MILPHIO:Can you act the cheat?
Milphio:Potin tu fieri subdolus?
HANNO:Towards an enemy, I can; to a friend, it would be mere folly.
Hanno:Inimico possum, amico ínsipientia est.
MILPHIO:I’ faith, it is an enemy of his.(Pointing at AGORASTOCLES.)
Milphio:Inimicus hercle est huius.
HANNO:I could do him a mischief with pleasure.
Hanno:Male faxim lubens.
MILPHIO:He’s in love with a person who belongs to a Procurer.
Milphio:Amat ab lenone hic.
HANNO:I deem that he acts discreetly.
Hanno:Facere sapienter puto.
MILPHIO:This Procurer lives close at hand.
Milphio:Leno hic habitat vicinus.
HANNO:I could do him a mischief with pleasure.
Hanno:Male faxim lubens.
MILPHIO:He has two slave girls, courtesans,sisters; one of these he is desperately in love with, nor has he ever taker any liberties with her.
Milphio:Ei duae puellae sunt meretrices servolaesorores: earum hic alteram efflictim perit,neque eam incestavit umquam.
HANNO:It’s an unhappy kind of passion.
Hanno:Acerba amatiost.
MILPHIO:The Procurer plays upon him.
Milphio:Hunc leno ludificatur.
HANNO:He’s enhancing his own profits thereby.
Hanno:Suom quaestum colit.
MILPHIO:He wishes to do him an evil turn.
Milphio:Hic illi malam rem dare volt.
HANNO:He’s right, if he does do it.
Hanno:Frugist, si id facit.
MILPHIO:Now I adopt this plan, and prepare this contrivance,that we should cite you; you are to affirm that they are your daughters, and that they were stolen when little from Carthage, and to maintain the cause of both in an action on their freedom, as though they were both your own daughters. Do you understand?
Milphio:Nunc hoc consilium capio et hanc fabricam apparo,ut te allegemus, filias dicas tuassurruptasque esse parvolas Carthagine …manu líberali causa ámbas adseras,quasi filiae tuae sint. iamne intellegis?
HANNO:On my faith, I do understand; for I likewise did have two daughterswho were stolen away when little children, together with their nurse.
Hanno:Intellego hercle. nam mihi item gnatae duaecum nutrice una sunt surruptae parvolae.
MILPHIO:Upon my word, you do feign it cleverly. At the very commencement this amuses me.HANNO: (aside, weeping.)
Milphio:Lepide hercle adsimulas. iam in principio id mihi placet.
Much more, i’ troth, than I could wish.MILPHIO: (aside to AGORASTOCLES.)Dear me! a subtle person, upon my word, artful and knowing, both tricky and crafty! How he does whimper, in order that with his gestures he may effect this all the more easily.
Hanno:Pol magis quam vellem.Milphio:Eu hércle mortalem catum,… malum crudumque, estolidum et subdolum.ut adflet, quo illud gestu faciat facilius.
Even myself, now, the master-workman, does he excel in skill.
me quoque dolis iam superat architectonem.
HANNO:But their nurse, of what appearance was she? Tell me.
Hanno:Sed earum nutrix qua sit facie, mi expedi.
MILPHIO:Of stature not tall, of a dusky complexion.HANNO:’Tis the very person.
Milphio:Statura hau magna, corpore aquilost.Hanno:Ipsa east.
MILPHIO:Of agreable form, with a small mouth, and very dark eyes.
Milphio:Specie venusta, óre atque oculis pernigris.
HANNO:I’ faith, you really have depicted her form exactly in your words.
Hanno:Formam quidem hercle verbis depinxti probe.
MILPHIO:Should you like to see her?
Milphio:Vin eam videre?
HANNO:I’d rather see my daughters. Still, go and call her out of doors. If they are my daughters, if she is their nurse, she’ll recognize me at once.MILPHIO: (knocking at the door of the PROCURER’S house.)
Hanno:Filias malo meas.sed i átque evoca illam; sí eae meae sunt filiae,si illarum est nutrix, me continuo noverit.
Hallo there! is there any one here? Tell Giddeneme to come out of doors; there’s a person wants to see her.(Enter GIDDENEME and a BOY, from the house.)
Milphio:Heus, ecquis hic est? nuntiate ut prodeatforas Gíddeneni. est qui illam conventam esse volt.
GIDDENEME:Who is it that knocks?
Giddenes:Quis pultat?
MILPHIO:One that’s a near acquaintance of yours.
Milphio:Qui te proximust.
GIDDENEME:What do you want?
Giddenes:Quid vis?
MILPHIO:Come now (pointing to HANNO.) do you know that person in the tunic, who it is?
Milphio:Eho,novistin tu illunc tunicatum hominem qui siet?
GIDDENEME:Why, whom do I behold? O supreme Jupiter! this sure is my master, the father of my foster-children, Hanno, the Carthaginian!
Giddenes:Nam quém ego aspicio? pro supreme Iuppiter,erus meus hic quidem est, mearum alumnarum pater,Hanno Carthaginiensis.
MILPHIO:Now, do see the cunning hussey this Carthaginian is really a clever juggler; he has brought all over to his own opinion.GIDDENEME: (running up to HANNO.)
Milphio:Ecce autem mala.[praestrigiator hic quidem Poenus probust,][perduxit omnis ad suam sententiam.]
O my master! welcome to you, Hanno! most unhoped for by myself and your daughters, welcome to you! But look you, don’t be wondering, or gazing so intently upon me.
Giddenes:O mí ere, salve, Hánno, insperatissumemihi tuisque filiis, salve atque—eho,mirari noli neque me contemplarier.
Don’t you know Giddeneme, your female slave?
cognoscin Giddenenem áncillam tuam?
HANNO:I know her. But where are my daughters? That I’m longing to know.
Hanno:Novi. sed ubi sunt meae gnatae? id scire expeto.
GIDDENEME:At the Temple of Venus.
Giddenes:Apud aedem Veneris.
HANNO:What are they doing there? Tell me.
Hanno:Quid ibi faciunt? dic mihi.
GIDDENEME:To-day is the Aphrodisia, the festive day of Venus! they have gone there to entreat the Goddess to be propitious to them.
Giddenes:Aphrodisia hodie Veneris est festus dies:oratum ierunt deam, ut sibi esset propitia.
MILPHIO:I’ faith, they’ve fully prevailed, I’m sure, inasmuch as he has arrived here.AGORASTOCLES: (aside to GIDDENEME.)
Milphio:Pol satis scio, impetrarunt, quando hic hic adest.
How now, are these his daughters?GIDDENEME:Just as you say. (To HANNO.) Your kindness has clearly come to our rescue, in your having arrived here to-day at the very time; for this day their names were to have been changed,and they were to have made a livelihood, disgraceful to their station, by their persons.
Agorastocles:Eho an huius sunt illae filiae?Giddenes:Ita ut praedicas.tua pietas nobis plane aúxilio fuit,quom huc advenisti hodie in ipso tempore;namque hodie earum mutarentur nominafacerentque indignum genere quaestum corpore.
A BOY:Haudones illi.GIDDENEME:Havon bene si illi, in mustine.
Pver:Auamma illi.Giddenes:Hauon bane silli in mustine.
Me ipsi et eneste dum et alamna cestinum.
Giddenes:Mepstaetemes tas dum et alanna cestimim.
AGORASTOCLES:What is it they are saying among themselves? Tell me.
Agorastocles:Quid illí locuti sunt inter se? dic mihi.
MILPHIO:He’s saluting his mother, and she this her son.
Hanno:Matrem hic salutat suam, haec autem hunc filium.
HANNO:Hold your peace, and let alone the woman’s gear.
tace atque parce muliebri supellectili.
MILPHIO:What gear is that?HANNO:Loud talkingwithout limit.
Agorastocles:Quae east supellex?Hanno:Clarus clamor.Agorastocles:Sine modo.
(To MILPHIO.) Do you lead these people in-doors (pointing to his SERVANTS.) and bid this nurse to come away together with you to your house.AGORASTOCLES: (to MILPHIO.)Do as he requests.GIDDENEME: (to HANNO.)
Hanno:Tu abduc hosce intro; et una nutricem simuliube hanc abire hinc ad te.Agorastocles:Fac quod imperat.
But who’s to point them out to you?AGORASTOCLES:I will, right skilfully.
Milphio:Sed quís illas tibi monstrabit?Agorastocles:Ego doctissume.
GIDDENEME:I’ll go away then.AGORASTOCLES:I’d only rather that you would do so, than say so.(She goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)MILPHIO:Upon my faith, I do think that this day the very thing that I said by way of jokewill be coming to pass both soberly and seriously,that these will be discovered to-day to be his daughters.
Milphio:Abeo igitur.
AGORASTOCLES:Troth, that very thing is quite certain now. Do you, Milphio, take them (pointing to the SERVANTS) in-doors; we’ll wait here for these damsels.I wish a dinner to be got ready for my kinsman on his arrival.
Agorastocles:Facias modo quam memores mavelim.patruo advenienti cena curetur volo.
MILPHIO:Lachananim you! (aside to the SERVANTS.) whom I’ll just now be packing off to the mill-stones, and from there after that to the dungeon and the oaken log. I’ll give you reason to praise your treatment here but slightly.
Milphio:Lachanna vos, quos ego iam detrudam ad molas,inde pórro ad puteum atque ad robustum codicem.ego faxo hospitium hoc leniter laudabitis.—
AGORASTOCLES: (to HANNO.)Do you hear, kinsman? I say, don’t you revoke what has been said; promise me your elder daughter in marriage.
Agorastocles:Audin tu, patrue? dico, ne dictum neges:tuam míhi maiorem filiam despondeas.
HANNO:Consider the thing as agreed on.
Hanno:Pactam rem habeto.
AGORASTOCLES:Do you promise her, then?
Agorastocles:Spondesne igitur?
HANNO:I do promise her.
Hanno:Spondeo.
AGORASTOCLES:My kinsman, blessings on you! for now you are mine beyond a doubt; now at length shall I converse with her without restraint.
Agorastocles:Mi patrue, salve. nam nunc es plane meus.nunc demum ego cum illa fabulabor libere.
Now, kinsman, if you wish to see your daughters, follow me.HANNO:Why, really, this long time I’ve been longing for it, and I’ll follow you.
nunc, patrue, si vis tuas videre filias,me sequere.Hanno:Iamdudum equidem cupio, et te sequor.
AGORASTOCLES:What if we go and meet them?
Agorastocles:[Quid si eámus illis obviam?]
HANNO:But I’m afraid lest we should pass them on the road. Great Jupiter, do now reinstate my fortunes for me as being certain instead of uncertain!
Hanno:[At ne intervias][praeterbitamus metuo. magne Iuppiter,][restitue certas mi ex incertis nunc opes.]
AGORASTOCLES:I trust that my charmer will be my own. But look, I catch sight of them.
Agorastocles:[† Ego quidem meos amores mecum confido fore.]sed eccás video ipsas.
HANNO:What, are these my daughters? How tall from being such little creatures have they now become!
Hanno:Haecine meae sunt filiae?quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae.
AGORASTOCLES:Do you know how it is? These are Grecian columns; they are wont to be erect.(They stand aside.) (Enter ADELPHASIUM and ANTERBASTYLIS, from the Temple of Venus.)
Agorastocles:Scin quid est?tragicae sunt: in calones sustolli solent.Milphio:[Opino hercle hodie, quod ego dixi per iocum,][id eventurum esse et severum et serium,][ut haec ínveniantur hodie esse huius filiae.]Agorastocles:[Pol istúc quidem iam certum est. tu istos, Milphio,][abduce intro. nos hasce hic praestolabimur.]
ADELPHASIUM:’Twas worth the while, to-day, of him who has a taste for lovelinessto afford a feast to his eyes, in coming hither to the Temple this day to see the sights. Upon my faith, I was charmed there to-day with the most elegant offerings of the courtesans, worthy of Venus, the most handsome Goddess; nor did I despise her worship this day; so great an abundance of beauteous objects was there there, each nicely arranged in its own place.
Adelphasivm:Fuit hódie operae pretiúm cuivis qui amábilitati animum adiceret,oculís epulas dare, délubrum qui hodie órnatum eo visére venit.deamávi ecastor ílli hodie lepidíssima munera méretricum,digná dea venustissimá Venere, neque cóntempsi eius opés hodie.tanta íbi copia venustátum aderat, in suó quique loco síta munde.
The odours of Arabia and of myrrh filled everything. The festive day seemed to be affected with no gloom, Venus, nor did thy Temple; so great a throng of her dependants was there, who had come to Venus of Calydon.ANTERASTYLIS:But certainly, as far indeed as regarded us two, sister, we were all-powerful in our prayers, beauteous and gainers of her favour; neither were we there held in ridicule by the young men, which, i’ faith, sister, happened to all the rest.
arás tus, murrinus, ómnis odor complébat. haud sordére visustfestús dies, Venus, nec tuóm fanum: tantús ibi clientarum érat numerus,quae ad Cálydoniam venérant Venerem.Anterastilis:Certo enim, quod quidem ad nos duasattínuit, praepotentés pulchre pacísque potentes, sóror, fuimus,neque ab iúventute inibi inrídiculo habitaé, quod pol,soror, céteris omnibus fáctumst.
ADELPHASIUM:I’d rather that it should so appear to other persons, than that you, sister, should praise yourself.
Adelphasivm:Malim ístuc aliis vídeatur, quam uti tú te, soror, conlaúdes.
ANTERASTYLIS:Indeed, I trust so.
Anterastilis:Spero équidem.
ADELPHASIUM:Troth, and so do I, when I reflect of what breeding we and the others are. We were born in that station, that it befits us to be unblemished by faultiness.HANNO: (apart.)
Adelphasivm:Et pól ego, quom, íngeniis quibus súmus atque aliae, gnósco;eo súmus gnatae genere, út deceat nos ésse a culpa cástas.
Jupiter, who dost preserve and feed the race of men, through whom we pass this mortal life, in whose hands are the hopes of life in all men, prithee, do grant this day as a prosperous onefor my fortunes! Those whom I’ve missed for many years,and whom when little I lost from their native land, to them restore their liberty, that I may be sure that for an indomitable sense of duty there is a reward.AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Hanno:Iuppíter, qui genus colis álisque hominum, per quém vivimus vitálem aevom,quem pénes spes vitae súnt hominum omniúm, da diem hunc sospítem quaeso,† rebus meis agundis, ut quíbus annos multós carui quasque ⟨é⟩ patriaperdidi parvas † redde is libertatem, invictae praemium ut esse sciam pietati.
I’ll engage that Jove shall do it all; for to me he is indebted, and stands in awe of me.HANNO: (apart.)Prithee, do hold your peace.(He weeps.)
Agorastocles:Omnía faciet Iuppíter faxo, nam mi ést obnoxius ét me metuít.Hanno:Tace quaeso.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)Kinsman, do not weep.ANTERASTYLIS: (apart.)
Agorastocles:Ne lácruma, patrue.
As it is a pleasure for a man, my sister, if he succeeds in anything, to have the credit of victory, just so did we this day among the rest excel them all in beauty.
Anterastilis:Vt vólup est homini, méa soror, si quód agit cluet victória;sicút nos hodie intér alias praestítimus pulchritúdine.
ADELPHASIUM:Sister, you are more silly than I could wish. Prithee, do you really think yourself a beauty,if your face has not been besmeared with soot?
Adelphasivm:Stultá, soror, magis es quám volo. an tu éo pulchra videre, óbsecro,si tíbi illi non os óblitumst fulígine?
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)O kinsman! O kinsman, dearest of all kinsmen to me!
Agorastocles:O pátrue, o patrue mí.
HANNO: (apart.)What is it, son of my cousin? My son, tell me, what is it you wish?
Hanno:Quid est,fratris mei gnate, gnate, quid vis? expedi.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)Why, really, I do wish you to attend to this.
Agorastocles:At enim hóc volo agas.
HANNO: (apart.)Why, really, I am attending to it.AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Hanno:At enim ágo istuc.
Kinsman, kinsman, dearest of all kinsmen to me!HANNO: (apart.)What’s the matter?
Agorastocles:⟨O⟩ pátrue mi patruíssime.Hanno:Quid est?
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)She’s a clever and a nice girl. How shrewd she is!HANNO: (apart.)
Agorastocles:Ést lepida et lauta. út sapit.
She has her father’s disposition in being shrewd.AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Hanno:Ingénium patris habet quód sapit.
How’s that? This long time, i’ faith, she has surely used up your shrewdness.
Agorastocles:Quae rés? iam diu édepol sápientiám tuam haéc quidem abusast.
’Tis from here (pointing to himself) she now derives her shrewdness;’tis from here her sense; whatever she does shrewdly, through my love does she act so shrewdly.
nunc hínc sapit, hinc sentít, quidquid sapit, éx meo amore.
ADELPHASIUM:We are not born of that rank, although we are slaves, sister, that it should befit us to do anything which any man may laugh at. Many are the faults of women; but of the many, this one is the greatest, to please themselves too much, and to give their attention too little to pleasing the men.
Adelphasivm:Nón eo genere súmus prognatae, tam étsi sumus servaé, soror,ut deceat nos facere quicquam quod homo quisquam inrideat.multa mulierum sunt vitia, sed hoc e multis maxumumst,quom sibi nimis placent minusque áddunt operam, uti placeant viris.
ANTERASTYLIS:It was a very great delight that was portended in our sacrifice of the entrails, sister, and what the soothsayer said about us both—
Anterastilis:Nimiae voluptatist quod in extis nostris portentumst, soror,quodque haruspéx de ambabus dixit.
AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)I wish he had said something about me!
Agorastocles:Velim de me aliquid dixerit.
ANTERASTYLIS:That we should be free in a few days, in spite of our owner. I don’t know why I should hope for that, unless the Gods or our parents do something.AGORASTOCLES: (apart.)
Anterastilis:Nos fore invíto domino nostro diebus paucis liberas.id ego nisi quid di aut parentes faxint, qui sperem hau scio.
’Twas through confidence in me, kinsman, upon my faith, that the soothsayer promised themliberty, I’m sure of it, because he knows I’m in love with her.ADELPHASIUM:Sister, follow me this way.(Moves as if going.)
Agorastocles:Mea fiducia hercle haruspex, patrue, his promisit, scio,libertatem, quia me amare hanc scit.Adelphasivm:Soror, sequere hac.
ANTERASTYLIS:I follow.(Moves also.)HANNO: (stepping forward.)
Anterastilis:Sequor.
Before you go away, I want you both. Unless it’s inconvenient, stop.
Hanno:Prius quam abitis, vos volo ambas. nisi piget, consistite.
ADELPHASIUM:Who’s calling us back?
Adelphasivm:Quis revocat?
AGORASTOCLES:One who wishes to do you a kindness.
Agorastocles:Qui bene volt vobis facere.
ADELPHASIUM:There’s opportunity for doing it. But who is the person?
Adelphasivm:Facere occasiost.sed quis homost?
AGORASTOCLES:A friend of yours.
Agorastocles:Amicus vobis.
ADELPHASIUM:One who is not an enemy, in fact.
Adelphasivm:Qui quidem inimicus non siet.
AGORASTOCLES:This is a good man, my love.
Agorastocles:Bonus est hic homo, mea voluptas.
ADELPHASIUM:I’ faith, I should prefer him rather than a bad one.
Adelphasivm:Pol istum malim quam malum.
AGORASTOCLES:If, indeed, friendship must be engaged in, with such a person ought it to be engaged in.
Agorastocles:Siquidem amicitiast habenda, cum hoc habendast.
ADELPHASIUM:I don’t beg for it.
Adelphasivm:Hau precor.
AGORASTOCLES:He wishes to do you many services.
Agorastocles:Multa bona volt vobis facere.
ADELPHASIUM:Being good yourself you will be doing good to the good.
Adelphasivm:Bonus bonis bene feceris.
HANNO:I will cause you joy—
Hanno:[Gaudio ero vobis.]
ADELPHASIUM:And, i’ faith, we pleasure to you.
Adelphasivm:[At edepol nos voluptati tibi.]
HANNO:And liberty.
Hanno:[Libertatique.]
ADELPHASIUM:At that price you’ll easily make us your own.
Adelphasivm:[Istoc pretio tuas nos facile feceris.]
AGORASTOCLES:My kinsman, so may the Gods bless me, if I were Jupiter,upon my faith I’d at once marry her for my wife, and pack Juno out of doors. How quietly did she utter her words, how considerately and becomingly! how modestly did she frame her speech! certainly she is my own!
Agorastocles:Patrue mi, ita me di amabunt, ut ego, si sim Iuppiter,iam hercle ego illam uxorem ducam et Iunonem extrudam foras.ut pudice verba fecit, cogitate et commode,ut modeste orationem praebuit.
HANNO: (apart to AGORASTOCLES.)But how skilfully I accosted her!
Hanno:Certo haec meast.sed ut astú sum adgressus ad eas.
AGORASTOCLES:Cleverly and becomingly, upon my faith.
Agorastocles:Lepide hercle atque commode.
HANNO:Am I still to go on testing them?
Hanno:Pergo etiam temptare?
AGORASTOCLES:Compress it in a few words; the people who are sitting here are getting thirsty.
Agorastocles:In pauca confer: sitiunt qui sedent.
HANNO:Well, why don’t we proceed to do that which was to be done? (To the WOMEN.) I summon you to justice.
Hanno:Quid istic? quod faciundumst cur non agimus? in ius vos voco.
AGORASTOCLES:Seize hold of this one, kinsman, if you are wise. Should you like me to catch hold of her?
Agorastocles:Nunc, pátrue, tu frugí bonae es. tené. vin ego hanc adpréndam?
ADELPHASIUM:Is this person your kinsman, Agorastocles?
Adelphasivm:An patruos est, Agorastocles, tuos hic?
AGORASTOCLES:I’ll soon let you know. Now, by my word, I’ll be nicely revenged on you; for I’ll make—you my bride.
Agorastocles:Iam faxo scibis.nunc pol ego te ulciscar probe, nam faxo—mea eris sponsa.
HANNO:Come before a court of justice; don’t delay!
Hanno:Ite in ius, ne moramini. antestare me atque duce.
AGORASTOCLES:Summon me as your witness, and take me; I’ll be a witness for you; and after that, her (pointing to ADELPHASIUM) will I love and embrace. But ’twas this, indeed, I intended to say—why yes, I did say that which I intended to say.HANNO: (to the DAMSELS.)
Agorastocles:Ego te antestabor, postea hanc amabo atque amplexabor.sed illúd quidem volui dícere—immo hercle díxi quod volebam.
You are lingering. I summon you to justice, unless it is more becoming for you to be dragged thither.
Hanno:Moramini. in ius vos voco, nisi honestiust prehendi.
ADELPHASIUM:Why do you summon us to justice? What are we in your debt?
Adelphasivm:Quid in iús vocas nos? quid tibi debemus?
AGORASTOCLES:He’ll tell it there.
Agorastocles:Dicet illi.
ADELPHASIUM:Are even my own dogs barking at me?
Adelphasivm:Etiam me meae latrant canes?
AGORASTOCLES:Then, troth, do you caress me;
Agorastocles:At tu hercle adludiato:
give me a kiss in place of a piece of meat; present your lips in place of a bone: that way I’ll render this dog more smooth for you than oil.
dato mihi pro offa savium, pro ósse linguam obicito.ita hanc canem faciam tibi oleo tranquilliorem.
HANNO:Come on, if you are coming.
Hanno:Ite si ítis.
ADELPHASIUM:What have we done to you?
Adelphasivm:Quid nos fecimus tibi?
HANNO:You are thieves, both of you.
Hanno:Fures estis ambae.
ADELPHASIUM:What, we, as regards you?
Adelphasivm:Nosne tíbi?
HANNO:You, I say.
Hanno:Vos inquam.
AGORASTOCLES:And I know it.
Agorastocles:Atque ego scio.
ADELPHASIUM:What theft is this?
Adelphasivm:Quid id fúrtist?
AGORASTOCLES:Enquire of him.
Agorastocles:Hunc rogato.
HANNO:Because for many years you have been concealing my daughters from me,and, in fact, persons free-born, and free, and born of the highest rank.
Hanno:Quia annos multos filias meas célavistis clam me,atque equidem ingenuas liberas summoque genere gnatas.
ADELPHASIUM:I’ faith, you’ll never find that villany to have been committed by us.
Adelphasivm:Numquam mecastor reperies tu istuc probrum penes nos.
AGORASTOCLES:Make a bet of a kiss now, if you are not forsworn, which is to give it to the other.
Agorastocles:Da pignus, ni nunc perieres, in savium, uter utri det.
ADELPHASIUM:I’ve nothing to do with you; prithee, get you gone.
Adelphasivm:Nil tecum ago, apscede opsecro.
AGORASTOCLES:But, i’ faith, I’ve got something to do with you; for he is my kinsman; it’s necessary for me to be his advocate.
Agorastocles:Atque hércle mecum agendum est.nam hic patruos meus est, pro hoc mihi patronus sim necesse est;
And I’ll inform him how you are guilty of many a theft, and in what way you have got his daughters as slaves at your house, whom you know to be free women stolen from their native land.
et praedicabo quo modo [vos] furta faciatis multaquoque modo húius filias apud vós habeatis servas,quas vos ex patria liberas surruptas esse scitis.
ADELPHASIUM:Where are these, or who are they, prithee?
Adelphasivm:Vbi sunt eae? aut quas, opsecro?
AGORASTOCLES: (aside to HANNO.)They have been teased sufficiently.HANNO: (aside.)
Agorastocles:Satis iám sunt maceratae.
Why not speak out, then?AGORASTOCLES: (aside.)I’ faith, I’m of that opinion, kinsman.
Hanno:Quid si eloquamur?Agorastocles:Censeo hercle, patrue.
ADELPHASIUM:I’m dreadfully afraidwhat this business can mean, my sister; so astounded am I, I stand here without my senses.
Adelphasivm:Misera timeo,quid hoc sít negoti, mea soror; ita stupida sine animo asto.
HANNO:Damsels, give me your attention. In the first place, if it could possibly come to pass, for the Gods not to send upon the innocent what is undeserved, that could I have wished to happen; now for the good the Gods bestow upon me, upon yourselves and upon your nurse,’tis due that we should give to the Deities our endless thanks,since the immortal Gods approve and reward our piety. You are my daughters, both of you, and this is your relation, Agorastocles, the son of my cousin.
Hanno:Advortite animum, mulieres. primum, si id fieri possit,ne indigna indignis di darent, id ego evenire vellem;nunc quod boni mihi di danunt, vobis vostraeque matri,eas dís est aequom gratias nos agere sempiternas,quom nostram pietatem adprobant decorantque di immortales.vos meae estis ambae filiae et hic ést cognatus vester,huiusce fratris filius, Agorastocles.
ADELPHASIUM:Prithee, are they deluding us with imaginary joys?
Adelphasivm:Amabo,num hi falso oblectant gaudio nos?
AGORASTOCLES:Really, so may the Deities preserve me, this is your father. Give him your hands.
Agorastocles:At ita me di servent,ut hic páter est vester. date manus.
ADELPHASIUM: (embracing him.)Welcome, father! unhoped-for by us, allow us to embrace you!
Adelphasivm:Salve, insperate nobispater, té complecti nos sine.
ANTERASTYLIS: (embracing him.)Welcome, father! much wished and longed for!We are both your daughters;we both embrace you.
Anterastilis:Cupite atque exspectatepater, salve.Adelphasivm:Ambae filiae sumus.Anterastilis:Amplectamur ambae.
AGORASTOCLES:Who’ll be for embracing me in the next place?
Agorastocles:Quis me amplectetur postea?
HANNO:Now am I happy! Now with this delight do I allay the miseries of many a year.
Hanno:Nunc ego sum fotunatus,multorum annorum miserias nunc hac voluptate sedo.
ADELPHASIUM:We hardly seem to believe this.
Adelphasivm:Vix hoc videmur credere.
HANNO:I’ll tell you something to make you believe it the more:
Hanno:Magis quí credatis dicam.
why, it was your nurse who recognized me first.ADELPHASIUM:Prithee, where is she?HANNO: (pointing to AGORASTOCLES.)
nam vostra nutrix † primum me cognovit.Adelphasivm:Vbi ea, amabo, est?
She’s at his house.AGORASTOCLES: (to ADELPHASIUM, who is embracing her father.)Pray, why does it please you to clasp his neck so long,before he has betrothed you to me?Dear one, much longed-for, blessings on you!(He embraces her.)
Hanno:Apud hunc est.Agorastocles:Quaeso, qui lubet tam diu tenere collum?omitte saltem tu altera. nolo ego istuc.
ADELPHASIUM: (struggling.)Do leave off your salutations!
Adelphasivm:Enicas me.…prius quám tibi desponderit.
AGORASTOCLES:I will leave off.And you the other one.(To ANTERASTYLIS, whom he embraces.ANTERASTYLIS: (struggling.)I don’t want that; you torment me to death!
Agorastocles:Mitto.Adelphasivm:Sperate, salve.
HANNO:Let us each clasp the other in our arms,than whom is there anything on earth more happy?
Hanno:Condamus alter alterum ergo in nervom bracchialem.quibus núnc in terra melius est?
AGORASTOCLES:Blessings befall the deserving.
Agorastocles:Eveniunt digna dignis.
(Pointing to HANNO.) At last his wishes are realized!O Apelles! O Zeuxis the painter! why did you die too soon? Would that you could paint a subject after this! For I don’t care for other common painters to be treating subjects of this description.
Hanno:Tandem huic cupitum contigit.Agorastocles:O Apella, o Zeuxis pictor,cur numero éstis mortui, hoc exemplo ut pingeretis?nam alios pictores nil moror huius modi tractare exempla.
HANNO:Gods and Goddesses all! I return you deservedly extreme thanks,for having blest me with this gladness so supreme and with these joys so great; as my daughters have returned to me and into my possession.
Hanno:Dí deaeque omnes, vóbis habeo mérito magnas grátias,quom hac me laetitia adfecistis tanta et tantis gaudiis,ut meae gnátae ad me redirent in potestatem meam.
ADELPHASIUM:My father, your own piety has clearly come to our aid.
Adelphasivm:[Mi pater, tua pietas plane nobis auxilio fuit.]
AGORASTOCLES:Kinsman, take care and keep it in memory that you’ve betrothed your elder daughter to me—
Agorastocles:[Patrue, facito in memoria habeas, tuam maiorem filiam]mihi te despondisse.
HANNO:I remember it.
Hanno:Memini.
AGORASTOCLES:The portion, too, that you promised.(Enter ANTHEMONIDES, from the house of LYCUS.)ANTHEMONIDES: (to himself.)
Agorastocles:[Et dotis quid promiseris.]
If I don’t take full revenge for that mina which I gave to the Procurer, then really may the townspeople make a butt of me! This most rascally fellow even brought me to his house to breakfast. He himself went away out of doors, and left me as his chamberlain in the house. When neither the Procurer nor these women came back, nor anything was given me to eat,for the best part of the breakfast I took a pledge, and came out of doors. This way I’ll pay him. I’ll touch up the rascally Procurer in the military way of payment. He did get hold of a person for him to bamboozle out of a mina of silver! But I wish that my mistress would now come in my way while thus enraged. Then, by my troth, with my fists I’d make her quite black all over;I’d cover her so with swarthiness, that she should be much more swarthy than the Egyptians, or than those who carry the buckets at the games in the Circus.ADELPHASIUM: (running to AGORASTOCLES.)
Antamonides:Si ego minam non ultus fuero probe, quam lenoni dedi,tum profecto me sibi habento scurrae ludificatui.is etiam me ad prandium ad se abduxit ignavissimus,ipse abiit foras, mé reliquit pro atriensi in aedibus,ubi nec leno néque illae redeunt, nec quod edim quicquam datur.pro maiore parte prandi pignus cepi, abii foras;sic dedero: aere militari tetigero lenunculum.nanctus est hominem, mina quem argenti circumduceret.sed mea amica nunc mihi irato obviam veniat velim:iam pol ego illam pugnis totam faciam uti sit merulea,ita replebo átritate, átrior multo ut siet,quam Aegyptini, qui cortinam ludis per circum ferunt.
Do hold me fast, please, my love; I sadly fear the kites; this is an evil animal—lest perchance he may carry me off, your chick.ANTERASTYLIS: (embracing her FATHER.)
Anterastilis:Tene sis me arte, mea voluptas; male ego metuo miluos,mala illa bestia est, ne forte me auferat pullum tuom.
I cannot clasp you fast enough, my father!ANTHEMONIDES: (to himself.)I’m delaying.
Adelphasivm:Vt nequeo te satis complecti, mi pater.Antamonides:Ego me moror.
(Looking in his hand.) I can now pretty nearly cater a breakfast for myself with this. (Raising his eyes.) But what’s this? How’s this? What’s this? What’s this I see? How now? What means this strange conjunction? What’s this coupling together? Who’s this fellow with the long skirts, just like a tavern-boy? Do I quite see with my eyes? Isn’t this my mistress, Anterastylis?
propemodúm hoc opsonare prandium potero mihi.sed quid hoc ést? quid est? quid hóc est? quid ego video? quo modo?quid hoc est conduplicationis? quae haec est congeminatio?quis hic homo est cum tunicis longis quasi puer cauponius?satin ego oculis cerno? estne illaec mea amica Anterastilis?
Why, surely it is she. For some time past I’ve perceived that I’m set at nought. Isn’t the girl ashamed to be hugging a tawny fellow in the middle of the street? I faith, I shall give him up forthwith to the executioner to be tortured all over. Surely this is a womanish race, with their tunics hanging down to their heels. But I’m determined to accost this African female lover.
et ea est certo. iam pridem ego me sensi nihili pendier.non pudet puellam ámplexari baiolum in media via?iam hercle ego illum éxcruciandum totum carnufici dabo.sane genus hoc mulierosumst tunicis demissiciis.sed adire certum est hanc amatricem Africam.
(To HANNO.) Hallo! you woman, I say, are you not ashamed? What business have you with her, pray? Tell me.
heus tu, tibi dico, mulier, ecquid te pudet?quid tibi negoti est autem cum istac? dic mihi.
HANNO:Young man, greetings to you.
Hanno:Adulescens, salve.
ANTHEMONIDES:I don’t want them; that’s nothing to you. What business have you to touch her with a finger?
Antamonides:Nolo, nihil ad te attinet.quid tibi hanc digito tactio est?
HANNO:Because I choose.
Hanno:Quia mihi lubet.
ANTHEMONIDES:You choose?
Anterastilis:Lubet?
HANNO:I say so.
Hanno:Ita dico.
ANTHEMONIDES:Away to utter perdition, you shoe-latchet!
Anterastilis:Ligula, i in malam crucem.
What, do you dare to be acting the lover here, you great toe of a man, or to be meddling with an object which masculine men are fond of, you skinnea pilchard, you deformed image of Serapis, you half-apron, you sheepskin-jacket, you pot of stinking sea-salt; more crammed, too, to boot, with leeks and garlick than the Roman rowers?
tune hic amator audes esse, hallex viri,aut contrectare quod mares homines amant?deglupta mena, sarrapis, sementium,manstruca, halagora, sampsa, tum autem pleniorali ulpicique quam Romani remiges.
AGORASTOCLES:Young man, do your jaws or your teeth itch, that you are annoying this person, or are you in search of a heavy mishap?
Agorastocles:Num tibi, adulescens, malae aut dentes pruriunt,qui huic es molestus, an malam rem quaeritas?
ANTHEMONIDES:Why didn’t you use a drum while you were saying that? For I take you to be more of an effeminate wretch than a real man.
Antamonides:Quin adhibuisti, dum istaec loquere, tympanum?nam te cinaedum esse arbitror magis quam virum.
AGORASTOCLES:Do you understand what sort of effeminate wretch I am? (Calling aloud.) Servants, come out of doors,bring out some cudgels!
Agorastocles:Scin quam cinaedus sum? ite istinc, servi, foras,ecferte fustis.
ANTHEMONIDES:Hark you, if I have said anything in a joke, don’t you be for taking it seriously.
Antamonides:Heus tu, si quid per iocumdixi, nolito in serium convertere.
ANTERASTYLIS:Prithee, what pleasure have you, Anthemonides, in speaking rudely to our kinsman and father? For this is our father; he has just now recognized us,and him as the son of his cousin.
Anterastilis:Qui tibi lubido est, opsecro, Antamonides,loqui inclementer nostro cognato et patri?nam hic noster pater est; hic nos cognovit modoet hunc sui fratris filium.
ANTHEMONIDES:So may Jupiter kindly bless me, I heartily rejoice that it is so, and I am delighted, if, in fact, any great misfortune befalls this Procurer, and since a fortune awaits you equal to your merits.
Antamonides:Ita me Iuppiterbene amet, bene factum. gaudeo et volup est mihi,si quid lenoni óptigit magni mali.[quomque e virtute vobis fortuna optigit.]
ANTERASTYLIS:I’ faith, he says what’s worthy of belief; do believe him, my father.
Anterastilis:[Credibile ecastor dicit. crede huic, mi pater.]
HANNO:I do believe him.
Hanno:[Credo.]
AGORASTOCLES:And I believe him. But look (pointing.) I espy the Procurer Lycus,the worthy fellow; look, there he is—he’s betaking himself homeward.
Agorastocles:[Et ego credo. sed eccum lenonem Lycum.]Agorastocles:Bonum virum eccum video, se recipit domum;
HANNO:Who is this?
Hanno:[Quis hic est?]
AGORASTOCLES:He’s which you please, both the Procurer and Lycus. He has been keeping your daughters in servitude,and from myself he has stolen some gold.
Agorastocles:Vtrumvis est, vel leno vel Lycus.in servitute hic filias habuit tuaset mi auri fur est.
HANNO:A pretty fellow for you to be acquainted with!
Hanno:[Bellum hominem, quem noveris.]
AGORASTOCLES:Let’s bring him to justice.HANNO:By no means.
rapiamus in ius.Hanno:Minime.
AGORASTOCLES:For what reason?
Agorastocles:Quapropter?
HANNO:Because ’twere better for an action of damages to be brought against him.(Enter LYCUS.)LYCUS: (to himself.)
Hanno:Quia†iniuriarum multo induci satius est.
No one, in my opinion at least, is deceived, who rightly states his case to his friends.
Lycvs:Decipitur nemo, mea quidem sententia,qui suis amicis narrat recte res suas;
But by all my friends the one same thing is agreed upon, that I ought to hang myself, so as not to be adjudged to Agorastocles.AGORASTOCLES: (stepping forward.)
nam omnibus amicis meis idem unum convenit,ut me suspendam, ne addicar Agorastocli.
Procurer, let’s away to the court of justice.LYCUS:I do entreat you, Agorastocles, that I may be at liberty to hang myself.
Agorastocles:Leno, eamus in ius.Lycvs:Opsecro te, Agorastocles,suspendere ut me liceat.
HANNO:I summon you to justice.
Hanno:In ius te voco.
LYCUS:But what have you to do with me?
Lycvs:Quid tibi mecum autem?
HANNO: (pointing at his DAUGHTERS.)Because I affirm that both of these are my daughters, free women, and free by birth,who, when little, were kidnapped together with their nurse.
Hanno:Quia hasce aio liberasingenuasque esse filias ambas meas;eae súnt surruptae cum nutrice parvolae.
LYCUS:Indeed, I knew that already, and I wondered that no one came to assert their freedom; they really are none of mine, indeed.
Lycvs:Iam pridem equidem istuc scivi, et miratus fui,neminem venire qui istas adsereret manu.[meae quidem profecto non sunt.]
ANTHEMONIDES:Procurer, you must come to justice.
Antamonides:[Leno, in ius eas.]
LYCUS:You are talking about the breakfast; it is owing to you; I’ll give it.
Lycvs:[De prandio tu dicis. debetur, dabo.]
AGORASTOCLES:Twofold compensation I must have for the theft.
Agorastocles:Duplum pro furto mi opus est.
LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)Take it out of this, then.
Lycvs:Sume hinc quid lubet.
HANNO:And I require a full satisfaction.
Hanno:Et mihi suppliciis multis.
LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)Take out of this whatever you please.
Lycvs:Sume hinc quid lubet:
ANTHEMONIDES:And I, indeed, a mina of silver.
Antamonides:[Et mihi quidem mina argenti.]
LYCUS: (pointing to his neck.)Take out of this whatever you please. I’ll at once settle the matter for all with my neck, just like a porter.
Lycvs:[Sume hinc quid lubet.]collo rem solvam iam omnibus, quasi baiolus.
AGORASTOCLES:Do you refuse me in any way?
Agorastocles:[Numquid recusas contra me?]
LYCUS:Not a word, in fact.
Lycvs:[Haud verbum quidem.]
AGORASTOCLES:Go in-doors, then, damsels. But (to HANNO.) my kinsman, betroth me your daughter, as you promised.
Agorastocles:[Ite igitur intro, mulieres. sed patrue mi,][tuam, ut dixisti, mihi desponde filiam.]
HANNO:I should not venture to do otherwise.
Hanno:[Haud aliter ausim.]
ANTHEMONIDES:Kindly farewell!
Antamonides:[Bene vale.]
AGORASTOCLES:And kindly farewell to you!ANTHEMONIDES: (holding up what he has got in his hand.)
Agorastocles:[Et tu bene vale.]
Procurer, I take this as a pledge with me for my mina.LYCUS:By heavens, I am ruined!
Antamonides:[Leno, arrabonem hoc pro mina mecum fero.—]Lycvs:[Perii hercle.]
AGORASTOCLES:Why yes, before very long, when you’ve come to justice.
Agorastocles:[Immo haud multo post, si in ius veneris.]
LYCUS:Nay but, I own myself your slave. What need of the Praetor have we? But I beseech you that I may be allowed to pay the simple sum, three hundred Philippeans. I think it can be scraped together; to-morrow I’ll have an auction.
Lycvs:[Quin egomet tibi me addico. quid praetore opust?][verum obsecro te, ut liceat simplum solvere,][trecentos Philippos; credo conradi potest:][cras auctionem faciam.]
AGORASTOCLES:On condition, then,that you shall be in wooden custody at my house.
Agorastocles:[Tantisper quidem]ut sis apud me lignea in custodia.
LYCUS:So be it.
Lycvs:[Fiat.]
AGORASTOCLES:Follow me in-doors, my kinsman, that we may keep this festive day in joyousness, upon his misfortune and our good fortune. (To the AUDIENCE.) Heartily fare you well. To great length have we gone; at last all these misfortunes fall upon the Procurer.
Agorastocles:[Sequere intro, patrue mi, út hunc festum diem][habeamus hilare, huius malo et nostro bono.][multum valete. multa verba fecimus;][malum postremo omne ad lenonem reccidit.]
Now—that which is the last seasoning for our Play—if it has pleased you, our Comedy asks applause.(AGORASTOCLES, LYCUS, HANNO, ANTHEMONIDES, ADELPHASIUM, and ANTERASTYLIS.AGORASTOCLES:What is it you are about, Captain? Why does it please you to speak rudely to my relative? Don’t be surprised that the damsels do follow after him; he has just now discovered that both of them are his own daughters.
[nunc, quod postremum est condimentum fabulae,][si placuit, plausum postulat comoedia.—]Agorastocles:Quam rém agis, miles? qui lubet patruo meoloqui inclementer? ne mirere, mulieresquod eum secuntur: modo cognovit filiassuas ésse hasce ambas.
LYCUS: (starting.)Hah! what speech was it that reached my ears? Now I am undone!(To AGORASTOCLES.) From what house were these females lost?
Lycvs:Hem, quod verbum aures meastetigit? nunc perii.Antamonides:Vnde haec perierunt domo?
AGORASTOCLES:They are Carthaginians.
Agorastocles:Carthaginienses sunt.
LYCUS:Then I am ruined. I was always in dread of that, lest some one should recognize them, a thing which has now come to pass. Woe unto wretched me!My eighteen minae are lost, I guess, which I paid for them.
Lycvs:At ego sum perditus.illuc ego metui semper, ne cognoscereteas áliquis, quod nunc factumst. vae misero mihi,periere, opinor, duodeviginti minae,qui hasce emi.
AGORASTOCLES:And you yourself are lost, Lycus.
Agorastocles:Et tute ipse periisti, Lyce.
HANNO:Who is this?
Hanno:Quis hic est?
AGORASTOCLES:Which you please, he’s either the Procurer or Lycus. He has been keeping your daughters in servitude, and from myself he has stolen some gold.
Agorastocles:Vtrumvis est, vel leno vel Lycus.in servitute hic filias habuit tuas,et mi auri fur est.
HANNO:A pretty fellow for you to be acquainted with!
Hanno:Bellum hominem, quem noveris.
AGORASTOCLES:Procurer, I always deemed you to be avaricious, but they know you to be a thief as well, who know more of you.
Antamonides:Leno, rapacem te esse semper credidi,verúm etiam furacem qui norunt magis.
LYCUS:I’ll approach him. (He falls on the ground before AGORASTOCLES.) By your knees I do beseech you, and by him (pointing to HANNO.) whom I understand to be your relative; since you are deserving persons, as it befits deserving persons to do,do then come to the aid of your suppliant! Indeed, already did I know them to be free women, and was waiting for some one to claim their freedom, for really they are none of mine. Then besides, I’ll restore your gold that I’ve got in my house, and I’ll make oaththat I have done nothing, Agorastocles, with ill intent.
Lycvs:Accedam. per ego tua te genua óbsecroet hunc, cognatum quem tuom esse intellego:quando boni estis, ut bonos facere addecetfaciatis, vestro subveniatis supplici.iam pridem equidem istas scivi ésse liberaset exspectabam, si qui eas ássereret manu.nam non meae sunt prosum. tum autem aurum tuomreddam, quod apud me est, et iusiurandum dabo,me malitiose nil fecisse, Agorastocles.
AGORASTOCLES:As it’s right for me to do, I shall still consult my own notions. Let go of my knees.
Agorastocles:Quid mihi par facere sit, ego mecum consulam.omitte genua.
LYCUS:I’ll let them go, if such is your determination.(He rises from the ground, and retires to a distance.)
Lycvs:Mitto, si ita sententia est.
AGORASTOCLES:Hark you! Procurer.LYCUS:What do you want with a Procurer amid business?
Antamonides:Heús tu leno.Lycvs:Quid lenonem vis inter negotium?
AGORASTOCLES:You to restore me my money before I take you hence to be laid in fetters.
Antamonides:Vt minam mi argenti reddas, prius quam in nervom abducere.
LYCUS:May the Gods grant better things!AGORASTOCLES:Even so; you’ll be dining away from home. I see Gold, silver, and your neck, Procurer, the three things are you now owing to me all at once.
Lycvs:Di meliora faxint.Antamonides:Sic est: hodie cenabis toris.aurum argentum collum, leno, tris res nunc debes simul.
HANNO:What it befits me to do in this matter, I’m considering with myself. If I should attempt to take vengeance on this fellow, I shall be engaging in litigation in a strange city. So far as I hear, his disposition and manners, of the nature that they are—
Hanno:Quid me ⟨in⟩ hac re facere deceat, egomet mecum cogito.si volo hunc ulcisci, litis sequar in alieno oppido,quantum audivi ingenium et mores eius quo pacto sient.
ADELPHASIUM:My father, do have no dealings with this man, I conjure you.
Adelphasivm:Mi pater, ne quid tibi cum istoc rei sit pessumo, obsecro.
ANTERASTYLIS:Do listen to my sister. Come, put an end to your strife with the rascal.
Anterastilis:Ausculta sorori. abi, díiunge inimicitias cum improbo.
HANNO:Attend to this, will you, Procurer. Although I know that you deserve to come to ruin, I’ll not try the matter with you.
Hanno:Hoc age sis, leno. quamquam ego te meruisse ut pereas scio,non experiar tecum.
AGORASTOCLES:Nor I, if you restore me my gold; Procurer, when let go from the fetters—you may get thrust into prison.
Agorastocles:Neque ego; si aurum mihi reddes meum,leno, quando ex nervo emissu's emissus es — compingare in carcerem.
LYCUS:What, your old habit still?
Lycvs:Iamne autem ut soles?
ANTHEMONIDES:Carthaginian, I wish to excuse myself to you. If I have said anything in my passion against the inclination of your feelings, I beg that you will pardon it; and as you have found these daughters of yours, so may the Deities bless me, it is a pleasure to me.
Antamonides:Ego, Poene, tibi me purgatum volo.si quid dixi iratus advorsum animi tui sententiam,id uti ignoscas quaeso; et quom istas invenisti filias,ita me di ament ⟨ut⟩ mihi volup est.
HANNO:I both forgive and believe you.
Hanno:Ignosco et credo tibi.
ANTERLASTYIS:Procurer, do you take care either to find me a mistress, or return me the mina of gold.
Antamonides:Leno, tu autem amicam mihi des facito aut [auri] mihi reddas minam.
LYCUS:Should you like to have my music-girl?
Lycvs:Vin tibicinam meam habere?
ANTHEMONIDES:I don’t care for a music-girl; you don’t know which is the greater, their cheeks or their bosoms.
Antamonides:Nil moror tibicinam;nescias, utrum ei maiores buccaene an mammae sient.
LYCUS:I’ll find one to please you.
Lycvs:Dabo quae placeat.
ANTHEMONIDES:Mind that.
Antamonides:Cura.
LYCUS: (to AGORASTOCLES.)To-morrow I’ll bring back your gold to your house.
Lycvs:Aúrum cras ad te referam tuom.
AGORASTOCLES:Take care that you keep that in memory.Captain, follow me.
Agorastocles:Facito in memoria habeas.Lycvs:Miles, sequere me.—
ANTHEMONIDES:Yes, I’ll follow you.(LYCUS goes into his house.)
Antamonides:Ego vero sequor.—
AGORASTOCLES: (to HANNO.)How say you, kinsman? When are you thinking of leaving here for Carthage?—for I’m determined to go together with you.
Agorastocles:Quid ais, patrue? quando hinc ire cogitas Carthaginem?nam tecum mi una ire certum est.
HANNO:As soon as ever I can, that instant I shall go.
Hanno:Vbi primum potero, ilico.
AGORASTOCLES:It’s necessary for you to stop here some days, until I’ve had an auction.
Agorastocles:Dum auctionem facio, hic opus est aliquot ut maneas dies.
HANNO:I’ll do just as you wish.
Hanno:Faciam ita ut vis.
AGORASTOCLES:Come, please, let’s be off; let’s enjoy ourselves. (To the AUDIENCE.) Grant us your applause.]
Agorastocles:Age sis, eamus, nos curemus. plaudite.