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.
Milphio:At scin quo modo?
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.
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.
Wherefore, my delight, pray do let me prevail upon you.AGORASTOCLES: (aside.)
quam ob rem amabo, mea voluptas, sine te hoc exorarier.
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.)
Agorastocles:Non ego homo trioboli sum, nisi ego illi mastigiaeexturbo oculos atque dentes. em voluptatem tibi,em mel, em cor, em labellum, em salutem, em savium.
MILPHIO:Master, you are rendering yourself guilty of impiety! You are beating an ambassador.
Milphio:Impias, ere, te: oratorem verberas.
AGORASTOCLES:More than that even still.
Agorastocles:Iam istoc magis:
(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?
[etiam ocellum addam et labellum et linguam.]Milphio:[Ecquid facies modi?]
AGORASTOCLES:Was it in that fashion I requested you to plead for me?
Agorastocles:sicine ego te orare iussi?
MILPHIO:How then was I to plead?
Milphio:Quo modo ergo orem?
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.)
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.
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 himfrom beating you, rather than that he should not prove untrue towards me?ANTERASTYLIS: (to her SISTER.)
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 gestitopropter amorem vestrum.Adelphasivm:Amabo, men prohibere postulasne te verberet magis quám ne mendax me advorsum siet?
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.
Anterastilis:Aliquid huic responde, amabo, commode, ne incommodusnobis sit. nam detinet nos de nostro negotio.
ADELPHASIUM:That’s true. This one fault more will I pardon you for, Agorastocles. I am not angry.
Adelphasivm:Verum. etiam tibi hanc amittam noxiam unam, Agorastocles.non sum irata.
AGORASTOCLES:You are not?
Agorastocles:Non es?
ADELPHASIUM:I am not.
Adelphasivm:Non sum.
AGORASTOCLES:That I may believe you, give me a kiss then.
Agorastocles:Da ergo, ut credam, savium.
ADELPHASIUM:I’ll give you one by-and-by, when I return from the sacrifice.
Adelphasivm:Mox dabo, quom ab re divina rediero.
AGORASTOCLES:Be off, then, in all haste.
Agorastocles:I ergo strenue.
ADELPHASIUM:Follow me, sister.
Adelphasivm:Sequere me, soror.
AGORASTOCLES:And do you hear too? Pay all compliments to Venus in my name.
Agorastocles:Atque audin etiam? Veneri dicitomultam meis verbis salutem.
ADELPHASIUM:I’ll pay them.
Adelphasivm:Dicam.
AGORASTOCLES:Listen to this, too—
Agorastocles:Atque hoc audi.
ADELPHASIUM:What is it?
Adelphasivm:Quid est?
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.)
Agorastocles:Paucis verbis rem divinam facito. atque audin? respice.respexit. idem edepol Venerem credo facturam tibi.
AGORASTOCLES:What now do you advise me to do, Milphio?
Agorastocles:quid nunc mi es auctor, Milphio?
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.
Milphio:Vt me verberesatque auctionem facias: nam impunissumetibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedis licet.
AGORASTOCLES:Why so?
Agorastocles:Quid iam?
MILPHIO:For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth.
Milphio:Maiorem partem in ore habitas meo.
AGORASTOCLES:Do have done with those expressions.
Agorastocles:Supersede istis verbis.
MILPHIO:What now do you wish?
Milphio:Quid nunc vis tibi?
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 —
Agorastocles:Trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilicodedi dúdum, prius quam me evocavisti foras.nunc opsecro te, Milphio, hanc per dexteramperque hanc sororem laevam perque oculos tuos[perque meos amores perque Adelphasium meam]perque tuam libertatem—
MILPHIO:Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.
Milphio:Em nunc nihil opsecras.
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.
Agorastocles:Mi Milphidisce, mea commoditas, mea salus,fac quod facturum te esse promisti mihi,ut ego hunc lenonem perdam.
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.
Milphio:Perfacile id quidemst.i, adduce testis tecum; ego intus interimiam et ornamentis meis et sycophantiistuom exornabo vilicum. propera atque abi.
AGORASTOCLES:I fly.
Agorastocles:Fugio.
MILPHIO:That’s more my part than yours.
Milphio:Meum est ístuc magis officium quam tuom.
AGORASTOCLES:Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly —
Agorastocles:Egone egone, si istuc lepide ecfexis—
MILPHIO:Only do begone.
Milphio:I modo.
AGORASTOCLES:Ought I not this very day—
Agorastocles:Vt non ego te hodie—
MILPHIO:Only do be off.
Milphio:Abi modo.
AGORASTOCLES:To give you freedom
Agorastocles:Emittam manu—
MILPHIO:Only do begone.
Milphio:I modo.
AGORASTOCLES:By my troth, I should not deserve—ah!
Agorastocles:Non hercle meream.
MILPHIO:Bah!Only do be off.
Milphio:Oh—Agorastocles:Vah—Milphio:Abi modo.
AGORASTOCLES:As many as are the dead in Acheron—
Agorastocles:Quantum Acheruntest mortuorum.
MILPHIO:Will you, then, move off?
Milphio:Etiamne abis?
AGORASTOCLES:Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—
Agorastocles:Neque quantum aquaist in mari.
MILPHIO:Are you going to move off?
Milphio:Abiturun es?
AGORASTOCLES:Nor as many as there are clouds—
Agorastocles:Neque nubes omnes quantumst.
MILPHIO:Do you persist in going on this way?
Milphio:Pergin pergere?
AGORASTOCLES:Nor as there are stars in heaven—
Agorastocles:Neque stellae in caelo.
MILPHIO:Do you persist in dinning my ears?
Milphio:Pergin auris tundere?
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?
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?
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.)
Milphio:Si nequeo facere ut abeas, egomet abiero;nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipoopust cóniectore, qui Sphingi interpres fuit.—
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.)
Agorastocles:Illic hínc iratus abiit. nunc mihi cautio est,ne meámet culpa meo amori obiexim moram.ibo atque arcessam testis, quando Amor iubetme oboedientem ésse servo liberum.—
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.
Lycvs:Di illum infelicent omnes, qui post hunc diemleno ullam Veneri umquam immolarit hostiamquive ullum turis granum sacruficaverit.
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.
nam ego hodie infelix dis meis iratissumissex immolavi ágnos, nec potui tamenpropitiam Venerem facere utí esset mihi.
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.
quoniam litare nequeo, ábii illim ilicoiratus, votui éxta prosicarier;[neque ea poricere volui, quoniam non bona][haruspex dixit: deam esse indignam credidi.]eo pacto avarae Veneri pulchre adii manum.
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.
quando id quod sat erat satis habere noluit,ego pausam feci. sic ago, sic me decet.
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.
ego faxo posthac di deaeque cetericontentiores mage erunt atque avidi minus,quom scibunt, Veneri ut adierit leno manum.
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.
condigne haruspex, non homo trioboli,omnibus in extis aibat portendi mihimalum damnumque et deos esse iratos mihi.
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?
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?
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.
sed eccum incedit.Antamonides:Ita ut occepi dicere,lenulle, de illa pugna Pentetronica,quom sexaginta milia hominum uno dievolaticorum manibus occidi meis.
LYCUS:Heyday! Flying men?
Lycvs:Volaticorum hóminum?
ANTHEMONIDES:Certainly I do affirm it.
Antamonides:Ita dico quidem.
LYCUS:Prithee, are there anywhere men that fly?
Lycvs:An, opsecro, usquam sunt homines volatici?
ANTHEMONIDES:There were; but I slew them.
Antamonides:Fuere. verum ego interfeci.
LYCUS:How could you?
Lycvs:Quo modopotuisti?
ANTHEMONIDES:I’ll tell you. I gave birdlime and slings to my troops; beneath it they laid leaves of coltsfoot.
Antamonides:Dicam. viscum legioni dedifundasque; eo praésternebant folia farferi.
LYCUS:For what purpose?
Lycvs:Quoi rei?
ANTHEMONIDES:That the birdlime mightn’t adhere to the slings.
Antamonides:Ad fundas viscus né adhaeresceret.
LYCUS:Proceed. (Aside.) I faith, you do lie most egregiously. (Aloud.) What after that?
Lycvs:Perge. optume hercle perieras. quid postea?
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.
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 ílicoper cerebrum pinna sua sibi, quasi turturem.
LYCUS:By my troth, if ever this did take place, then may Jupiter make me to be ever sacrificing, and never propitiating him.
Lycvs:Si hercle istuc umquam factum est, tum me Iuppiterfaciat ut semper sacruficem nec umquám litem.
ANTHEMONIDES:And don’t you.believe me in this?
Antamonides:An mi haec non credis?
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.
Lycvs:Credo, ut mi aequomst credier.age eamus intro.Lycvs:Dum exta referuntur, volonarrare tibi etiam unam pugnam.
LYCUS:I don’t care about it.
Lycvs:Nil moror.
ANTHEMONIDES:Do listen.
Antamonides:Ausculta.
LYCUS:Upon my faith, no.
Lycvs:Non hercle auscultabo.
ANTHEMONIDES:Why then I’ll break your head this instant, if you don’t listen,or else be off to utter perdition!
Antamonides:Quo modo?colaphis quidem hercle tuom iam dilidam caput,nisi aut auscultas aut is in malam crucem.
LYCUS:I’d sooner go to utter perdition!
Lycvs:Malam crucem ibo potius.
ANTHEMONIDES:Are you determined then?
Antamonides:Certumnest tibi?
LYCUS:Determined.
Lycvs:Certum.
ANTHEMONIDES:In that case, do you, then, upon this lucky day, the Aphrodisia, make over to me the younger one of your courtesans.
Antamonides:Tum tu igitur die bonó Aphrodisiisaddice tuam mihi meretricem minusculam.
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.
Lycvs:Ita res divina mihi fuit: res seriasomnis extollo ex hoc die in alium diem.
I am resolved to make it really a holiday.
Antamonides:Profestos festos habeam decretum est mihi.
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.)
Lycvs:Nunc hinc eamus intro. sequere hac me.—Antamonides:Seqor.in hunc diem iam tuos sum mercennarius.—
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;
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.
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.
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.
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;
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;
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.
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 graduire, servile esse duco festinantem currere.praesertim in re populi placida atque interfectis hostibusnon 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.
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.
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.
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.
Advocati:An vero non iusta causa est, quor curratur celeriterubi 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.
Not one of us is going to burst the veins of his lungs for your sake.
tua causa nemo nostrorumst suos rupturus ramites.
AGORASTOCLES:You are too warm; really, I said this to you in joke.
Agorastocles:Nimis iracundi estis: equidem haec vobis dixi per iocum.
ADVOCATI:Consider it said in joke as well what we have said to you in answer.
Advocati:Per iocum itidem dictum habeto quae nos tibi respondimus.
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.
Agorastocles:[Obsecro hercle, operam celocem hanc mihi, ne corbitam date;][attrepidate saltem, nam vos adproperare haud postulo.]
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.
Advocati:[Si quid tu placide otioseque agere vis, operam damus;][si properas, cursores meliust te advocatos ducere.]
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.
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.
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.
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 simuldidicimus tecum una, ut respondere possemus tibi.
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.
Agorastocles:Ita profecto est. sed agite igitur, ut sciam vos scire rem,expedite [et] mihi quae vobis dudum dixi dicite.
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.
Advocati:Itane? temptas an sciamus? non meminisse nos ratu's ratus es,quo modo trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilicodederis, 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 tuomcum pecunia.
AGORASTOCLES:You remember it by heart; you have saved me.
Agorastocles:Meministis memoriter, servastis me.
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.
Advocati:Ille negabit: Milphionem quaeri censebit tuom;id duplicabit omne furtum. leno addicetur tibi.
In this matter you wish us to be your witnesses.AGORASTOCLES:You’ve got the matter fast.
ad eam rem nos esse testis vis tibi.Agorastocles:Tenetis rem.
ADVOCATI:I’ faith, hardly with the tips of our fingers, indeed; it is so very small a one.
Advocati:Vix quidem hercle, íta pauxilla est, digitulis primoribus.
AGORASTOCLES:This must be done quickly and with expedition. Make as much haste, then, as you can.ADVOCATI: (moving as though going.)
Agorastocles:[Hoc cito et cursim est agendum. propera iam quantum potest.]
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.
Advocati:[Bene vale igitur. te advocatos meliust celeris ducere;][tardi sumus nos.]Agorastocles:[Optime itis, pessime hercle dicitis.]
(Aloud.) Moreover, I could wish your thighs to fall down into your ankles.
[quin etiam deciderint vobis femina ín talos velim.]
ADVOCATI:And, i’ faith, we that your tongue had fallen into your loins, and your eyes upon the ground.
Advocati:[At edepol nos tibi in lumbos linguam atque oculos in solum.]
AGORASTOCLES:Heyday! it’s not for you to be angry at what I said in joke.
Agorastocles:[Heia, hau vostrumst iracundos esse, quod dixi ioco.]
ADVOCATI:Nor for you, indeed, to be speaking ill to your friends in joke.
Advocati:[Nec tuom quidem est amicis per iocum iniuste loqui.]
AGORASTOCLES:Drop this. What I want to do, you understand.
Agorastocles:[Mittite istaec. quid velim vos, scitis.]
ADVOCATI:We know full well:
Advocati:Callemus probe:
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.)
[lenonem ut periurum perdas, id studes.]Agorastocles:[Tenetis rem.]euge, opportune egrediuntur Milphio una et vilicus.basilice exornatus incedit et fabre ad fallaciam.
MILPHIO:Have you now got your instructions by heart?
Milphio:Iam tenes praecepta in corde?
COLLYBISCUS:Nicely.
Collybiscvs:Pulchre.
MILPHIO:Take care you understand them, please.
Milphio:Vide sis calleas.
COLLYBISCUS:What need is there of talking? I won’t let my own legs understand as well.
Collybiscvs:Quid opust verbis? callum aprugnum callere aeque non sinam.
MILPHIO:Only take you care that your speeches are learnt by heart for this plot.
Milphio:Fac modo ut condocta tibi sint dicta ad hanc fallaciam.
COLLYBISCUS:Why, upon my faith, I am more perfect than tragic or comic actors are.
Collybiscvs:Quin edepol condoctior sum, quam tragoedi aut comici.
MILPHIO:You are a capital fellow.
Milphio:Probus homost.
AGORASTOCLES: (to the ASSISTANTS.)Let’s go nearer to them.(Accosting MILPHIO and COLLYBISCUS.) Here are the witnesses.
Agorastocles:Adeamus propius.
MILPHIO: (to AGORASTOCLES.)
Milphio:Adsunt testes?Agorastocles:Tot quidem.
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;
Milphio:Non potuisti adducere homines magis ad hanc rem idoneos.nam istorum nullus nefastust: comitiales sunt meri;
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.
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.
ADVOCATI:May the Gods confound you!
Advocati:Di te perdant.
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.
Milphio:Vos quidem hercle—cum eo cum quiqui tamenet bene et benigne facitis, quóm ero amanti operam datis.
(To AGORASTOCLES.) But do they now know what the business is?AGORASTOCLES:The whole matter, all in its order.
sed isti iam sciunt, negoti quid sit?Agorastocles:Omne in ordine.
MILPHIO:In that case, do you, then, give me your attention. Do you know this Procurer Lycus?
Milphio:Tum vos animum advortite igitur. hunc vos lenonem Lycumnovistis?
ADVOCATI:Perfectly.
Advocati:Facile.
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.
Collybiscvs:At pol ego eum, qua sit facie, nescio.eum mihi volo demonstretis hominem.
ADVOCATI:We’ll take all care: we’ve been instructed quite enough.
Advocati:Nos curabimus.satis praeceptumst.
AGORASTOCLES: (pointing to COLLYBISCUS.)He has got three hundred pieces counted out.
Agorastocles:Hic trecentos nummos numeratos habet.
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.
Advocati:Ergo nos inspicere oportet istuc aurum, Agorastocles,ut sciamus quid dicamus mox pro testimonio.
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.
Collybiscvs:Agite, inspicite.Advocati:Aurum est profecto hoc, spectatores, comicum:macerato hoc pingues fiunt auro in barbaria boves;
ADVOCATI:We’ll make believe it is so.
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.
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!
Collybiscvs:Eu, edepol mortales malos.
AGORASTOCLES:But it was I who instructed them.
Agorastocles:Ego enim docui.
MILPHIO:And who you, in your turn?
Milphio:Quis te porro?
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.
Collybiscvs:Agite intro abite, Agorastocles,ne hic vos mecum conspicetur leno neu fallaciaepraepedimentum obiciatur.Advocati:Hic homo sapienter sapit.facite quod iubet.
AGORASTOCLES:Let’s be off. (To the ASSISTANTS.) But you—has enough been said?COLLYBISCUS:Do you be off.
Agorastocles:Abeamus. sed vos—Advocati:Satis dictumst. abi.
AGORASTOCLES:I’m off.Immortal Gods, I beg—COLLYBISCUS:Nay, but why don’t you be off?
Agorastocles:Abeo.Advocati:Quaeso, di immortales, quin abis?
AGORASTOCLES:I’m off.
Agorastocles:Abeo.—Advocati:Sapis.
COLLYBISCUS:You do wisely. (AGORASTOCLES and MILPHIO go into the house.)Hush! be quiet.
Collybiscvs:St,tace.
ADVOCATI:What’s the matter?
Advocati:Quid est?
COLLYBISCUS:This door (pointing to the door of the house of LYCUS) was guilty of a great indecency just now.
Collybiscvs:Fores haé fecerunt magnum flagitium modo.
ADVOCATI:What indecency is that?
Advocati:Quid ⟨id⟩ est flagiti?
COLLYBISCUS:It rumbled aloud.
Collybiscvs:Crepuerunt clare.
ADVOCATI:May the Deities confound you! Get you behind us.
Advocati:Di te perduint.pone nos recede.
COLLYBISCUS:Be it so.(Goes behind them.)
Collybiscvs:Fiat.
ADVOCATI:We’ll walk first.COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)
Advocati:Nos priores ibimus.
They do what town-fellows are in the habit of doing: they put worthy men behind themselves.ADVOCATI: (pointing to the PROCURER’S house.)
Collybiscvs:Faciunt scurrae quod consuerunt: pone sese homines locant.
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.)
Advocati:Illic homo est, qui egreditur, leno.Collybiscvs:Bonus est, nam similis malist.iam nunc ego illi égredienti sanguinem exsugam procul.
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?
Lycvs:Iam ego istúc revortar, miles: convivas voloreperire nobis commodos, qui una sient;interibi attulerint exta, atque eádem mulieresiam ab re divina credo apparebunt domi.sed quid huc tantum hominum incedunt? ecquidnam adferunt?
He, too, in the scarf, that’s following at a distance, who is he, I wonder? He is not an Aetolian.
et illé chlamydatus quisnam est, qui sequitur procul?
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.
Advocati:Aetoli cives te salutamus, Lyce,quamquam hanc salutem ferimus inviti tibi.
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.
Lycvs:Fortunati omnes sitis, quod certo scionec fore nec fortunam id situram fieri.
ADVOCATI:That is a treasure hoarded in the tongues of fools, to deem it gainful to speak amiss to their superiors.
Advocati:Istic ést thensaurus stultis in lingua situs,ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus.
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.
Lycvs:Viam qui nescit, qua deveniat ad mare,eum oportet amnem quaerere comitem sibi.ego male loquendi vobis nescivi viam:
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.
nunc vos mihi amnes estis; vos certum est sequi:si bene dicetis, vostra ripa vos sequar,si male dicetis, vostro gradiar limite.
ADVOCATI:To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good.
Advocati:Malo bene facere tantundemst periculumquantum bono male facere.
LYCUS:But why?
Lycvs:Qui vero?
ADVOCATI:You shall learn.
Advocati:Scies.
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.
malo si quid bene facias, [id] beneficium interit;bono si quid male facias, aetatem expetit.
LYCUS:Cleverly said! But what does that matter to me?
Lycvs:Facete dictum. sed quid istúc ad me attinet?
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.
Advocati:Quia nos honoris tui causa ad te venimus,quamquam bene volumus leniter lenonibus.
LYCUS:If you bring anything that’s good, I give you thanks.
Lycvs:Si quid boni adportatis, habeo gratiam.
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.
Advocati:Boni de nostro tibi nec ferimus nec damusneque pollicemur, neque adeo volumus datum.
LYCUS:I’ faith, I do believe yon; such is your kindly feeling. But what now do you wish?
Lycvs:Credo hercle vobis: ita vestra est benignitas.sed quid nunc voltis?
ADVOCATI: (pointing to COLLYBISCUS)This person in the scarf, whom you see,with him Mars is angered.
Advocati:Hunc chlamydatum quem vides,ei Mars iratust.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside, to himself.)May he be so indeed with your own heads!
Collybiscvs:Capiti vestro istuc quidem.
ADVOCATI:We are now bringing him here, Lycus, to you, for tearing asunder.COLLYBISCUS: (aside, to himself.)
Advocati:Nunc hunc, Lyce, ad te diripiundum adducimus.
This huntsman, myself, will be going home to-day with some spoil; the dogs are cleverly driving Lycus into the toils.
Collybiscvs:Cum praeda hic hodie incedet venator domum:canes compellunt in plagas lepide lupum.
LYCUS:Who is this person?
Lycvs:Quis hic est?
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.
Advocati:Nescimus nos quidem istum qui siet;nisi dudum mane ut ad portum processimus,atque istum e navi éxeuntem onerariavidemus. adiit ad nos extemplo exiens;salutat, respondemus.
COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)The artful fellows! how cleverly they do enter upon the plot!
Collybiscvs:Mortalis malos,ut ingrediuntur docte in sycophantiam.
LYCUS:What after that?
Lycvs:Quid deinde?
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.
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.
LYCUS:Is he eager to that degree?
Lycvs:Itane?
ADVOCATI:He has got gold.
Advocati:Ille est cupiens, aurum habet.
LYCUS: (aside.)That booty is mine.
Lycvs:Praeda haec meast.
ADVOCATI:He wishes to drink and wench.
Advocati:Potare, amare volt.
LYCUS:I’ll find him a nice place.
Lycvs:Locum lepidum dabo.
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;
Advocati:At enim hic clam furtim ésse volt, ne quis sciatneve arbiter sit. nam hic latro in Sparta fuit,ut quidem ipse nobis dixit, apud regem Attalum;
from there he fled hither, when the town was surrendered.COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)
inde huc aufugit, quoniam capitur oppidum.
Very clever that, about the soldier! about Sparta, most capital!LYCUS: (in a low voice.)
Collybiscvs:Nimis lépide de latrone, de Sparta optume.
May the Gods and Goddesses bestow many blessings on you, for having given me kindly information, and finding me a choice prey.
Lycvs:Di deaeque vobis multa bona dent, quom mihiet bene praecipitis et bonam praedam datis.
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.
Advocati:Immo ut ipse nobis dixit, quo accures magis,trecentos nummos Philippos portat praesidi.
LYCUS:I’m a king if I can to-day entice this man to my house.
Lycvs:Rex sum, si ego illum hodie ad me hominem adlexero.
ADVOCATI:Nay but, he really is your own.
Advocati:Quin hic quidem tuos est.
LYCUS:By my troth, prithee, do persuade him to take up his abode at my house, as the best lodging.
Lycvs:Opsecro hercle hortamini,ut devortatur ad me in hospitium optumum.
ADVOCATI:It befit us neither to persuade nor to dissuadea 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.)
Advocati:Neque nos hortari neque dehortari decethominem peregrinum: tuam rem tú ages, si sapis.nos tibi palumbem ad aream usque adduximus:nunc te illum meliust capere, si captum esse vis.
LYCUS:Are you going now?COLLYBISCUS: (to the ASSISTANTS.)What about the matters that I commissioned you upon, strangers?ADVOCATI: (pointing to LYCUS.)
Collybiscvs:Iamne itis? quid quod vobis mandavi, hospites?
It’s better for you, young sir, to speak to him about your own concerns;
Advocati:Cum illoc te meliust tuam rem, ádulescens, loqui:
he’s clever in those matters which you are enquiring about.COLLYBISCUS: (aside.)
illic ést ad istas res probus, quas quaeritas.
But, for my part, I could like you to see when I deliver him the gold.ADVOCATI: (aside.)
Collybiscvs:Videre equidem vos vellem, quom huic aurum darem.
At a distance there we shall be witnesses of that.COLLYBISCUS: (to the ASSISTANTS.)
Advocati:Illinc procul nos istuc inspectabimus.
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.)
Collybiscvs:Bonam dedistis mihi operam.Lycvs:It ad me lucrum.
Age, just so, indeed, the way that the ass kicks with his heels.
Collybiscvs:Illud quidem quorsum asinus caedit calcibus.
LYCUS:I’ll speak the fellow fairly. (To COLLYBISCUS.) A stranger salutes a stranger; I’m glad that you have arrived in safety.
Lycvs:Blande hominem compellabo. hóspes hospitemsalutat. salvom te advenire gaudeo.
COLLYBISCUS:May the Deities grant you many blessings, since you wish me well.
Collybiscvs:Multa tibi di dent bona, quom me salvom esse vis.
LYCUS:They say that you are in search of a lodging.
Lycvs:Hospitium te aiunt quaeritare.
COLLYBISCUS:I am in search.
Collybiscvs:Quaerito.
LYCUS:So those persons told me, who left me just now,that you are in search of one that is free from flies.
Lycvs:Ita illí dixerunt, qui hinc a me abierunt modo,te quaeritare a muscis.
COLLYBISCUS:By no means in the world.
Collybiscvs:Minime gentium.
LYCUS:Why so?
Lycvs:Quid itá?
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.
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.
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.
Lycvs:Edepol ne tibi illud possum festivom dare,siquidém potes ésse te pati in lepido loco,in lecto lepide strato lepidam mulieremcomplexum contrectare.
COLLYBISCUS:You are in the right road, Procurer.
Collybiscvs:Is, leno, viam.
LYCUS:Where, with Leucadian, Lesbian, Thasian, and Coanwine, 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.
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.
COLLYBISCUS:Why so?
Collybiscvs:Quid itá?
LYCUS:Because they demand ready money.
Lycvs:Quia aurum poscunt praesentarium.
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.)
Collybiscvs:Quin hercle accipere tu non mavis quam ego dare.
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.)
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.
AGORASTOCLES:What’s the matter? What is it you want, witnesses?
Agorastocles:Quid est? quid voltis, testes?
ADVOCATI:Look to the right hand; your servant is paying gold to the Procurer himself.COLLYBISCUS: (apart to LYCUS.)
Advocati:Specta ad dexteram.tuos sérvos aurum ípsi lenoni dabit.
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.
Collybiscvs:Age, accipe hoc sis: hic sunt numerati aureitrecenti nummi, qui vocantur Philippei.hinc me procura; propere hosce apsumi volo.
LYCUS:By my troth, you have found a lavish steward for yourself. Come, let’s away in-doors.
Lycvs:Edepol fecisti prodigum promum tibi.age, eamus intro.
COLLYBISCUS:I follow you.
Collybiscvs:Te sequor.
LYCUS:Well, well, walk on; and then we’ll talk together about the other matters that remain.
Lycvs:Age, age, ambula,ibí, quae reliqua, alia fabulabimur.
COLLYBISCUS:As for me, I’ll tell you about the Spartan affairs.
Collybiscvs:Eadém narrabo tibi res Spartiaticas.
LYCUS:Why then follow me.
Lycvs:Quin sequere me ergo.—
COLLYBISCUS:Lead me in-doors; lead me in, you have got me made over to you.(They go into the house of LYCUS.)
Collybiscvs:Abduc intro. addictum tenes.—
AGORASTOCLES:What do you advise me now?
Agorastocles:Quid nunc mi auctores estis?
ADVOCATI:To be moderate.
Advocati:Vt frugi sies.
AGORASTOCLES:What if my feelings will not let me be?
Agorastocles:Quid si animus esse non sinit?
ADVOCATI:Then be as they will let you.
Advocati:Esto ut sinit.
AGORASTOCLES:Did you see it, when the Procurer received the money?
Agorastocles:Vidistis, leno quom aurum accepit?
ADVOCATI:We saw it.
Advocati:Vidimus.
AGORASTOCLES:Did you know that he is my slave?
Agorastocles:Eum vos meum esse servom scitis?
ADVOCATI:We knew it.
Advocati:Scivimus.
AGORASTOCLES:That it is a thing against the reiterated laws of the people?
Agorastocles:Rem adversus populi saepe leges?
ADVOCATI:We knew it.
Advocati:Scivimus.
AGORASTOCLES:Well then, all these things I wish you to keep in memory before the Praetor by-and-by, when occasion shall come.
Agorastocles:Em istaec volo ergo vos commeminisse omnia,mox quom ad praetorem úsus veniet.
ADVOCATI:We remember them.
Advocati:Meminimus.
AGORASTOCLES:What if, while the matter has so recently happened, I knock at the door?
Agorastocles:Quid si recenti re aedis pultem?
ADVOCATI:I think you ought.
Advocati:Censeo.
AGORASTOCLES:If I do knock, he won’t open it.
Agorastocles:Si pultem, non recludet?
ADVOCATI:Then break the pannel.
Advocati:Panem frangito.
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?
Agorastocles:Si exierit leno, quid tum? hominem interrogem,meus sérvos ad eum veneritne?
ADVOCATI:Why not?
Advocati:Quippini?