)
Toxilvs:Iurgium hínc auféras, si sápias.
But, my worthy freed-woman, you knew of this, and concealed it from me.LEMNISELENE:It’s follyfor a person who can enjoy himself to turn to brawling in preference.’Twere more proper for you to arrange about those matters another time.
Dordalvs:At, bóna liberta, haec scívisti et me célavisti?Lemnisilenis:Stúltitiast,cui béne esse licet, eum praévorti litíbus. posterius ístaec temagis pár agerest.
DORDALUS:My heart’s in flames.
Dordalvs:Vrítur cor mi.
TOXILUS:Give him a goblet, then; put out the fire, if his heart’s in flames, that his head mayn’t be burnt.
Toxilvs:Da illí cantharum, extingue ígnem, sicor úritur, caput ne ardéscat.
DORDALUS:You’re making sport of me, I find.
Dordalvs:Lúdos me fácitis, intéllego.
TOXILUS:Would you like a new playfellow for you, Paegnium? (Pointing at DORDALUS.)
Toxilvs:Vín cinaedúm novom tíbi dari, Paégnium?
But sport on as you are wont, as this is a place of freedom. (PAEGNIUM struts about round DORDALUS.) O rare! you do stalk in a princely style and right merrily.
quín elude, út soles, quándo libér locust hic.huí, babae, básilice te íntulisti ét facete.
PAEGNIUM:It befits me to be merry, and I’ve a longing to play this Procurer some pranks, since he’s deserving of it.
Paegnivm:Decét me facétum esse, et húnc inridérelenónem lubídost, quandó dignus ést.
TOXILUS:As you commenced, proceed.
Toxilvs:Perge út coeperás.
PAEGNIUM: (striking him.)Take that, Procurer!
Paegnivm:Hoc, léno, tibí.
DORDALUS:I’m undone! he has almost knocked me down!
Dordalvs:Perií perculít me prope.
PAEGNIUM:Hey—be on your guard again.(Strikes at him.)
Paegnivm:Em, serva rúsum.
DORDALUS:Sport on just as you please, while your master’s away from here.PAEGNIUM: (skipping around him.)
Dordalvs:Delúde, ut lubet, erus dum hínc abest.
Don’t you see how obedient I am to your request? But why, on the other hand, are not you obedient to my request as well, and why don’t you do that which I advise you?DORDALUS:What’s that?
Paegnivm:Viden út tuis dictis páreo?sed quín tu meís contra itém dictis sérvisatque hóc, quod tibí suadeó, facis?Dordalvs:Quid ést id?
PAEGNIUM:Do you take a stout rope for yourself, and go hang yourself.DORDALUS: (shaking his stick.)
Paegnivm:Restím tu tibí cápe crassam ac suspende te.
Take you care, will you, that you don’t touch me, lest I give you a heavy return with this walking-stick.PAEGNIUM:Make use of it; I give you leave.
Dordalvs:Cave sís me attigás, ne tibi hóc scipiónemalúm magnum dém.Paegnivm:Vteré, te condóno.
TOXILUS:Come, come, Paegnium, put an end to it.
Toxilvs:Iam iám, Paegnium, da paúsam.
DORDALUS:By my faith, I’ll utterly destroy you all.TOXILUS:But he, who dwells above us,wishes you all ill, and will do you all ill. It’s not they that tell you so, but I.
Dordalvs:Égo pol vos erádicabo.Paegnivm:At te ílle, qui suprá nos habitat,qui tibi male volt maleque faciet. non hi dicunt, verum ego.
TOXILUS:Come (to the SLAVES.) carry round the honied wine; give us drink in goblets quite full: it’s a long time now since we last drank; we’ve been athirst too long.
Toxilvs:Age, circumfer mulsum, bibere da usque plenis cantharis.iam diu fáctum est, postquam bibimus; nimis diu sicci sumus.
DORDALUS:May the Gods grant that you may drink that which may never pass through you.
Dordalvs:Di faciant ut id bibatis quod vos numquam transeat.
PAEGNIUM:I cannot forbear, Procurer, from at least dancing a hornpipe for you, which Hegea formerlycomposed. But just look if it quite pleases you.(He dances.)SAGARISTIO: (rising.)I’d like also to repeat that one which Diodorus formerly composed in Ionia.(Goes close to DORDALUS.)
Sagaristio:Nequeo, leno, quin tibi saltem staticulum, olim quem Hegeafaciebat. vide vero, si tibi satis placet.Toxilvs:Me quoque voloreddere, Diodorus quem olim faciebat in Ionia.
DORDALUS:I’ll be doing you a mischief, if you are not off!
Dordalvs:Malum ego vobis dabo, ni abitis.
SAGARISTIO:Still muttering, impudence? If you provoke me, I’ll just now be bringing you the Persian again.
Sagaristio:Etiam muttis, impudens?iam ego tibi, si me inritassis, Persam adducam denuo.
DORDALUS:I’ faith, I’m silenced now. Why, you are the Persian that has been fleecing me to the quick!
Dordalvs:[iam taceo hercle] Atque tu Persa es, qui me usque ádmutilavisti ad cutem.
TOXILUS:Hold your tongue, simpleton; this is his twin-brother.
Toxilvs:Tace, stulte: hic eius geminust frater.
DORDALUS:Is it he?
Dordalvs:Hicinest?
TOXILUS:Aye, and a very twin of twins.
Toxilvs:Ac geminissumus.
DORDALUS:May the Gods and Goddesses rack both yourself and your twin-brother.
Dordalvs:Di deaeque et te et geminum fratrem excrucient.
SAGARISTIO:Him, you mean, who has been ruining you; for I don’t deserve anything.
Sagaristio:Qui te perdidit:nám ego nil merui.
DORDALUS:But still, what he deserves, I hope that that may prove to your undoing.TOXILUS: (to SAGARISTIO.)
Dordalvs:At enim quod ille meruit, tibi id obsit volo.
Come, if you like, let’s have some sport with this fellow,unless he isn’t deemed worthy of it.SAGARISTIO:Just now it’s right.LEMNISELENE: (aside.)
Toxilvs:Agite sultis, hunc lúdificemus.Lemnisilenis:Nisi si dignust, non opust.
But it isn’t proper for me.TOXILUS: (aside.)For the reason, I suppose, that he made no difficulties when I purchased you.LEMNISELENE: (aside.)
et me haud par est.Toxilvs:Credo eo, quia non ínconciliavit, cúm te emo.
But still—TOXILUS: (aside.)No “still.” Beware, then, of a mishap, will you, and obey me. It becomes you to be heedful of my orders; for, i’ faith, had it not been for me and my protection, he would before long have made a street-walker of you. But such are some of those who have gained their freedom, unless they thwart their patron, they don’t appear to themselves free enough, or wise enough, or honest enough,unless they oppose him, unless they abuse him, unless they are found ungrateful to him who has been kind.LEMNISELENE: (aside.)
Lemnisilenis:At tamen non—tamen—Toxilvs:Cave ergo sis maló, et sequere me.te mihí dicto audientem esse addecet, nam hercle absque meforet et meo praesidio, hic faceret te prostibilem propediem.sed ita pars libertinorum est: nisi patrono qui adversatust,nec satis liber sibi videtur nec satis frugi nec sat honestus,ní id effecit, ni ei male dixit, ni grato ingratus repertust.
I’ troth, your kindnesses command me to pay obedience to your commands.TOXILUS: (aside.)
Lemnisilenis:Pol bene facta tua me hortantur, tuo ut imperio paream.
I clearly am your patron, who paid the money for you to that man (pointing to DORDALUS.) in return for that, I choose that he shall be made sport of.LEMNISELENE: (aside.)For my part, I’ll do my utmost.
Toxilvs:Ego sum tibi patronus plane, qui huic pro te argentum dedi.… gráphice hunc volo ludíficari.Lemnisilenis:Meo ego ín loco sedulo cúrabo.
DORDALUS:For sure, these persons are consulting to do something, I know not what, to injure me.
Dordalvs:Certo ílli homines mihi néscio quid mali cónsulunt, quod faciánt.
SAGARISTIO:Hark you.
Sagaristio:Heus vos.
TOXILUS:What do you say?
Toxilvs:Quid aís?
SAGARISTIO:Is this person here, Dordalus the Procurer, who deals in free women? Is this he who was formerly st stalwart?
Sagaristio:Hicin Dordalus ést leno, qui hic liberas virgines mércatur?hicinést, qui fuit quondám fortis?
DORDALUS:What means this? (PAEGNIUM strikes him.) Oh, oh! he has given me a slap in the face! I’ll do you a mischief.(Shakes his fist at him.)
Dordalvs:Quae haec rés est? ei, colaphó me icit.malum vóbis dabo.
TOXILUS:But we have done you one, and shall do it again too.
Toxilvs:At tibi nós dedimus dabimúsque etiam.
DORDALUS: (PAEGNIUM pinching him.)Oh, oh! he’s pinching my behind.
Dordalvs:Ei, natis pérvellit.
PAEGNIUM:Of course; it has been many a time twitched before this.
Paegnivm:Licet: iám diu saepe sunt éxpunctae.
DORDALUS:Are you still prating, you bit of a boy?LEMNISELENE: (to DORDALUS.)
Dordalvs:Loqueré tu etiam, frustúm pueri?
My patron, do, there’s a dear, come in-doors to dinner.
Lemnisilenis:Patróne mi, i intro, amábo, ad cenam.
DORDALUS:My lump of laziness, are you now scoffing at me?
Dordalvs:Mea Ignávia, tu nunc me ínrides?
LEMNISELENE:What, because I invite you to enjoy yourself?
Lemnisilenis:Quíane te vocó, bene ut tíbi sit?
DORDALUS:I don’t want to enjoy myself.
Dordalvs:Nólo mihi bene ésse.
LEMNISELENE:Then don’t.
Lemnisilenis:Ne sit.
TOXILUS:How then? The six hundred didrachms, how are they? What disturbances they do cause.DORDALUS: (aside.)
Toxilvs:Quíd igitur? sescénti nummi quíd agunt, quas turbás danunt?
I’m utterly undone! They understand full well how to return the compliment to an enemy.
Dordalvs:Mále disperii, scíunt referre próbe inimico grátiam.
TOXILUS:Have we now had satisfaction enough?
Toxilvs:Satis súmpsimus súpplici iam.
DORDALUS:I confess it; I hold up my hands to you.
Dordalvs:Fateór, manus vobís do.
TOXILUS:And, ere long, you shall be holding them beneath the bilboes. Be off in-doors.
Toxilvs:Et póst dabis sub fúrcis.
SAGARISTIO:To perdition!
Sagaristio:Abi íntro—in crucem.
DORDALUS: (to the AUDIENCE.)Have these fellows here worked me in too slight a degree?(Goes into his house.)
Dordalvs:Án me hic parum éxercitum híscehabént?
TOXILUS: (calling after him.)Keep in mind that you met with a Toxilus. (To the AUDIENCE.) Spectators, kindly fare you well. The Procurer is demolished. Grant us your applause.
Toxilvs:Convenísse te Tóxilum me …spéctatores, bene valete. leno periit. plaudite.