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title: "The Little Carthaginian · Poenulus"
author: "Plautus"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
url: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/
cite: "Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Little Carthaginian · Poenulus. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/"
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# The Little Carthaginian · Poenulus

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A Carthaginian searches for his kidnapped daughters, with speeches in Punic.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi015, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi015.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

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

## Contents

1. [Lines 1–376](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/1.md)
2. [Lines 376–731](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/2.md)
3. [Lines 732–1089](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/3.md)
4. [Lines 1086–1422](https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/4.md)

## 1. Lines 1–376

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/1/#p-N

[¶0] GIDDENEME, their Nurse. A MAID-SERVANT.
PROLOGUE:
I HAVE a mind to imitate the Achilles of Aristarchus from that Tragedy I’ll take for myself the opening: “Be silent, and hold your tongues, and give attention.” The head-manager it is who bids you listen,
that with a good grace they may be seated on the benches, both those who have come hungry and those who have come well filled. You who have eaten, by far the most wisely have you done: you who have not eaten, do you be filled with the Play. But he who has something ready for him to eat,’tis really great folly in him, for our sakes, to come here to sit fasting.

> Latin: PROLOGVS:
Achillem Aristarchi mihi commentari lubet:
inde míhi principium capiam, ex ea tragoedia.
sileteque et tacete atque animum advortite,
audire iúbet vos imperator histricus,
bonoque ut animo sedeate in subselliis,
et qui esurientes et qui saturi venerint:
qui edistis, multo fecistis sapientius,
qui non edistis, saturi fite fabulis;
nam cui paratumst quod edit, nostra gratia
nimia est stultitia sessum impransum incedere.

[¶1] Rise up, cryer! bespeak attention among the people: I’m now waiting to see if you know your duty. Exercise your voice, by means of which you subsist and find your clothes; for unless you do cry out, in your silence starvation will be creeping upon you.

> Latin: exsurge, praeco, fac populo audientiam;
iam dudum exspecto, si tuom officium scias:
exerce vocem, quam per vivisque et † colis.
nam nisi clamabis, tacitum te obrepet fames.

[¶2] Well, now sit down again, that you may earn double wages. Heaven grant success! do you obey my commands. Let no worn-out debauchee be sitting in the front of the stage, nor let the lictor or his rods be noisy in the least; and let no seat-keeper be walking about before people’s faces,
nor be showing any to their seats, while the actor is on the stage. Those who have been sleeping too long at home in idleness, it’s right for them now to stand contentedly, or else let them master their drowsiness. Don’t let slaves be occupying the seats, that there may be room for those who are free; or else let them pay down the money for their places; if that they cannot do,
let them be off home, and escape a double evil, lest they be variegated both here with scourges, and with thongs at home, if they’ve not got things in due order when their masters come home. Let nurses keep children, baby-bantlings, at home, and let no one bring them to see the Play;
lest both they themselves may be athirst, and the children may die with hunger; and that they mayn’t be squealing about here, in their hungry fits, just like kids. Let the matrons see the piece in silence, in silence laugh, and let them refrain from screaming here with their shrill voices; their themes for gossip let them carry off home,
so as not to be an annoyance to their husbands both here and at home. And, as regards the managers of the performance, let not the palm of victory be given to any player wrongfully, nor by reason of favour let any be driven out of doors, in order that the inferior may be preferred to the good ones.

> Latin: age nunc reside, duplicem ut mercedem feras.
…
bonum factum esse, edicta ut servetis mea.
scortum exoletum ne quis in proscaenio
sedeat, neu lictor verbum aut virgae muttiant,
neu dissignator praeter os obambulet
neu sessum ducat, dum histrio in scaena siet.
diu quí domi otiosi dormierunt, decet
animo aequo nunc stent, vel dormire temperent.
servi ne obsideant, liberis ut sit locus,
vel aes pro capite dent; si id facere non queunt,
domum abeant, vitent ancipiti infortunio,
ne et hic varientur virgis et loris domi,
si minus curassint, quóm eri reveniant domum.
nutrices pueros infantis minutulos
domi ut procurent neu quae spectatum adferat,
ne et ipsae sitiant et pueri pereant fame
neve esurientes hic quasi haedi obvagiant.
matronae tacitae spectent, tacitae rideant,
canora hic voce sua tinnire temperent,
domum sermones fabulandi conferant,
ne et hic viris sint et domi molestiae.
quodque ad ludorum curatores attinet,
ne palma detur quoiquam artifici iniuria
neve ambitionis causa extrudantur foras,
quo deteriores anteponantur bonis.

[¶3] And this, too, besides, which I had almost forgotten: while the performance is going on, do you, lacqueys, make an onset on the cookshops; now, while there’s an opportunity, now, while the tarts are smoking hot, hasten there. These injunctions, which have been given as the manager’s command,
Heaven prosper them! troth now, let every one remember for himself. Now, in its turn, I wish to go back to the plot, that you may be equally knowing with myself. Its site, its limits, its boundaries I’ll now lay down; for that purpose have I been appointed surveyor.

> Latin: et hoc quoque etiam, quod paene oblitus fui:
dum ludi fiunt, in popinam, pedisequi,
inruptionem facite; nunc dum occasio est,
nunc dum scriblitae aéstuant, occurrite.
haec quae imperata sunt pro imperio hístrico,
bonum hercle factum pro se quisque ut meminerit.
ad argumentum nunc vicissatim volo
remigrare, ut aeque mecum sitis gnarures.
eius núnc regiones, limites, confinia
determinabo: ei rei ego finitor factus sum.

[¶4] But, unless it’s troublesome, I wish to give you the name of this Comedy: but if it is an annoyance, I’ll tell you still, since I have leave from those who have the management. This Comedy is called the “Carthaginian;” in the Latin, Plautus has called it “the Pulse-eating Kinsman.”

> Latin: sed nisi molestumst, nomen dare vobis volo
comoediai; sin odiost, dicam tamen,
siquidém licebit pér illos quibus est in manu.
Carchedonius vocatur haec comoedia,
…
latine Plautus patruus pultiphagonides.

[¶5] You have the name, then; now hear the rest of the story; for here will this plot be judged of by you. Its own stage is the proper place for every plot; you are the critics; I pray you lend attention. There were two cousins-german, Carthaginians,
of a very high and very wealthy family. One of them is still alive, the other’s dead. The more confidently do I inform you of this, because the undertaker told me so, who anointed him for the pile.

> Latin: nomen iam habetis. nunc rationes ceteras
accipite; nam argumentum hoc hic censebitur:
locus argumentost suom sibi proscaenium,
vos iuratores estis. quaeso, operam date.
Carthaginienses fratres patrueles duo
fuere, summo genere et summis ditiis;
eorum álter vivit, alter est emortuos.
propterea apud vos dico confidentius,
quia mihi pollictor dixit qui eum pollinxerat.

[¶6] But the only son there was of that old man who died, being separated from his father, was stolen at Carthage when seven years old, six years, in fact, before his father died. When he saw that his only son was lost to him, he himself, from grief, fell sick;

> Latin: sed illí seni qui mortuost, ⟨ei⟩ filius,
unicus qui fuerat, ab divitiis a patre
puer séptuennis surripitur Carthagine,
sexennio prius quidem quam moritur pater.
quoniam periisse sibi videt gnatum unicum,
conicitur ipse in morbum ex aegritudine:

[¶7] he made this cousin-german of his his heir; he himself departed for Acheron without taking leave. The person who stole the child, carried him off to Calydon, and sold him here to a certain rich old man for his master, one desirous of children, but a hater of women.

> Latin: facit illum heredem fratrem patruelem suom,
ipse abit ad Acheruntem sine viatico.
ille quí surripuit puerum Calydonem avehit,
vendit eum domino hic diviti quoidam seni,
cupienti liberorum, osori mulierum.

[¶8] This old man, without knowing it, bought the son of his host, that same child, and adopted him as his own son, and made him his heir when he himself departed this life. This young man is dwelling here in this house. (Pointing to the house of AGORASTOCLES.) Once more do I return to Carthage.

> Latin: emit hospitalem is filium imprudens senex
puerum illum eumque adoptat sibi pro filio
eumque heredem fecit, quom ipse obiit diem.
is illíc adulescens habitat in illisce aedibus.
revertor rursus denuo Carthaginem:

[¶9] If you want to give any commission, or anything to be managed—unless a person gives the money, he will be mistaken; but he who does give it will be very much more mistaken. But this father’s cousin of his at Carthage, the old man who is still alive, had two daughters.
The one when in her fifth year, the other in her fourth, were lost, together with their nurse, from the walks in the suburbs. The person who kidnapped them, carried them off to Anactorium, and sold them all, both nurse and girls, for ready money, to a man (if a Procurer is a man)
the most accursed of men, as many as the earth contains; but do you yourselves now form a conjecture what sort of man it is whose name is Lycus. He removed, not long ago, from Anactorium, where he formerly lived, to Calydon here,
for the sake of his business. He dwells in that house. (Pointing to the house of LYCUS.) This young man is dying distractedly in love with one of them, his kinswoman, not knowing that fact; neither is he aware who she is, nor has he ever touched her (so much does the Procurer hamper him); neither has he hitherto ever had any improper connexion with her,
nor ever taken her home to his house; nor has that Procurer been willing to send her there. Because he sees that he is in love, he wishes to touch this man for a good haul. A certain Captain, who is desperately in love with her, is desirous to buy this younger one to be his mistress. But their father, the Carthaginian, since he lost them,
has been continually seeking them in every quarter, by sea and land. When he has entered any city, at once he seeks out all the courtesans, wherever each of them is living; he gives her gold, and prolongs the night in his enquiries; after that he asks whence she comes, of what country, whether she was made captive or kidnapped,
born of what family, who her parents were. So diligently and so skilfully does he seek for his daughters. He knows all languages, too; but, though he knows them, he pretends not to know them: what need is there of talking? He is a Carthaginian all over. He, in the evening of yesterday, came into harbour here on board ship.
The father of these girls, the same is the father’s cousin of this young man. Now d’ye take this? If you do take it, draw it out: take care not to break it asunder; pray, let it proceed. (Moving as if to go.) Dear me! I had almost forgotten to say the rest. He who adopted this young man as his own son,
the same was the guest of that Carthaginian, this old man’s father. He will come here to-day, and discover his daughters here, and this person, his cousin’s son, as indeed I’ve learnt. He, I say, who’ll come to-day, will find his daughters
and this his cousin’s son. But after this, farewell!—attend; I’m off; I now intend to become another man. As to what remains, some others remain who’ll explain all to you. I’ll go and dress. With kindly feelings do you then recognize me. Farewell! and give me your aid, that Salvation may prove propitious to you.
(Enter, from his house, AGORASTOCLES, followed by MILPHIO.)

> Latin: si quid mandare voltis aut curarier,
argentum nisi qui dederit, nugas egerit;
[verum] qui dederit, magis maiores nugas egerit.
sed illi patruo húius, qui vivit senex,
Carthaginiensi duae fuere filiae,
altera quinquennis, altera quadrimula:
cum nutrice una periere a Magaribus.
eas quí surripuit, in Anactorium devehit,
vendit eas omnis, et nutricem et virgines,
praesenti argento hómini, si leno est homo,
quantum hominum terra sustinet sacerrumo.
vosmet nunc facite coniecturam ceterum,
quid id sit hominis, cui Lyco nomen siet.
is ex Anactorio, ubi prius habitaverat,
huc commigravit in Calydonem haú diu,
sui quaésti causa. is in illis habitat aedibus.
earum híc adulescens alteram efflictim perit,
suam síbi cognatam, imprudens, neque scit quae siet
neque eam umquam tetigit, ita eum leno macerat:
[neque quicquam cúm ea fecit etiamnum stupri]
[neque duxit umquam, neque ille voluit mittere]
quia amare cernit, tangere hominem volt bolo.
illam minorem in concubinatum sibi
volt emere miles quidam, qui illam deperit.
sed pater illarum Poenus, postquam eas perdidit,
mari te⟨rraque⟩ úsquequaque quaeritat.
ubi quamque in urbem ést ingressus, ilico
omnes meretrices, ubi quisque habitant, invenit;
dat aurum, ducit noctem, rogitat postibi
unde sít, quoiatis, captane an surrupta sit,
quo genere gnata, qui parentes fuerint.
ita docte atque astu filias quaerit suas.
et is omnis linguas scit, sed dissimulat sciens
se scire: Poenus plane est. quid verbis opust?
is heri huc in portum navi venit vesperi,
pater harunc; idem huic patruos adulescentulo est:
iamne hoc tenetis? si tenetis, ducite;
cave dírumpatis, quaeso, sinite transigi.
ehem, paéne oblitus sum relicuom dicere.
ille quí adoptavit hunc sibi pro filio,
is illi Poeno húius patruo hospes fuit.
is hodie huc veniet reperietque hic filias
et hunc sui fratris filium, ut quidem dídici ego.
ego ibo, ornabor; vos aequo animo noscite.
hic qui hodie veniet, reperiet suas filias
et hunc sui fratris filium. dehinc ceterum
valete, adeste. ibo, alius nunc fieri volo:
quod restat, restant alii qui faciant palam.
valete atque adiuvate, ut vos servet Salus.

[¶10] AGORASTOCLES:
Full oft have I entrusted many matters to you, Milphio,
matters of doubt and necessity, and standing in need of good counsel, which you wisely, discreetly, cleverly, and skilfully have by your aid brought to completion for me. For which services I do confess that both your liberty and many kind thanks are due unto you.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Saepe ego res multas tibi mandavi, Milphio,
dubias, egenas, inopiosas consili,
quas tu sapienter, docte et cordate et cate
mihi reddidisti ópiparas opera tua.
quibus pró bene factis fateor deberi tibi
et libertatem et multas grates gratias.

[¶11] MILPHIO:
An old adage, if you timely introduce it, is a clever thing: but your compliments are to me what are wont to be called sheer nonsense, and, upon my faith, mere bagatelles. Just now, you are full of kind speeches towards me; yesterday, without hesitation, upon my back you wore out three bulls’ hides with flogging.

> Latin: Milphio:
Scitumst, per tempus si obviamst, verbum vetus.
nam tuae blanditiae mihi sunt, quod dici solet,
gerrae germanae, σαὶ δὲ κολλῦραι λύραι.
nunc mihi blandidicus es: heri in tergo meo
tris facile corios contrivisti bubulos.

[¶12] AGORASTOCLES:
But if, being in love, I did anything by reason of my distraction, Milphio, it’s only reasonable that you should pardon me for it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Amans per amorem si quid feci, Milphio,
ignoscere id te mi aequom est.

[¶13] MILPHIO:
I’ve seen nothing more reasonable. I, too, am now dying for love; allow me to thrash you just as you did me, for no fault at all; and then, after that, do you pardon me being thus in love.

> Latin: Milphio:
Haud vidi magis.
em, nunc ego amore pereo. sine te verberem,
item ut tu mihi fecisti, ob nullam noxiam:
post id locorum tu mihi amanti ignoscito.

[¶14] AGORASTOCLES:
If you have a mind for it, or it gives you pleasure, I do permit it; tie me up, bind me, scourge me; I recommend you, I give you my permission.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Si tibi lubido est aut voluptati, sino:
suspende, vinci, verbera; auctor sum, sino.

[¶15] MILPHIO:
If, hereafter, you should revoke your permission, when you are unloosed, I myself should be hung up for punishment.

> Latin: Milphio:
Si auctoritatem postea defugeris,
ubi dissolutus tu sies, ego pendeam.

[¶16] AGORASTOCLES:
And would I venture to do that, to yourself espercially?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Egone istuc ausim facere, praesertim tibi?

[¶17] On the contrary, if I see you but struck, it gives me pain immediately.

> Latin: quin si feriri video te, extemplo dolet.

[¶18] MILPHIO:
To me, indeed, i’ faith.

> Latin: Milphio:
Mihi quidem hercle.

[¶19] AGORASTOCLES:
No, to me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Immo mihi.

[¶20] MILPHIO:
I could prefer that to be the case. But what now do you wish?

> Latin: Milphio:
Istuc mavelim.
sed quid nunc tibi vis?

[¶21] AGORASTOCLES:
Why need I tell a lie to you? I am desperately in love.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cur ego apud te mentiar?
amo immodeste.

[¶22] MILPHIO:
My shoulder-blades feel that.

> Latin: Milphio:
Meae istuc scapulae sentiunt.

[¶23] AGORASTOCLES:
But I mean with this damsel, my neighbour Adelphasium,
the elder Courtesan that belongs to this Procurer.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At ego hanc vicinam dico Adelphasium meam,
lenonis huius meretricem maiusculam.

[¶24] MILPHIO:
For my own part, I’ve heard that from yourself already.

> Latin: Milphio:
Iam pridem equidem istuc ex te audivi.

[¶25] AGORASTOCLES:
I’m on the rack with love for her. But than this Procurer Lycus, her master, not dirt itself is more dirty.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Differor
cupidine eius. sed lenone istoc Lyco,
illius domino, non lutumst lutulentius.

[¶26] MILPHIO:
Do you wish now to present him with some mischief?

> Latin: Milphio:
Vin tu illi nequam dare nunc?

[¶27] AGORASTOCLES:
I should like it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cupio.

[¶28] MILPHIO:
Why look then, present him with me.

> Latin: Milphio:
Em me dato.

[¶29] AGORASTOCLES:
Go and be hanged!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Abi díerectus.

[¶30] MILPHIO:
But tell me seriously, do you wish to present him with a plague?

> Latin: Milphio:
Dic mihi vero serio:
vin dare malum illi?

[¶31] AGORASTOCLES:
I should like it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cupio.

[¶32] MILPHIO:
Well then, present him with this selfsame me; I’d cause him to be having both a mischief and a plague.

> Latin: Milphio:
Em, eundem me dato:
utrumque faxo habebit, et nequam et malum.

[¶33] AGORASTOCLES:
You are joking.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Iocare.

[¶34] MILPHIO:
Should you like this very day, without risk to yourself, to make her free?

> Latin: Milphio:
Vin tu illam hodie sine [damno et] dispendio
tuo túam libertam facere?

[¶35] AGORASTOCLES:
I should like it, Milphio.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cupio, Milphio.

[¶36] MILPHIO:
I’ll manage for you to make her so. You have indoors three hundred golden Philippean pieces.

> Latin: Milphio:
Ego faciam ut facias. sunt tibi intus aurei
trecenti nummi Philippi?

[¶37] AGORASTOCLES:
Six hundred even.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Sescenti quoque.

[¶38] MILPHIO:
Three hundred are enough.

> Latin: Milphio:
Satis súnt trecenti.

[¶39] AGORASTOCLES:
To do what with them?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid iis facturu's facturus es?

[¶40] MILPHIO:
Hold your peace. This day I’ll make you a present of the Procurer, whole, with all his household.

> Latin: Milphio:
Tace.
totum lenonem tibi cum tota familia
dabo hodie dono.

[¶41] AGORASTOCLES:
What to do?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Qui id facturu's facturus es?

[¶42] MILPHIO:
You shall soon know.

> Latin: Milphio:
Iam scies.

[¶43] Collybiscus, your bailiff, is in the city just now. The Procurer doesn’t know him. Do you fully understand?

> Latin: tuos Cóllybiscus nunc in urbest vilicus;
eum hic non novit leno. satin intellegis?

[¶44] AGORASTOCLES:
I’ faith, I understand that; but what you are driving at I know not.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Intellego hercle, sed quo evadas nescio.

[¶45] MILPHIO:
You don’t know?

> Latin: Milphio:
Non scis?

[¶46] AGORASTOCLES:
Not I, faith.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Non hercle.

[¶47] MILPHIO:
But I’ll soon let you know. The gold shall be given him, for him to take to the Procurer,
and say that he’s a stranger from another city; that he’s amorously inclined, and wishes to gratify his inclinations; that he wants free range to be found him, where he may secretly indulge his appetite, so that there may be no overlooker. The Procurer, greedy for the gold, will at once take him into his house;

> Latin: Milphio:
At ego iam faxo scies.
ei dabitur aurum, ut ad lenonem deferat
dicatque se peregrinum esse, ex alio oppido:
se amare velle atque obsequí animo suo;
locum sibi velle liberum praeberier,
ubi nequam faciat clam, ne quis sit arbiter.
leno ad se accipiet auri cupidus ilico:

[¶48] he’ll conceal the man and the gold.
AGORASTOCLES:
The design pleases me.

> Latin: celabit hominem et aurum.
Agorastocles:
Consilium placet.

[¶49] MILPHIO:
Do you then enquire of him whether your slave hasn’t come to him. He’ll think that I am being sought for; immediately he’ll say no to you. Have you any doubt but that the Procurer will at once have to double the gold for you, and be considered to have stolen the man?

> Latin: Milphio:
Rogato, servos veneritne ad eum tuos.
ille mé censebit quaeri: continuo tibi
negabit. quid tu dubitas, quin extempulo
dupli tibi auri et hominis fur leno siet?

[¶50] Neither has he the means of raising it. When he comes to trial, the Praetor will award his whole household to you. Thus with a pitfall shall we deceive the Procurer Lycus.

> Latin: neque id unde efficiat habet: ubi in ius venerit,
addicet praetor familiam totam tibi.
ita decipiemus fovea lenonem Lycum.

[¶51] AGORASTOCLES:
The design pleases me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Placet consilium.

[¶52] MILPHIO:
Aye, when I’ve polished it up, you’ll then say so still more even; now it’s but in the rough.

> Latin: Milphio:
Immo etiam, ubi expolivero,
magis hoc tum demum dices: nunc etiam rudest.

[¶53] AGORASTOCLES:
I’m going to the Temple of Venus, unless, Milphio, you wish for anything. It’s the Aphrodisia to-day.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ego in aedem Veneris eo, nisi quid vis, Milphio.
Aphrodisia hodie sunt.

[¶54] MILPHIO:
I know.

> Latin: Milphio:
Scio.

[¶55] AGORASTOCLES:
I wish to amuse my eyes with the harlot finery.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Oculos volo
meos délectare munditiis meretriciis.

[¶56] MILPHIO:
Let’s first proceed to this, the plan we have resolved upon. Let’s go in-doors, that we may instruct Collybiscus, the bailiff,
how to plant this cheatery.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hoc primum agamus quod consilium cepimus.
abeamus intro, ut Collybiscum vilicum
hanc perdoceamus ut ferat fallaciam.

[¶57] AGORASTOCLES:
Although Cupid has the sway in my heart, still I’ll listen to you.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quamquam Cupido in corde vorsatur, tamen
tibi auscultabo.—

[¶58] MILPHIO:
I’ll cause you to be glad it’s done. (AGORASTOCLES goes into his house.) There is a speck of love upon this man’s breast, which cannot by any means be washed out without great harm;

> Latin: Milphio:
Faciam ut facto gaudeas.
inest amoris macula huic homini in pectore,
sine damno magno quae elui ne utiquam potest.

[¶59] this Lycus, too, the Procurer, is such a wicked person, against whom the engine of mischief is now well aimed, which before long I shall discharge from my battery. But see, here’s Adelphasium coming out, and Anterastylis. The first is the one who renders my master distracted.

> Latin: itaque hic scelestus est homo leno Lycus,
quoi iam infortuni intenta ballistast probe,
quam ego haud multo post mittam e ballistario.
sed Adelphasium eccam exit atque Anterastilis.
haec est prior, quae meum erum dementem facit.

[¶60] But I’ll call him out. (Goes to the door and calls.) Hallo! Agorastocles, come out of doors if you would see most joyous sports!
(in haste, from the house.)

> Latin: sed evocabo. heus, i foras, Agorastocles,
si vis videre ludos iucundissimos.

[¶61] AGORASTOCLES:
What’s this bustle, Milphio?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid istúc tumultist, Milphio?

[¶62] MILPHIO: (pointing to the door of LYCUS’S house.)
Why, here’s your mistress, if you’d like to see her.

> Latin: Milphio:
Em amores tuos,
si vis spectare.

[¶63] AGORASTOCLES:
O may the Gods bestow many a blessing on you, for having presented to me a sight so charming as this!
(They stand apart.) (Enter ADELPHASIUM, ANTERASTYLIS, and an ATTENDANT.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
O multa tibi di dent bona,
quom hoc mi optulisti tam lepidum spectaculum.

[¶64] ADELPHASIUM:
The man who wants to find abundance of employment for himself—a woman and a ship, these two things, let him procure; for no two things do produce more trouble, if, perchance, you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough,
nor is the largest amount of equipment sufficient for them. And as I mention these things, from experience at home do I now say thus; for we two, even from daybreak up to the present hour of the day, have never ceased
either washing, or scrubbing, or rubbing, or dressing, smoothing, polishing, painting, trimming, with all our might, and at the same time the two maid-servants, that have been provided for each of us, have been giving us their assistance in washing and cleaning; and in carrying water two men have become quite weary.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Negóti sibí qui volét vim paráre,
navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato.
nam nullae magis res duae plus negoti
habent, forte si occeperis exornare,
[neque umquam satis hae duae res ornantur]
neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.
atque haec, ut loquor, nunc domo docta dico.
nam nos usque ab aurora ad hoc quod diei est,
[postquam aurora inluxit, numquam concessamus]
ex industria ambae numquam concessamus
lavari aut fricari aut tergeri aut ornari,
poliri expoliri, pingi fingi; et una
binae singulis quae dataé nobis ancíllae,
eae nos lavando eluendo operam déderunt,
aggerúndaque aqua sunt viri duo defessi.

[¶65] Fie upon it! how great a plague there is in one female. But if there are two, I know full well that they are able to give to any one, the mightiest nation whatsoever, more trouble than enough, in being night and day, always, at all hours, dressing, washing, rubbing, polishing.

> Latin: apage sis, negoti quantum in muliere una est.
sed vero duae, sat scio, maxumo uni
poplo cuilubet plus satis dare potis sunt,
quae noctes diesque omni in aetate semper
ornantur, lavantur, tergentur, poliuntur.

[¶66] In fine, there’s no moderation in women, nor do we understand how ever to set a limit to washing and scrubbing. But she who is washed clean, unless she is thoroughly dressed, in my notion at least, is just as though she were dirty.

> Latin: postremo modus muliebris nullust: numquam
lavando et fricando scimus facere finem.
[nam quae lauta est nisi perculta est, meo quidem animo quasi inluta est.]

[¶67] ANTERASTYLIS:
I really wonder, sister, that you talk in this fashion; you who are so knowing, and discreet, and clever;

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Mirór equidem, sóror, te istaec sic fabulari,
quae tam callida et docta sis et faceta.

[¶68] for when with all care we have ourselves in trim, hardly and with difficulty do we find poor pitiful admirers.

> Latin: nam quom sedulo munditer nos habemus,
vix aegreque amatorculos invenimus.

[¶69] ADELPHASIUM:
Such is the fact; but still reflect upon this one thing; a limit is best to be observed in all things, sister; all things in excess give too much trouble to mortals of themselves.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Ita est. verum hoc unum tamen cogitato:
modus ómnibus rebús, soror, optimus est habitu.
nimia ómnia nimium éxhibent negóti hominibus éx se.

[¶70] ANTERASTYLIS:
Sister, prithee, do reflect that we are accounted just in the same way as pickled salt-fish is thought of—without any relish and without sweetness; unless full oft and long it is soaked in water, it smells badly, and is salt, so that you cannot touch it.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Sorór, cogitá, amabo, itém nos perhibéri
quam si salsa muriatica esse autumantur:
[sine omni lepore et síne suavitate]
nisí multa aqua usque et diu macerantur,
olént, salsa súnt, tangere út non velís.

[¶71] Just so are we. Women of this class are utterly tasteless, and devoid of grace, without dress and expense.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: itém nos sumús
[eius seminis mulieres sunt]
insúlsae admodum átque invenústae
sine múnditia et súmptu.

[¶72] She surely is a cook, Agorastocles, according to my notion; she knows how to soak pickled fish.
AGORASTOCLES: (pushing him away.)
Why are you thus troublesome?

> Latin: Milphio:
Coqua ést haec quidem, Ágorastoclés, ut ego opínor:
scit, muriatica ut maceret.
Agorastocles:
Quid molestu's molestus es?

[¶73] ADELPHASIUM:
Sister, do, there’s a dear, forbear. It’s quite sufficient for others to say that to us, not to be ourselves as well proclaiming our foibles.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Soror, parce, amabo: sat est istuc alios
dicere nobis, ne nosmet in nostra etiam vitia loquamur.

[¶74] ANTERASTYLIS:
I’ll have done, then.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Quiésco.

[¶75] ADELPHASIUM:
I thank you: but now answer me this; are all things here which ought to be provided for propitiating the Gods?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Ergo amó te. sed hóc nunc respónde
mihí: sunt hic ómnia,
quae ad deúm pacem opórtet adésse?

[¶76] ANTERASTYLIS:
I’ve taken care of everything.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Omnia áccuravi.

[¶77] How charming and joyous a day, and full of delight, worthy of Venus, by my troth, whose Aphrodisia are celebrated to-day!
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Diém pulchrum et célebrem et venústatis plénum,
dignúm Venere pól, quoi sunt Áphrodisia hódie.

[¶78] Any thanks for me, for calling you out of doors? Oughtn’t I now to be presented with a cask of old wine? Say it shall be given. Don’t you answer me?

> Latin: Milphio:
Ecquid gratiae, quom huc foras te evocavi?
iam núm me decét donari
cadó vini véteris? dic dáre. nil respóndes?

[¶79] His tongue has fallen out, I imagine. What, plague on it, have you been struck with amazement standing here?
(He shakes him.)
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Do let me love on; don’t disturb me, and do hold your peace.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: lingua huíc excidít, ut ego opínor.
quíd hic, malum, astans ópstipuisti?
Agorastocles:
Síne amem, ne opturba ac tace.

[¶80] I’ll hold my peace.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
If you had held your peace, why then that “I’ll hold my peace” would not have been in existence.

> Latin: Milphio:
Taceo.
Agorastocles:
Si tacuisses, iam istuc taceo non gnatum foret.

[¶81] ANTERASTYLIS:
Let’s go, my sister.
(She moves.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Eamus, mea soror.

[¶82] ADELPHASIUM:
How now—why, prithee, are you now hastening that way?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Eho amabo, quid illo nunc properas?

[¶83] ANTERASTYLIS:
Do you ask me? Because our master is waiting for us at the Temple of Venus.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Rogas?
quia erus nos apud aedem Veneris mantat.

[¶84] ADELPHASIUM:
Let him wait, i’ faith. Do you stay;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Maneat pol. mane.

[¶85] there’s a crowd just now at the altar. Do you wish yourself to be pushed about among those common prostitutes, the doxies of bakers, the cast-offs of the spelt-bread sellers; wretched creatures, daubed over with grease, followers of poor slaves, who stink for you of their stable and stall, their seats and very sheds; whom, in fact, not a single freeman has ever touched or taken home with him,
the twopenny strumpets of dirty trumpery slaves?
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: turba est nunc apud aram. an te ibi vis inter istás versarier
prosedas, pistorum amicas, reliquias alicarias,
miseras schoeno delibutas servolicolas sordidas,
quae tibi olant stabulum statumque, sellam et sessibulum merum,
quas adeo hau quisquam umquam liber tetigit neque duxit domum,
servolorum sordidulorum scorta diobolaria?

[¶86] Away with you to utter perdition! Do you dare, then, to despise the slaves, you hussey? As if she was a beauty, as if kings were in the habit of making her their choice. A monstrosity of a woman! Diminutive as she is, she does spit out such mighty words—seven nights with whom I wouldn’t purchase at a cupful of vapour.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Milphio:
I in malam crucem. tun audes etiam servos spernere,
propudium? quasi bella sit, quasi eampse reges ductitent,
monstrum mulieris, tantilla tanta verba funditat,
quoius egó nebulai cyatho septem noctes non emam.

[¶87] Immortal and omnipotent Divinities, what is there among you more beauteous? What have you that I should deem you more immortal than I am myself. in beholding with my eyes these delights so great? But Venus is not Venus; for my own part, her will I worship as Venus; that she may love me and prove propitious. Milphio!—hallo! Milphio, where are you?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
See, here I am with you.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Di immortales omnipotentes, quid est apud vos pulchrius?
quid habetis qui mage immortales vos credam esse quam ego siem,
qui haec tanta oculis bona concipio? nam Venus non est Venus:
hanc equidem Venerem venerabor, me ut amet posthac propitia.
Milphio, heus, ubi es?
Milphio:
Assum ápud te, eccum.

[¶88] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
But I want you boiled.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At ego elixus sis volo.

[¶89] Why really, master, you are making merry.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Why, it was from yourself I learnt all this.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Enim vero, ere, facis delicias.
Agorastocles:
De tequidem haéc didici omnia.

[¶90] What, even to be in love with her whom you have never touched? Really, that is nonsense.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
I’ faith, the Gods as well do I love and fear from whom, nevertheless, I keep off my hands.

> Latin: Milphio:
Etiamne ut ames eam quam numquam tetigeris?
Agorastocles:
Nihil id quidemst:
deos quoque edepol et amo et metuo, quíbus tamen ábstineo manus.

[¶91] ANTERASTYLIS:
Alas! upon my word, when I look at the dress of us both, I’m grieved at the way we are dressed out.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Eu ecastor, quom ornatum aspicio nostrum ambarum, paenitet
exornatae ut simus.

[¶92] ADELPHASIUM:
Why really, it’s quite in a proper style;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Immo vero sane commode;

[¶93] for our master’s gain and our own we are dressed quite well enough. For no profits can result, if the outlay exceeds them, sister; therefore, that is better to be had which is enough, than that which is more than enough.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: nam pro erili et nostro quaestu satis bene ornatae sumus.
non enim pótis est quaestus fieri, ni sumptus sequitur, scio,
et tamen quaéstus non consistet, si eum sumptus superat, soror.
eo illud satiust, satis quod habitu, ⟨haud satis est quod⟩ plus quam sat est.

[¶94] So may the Gods love me, may she love me (I had rather she than the Gods), Milphio;

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ita me di ament, ut illa me amet malim quam di, Milphio.

[¶95] why, this woman has it in her power to force a flint-stone to be in love with her.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: nam illa mulier lapidem silicem subigere, ut se amet, potest.

[¶96] Upon my faith, in that you certainly tell no lie, for you are more senseless than a flint-stone to be in love with her.<
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
But consider this, will you; I’ve never soiled her with a kiss.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Pol id quidem hau mentire, nam tu es lapide silice stultior,
qui hanc ames.
Agorastocles:
At vide sis, cum illac numquam limavi caput.

[¶97] I’ll run, then, somewhere to a fish-pond or a pool, and fetch some soil.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Curram igitur aliquo ad piscinam aut ad lacum, limum petam.

[¶98] What need is there of that?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
I’ll tell you; to soil her lips and yours.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid eo opust?
Milphio:
Ego dicam: ut illi ét tibi limem caput.

[¶99] To utter perdition with you!
MILPHIO: (apart.)
For my part, I’m there already.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
I in malam rem.
Milphio:
Ibi sum équidem.

[¶100] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Do you persist?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Perdis.

[¶101] MILPHIO: (apart.)
I’ll hold my tongue.

> Latin: Milphio:
Taceo.

[¶102] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
But I wish you to do so always.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At perpetuo volo.

[¶103] Why really, master, you challenge me at my own game, and still you make fun of me.

> Latin: Milphio:
Enim vero, ere, meo me lacessis ludo et delicias facis.

[¶104] ANTERASTYLIS:
At present, sister, I suppose you think yourself quite well enough drest; but when the instances of other courtesans are compared, then you will be having the heartache, if perchance you should see any one more nicely drest.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Satis nunc lepide ornatam credo, soror, te tibi viderier;
sed ubi exempla conferentur meretricum aliarum, ibi tibi
erit cordolium, si quam ornatam melius forte aspexeris.

[¶105] ADELPHASIUM:
Envy was never inbred in me, my sister, nor yet spitefulness: I had rather by far that I was adorned with a good disposition than with gold; gold is met with by luck, a good disposition is found by nature. I very much prefer for myself to be called good than fortunate. It more befits a courtesan to show modesty than purple;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Invidia in me numquam innatast neque malitia, mea soror.
bono med esse ingenio ornatam quam auro multo mavolo:
aurum, id fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium bonum.
[bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo.]
meretricem pudorem gerere magis decet quam purpuram:

[¶106] and more does it become a courtesan to show modesty than golden jewels. Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud; good manners, by their deeds, easily set off a lowly garb.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart to MILPHIO.)

> Latin: [magisque meretricem pudorem quam aurum gerere condecet.]
pulchrum ornatum turpes mores peius caeno conlinunt,
lepidi mores turpem ornatum facile factis comprobant.

[¶107] How now, you; would you like to play a merry and a frolicsome prank?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
I should like.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Eho tu, vin tu facinus facere lepidum et festivom?
Milphio:
Volo.

[¶108] Can you, then, give attention to me?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
I can.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Potesne mi auscultare?
Milphio:
Possum.

[¶109] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Be off home, and go hang yourself.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Abi domum ac suspende te.

[¶110] Why?
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Because you’ll never again hear so many words as sweet as these. What need have you to live? Only listen to me, and go hang yourself.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quam ob rem?
Agorastocles:
Quia iam numquam audibis verba tot tam suavia.
quid tibi opust vixisse? ausculta mihi modo ac suspende te.

[¶111] MILPHIO: (apart)
Why yes, if, like grapes that are drying, you’ll hang together with me.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Siquidem tu es mecum futurus pro uva passa pensilis.

[¶112] But I do love her.
MILPHIO: (apart.)
But I, to eat and drink.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At ego amo hanc.
Milphio:
At ego esse et bibere.

[¶113] ADELPHASIUM: (to her SISTER.)
How now, you? How say you—?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Eho tu, quid ais?

[¶114] ANTERASTYLIS:
What is it you ask me?

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Quid rogas?

[¶115] ADELPHASIUM:
Do you see? My eyes which were full of dirt, are they clear now?
ANTERASTYLIS: (looking close at her eyes.)

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Viden tu? pleni oculi sorderum quí erant, iam splendent mihi.

[¶116] Why, even still there’s a little dirt in the middle of the eye.
ADELPHASIUM:
Lend me your right hand, please.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Immo etiam in medio oculo paullum sordest.
Adelphasivm:
Cedo sis dexteram.

[¶117] And would you really touch or rub her eyes with unwashed hands?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vt quidem tu huius oculos inlutis manibus tractes aut teras?

[¶118] ANTERASTYLIS:
Too great indolence has taken possession of us to-day.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Nimia nos socordia hodie tenuit.

[¶119] ADELPHASIUM:
For what reason, prithee?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Qua de re, obsecro?

[¶120] ANTERASTYLIS:
Why, because we didn’t come long since, before daylight, to the Temple of Venus, to be the first to place fire upon her altar.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Quia non iam dudum ante lucem ad aedem Veneris venimus,
primae ut inferremus ignem in aram.

[¶121] ADELPHASIUM:
O, there’s no need for doing that;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Aha, non factost opus:

[¶122] those who have faces suited for the night only, make haste to go and sacrifice by night; before Venus is awake, they are already hurrying with all haste to sacrifice; for if they were to come when Venus is awake, so ugly are they, upon my faith, I do believe they would drive Venus herself away from the Temple.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: quaé habent nocturna ora, noctu sacruficatum ire occupant.
prius quam Venus expergiscatur, prius deproperant sedulo
sacruficare; nam vigilante Venere si veniant eae,
ita sunt turpes, credo ecastor Venerem ipsam e fano fugent.

[¶123] Milphio!
MILPHIO: (apart.)
Poor Milphio, i’ faith! What do you want with me now?
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Milphio.
Milphio:
Edepol Milphionem miserum. quid nunc vis tibi?

[¶124] Troth now, prithee, do mark how she speaks honied wine!
MILPHIO: (apart.)
Nothing at all, except tile-cakes, sesamum, and poppies, wheat and parched nuts.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Opsecro hercle, ut mulsa loquitur.
Milphio:
Nil nisi laterculos,
sesumam papaveremque, triticum et frictas nuces.

[¶125] Do I seem at all to be in love?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
In love to your loss, a thing that Mercury is by no means in love with.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ecquid amare videor?
Milphio:
Damnum, quod Mercurius minime amat.

[¶126] Why, really, by my troth, it befits no lover to be in love with pelf.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Namque edepol lucrum amare nullum amatorem addecet.

[¶127] ANTERASTYLIS:
Let’s go, my sister.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Eamus, mea germana.

[¶128] ADELPHASIUM:
Do, please, just as you like.
Follow me this way.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Age sis, ut lubet.

[¶129] ANTERASTYLIS:
I’ll follow.
(They move.)
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Sequere hac.
Adelphasivm:
Sequor.

[¶130] They are going.
What if we accost them?
MILPHIO: (apart.)
You accost them.

> Latin: Milphio:
Eunt hae.

[¶131] AGORASTOCLES: (going towards them.)
In the first place, health to you, the elder; and you, the younger, health to you in the second degree of estimation; (to the ATTENDANT) you, the third, health to you, without any place in my estimation.
ATTENDANT:
In that case, faith, I’ve wasted my oil and my labour.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid si adeamus?
Milphio:
Adeas.

[¶132] AGORASTOCLES: (to ADELPHASIUM.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Primum prima salva sis,
et secunda tu secundo salve in pretio; tertia
salve extra pretium.
Ancilla:
Tum pol ego et oleum et operam perdidi.

[¶133] Whither are you betaking yourself?
ADELPHASIUM:
What I? To the Temple of Venus.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quo te agis?
Adelphasivm:
Egone? in aedem Veneris.

[¶134] AGORASTOCLES:
Why thither?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid eo?

[¶135] ADELPHASIUM:
To propitiate Venus.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Vt Venerem propitiem.

[¶136] AGORASTOCLES:
How now? Is she angry, then? Upon my faith, she is propitious. I will even answer for her.
(Stands before her.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Eho, an irata est? propitia hercle est. vel ego pro illa spondeo.

[¶137] ADELPHASIUM:
What are you about?
Prithee, why are you annoying me?

> Latin: quid tu ais?
Adelphasivm:
Quid mihi molestu's molestus es, opsecro?

[¶138] AGORASTOCLES:
Thus cruel? Alas!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Aha, tam saeviter.

[¶139] ADELPHASIUM:
Let me go away, I beg of you.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Mitte, amabo.

[¶140] AGORASTOCLES:
Why in such a hurry? There’s a crowd there at present.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid festinas? turba nunc illi est.

[¶141] ADELPHASIUM:
I know it; there are other females there whom I wish to see, and by whom to be seen.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Scio.
sunt illi aliae quas spectare ego, et me spectari volo.

[¶142] AGORASTOCLES:
How can it give you pleasure to look at ugly people, and to afford one so beauteous to be looked at?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Qui lubet spectare turpes, pulchram spectandam dare?

[¶143] ADELPHASIUM:
Because to-day, at the Temple of Venus, there’s a fair for the courtesans;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quia apud aedem Veneris hodie est mercatus meretricius:

[¶144] there the dealers meet; there I wish myself to be shown.

> Latin: eo conveniunt mercatores, ibi ego me ostendi volo.

[¶145] AGORASTOCLES:
To wares unsaleable, its right to entice the buyer of one’s own accord; good wares easily meet with a purchaser, although they may be placed in concealment. How say you? When, at my house here (pointing) will you lay your head and side by me?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Invendibili merci oportet ultro emptorem adducere:
proba mers facile emptorem reperit, tam etsi in abstruso sitast.
quid ais tu? quando illi apud me mecum caput et corpus copulas? †

[¶146] ADELPHASIUM:
On the day on which Orcus sends away the dead from Acheron.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quo die Orcus Acherunte mortuos amiserit.

[¶147] AGORASTOCLES:
I’ve got in-doors I know not how many golden coins in a state of madness.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Sunt mihi intus nescio quot nummi aurei lymphatici.

[¶148] ADELPHASIUM:
Bring them to me; I’ll make their madness pretty soon come to an end.
MILPHIO: (with indignation.)

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Deferto ad me, faxo actutum constiterit lymphaticum.

[¶149] A nice one, upon my word!
AGORASTOCLES:
Away to utter and extreme perdition with you, and go and be hanged!
MILPHIO: (aside to AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Bellula hercle.
Agorastocles:
I díerecte in maxumam malam crucem.

[¶150] The more I look at her, the more insignificant she is, and a mere bauble.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quam magis aspecto, tam magis est nimbata et nugae merae.

[¶151] AGORASTOCLES:
Keep your prating to yourself; I’m tired of it.
(To ADELPHASIUM.) Come, do lift up this outer garment.
(Raises it from the ground, and attempts to embrace her.)

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Segrega sermonem. taedet.
Agorastocles:
Age, sustolle hoc amiculum.

[¶152] ADELPHASIUM:
I’m in a state of purity; prithee forbear to touch me, Agorastocles.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Pura sum, comperce amabo me attrectare, Agorastocles.

[¶153] AGORASTOCLES:
What am I to do, then?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid agam nunc?

[¶154] ADELPHASIUM:
If you are wise, you may be saving yourself your anxiety.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Si sapias, curam hanc facere compendi potes.

[¶155] AGORASTOCLES:
What? Me not be anxious on your account? What are you about, Milphio?
(Beckons to him.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid? ego non te curem? quid ais, Milphio?

[¶156] MILPHIO: (aside.)
See now, my aversion, this. (Aloud.) What is it you want with me?

> Latin: Milphio:
Ecce odium meum.
quid me vis?

[¶157] AGORASTOCLES: (pointing to ADELPHASIUM.)
Why is she angry with me?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cur mi haec irata est?

[¶158] MILPHIO:
Why is she angry with you? Why should I trouble myself about that? For that is rather your own concern.

> Latin: Milphio:
Cur haec irata est tibi?
cur ego id curem? namque istaec magis meast curatio. †

[¶159] AGORASTOCLES:
On my word, it’s all over with you this very instant, if you don’t make her as smooth for me as the sea is at the time when the halcyon is rearing her young ones there.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Iam hercle tu periisti, nísi illam mihi tam tranquillam facis
quam mare olimst, quóm ibi alcedo pullos educit suos.

[¶160] MILPHIO:
What am I to do?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid faciam?

[¶161] AGORASTOCLES:
Entreat her, soothe, and flatter her.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Exora, blandire, expalpa.

[¶162] MILPHIO:
I’ll do so with all diligence; but see, please, that you don’t afterwards be giving this ambassador of yours a dressing with your fists.

> Latin: Milphio:
Faciam sedulo.
sed vide sís, ne tu oratorem hunc pugnis pectas postea.

[¶163] AGORASTOCLES:
I’ll not do so.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Non faciam.

[¶164] ADELPHASIUM: (to her SISTER.)
Let’s now begone. (AGORASTOCLES stands before her.) Do you detain me still? You act badly;

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Non aequos in me es, sed morare et male facis.

[¶165] you make me many fair promises; of those many, the whole come to nothing at all. Not once, but a hundred times, have you sworn to give me my freedom. While depending on you, I have neither anywhere procured any other resources for myself, nor is this assistance of yours at all visible. And thus none the less am I still a slave. Move on, sister. (To AGORASTOCLES.) Get you gone from me!
AGORASTOCLES:
Utterly undone! Come now, Milphio, what are you about?
(Points at ADELPHASIUM.)
MILPHIO: (addressing ADELPHASIUM.)

> Latin: bene promittis multa ex multis: omnia in cassum cadunt.
liberare iuravisti me haud semel, sed centiens:
dum te exspecto, neque ego usquam aliam mihi paravi copiam
neque istuc usquam apparet; ita nunc servio nihilo minus.
i, soror. apscede tu a me.
Agorastocles:
Perii. ecquid agis, Milphio?

[¶166] My joy, my delight, my life, my pleasure, apple of my eye, my little lip, my health, my sweet kiss, my honey, my heart, my biestings, my cream-cheese—
AGORASTOCLES: (aside.)
Am I to allow these things to be said in my presence? I’m quite distracted, wretch that I am, if I don’t order him at full speed to be hurried off to the executioner in a chariot and four!
MILPHIO: (to ADELPHASIUM.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Mea voluptas, mea delicia, mea vita, mea amoenitas,
meus ocellus, meum labellum, mea salus, meum savium,
meum mel, meum cor, mea colustra, meus molliculus caseus—
Agorastocles:
Mene ego illaéc patiar praesente dici? discrucior miser,
nisi ego illum iubeo quadrigis cursim ad carnificem rapi.

[¶167] Prithee, for my sake, don’t be angry with my master. I’ll make—
ADELPHASIUM:
Let me alone.

> Latin: Milphio:
Noli, amabo, suscensere ero meo, causa mea.

[¶168] MILPHIO:
You are too cross. He’ll pay the money for you, and make you a citizen of Attica, and a free woman.
ADELPHASIUM: (to MILPHIO, who is standing before her.)

> Latin: ego faxo, si non irata es, ninnium pro te dabit
atque te fáciet ut sis civis Attica atque libera.

[¶169] But why don’t you let me go away? What is it you want? Just as he wishes me well, in like manner do you wish me well.

> Latin: quin adire sínis? quin tibi qui bene volunt, bene vis item?

[¶170] MILPHIO:
If, indeed, he has deceived you before, from this time forward he shall be truthful to you.

> Latin: si ante quid mentitust, nunciam dehinc érit verax tibi.
sine te exorem, sine prehendam auriculis, sine dem savium.

[¶171] ADELPHASIUM:
Get you gone hence, will you, you trepanner.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Apscede hinc sis, sycophanta par ero.

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[¶0] MILPHIO:
I’ll obey you. But on what terms—do you understand?
Do let me prevail upon you; do let me take you by those little ears; do let me give you a kiss.

> Latin: Milphio:
At scin quo modo?

[¶1] By my troth, I shall now set him a weeping, if I don’t make you kind; and (unless I do make you kind he certainly will do it) I’m dreadfully afraid lest he should beat me. I know the harsh manners of this crabbed man.

> Latin: iam hercle ego faciam ploratillum, nisi te facio propitiam,
atque hic ne me verberetillum faciat, nisi te propitio,
male formido: novi ego huius mores morosi malos.

[¶2] Wherefore, my delight, pray do let me prevail upon you.
AGORASTOCLES: (aside.)

> Latin: quam ob rem amabo, mea voluptas, sine te hoc exorarier.

[¶3] I’m not a man worth threepence, if I don’t tear out the eyes and teeth of that whip-scoundrel. (He beats MILPHIO.) There’s your delight for you! There’s your honey! There’s your heart! There are your biestings! There’s your health! There’s your sweet kiss!
(Giving him a blow at each sentence.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Non ego homo trioboli sum, nisi ego illi mastigiae
exturbo oculos atque dentes. em voluptatem tibi,
em mel, em cor, em labellum, em salutem, em savium.

[¶4] MILPHIO:
Master, you are rendering yourself guilty of impiety! You are beating an ambassador.

> Latin: Milphio:
Impias, ere, te: oratorem verberas.

[¶5] AGORASTOCLES:
More than that even still.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Iam istoc magis:

[¶6] (Beating him again.) I shall now add the apple of the eye, the little lip too, and the tongue.
MILPHIO:
When will you be making an end?

> Latin: [etiam ocellum addam et labellum et linguam.]
Milphio:
[Ecquid facies modi?]

[¶7] AGORASTOCLES:
Was it in that fashion I requested you to plead for me?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
sicine ego te orare iussi?

[¶8] MILPHIO:
How then was I to plead?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quo modo ergo orem?

[¶9] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you ask me that? Why thus you should have said, you scoundrel: “his” delight, I do entreat of you, “his” honey, “his” heart, “his” little lip, “his” tongue, “his” sweet kiss, “his” biestings, “his” sweet cream-cheese, you whip-scoundrel.
All these things which you spoke of as yours, you should have mentioned as mine.
MILPHIO: (addressing ADELPHASIUM.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Rogas?
sic enim díceres, sceleste: huius voluptas, te opsecro,
huius mel, huius cor, huius labellum, huius lingua, huius savium,
huius delicia, huiús salus amoena, huius festivitas:
[huius colustra, huius dulciculus caseus, mastigia,]
[huius cor, huius studium, huius savium, mastigia]
omnia illa, quae dicebas tua, ésse ea memorares mea.

[¶10] By my troth, I do entreat you, his delight and my own aversion; his full-bosomed mistress, my enemy and evil-wisher; his eye, my eyesore; his honey, my gall—
don’t you be angry with him; or, if that cannot be, do take a rope and hang yourself, with your master and your household: for I see that henceforth, on your account, I shall have to live upon sighing; and as it is, I’ve already got my back about as hard with weals as an oyster-shell, by reason of your amours.
ADELPHASIUM:
Prithee, do you wish me to hinder him
from beating you, rather than that he should not prove untrue towards me?
ANTERASTYLIS: (to her SISTER.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Opsecro hercle te, voluptas huius atque odium meum,
huius amica mammeata, mea inimica et malevola,
oculus huius, lippitudo mea, mel huius, fel meum,
ut tu huic irata ne sis aut, si id fieri non potest,
capias restim ac te suspendas cúm ero et vostra familia.
nam mihi iam video propter te victitandum sorbilo,
itaque iam quasi ostreatum tergum ulceribus gestito
propter amorem vestrum.
Adelphasivm:
Amabo, men prohibere postulas
ne te verberet magis quám ne mendax me advorsum siet?

[¶11] Do answer him in somewhat kindly terms, there’s a dear, that he mayn’t be annoying to us; for he’s detaining us from our purpose.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Aliquid huic responde, amabo, commode, ne incommodus
nobis sit. nam detinet nos de nostro negotio.

[¶12] ADELPHASIUM:
That’s true. This one fault more will I pardon you for, Agorastocles. I am not angry.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Verum. etiam tibi hanc amittam noxiam unam, Agorastocles.
non sum irata.

[¶13] AGORASTOCLES:
You are not?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Non es?

[¶14] ADELPHASIUM:
I am not.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Non sum.

[¶15] AGORASTOCLES:
That I may believe you, give me a kiss then.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Da ergo, ut credam, savium.

[¶16] ADELPHASIUM:
I’ll give you one by-and-by, when I return from the sacrifice.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Mox dabo, quom ab re divina rediero.

[¶17] AGORASTOCLES:
Be off, then, in all haste.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
I ergo strenue.

[¶18] ADELPHASIUM:
Follow me, sister.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Sequere me, soror.

[¶19] AGORASTOCLES:
And do you hear too? Pay all compliments to Venus in my name.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Atque audin etiam? Veneri dicito
multam meis verbis salutem.

[¶20] ADELPHASIUM:
I’ll pay them.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Dicam.

[¶21] AGORASTOCLES:
Listen to this, too—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Atque hoc audi.

[¶22] ADELPHASIUM:
What is it?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quid est?

[¶23] AGORASTOCLES:
Perform the ceremony in few words. And do you hear? Look back at me. (She looks back.) She did look back. By my troth, I trust that Venus will do the same for you.
(ADELPHASIUM, ANTERASTYLIS, and ATTENDANT go into the Temple of Venus.) (AGORASTOCLES and MILPHIO.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Paucis verbis rem divinam facito. atque audin? respice.
respexit. idem edepol Venerem credo facturam tibi.

[¶24] AGORASTOCLES:
What now do you advise me to do, Milphio?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
quid nunc mi es auctor, Milphio?

[¶25] MILPHIO:
To give me a beating, and then have an auction; for (pointing to the house) really, upon my faith, with utter impunity you might put up this house for sale.

> Latin: Milphio:
Vt me verberes
atque auctionem facias: nam impunissume
tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedis licet.

[¶26] AGORASTOCLES:
Why so?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid iam?

[¶27] MILPHIO:
For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth.

> Latin: Milphio:
Maiorem partem in ore habitas meo.

[¶28] AGORASTOCLES:
Do have done with those expressions.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Supersede istis verbis.

[¶29] MILPHIO:
What now do you wish?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid nunc vis tibi?

[¶30] AGORASTOCLES:
I just now gave three hundred Philippeans to the bailiff Collybiscus, before you called me out of doors. I now adjure you, Milphio, by this right hand, and by this left hand its sister, and by your eyes, and by my passion, and by my own Adelphasium,
and by your liberty —

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilico
dedi dúdum, prius quam me evocavisti foras.
nunc opsecro te, Milphio, hanc per dexteram
perque hanc sororem laevam perque oculos tuos
[perque meos amores perque Adelphasium meam]
perque tuam libertatem—

[¶31] MILPHIO:
Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.

> Latin: Milphio:
Em nunc nihil opsecras.

[¶32] AGORASTOCLES:
My dear little Milphio, my kind occasion, my safeguard, do what you promised me you would do, that I may prove the ruin of this Procurer.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mi Milphidisce, mea commoditas, mea salus,
fac quod facturum te esse promisti mihi,
ut ego hunc lenonem perdam.

[¶33] MILPHIO:
Why, that’s very easy to be done. Be off, bring here with you your witnesses; meanwhile, in-doors I’ll forthwith provide your bailiff with my disguise and stratagems. Make haste and be off.

> Latin: Milphio:
Perfacile id quidemst.
i, adduce testis tecum; ego intus interim
iam et ornamentis meis et sycophantiis
tuom exornabo vilicum. propera atque abi.

[¶34] AGORASTOCLES:
I fly.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Fugio.

[¶35] MILPHIO:
That’s more my part than yours.

> Latin: Milphio:
Meum est ístuc magis officium quam tuom.

[¶36] AGORASTOCLES:
Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly —

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Egone egone, si istuc lepide ecfexis—

[¶37] MILPHIO:
Only do begone.

> Latin: Milphio:
I modo.

[¶38] AGORASTOCLES:
Ought I not this very day—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vt non ego te hodie—

[¶39] MILPHIO:
Only do be off.

> Latin: Milphio:
Abi modo.

[¶40] AGORASTOCLES:
To give you freedom

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Emittam manu—

[¶41] MILPHIO:
Only do begone.

> Latin: Milphio:
I modo.

[¶42] AGORASTOCLES:
By my troth, I should not deserve—
ah!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Non hercle meream.

[¶43] MILPHIO:
Bah!
Only do be off.

> Latin: Milphio:
Oh—
Agorastocles:
Vah—
Milphio:
Abi modo.

[¶44] AGORASTOCLES:
As many as are the dead in Acheron—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quantum Acheruntest mortuorum.

[¶45] MILPHIO:
Will you, then, move off?

> Latin: Milphio:
Etiamne abis?

[¶46] AGORASTOCLES:
Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Neque quantum aquaist in mari.

[¶47] MILPHIO:
Are you going to move off?

> Latin: Milphio:
Abiturun es?

[¶48] AGORASTOCLES:
Nor as many as there are clouds—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Neque nubes omnes quantumst.

[¶49] MILPHIO:
Do you persist in going on this way?

> Latin: Milphio:
Pergin pergere?

[¶50] AGORASTOCLES:
Nor as there are stars in heaven—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Neque stellae in caelo.

[¶51] MILPHIO:
Do you persist in dinning my ears?

> Latin: Milphio:
Pergin auris tundere?

[¶52] AGORASTOCLES:
Neither this thing nor that; nor yet, indeed, seriously speaking—nor, by my faith, indeed. What need is there of words? And why not?—a thing that in one word—here we may say anything we please—and yet, i’ faith, not seriously in reality. D’ye see how ’tis? So may the Gods bless me!—do you wish me to tell you in honest truth?
A thing that here we may between ourselves—so help me Jupiter— Do you see how? Look you—do you believe what I tell you?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Neque hoc neque illud neque—enim vero serio—
neque—hercle vero—quid opust verbis? quippini?
quod uno verbo—dicere hic quidvis licet,
neque—hercle vero serio, scin quomodo?
ita me di amabunt, vin bona dicam fide,
quod hic inter nos liceat? ita me Iuppiter,
scin quam videtur? credin quod ego fabuler?

[¶53] MILPHIO:
If I cannot make you go away, I shall go away myself: for really, upon my faith, there’s need of an Oedipus as a diviner for this speech of yours, him who was the interpreter to the Sphinx.
(He goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Si nequeo facere ut abeas, egomet abiero;
nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipo
opust cóniectore, qui Sphingi interpres fuit.—

[¶54] AGORASTOCLES:
He has gone off in a passion; now must I beware, lest, through my own fault, I place an impediment in the way of my love. I’ll go and fetch the witnesses, since love commands me, a free man, to be obedient to my own slave.
(Exit.) (Enter LYCUS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Illic hínc iratus abiit. nunc mihi cautio est,
ne meámet culpa meo amori obiexim moram.
ibo atque arcessam testis, quando Amor iubet
me oboedientem ésse servo liberum.—

[¶55] LYCUS: (to himself.)
May all the Gods render him unfortunate, should any Procurer, after this day, ever immolate any victim to Venus, or should any one sacrifice a single grain of frankincense.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Di illum infelicent omnes, qui post hunc diem
leno ullam Veneri umquam immolarit hostiam
quive ullum turis granum sacruficaverit.

[¶56] For wretched I, this day, have sacrificed to my most wrathful Deities six lambs, and still I could not manage to make Venus to be propitious unto me.

> Latin: nam ego hodie infelix dis meis iratissumis
sex immolavi ágnos, nec potui tamen
propitiam Venerem facere utí esset mihi.

[¶57] Since I could not appease her, forthwith I departed thence in a passion; I forbade the entrails to be cut, and would not examine them. Inasmuch as the soothsayer pronounced them not propitious, I deemed the Goddess not deserving. By these means I fairly played a trick upon the greedy Venus.

> Latin: quoniam litare nequeo, ábii illim ilico
iratus, votui éxta prosicarier;
[neque ea poricere volui, quoniam non bona]
[haruspex dixit: deam esse indignam credidi.]
eo pacto avarae Veneri pulchre adii manum.

[¶58] When, that which was enough, she would not have to be enough, I made a pause.’Tis thus I act, and thus it befits me to act.

> Latin: quando id quod sat erat satis habere noluit,
ego pausam feci. sic ago, sic me decet.

[¶59] I’ll make the other Gods and Goddesses henceforth more contented, and less greedy, when they know how the Procurer put a trick upon Venus.

> Latin: ego faxo posthac di deaeque ceteri
contentiores mage erunt atque avidi minus,
quom scibunt, Veneri ut adierit leno manum.

[¶60] The soothsayer, in manner right worthy of him, a fellow not worth threepence, said that in all the entrails misfortune and loss were portended to me, and that the Gods were angry with me.

> Latin: condigne haruspex, non homo trioboli,
omnibus in extis aibat portendi mihi
malum damnumque et deos esse iratos mihi.

[¶61] In what matter either divine or human is it right for me to put trust in him? Just after that, a mina of silver was given me. But where, pray, has this Captain stopped just now, who gave it me, and whom I’ve invited to breakfast?

> Latin: quid ei divini aut humani aequomst credere?
mina mihi argenti dono postilla datast.
sed quaeso, ubi nam illic restitit miles modo,
qui hanc mihi donavit, quem ego vocavi ad prandium?

[¶62] But look! here he comes.
(Enter ANTHEMONIDES.)
ANTHEMONIDES:
So, as I began to tell you, you sorry pimp, about that Pentethronic battle, in which, with my own hands, in one day, I slew sixty thousand flying men.

> Latin: sed eccum incedit.
Antamonides:
Ita ut occepi dicere,
lenulle, de illa pugna Pentetronica,
quom sexaginta milia hominum uno die
volaticorum manibus occidi meis.

[¶63] LYCUS:
Heyday! Flying men?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Volaticorum hóminum?

[¶64] ANTHEMONIDES:
Certainly I do affirm it.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ita dico quidem.

[¶65] LYCUS:
Prithee, are there anywhere men that fly?

> Latin: Lycvs:
An, opsecro, usquam sunt homines volatici?

[¶66] ANTHEMONIDES:
There were; but I slew them.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Fuere. verum ego interfeci.

[¶67] LYCUS:
How could you?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quo modo
potuisti?

[¶68] ANTHEMONIDES:
I’ll tell you. I gave birdlime and slings to my troops; beneath it they laid leaves of coltsfoot.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Dicam. viscum legioni dedi
fundasque; eo praésternebant folia farferi.

[¶69] LYCUS:
For what purpose?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quoi rei?

[¶70] ANTHEMONIDES:
That the birdlime mightn’t adhere to the slings.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ad fundas viscus né adhaeresceret.

[¶71] LYCUS:
Proceed. (Aside.) I faith, you do lie most egregiously. (Aloud.) What after that?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Perge. optume hercle perieras. quid postea?

[¶72] ANTHEMONIDES:
They placed pretty large pellets of birdlime in their slings: with which I ordered them to be taken aim at as they flew. Why many words? Each one did they hit with the birdlime—
they fell to the ground as thick as pears. As each one dropped, I straightway pierced him through the brain with his own feathers, just like a turtle-dove.

> Latin: Antamonides:
In fundas visci indebant grandiculos globos,
eo illós volantis iussi funditarier.
quid multa verba? quemquem visco offenderant,
tam crebri ad terram áccidebant quam pira.
ut quisque acciderat, eum necabam ílico
per cerebrum pinna sua sibi, quasi turturem.

[¶73] LYCUS:
By my troth, if ever this did take place, then may Jupiter make me to be ever sacrificing, and never propitiating him.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Si hercle istuc umquam factum est, tum me Iuppiter
faciat ut semper sacruficem nec umquám litem.

[¶74] ANTHEMONIDES:
And don’t you.believe me in this?

> Latin: Antamonides:
An mi haec non credis?

[¶75] LYCUS:
I do believe, in the same degree that it is proper that I should be believed. Come, let’s go in-doors, until the entrails are brought home.
ANTHEMONIDES:
I wish to relate to you a single battle more.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Credo, ut mi aequomst credier.
age eamus intro.
Lycvs:
Dum exta referuntur, volo
narrare tibi etiam unam pugnam.

[¶76] LYCUS:
I don’t care about it.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Nil moror.

[¶77] ANTHEMONIDES:
Do listen.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ausculta.

[¶78] LYCUS:
Upon my faith, no.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Non hercle auscultabo.

[¶79] ANTHEMONIDES:
Why then I’ll break your head this instant, if you don’t listen,
or else be off to utter perdition!

> Latin: Antamonides:
Quo modo?
colaphis quidem hercle tuom iam dilidam caput,
nisi aut auscultas aut is in malam crucem.

[¶80] LYCUS:
I’d sooner go to utter perdition!

> Latin: Lycvs:
Malam crucem ibo potius.

[¶81] ANTHEMONIDES:
Are you determined then?

> Latin: Antamonides:
Certumnest tibi?

[¶82] LYCUS:
Determined.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Certum.

[¶83] ANTHEMONIDES:
In that case, do you, then, upon this lucky day, the Aphrodisia, make over to me the younger one of your courtesans.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Tum tu igitur die bonó Aphrodisiis
addice tuam mihi meretricem minusculam.

[¶84] LYCUS:
The sacred ceremony has by its omens been to me today of such a nature—I put off all serious matters from today until another day.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Ita res divina mihi fuit: res serias
omnis extollo ex hoc die in alium diem.

[¶85] I am resolved to make it really a holiday.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Profestos festos habeam decretum est mihi.

[¶86] Now let’s go hence in-doors. Follow me this way.
ANTHEMONIDES:
I follow. For this day, then, I’m out on hire to you.
(They go into the house of LYCUS.) (Enter AGORASTOCLES, and several ASSISTANTS walking behind him.)

> Latin: Lycvs:
Nunc hinc eamus intro. sequere hac me.—
Antamonides:
Seqor.
in hunc diem iam tuos sum mercennarius.—

[¶87] AGORASTOCLES:
So may the Deities love me, there’s nothing more annoying than a tardy friend,
especially to a man in love, who’s in a hurry in everything that he does; just as I’m leading on these assistants, fellows of most crawling step; they are more slow than merchant-ships in a calm sea. And upon my faith, I really did on purpose wave my aged friends; I knew they were too slow through their years; I apprehended delay to my passion;

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Íta me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius,
praesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia.
sicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,
tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari.
atque equidem hercle dedita opera amicos fugitavi senes:
scibam aetate tardiores, metui meo amori moram.

[¶88] in vain I selected for myself these young fellows on their preferment, timber-legged, most tardy chaps. Well (turning round to them.) if you are going to come to-day, get on, or get off hence to utter perdition! Is this the way it befits friends to give their assistance to a person in love? Why sure, this pace was bolted through a fine floursieve; unless you have been practising in fetters to creep along thus with this step.

> Latin: nequiquam hos procos mi elegi loripedis, tardissimos.
quin si ituri hodie estis, ite, aut ite hinc in malam crucem.
sicine oportet ire amicos homini amanti operam datum?
nam iste quidem gradus succretust cribro pollinario,
nisi cum pedicis condidicistis istoc grassari gradu.

[¶89] ADVOCATI:
Hark you! although we seem to you of the commonalty and poor, if you don’t speak us fair, you rich man of highest rank, we are in the habit of boldly playing the mischief with the rich man; we are under no engagement to you, about what it is that you love or hate. When we paid money for our freedom, we paid our own, not yours;

> Latin: Advocati:
Heus tu, quamquam nos videmur tibi plebeii et pauperes,
si nec recte dicis nobis, dives de summo loco,
divitem audacter solemus mactare infortunio.
nec tibi nos obnoxii [sumus] istuc, quid tu ames aut oderis:
quom argentum pro capite dedimus, nostrum dedimus, non tuom;

[¶90] it’s right that we should be under no restraint. We value you at nought; don’t you fancy that we’ve been made over as slaves to your passion. It’s proper for free men to go through the city at a moderate pace; I deem it like a slave to be running along in a bustle. Especially when the state is at peace and the enemies are slain,
it is not decent to make a tumult. But if you were for making greater haste, you ought to have brought us here as assistants the day before. Don’t you fancy it—not any one of us will this day be running through the streets, nor yet shall the people pelt us with stones for madmen.

> Latin: liberos nos esse oportet. nos te nihili pendimus,
ne tuo nos amori servos [tuos] esse addictos censeas.
liberos homines per urbem modico magis par est gradu
ire, servile esse duco festinantem currere.
praesertim in re populi placida atque interfectis hostibus
non decet tumultuari. sed si properabas magis,
pridie nos te advocatos huc duxisse oportuit.
ne tu opinere, haud quisquam hodie nostrum curret per vias,
neque nos populus pro cerritis insectabit lapidibus.

[¶91] AGORASTOCLES:
But if I had said that I was taking you to a Temple to breakfast,
you would have surpassed a stag in speed, or a man on stilts in your steps. Now, because I have said that I am taking you as my assistants and witnesses, you are gouty, and in the slowness of your pace have been outdoing the snail.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At si ad prandium me in aedem vos dixissem ducere,
vinceretis cervom cursu vel gralatorem gradu;
nunc vos quia mihi advocatos dixi et testis ducere,
podagrosi estis ac vicistis cochleam tarditudine.

[¶92] ADVOCATI:
Why, really, is there not good cause for running swiftly, where you are to drink and eat at another man’s expense as much as you please, until you are full,
what you need never return against your will to your host, at whose expense you have been eating? But still, in some way or other, although we are poor men, we have at home something to eat; don’t you browbeat us in such a contemptuous way. Whatever that very little is, that little of ours is all at home; we neither dun any one ourselves, nor does any one dun us.

> Latin: Advocati:
An vero non iusta causa est, quor curratur celeriter
ubi bibas, edas de alieno quantum velis usque ad fatim,
quod tu invitus numquam reddas domino, de quoio ederis?
sed tamen cum eo cum quiqui, quamquam sumus pauperculi,
est domi quod edimus, ne nos tam contemptim conteras.
quidquid est pauxillulum illuc, nostrum id omne, non tuomst,
neque nos quemquam flagitamus neque nos quisquam flagitat.

[¶93] Not one of us is going to burst the veins of his lungs for your sake.

> Latin: tua causa nemo nostrorumst suos rupturus ramites.

[¶94] AGORASTOCLES:
You are too warm; really, I said this to you in joke.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Nimis iracundi estis: equidem haec vobis dixi per iocum.

[¶95] ADVOCATI:
Consider it said in joke as well what we have said to you in answer.

> Latin: Advocati:
Per iocum itidem dictum habeto quae nos tibi respondimus.

[¶96] AGORASTOCLES:
Troth now, prithee, do give me this aid of yours like a fly-boat, not a merchant-ship. Do hobble along at least, for I do not ask you to hurry.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Obsecro hercle, operam celocem hanc mihi, ne corbitam date;]
[attrepidate saltem, nam vos adproperare haud postulo.]

[¶97] ADVOCATI:
If you wish to do anything quietly and leisurely, we lend our aid; if you are in a hurry, it would be better for you to hire runners as your assistants.

> Latin: Advocati:
[Si quid tu placide otioseque agere vis, operam damus;]
[si properas, cursores meliust te advocatos ducere.]

[¶98] AGORASTOCLES:
You understand (the matter I’ve informed you of), that I have need of your assistance with regard to this Procurer, who has so long trifled with me in my amour; that a scheme is to be planned against him about the gold and. my servant.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Scitis rem, narravi vobis quod vestra opera mi opus siet,
de lenone hoc, qui me amantem ludificatur tam diu,
ei paratae ut sint insidiae de auro et de servo meo.

[¶99] ADVOCATI:
All that we know already, if these Spectators know. For the sake of these Spectators it is that this Play is now being acted.’Twere better for you to inform them, that when you do anything, they may know what it is you are doing. Don’t you trouble about us; we know the whole matter; since we all learnt it together in company with yourself, so that we can answer you.

> Latin: Advocati:
Omnia istaec scimus iam nos, si hi spectatores sciant;
horunc hic nunc causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula:
hos te satius est docere, ut, quando agas, quid agas sciant.
nos tu ne curassis: scimus rem omnem, quippe omnes simul
didicimus tecum una, ut respondere possemus tibi.

[¶100] AGORASTOCLES:
Such really is the fact; but come, that I may be sure then that you know it, repeat the matter at length, and tell me what I told you just now.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ita profecto est. sed agite igitur, ut sciam vos scire rem,
expedite [et] mihi quae vobis dudum dixi dicite.

[¶101] ADVOCATI:
Are you trying in this way whether we know? Do you suppose we don’t remember how you have given three hundred Philippeans to Collybiscus your bailiff, for him to bring here to the Procurer, your enemy,
and to pretend that he is a foreigner from a distance, from another city? When he has brought them, you’ll go there to seek your servant together with the money.

> Latin: Advocati:
Itane? temptas an sciamus? non meminisse nos ratu's ratus es,
quo modo trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilico
dederis, quos deferret huc ad lenonem inimicum tuom,
[isque] sé ut assimularet peregrinum esse aliunde ex alio oppido?
ubi is detulerit, tu eo quaesitum servom advenies tuom
cum pecunia.

[¶102] AGORASTOCLES:
You remember it by heart; you have saved me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Meministis memoriter, servastis me.

[¶103] ADVOCATI:
He’ll be for denying it; he’ll suppose your Milphio is being looked for. He’ll have to pay double all the money stolen; the Procurer will be adjudged to you.

> Latin: Advocati:
Ille negabit: Milphionem quaeri censebit tuom;
id duplicabit omne furtum. leno addicetur tibi.

[¶104] In this matter you wish us to be your witnesses.
AGORASTOCLES:
You’ve got the matter fast.

> Latin: ad eam rem nos esse testis vis tibi.
Agorastocles:
Tenetis rem.

[¶105] ADVOCATI:
I’ faith, hardly with the tips of our fingers, indeed; it is so very small a one.

> Latin: Advocati:
Vix quidem hercle, íta pauxilla est, digitulis primoribus.

[¶106] AGORASTOCLES:
This must be done quickly and with expedition. Make as much haste, then, as you can.
ADVOCATI: (moving as though going.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Hoc cito et cursim est agendum. propera iam quantum potest.]

[¶107] Kindly fare you well, then; it’s better for you to provide some active assistants, we are but slow ones.
AGORASTOCLES:
You move very well. (Aside.) But very badly do you speak me, faith.

> Latin: Advocati:
[Bene vale igitur. te advocatos meliust celeris ducere;]
[tardi sumus nos.]
Agorastocles:
[Optime itis, pessime hercle dicitis.]

[¶108] (Aloud.) Moreover, I could wish your thighs to fall down into your ankles.

> Latin: [quin etiam deciderint vobis femina ín talos velim.]

[¶109] ADVOCATI:
And, i’ faith, we that your tongue had fallen into your loins, and your eyes upon the ground.

> Latin: Advocati:
[At edepol nos tibi in lumbos linguam atque oculos in solum.]

[¶110] AGORASTOCLES:
Heyday! it’s not for you to be angry at what I said in joke.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Heia, hau vostrumst iracundos esse, quod dixi ioco.]

[¶111] ADVOCATI:
Nor for you, indeed, to be speaking ill to your friends in joke.

> Latin: Advocati:
[Nec tuom quidem est amicis per iocum iniuste loqui.]

[¶112] AGORASTOCLES:
Drop this. What I want to do, you understand.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Mittite istaec. quid velim vos, scitis.]

[¶113] ADVOCATI:
We know full well:

> Latin: Advocati:
Callemus probe:

[¶114] to undo the perjured Procurer, it’s that you wish.
AGORASTOCLES:
You’ve got the matter right. See, Milphio and the bailiff are opportunely coming out together. He’s coming rigged out like a nobleman, and appropriately, for the plot.
(Enter MILPHIO and COLLYBISCUS, from the house of AGORASTOCLES, dressed as a person of quality.)

> Latin: [lenonem ut periurum perdas, id studes.]
Agorastocles:
[Tenetis rem.]
euge, opportune egrediuntur Milphio una et vilicus.
basilice exornatus incedit et fabre ad fallaciam.

[¶115] MILPHIO:
Have you now got your instructions by heart?

> Latin: Milphio:
Iam tenes praecepta in corde?

[¶116] COLLYBISCUS:
Nicely.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Pulchre.

[¶117] MILPHIO:
Take care you understand them, please.

> Latin: Milphio:
Vide sis calleas.

[¶118] COLLYBISCUS:
What need is there of talking? I won’t let my own legs understand as well.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quid opust verbis? callum aprugnum callere aeque non sinam.

[¶119] MILPHIO:
Only take you care that your speeches are learnt by heart for this plot.

> Latin: Milphio:
Fac modo ut condocta tibi sint dicta ad hanc fallaciam.

[¶120] COLLYBISCUS:
Why, upon my faith, I am more perfect than tragic or comic actors are.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quin edepol condoctior sum, quam tragoedi aut comici.

[¶121] MILPHIO:
You are a capital fellow.

> Latin: Milphio:
Probus homost.

[¶122] AGORASTOCLES: (to the ASSISTANTS.)
Let’s go nearer to them.
(Accosting MILPHIO and COLLYBISCUS.) Here are the witnesses.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Adeamus propius.

[¶123] MILPHIO: (to AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Adsunt testes?
Agorastocles:
Tot quidem.

[¶124] Really you could not have brought as many men better suited for this purpose; for not one of them is tongue-tied as a witness; they are genuine men of the law-courts;

> Latin: Milphio:
Non potuisti adducere homines magis ad hanc rem idoneos.
nam istorum nullus nefastust: comitiales sunt meri;

[¶125] there they take up their abode; there you may see them more frequently than the Praetor. At this very time there are no better cookers-up of a lawsuit, to stir up litigation, than are these men; for they, if there is no litigation, sow litigation.

> Latin: ibi habitant, ibi eos conspicias quam praetorem saepius.
hodie iuris coctiores non sunt qui lites creant,
quam hi sunt, qui si nihil est quicum litigent, lites emunt.

[¶126] ADVOCATI:
May the Gods confound you!

> Latin: Advocati:
Di te perdant.

[¶127] MILPHIO:
You I really do commend, inasmuch as, whoever you are, still you act both worthily and kindly in giving your aid to my master thus in love.

> Latin: Milphio:
Vos quidem hercle—cum eo cum quiqui tamen
et bene et benigne facitis, quóm ero amanti operam datis.

[¶128] (To AGORASTOCLES.) But do they now know what the business is?
AGORASTOCLES:
The whole matter, all in its order.

> Latin: sed isti iam sciunt, negoti quid sit?
Agorastocles:
Omne in ordine.

[¶129] MILPHIO:
In that case, do you, then, give me your attention. Do you know this Procurer Lycus?

> Latin: Milphio:
Tum vos animum advortite igitur. hunc vos lenonem Lycum
novistis?

[¶130] ADVOCATI:
Perfectly.

> Latin: Advocati:
Facile.

[¶131] COLLYBISCUS:
But, upon my faith, I don’t know him, of what appearance he is. I wish that you would point this fellow out to me.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
At pol ego eum, qua sit facie, nescio.
eum mihi volo demonstretis hominem.

[¶132] ADVOCATI:
We’ll take all care: we’ve been instructed quite enough.

> Latin: Advocati:
Nos curabimus.
satis praeceptumst.

[¶133] AGORASTOCLES: (pointing to COLLYBISCUS.)
He has got three hundred pieces counted out.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Hic trecentos nummos numeratos habet.

[¶134] ADVOCATI:
Then it’s right, Agorastocles, that we should see this gold, that we may know what to say by-and-by as our testimony.

> Latin: Advocati:
Ergo nos inspicere oportet istuc aurum, Agorastocles,
ut sciamus quid dicamus mox pro testimonio.

[¶135] AGORASTOCLES:
Come and look at it.
(Opens the bag which COLLYBISCUS holds in his hand.
COLLYBISCUS: (to the AUDIENCE.)
Undoubtedly it’s gold, Spectators—playhouse gold; upon this, soaked in water, in foreign lands, the cattle become fat: but, for the carrying out of this design,’tis real Philippean gold.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Agite, inspicite.
Advocati:
Aurum est profecto hoc, spectatores, comicum:
macerato hoc pingues fiunt auro in barbaria boves;

[¶136] ADVOCATI:
We’ll make believe it is so.

> Latin: verum ad hanc rem agundam Philippum est: ita nos adsimulabimus.
Collybiscvs:
Sed ita adsimulatote quasi ego sim peregrinus.
Advocati:
Scilicet,
et quidem quasi tu nobiscum adveniens hodie oraveris,
liberum ut commostraremus tibi locum et voluptarium,
ubi ames, potes, pergraecere.

[¶137] COLLYBISCUS:
But do you make believe as though I were a foreigner.
ADVOCATI:
Just so; and, in fact, as though you, on your arrival to-day, had asked us to show you a spot for freedom and pleasure; where you might wench, drink, and live like a Greek.
MILPHIO:
Dear me! Crafty fellows, upon my faith!

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Eu, edepol mortales malos.

[¶138] AGORASTOCLES:
But it was I who instructed them.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ego enim docui.

[¶139] MILPHIO:
And who you, in your turn?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quis te porro?

[¶140] COLLYBISCUS:
Come, be of’ in-doors, Agorastocles,
lest the Procurer should see you together with me, and some accident might befall our plan.
MILPHIO:
This person is extremely prudent. (To AGORASTOCLES.) Do as he bids you.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Agite intro abite, Agorastocles,
ne hic vos mecum conspicetur leno neu fallaciae
praepedimentum obiciatur.
Advocati:
Hic homo sapienter sapit.
facite quod iubet.

[¶141] AGORASTOCLES:
Let’s be off. (To the ASSISTANTS.) But you—
has enough been said?
COLLYBISCUS:
Do you be off.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Abeamus. sed vos—
Advocati:
Satis dictumst. abi.

[¶142] AGORASTOCLES:
I’m off.
Immortal Gods, I beg—
COLLYBISCUS:
Nay, but why don’t you be off?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Abeo.
Advocati:
Quaeso, di immortales, quin abis?

[¶143] AGORASTOCLES:
I’m off.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Abeo.—
Advocati:
Sapis.

[¶144] COLLYBISCUS:
You do wisely. (AGORASTOCLES and MILPHIO go into the house.)
Hush! be quiet.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
St,
tace.

[¶145] ADVOCATI:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Advocati:
Quid est?

[¶146] COLLYBISCUS:
This door (pointing to the door of the house of LYCUS) was guilty of a great indecency just now.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Fores haé fecerunt magnum flagitium modo.

[¶147] ADVOCATI:
What indecency is that?

> Latin: Advocati:
Quid ⟨id⟩ est flagiti?

[¶148] COLLYBISCUS:
It rumbled aloud.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Crepuerunt clare.

[¶149] ADVOCATI:
May the Deities confound you! Get you behind us.

> Latin: Advocati:
Di te perduint.
pone nos recede.

[¶150] COLLYBISCUS:
Be it so.
(Goes behind them.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Fiat.

[¶151] ADVOCATI:
We’ll walk first.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Nos priores ibimus.

[¶152] They do what town-fellows are in the habit of doing: they put worthy men behind themselves.
ADVOCATI: (pointing to the PROCURER’S house.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Faciunt scurrae quod consuerunt: pone sese homines locant.

[¶153] That man that’s coming out is the Procurer.
COLLYBISCUS:
He’s a real good one; for he’s like a bad man. Even now, as he comes forth, I’ll suck out his blood at this distance.
(Enter LYCUS, from his house.)
LYCUS: (speaking to ANTHEMONIDES, within.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Illic homo est, qui egreditur, leno.
Collybiscvs:
Bonus est, nam similis malist.
iam nunc ego illi égredienti sanguinem exsugam procul.

[¶154] I’ll return here this moment, Captain. I wish to find us some fitting guests, to join us. Meanwhile, they’ll bring the entrails; and at the same time, the women, I suppose, will soon be making their appearance at home after the sacrifice. But why are such a number of people coming this way? I wonder what they are bringing?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Iam ego istúc revortar, miles: convivas volo
reperire nobis commodos, qui una sient;
interibi attulerint exta, atque eádem mulieres
iam ab re divina credo apparebunt domi.
sed quid huc tantum hominum incedunt? ecquidnam adferunt?

[¶155] He, too, in the scarf, that’s following at a distance, who is he, I wonder? He is not an Aetolian.

> Latin: et illé chlamydatus quisnam est, qui sequitur procul?

[¶156] ADVOCATI:
We greet you, Lycus. Although against our will, we give you this salutation, and although in a very moderate degree do we entertain good wishes for procurers.

> Latin: Advocati:
Aetoli cives te salutamus, Lyce,
quamquam hanc salutem ferimus inviti tibi.

[¶157] LYCUS:
May you all be fortunate—a thing that I know for certain you neither will be, nor will Fortune permit it so to be.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Fortunati omnes sitis, quod certo scio
nec fore nec fortunam id situram fieri.

[¶158] ADVOCATI:
That is a treasure hoarded in the tongues of fools, to deem it gainful to speak amiss to their superiors.

> Latin: Advocati:
Istic ést thensaurus stultis in lingua situs,
ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus.

[¶159] LYCUS:
He who knows not the road by which to arrive at the sea, him it befits to seek a river as his own companion. I know not the way of speaking abusively to you.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Viam qui nescit, qua deveniat ad mare,
eum oportet amnem quaerere comitem sibi.
ego male loquendi vobis nescivi viam:

[¶160] Now you are the rivers to me; you I’m resolved to follow. If you speak blessings, along your banks I’ll follow you; if you utter curses, along your track I’ll go.

> Latin: nunc vos mihi amnes estis; vos certum est sequi:
si bene dicetis, vostra ripa vos sequar,
si male dicetis, vostro gradiar limite.

[¶161] ADVOCATI:
To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good.

> Latin: Advocati:
Malo bene facere tantundemst periculum
quantum bono male facere.

[¶162] LYCUS:
But why?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Qui vero?

[¶163] ADVOCATI:
You shall learn.

> Latin: Advocati:
Scies.

[¶164] If you do any good to the bad, the benefit is lost: if you do any bad to the good, it lasts for a length of time.

> Latin: malo si quid bene facias, [id] beneficium interit;
bono si quid male facias, aetatem expetit.

[¶165] LYCUS:
Cleverly said! But what does that matter to me?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Facete dictum. sed quid istúc ad me attinet?

[¶166] ADVOCATI:
Because for the sake of your own well-doing we came hither, although in a very moderate degree do we entertain good wishes for procurers.

> Latin: Advocati:
Quia nos honoris tui causa ad te venimus,
quamquam bene volumus leniter lenonibus.

[¶167] LYCUS:
If you bring anything that’s good, I give you thanks.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Si quid boni adportatis, habeo gratiam.

[¶168] ADVOCATI:
Of our own, we neither bring nor give you anything that’s good, nor do we promise you, nor, in fact, do we wish to give it.

> Latin: Advocati:
Boni de nostro tibi nec ferimus nec damus
neque pollicemur, neque adeo volumus datum.

[¶169] LYCUS:
I’ faith, I do believe yon; such is your kindly feeling. But what now do you wish?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Credo hercle vobis: ita vestra est benignitas.
sed quid nunc voltis?

[¶170] ADVOCATI: (pointing to COLLYBISCUS)
This person in the scarf, whom you see,
with him Mars is angered.

> Latin: Advocati:
Hunc chlamydatum quem vides,
ei Mars iratust.

[¶171] COLLYBISCUS: (aside, to himself.)
May he be so indeed with your own heads!

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Capiti vestro istuc quidem.

[¶172] ADVOCATI:
We are now bringing him here, Lycus, to you, for tearing asunder.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside, to himself.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Nunc hunc, Lyce, ad te diripiundum adducimus.

[¶173] This huntsman, myself, will be going home to-day with some spoil; the dogs are cleverly driving Lycus into the toils.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Cum praeda hic hodie incedet venator domum:
canes compellunt in plagas lepide lupum.

[¶174] LYCUS:
Who is this person?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quis hic est?

[¶175] ADVOCATI:
We really don’t know who he is, except that some time since, after daybreak, when we went down to the harbour,
at the same moment we saw him landing from a merchant-ship. Disembarking, he came up to us at once—he saluted us; we answered him.

> Latin: Advocati:
Nescimus nos quidem istum qui siet;
nisi dudum mane ut ad portum processimus,
atque istum e navi éxeuntem oneraria
videmus. adiit ad nos extemplo exiens;
salutat, respondemus.

[¶176] COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)
The artful fellows! how cleverly they do enter upon the plot!

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Mortalis malos,
ut ingrediuntur docte in sycophantiam.

[¶177] LYCUS:
What after that?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quid deinde?

[¶178] ADVOCATI:
Then he joined in discourse with us: he said that he was a foreigner, unacquainted with this city: that he wanted a convenient place to be found here, for him to indulge his appetite. We brought the man to you; if the Gods are favourable to you, it’s an opportunity for you to ply your trade.

> Latin: Advocati:
Sermonem ibi nobiscum copulat.
ait sé peregrinum esse huius ignarum oppidi;
locum sibi velle liberum praeberier,
ubi nequam faciat. nos hominem ad te adduximus.
tu si te di amant, agere tuam rem occasiost.

[¶179] LYCUS:
Is he eager to that degree?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Itane?

[¶180] ADVOCATI:
He has got gold.

> Latin: Advocati:
Ille est cupiens, aurum habet.

[¶181] LYCUS: (aside.)
That booty is mine.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Praeda haec meast.

[¶182] ADVOCATI:
He wishes to drink and wench.

> Latin: Advocati:
Potare, amare volt.

[¶183] LYCUS:
I’ll find him a nice place.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Locum lepidum dabo.

[¶184] ADVOCATI:
But still he wants to be quite private, in a quiet way, that no persons may know it, and that there may be no overlookers; for he has been a soldier in Sparta, as, indeed, he himself has told us, with King Attalus;

> Latin: Advocati:
At enim hic clam furtim ésse volt, ne quis sciat
neve arbiter sit. nam hic latro in Sparta fuit,
ut quidem ipse nobis dixit, apud regem Attalum;

[¶185] from there he fled hither, when the town was surrendered.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)

> Latin: inde huc aufugit, quoniam capitur oppidum.

[¶186] Very clever that, about the soldier! about Sparta, most capital!
LYCUS: (in a low voice.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Nimis lépide de latrone, de Sparta optume.

[¶187] May the Gods and Goddesses bestow many blessings on you, for having given me kindly information, and finding me a choice prey.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Di deaeque vobis multa bona dent, quom mihi
et bene praecipitis et bonam praedam datis.

[¶188] ADVOCATI:
Aye, and, as he himself has told us, that you may receive him the better,
he has brought three hundred Philippean pieces as a provision.

> Latin: Advocati:
Immo ut ipse nobis dixit, quo accures magis,
trecentos nummos Philippos portat praesidi.

[¶189] LYCUS:
I’m a king if I can to-day entice this man to my house.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Rex sum, si ego illum hodie ad me hominem adlexero.

[¶190] ADVOCATI:
Nay but, he really is your own.

> Latin: Advocati:
Quin hic quidem tuos est.

[¶191] LYCUS:
By my troth, prithee, do persuade him to take up his abode at my house, as the best lodging.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Opsecro hercle hortamini,
ut devortatur ad me in hospitium optumum.

[¶192] ADVOCATI:
It befit us neither to persuade nor to dissuade
a person who is a foreigner; you’ll transact your own business, if you are prudent. We have brought the ringdove for you, even to the trapping-ground; now it’s better for yourself to catch him, if you wish him to be caught.
(They move as if going.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Neque nos hortari neque dehortari decet
hominem peregrinum: tuam rem tú ages, si sapis.
nos tibi palumbem ad aream usque adduximus:
nunc te illum meliust capere, si captum esse vis.

[¶193] LYCUS:
Are you going now?
COLLYBISCUS: (to the ASSISTANTS.)
What about the matters that I commissioned you upon, strangers?
ADVOCATI: (pointing to LYCUS.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Iamne itis? quid quod vobis mandavi, hospites?

[¶194] It’s better for you, young sir, to speak to him about your own concerns;

> Latin: Advocati:
Cum illoc te meliust tuam rem, ádulescens, loqui:

[¶195] he’s clever in those matters which you are enquiring about.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)

> Latin: illic ést ad istas res probus, quas quaeritas.

[¶196] But, for my part, I could like you to see when I deliver him the gold.
ADVOCATI: (aside.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Videre equidem vos vellem, quom huic aurum darem.

[¶197] At a distance there we shall be witnesses of that.
COLLYBISCUS: (to the ASSISTANTS.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Illinc procul nos istuc inspectabimus.

[¶198] You’ve given me kind assistance.
(The ASSISTANTS go out of sight.
LYCUS: (aside, so as to be heard.)
The profit comes to me.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside, to himself.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Bonam dedistis mihi operam.
Lycvs:
It ad me lucrum.

[¶199] Age, just so, indeed, the way that the ass kicks with his heels.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Illud quidem quorsum asinus caedit calcibus.

[¶200] LYCUS:
I’ll speak the fellow fairly. (To COLLYBISCUS.) A stranger salutes a stranger; I’m glad that you have arrived in safety.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Blande hominem compellabo. hóspes hospitem
salutat. salvom te advenire gaudeo.

[¶201] COLLYBISCUS:
May the Deities grant you many blessings, since you wish me well.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Multa tibi di dent bona, quom me salvom esse vis.

[¶202] LYCUS:
They say that you are in search of a lodging.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Hospitium te aiunt quaeritare.

[¶203] COLLYBISCUS:
I am in search.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quaerito.

[¶204] LYCUS:
So those persons told me, who left me just now,
that you are in search of one that is free from flies.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Ita illí dixerunt, qui hinc a me abierunt modo,
te quaeritare a muscis.

[¶205] COLLYBISCUS:
By no means in the world.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Minime gentium.

[¶206] LYCUS:
Why so?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quid itá?

[¶207] COLLYBISCUS:
Because if I had been looking for a retreat from the flies, on arriving here I should have straightway gone to gaol. I’m in search of this kind of lodging, where I may be treated more delicately than the eyes of King Antiochus are in the habit of being treated.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quia ⟨a⟩ muscis si mi hospitium quaererem,
adveniens irem in carcerem recta via.
ego id quaero hospitium, ubi ego curer mollius,
quam regi Antiocho óculi curari solent.

[¶208] LYCUS:
Upon my faith, for sure, I can provide you a charming one, if, indeed, you can put up with yourself being in a charming room, on a couch charmingly laid, a charming damsel cuddling you.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Edepol ne tibi illud possum festivom dare,
siquidém potes ésse te pati in lepido loco,
in lecto lepide strato lepidam mulierem
complexum contrectare.

[¶209] COLLYBISCUS:
You are in the right road, Procurer.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Is, leno, viam.

[¶210] LYCUS:
Where, with Leucadian, Lesbian, Thasian, and Coan
wine, toothless with old age, you may soak yourself. There I’ll quite drench you with the effusion of unguents. Why many words? I’ll cause, when you’ve bathed, the bathkeeper to set up unguent-shop there. But (speaking confidentially) all these things that I have mentioned let out their services for pay.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Vbi tu Leucadio, Lesbio, Thasio, Chio,
vetustáte vino edentulo aetatem inriges;
ibi ego te replebo usque unguentum geumatis,
quid multa verba? faciam, ubi tu laveris,
ibi ut bálneator faciat unguentariam.
sed haec latrocinantur, quae ego dixi, omnia.

[¶211] COLLYBISCUS:
Why so?

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quid itá?

[¶212] LYCUS:
Because they demand ready money.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quia aurum poscunt praesentarium.

[¶213] COLLYBISCUS:
Why, upon my faith, you are not more ready to receive than I to give.
LYCUS:
Why then follow me in-doors.
COLLYBISCUS:
Lead me in-doors, then; you’ve got me devoted to your will.
(The ASSISTANTS come forward. LYCUS and COLLYBISCUS go apart.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Quin hercle accipere tu non mavis quam ego dare.

[¶214] ADVOCATI: (among themselves.)
What if we call Agorastocles hither out of doors, that he himself may be his own witness, past all exception? (They go to the door of AGORASTOCLES and call out, in a loud whisper. Hallo! you that are to catch the thief, come out quickly, that you yourself may witness him giving the gold to the Procurer.
(Enter AGORASTOCLES, in haste, from his house.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Quid si evocemus huc foras Agorastoclem,
ut ipsus testis sit sibi certissumus?
heus tu, qui furem captas, egredere ocius,
ut tute inspectes aurum lenoni dari.

[¶215] AGORASTOCLES:
What’s the matter? What is it you want, witnesses?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid est? quid voltis, testes?

[¶216] ADVOCATI:
Look to the right hand; your servant is paying gold to the Procurer himself.
COLLYBISCUS: (apart to LYCUS.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Specta ad dexteram.
tuos sérvos aurum ípsi lenoni dabit.

[¶217] Come, take this, will you: here are three hundred gold coins, counted out, which are called Philippeans. (Gives him the bay.) With these do you provide for me. I wish these to be spent with all speed.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Age, accipe hoc sis: hic sunt numerati aurei
trecenti nummi, qui vocantur Philippei.
hinc me procura; propere hosce apsumi volo.

[¶218] LYCUS:
By my troth, you have found a lavish steward for yourself. Come, let’s away in-doors.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Edepol fecisti prodigum promum tibi.
age, eamus intro.

[¶219] COLLYBISCUS:
I follow you.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Te sequor.

[¶220] LYCUS:
Well, well, walk on; and then we’ll talk together about the other matters that remain.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Age, age, ambula,
ibí, quae reliqua, alia fabulabimur.

[¶221] COLLYBISCUS:
As for me, I’ll tell you about the Spartan affairs.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Eadém narrabo tibi res Spartiaticas.

[¶222] LYCUS:
Why then follow me.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quin sequere me ergo.—

[¶223] COLLYBISCUS:
Lead me in-doors; lead me in, you have got me made over to you.
(They go into the house of LYCUS.)

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Abduc intro. addictum tenes.—

[¶224] AGORASTOCLES:
What do you advise me now?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid nunc mi auctores estis?

[¶225] ADVOCATI:
To be moderate.

> Latin: Advocati:
Vt frugi sies.

[¶226] AGORASTOCLES:
What if my feelings will not let me be?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid si animus esse non sinit?

[¶227] ADVOCATI:
Then be as they will let you.

> Latin: Advocati:
Esto ut sinit.

[¶228] AGORASTOCLES:
Did you see it, when the Procurer received the money?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vidistis, leno quom aurum accepit?

[¶229] ADVOCATI:
We saw it.

> Latin: Advocati:
Vidimus.

[¶230] AGORASTOCLES:
Did you know that he is my slave?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Eum vos meum esse servom scitis?

[¶231] ADVOCATI:
We knew it.

> Latin: Advocati:
Scivimus.

[¶232] AGORASTOCLES:
That it is a thing against the reiterated laws of the people?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Rem adversus populi saepe leges?

[¶233] ADVOCATI:
We knew it.

> Latin: Advocati:
Scivimus.

[¶234] AGORASTOCLES:
Well then, all these things I wish you to keep in memory before the Praetor by-and-by, when occasion shall come.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Em istaec volo ergo vos commeminisse omnia,
mox quom ad praetorem úsus veniet.

[¶235] ADVOCATI:
We remember them.

> Latin: Advocati:
Meminimus.

[¶236] AGORASTOCLES:
What if, while the matter has so recently happened, I knock at the door?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid si recenti re aedis pultem?

[¶237] ADVOCATI:
I think you ought.

> Latin: Advocati:
Censeo.

[¶238] AGORASTOCLES:
If I do knock, he won’t open it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Si pultem, non recludet?

[¶239] ADVOCATI:
Then break the pannel.

> Latin: Advocati:
Panem frangito.

[¶240] AGORASTOCLES:
If the Procurer comes out, do you think I ought to enquire of the fellow whether my slave has come to him or not?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Si exierit leno, quid tum? hominem interrogem,
meus sérvos ad eum veneritne?

[¶241] ADVOCATI:
Why not?

> Latin: Advocati:
Quippini?

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[¶0] AGORASTOCLES:
With two hundred golden Philippean pieces?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Cum auri ducentis nummis Philippis?]

[¶1] ADVOCATI:
Why not?

> Latin: Advocati:
[Quippini?]

[¶2] AGORASTOCLES:
Then the Procurer will be going astray at once.
ADVOCATI:
About what matter?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Ibi extémplo leno errabit.]
Adelphasivm:
[Qua de re?]

[¶3] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you ask? Because a less sum will be named by one hundred pieces.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Rogas?
[quia centum nummis minus dicetur.]

[¶4] ADVOCATI:
You judge rightly.

> Latin: Advocati:
[Bene putas.]

[¶5] AGORASTOCLES:
He’ll think that some other person is being looked after.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Alium censebit quaeritari.]

[¶6] ADVOCATI:
No doubt.

> Latin: Advocati:
[Scilicet.]

[¶7] AGORASTOCLES:
He’ll be denying it at once.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Extemplo denegabit.

[¶8] ADVOCATI:
On his oath even.

> Latin: Advocati:
Iuratus quidem.

[¶9] AGORASTOCLES:
The fellow will involve himself in the guilt of theft—
ADVOCATI:
Beyond a doubt, it certainly is so.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Homo fúrti sese adstringet.
Adelphasivm:
Hau dubium id quidemst.

[¶10] AGORASTOCLES:
Of however much it is that shall have been brough to him.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum.

[¶11] ADVOCATI:
Why not?

> Latin: Advocati:
Quippini?

[¶12] AGORASTOCLES:
Jupiter confound you!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Diespiter vos perduit.

[¶13] ADVOCATI:
Why not your own self?
AGORASTOCLES: (going towards the door of LYCUS.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Te quippini?

[¶14] I’ll go and knock at this door.
ADVOCATI:
Even so. Why not?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ibo et pultabo ianuam iam.
Advocati:
Quippini?

[¶15] AGORASTOCLES:
It’s time to be quiet, for the door makes a noise. I see the Procurer Lycus coming out of doors; come this way, pray!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Tacendi tempus est, nam crepuerunt fores.
foras égrediri video lenonem Lycum.
adeste quaeso.

[¶16] ADVOCATI:
Why not? But, if you please, cover up our heads, that the Procurer mayn’t know us,
who have been his decoyers into so great a calamity.
(He throws the lappets of their garments over their heads.) (Enter LYCUS, from his house.)
LYCUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Quippini? † si voles
operire capita, ne nos leno noverit,
qui illi malae rei tantae fuimus inlices.

[¶17] Let all soothsayers go hang themselves now at once. Why should I believe them in future, as to what they say? For they, just now at the sacrifice, told me that evil and the greatest disaster was portended to me.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Suspendant omnes nunciam se haruspices,
quam ego illis posthac quod loquantur creduam,
qui in re divina dudum dicebant mihi
malum damnumque maximum portendier:

[¶18] I have since then amplified my fortune with profit.
AGORASTOCLES: (accosting him.)

> Latin: is explicavi meam rem postilla lucro.

[¶19] Save you, Procurer.
LYCUS:
May the Gods bless you, Agorastocles.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Salvos sis, leno.
Lycvs:
Di te ament, Agorastocles.

[¶20] AGORASTOCLES:
You now salute me more kindly than hitherto.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Magis mé benigne nunc salutas quam antidhac.

[¶21] LYCUS:
A calm has come, as though to a ship at sea. Just as the wind is, to that quarter is the sail shifted.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Tranquillitas evenit, quasi navi in mari:
utquomque est ventus, exim velum vortitur.

[¶22] AGORASTOCLES:
May those ladies be well in your house, to whom I wish it, but to yourself I do not wish it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Valeant apud te quos volo; atque haud te volo.

[¶23] LYCUS:
They are well, as you desire; not for you, though.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Valent ut postulatumst, verum non tibi.

[¶24] AGORASTOCLES:
Send your Adelphasium to my house, to-day, please, upon this celebrated and famous festival, the Aphrodisia.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mitte ad me, si audes, hodie Adelphasium tuam,
die fésto celebri nobilique Aphrodisiis.

[¶25] LYCUS:
Have you been breakfasting on a hot breakfast today? Tell me.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Calidum prandisti prandium hodie? dic mihi.

[¶26] AGORASTOCLES:
Why so?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid iam?

[¶27] LYCUS:
Because now you are only cooling your mouth, when you ask me.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quia os nunc frigefactas, quom rogas.

[¶28] AGORASTOCLES:
Attend to this, Procurer, will you; I’ve heard that my slave is at your house.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Hoc age sis, leno. servom esse audivi meum
apud te.

[¶29] LYCUS:
At my house? You’ll find that has never been the fact.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Apud me? numquam factum reperies.

[¶30] AGORASTOCLES:
You lie; for he has come to your house, and carried off some gold there. Word has been brought me to that effect, by persons I fully believe.
(Pointing to the ASSISTANTS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mentire. nam ad te venit aurumque attulit.
ita mihi renuntiatumst, quibus credo satis.

[¶31] LYCUS:
You are an artful fellow: you’ve come to entrap me with your witnesses. There’s no one of your people in my house, nor anything of yours.
AGORASTOCLES: (turning round to the ASSISTANTS.)

> Latin: Lycvs:
Malus es, captatum me advenis cum testibus.
tuorum apud me nemost nec quicquam tui.

[¶32] Remember that, assistants.
ADVOCATI:
We will remember it.
LYCUS: (laughing.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mementote illud, advocati.
Advocati:
Meminimus.

[¶33] Ha, ha, ha! I now understand how it is, I’ve this instant seen through it.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Hahahae, iam teneo quid sit, perspexi modo.

[¶34] These persons, who a short time since introduced that Spartan stranger to me, their brain is now fired at it,
because I’m going to make a gain of these three hundred Philippean pieces; now, because they knew that this person was an enemy of mine, they have set him on to say that his slave, together with his gold, is in my house. It’s a planned contrivance
for them to deprive me of it, and to divide it among themselves. They are wanting to get away the lamb from the wolf. They are wasting their pains.

> Latin: hi qui illum dudum conciliaverunt mihi
peregrinum Spartanum, id nunc his cerebrum uritur,
me esse hos trecentos Philippos facturum lucri.
nunc hunc inimicum quía esse sciverunt mihi,
eum adlegarunt, suom qui servom diceret
cum auro esse apud me; compositast fallacia,
ut eo me privent atque inter se dividant.
lupo agnum eripere postulant. nugas agunt.

[¶35] AGORASTOCLES:
What, do you deny that either the gold or my slave is at your house?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Negasne apud te esse aurum, nec servom meum?

[¶36] LYCUS:
I do deny it; and, if it’s of any use, I make myself hoarse with denying it.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Nego: et negando, si quid refert, ravio.

[¶37] ADVOCATI:
You are undone, Procurer; for that person
whom we told you was a Spartan, is his bailiff; who brought you just now the three hundred Philippean pieces; and that same gold, too, is in his purse.
LYCUS: (shaking his fist at them.)

> Latin: Advocati:
Periisti, leno. nam istest huius vilicus
quem tibi nos esse Spartiatam diximus,
qui ad te trecentos Philippeos modo detulit.
idque in istoc adeo aúrum inest marsuppio.

[¶38] Woe unto you!
ADVOCATI:
That, indeed, is close at hand for yourself.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Vae vostrae aetati.
Advocati:
Id quidem ⟨in⟩ mundo est tuae.

[¶39] AGORASTOCLES:
Come, you hang-dog, give up the purse this instant.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Age omitte actutum, furcifer, marsuppium:

[¶40] You are clearly a thief; caught by me in the fact. (To the ADVOCATI.) By my troth, I do beg of you, lend me your aid, so as to see me bring my slave out of his house.
(He goes into the PROCURER’S house.
LYCUS:
I’ faith, I’m now undone for certain, beyond a doubt! This has been done on purpose that a snare might be laid for me. But why do I hesitate to betake me hence to utter perdition,
before I’m dragged off to the Praetor by the throat? Alas! what soothsayers I’ve been having for my diviners, who, if they promise anything that’s fair, it comes to pass but slowly; that which they promise as unfortunate, comes directly. Now I’ll be off: I’ll consult my friends in what way—
they deem it best in especial for me to hang myself.
(Exit.) (Enter AGORASTOCLES, from the house of LYCUS, driving out COLLYBISCUS.)

> Latin: manifesto fur es mihi. quaeso hercle, operam date,
dum me videatis servom ab hoc abducere.—
Lycvs:
Nunc pol ego perii certo, haud arbitrario.
consulto hoc factum est, mihi ut insidiae fierent.
sed quid ego dubito fugere hinc in malam crucem,
prius quam hínc optorto collo ad praetorem trahor?
eheu, quom ego habui háriolos haruspices;
qui si quid bene promittunt, perspisso evenit,
id quod mali promittunt, praesentarium est.
nunc ibo, amicos consulam, quo me modo
suspendere aequom censeant potissimum.—

[¶41] AGORASTOCLES:
Be off you, get out you, that the witnesses may see you coining out from here. Isn’t this my servant?
(To the ASSISTANTS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Age tu progredere, ut [testes] videant te ire istinc foras.
estne hic meus servos?

[¶42] COLLYBISCUS:
I’ faith, I really am, Agorastocles.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Sum hercle vero, Agorastocles.

[¶43] AGORASTOCLES:
How now, villanous Procurer?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid nunc, sceleste leno?

[¶44] ADVOCATI:
He, with whom you have the dispute, has made off.

> Latin: Advocati:
Quicum litigas
apscessit.

[¶45] AGORASTOCLES:
I hope he’s gone hence to utter perdition.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vtinam hinc abierit malam crucem.

[¶46] ADVOCATI:
It’s proper that we should wish the same.

> Latin: Advocati:
Ita nos velle aequom est.

[¶47] AGORASTOCLES:
To-morrow I’ll bring my action against the fellow.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Cras subscribam homini dicam.

[¶48] COLLYBISCUS:
Anything further with me—?

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Numquid me?

[¶49] AGORASTOCLES:
You may go; put on your own dress.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Apscedas, sumas ornatum tuom.

[¶50] COLLYBISCUS:
It wasn’t for nothing that I turned soldier. I made a little booty in-doors. While the household of the Procurer was asleep, I got myself well filled with the entrails.

> Latin: Collybiscvs:
Non sum nequiquam miles factus; paululum
praedae intus feci: dum lenonis familia
dormitat, extis sum satur factus probe.

[¶51] I’ll be off from here in-doors.
AGORASTOCLES: (to the ASSISTANTS.)
’Twas kindly done by you. Assistants, you have lent me your good services. To-morrow morning I beg you’ll meet me at the court of justice. (To COLLYBISCUS.) Do you follow me in-doors. (To the ASSISTANTS.) To you, farewell!

> Latin: abscedam hinc intro.—
Agorastocles:
Factum a vobis comiter.
bonam dedistis, advocati, operam mihi.
cras mane, quaeso, in comitio estote obviam.
tu sequere me intro. vos valete.—

[¶52] ADVOCATI:
And you, farewell! (AGORASTOCLES goes into his house, followed by COLLYBISCUS.) This fellow wants a thing that’s notoriously unfair;

> Latin: Advocati:
Et tu vale.
iniuriam illic insignite postulat:

[¶53] he thinks that we are to serve him at our own expense. But such are all these rich people of ours: if you do anything of service, their thanks are lighter than a feather; if there’s any offence, they show vengeance like lead. Let’s now go to our houses, if you like, forthwith,
since we’ve effected that for which we lent our services, to ruin this corrupter of our fellow-citizens.
(Exeunt.) (Enter MILPHIO.)
MILPHIO:
I’m awaiting in what way my plot is to proceed. I’m bent upon ruining this Procurer, since he torments my afflicted master; but he in his turn beats me, and strikes me with his fist and heels.

> Latin: nostro servire nos sibi censet cibo.
verum ita sunt … isti nostri divites:
si quid bene facias, levior pluma est gratia,
si quid peccatumst, plumbeas iras gerunt.
domos abeamus nostras, sultis, nunciam,
quando id, quoi rei operam dedimus, impetravimus,
ut perderemus corruptorem civium.—
Milphio:
Exspécto quo pactó meae techinaé processuraé sient.
studeo hunc lenonem perdere, qui meum erum miserum macerat,
is me autem porro verberat, incursat pugnis, calcibus:

[¶54] It’s a misery to be in the service of one who is in love, especially one who is debarred from the object which he woos. Heyday! I see Syncerastus, the Procurer’s servant, betaking himself from the Temple. I’ll listen to what he has to say.
(He stands aside.) (Enter SYNCERASTUS, with some cooking utensils, from the Temple of Venus.)
SYNCERASTUS: (to himself)
It’s quite clear that Gods and men neglect the benefit of him who has a master like a person of such character as I have for a master.

> Latin: servire amanti miseria est, praesertim qui quod amat caret.
attat, e fano recipere video se Syncerastum,
lenonis servom; quid habeat sermonis auscultabo.
Syncerastvs:
Sátis spectatum est, deos atque homines eius neglegere gratiam,
quoí hominí erus est consimilis velut ego habeo hunc huius modi.

[¶55] There’s not another person anywhere in the world more perjured or more wicked than is my master, nor one so filthy or so defiled with dirt. So may the Gods bless me, I’d rather pass my life either in the stone quarries or at the mill, with my sides hampered with heavy irons, than pass this servitude with a Procurer. What a race this is!
What corruptors of men they are! Ye Gods, by our hopes in you, every kind of men you may see there, just as though you had come to Acheron —horse and foot, a freed-man, a thief, or a runaway, if you choose, one whipped, chained, or condemned to slavery. He who has got money to pay, whatever sort of person he is—all kinds are taken in; throughout all the house, in consequence,
are darkened spots and hiding-places: drinking and eating are going on, just as though in a cookshop, and in no less degree. There may you see epistles written in letters inscribed on pottery, and sealed with pitch: the names are upon them in letters a cubit long; such a perfect levy on vintners have we got at our house.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: neque periurior neque peior alter usquam est gentium,
quám erus meus est, neque tam luteus neque tam caeno conlitus.
ita me di ament, vel in lautumiis vel in pistrino mavelim
agere aetatem praepeditus latere forti ferreo,
quam ápud lenonem hunc servitutem colere. quid illuc est genus,
quae illic hominum corruptelae fiunt. di vostram fidem,
quodvis genus ibi hominum videas, quasi Acheruntem veneris,
equitem peditem, libertinum, furem an fugitivom velis,
verberatum, vinctum, addictum: quí habet quod det, ⟨ut⟩ut homo est,
omnia genera recipiuntur; itaque in totis aedibus
tenebrae latebrae, bibitur estur quasi in popina, hau secus.
ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistulas,
pice signatas, nomina insunt cubitum longis litteris:
ita vinariorum habemus nostrae dilectum domi.

[¶56] Upon my faith, it is quite wonderful, if his master doesn’t make him his heir;
for really, the way he soliloquizes, he’s making a speech over him as though dead and gone. I’d both like to accost the fellow, and yet I listen to him with extreme delight.
SYNCERASTUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Omnia edepol mira sunt, nisi erus hunc heredem facit,
nam id quidem, illi, uti meditatur, verba faciet mortuo.
et adire lubet hominem et autem nimis eum ausculto lubens.

[¶57] When I see these things going on, I’m vexed that slaves, purchased at the heaviest price, should at our house be robbed of the savings which ought to go to their masters. But at last nothing is left visible: “badly gotten, badly gone.”
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Haec quom hic video fieri, crucior: pretiis emptos maxumis,
apud nos expeculiatos servos fieri suis eris.
sed ad postremum nihil apparet: male partum male disperit.

[¶58] This man goes on talking quite as though he himself were an honest fellow, when, upon my faith, he himself is able to make worthlessness more worthless.
SYNCERASTUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Proinde habet orationem, quasi ipse sit frugi bonae,
qui ipsus hercle ignaviorem potis est facere Ignaviam.

[¶59] Now I’m taking home these vessels from the Temple of Venus, where with his sacrifice my master has not been able to propitiate Venus on her festive day.
MILPHIO: (apart.)

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Nunc domum haec ab aede Veneris refero vasa, ubi hostiis
erus nequivit propitiare Venerem suo festo die.

[¶60] Charming Venus!
SYNCERASTUS: (to himself.)
But our Courtesans, with their first victims, appeased Venus in an instant.

> Latin: Milphio:
Lepidam Venerem.
Syncerastvs:
Nam meretrices nostrae primis hostiis
Venerem placavere extemplo.

[¶61] MILPHIO:
O charming Venus, once again!
SYNCERASTUS: (moving.)

> Latin: Milphio:
O lepidam Venerem denuo.

[¶62] Now I’ll go home.
MILPHIO: (coming forward.)
Hallo! Syncerastus!

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Nunc domum ibo.
Milphio:
Heus, Synceraste.

[¶63] SYNCERASTUS: (looking around.)
Who’s calling Syncerastus?

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Syncerastum qui vocat?

[¶64] MILPHIO:
Your friend.

> Latin: Milphio:
Tuos amicus.

[¶65] SYNCERASTUS:
You don’t act like a friend, in causing me delay when I’ve got a burden.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Haud amice facis, qui cum onere offers moram.

[¶66] MILPHIO:
But in return for this matter I’ll lend you my aid, when you please, and when you give me your commands. Consider the agreement signed.

> Latin: Milphio:
At ob hanc moram tibi reddam operam úbi voles, ubi iusseris.
habe rem pactam.

[¶67] SYNCERASTUS:
If so it is to be, I’ll give you my services in this—

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Si futurumst, do tibi operam hanc.

[¶68] MILPHIO:
In what way?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quo modo?

[¶69] SYNCERASTUS:
Why that, when I’m to have a beating, you yourself may substitute your hide.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Vt enim ubi mihi vapulandum sit, tu corium sufferas.

[¶70] MILPHIO:
Get along with you.

> Latin: apage, nesció quid viri sis.
Milphio:
Malus sum.

[¶71] SYNCERASTUS:
I don’t understand what sort of person you are.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Tibi sis.

[¶72] MILPHIO:
I’m good for nothing.
SYNCERASTUS:
Be so to yourself, then.
MILPHIO:
I want you.

> Latin: Milphio:
Te volo.

[¶73] SYNCERASTUS:
But my burden is pressing me.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
At onus urget.

[¶74] MILPHIO:
Then, do you set it down, and turn your face to me.

> Latin: Milphio:
At tu appone et respice ad me.

[¶75] SYNCERASTUS:
I’ll do so, although I have no leisure.
(Puts down his load.)

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Fecero,
quamquam haud otiumst.

[¶76] MILPHIO:
Save you, Syncerastus.

> Latin: Milphio:
Salvos sis, Synceraste.

[¶77] SYNCERASTUS:
O Milphio, may all the Gods and Goddesses favour—

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
O Milphio,
di omnes deaeque ament.

[¶78] MILPHIO:
What person, pray?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quemnam hominem?

[¶79] SYNCERASTUS:
Neither you, nor me, Milphio, nor my own master, in fact.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Nec te nec me, Milphio:
neque erum meum ádeo.

[¶80] MILPHIO:
Whom are they to favour, then?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quém ament igitur?

[¶81] SYNCERASTUS:
Any one else they please; for not one of us is deserving of it.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Aliquem, dignus qui siet.
nam nostrorum nemo dignust.

[¶82] MILPHIO:
You speak wittily.

> Latin: Milphio:
Lepide loquere.

[¶83] SYNCERASTUS:
It befits me to do so.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Me decet.

[¶84] MILPHIO:
What are you doing?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid agis?

[¶85] SYNCERASTUS:
I’m doing that which, clearly, adulterers don’t generally do.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Facio quod manufesti moechi haú ferme solent.

[¶86] MILPHIO:
What’s that?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid id est?

[¶87] SYNCERASTUS:
Bringing all off in safety.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Refero vasa salva.

[¶88] MILPHIO:
May the Gods confound you and your master!

> Latin: Milphio:
Di te et tuom erum perduint.

[¶89] SYNCERASTUS:
May they not confound me. I could make them ruin him, if I chose—
ruin my master, did I not fear for myself, Milphio.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Me non perdent; illum ut perdant facere possum, si velim,
meum erum ut perdant, ni mihi metuam, Milphio.

[¶90] MILPHIO:
What is it? Tell me.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid id est? cedo.

[¶91] SYNCERASTUS:
You are a bad one.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Malus es?

[¶92] MILPHIO:
I am a bad one.

> Latin: Milphio:
Malus sum.

[¶93] SYNCERASTUS:
It goes but badly with me.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Male mihi est.

[¶94] MILPHIO:
Just tell me, then; you ought to be in quite other plight. Why is it that it goes badly with you, who have at home in superabundance what to eat, and what to drink? You don’t give a single three-obol piece away to a mistress, and have her for nothing.

> Latin: Milphio:
Memora, num esse aliter decet?
quid est, quod male sit tibi, quoi domi sit quod edis quod ames adfatim,
neque triobolum ullum amicae das et ductas gratiis?

[¶95] SYNCERASTUS:
May Jupiter so love me—

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Diespiter me sic amabit,

[¶96] MILPHIO:
I’ faith, in the degree that you deserve, to wit.

> Latin: Milphio:
Vt quidem edepol dignus es.

[¶97] SYNCERASTUS:
How I do long for this family to come to ruin.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Vt ego hanc familiam interire cupio.

[¶98] MILPHIO:
If you long for it, lend your aid.

> Latin: Milphio:
Adde operam, si cupis.

[¶99] SYNCERASTUS:
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.

[¶100] MILPHIO:
Troth, then, don’t pluck out any hairs; then, in the next two months, your arm-pits will be fit for flying.

> Latin: Milphio:
Nolito edepol devellisse: iam his duobus mensibus
volucres tibi erunt tuae hirquinae.

[¶101] SYNCERASTUS:
Away to utter perdition!

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
I in malam rem.

[¶102] MILPHIO:
Away yourself, and your master!

> Latin: Milphio:
I tu atque erus.

[¶103] SYNCERASTUS:
But, really, if a person knew him well, the fellow might soon be ruined.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Verum. enim qui hómo eum norit, norit. cito homo pervorti potest.

[¶104] MILPHIO:
Why so?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid iam?

[¶105] SYNCERASTUS:
… Just as though you could be silent on any matter.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Quasi tu tacitum habere quicquam potis sis.

[¶106] MILPHIO:
I’ll keep the matter more strictly secret for you than that which has been told to a dumb woman.

> Latin: Milphio:
Rectius
tacitas tibi res sistam quam quod dictum est mutae mulieri.

[¶107] SYNCERASTUS:
I could easily bring my mind to believe you there, if I did not know you.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Animum inducam facile ut tibi istuc credam, ni te noverim.

[¶108] MILPHIO:
Trust me boldly at my own peril.

> Latin: Milphio:
Crede audacter meo periclo.

[¶109] SYNCERASTUS:
I shall trust you to my cost, and still I will trust you.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Male credam, et credam tamen.

[¶110] MILPHIO:
Don’t you know that your master is a mortal enemy of my master?

> Latin: Milphio:
Scin tu erum tuom meo ero esse inimicum capitalem?

[¶111] SYNCERASTUS:
I know it.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Scio.

[¶112] MILPHIO:
By reason of the love affair?

> Latin: Milphio:
Propter amorem—

[¶113] SYNCERASTUS:
You are losing all your pains.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Omnem operam perdis.

[¶114] MILPHIO:
Why so?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid iam?

[¶115] SYNCERASTUS:
Because you are teaching one that has been taught.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Quia doctum doces.

[¶116] MILPHIO:
Why, then, do you doubt that my master will do a mischief to your master with pleasure, so far as he can do, with his deserving it? Then besides, if you lend some assistance, on that account he’ll be able to do it the more easily.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid ergo dubitas quin lubenter tuo ero meus quid possiet
facere faciat male, eius merito? tum autem si quid tu adiuvas,
eo facilius facere poterit.

[¶117] SYNCERASTUS:
But I’m afraid of this, Milphio—

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
At ego hoc metuo, Milphio.

[¶118] MILPHIO:
What is it that you’re afraid of?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid est quod metuas?

[¶119] SYNCERASTUS:
That while I’m preparing the plot against my master, I may be betrayed by yourself.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Dúm ero insidias paritem, ne me perduim.

[¶120] If my master knows that I’ve been talking to any individual, he’ll forthwith be making me from Syncerastus into Brokenlegs.

> Latin: si erus meus me esse elocutum quoiquam mortali sciat,
continuo is me ex Syncerasto Crurifragium fecerit.

[¶121] MILPHIO:
On my word, never shall any mortal be made the wiser by me; only to my master alone will I tell it; and to him, too, in such a way that he shall not disclose that this matter originated in yourself.

> Latin: Milphio:
Numquam edepol mortalis quisquam fiet e me certior,
nisi ero meo uni indicasso, atque ei quoque ut ne enuntiet
id esse facinus ex ted ortum.

[¶122] SYNCERASTUS:
I shall trust you at my peril, and yet I will trust you.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Male credam, et credam tamen.

[¶123] But do you keep this a secret to yourself.
MILPHIO:
To Faith herself it is not more safely confided. Speak out boldly (there’s room and opportunity); we are here alone.

> Latin: sed hoc tu tecum tacitum habeto.
Milphio:
Fide non melius creditur.
loquere (locus occasioque est) libere: hic soli sumus.

[¶124] SYNCERASTUS:
If your master chooses to act with caution, he’ll prove the ruin of my master.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Erus si tuos volt facere frugem, meum erum perdet.

[¶125] MILPHIO:
How can that be?

> Latin: Milphio:
Qui id potest?

[¶126] SYNCERASTUS:
Easily.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Facile.

[¶127] MILPHIO:
Then let me be acquainted with this “easily,” that he may know it as well.

> Latin: Milphio:
Fac ergo id facile noscam ego, ut ille possit noscere.

[¶128] SYNCERASTUS:
Because Adelphasium, whom your master dotes on is free by birth.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Quia Adelphasium, quám erus deamat tuos, ingenuast.

[¶129] MILPHIO:
In what way?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quo modo?

[¶130] SYNCERASTUS:
In the same way that her other sister Anterastylis is.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Eodem quo soror illius altera Anterastilis.

[¶131] MILPHIO:
But how am I to believe that?

> Latin: Milphio:
Cedo qui id credam.

[¶132] SYNCERASTUS:
Because he bought them at Anactorium, when little children, of a Sicilian pirate.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Quia illas emit in Anactorio parvolas
de praedone Siculo.

[¶133] MILPHIO:
For how much?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quanti?

[¶134] SYNCERASTUS:
For eighteen minae.
MILPHIO: (with an air of surprise.)
These two for eighteen minae?
SYNCERASTUS:
And their nurse for the third.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Duodeviginti minis,
duas illas et Giddenenem nutricem earum tertiam.

[¶135] He, too, who sold them told him that he was selling persons who had been kidnapped:

> Latin: et ille qui eas vendebat dixit se furtivas vendere:

[¶136] he said that they were free-born, and from Carthage.
MILPHIO:
Ye Gods, by our hopes in you! you mention a most interesting matter; for my master Agorastocles was born in the same place; he was stolen thence when about six years old; after that, the person who stole him brought him here and sold him to my master; that person adopted him as heir to his wealth, when he departed this life.

> Latin: ingenuas Carthagine aibat esse.
Milphio:
Di vostram fidem,
nimium lepidum memoras facinus. nam erus meus Agorastocles
ibidem gnatust, inde surptus fere sexennis, postibi
qui eum surrupuit huc devexit meoque ero eum hic vendidit.
is in divitias homo adoptavit hunc, quom diem obiit suom.

[¶137] SYNCERASTUS:
You mention everything that can render it the more easy; let him assert their freedom, his own countrywomen, in an action on their freedom.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Omnia memoras quo id facilius fiat: manu eas adserat
suas popularis liberali causa.

[¶138] MILPHIO:
Only do keep silence and hold your tongue.

> Latin: Milphio:
Tacitus tace modo.

[¶139] SYNCERASTUS:
He certainly will bring the Procurer to a backgammon, if he gets them away.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Profecto ad incitas lenonem rediget, si eas abduxerit.

[¶140] MILPHIO:
Nay but, I’ll cause him to be ruined before he moves one foot;’tis so contrived already.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quin prius disperibit faxo, quam unam calcem civerit.
ita paratumst.

[¶141] SYNCERASTUS:
May the Gods grant it so, that I don’t continue the slave of this Procurer.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Ita di faxint, ne apud lenonem hunc serviam.

[¶142] MILPHIO:
On the contrary, upon my faith, I’ll cause you to be a free man with myself, if the Gods are willing.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hercle qui meus conlibertus faxo eris, si di volent.

[¶143] SYNCERASTUS:
May the Gods grant it so! Do you detain me for anything else, Milphio?

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Ita di faxint. numquid aliud me morare, Milphio?

[¶144] MILPHIO:
Fare you well, and may happiness attend you.

> Latin: Milphio:
Valeas beneque ut tibi sit.

[¶145] SYNCERASTUS:
I’ faith, that lies in the power of yourself and your master. Farewell, and mind that these things have been told in secrecy.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Pol istuc tibi et tuost ero in manu.
vale et haec cura clanculum ut sint dicta.

[¶146] MILPHIO:
This has not been mentioned even. Farewell.

> Latin: Milphio:
Non dictumst. vale.

[¶147] SYNCERASTUS:
But really it’s of no use, unless this is done while it is warm.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
At enim nihil est, nisi dum calet hoc agitur.

[¶148] MILPHIO:
You are right in your advice,
and so it shall be done.

> Latin: Milphio:
Lepidu's lepidus es, quom mones.
et ita hoc fiet.

[¶149] SYNCERASTUS:
There’s excellent material, if you provide an excellent workman.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Proba materies data est, si probum adhibes fabrum.

[¶150] MILPHIO:
Can’t you hold your tongue?

> Latin: Milphio:
Potin ut taceas?

[¶151] SYNCERASTUS:
I’ll hold my tongue and be off.

> Latin: Syncerastvs:
Taceo atque abeo.—

[¶152] MILPHIO:
A grand opportunity you’ve made for me. (SYNCERASTUS goes into the house of LYCUS.) He’s gone from here. The immortal Gods do will my master to be preserved, and this Procurer utterly ruined; a mischief so great is impending upon him. Is it not the fact, before one weapon has been launched, then another presses upon him?

> Latin: Milphio:
Mihi commoditatem creas.
illic hinc abiit. di immortales meum erum servatum volunt
et hunc disperditum lenonem: tantum eum instat exiti.
satine prius quam unumst iniectum telum, iam instat alterum?

[¶153] I’ll go in-doors, that I may recount these matters to my master. For if I were to call him out hither before the house, and, what you’ve (to the AUDIENCE) just heard, if I were now here to repeat the same, it would be folly. I’d rather in-doors be an annoyance to my master singly, than be so here to all of you. Immortal Gods, what misfortunes, what great calamities do this day await this Procurer. But now there’s no reason why I should delay.

> Latin: ibo intro, haec ut meo ero memorem. nam huc si ante aedes evocem,
quae audivistis modo, nunc si eadem híc iterum iterem, inscitiast.
[ero] uni potius intus ero odio, quam hic sim vobis omnibus.—
[di immortales, quanta turba, quanta adventat calamitas]
[hodie ad hunc lenonem. sed ego nunc est cum me commoror.]

[¶154] This business is resolved upon; no pausing is allowed; for both this must be cleverly managed, which has just now been entrusted to me, and that plan as well which was formed at home must be attended to. If there’s any delay, he who sends me a heavy mischance will be acting rightly. Now I’ll off in-doors; until my master comes from the Forum, I’ll wait at home.
(Goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.) (Enter HANNO, followed at a distance by his SERVANTS.)
HANNO: (to himself.)
Hyth alonim vualonuth sicorathi si ma com sith, Chi mach chumyth mumys tyal mictibariim ischi, Lipho canet luth bynuthi ad aedin bynuthii. Birnarob syllo homalonin uby misyrthoho Bythym mothym noctothii velech Antidasmachon.
Yssidele berim thyfel yth chylys chon, tern, lyphul Uth bynim ysdibut thinno cuth ru Agorastocles Ythe manet ihy … chyrsae lycoch sith naso Byuni id chil luhili gerbylim lasibit thym Bodyalyth herayn nyn nuys lym moncoth lusim.
[Exalonim volanus succuratim mistim Atticum esse Concubitum a bello cutim beant lalacant chona Enus es huiec silec panesse Athidamascon Alem … induberte felono … buthume Celtum comucro lueni, at enim avoso uber Bent hyach Aristoclem et se te aneche nasoctelia Elicos alemus [in] duberter mi comps vespiti Aodeanee lictor bodes jussum limnicolus.]
(Enter AGORASTOCLES, from his house, followed by MILPHIO.)
AGORASTOCLES: (in a loud voice.)

> Latin: [ita negotium institutumst, non datur cessatio;]
[nám et hoc docte consulendum, quod modo concreditumst,]
[et illud autem inserviendumst consilium vernaculum.]
[remora si sit, qui malam rem mihi det merito fecerit.]
[nunc intro ibo: dum erus adveniat a foro, opperiar domi.—]
Hanno:
Yth alonim ualonuth sicorathi symacom syth
chy mlachthi in ythmum ysthyalm ych-ibarcu mysehi
li pho caneth yth bynuthi uad edin byn ui
bymarob syllohom alonim ubymysyrthohom
byth limmoth ynnocho thuulech-antidamas chon
ys sidobrim chi fel yth chyl is chon chen liful
yth binim ys dybur ch-innocho-tnu agorastocles
yth emanethi hy chirs aelichot sithi nasot
bynu yid ch-illuch ily gubulim lasibithim
bodi aly thera ynnynu yslym min cho-th iusim
Ythalonimualoniuthsicorathiisthymhimihymacomsyth
combaepumamitalmetlotiambeat
iulecantheconaalonimbalumbar dechor
bats … hunesobinesubicsillimbalim
esseantidamossonalemuedubertefet
donobun.huneccilthumucommucroluful
altanimauosduberithemhuarcharistolem
sittesedanecnasotersahelicot
alemusdubertimurmucopsuistiti
aoccaaneclictorbodesiussilimlimmimcolus
deos deasque veneror, qui hanc urbem colunt,
ut quod de mea re huc veni rite venerim,
measque híc ut gnatas et mei fratris filium
reperire me siritis, di vostram fidem.
[quae mihi surruptae sunt et fratris filium.]
sed hic mihi antehac hospes Antidamas fuit;
eum fécisse aiunt, sibi quod faciundum fuit.
eius fílium esse hic praedicant Agorastoclem:
ad eum hospitalem hanc tesseram mecum fero;
is in hisce habitare monstratust regionibus.
hos percontabor qui hinc egrediuntur foras.

[¶155] Do you say, Milphio, that Syncerastus told you that both of these women were freeborn, and stolen away from Carthage?
MILPHIO:
I do say so; and if you were willing to act wisely, you’d at once assert their liberty by an action on their freedom.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ain tú tibi dixe Syncerastum, Milphio,
eas ésse ingenuas ambas surrupticias
Charthaginiensis?
Milphio:
Aio, et, si frugi esse vis,
eas líberali iam adseres causa manu.

[¶156] For it’s a disgrace to you for you to allow your own country-people to be slaves before your eyes, who were free women at home.
HANNO: (overhearing, apart.)

> Latin: nam tuom flagitiumst tuas te popularis pati
servire ante oculos, domi quae fuerint liberae.

[¶157] O ye immortal Gods, I do entreat your aid! What speech is this that my ears devour! Surely the words of these persons are made of chalk;
how have they cleansed away all the dark spots of woe from me!

> Latin: Hanno:
Pro di immortales, opsecro vostram fidem,
quam orationem hanc aures dulcem devorant.
creta est profecto hórum hominum oratio,
ut mi apsterserunt omnem sorditudinem.

[¶158] AGORASTOCLES:
If you’ve got witnesses of this matter, I’ll do as you bid me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Si ad eam rem testis habeam, faciam quod iubes.

[¶159] MILPHIO:
Why speak you to me about witnesses? Why don’t you stoutly insist upon it? Some way or other, Fortune will be your assistant.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid tu mihi testis? quin tu insistis fortiter?
aliqua Fortuna fuerit adiutrix tibi.

[¶160] AGORASTOCLES:
It’s much more easy to begin a thing than to bring it about.
MILPHIO: (catching sight of HANNO, attended by his SERVANTS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Incipere multost quam impetrare facilius.

[¶161] But what bird is this, pray, that’s coming hither with the tunic on? Is he from the baths, I wonder, enveloped in his cloak?

> Latin: Milphio:
Sed quae illaec avis est, quae huc cum tunicis advenit?
numnam in balineis circumductust pallio?

[¶162] I’ faith, the countenance is surely Carthaginian.
The man’s a Gugga. I’ faith, he certainly has got some ancient and antiquated servants.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Facies quidem edepol Punicast.
Milphio:
Guggast homo.
servos quidem edepol veteres antiquosque habet.

[¶163] AGORASTOCLES:
How do you know?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Qui scis?

[¶164] MILPHIO:
Don’t you see the fellows following, loaded with luggage?

> Latin: Milphio:
Viden homines sarcinatos consequi?

[¶165] And, as I fancy, they’ve got no fingers on their hands.

> Latin: † atque ut opinor digitos in manibus non habent.

[¶166] AGORASTOCLES:
Why so?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid iam?

[¶167] MILPHIO:
Why, because they go with their rings in their ears.

> Latin: Milphio:
Quia incedunt cum anulatis auribus.

[¶168] I’ll approach them, and address them in the Punic language: if they answer, I’ll continue to speak in the Punic tongue if not, then I’ll adapt my language to their usage.

> Latin: Hanno:
Adibo hosce atque áppellabo Punice.
si respondebunt, Punice pergam loqui;
si non, tum ad horum mores linguam vertero.

[¶169] How say you, do you still remember anything of the Punic language?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid ais tu? écquid commeministi Punice?

[¶170] AGORASTOCLES:
Nothing at all, i’ faith; for tell me, how could I know, who was but six years old when I was stolen away from Carthage?
HANNO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Nihil edepol. nam qui scire potui, dic mihi,
qui illim sexennis perierim Carthagine?

[¶171] O ye immortal Gods! very many freeborn children have been lost from Carthage after this manner.

> Latin: Hanno:
Pro di immortales, plurumi ad illum modum
periere pueri liberi Carthagine.

[¶172] MILPHIO:
How say you?

> Latin: Milphio:
Quid ais tu?

[¶173] AGORASTOCLES:
What do you want?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid vis?

[¶174] MILPHIO:
Should you like me to address this person in the Punic tongue?

> Latin: Milphio:
Vin appellem hunc Punice?

[¶175] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you understand it?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
An scis?

[¶176] MILPHIO:
No Punic man this day is a better Punic than I.

> Latin: Milphio:
Nullus me est hodie Poenus Poenior.

[¶177] AGORASTOCLES:
Go and address him, as to what he wants, why he’s come, who he is, of what country, and whence he comes. Don’t be sparing of your questions.
MILPHIO: (addressing HANNO and his SERVANTS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Adi atque appella, quid velit, quid venerit,
qui sit, quoiatis, unde sit: ne parseris.

[¶178] Avo! Of what country are you, or from what city?

> Latin: Milphio:
Avo. quoiates estis aut quo ex oppido?

[¶179] HANNO:
Hanno Muthumballe bachaëdreanech.

> Latin: Hanno:
Anno byn mytthymballe udradait annech.

[¶180] AGORASTOCLES:
What does he say?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid ait?

[¶181] MILPHIO:
He says that he is Hanno from Carthage, a Carthaginian, son of Muthumbal.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hannonem se esse ait Carthagine,
Carthaginiensis Mytthumbalis filium.

[¶182] HANNO:
Avo!

> Latin: Hanno:
Avo.

[¶183] MILPHIO:
He salutes us.

> Latin: Milphio:
Salutat.

[¶184] HANNO:
Donni.

> Latin: Hanno:
Donni.

[¶185] MILPHIO:
He intends to present you with some “donation” out of this; what, I don’t know. Don’t you hear him promise?

> Latin: Milphio:
Doni volt tibi
dare hic nescio quid. audin pollicitarier?

[¶186] AGORASTOCLES:
Salute him again in Punic, in my name.
MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Saluta hunc rursus Punice verbis meis.

[¶187] “Avo donni” he tells me to say to you in his name.
(Pointing to AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Avo donni inquit hic tibi verbis suis.

[¶188] HANNO:
Mehar bocca!

> Latin: Hanno:
Me har bocca.

[¶189] MILPHIO:
Be that for yourself rather than me!

> Latin: Milphio:
Istuc tibi sit potius quam mihi.

[¶190] AGORASTOCLES:
What does he say?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid ait?

[¶191] MILPHIO:
He declares that his “box” for his teeth is painful. Perhaps he takes us to be doctors.

> Latin: Milphio:
Miseram esse praedicat buccam sibi.
fortasse medicos nos esse arbitrarier.

[¶192] AGORASTOCLES:
If it is so, tell him that we are not; I don’t wish a stranger to be mistaken.
MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Si ⟨ita⟩ est, nega esse; nolo ego errare hospitem.

[¶193] Hear you.
Rufen nuco istam.
AGORASTOCLES:
This is my wish, that in fact everything should be explained to him just as it is. Ask him whether he has need of anything.

> Latin: Milphio:
Audin tu?
Hanno:
Rufeyn nyccho issam.
Agorastocles:
Sic volo
profecto vera cuncta huic expedirier.
roga númquid opus sit.

[¶194] MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)
You who have got no girdle, why have you come to this city, or what is it you seek?

> Latin: Milphio:
Tu qui zonam non habes,
quid in hanc venistis urbem aút quid quaeritis?

[¶195] HANNO:
Muphursa.

> Latin: Hanno:
Muphursa.

[¶196] AGORASTOCLES:
What is it he says?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid ait?

[¶197] HANNO:
Moin lechianna.

> Latin: Hanno:
Miuulec hianna.

[¶198] AGORASTOCLES:
Why has he come?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid venit?

[¶199] MILPHIO:
Don’t you hear? He declares that he is wishful to give African mice to the Aediles as a show at the games.

> Latin: Milphio:
Non audis? mures Africanos praedicat
in pompam ludis dare se velle aedilibus.

[¶200] HANNO:
Lalech lachananim liminichot.

> Latin: Hanno:
Lech lachanna nilimniichto.

[¶201] AGORASTOCLES:
What does he say now?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid nunc ait?

[¶202] MILPHIO:
He says he has brought latchets, water-channels, and nuts;

> Latin: Milphio:
Ligulas, canalis ait se advexisse et nuces:

[¶203] he’s now begging that you’ll lend him your assistance in having them sold.

> Latin: nunc orat, operam ut des sibi, ut ea veneant.

[¶204] AGORASTOCLES:
He is a merchant, I suppose?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mercator credo est.

[¶205] HANNO:
Is amar binam.
AGORASTOCLES:
What is it he says?

> Latin: Hanno:
Assam.
Milphio:
Arvinam quidem.

[¶206] HANNO:
Palum erga dectha.

> Latin: Hanno:
Palu mirga detha.

[¶207] AGORASTOCLES:
Milphio, what is he saying now?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Milphio, quid nunc ait?

[¶208] MILPHIO:
He says that he has got spades and forks given him for sale,
for digging the garden and reaping the corn.

> Latin: Milphio:
Palas vendundas sibi ait et mergas datas,
ad messim credo, nisi quid tú aliud sapis.
[ut hortum fodiat atque ut frumentum metat.]

[¶209] AGORASTOCLES:
What is that to me?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid istuc ad me?

[¶210] MILPHIO:
He wishes you to be informed of it, so that you mayn’t suppose that he has taken anything secretly and by stealth. He has really, I do believe, been sent here to your harvesting.

> Latin: Milphio:
Certiorem te esse volt,
ne quid clam furtim se accepisse censeas.

[¶211] HANNO:
Muphonium sucoraim.

> Latin: Hanno:
Mufonnim siccoratim.

[¶212] MILPHIO:
So there! do take care, please, how you do what he’s begging of you.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hem, cave sis feceris
quod hic te órat.

[¶213] AGORASTOCLES:
What is he saying, or what is he begging? Explain it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid ait aut quid orat? expedi.

[¶214] MILPHIO:
For you to order him to be placed beneath a hurdle, and for many stones to be heaped upon it, so as to put him to death.

> Latin: Milphio:
Sub cratim ut iubeas se supponi átque eo
lapides imponi multos, ut sese neces.

[¶215] HANNO:
Gunebel balsamen ierasan!

> Latin: Hanno:
Gunebbal samem lyryla.

[¶216] AGORASTOCLES:
Tell me what it is that he’s saying.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Narra, quid est?
quid ait?

[¶217] MILPHIO:
I’ faith, now I really don’t at all know.
HANNO: (speaking in their own language.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Non hercle nunc quidem quicquam scio.

[¶218] But that you may know, now from this moment henceforth will I speak Latin.

> Latin: Hanno:
At ut scias, nunc dehinc latine iam loquar.

[¶219] (To MILPHIO.) Upon my faith, you must be a worthless and bad servant, to be laughing at a person, a foreigner and a stranger.

> Latin: servom hercle te esse oportet et nequam et malum,
hominem peregrinum atque advenam qui inrideas.

[¶220] MILPHIO:
But, i’ faith, at yourself a person that’s both a swindler and a cheat, who have come here to take us in, you half-and-half Lybian, you double-tongue, just like a crawling reptile.
AGORASTOCLES: (to MILPHIO.)

> Latin: Milphio:
At hercle te hominem et sycophantam et subdolum,
qui huc advenisti nos captatum, migdilix,
bisulci lingua quasi proserpens bestia.

[¶221] Away hence with your abusiveness! do restrain your tongue. You’ll keep it from uttering abuse, if you are prudent; I don’t want you to be speaking harshly to my kinsmen. I was born at Carthage; do you remember that.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Maledicta hinc aufer, linguam compescas face.
maledicere huic tu temperabis, si sapis.
meis cónsanguineis nolo te iniuste loqui.
Carthagini ego sum gnatus, ut tu sis sciens.

[¶222] HANNO:
O my fellow-countryman, greetings to you!

> Latin: Hanno:
O mi popularis, salve.

[¶223] AGORASTOCLES:
And you, troth, whoever you are;

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Et tu edepol, quisquis es.

[¶224] and if you have need of anything, pray mention it, and command me for the sake of our common country.
HANNO:
I return you thanks; but I’ve got a place of entertainment here; I’m in search of the son of Antidamas; do point me out Agorastocles, if you know him. Do you know any young man here named Agorastocles?

> Latin: et si quid opus est, quaeso, dic atque impera
popularitatis causa.
Hanno:
Habeo gratiam.
[verum ego hic hospitium hábeo: Antidamae filium]
[quaero (commostra si novisti) Agorastoclem.]
sed ecquem ádulescentem tu hic novisti Agorastoclem?

[¶225] AGORASTOCLES:
If, indeed, you are in search of the adopted son of Antidamas, I am the very person whom you are in search of.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Siquidem Ántidamai quaeris ádoptaticium,
ego sum ipsus quem tu quaeris.

[¶226] HANNO: (starting.)
Hah! what’s that I hear?

> Latin: Hanno:
Hem, quid ego audio?

[¶227] AGORASTOCLES:
That I am the son of Antidamas.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Antidamae gnatum me esse.

[¶228] HANNO:
If so it is, if you would like to compare the token of hospitality, see here, I’ve brought it.
(Shows him the ticket.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Sí itast, tesseram
conferre si vis hospitalem, eccam attuli.

[¶229] AGORASTOCLES:
Come then, show it here. (He takes it in his hand, and looks at it.) It is exactly true; for I’ve got the counterpart at home.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Agedum huc ostende. est par probe, quam habeo domi.

[¶230] HANNO:
O my host, hail to you right earnestly; for it was your father, then, Antidamas, that was my own and my father’s guest; this was my token of hospitality with him.

> Latin: Hanno:
O mi hospes, salve multum. nam mihi tuos pater
patritus † ergo hospes Antidamas fuit.
haec mi hospitalis tessera cum illo fuit.

[¶231] AGORASTOCLES:
Then here at my house shall hospitality be shown you; for I don’t reject either Hospitality or Carthage,
from which I sprang.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ergo hic apud me hospitium tibi praebebitur.
nam haúd repudio hospitium neque Carthaginem,
unde súm oriundus.

[¶232] HANNO:
May the Gods grant you all you may desire. How say you? How could it happen that you were born at Carthage, but had a father of Aetolia here?

> Latin: Hanno:
Di dent tibi omnes quae velis.
quid ais? qui potuit fieri, ut Carthagini
gnatus sis? hic autem habuisti Aetolum patrem.

[¶233] AGORASTOCLES:
I was stolen away from there; this Antidamas, your guest, bought me, and adopted me as his son.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Surruptus sum illinc. hic me Antidama hospes tuos
emit, et is me sibi adoptavit filium.

[¶234] HANNO:
He himself, likewise, was adopted by Demarchus, But about him I say no more, and return to you. Tell me, do you at all remember the names of your parents?

> Latin: Hanno:
Demarcho item ipse fuit adoptaticius.
sed mitto de illoc, ad te redeo. dic mihi,
ecquid meministi tuom parentum nomina,
patris atque matris?

[¶235] AGORASTOCLES:
I remember my father and my mother’s name.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Memini.

[¶236] HANNO:
Repeat them, then, to me, to see if I know them, perchance, or if they are relatives of mine.

> Latin: Hanno:
Memoradum mihi,
si novi forte aut si sunt cognati mihi.

[¶237] AGORASTOCLES:
Ampsigura was my mother, and Iachon my father.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ampsigura mater mihi fuit, Iahon pater.

[¶238] HANNO:
I could wish that your father and mother were alive.

> Latin: Hanno:
Patrem atque matrem viverent vellem tibi.

[¶239] AGORASTOCLES:
Are they dead?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
An mortui sunt?

[¶240] HANNO:
So it is, a thing which I bore with much grief; for your mother Ampsigura was my cousin-german; your father—he was my uncle’s son,
and when he died he made me his heir; of whom being deprived by death, I am greatly affected. But if it is the fact that you really are the son of Sachon, there ought to be a mark upon your left hand, a bite which an ape gave you when a child, playing with it.

> Latin: Hanno:
Factum, quod aegre tuli. †
nam mihi sobrina Ampsigura tua mater fuit;
pater tuos, is erat frater patruelis meus,
et is me heredem fecit, quom suom obiit diem,
quo me privatum aégre patior mortuo.
sed sí ita est, ut tu sis Iahonis filius,
signum esse oportet in manu laeva tibi,
ludenti puero quod memordit simia.

[¶241] Show it, that I may look at it;
open your hand.
AGORASTOCLES: (opening his hand.)
Look, if you like; see, there it is.
My kinsman, welcome to you!

> Latin: ostende, inspiciam.
Agorastocles:
⟨Em ostendo.⟩
Hanno:
Aperi. audi atque ades:
…
Agorastocles:
Mi patrue, salve.

[¶242] HANNO:
And welcome to you, Agorastocles! I seem to myself to be born again, in having found you.

> Latin: Hanno:
Ét tu salve, Agorastocles.
iterum mihi gnatus videor, quom te repperi.

[¶243] MILPHIO:
By my troth, I’m delighted that this matter has fallen out so happily for you. (To HANNO.) And would you decline to take advice?

> Latin: Milphio:
Pol istám rem vobis bene evenisse gaudeo.
sed te moneri num nevis?

[¶244] HANNO:
Really, I should wish to be advised.

> Latin: Hanno:
Sane volo.

[¶245] MILPHIO:
His father’s property ought to be restored to the son; it’s fair that he should have the property which his father possessed.

> Latin: Milphio:
Paterna oportet filio reddi bona.
aequomst habere hunc bona quae possedit pater.

[¶246] HANNO:
I wish no otherwise; everything shall be restored. I’ll give his own property to him all safe, when he comes there.

> Latin: Hanno:
Haud postulo aliter: restituentur omnia;
suam síbi rem salvam sistam, si illo advenerit.

[¶247] MILPHIO:
Take care and restore it, will you, even though he should live here still.

> Latin: Milphio:
Facito sis reddas, etsi hic habitabit, tamen.

[¶248] HANNO:
Nay but, he shall have my own as well, if anything should happen to me.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quin mea quoque iste habebit, si quid me fuat.

[¶249] MILPHIO:
A pleasant project has just now come into my mind,

> Latin: Milphio:
Festivom facinus venit mi in mentem modo.

[¶250] HANNO:
What’s that?

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid id est?

[¶251] MILPHIO:
There’s need of your assistance.

> Latin: Milphio:
Tua opus est opera.

[¶252] HANNO:
Tell me what you wish. Really, you shall have my services just as you please. What is the business?

> Latin: Hanno:
Dic mihi quid lubet:
profecto uteris, ut voles, operam meam.
quid est negoti?

## 4. Lines 1086–1422

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/4/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-poenulus/4/#p-N

[¶0] MILPHIO:
Can you act the cheat?

> Latin: Milphio:
Potin tu fieri subdolus?

[¶1] HANNO:
Towards an enemy, I can; to a friend, it would be mere folly.

> Latin: Hanno:
Inimico possum, amico ínsipientia est.

[¶2] MILPHIO:
I’ faith, it is an enemy of his.
(Pointing at AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Inimicus hercle est huius.

[¶3] HANNO:
I could do him a mischief with pleasure.

> Latin: Hanno:
Male faxim lubens.

[¶4] MILPHIO:
He’s in love with a person who belongs to a Procurer.

> Latin: Milphio:
Amat ab lenone hic.

[¶5] HANNO:
I deem that he acts discreetly.

> Latin: Hanno:
Facere sapienter puto.

[¶6] MILPHIO:
This Procurer lives close at hand.

> Latin: Milphio:
Leno hic habitat vicinus.

[¶7] HANNO:
I could do him a mischief with pleasure.

> Latin: Hanno:
Male faxim lubens.

[¶8] MILPHIO:
He has two slave girls, courtesans,
sisters; one of these he is desperately in love with, nor has he ever taker any liberties with her.

> Latin: Milphio:
Ei duae puellae sunt meretrices servolae
sorores: earum hic alteram efflictim perit,
neque eam incestavit umquam.

[¶9] HANNO:
It’s an unhappy kind of passion.

> Latin: Hanno:
Acerba amatiost.

[¶10] MILPHIO:
The Procurer plays upon him.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hunc leno ludificatur.

[¶11] HANNO:
He’s enhancing his own profits thereby.

> Latin: Hanno:
Suom quaestum colit.

[¶12] MILPHIO:
He wishes to do him an evil turn.

> Latin: Milphio:
Hic illi malam rem dare volt.

[¶13] HANNO:
He’s right, if he does do it.

> Latin: Hanno:
Frugist, si id facit.

[¶14] MILPHIO:
Now I adopt this plan, and prepare this contrivance,
that we should cite you; you are to affirm that they are your daughters, and that they were stolen when little from Carthage, and to maintain the cause of both in an action on their freedom, as though they were both your own daughters. Do you understand?

> Latin: Milphio:
Nunc hoc consilium capio et hanc fabricam apparo,
ut te allegemus, filias dicas tuas
surruptasque esse parvolas Carthagine …
manu líberali causa ámbas adseras,
quasi filiae tuae sint. iamne intellegis?

[¶15] HANNO:
On my faith, I do understand; for I likewise did have two daughters
who were stolen away when little children, together with their nurse.

> Latin: Hanno:
Intellego hercle. nam mihi item gnatae duae
cum nutrice una sunt surruptae parvolae.

[¶16] MILPHIO:
Upon my word, you do feign it cleverly. At the very commencement this amuses me.
HANNO: (aside, weeping.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Lepide hercle adsimulas. iam in principio id mihi placet.

[¶17] Much more, i’ troth, than I could wish.
MILPHIO: (aside to AGORASTOCLES.)
Dear me! a subtle person, upon my word, artful and knowing, both tricky and crafty! How he does whimper, in order that with his gestures he may effect this all the more easily.

> Latin: Hanno:
Pol magis quam vellem.
Milphio:
Eu hércle mortalem catum,
… malum crudumque, estolidum et subdolum.
ut adflet, quo illud gestu faciat facilius.

[¶18] Even myself, now, the master-workman, does he excel in skill.

> Latin: me quoque dolis iam superat architectonem.

[¶19] HANNO:
But their nurse, of what appearance was she? Tell me.

> Latin: Hanno:
Sed earum nutrix qua sit facie, mi expedi.

[¶20] MILPHIO:
Of stature not tall, of a dusky complexion.
HANNO:’Tis the very person.

> Latin: Milphio:
Statura hau magna, corpore aquilost.
Hanno:
Ipsa east.

[¶21] MILPHIO:
Of agreable form, with a small mouth, and very dark eyes.

> Latin: Milphio:
Specie venusta, óre atque oculis pernigris.

[¶22] HANNO:
I’ faith, you really have depicted her form exactly in your words.

> Latin: Hanno:
Formam quidem hercle verbis depinxti probe.

[¶23] MILPHIO:
Should you like to see her?

> Latin: Milphio:
Vin eam videre?

[¶24] HANNO:
I’d rather see my daughters. Still, go and call her out of doors. If they are my daughters, if she is their nurse, she’ll recognize me at once.
MILPHIO: (knocking at the door of the PROCURER’S house.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Filias malo meas.
sed i átque evoca illam; sí eae meae sunt filiae,
si illarum est nutrix, me continuo noverit.

[¶25] Hallo there! is there any one here? Tell Giddeneme to come out of doors; there’s a person wants to see her.
(Enter GIDDENEME and a BOY, from the house.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Heus, ecquis hic est? nuntiate ut prodeat
foras Gíddeneni. est qui illam conventam esse volt.

[¶26] GIDDENEME:
Who is it that knocks?

> Latin: Giddenes:
Quis pultat?

[¶27] MILPHIO:
One that’s a near acquaintance of yours.

> Latin: Milphio:
Qui te proximust.

[¶28] GIDDENEME:
What do you want?

> Latin: Giddenes:
Quid vis?

[¶29] MILPHIO:
Come now (pointing to HANNO.) do you know that person in the tunic, who it is?

> Latin: Milphio:
Eho,
novistin tu illunc tunicatum hominem qui siet?

[¶30] GIDDENEME:
Why, whom do I behold? O supreme Jupiter! this sure is my master, the father of my foster-children, Hanno, the Carthaginian!

> Latin: Giddenes:
Nam quém ego aspicio? pro supreme Iuppiter,
erus meus hic quidem est, mearum alumnarum pater,
Hanno Carthaginiensis.

[¶31] MILPHIO:
Now, do see the cunning hussey this Carthaginian is really a clever juggler; he has brought all over to his own opinion.
GIDDENEME: (running up to HANNO.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Ecce autem mala.
[praestrigiator hic quidem Poenus probust,]
[perduxit omnis ad suam sententiam.]

[¶32] O my master! welcome to you, Hanno! most unhoped for by myself and your daughters, welcome to you! But look you, don’t be wondering, or gazing so intently upon me.

> Latin: Giddenes:
O mí ere, salve, Hánno, insperatissume
mihi tuisque filiis, salve atque—eho,
mirari noli neque me contemplarier.

[¶33] Don’t you know Giddeneme, your female slave?

> Latin: cognoscin Giddenenem áncillam tuam?

[¶34] HANNO:
I know her. But where are my daughters? That I’m longing to know.

> Latin: Hanno:
Novi. sed ubi sunt meae gnatae? id scire expeto.

[¶35] GIDDENEME:
At the Temple of Venus.

> Latin: Giddenes:
Apud aedem Veneris.

[¶36] HANNO:
What are they doing there? Tell me.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid ibi faciunt? dic mihi.

[¶37] GIDDENEME:
To-day is the Aphrodisia, the festive day of Venus! they have gone there to entreat the Goddess to be propitious to them.

> Latin: Giddenes:
Aphrodisia hodie Veneris est festus dies:
oratum ierunt deam, ut sibi esset propitia.

[¶38] MILPHIO:
I’ faith, they’ve fully prevailed, I’m sure, inasmuch as he has arrived here.
AGORASTOCLES: (aside to GIDDENEME.)

> Latin: Milphio:
Pol satis scio, impetrarunt, quando hic hic adest.

[¶39] How now, are these his daughters?
GIDDENEME:
Just as you say. (To HANNO.) Your kindness has clearly come to our rescue, in your having arrived here to-day at the very time; for this day their names were to have been changed,
and they were to have made a livelihood, disgraceful to their station, by their persons.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Eho an huius sunt illae filiae?
Giddenes:
Ita ut praedicas.
tua pietas nobis plane aúxilio fuit,
quom huc advenisti hodie in ipso tempore;
namque hodie earum mutarentur nomina
facerentque indignum genere quaestum corpore.

[¶40] A BOY:
Haudones illi.
GIDDENEME:
Havon bene si illi, in mustine.

> Latin: Pver:
Auamma illi.
Giddenes:
Hauon bane silli in mustine.

[¶41] Me ipsi et eneste dum et alamna cestinum.

> Latin: Giddenes:
Mepstaetemes tas dum et alanna cestimim.

[¶42] AGORASTOCLES:
What is it they are saying among themselves? Tell me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid illí locuti sunt inter se? dic mihi.

[¶43] MILPHIO:
He’s saluting his mother, and she this her son.

> Latin: Hanno:
Matrem hic salutat suam, haec autem hunc filium.

[¶44] HANNO:
Hold your peace, and let alone the woman’s gear.

> Latin: tace atque parce muliebri supellectili.

[¶45] MILPHIO:
What gear is that?
HANNO:
Loud talking
without limit.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quae east supellex?
Hanno:
Clarus clamor.
Agorastocles:
Sine modo.

[¶46] (To MILPHIO.) Do you lead these people in-doors (pointing to his SERVANTS.) and bid this nurse to come away together with you to your house.
AGORASTOCLES: (to MILPHIO.)
Do as he requests.
GIDDENEME: (to HANNO.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Tu abduc hosce intro; et una nutricem simul
iube hanc abire hinc ad te.
Agorastocles:
Fac quod imperat.

[¶47] But who’s to point them out to you?
AGORASTOCLES:
I will, right skilfully.

> Latin: Milphio:
Sed quís illas tibi monstrabit?
Agorastocles:
Ego doctissume.

[¶48] GIDDENEME:
I’ll go away then.
AGORASTOCLES:
I’d only rather that you would do so, than say so.
(She goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)
MILPHIO:
Upon my faith, I do think that this day the very thing that I said by way of joke
will be coming to pass both soberly and seriously,
that these will be discovered to-day to be his daughters.

> Latin: Milphio:
Abeo igitur.

[¶49] AGORASTOCLES:
Troth, that very thing is quite certain now. Do you, Milphio, take them (pointing to the SERVANTS) in-doors; we’ll wait here for these damsels.
I wish a dinner to be got ready for my kinsman on his arrival.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Facias modo quam memores mavelim.
patruo advenienti cena curetur volo.

[¶50] MILPHIO:
Lachananim you! (aside to the SERVANTS.) whom I’ll just now be packing off to the mill-stones, and from there after that to the dungeon and the oaken log. I’ll give you reason to praise your treatment here but slightly.

> Latin: Milphio:
Lachanna vos, quos ego iam detrudam ad molas,
inde pórro ad puteum atque ad robustum codicem.
ego faxo hospitium hoc leniter laudabitis.—

[¶51] AGORASTOCLES: (to HANNO.)
Do you hear, kinsman? I say, don’t you revoke what has been said; promise me your elder daughter in marriage.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Audin tu, patrue? dico, ne dictum neges:
tuam míhi maiorem filiam despondeas.

[¶52] HANNO:
Consider the thing as agreed on.

> Latin: Hanno:
Pactam rem habeto.

[¶53] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you promise her, then?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Spondesne igitur?

[¶54] HANNO:
I do promise her.

> Latin: Hanno:
Spondeo.

[¶55] AGORASTOCLES:
My kinsman, blessings on you! for now you are mine beyond a doubt; now at length shall I converse with her without restraint.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mi patrue, salve. nam nunc es plane meus.
nunc demum ego cum illa fabulabor libere.

[¶56] Now, kinsman, if you wish to see your daughters, follow me.
HANNO:
Why, really, this long time I’ve been longing for it, and I’ll follow you.

> Latin: nunc, patrue, si vis tuas videre filias,
me sequere.
Hanno:
Iamdudum equidem cupio, et te sequor.

[¶57] AGORASTOCLES:
What if we go and meet them?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Quid si eámus illis obviam?]

[¶58] HANNO:
But I’m afraid lest we should pass them on the road. Great Jupiter, do now reinstate my fortunes for me as being certain instead of uncertain!

> Latin: Hanno:
[At ne intervias]
[praeterbitamus metuo. magne Iuppiter,]
[restitue certas mi ex incertis nunc opes.]

[¶59] AGORASTOCLES:
I trust that my charmer will be my own. But look, I catch sight of them.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[† Ego quidem meos amores mecum confido fore.]
sed eccás video ipsas.

[¶60] HANNO:
What, are these my daughters? How tall from being such little creatures have they now become!

> Latin: Hanno:
Haecine meae sunt filiae?
quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae.

[¶61] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you know how it is? These are Grecian columns; they are wont to be erect.
(They stand aside.) (Enter ADELPHASIUM and ANTERBASTYLIS, from the Temple of Venus.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Scin quid est?
tragicae sunt: in calones sustolli solent.
Milphio:
[Opino hercle hodie, quod ego dixi per iocum,]
[id eventurum esse et severum et serium,]
[ut haec ínveniantur hodie esse huius filiae.]
Agorastocles:
[Pol istúc quidem iam certum est. tu istos, Milphio,]
[abduce intro. nos hasce hic praestolabimur.]

[¶62] ADELPHASIUM:’Twas worth the while, to-day, of him who has a taste for loveliness
to afford a feast to his eyes, in coming hither to the Temple this day to see the sights. Upon my faith, I was charmed there to-day with the most elegant offerings of the courtesans, worthy of Venus, the most handsome Goddess; nor did I despise her worship this day; so great an abundance of beauteous objects was there there, each nicely arranged in its own place.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Fuit hódie operae pretiúm cuivis qui amábilitati animum adiceret,
oculís epulas dare, délubrum qui hodie órnatum eo visére venit.
deamávi ecastor ílli hodie lepidíssima munera méretricum,
digná dea venustissimá Venere, neque cóntempsi eius opés hodie.
tanta íbi copia venustátum aderat, in suó quique loco síta munde.

[¶63] The odours of Arabia and of myrrh filled everything. The festive day seemed to be affected with no gloom, Venus, nor did thy Temple; so great a throng of her dependants was there, who had come to Venus of Calydon.
ANTERASTYLIS:
But certainly, as far indeed as regarded us two, sister, we were all-powerful in our prayers, beauteous and gainers of her favour; neither were we there held in ridicule by the young men, which, i’ faith, sister, happened to all the rest.

> Latin: arás tus, murrinus, ómnis odor complébat. haud sordére visust
festús dies, Venus, nec tuóm fanum: tantús ibi clientarum érat numerus,
quae ad Cálydoniam venérant Venerem.
Anterastilis:
Certo enim, quod quidem ad nos duas
attínuit, praepotentés pulchre pacísque potentes, sóror, fuimus,
neque ab iúventute inibi inrídiculo habitaé, quod pol,
soror, céteris omnibus fáctumst.

[¶64] ADELPHASIUM:
I’d rather that it should so appear to other persons, than that you, sister, should praise yourself.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Malim ístuc aliis vídeatur, quam uti tú te, soror, conlaúdes.

[¶65] ANTERASTYLIS:
Indeed, I trust so.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Spero équidem.

[¶66] ADELPHASIUM:
Troth, and so do I, when I reflect of what breeding we and the others are. We were born in that station, that it befits us to be unblemished by faultiness.
HANNO: (apart.)

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Et pól ego, quom, íngeniis quibus súmus atque aliae, gnósco;
eo súmus gnatae genere, út deceat nos ésse a culpa cástas.

[¶67] Jupiter, who dost preserve and feed the race of men, through whom we pass this mortal life, in whose hands are the hopes of life in all men, prithee, do grant this day as a prosperous one
for my fortunes! Those whom I’ve missed for many years,
and whom when little I lost from their native land, to them restore their liberty, that I may be sure that for an indomitable sense of duty there is a reward.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Iuppíter, qui genus colis álisque hominum, per quém vivimus vitálem aevom,
quem pénes spes vitae súnt hominum omniúm, da diem hunc sospítem quaeso,
† rebus meis agundis, ut quíbus annos multós carui quasque ⟨é⟩ patria
perdidi parvas † redde is libertatem, invictae praemium ut esse sciam pietati.

[¶68] I’ll engage that Jove shall do it all; for to me he is indebted, and stands in awe of me.
HANNO: (apart.)
Prithee, do hold your peace.
(He weeps.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Omnía faciet Iuppíter faxo, nam mi ést obnoxius ét me metuít.
Hanno:
Tace quaeso.

[¶69] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Kinsman, do not weep.
ANTERASTYLIS: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ne lácruma, patrue.

[¶70] As it is a pleasure for a man, my sister, if he succeeds in anything, to have the credit of victory, just so did we this day among the rest excel them all in beauty.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Vt vólup est homini, méa soror, si quód agit cluet victória;
sicút nos hodie intér alias praestítimus pulchritúdine.

[¶71] ADELPHASIUM:
Sister, you are more silly than I could wish. Prithee, do you really think yourself a beauty,
if your face has not been besmeared with soot?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Stultá, soror, magis es quám volo. an tu éo pulchra videre, óbsecro,
si tíbi illi non os óblitumst fulígine?

[¶72] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
O kinsman! O kinsman, dearest of all kinsmen to me!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
O pátrue, o patrue mí.

[¶73] HANNO: (apart.)
What is it, son of my cousin? My son, tell me, what is it you wish?

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid est,
fratris mei gnate, gnate, quid vis? expedi.

[¶74] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Why, really, I do wish you to attend to this.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At enim hóc volo agas.

[¶75] HANNO: (apart.)
Why, really, I am attending to it.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Hanno:
At enim ágo istuc.

[¶76] Kinsman, kinsman, dearest of all kinsmen to me!
HANNO: (apart.)
What’s the matter?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
⟨O⟩ pátrue mi patruíssime.
Hanno:
Quid est?

[¶77] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
She’s a clever and a nice girl. How shrewd she is!
HANNO: (apart.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ést lepida et lauta. út sapit.

[¶78] She has her father’s disposition in being shrewd.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Ingénium patris habet quód sapit.

[¶79] How’s that? This long time, i’ faith, she has surely used up your shrewdness.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quae rés? iam diu édepol sápientiám tuam haéc quidem abusast.

[¶80] ’Tis from here (pointing to himself) she now derives her shrewdness;’tis from here her sense; whatever she does shrewdly, through my love does she act so shrewdly.

> Latin: nunc hínc sapit, hinc sentít, quidquid sapit, éx meo amore.

[¶81] ADELPHASIUM:
We are not born of that rank, although we are slaves, sister, that it should befit us to do anything which any man may laugh at. Many are the faults of women; but of the many, this one is the greatest, to please themselves too much, and to give their attention too little to pleasing the men.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Nón eo genere súmus prognatae, tam étsi sumus servaé, soror,
ut deceat nos facere quicquam quod homo quisquam inrideat.
multa mulierum sunt vitia, sed hoc e multis maxumumst,
quom sibi nimis placent minusque áddunt operam, uti placeant viris.

[¶82] ANTERASTYLIS:
It was a very great delight that was portended in our sacrifice of the entrails, sister, and what the soothsayer said about us both—

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Nimiae voluptatist quod in extis nostris portentumst, soror,
quodque haruspéx de ambabus dixit.

[¶83] AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
I wish he had said something about me!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Velim de me aliquid dixerit.

[¶84] ANTERASTYLIS:
That we should be free in a few days, in spite of our owner. I don’t know why I should hope for that, unless the Gods or our parents do something.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Nos fore invíto domino nostro diebus paucis liberas.
id ego nisi quid di aut parentes faxint, qui sperem hau scio.

[¶85] ’Twas through confidence in me, kinsman, upon my faith, that the soothsayer promised them
liberty, I’m sure of it, because he knows I’m in love with her.
ADELPHASIUM:
Sister, follow me this way.
(Moves as if going.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mea fiducia hercle haruspex, patrue, his promisit, scio,
libertatem, quia me amare hanc scit.
Adelphasivm:
Soror, sequere hac.

[¶86] ANTERASTYLIS:
I follow.
(Moves also.)
HANNO: (stepping forward.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Sequor.

[¶87] Before you go away, I want you both. Unless it’s inconvenient, stop.

> Latin: Hanno:
Prius quam abitis, vos volo ambas. nisi piget, consistite.

[¶88] ADELPHASIUM:
Who’s calling us back?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quis revocat?

[¶89] AGORASTOCLES:
One who wishes to do you a kindness.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Qui bene volt vobis facere.

[¶90] ADELPHASIUM:
There’s opportunity for doing it. But who is the person?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Facere occasiost.
sed quis homost?

[¶91] AGORASTOCLES:
A friend of yours.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Amicus vobis.

[¶92] ADELPHASIUM:
One who is not an enemy, in fact.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Qui quidem inimicus non siet.

[¶93] AGORASTOCLES:
This is a good man, my love.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Bonus est hic homo, mea voluptas.

[¶94] ADELPHASIUM:
I’ faith, I should prefer him rather than a bad one.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Pol istum malim quam malum.

[¶95] AGORASTOCLES:
If, indeed, friendship must be engaged in, with such a person ought it to be engaged in.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Siquidem amicitiast habenda, cum hoc habendast.

[¶96] ADELPHASIUM:
I don’t beg for it.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Hau precor.

[¶97] AGORASTOCLES:
He wishes to do you many services.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Multa bona volt vobis facere.

[¶98] ADELPHASIUM:
Being good yourself you will be doing good to the good.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Bonus bonis bene feceris.

[¶99] HANNO:
I will cause you joy—

> Latin: Hanno:
[Gaudio ero vobis.]

[¶100] ADELPHASIUM:
And, i’ faith, we pleasure to you.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
[At edepol nos voluptati tibi.]

[¶101] HANNO:
And liberty.

> Latin: Hanno:
[Libertatique.]

[¶102] ADELPHASIUM:
At that price you’ll easily make us your own.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
[Istoc pretio tuas nos facile feceris.]

[¶103] AGORASTOCLES:
My kinsman, so may the Gods bless me, if I were Jupiter,
upon my faith I’d at once marry her for my wife, and pack Juno out of doors. How quietly did she utter her words, how considerately and becomingly! how modestly did she frame her speech! certainly she is my own!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Patrue mi, ita me di amabunt, ut ego, si sim Iuppiter,
iam hercle ego illam uxorem ducam et Iunonem extrudam foras.
ut pudice verba fecit, cogitate et commode,
ut modeste orationem praebuit.

[¶104] HANNO: (apart to AGORASTOCLES.)
But how skilfully I accosted her!

> Latin: Hanno:
Certo haec meast.
sed ut astú sum adgressus ad eas.

[¶105] AGORASTOCLES:
Cleverly and becomingly, upon my faith.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Lepide hercle atque commode.

[¶106] HANNO:
Am I still to go on testing them?

> Latin: Hanno:
Pergo etiam temptare?

[¶107] AGORASTOCLES:
Compress it in a few words; the people who are sitting here are getting thirsty.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
In pauca confer: sitiunt qui sedent.

[¶108] HANNO:
Well, why don’t we proceed to do that which was to be done? (To the WOMEN.) I summon you to justice.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid istic? quod faciundumst cur non agimus? in ius vos voco.

[¶109] AGORASTOCLES:
Seize hold of this one, kinsman, if you are wise. Should you like me to catch hold of her?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Nunc, pátrue, tu frugí bonae es. tené. vin ego hanc adpréndam?

[¶110] ADELPHASIUM:
Is this person your kinsman, Agorastocles?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
An patruos est, Agorastocles, tuos hic?

[¶111] AGORASTOCLES:
I’ll soon let you know. Now, by my word, I’ll be nicely revenged on you; for I’ll make—you my bride.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Iam faxo scibis.
nunc pol ego te ulciscar probe, nam faxo—mea eris sponsa.

[¶112] HANNO:
Come before a court of justice; don’t delay!

> Latin: Hanno:
Ite in ius, ne moramini. antestare me atque duce.

[¶113] AGORASTOCLES:
Summon me as your witness, and take me; I’ll be a witness for you; and after that, her (pointing to ADELPHASIUM) will I love and embrace. But ’twas this, indeed, I intended to say—why yes, I did say that which I intended to say.
HANNO: (to the DAMSELS.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Ego te antestabor, postea hanc amabo atque amplexabor.
sed illúd quidem volui dícere—immo hercle díxi quod volebam.

[¶114] You are lingering. I summon you to justice, unless it is more becoming for you to be dragged thither.

> Latin: Hanno:
Moramini. in ius vos voco, nisi honestiust prehendi.

[¶115] ADELPHASIUM:
Why do you summon us to justice? What are we in your debt?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quid in iús vocas nos? quid tibi debemus?

[¶116] AGORASTOCLES:
He’ll tell it there.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Dicet illi.

[¶117] ADELPHASIUM:
Are even my own dogs barking at me?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Etiam me meae latrant canes?

[¶118] AGORASTOCLES:
Then, troth, do you caress me;

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At tu hercle adludiato:

[¶119] give me a kiss in place of a piece of meat; present your lips in place of a bone: that way I’ll render this dog more smooth for you than oil.

> Latin: dato mihi pro offa savium, pro ósse linguam obicito.
ita hanc canem faciam tibi oleo tranquilliorem.

[¶120] HANNO:
Come on, if you are coming.

> Latin: Hanno:
Ite si ítis.

[¶121] ADELPHASIUM:
What have we done to you?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quid nos fecimus tibi?

[¶122] HANNO:
You are thieves, both of you.

> Latin: Hanno:
Fures estis ambae.

[¶123] ADELPHASIUM:
What, we, as regards you?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Nosne tíbi?

[¶124] HANNO:
You, I say.

> Latin: Hanno:
Vos inquam.

[¶125] AGORASTOCLES:
And I know it.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Atque ego scio.

[¶126] ADELPHASIUM:
What theft is this?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Quid id fúrtist?

[¶127] AGORASTOCLES:
Enquire of him.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Hunc rogato.

[¶128] HANNO:
Because for many years you have been concealing my daughters from me,
and, in fact, persons free-born, and free, and born of the highest rank.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quia annos multos filias meas célavistis clam me,
atque equidem ingenuas liberas summoque genere gnatas.

[¶129] ADELPHASIUM:
I’ faith, you’ll never find that villany to have been committed by us.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Numquam mecastor reperies tu istuc probrum penes nos.

[¶130] AGORASTOCLES:
Make a bet of a kiss now, if you are not forsworn, which is to give it to the other.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Da pignus, ni nunc perieres, in savium, uter utri det.

[¶131] ADELPHASIUM:
I’ve nothing to do with you; prithee, get you gone.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Nil tecum ago, apscede opsecro.

[¶132] AGORASTOCLES:
But, i’ faith, I’ve got something to do with you; for he is my kinsman; it’s necessary for me to be his advocate.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Atque hércle mecum agendum est.
nam hic patruos meus est, pro hoc mihi patronus sim necesse est;

[¶133] And I’ll inform him how you are guilty of many a theft, and in what way you have got his daughters as slaves at your house, whom you know to be free women stolen from their native land.

> Latin: et praedicabo quo modo [vos] furta faciatis multa
quoque modo húius filias apud vós habeatis servas,
quas vos ex patria liberas surruptas esse scitis.

[¶134] ADELPHASIUM:
Where are these, or who are they, prithee?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Vbi sunt eae? aut quas, opsecro?

[¶135] AGORASTOCLES: (aside to HANNO.)
They have been teased sufficiently.
HANNO: (aside.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Satis iám sunt maceratae.

[¶136] Why not speak out, then?
AGORASTOCLES: (aside.)
I’ faith, I’m of that opinion, kinsman.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid si eloquamur?
Agorastocles:
Censeo hercle, patrue.

[¶137] ADELPHASIUM:
I’m dreadfully afraid
what this business can mean, my sister; so astounded am I, I stand here without my senses.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Misera timeo,
quid hoc sít negoti, mea soror; ita stupida sine animo asto.

[¶138] HANNO:
Damsels, give me your attention. In the first place, if it could possibly come to pass, for the Gods not to send upon the innocent what is undeserved, that could I have wished to happen; now for the good the Gods bestow upon me, upon yourselves and upon your nurse,’tis due that we should give to the Deities our endless thanks,
since the immortal Gods approve and reward our piety. You are my daughters, both of you, and this is your relation, Agorastocles, the son of my cousin.

> Latin: Hanno:
Advortite animum, mulieres. primum, si id fieri possit,
ne indigna indignis di darent, id ego evenire vellem;
nunc quod boni mihi di danunt, vobis vostraeque matri,
eas dís est aequom gratias nos agere sempiternas,
quom nostram pietatem adprobant decorantque di immortales.
vos meae estis ambae filiae et hic ést cognatus vester,
huiusce fratris filius, Agorastocles.

[¶139] ADELPHASIUM:
Prithee, are they deluding us with imaginary joys?

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Amabo,
num hi falso oblectant gaudio nos?

[¶140] AGORASTOCLES:
Really, so may the Deities preserve me, this is your father. Give him your hands.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
At ita me di servent,
ut hic páter est vester. date manus.

[¶141] ADELPHASIUM: (embracing him.)
Welcome, father! unhoped-for by us, allow us to embrace you!

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Salve, insperate nobis
pater, té complecti nos sine.

[¶142] ANTERASTYLIS: (embracing him.)
Welcome, father! much wished and longed for!
We are both your daughters;
we both embrace you.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Cupite atque exspectate
pater, salve.
Adelphasivm:
Ambae filiae sumus.
Anterastilis:
Amplectamur ambae.

[¶143] AGORASTOCLES:
Who’ll be for embracing me in the next place?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quis me amplectetur postea?

[¶144] HANNO:
Now am I happy! Now with this delight do I allay the miseries of many a year.

> Latin: Hanno:
Nunc ego sum fotunatus,
multorum annorum miserias nunc hac voluptate sedo.

[¶145] ADELPHASIUM:
We hardly seem to believe this.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Vix hoc videmur credere.

[¶146] HANNO:
I’ll tell you something to make you believe it the more:

> Latin: Hanno:
Magis quí credatis dicam.

[¶147] why, it was your nurse who recognized me first.
ADELPHASIUM:
Prithee, where is she?
HANNO: (pointing to AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: nam vostra nutrix † primum me cognovit.
Adelphasivm:
Vbi ea, amabo, est?

[¶148] She’s at his house.
AGORASTOCLES: (to ADELPHASIUM, who is embracing her father.)
Pray, why does it please you to clasp his neck so long,
before he has betrothed you to me?
Dear one, much longed-for, blessings on you!
(He embraces her.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Apud hunc est.
Agorastocles:
Quaeso, qui lubet tam diu tenere collum?
omitte saltem tu altera. nolo ego istuc.

[¶149] ADELPHASIUM: (struggling.)
Do leave off your salutations!

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Enicas me.
…
prius quám tibi desponderit.

[¶150] AGORASTOCLES:
I will leave off.
And you the other one.
(To ANTERASTYLIS, whom he embraces.
ANTERASTYLIS: (struggling.)
I don’t want that; you torment me to death!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Mitto.
Adelphasivm:
Sperate, salve.

[¶151] HANNO:
Let us each clasp the other in our arms,
than whom is there anything on earth more happy?

> Latin: Hanno:
Condamus alter alterum ergo in nervom bracchialem.
quibus núnc in terra melius est?

[¶152] AGORASTOCLES:
Blessings befall the deserving.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Eveniunt digna dignis.

[¶153] (Pointing to HANNO.) At last his wishes are realized!
O Apelles! O Zeuxis the painter! why did you die too soon? Would that you could paint a subject after this! For I don’t care for other common painters to be treating subjects of this description.

> Latin: Hanno:
Tandem huic cupitum contigit.
Agorastocles:
O Apella, o Zeuxis pictor,
cur numero éstis mortui, hoc exemplo ut pingeretis?
nam alios pictores nil moror huius modi tractare exempla.

[¶154] HANNO:
Gods and Goddesses all! I return you deservedly extreme thanks,
for having blest me with this gladness so supreme and with these joys so great; as my daughters have returned to me and into my possession.

> Latin: Hanno:
Dí deaeque omnes, vóbis habeo mérito magnas grátias,
quom hac me laetitia adfecistis tanta et tantis gaudiis,
ut meae gnátae ad me redirent in potestatem meam.

[¶155] ADELPHASIUM:
My father, your own piety has clearly come to our aid.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
[Mi pater, tua pietas plane nobis auxilio fuit.]

[¶156] AGORASTOCLES:
Kinsman, take care and keep it in memory that you’ve betrothed your elder daughter to me—

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Patrue, facito in memoria habeas, tuam maiorem filiam]
mihi te despondisse.

[¶157] HANNO:
I remember it.

> Latin: Hanno:
Memini.

[¶158] AGORASTOCLES:
The portion, too, that you promised.
(Enter ANTHEMONIDES, from the house of LYCUS.)
ANTHEMONIDES: (to himself.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Et dotis quid promiseris.]

[¶159] If I don’t take full revenge for that mina which I gave to the Procurer, then really may the townspeople make a butt of me! This most rascally fellow even brought me to his house to breakfast. He himself went away out of doors, and left me as his chamberlain in the house. When neither the Procurer nor these women came back, nor anything was given me to eat,
for the best part of the breakfast I took a pledge, and came out of doors. This way I’ll pay him. I’ll touch up the rascally Procurer in the military way of payment. He did get hold of a person for him to bamboozle out of a mina of silver! But I wish that my mistress would now come in my way while thus enraged. Then, by my troth, with my fists I’d make her quite black all over;
I’d cover her so with swarthiness, that she should be much more swarthy than the Egyptians, or than those who carry the buckets at the games in the Circus.
ADELPHASIUM: (running to AGORASTOCLES.)

> Latin: Antamonides:
Si ego minam non ultus fuero probe, quam lenoni dedi,
tum profecto me sibi habento scurrae ludificatui.
is etiam me ad prandium ad se abduxit ignavissimus,
ipse abiit foras, mé reliquit pro atriensi in aedibus,
ubi nec leno néque illae redeunt, nec quod edim quicquam datur.
pro maiore parte prandi pignus cepi, abii foras;
sic dedero: aere militari tetigero lenunculum.
nanctus est hominem, mina quem argenti circumduceret.
sed mea amica nunc mihi irato obviam veniat velim:
iam pol ego illam pugnis totam faciam uti sit merulea,
ita replebo átritate, átrior multo ut siet,
quam Aegyptini, qui cortinam ludis per circum ferunt.

[¶160] Do hold me fast, please, my love; I sadly fear the kites; this is an evil animal—lest perchance he may carry me off, your chick.
ANTERASTYLIS: (embracing her FATHER.)

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Tene sis me arte, mea voluptas; male ego metuo miluos,
mala illa bestia est, ne forte me auferat pullum tuom.

[¶161] I cannot clasp you fast enough, my father!
ANTHEMONIDES: (to himself.)
I’m delaying.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Vt nequeo te satis complecti, mi pater.
Antamonides:
Ego me moror.

[¶162] (Looking in his hand.) I can now pretty nearly cater a breakfast for myself with this. (Raising his eyes.) But what’s this? How’s this? What’s this? What’s this I see? How now? What means this strange conjunction? What’s this coupling together? Who’s this fellow with the long skirts, just like a tavern-boy? Do I quite see with my eyes? Isn’t this my mistress, Anterastylis?

> Latin: propemodúm hoc opsonare prandium potero mihi.
sed quid hoc ést? quid est? quid hóc est? quid ego video? quo modo?
quid hoc est conduplicationis? quae haec est congeminatio?
quis hic homo est cum tunicis longis quasi puer cauponius?
satin ego oculis cerno? estne illaec mea amica Anterastilis?

[¶163] Why, surely it is she. For some time past I’ve perceived that I’m set at nought. Isn’t the girl ashamed to be hugging a tawny fellow in the middle of the street? I faith, I shall give him up forthwith to the executioner to be tortured all over. Surely this is a womanish race, with their tunics hanging down to their heels. But I’m determined to accost this African female lover.

> Latin: et ea est certo. iam pridem ego me sensi nihili pendier.
non pudet puellam ámplexari baiolum in media via?
iam hercle ego illum éxcruciandum totum carnufici dabo.
sane genus hoc mulierosumst tunicis demissiciis.
sed adire certum est hanc amatricem Africam.

[¶164] (To HANNO.) Hallo! you woman, I say, are you not ashamed? What business have you with her, pray? Tell me.

> Latin: heus tu, tibi dico, mulier, ecquid te pudet?
quid tibi negoti est autem cum istac? dic mihi.

[¶165] HANNO:
Young man, greetings to you.

> Latin: Hanno:
Adulescens, salve.

[¶166] ANTHEMONIDES:
I don’t want them; that’s nothing to you. What business have you to touch her with a finger?

> Latin: Antamonides:
Nolo, nihil ad te attinet.
quid tibi hanc digito tactio est?

[¶167] HANNO:
Because I choose.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quia mihi lubet.

[¶168] ANTHEMONIDES:
You choose?

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Lubet?

[¶169] HANNO:
I say so.

> Latin: Hanno:
Ita dico.

[¶170] ANTHEMONIDES:
Away to utter perdition, you shoe-latchet!

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Ligula, i in malam crucem.

[¶171] What, do you dare to be acting the lover here, you great toe of a man, or to be meddling with an object which masculine men are fond of, you skinnea pilchard, you deformed image of Serapis, you half-apron, you sheepskin-jacket, you pot of stinking sea-salt; more crammed, too, to boot, with leeks and garlick than the Roman rowers?

> Latin: tune hic amator audes esse, hallex viri,
aut contrectare quod mares homines amant?
deglupta mena, sarrapis, sementium,
manstruca, halagora, sampsa, tum autem plenior
ali ulpicique quam Romani remiges.

[¶172] AGORASTOCLES:
Young man, do your jaws or your teeth itch, that you are annoying this person, or are you in search of a heavy mishap?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Num tibi, adulescens, malae aut dentes pruriunt,
qui huic es molestus, an malam rem quaeritas?

[¶173] ANTHEMONIDES:
Why didn’t you use a drum while you were saying that? For I take you to be more of an effeminate wretch than a real man.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Quin adhibuisti, dum istaec loquere, tympanum?
nam te cinaedum esse arbitror magis quam virum.

[¶174] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you understand what sort of effeminate wretch I am? (Calling aloud.) Servants, come out of doors,
bring out some cudgels!

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Scin quam cinaedus sum? ite istinc, servi, foras,
ecferte fustis.

[¶175] ANTHEMONIDES:
Hark you, if I have said anything in a joke, don’t you be for taking it seriously.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Heus tu, si quid per iocum
dixi, nolito in serium convertere.

[¶176] ANTERASTYLIS:
Prithee, what pleasure have you, Anthemonides, in speaking rudely to our kinsman and father? For this is our father; he has just now recognized us,
and him as the son of his cousin.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Qui tibi lubido est, opsecro, Antamonides,
loqui inclementer nostro cognato et patri?
nam hic noster pater est; hic nos cognovit modo
et hunc sui fratris filium.

[¶177] ANTHEMONIDES:
So may Jupiter kindly bless me, I heartily rejoice that it is so, and I am delighted, if, in fact, any great misfortune befalls this Procurer, and since a fortune awaits you equal to your merits.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ita me Iuppiter
bene amet, bene factum. gaudeo et volup est mihi,
si quid lenoni óptigit magni mali.
[quomque e virtute vobis fortuna optigit.]

[¶178] ANTERASTYLIS:
I’ faith, he says what’s worthy of belief; do believe him, my father.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
[Credibile ecastor dicit. crede huic, mi pater.]

[¶179] HANNO:
I do believe him.

> Latin: Hanno:
[Credo.]

[¶180] AGORASTOCLES:
And I believe him. But look (pointing.) I espy the Procurer Lycus,
the worthy fellow; look, there he is—he’s betaking himself homeward.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Et ego credo. sed eccum lenonem Lycum.]
Agorastocles:
Bonum virum eccum video, se recipit domum;

[¶181] HANNO:
Who is this?

> Latin: Hanno:
[Quis hic est?]

[¶182] AGORASTOCLES:
He’s which you please, both the Procurer and Lycus. He has been keeping your daughters in servitude,
and from myself he has stolen some gold.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vtrumvis est, vel leno vel Lycus.
in servitute hic filias habuit tuas
et mi auri fur est.

[¶183] HANNO:
A pretty fellow for you to be acquainted with!

> Latin: Hanno:
[Bellum hominem, quem noveris.]

[¶184] AGORASTOCLES:
Let’s bring him to justice.
HANNO:
By no means.

> Latin: rapiamus in ius.
Hanno:
Minime.

[¶185] AGORASTOCLES:
For what reason?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quapropter?

[¶186] HANNO:
Because ’twere better for an action of damages to be brought against him.
(Enter LYCUS.)
LYCUS: (to himself.)

> Latin: Hanno:
Quia
†iniuriarum multo induci satius est.

[¶187] No one, in my opinion at least, is deceived, who rightly states his case to his friends.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Decipitur nemo, mea quidem sententia,
qui suis amicis narrat recte res suas;

[¶188] But by all my friends the one same thing is agreed upon, that I ought to hang myself, so as not to be adjudged to Agorastocles.
AGORASTOCLES: (stepping forward.)

> Latin: nam omnibus amicis meis idem unum convenit,
ut me suspendam, ne addicar Agorastocli.

[¶189] Procurer, let’s away to the court of justice.
LYCUS:
I do entreat you, Agorastocles, that I may be at liberty to hang myself.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Leno, eamus in ius.
Lycvs:
Opsecro te, Agorastocles,
suspendere ut me liceat.

[¶190] HANNO:
I summon you to justice.

> Latin: Hanno:
In ius te voco.

[¶191] LYCUS:
But what have you to do with me?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Quid tibi mecum autem?

[¶192] HANNO: (pointing at his DAUGHTERS.)
Because I affirm that both of these are my daughters, free women, and free by birth,
who, when little, were kidnapped together with their nurse.

> Latin: Hanno:
Quia hasce aio liberas
ingenuasque esse filias ambas meas;
eae súnt surruptae cum nutrice parvolae.

[¶193] LYCUS:
Indeed, I knew that already, and I wondered that no one came to assert their freedom; they really are none of mine, indeed.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Iam pridem equidem istuc scivi, et miratus fui,
neminem venire qui istas adsereret manu.
[meae quidem profecto non sunt.]

[¶194] ANTHEMONIDES:
Procurer, you must come to justice.

> Latin: Antamonides:
[Leno, in ius eas.]

[¶195] LYCUS:
You are talking about the breakfast; it is owing to you; I’ll give it.

> Latin: Lycvs:
[De prandio tu dicis. debetur, dabo.]

[¶196] AGORASTOCLES:
Twofold compensation I must have for the theft.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Duplum pro furto mi opus est.

[¶197] LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)
Take it out of this, then.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Sume hinc quid lubet.

[¶198] HANNO:
And I require a full satisfaction.

> Latin: Hanno:
Et mihi suppliciis multis.

[¶199] LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)
Take out of this whatever you please.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Sume hinc quid lubet:

[¶200] ANTHEMONIDES:
And I, indeed, a mina of silver.

> Latin: Antamonides:
[Et mihi quidem mina argenti.]

[¶201] LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)
Take out of this whatever you please. I’ll at once settle the matter for all with my neck, just like a porter.

> Latin: Lycvs:
[Sume hinc quid lubet.]
collo rem solvam iam omnibus, quasi baiolus.

[¶202] AGORASTOCLES:
Do you refuse me in any way?

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Numquid recusas contra me?]

[¶203] LYCUS:
Not a word, in fact.

> Latin: Lycvs:
[Haud verbum quidem.]

[¶204] AGORASTOCLES:
Go in-doors, then, damsels. But (to HANNO.) my kinsman, betroth me your daughter, as you promised.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Ite igitur intro, mulieres. sed patrue mi,]
[tuam, ut dixisti, mihi desponde filiam.]

[¶205] HANNO:
I should not venture to do otherwise.

> Latin: Hanno:
[Haud aliter ausim.]

[¶206] ANTHEMONIDES:
Kindly farewell!

> Latin: Antamonides:
[Bene vale.]

[¶207] AGORASTOCLES:
And kindly farewell to you!
ANTHEMONIDES: (holding up what he has got in his hand.)

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Et tu bene vale.]

[¶208] Procurer, I take this as a pledge with me for my mina.
LYCUS:
By heavens, I am ruined!

> Latin: Antamonides:
[Leno, arrabonem hoc pro mina mecum fero.—]
Lycvs:
[Perii hercle.]

[¶209] AGORASTOCLES:
Why yes, before very long, when you’ve come to justice.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Immo haud multo post, si in ius veneris.]

[¶210] LYCUS:
Nay but, I own myself your slave. What need of the Praetor have we? But I beseech you that I may be allowed to pay the simple sum, three hundred Philippeans. I think it can be scraped together; to-morrow I’ll have an auction.

> Latin: Lycvs:
[Quin egomet tibi me addico. quid praetore opust?]
[verum obsecro te, ut liceat simplum solvere,]
[trecentos Philippos; credo conradi potest:]
[cras auctionem faciam.]

[¶211] AGORASTOCLES:
On condition, then,
that you shall be in wooden custody at my house.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Tantisper quidem]
ut sis apud me lignea in custodia.

[¶212] LYCUS:
So be it.

> Latin: Lycvs:
[Fiat.]

[¶213] AGORASTOCLES:
Follow me in-doors, my kinsman, that we may keep this festive day in joyousness, upon his misfortune and our good fortune. (To the AUDIENCE.) Heartily fare you well. To great length have we gone; at last all these misfortunes fall upon the Procurer.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
[Sequere intro, patrue mi, út hunc festum diem]
[habeamus hilare, huius malo et nostro bono.]
[multum valete. multa verba fecimus;]
[malum postremo omne ad lenonem reccidit.]

[¶214] Now—that which is the last seasoning for our Play—if it has pleased you, our Comedy asks applause.
(AGORASTOCLES, LYCUS, HANNO, ANTHEMONIDES, ADELPHASIUM, and ANTERASTYLIS.
AGORASTOCLES:
What is it you are about, Captain? Why does it please you to speak rudely to my relative? Don’t be surprised that the damsels do follow after him; he has just now discovered that both of them are his own daughters.

> Latin: [nunc, quod postremum est condimentum fabulae,]
[si placuit, plausum postulat comoedia.—]
Agorastocles:
Quam rém agis, miles? qui lubet patruo meo
loqui inclementer? ne mirere, mulieres
quod eum secuntur: modo cognovit filias
suas ésse hasce ambas.

[¶215] LYCUS: (starting.)
Hah! what speech was it that reached my ears? Now I am undone!
(To AGORASTOCLES.) From what house were these females lost?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Hem, quod verbum aures meas
tetigit? nunc perii.
Antamonides:
Vnde haec perierunt domo?

[¶216] AGORASTOCLES:
They are Carthaginians.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Carthaginienses sunt.

[¶217] LYCUS:
Then I am ruined. I was always in dread of that, lest some one should recognize them, a thing which has now come to pass. Woe unto wretched me!
My eighteen minae are lost, I guess, which I paid for them.

> Latin: Lycvs:
At ego sum perditus.
illuc ego metui semper, ne cognosceret
eas áliquis, quod nunc factumst. vae misero mihi,
periere, opinor, duodeviginti minae,
qui hasce emi.

[¶218] AGORASTOCLES:
And you yourself are lost, Lycus.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Et tute ipse periisti, Lyce.

[¶219] HANNO:
Who is this?

> Latin: Hanno:
Quis hic est?

[¶220] AGORASTOCLES:
Which you please, he’s either the Procurer or Lycus. He has been keeping your daughters in servitude, and from myself he has stolen some gold.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Vtrumvis est, vel leno vel Lycus.
in servitute hic filias habuit tuas,
et mi auri fur est.

[¶221] HANNO:
A pretty fellow for you to be acquainted with!

> Latin: Hanno:
Bellum hominem, quem noveris.

[¶222] AGORASTOCLES:
Procurer, I always deemed you to be avaricious, but they know you to be a thief as well, who know more of you.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Leno, rapacem te esse semper credidi,
verúm etiam furacem qui norunt magis.

[¶223] LYCUS:
I’ll approach him. (He falls on the ground before AGORASTOCLES.) By your knees I do beseech you, and by him (pointing to HANNO.) whom I understand to be your relative; since you are deserving persons, as it befits deserving persons to do,
do then come to the aid of your suppliant! Indeed, already did I know them to be free women, and was waiting for some one to claim their freedom, for really they are none of mine. Then besides, I’ll restore your gold that I’ve got in my house, and I’ll make oath
that I have done nothing, Agorastocles, with ill intent.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Accedam. per ego tua te genua óbsecro
et hunc, cognatum quem tuom esse intellego:
quando boni estis, ut bonos facere addecet
faciatis, vestro subveniatis supplici.
iam pridem equidem istas scivi ésse liberas
et exspectabam, si qui eas ássereret manu.
nam non meae sunt prosum. tum autem aurum tuom
reddam, quod apud me est, et iusiurandum dabo,
me malitiose nil fecisse, Agorastocles.

[¶224] AGORASTOCLES:
As it’s right for me to do, I shall still consult my own notions. Let go of my knees.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid mihi par facere sit, ego mecum consulam.
omitte genua.

[¶225] LYCUS:
I’ll let them go, if such is your determination.
(He rises from the ground, and retires to a distance.)

> Latin: Lycvs:
Mitto, si ita sententia est.

[¶226] AGORASTOCLES:
Hark you! Procurer.
LYCUS:
What do you want with a Procurer amid business?

> Latin: Antamonides:
Heús tu leno.
Lycvs:
Quid lenonem vis inter negotium?

[¶227] AGORASTOCLES:
You to restore me my money before I take you hence to be laid in fetters.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Vt minam mi argenti reddas, prius quam in nervom abducere.

[¶228] LYCUS:
May the Gods grant better things!
AGORASTOCLES:
Even so; you’ll be dining away from home. I see Gold, silver, and your neck, Procurer, the three things are you now owing to me all at once.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Di meliora faxint.
Antamonides:
Sic est: hodie cenabis toris.
aurum argentum collum, leno, tris res nunc debes simul.

[¶229] HANNO:
What it befits me to do in this matter, I’m considering with myself. If I should attempt to take vengeance on this fellow, I shall be engaging in litigation in a strange city. So far as I hear, his disposition and manners, of the nature that they are—

> Latin: Hanno:
Quid me ⟨in⟩ hac re facere deceat, egomet mecum cogito.
si volo hunc ulcisci, litis sequar in alieno oppido,
quantum audivi ingenium et mores eius quo pacto sient.

[¶230] ADELPHASIUM:
My father, do have no dealings with this man, I conjure you.

> Latin: Adelphasivm:
Mi pater, ne quid tibi cum istoc rei sit pessumo, obsecro.

[¶231] ANTERASTYLIS:
Do listen to my sister. Come, put an end to your strife with the rascal.

> Latin: Anterastilis:
Ausculta sorori. abi, díiunge inimicitias cum improbo.

[¶232] HANNO:
Attend to this, will you, Procurer. Although I know that you deserve to come to ruin, I’ll not try the matter with you.

> Latin: Hanno:
Hoc age sis, leno. quamquam ego te meruisse ut pereas scio,
non experiar tecum.

[¶233] AGORASTOCLES:
Nor I, if you restore me my gold; Procurer, when let go from the fetters—you may get thrust into prison.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Neque ego; si aurum mihi reddes meum,
leno, quando ex nervo emissu's emissus es — compingare in carcerem.

[¶234] LYCUS:
What, your old habit still?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Iamne autem ut soles?

[¶235] ANTHEMONIDES:
Carthaginian, I wish to excuse myself to you. If I have said anything in my passion against the inclination of your feelings, I beg that you will pardon it; and as you have found these daughters of yours, so may the Deities bless me, it is a pleasure to me.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ego, Poene, tibi me purgatum volo.
si quid dixi iratus advorsum animi tui sententiam,
id uti ignoscas quaeso; et quom istas invenisti filias,
ita me di ament ⟨ut⟩ mihi volup est.

[¶236] HANNO:
I both forgive and believe you.

> Latin: Hanno:
Ignosco et credo tibi.

[¶237] ANTERLASTYIS:
Procurer, do you take care either to find me a mistress, or return me the mina of gold.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Leno, tu autem amicam mihi des facito aut [auri] mihi reddas minam.

[¶238] LYCUS:
Should you like to have my music-girl?

> Latin: Lycvs:
Vin tibicinam meam habere?

[¶239] ANTHEMONIDES:
I don’t care for a music-girl; you don’t know which is the greater, their cheeks or their bosoms.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Nil moror tibicinam;
nescias, utrum ei maiores buccaene an mammae sient.

[¶240] LYCUS:
I’ll find one to please you.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Dabo quae placeat.

[¶241] ANTHEMONIDES:
Mind that.

> Latin: Antamonides:
Cura.

[¶242] LYCUS: (to AGORASTOCLES.)
To-morrow I’ll bring back your gold to your house.

> Latin: Lycvs:
Aúrum cras ad te referam tuom.

[¶243] AGORASTOCLES:
Take care that you keep that in memory.
Captain, follow me.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Facito in memoria habeas.
Lycvs:
Miles, sequere me.—

[¶244] ANTHEMONIDES:
Yes, I’ll follow you.
(LYCUS goes into his house.)

> Latin: Antamonides:
Ego vero sequor.—

[¶245] AGORASTOCLES: (to HANNO.)
How say you, kinsman? When are you thinking of leaving here for Carthage?—
for I’m determined to go together with you.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Quid ais, patrue? quando hinc ire cogitas Carthaginem?
nam tecum mi una ire certum est.

[¶246] HANNO:
As soon as ever I can, that instant I shall go.

> Latin: Hanno:
Vbi primum potero, ilico.

[¶247] AGORASTOCLES:
It’s necessary for you to stop here some days, until I’ve had an auction.

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Dum auctionem facio, hic opus est aliquot ut maneas dies.

[¶248] HANNO:
I’ll do just as you wish.

> Latin: Hanno:
Faciam ita ut vis.

[¶249] AGORASTOCLES:
Come, please, let’s be off; let’s enjoy ourselves. (To the AUDIENCE.) Grant us your applause.]

> Latin: Agorastocles:
Age sis, eamus, nos curemus. plaudite.