AGORASTOCLES:With two hundred golden Philippean pieces?
Agorastocles:[Cum auri ducentis nummis Philippis?]
ADVOCATI:Why not?
Advocati:[Quippini?]
AGORASTOCLES:Then the Procurer will be going astray at once.ADVOCATI:About what matter?
Agorastocles:[Ibi extémplo leno errabit.]Adelphasivm:[Qua de re?]
AGORASTOCLES:Do you ask? Because a less sum will be named by one hundred pieces.
Agorastocles:Rogas?[quia centum nummis minus dicetur.]
ADVOCATI:You judge rightly.
Advocati:[Bene putas.]
AGORASTOCLES:He’ll think that some other person is being looked after.
Agorastocles:[Alium censebit quaeritari.]
ADVOCATI:No doubt.
Advocati:[Scilicet.]
AGORASTOCLES:He’ll be denying it at once.
Agorastocles:Extemplo denegabit.
ADVOCATI:On his oath even.
Advocati:Iuratus quidem.
AGORASTOCLES:The fellow will involve himself in the guilt of theft—ADVOCATI:Beyond a doubt, it certainly is so.
Agorastocles:Homo fúrti sese adstringet.Adelphasivm:Hau dubium id quidemst.
AGORASTOCLES:Of however much it is that shall have been brough to him.
Agorastocles:Quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum.
ADVOCATI:Why not?
Advocati:Quippini?
AGORASTOCLES:Jupiter confound you!
Agorastocles:Diespiter vos perduit.
ADVOCATI:Why not your own self?AGORASTOCLES: (going towards the door of LYCUS.)
Advocati:Te quippini?
I’ll go and knock at this door.ADVOCATI:Even so. Why not?
Agorastocles:Ibo et pultabo ianuam iam.Advocati:Quippini?
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!
Agorastocles:Tacendi tempus est, nam crepuerunt fores.foras égrediri video lenonem Lycum.adeste quaeso.
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.)
Advocati:Quippini? † si volesoperire capita, ne nos leno noverit,qui illi malae rei tantae fuimus inlices.
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.
Lycvs:Suspendant omnes nunciam se haruspices,quam ego illis posthac quod loquantur creduam,qui in re divina dudum dicebant mihimalum damnumque maximum portendier:
I have since then amplified my fortune with profit.AGORASTOCLES: (accosting him.)
is explicavi meam rem postilla lucro.
Save you, Procurer.LYCUS:May the Gods bless you, Agorastocles.
Agorastocles:Salvos sis, leno.Lycvs:Di te ament, Agorastocles.
AGORASTOCLES:You now salute me more kindly than hitherto.
Agorastocles:Magis mé benigne nunc salutas quam antidhac.
LYCUS:A calm has come, as though to a ship at sea. Just as the wind is, to that quarter is the sail shifted.
Lycvs:Tranquillitas evenit, quasi navi in mari:utquomque est ventus, exim velum vortitur.
AGORASTOCLES:May those ladies be well in your house, to whom I wish it, but to yourself I do not wish it.
Agorastocles:Valeant apud te quos volo; atque haud te volo.
LYCUS:They are well, as you desire; not for you, though.
Lycvs:Valent ut postulatumst, verum non tibi.
AGORASTOCLES:Send your Adelphasium to my house, to-day, please, upon this celebrated and famous festival, the Aphrodisia.
Agorastocles:Mitte ad me, si audes, hodie Adelphasium tuam,die fésto celebri nobilique Aphrodisiis.
LYCUS:Have you been breakfasting on a hot breakfast today? Tell me.
Lycvs:Calidum prandisti prandium hodie? dic mihi.
AGORASTOCLES:Why so?
Agorastocles:Quid iam?
LYCUS:Because now you are only cooling your mouth, when you ask me.
Lycvs:Quia os nunc frigefactas, quom rogas.
AGORASTOCLES:Attend to this, Procurer, will you; I’ve heard that my slave is at your house.
Agorastocles:Hoc age sis, leno. servom esse audivi meumapud te.
LYCUS:At my house? You’ll find that has never been the fact.
Lycvs:Apud me? numquam factum reperies.
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.)
Agorastocles:Mentire. nam ad te venit aurumque attulit.ita mihi renuntiatumst, quibus credo satis.
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.)
Lycvs:Malus es, captatum me advenis cum testibus.tuorum apud me nemost nec quicquam tui.
Remember that, assistants.ADVOCATI:We will remember it.LYCUS: (laughing.)
Agorastocles:Mementote illud, advocati.Advocati:Meminimus.
Ha, ha, ha! I now understand how it is, I’ve this instant seen through it.
Lycvs:Hahahae, iam teneo quid sit, perspexi modo.
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 contrivancefor 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.
hi qui illum dudum conciliaverunt mihiperegrinum 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 diceretcum auro esse apud me; compositast fallacia,ut eo me privent atque inter se dividant.lupo agnum eripere postulant. nugas agunt.
AGORASTOCLES:What, do you deny that either the gold or my slave is at your house?
Agorastocles:Negasne apud te esse aurum, nec servom meum?
LYCUS:I do deny it; and, if it’s of any use, I make myself hoarse with denying it.
Lycvs:Nego: et negando, si quid refert, ravio.
ADVOCATI:You are undone, Procurer; for that personwhom 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.)
Advocati:Periisti, leno. nam istest huius vilicusquem tibi nos esse Spartiatam diximus,qui ad te trecentos Philippeos modo detulit.idque in istoc adeo aúrum inest marsuppio.
Woe unto you!ADVOCATI:That, indeed, is close at hand for yourself.
Lycvs:Vae vostrae aetati.Advocati:Id quidem ⟨in⟩ mundo est tuae.
AGORASTOCLES:Come, you hang-dog, give up the purse this instant.
Agorastocles:Age omitte actutum, furcifer, marsuppium:
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.)
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 modosuspendere aequom censeant potissimum.—
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.)
Agorastocles:Age tu progredere, ut [testes] videant te ire istinc foras.estne hic meus servos?
COLLYBISCUS:I’ faith, I really am, Agorastocles.
Collybiscvs:Sum hercle vero, Agorastocles.
AGORASTOCLES:How now, villanous Procurer?
Agorastocles:Quid nunc, sceleste leno?
ADVOCATI:He, with whom you have the dispute, has made off.
Advocati:Quicum litigasapscessit.
AGORASTOCLES:I hope he’s gone hence to utter perdition.
Agorastocles:Vtinam hinc abierit malam crucem.
ADVOCATI:It’s proper that we should wish the same.
Advocati:Ita nos velle aequom est.
AGORASTOCLES:To-morrow I’ll bring my action against the fellow.
Agorastocles:Cras subscribam homini dicam.
COLLYBISCUS:Anything further with me—?
Collybiscvs:Numquid me?
AGORASTOCLES:You may go; put on your own dress.
Agorastocles:Apscedas, sumas ornatum tuom.
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.
Collybiscvs:Non sum nequiquam miles factus; paululumpraedae intus feci: dum lenonis familiadormitat, extis sum satur factus probe.
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!
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.—
ADVOCATI:And you, farewell! (AGORASTOCLES goes into his house, followed by COLLYBISCUS.) This fellow wants a thing that’s notoriously unfair;
Advocati:Et tu vale.iniuriam illic insignite postulat:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.)
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 mavelimagere 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 aedibustenebrae 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.
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.)
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.
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.)
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.
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.)
Milphio:Proinde habet orationem, quasi ipse sit frugi bonae,qui ipsus hercle ignaviorem potis est facere Ignaviam.
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.)
Syncerastvs:Nunc domum haec ab aede Veneris refero vasa, ubi hostiiserus nequivit propitiare Venerem suo festo die.
Charming Venus!SYNCERASTUS: (to himself.)But our Courtesans, with their first victims, appeased Venus in an instant.
Milphio:Lepidam Venerem.Syncerastvs:Nam meretrices nostrae primis hostiisVenerem placavere extemplo.
MILPHIO:O charming Venus, once again!SYNCERASTUS: (moving.)
Milphio:O lepidam Venerem denuo.
Now I’ll go home.MILPHIO: (coming forward.)Hallo! Syncerastus!
Syncerastvs:Nunc domum ibo.Milphio:Heus, Synceraste.
SYNCERASTUS: (looking around.)Who’s calling Syncerastus?
Syncerastvs:Syncerastum qui vocat?
MILPHIO:Your friend.
Milphio:Tuos amicus.
SYNCERASTUS:You don’t act like a friend, in causing me delay when I’ve got a burden.
Syncerastvs:Haud amice facis, qui cum onere offers moram.
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.
Milphio:At ob hanc moram tibi reddam operam úbi voles, ubi iusseris.habe rem pactam.
SYNCERASTUS:If so it is to be, I’ll give you my services in this—
Syncerastvs:Si futurumst, do tibi operam hanc.
MILPHIO:In what way?
Milphio:Quo modo?
SYNCERASTUS:Why that, when I’m to have a beating, you yourself may substitute your hide.
Syncerastvs:Vt enim ubi mihi vapulandum sit, tu corium sufferas.
MILPHIO:Get along with you.
apage, nesció quid viri sis.Milphio:Malus sum.
SYNCERASTUS:I don’t understand what sort of person you are.
Syncerastvs:Tibi sis.
MILPHIO:I’m good for nothing.SYNCERASTUS:Be so to yourself, then.MILPHIO:I want you.
Milphio:Te volo.
SYNCERASTUS:But my burden is pressing me.
Syncerastvs:At onus urget.
MILPHIO:Then, do you set it down, and turn your face to me.
Milphio:At tu appone et respice ad me.
SYNCERASTUS:I’ll do so, although I have no leisure.(Puts down his load.)
Syncerastvs:Fecero,quamquam haud otiumst.
MILPHIO:Save you, Syncerastus.
Milphio:Salvos sis, Synceraste.
SYNCERASTUS:O Milphio, may all the Gods and Goddesses favour—
Syncerastvs:O Milphio,di omnes deaeque ament.
MILPHIO:What person, pray?
Milphio:Quemnam hominem?
SYNCERASTUS:Neither you, nor me, Milphio, nor my own master, in fact.
Syncerastvs:Nec te nec me, Milphio:neque erum meum ádeo.
MILPHIO:Whom are they to favour, then?
Milphio:Quém ament igitur?
SYNCERASTUS:Any one else they please; for not one of us is deserving of it.
Syncerastvs:Aliquem, dignus qui siet.nam nostrorum nemo dignust.
MILPHIO:You speak wittily.
Milphio:Lepide loquere.
SYNCERASTUS:It befits me to do so.
Syncerastvs:Me decet.
MILPHIO:What are you doing?
Milphio:Quid agis?
SYNCERASTUS:I’m doing that which, clearly, adulterers don’t generally do.
Syncerastvs:Facio quod manufesti moechi haú ferme solent.
MILPHIO:What’s that?
Milphio:Quid id est?
SYNCERASTUS:Bringing all off in safety.
Syncerastvs:Refero vasa salva.
MILPHIO:May the Gods confound you and your master!
Milphio:Di te et tuom erum perduint.
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.
Syncerastvs:Me non perdent; illum ut perdant facere possum, si velim,meum erum ut perdant, ni mihi metuam, Milphio.
MILPHIO:What is it? Tell me.
Milphio:Quid id est? cedo.
SYNCERASTUS:You are a bad one.
Syncerastvs:Malus es?
MILPHIO:I am a bad one.
Milphio:Malus sum.
SYNCERASTUS:It goes but badly with me.
Syncerastvs:Male mihi est.
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.
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?
SYNCERASTUS:May Jupiter so love me—
Syncerastvs:Diespiter me sic amabit,
MILPHIO:I’ faith, in the degree that you deserve, to wit.
Milphio:Vt quidem edepol dignus es.
SYNCERASTUS:How I do long for this family to come to ruin.
Syncerastvs:Vt ego hanc familiam interire cupio.
MILPHIO:If you long for it, lend your aid.
Milphio:Adde operam, si cupis.
SYNCERASTUS:Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
Syncerastvs:Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.
MILPHIO:Troth, then, don’t pluck out any hairs; then, in the next two months, your arm-pits will be fit for flying.
Milphio:Nolito edepol devellisse: iam his duobus mensibusvolucres tibi erunt tuae hirquinae.
SYNCERASTUS:Away to utter perdition!
Syncerastvs:I in malam rem.
MILPHIO:Away yourself, and your master!
Milphio:I tu atque erus.
SYNCERASTUS:But, really, if a person knew him well, the fellow might soon be ruined.
Syncerastvs:Verum. enim qui hómo eum norit, norit. cito homo pervorti potest.
MILPHIO:Why so?
Milphio:Quid iam?
SYNCERASTUS:… Just as though you could be silent on any matter.
Syncerastvs:Quasi tu tacitum habere quicquam potis sis.
MILPHIO:I’ll keep the matter more strictly secret for you than that which has been told to a dumb woman.
Milphio:Rectiustacitas tibi res sistam quam quod dictum est mutae mulieri.
SYNCERASTUS:I could easily bring my mind to believe you there, if I did not know you.
Syncerastvs:Animum inducam facile ut tibi istuc credam, ni te noverim.
MILPHIO:Trust me boldly at my own peril.
Milphio:Crede audacter meo periclo.
SYNCERASTUS:I shall trust you to my cost, and still I will trust you.
Syncerastvs:Male credam, et credam tamen.
MILPHIO:Don’t you know that your master is a mortal enemy of my master?
Milphio:Scin tu erum tuom meo ero esse inimicum capitalem?
SYNCERASTUS:I know it.
Syncerastvs:Scio.
MILPHIO:By reason of the love affair?
Milphio:Propter amorem—
SYNCERASTUS:You are losing all your pains.
Syncerastvs:Omnem operam perdis.
MILPHIO:Why so?
Milphio:Quid iam?
SYNCERASTUS:Because you are teaching one that has been taught.
Syncerastvs:Quia doctum doces.
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.
Milphio:Quid ergo dubitas quin lubenter tuo ero meus quid possietfacere faciat male, eius merito? tum autem si quid tu adiuvas,eo facilius facere poterit.
SYNCERASTUS:But I’m afraid of this, Milphio—
Syncerastvs:At ego hoc metuo, Milphio.
MILPHIO:What is it that you’re afraid of?
Milphio:Quid est quod metuas?
SYNCERASTUS:That while I’m preparing the plot against my master, I may be betrayed by yourself.
Syncerastvs:Dúm ero insidias paritem, ne me perduim.
If my master knows that I’ve been talking to any individual, he’ll forthwith be making me from Syncerastus into Brokenlegs.
si erus meus me esse elocutum quoiquam mortali sciat,continuo is me ex Syncerasto Crurifragium fecerit.
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.
Milphio:Numquam edepol mortalis quisquam fiet e me certior,nisi ero meo uni indicasso, atque ei quoque ut ne enuntietid esse facinus ex ted ortum.
SYNCERASTUS:I shall trust you at my peril, and yet I will trust you.
Syncerastvs:Male credam, et credam tamen.
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.
sed hoc tu tecum tacitum habeto.Milphio:Fide non melius creditur.loquere (locus occasioque est) libere: hic soli sumus.
SYNCERASTUS:If your master chooses to act with caution, he’ll prove the ruin of my master.
Syncerastvs:Erus si tuos volt facere frugem, meum erum perdet.
MILPHIO:How can that be?
Milphio:Qui id potest?
SYNCERASTUS:Easily.
Syncerastvs:Facile.
MILPHIO:Then let me be acquainted with this “easily,” that he may know it as well.
Milphio:Fac ergo id facile noscam ego, ut ille possit noscere.
SYNCERASTUS:Because Adelphasium, whom your master dotes on is free by birth.
Syncerastvs:Quia Adelphasium, quám erus deamat tuos, ingenuast.
MILPHIO:In what way?
Milphio:Quo modo?
SYNCERASTUS:In the same way that her other sister Anterastylis is.
Syncerastvs:Eodem quo soror illius altera Anterastilis.
MILPHIO:But how am I to believe that?
Milphio:Cedo qui id credam.
SYNCERASTUS:Because he bought them at Anactorium, when little children, of a Sicilian pirate.
Syncerastvs:Quia illas emit in Anactorio parvolasde praedone Siculo.
MILPHIO:For how much?
Milphio:Quanti?
SYNCERASTUS:For eighteen minae.MILPHIO: (with an air of surprise.)These two for eighteen minae?SYNCERASTUS:And their nurse for the third.
Syncerastvs:Duodeviginti minis,duas illas et Giddenenem nutricem earum tertiam.
He, too, who sold them told him that he was selling persons who had been kidnapped:
et ille qui eas vendebat dixit se furtivas vendere:
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.
ingenuas Carthagine aibat esse.Milphio:Di vostram fidem,nimium lepidum memoras facinus. nam erus meus Agorastoclesibidem gnatust, inde surptus fere sexennis, postibiqui eum surrupuit huc devexit meoque ero eum hic vendidit.is in divitias homo adoptavit hunc, quom diem obiit suom.
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.
Syncerastvs:Omnia memoras quo id facilius fiat: manu eas adseratsuas popularis liberali causa.
MILPHIO:Only do keep silence and hold your tongue.
Milphio:Tacitus tace modo.
SYNCERASTUS:He certainly will bring the Procurer to a backgammon, if he gets them away.
Syncerastvs:Profecto ad incitas lenonem rediget, si eas abduxerit.
MILPHIO:Nay but, I’ll cause him to be ruined before he moves one foot;’tis so contrived already.
Milphio:Quin prius disperibit faxo, quam unam calcem civerit.ita paratumst.
SYNCERASTUS:May the Gods grant it so, that I don’t continue the slave of this Procurer.
Syncerastvs:Ita di faxint, ne apud lenonem hunc serviam.
MILPHIO:On the contrary, upon my faith, I’ll cause you to be a free man with myself, if the Gods are willing.
Milphio:Hercle qui meus conlibertus faxo eris, si di volent.
SYNCERASTUS:May the Gods grant it so! Do you detain me for anything else, Milphio?
Syncerastvs:Ita di faxint. numquid aliud me morare, Milphio?
MILPHIO:Fare you well, and may happiness attend you.
Milphio:Valeas beneque ut tibi sit.
SYNCERASTUS:I’ faith, that lies in the power of yourself and your master. Farewell, and mind that these things have been told in secrecy.
Syncerastvs:Pol istuc tibi et tuost ero in manu.vale et haec cura clanculum ut sint dicta.
MILPHIO:This has not been mentioned even. Farewell.
Milphio:Non dictumst. vale.
SYNCERASTUS:But really it’s of no use, unless this is done while it is warm.
Syncerastvs:At enim nihil est, nisi dum calet hoc agitur.
MILPHIO:You are right in your advice,and so it shall be done.
Milphio:Lepidu's lepidus es, quom mones.et ita hoc fiet.
SYNCERASTUS:There’s excellent material, if you provide an excellent workman.
Syncerastvs:Proba materies data est, si probum adhibes fabrum.
MILPHIO:Can’t you hold your tongue?
Milphio:Potin ut taceas?
SYNCERASTUS:I’ll hold my tongue and be off.
Syncerastvs:Taceo atque abeo.—
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?
Milphio:Mihi commoditatem creas.illic hinc abiit. di immortales meum erum servatum voluntet hunc disperditum lenonem: tantum eum instat exiti.satine prius quam unumst iniectum telum, iam instat alterum?
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.
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.]
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.)
[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 sythchy mlachthi in ythmum ysthyalm ych-ibarcu mysehili pho caneth yth bynuthi uad edin byn uibymarob syllohom alonim ubymysyrthohombyth limmoth ynnocho thuulech-antidamas chonys sidobrim chi fel yth chyl is chon chen lifulyth binim ys dybur ch-innocho-tnu agorastoclesyth emanethi hy chirs aelichot sithi nasotbynu yid ch-illuch ily gubulim lasibithimbodi aly thera ynnynu yslym min cho-th iusimYthalonimualoniuthsicorathiisthymhimihymacomsythcombaepumamitalmetlotiambeatiulecantheconaalonimbalumbar dechorbats … hunesobinesubicsillimbalimesseantidamossonalemuedubertefetdonobun.huneccilthumucommucrolufulaltanimauosduberithemhuarcharistolemsittesedanecnasotersahelicotalemusdubertimurmucopsuistitiaoccaaneclictorbodesiussilimlimmimcolusdeos deasque veneror, qui hanc urbem colunt,ut quod de mea re huc veni rite venerim,measque híc ut gnatas et mei fratris filiumreperire 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.
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.
Agorastocles:Ain tú tibi dixe Syncerastum, Milphio,eas ésse ingenuas ambas surrupticiasCharthaginiensis?Milphio:Aio, et, si frugi esse vis,eas líberali iam adseres causa manu.
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.)
nam tuom flagitiumst tuas te popularis patiservire ante oculos, domi quae fuerint liberae.
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!
Hanno:Pro di immortales, opsecro vostram fidem,quam orationem hanc aures dulcem devorant.creta est profecto hórum hominum oratio,ut mi apsterserunt omnem sorditudinem.
AGORASTOCLES:If you’ve got witnesses of this matter, I’ll do as you bid me.
Agorastocles:Si ad eam rem testis habeam, faciam quod iubes.
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.
Milphio:Quid tu mihi testis? quin tu insistis fortiter?aliqua Fortuna fuerit adiutrix tibi.
AGORASTOCLES:It’s much more easy to begin a thing than to bring it about.MILPHIO: (catching sight of HANNO, attended by his SERVANTS.)
Agorastocles:Incipere multost quam impetrare facilius.
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?
Milphio:Sed quae illaec avis est, quae huc cum tunicis advenit?numnam in balineis circumductust pallio?
I’ faith, the countenance is surely Carthaginian.The man’s a Gugga. I’ faith, he certainly has got some ancient and antiquated servants.
Agorastocles:Facies quidem edepol Punicast.Milphio:Guggast homo.servos quidem edepol veteres antiquosque habet.
AGORASTOCLES:How do you know?
Agorastocles:Qui scis?
MILPHIO:Don’t you see the fellows following, loaded with luggage?
Milphio:Viden homines sarcinatos consequi?
And, as I fancy, they’ve got no fingers on their hands.
† atque ut opinor digitos in manibus non habent.
AGORASTOCLES:Why so?
Agorastocles:Quid iam?
MILPHIO:Why, because they go with their rings in their ears.
Milphio:Quia incedunt cum anulatis auribus.
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.
Hanno:Adibo hosce atque áppellabo Punice.si respondebunt, Punice pergam loqui;si non, tum ad horum mores linguam vertero.
How say you, do you still remember anything of the Punic language?
Milphio:Quid ais tu? écquid commeministi Punice?
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.)
Agorastocles:Nihil edepol. nam qui scire potui, dic mihi,qui illim sexennis perierim Carthagine?
O ye immortal Gods! very many freeborn children have been lost from Carthage after this manner.
Hanno:Pro di immortales, plurumi ad illum modumperiere pueri liberi Carthagine.
MILPHIO:How say you?
Milphio:Quid ais tu?
AGORASTOCLES:What do you want?
Agorastocles:Quid vis?
MILPHIO:Should you like me to address this person in the Punic tongue?
Milphio:Vin appellem hunc Punice?
AGORASTOCLES:Do you understand it?
Agorastocles:An scis?
MILPHIO:No Punic man this day is a better Punic than I.
Milphio:Nullus me est hodie Poenus Poenior.
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.)
Agorastocles:Adi atque appella, quid velit, quid venerit,qui sit, quoiatis, unde sit: ne parseris.
Avo! Of what country are you, or from what city?
Milphio:Avo. quoiates estis aut quo ex oppido?
HANNO:Hanno Muthumballe bachaëdreanech.
Hanno:Anno byn mytthymballe udradait annech.
AGORASTOCLES:What does he say?
Agorastocles:Quid ait?
MILPHIO:He says that he is Hanno from Carthage, a Carthaginian, son of Muthumbal.
Milphio:Hannonem se esse ait Carthagine,Carthaginiensis Mytthumbalis filium.
MILPHIO:He salutes us.
Milphio:Salutat.
MILPHIO:He intends to present you with some “donation” out of this; what, I don’t know. Don’t you hear him promise?
Milphio:Doni volt tibidare hic nescio quid. audin pollicitarier?
AGORASTOCLES:Salute him again in Punic, in my name.MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)
Agorastocles:Saluta hunc rursus Punice verbis meis.
“Avo donni” he tells me to say to you in his name.(Pointing to AGORASTOCLES.)
Milphio:Avo donni inquit hic tibi verbis suis.
HANNO:Mehar bocca!
Hanno:Me har bocca.
MILPHIO:Be that for yourself rather than me!
Milphio:Istuc tibi sit potius quam mihi.
AGORASTOCLES:What does he say?
Agorastocles:Quid ait?
MILPHIO:He declares that his “box” for his teeth is painful. Perhaps he takes us to be doctors.
Milphio:Miseram esse praedicat buccam sibi.fortasse medicos nos esse arbitrarier.
AGORASTOCLES:If it is so, tell him that we are not; I don’t wish a stranger to be mistaken.MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)
Agorastocles:Si ⟨ita⟩ est, nega esse; nolo ego errare hospitem.
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.
Milphio:Audin tu?Hanno:Rufeyn nyccho issam.Agorastocles:Sic voloprofecto vera cuncta huic expedirier.roga númquid opus sit.
MILPHIO: (to HANNO.)You who have got no girdle, why have you come to this city, or what is it you seek?
Milphio:Tu qui zonam non habes,quid in hanc venistis urbem aút quid quaeritis?
HANNO:Muphursa.
Hanno:Muphursa.
AGORASTOCLES:What is it he says?
Agorastocles:Quid ait?
HANNO:Moin lechianna.
Hanno:Miuulec hianna.
AGORASTOCLES:Why has he come?
Agorastocles:Quid venit?
MILPHIO:Don’t you hear? He declares that he is wishful to give African mice to the Aediles as a show at the games.
Milphio:Non audis? mures Africanos praedicatin pompam ludis dare se velle aedilibus.
HANNO:Lalech lachananim liminichot.
Hanno:Lech lachanna nilimniichto.
AGORASTOCLES:What does he say now?
Agorastocles:Quid nunc ait?
MILPHIO:He says he has brought latchets, water-channels, and nuts;
Milphio:Ligulas, canalis ait se advexisse et nuces:
he’s now begging that you’ll lend him your assistance in having them sold.
nunc orat, operam ut des sibi, ut ea veneant.
AGORASTOCLES:He is a merchant, I suppose?
Agorastocles:Mercator credo est.
HANNO:Is amar binam.AGORASTOCLES:What is it he says?
Hanno:Assam.Milphio:Arvinam quidem.
HANNO:Palum erga dectha.
Hanno:Palu mirga detha.
AGORASTOCLES:Milphio, what is he saying now?
Agorastocles:Milphio, quid nunc ait?
MILPHIO:He says that he has got spades and forks given him for sale,for digging the garden and reaping the corn.
Milphio:Palas vendundas sibi ait et mergas datas,ad messim credo, nisi quid tú aliud sapis.[ut hortum fodiat atque ut frumentum metat.]
AGORASTOCLES:What is that to me?
Agorastocles:Quid istuc ad me?
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.
Milphio:Certiorem te esse volt,ne quid clam furtim se accepisse censeas.
HANNO:Muphonium sucoraim.
Hanno:Mufonnim siccoratim.
MILPHIO:So there! do take care, please, how you do what he’s begging of you.
Milphio:Hem, cave sis fecerisquod hic te órat.
AGORASTOCLES:What is he saying, or what is he begging? Explain it.
Agorastocles:Quid ait aut quid orat? expedi.
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.
Milphio:Sub cratim ut iubeas se supponi átque eolapides imponi multos, ut sese neces.
HANNO:Gunebel balsamen ierasan!
Hanno:Gunebbal samem lyryla.
AGORASTOCLES:Tell me what it is that he’s saying.
Agorastocles:Narra, quid est?quid ait?
MILPHIO:I’ faith, now I really don’t at all know.HANNO: (speaking in their own language.)
Milphio:Non hercle nunc quidem quicquam scio.
But that you may know, now from this moment henceforth will I speak Latin.
Hanno:At ut scias, nunc dehinc latine iam loquar.
(To MILPHIO.) Upon my faith, you must be a worthless and bad servant, to be laughing at a person, a foreigner and a stranger.
servom hercle te esse oportet et nequam et malum,hominem peregrinum atque advenam qui inrideas.
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.)
Milphio:At hercle te hominem et sycophantam et subdolum,qui huc advenisti nos captatum, migdilix,bisulci lingua quasi proserpens bestia.
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.
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.
HANNO:O my fellow-countryman, greetings to you!
Hanno:O mi popularis, salve.
AGORASTOCLES:And you, troth, whoever you are;
Agorastocles:Et tu edepol, quisquis es.
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?
et si quid opus est, quaeso, dic atque imperapopularitatis causa.Hanno:Habeo gratiam.[verum ego hic hospitium hábeo: Antidamae filium][quaero (commostra si novisti) Agorastoclem.]sed ecquem ádulescentem tu hic novisti Agorastoclem?
AGORASTOCLES:If, indeed, you are in search of the adopted son of Antidamas, I am the very person whom you are in search of.
Agorastocles:Siquidem Ántidamai quaeris ádoptaticium,ego sum ipsus quem tu quaeris.
HANNO: (starting.)Hah! what’s that I hear?
Hanno:Hem, quid ego audio?
AGORASTOCLES:That I am the son of Antidamas.
Agorastocles:Antidamae gnatum me esse.
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.)
Hanno:Sí itast, tesseramconferre si vis hospitalem, eccam attuli.
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.
Agorastocles:Agedum huc ostende. est par probe, quam habeo domi.
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.
Hanno:O mi hospes, salve multum. nam mihi tuos paterpatritus † ergo hospes Antidamas fuit.haec mi hospitalis tessera cum illo fuit.
AGORASTOCLES:Then here at my house shall hospitality be shown you; for I don’t reject either Hospitality or Carthage,from which I sprang.
Agorastocles:Ergo hic apud me hospitium tibi praebebitur.nam haúd repudio hospitium neque Carthaginem,unde súm oriundus.
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?
Hanno:Di dent tibi omnes quae velis.quid ais? qui potuit fieri, ut Carthaginignatus sis? hic autem habuisti Aetolum patrem.
AGORASTOCLES:I was stolen away from there; this Antidamas, your guest, bought me, and adopted me as his son.
Agorastocles:Surruptus sum illinc. hic me Antidama hospes tuosemit, et is me sibi adoptavit filium.
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?
Hanno:Demarcho item ipse fuit adoptaticius.sed mitto de illoc, ad te redeo. dic mihi,ecquid meministi tuom parentum nomina,patris atque matris?
AGORASTOCLES:I remember my father and my mother’s name.
Agorastocles:Memini.
HANNO:Repeat them, then, to me, to see if I know them, perchance, or if they are relatives of mine.
Hanno:Memoradum mihi,si novi forte aut si sunt cognati mihi.
AGORASTOCLES:Ampsigura was my mother, and Iachon my father.
Agorastocles:Ampsigura mater mihi fuit, Iahon pater.
HANNO:I could wish that your father and mother were alive.
Hanno:Patrem atque matrem viverent vellem tibi.
AGORASTOCLES:Are they dead?
Agorastocles:An mortui sunt?
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.
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.
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!
ostende, inspiciam.Agorastocles:⟨Em ostendo.⟩Hanno:Aperi. audi atque ades:…Agorastocles:Mi patrue, salve.
HANNO:And welcome to you, Agorastocles! I seem to myself to be born again, in having found you.
Hanno:Ét tu salve, Agorastocles.iterum mihi gnatus videor, quom te repperi.
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?
Milphio:Pol istám rem vobis bene evenisse gaudeo.sed te moneri num nevis?
HANNO:Really, I should wish to be advised.
Hanno:Sane volo.
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.
Milphio:Paterna oportet filio reddi bona.aequomst habere hunc bona quae possedit pater.
HANNO:I wish no otherwise; everything shall be restored. I’ll give his own property to him all safe, when he comes there.
Hanno:Haud postulo aliter: restituentur omnia;suam síbi rem salvam sistam, si illo advenerit.
MILPHIO:Take care and restore it, will you, even though he should live here still.
Milphio:Facito sis reddas, etsi hic habitabit, tamen.
HANNO:Nay but, he shall have my own as well, if anything should happen to me.
Hanno:Quin mea quoque iste habebit, si quid me fuat.
MILPHIO:A pleasant project has just now come into my mind,
Milphio:Festivom facinus venit mi in mentem modo.
HANNO:What’s that?
Hanno:Quid id est?
MILPHIO:There’s need of your assistance.
Milphio:Tua opus est opera.
HANNO:Tell me what you wish. Really, you shall have my services just as you please. What is the business?
Hanno:Dic mihi quid lubet:profecto uteris, ut voles, operam meam.quid est negoti?