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title: "The Rope · Rudens"
author: "Plautus"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
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shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 4 of 4
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cite: "Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Rope · Rudens, section 4. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-rudens/4/"
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# The Rope · Rudens

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A shipwreck, a lost girl and a fisherman’s net.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi017, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi017.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

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

## 4. Lines 1097–1423

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-rudens/4/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-rudens/4/#p-N

[¶0] TRACHALIO:
Source of villany, do you suppose that all other people are just like yourself, you author of perjury?

> Latin: Trachalio:
Scelerum caput,
ut tute es, item omnis censes esse, periuri caput?

[¶1] GRIPUS:
All this I easily put up with, so long as he (pointing to DAEMONES) is of my way of thinking.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Omnia istaéc ego facile patior, dúm hic hinc a me sentiat.

[¶2] TRACHALIO:
But now he is against you; from this (pointing to the wallet) will he obtain true testimony.

> Latin: Trachalio:
At qui nunc abs te stat, verum hinc … ibi testimonium.

[¶3] DAEMONES:
Gripus, do you pay attention. (To TRACHALIO.) You explain in a few words what it is you want?

> Latin: Daemones:
Gripe, advorte animum. tu paucis expedi, quid postulas.

[¶4] TRACHALIO:
For my part, I have stated it; but if you haven’t understood me, I’ll state it over again. Both of these women (pointing to them), as I said a short time since, ought to be free;

> Latin: Trachalio:
Dixi equidem, sed si parum intellexti, dicam denuo.
hasce ambas, ut dudum dixi, ita esse oportet liberas:

[¶5] (pointing to PALAESTRA) she was stolen at Athens when a little girl.
GRIPUS:
Tell me what that has got to do with the wallet, whether they are slaves or whether free women?

> Latin: haec Athenis parva fúit virgo surpta.
Gripvs:
Dic mihi,
quid id ad vidulum [pertinet], servae sint istae an ⟨fuerint⟩ liberae?

[¶6] TRACHALIO:
You wish it all to be told over again, you rascal, so that the day may fail us.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Omnia iterum vis memorari, scelus, ut defiat dies.

[¶7] DAEMONES:
Leave off your abuse, and explain to me what I’ve been asking.

> Latin: Daemones:
Apstine maledictis et mihi quod rogavi dilue.

[¶8] TRACHALIO:
There ought to be a casket of wicker-work in that wallet,
in which are tokens by means of which she may be enabled to recognize her parents, by whom, when little, she was lost at Athens, as I said before.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Cistellam isti inesse oportet caudeam ín isto vidulo,
ubi sunt signa qui parentes noscere haec possit suos,
quibuscum periit parva Athenis, sicuti dixi prius.

[¶9] GRIPUS:
May Jupiter and the Gods confound you. What do you say, you sorcerer of a fellow? What, are these women dumb, that they are not able to speak for themselves?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Iuppiter te dique perdant. quid ais, vir venefice?
quid, istae mutae sunt, quae pro se fabulari non queant?

[¶10] TRACHALIO:
They are silent for this reason, because a silent woman is always better than a talking one.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Eo tacent, quia tacitast ⟨melior⟩ mulier semper quam loquens.

[¶11] GRIPUS:
Then, I’ faith, by your way of speaking, you are neither a man nor a woman to my notion.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tum pol tu pro portione nec vir nec mulier mihi es.

[¶12] TRACHALIO:
How so?

> Latin: Trachalio:
Quidum?

[¶13] GRIPUS:
Why, because neither talking nor silent are you ever good for anything. Prithee (to DAEMONES), shall I ever be allowed to-day to speak?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quia enim neque loquens es neque tacens umquam bonus.
quaeso, enumquam hodie licebit mihi loqui?

[¶14] DAEMONES:
If you utter a single word more this day, I’ll break your head for you.

> Latin: Daemones:
Si praeterhac
⟨unum⟩ verbum faxis hodie, ego tibi comminuam caput.

[¶15] TRACHALIO:
As I had commenced to say it, old gentleman, I beg you
to order him to give up that casket to these young women; if for it he asks any reward for himself, it shall be paid; whatever else is there besides, let him keep for himself.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Vt id occepi diceré, senex, eam te quaeso cistulam
ut iubeas hunc reddere illis; ob eam si quid postulat
sibi mercedis, dabitur: aliud quidquid ibi est habeat sibi.

[¶16] GRIPUS:
Now at last you say that, because you are aware it is my right; just now you were asking to go halves.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Nunc demum istuc dicis, quoniam ius meum esse intellegis:
dudum dimidiam petebas partem.

[¶17] TRACHALIO:
Aye, and even still I ask it.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Immo etiam nunc peto.

[¶18] GRIPUS:
I’ve seen a kite making a swoop, even when he got nothing at all however.
DAEMONES: (to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Vidi petere miluom, etiam cum nihil auferret tamen.

[¶19] Can’t I shut your mouth without a drubbing?
GRIPUS: (pointing to TRACHALIO.)
If that fellow is silent, I’ll be silent; if he talks, allow me to talk in my own behalf.

> Latin: Daemones:
Non ego te comprimere possum sine malo?
Gripvs:
Si istic tacet,
ego tacebo; si iste loquitur, sine me pro parte loqui.

[¶20] DAEMONES:
Please now give me this wallet, Gripus.

> Latin: Daemones:
Cedo modó mihi vidulum istum, Gripe.

[¶21] GRIPUS:
I’ll trust it to you; but for you to return it me, if there are none of those things in it.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Concedam tibi,
ac, si istorum nil sit, ut mihi reddas.

[¶22] DAEMONES:
It shall be returned.

> Latin: Daemones:
Reddetur.

[¶23] GRIPUS:
Take it.
(Gives him the wallet.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tene.

[¶24] DAEMONES:
Now then listen, Palaestra and Ampelisca, to this which I say:

> Latin: Daemones:
Audi nunciam, Palaestra atque Ampelisca, hoc quod loquor.

[¶25] is this the wallet, in which this Procurer said that your casket was?
PALAESTRA:
It is the same.
GRIPUS: (aside.)

> Latin: estne hic vidulus úbi cistellam tuam inesse aiebas?
Palaestra:
Is est.

[¶26] Troth, to my sorrow, I’m undone; how on the instant, before she well saw it, she said that it was it.
PALAESTRA:
I’ll make this matter plain to you, instead of difficult. There ought to be a casket of wicker-work there in that wallet; whatever is in there I’ll state by name; don’t you
show me anything. If I say wrong, I shall then have said this to no purpose; then you shall keep these things, whatever is in there for yourselves. But if the truth, then I entreat you that what is my own may be restored to me.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Perii hercle ego miser, uti, prius quam plane aspexit, ilico
eum esse dixit.
Palaestra:
Faciam ego hanc rem ⟨ex procliva pla⟩nam tibi.
cistellam isti inesse oportet caudeam ín isto vidulo.
ibi ego dicam quidquid inerit nominatim: tu mihi
nullum ostenderis; si falsa dicam, frustra dixero,
vos tamen istaec, quidquid istic inerit, vobis habebitis;
sed si erunt véra, tum opsecro te, ut mea mi reddantur.

[¶27] DAEMONES:
I agree; you ask for bare justice only, in my way of thinking, at least.

> Latin: Daemones:
Placet.
ius merum oras meo quidem animo.

[¶28] GRIPUS:
But, I’ faith, in mine, for extreme injustice; what if she is a witch or a sorceress,
and shall mention exactly everything that’s in it. Is a sorceress to have it?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Át meo hercle ⟨iniuriam⟩.
quid si ista aut superstitiosa aut hariolast atque omnia,
quidquid insit, vera dicet? anne habebit hariola?

[¶29] DAEMONES:
She shan’t get it, unless she tells the truth; in vain will she be conjuring. Unloose the wallet, then (giving it to GRIPUS), that as soon as possible I may know what is the truth.
GRIPUS: (first unfastens the straps of the wallet, and then hands it to his MASTER.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Non feret, nisi vera dicet: nequiquam hariolabitur.
solve vidulum ergo, ut quid sit verum quam primum sciam.

[¶30] Take it, it’s unfastened. (DAEMONES takes out the casket.) Alas, I’m undone; I see the casket.
DAEMONES: (holding it up, and addressing PALAESTRA.)
Is this it?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Hoc habet, solutust.
Daemones:
Aperi. video cistellam. haecinest?

[¶31] PALAESTRA:
That is it. O my parents, here do I keep you locked up;
here have I enclosed both my wealth and my hopes of recognizing you.
GRIPUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Palaestra:
Istaec est. o mei parentes, hic vos conclusos gero,
huc opesque spesque vestrum cognoscendum condidi.

[¶32] Then, by my faith, the Gods must be enraged with you, whoever you are, who fasten up your parents in so narrow a compass.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tum tibi hercle deos iratos esse oportet, quisquis es,
quae parentis tám in angustum tuos locum compegeris.

[¶33] DAEMONES:
Gripus, come hither, your cause is being tried. (To PALAESTRA.) Do you, young woman, away at a distance there say what’s in it, and of what appearance; mention them all.

> Latin: Daemones:
Gripe, accede huc; tua res agitur. tu, puella, istinc procul
dicito quid insit et qua facie, memorato omnia.

[¶34] By my troth, if you make ever so slight a mistake, even if afterwards you wish, madam, to correct yourself, you’ll be making a great mistake.

> Latin: si hercle tantillum peccassis, quod posterius postules
te ad verum convorti, nugas, mulier, magnas egeris.

[¶35] GRIPUS:
You demand what’s real justice.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Ius bonum oras.

[¶36] TRACHALIO:
By my troth, then, he doesn’t demand yourself; for you are the opposite of justice.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Edepol haud te órat, nam tu iniuriu's iniurius es.

[¶37] DAEMONES:
Now then, say on, young woman. Gripus, give attention and hold your tongue.

> Latin: Daemones:
Loquere nunciam, puella. Gripe, animum advorte ac tace.

[¶38] PALAESTRA:
There are some trinkets.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Sunt crepundia.

[¶39] DAEMONES: (looking in the casket.)
See, here they are, I espy them.

> Latin: Daemones:
Ecca video.

[¶40] GRIPUS: (aside.)
In the first onset I am worsted;

> Latin: Gripvs:
Perii in primo proelio.

[¶41] (takes hold of the arm of DAEMONES) hold, don’t be showing.
DAEMONES:
Of what description are they? Answer in their order.

> Latin: mane, ne ostenderis.
Daemones:
Qua facie sunt? responde ex ordine.

[¶42] PALAESTRA:
In the first place, there’s a little sword of gold, with an inscription.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Ensiculust aureolus primum litteratus.

[¶43] DAEMONES:
Just tell me, what the characters are upon that little sword.

> Latin: Daemones:
Dice dum,
in eo ensiculo litterarum quid est?

[¶44] PALAESTRA:
The name of my father. Next, on the other side, there’s a little two-edged axe, of gold likewise, with an inscription: there on the axe is the name of my mother.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Mei nomen patris.
post altrinsecust securicula ancipes, itidem aurea
litterata: ibi matris nomen in securiculast.

[¶45] DAEMONES:
Stay;

> Latin: Daemones:
Mane.

[¶46] tell me, what’s the name of your father upon the little sword?
PALAESTRA:
Daemones.

> Latin: dic, in ensiculo quid nomen est paternum?
Palaestra:
Daemones.

[¶47] DAEMONES:
Immortal Gods! where in the world are my hopes?

> Latin: Daemones:
Di immortales, ubi loci sunt spes meae?

[¶48] GRIPUS:
Aye, by my troth, and where are mine?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Immo edepol meae?

[¶49] DAEMONES:
Do proceed forthwith, I entreat you.
GRIPUS:
Cautiously, or else (aside) away to utter perdition.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Pergite, opsecro, continuo.
Gripvs:
Placide, aut i in malam crucem.

[¶50] DAEMONES:
Say, what’s the name of your mother, here upon the little axe?

> Latin: Daemones:
Loquere matris nomen hic quid in securicula siet.

[¶51] PALAESTRA:
Daedalis.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Daedalis.

[¶52] DAEMONES:
The Gods will that I should be preserved.

> Latin: Daemones:
Di me servatum cupiunt.

[¶53] GRIPUS:
But that I should be ruined.

> Latin: Gripvs:
At me perditum.

[¶54] DAEMONES:
This must be my own daughter, Gripus.

> Latin: Daemones:
Filiam meam esse hánc oportet, Gripe.

[¶55] GRIPUS:
She may be for me, indeed. (To TRACHALIO.) May all the Gods confound you who this day saw me with your eyes, and myself as well for a blockhead, who didn’t look about a hundred times first to see that no one was watching me, before I drew the net out of the water.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Sit per me quidem.
qui te di omnes perdant, qui me hodie oculis vidisti tuis,
meque adeo scelestum, qui non circumspexi centiens,
prius me ne quis inspectaret quam rete extraxi ex aqua.

[¶56] PALAESTRA:
Next, there’s a little knife of silver, and two little hands linked together, and
then a little sow.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Post sicilicula argenteola et duae conexae maniculae et
sucula.

[¶57] GRIPUS: (aside.)
Nay, then, go and be hanged, you with your little sow and with your little pigs.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quin tu i díerecta, cum sucula et cum porculis.

[¶58] PALAESTRA:
There’s also a golden drop, which my father presented to me upon my birthday.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Et bulla aurea est, pater quam dedit mi natali die.

[¶59] DAEMONES:
Undoubtedly there is; but I cannot restrain myself any longer from embracing you. My daughter, blessings on you; I am that father who begot you; I am Daemones, and see, your mother Daedalis is in the house here (pointing to his cottage).
AMPELISCA: (embracing him.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Ea est profecto. contineri quin complectar non queo.
filia mea, salve. ego is sum qui te produxi pater,
ego sum Daemones, et mater tua eccam hic intus Daedalis.

[¶60] Blessings on you, my unlooked-for father.
DAEMONES:
Blessings on you; how joyously do I embrace you.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Salve, mi pater insperate.
Daemones:
Salve. ut te amplector libens.

[¶61] TRACHALIO:’Tis a pleasure to me, inasmuch as this falls to your lot from your feelings of affection.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Volup est cum istuc ex pietate vestra vobis contigit.

[¶62] DAEMONES:
Come then, Trachalio, if you can, bring that wallet into the house.
TRACHALIO: (taking the wallet.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Cape dum, hunc si potes fer intro vidulum, age, Trachalio.

[¶63] See the villany of Gripus; inasmuch, Gripus, as this matter has turned out unfortunately for you, I congratulate you.
DAEMONES:
Come, then, let’s go, my daughter, to your mother,
who will be better able to enquire of you into this matter from proofs; who had you more in her hands, and is more thoroughly acquainted with your tokens.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Ecce Gripi scelera. cum istaec res male evenit tibi,
Gripe, gratulor.
Daemones:
Age eamus, mea gnata, ad matrem tuam,
quae ex te poterit argumentis hanc rem magis exquirere,
quae te magis tractavit magisque signa pernovit tua.—

[¶64] TRACHALIO:
Let’s all go hence in-doors, since we are giving our common aid.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Eamus intro ómnes, quando óperam promiscam damus.—

[¶65] PALAESTRA:
Follow me, Ampelisca.

> Latin: Palaestra:
Sequere me, Ampelisca.—

[¶66] AMPELISCA:
That the Gods favour you, it is a pleasure to me.
(They all go into the cottage of DAEMONES, exceptGRIPUS.)

> Latin: Ampelisca:
Cum te di amant, voluptati est mihi.—

[¶67] GRIPUS: (to himself.)
Am I not a blockhead of a fellow, to have this day fished up that wallet?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Sumne ego sceléstus, qui illunc hodie excepi vidulum?

[¶68] Or, when I had fished it up, not to have hidden it somewhere in a secret spot? By my troth, I guessed that it would be a troublesome booty for me, because it fell to me in such troublous weather. I’ faith, I guess that there’s plenty of gold and silver there. What is there better for me than to be off hence in-doors and secretly hang myself—
at least for a little time, until this vexation passes away from me?
(Goes into the cottage.) (Enter DAEMONES, from his cottage.)
DAEMONES: (to himself.)
O ye immortal Gods, what person is there more fortunate than I, who unexpectedly have discovered my daughter? Isn’t it the fact, that if the Gods will a blessing to befall any person, that longed-for pleasure by some means or other, falls to the lot of the virtuous?

> Latin: aut cum excepi, qui non alicubi in solo abstrusi loco?
credebam edepol turbulentam praedam eventuram mihi,
quia illa mihi tam turbulenta tempestate evenerat.
credo edepol ego illic inesse argenti et auri largiter.
quid meliust, quam ut hinc intro abeam et me suspendam clanculum,
saltem tantisper dum abscedat haec a me aegrimonia?—
Daemones:
Pro di immortales, quis me est fortunatior,
qui ex improviso filiam inveni meam?
satin si cui homini dei esse bene factum volunt,
aliquo illud pacto optingit optatum piis?

[¶69] I this day, a thing that I never hoped for nor yet believed, have unexpectedly discovered my daughter, and I shall bestow her upon a respectable young man of noble family, an Athenian, and my kinsman. For that reason I wish him to be fetched hither to me as soon as possible,
and I’ve requested my servant to come out here, that he may go to the Forum. Still, I’m surprised at it that he isn’t yet come out. I think I’ll go to the door. (Opens the door, and looks in.) What do I behold? Embracing her, my wife is clasping my daughter around her neck. Her caressing is really almost too foolish and sickening.
DAEMONES: (Goes to the door again, and calls out.)

> Latin: ego hodie neque speravi neque ⟨illud⟩ credidi:
is improviso filiam inveni tamen;
et eam de genere summo adulescenti dabo
ingenuo, Atheniensi et cognato meo.
ego eum adeo arcessi huc ad me quam primum volo,
iussique exire huc servom éius, ut ad forum
iret; nondum egressum esse eum, id miror tamen.
accedam, opinor, ad fores. quid conspicor?
uxor complexa collo retinet filiam.
nimis paéne inepta atque odiosa eius amatiost.

[¶70] ’Twere better, wife, for an end to be made at last of your kissing; and make all ready that I may perform a sacrifice, when I come in-doors, in honor of the household Gods, inasmuch as they have increased our family. At home I have lambs and swine for sacred use. But why, ladies, are you detaining that Trachalio? Oh, I see he’s coming out of doors, very seasonably.
(Enter TRACHALIO, from the cottage.)
TRACHALIO: (speaking to those within.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Aliquando osculando meliust, uxor, pausam fieri;
atque adorna, ut rem divinam faciam, cum intro advenero,
Laribus familiaribus, cum auxerunt nostram familiam.
sunt domi agni et porci sacres. sed quid istúm remoramini,
mulieres, Trachalionem? atque optime eccum exit foras.

[¶71] Wheresoever he shall be, I’ll seek Plesidippus out at once, and bring him together with me to you.
DAEMONES:
Tell him how this matter has fallen out about my daughter. Request him to leave other occupations and to come here.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Vbi ubi erit, iam investigabo et mecum ad te adducam simul
Plesidippum.
Daemones:
Eloquere ut haec res optigit de filia;
eum roga, ut relinquat alias res et huc veniat.

[¶72] TRACHALIO:
Very well

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.

[¶73] DAEMONES:
Tell him that I’ll give him my daughter for a wife.

> Latin: Daemones:
Dicito daturum meam illi filiam uxorem.

[¶74] TRACHALIO:
Very well.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.

[¶75] DAEMONES:
And that I knew his father, and that he is a relation of my own.

> Latin: Daemones:
Et patrem eius me novisse et mi esse cognatum.

[¶76] TRACHALIO:
Very well.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.

[¶77] DAEMONES:
But do make haste.

> Latin: Daemones:
Sed propera.

[¶78] TRACHALIO:
Very well.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.

[¶79] DAEMONES:
Take care and let a dinner be prepared here at once.

> Latin: Daemones:
Iam hic fac sit, cena ut curetur.

[¶80] TRACHALIO:
Very well.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.

[¶81] DAEMONES:
What, all very well?

> Latin: Daemones:
Omnian licet?

[¶82] TRACHALIO:
Very well. But do you know what it is I want of you? That you’ll remember what you promised, that this day I’m to be free.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet. sed scin quid est quod te volo?
quod promisisti ut memineris, hodie ut liber sim.

[¶83] DAEMONES:
Very well.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.

[¶84] TRACHALIO:
Take care and entreat Plesidippus to give me my freedom.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Fac ut exores Plesidippum, ut me ⟨manu⟩ emittat.

[¶85] DAEMONES:
Very well.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.

[¶86] TRACHALIO:
And let your daughter request it; she’ll easily prevail.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Et tua filiá facito oret: facile exorabit.

[¶87] DAEMONES:
Very well.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.

[¶88] TRACHALIO:
And that Ampelisca may marry me, when I’m a free man.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Atque ut mi Ampelisca nubat, ubi ego sim liber.

[¶89] DAEMONES:
Very well.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.

[¶90] TRACHALIO:
And that I may experience a pleasing return to myself in kindness for my actions.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Atque ut gratum mi beneficium factis experiar.

[¶91] DAEMONES:
Very well.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.

[¶92] TRACHALIO:
What, all very well?

> Latin: Trachalio:
Omnian licet?

[¶93] DAEMONES:
Very well. Again I return you thanks. But do you make haste to proceed to the city forthwith, and betake yourself hither again.

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet: tibi rursum refero gratiam.
sed propera ire in urbem actutum et recipe te huc rursum.

[¶94] TRACHALIO:
Very well. I’ll be here directly. In the meanwhile, do you make the other preparations that are necessary.
(Exit TRACHALIO.)

> Latin: Trachalio:
Licet.
iam hic ero. tu interibi adorna ceterum quod opust.—

[¶95] DAEMONES:
Very well—
may Hercules ill befriend him with his “very-welling;” he has so stuffed my ears with it. Whatever it was I said, “very well” was the answer.
(Enter GRIPUS, from the cottage.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Licet.
Hercules istum infelicet cum sua licentia;
ita meas replevit auris, quidquid memorabam, licet.

[¶96] GRIPUS:
How soon may I have a word with you, Daemones?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quam mox licet te compellare, Daemones?

[¶97] DAEMONES:
What’s your business, Gripus?

> Latin: Daemones:
Quid est negoti, Gripe?

[¶98] GRIPUS:
Touching that wallet, if you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the Gods provide you.

> Latin: Gripvs:
De illo vidulo:
si sapias, sapias; habeas quod di dant boni.

[¶99] DAEMONES:
Does it seem right to you, that, what belongs to another I should assert to be my own?

> Latin: Daemones:
Aequom videtur tibi, ut ego, alienum quod est,
meum esse dicam?

[¶100] GRIPUS:
What, not a thing that I found in the sea?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quodne ego inveni in mari?

[¶101] DAEMONES:
So much the better does it happen for him who lost it; none the more is it necessary that it should be your wallet.

> Latin: Daemones:
Tanto illi melius optigit qui perdidit;
tuom esse nihilo magis oportet vidulum.

[¶102] GRIPUS:
For this reason are you poor because you are too scrupulously righteous.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Isto tu pauper es, quom nimis sancte pius.

[¶103] DAEMONES:
O Gripus, Gripus, in the life of man very many traps there are, in what they are deceived by guile. And, by my troth, full often is a bait placed in them, which bait if any greedy person greedily snaps at, through his own greediness he is caught in the trap.

> Latin: Daemones:
O Gripe, Gripe, in aetate hominum plurimae
fiunt trasennae, ubi decipiuntur dolis.
atque edepol in eas plerumque esca imponitur:
quam si quis avidus poscit escam avariter,
decipitur in trasenna avaritia sua.

[¶104] He who prudently, skilfully, and warily, takes precaution, full long he may enjoy that which is honestly acquired. This booty seems to me to be about to be made a booty of by me, that it may go hence with a greater blessing than it first came. What, ought I to conceal what I know was brought to me as belonging to another?
By no means will my friend Daemones do that.’Tis ever most becoming for prudent men to be on their guard against this, that they be not themselves confederates with their servants in evil-doing. Except only when I’m gaming, I don’t care for any gain.

> Latin: ille quí consulte, docte atque astute cavet,
diutine uti bene licet partum bene.
mihi istaéc videtur praeda praedatum irier,
ut cum maiore dote abeat quam advenerit.
egone ut quod ad me allatum esse alienum sciam,
celem? minime istuc faciet noster Daemones.
semper cavere hoc sapientis aequissimumst,
ne conscii sint ipsi malefici suis.
ego mihi cum † lusi nil moror ullum lucrum.

[¶105] GRIPUS:
At times, I’ve seen the Comedians, when acting, in this fashion
repeat sayings in a wise manner, and be applauded for them, when they pointed out this prudent conduct to the public. But when each person went thence his own way home, there wasn’t one after the fashion which they had recommended.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Spectavi ego pridem comicos ad istúnc modum
sapienter dicta dicere atque eis plaudier,
cum illos sapientis mores monstrabant poplo:
sed cum inde suam quisque ibant divorsi domum,
nullus erat illo pacto ut illi iusserant.

[¶106] DAEMONES:
Go in-doors, don’t be troublesome, moderate your tongue. I’m going to give you nothing, don’t you deceive yourself.
GRIPUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Abi intro, ne molestu's molestus es, linguae tempera.
ego tibi daturus nil sum, ne tu frustra sis.

[¶107] Then I pray the Gods that whatever’s in that wallet, whether it’s gold, or whether silver, it may all become ashes.
(Goes into the cottage.)
DAEMONES:
This is the reason why we have bad servants. For this master, if he had combined with any servant,
would have made both himself and the other guilty of a theft. While he was thinking that he himself had made a capture, in the meantime he himself would have been made a capture: capture would have led to capture. Now will I go in-doors from here and sacrifice; after that, I’ll at once order the dinner to be cooked for us.
(Goes into the cottage.) (Enter PLESIDIPPUS and TRACHALIO, at the further end of the stage.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
At ego deos quaeso, ut quidquid ín illo vidulost,
si aurum si argentum est, omne id ut fiat cinis.—
Daemones:
Illuc est quod nos nequam servis utimur.
nam illic cum † servo si quo congressus foret,
et ipsum sese et illum furti adstringeret;
dum praedam habere se censeret, interim
praeda ipsus esset, praeda praedam duceret.
nunc hinc intro ibo et sacrificabo, postibi
iubebo nobis cenam continuo coqui.—

[¶108] PLESIDIPPUS:
Tell me all these things over again my life, my Trachalio, my freed-man, my patron, aye rather, my father; has Palaestra found her father and mother?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Íterum mihi istaec omnia itera, mi anime, mi Trachalio,
mi liberte, mi patrone potius, immo mi pater.
repperit patrem Palaestra suom atque matrem?

[¶109] TRACHALIO:
She has found them.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Repperit.

[¶110] PLESIDIPPUS:
And is she my countrywoman?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Et popularis est?

[¶111] TRACHALIO:
So I think.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Opino.

[¶112] PLESIDIPPUS:
And is she to marry me?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Et mihi nuptura est?

[¶113] TRACHALIO:
So I suspect.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Suspicor.

[¶114] PLESIDIPPUS:
Prithee, do you reckon that he will betroth her to me?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Censen hodie despondebit eam mihi, quaéso?

[¶115] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶116] PLESIDIPPUS:
Well, shall I congratulate her father too upon his finding her?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid? patri etiam gratulabor cum illam invenit?

[¶117] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶118] PLESIDIPPUS:
Well, her mother too?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid matri eius?

[¶119] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶120] PLESIDIPPUS:
What then do you reckon?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid ergo censes?

[¶121] TRACHALIO:
What you ask me, I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Quod rogas,
censeo.

[¶122] PLESIDIPPUS:
Tell me then how much do you reckon it at?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Dic ergo quanti censes?

[¶123] TRACHALIO:
What I, I reckon—

> Latin: Trachalio:
Egone? censeo.

[¶124] PLESIDIPPUS:
Then really, do carry over. Don’t be always making a reckoning.

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Adsum equidem, ne censionem semper facias.

[¶125] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶126] PLESIDIPPUS:
What if I run?
(Pretends to run.)

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid si curram?

[¶127] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶128] PLESIDIPPUS:
Or rather gently, this way?
(He walks slowly.)

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
An sic potius placide?

[¶129] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶130] PLESIDIPPUS:
Ought I to salute her as well when I arrive?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Etiamne eam ádveniens salutem?

[¶131] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶132] PLESIDIPPUS:
Her father too?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Etiam patrem?

[¶133] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶134] PLESIDIPPUS:
After that, her mother?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Post eius matrem?

[¶135] TRACHALIO:
So I reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Censeo.

[¶136] PLESIDIPPUS:
And what after that? When I arrive, should I also embrace her father?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid postea?
etiamne adveniens complectar eius patrem?

[¶137] TRACHALIO:
So I don’t reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Non censeo.

[¶138] PLESIDIPPUS:
Well, her mother?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid matrem?

[¶139] TRACHALIO:
So I don’t reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Non censeo.

[¶140] PLESIDIPPUS:
Well, her own self?

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Quid eampse illam?

[¶141] TRACHALIO:
So I don’t reckon.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Non censeo.

[¶142] PLESIDIPPUS:
Confusion, he has closed his reckoning; now when I wish him, he doesn’t reckon.

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Perii, dilectum dimisit. nunc non censet, cum volo.

[¶143] TRACHALIO:
You are not in your senses; follow me.

> Latin: Trachalio:
Sanus non es. sequere.—

[¶144] PLESIDIPPUS:
Conduct me, my patron, where you please.
(They go into the cottage of DAEMONES.) (Enter LABRAX, at a distance.)

> Latin: Plesidippvs:
Duc me, mi patrone, quo libet. —

[¶145] LABRAX: (to himself.)
What other mortal being is there living this day more wretched than myself, whom before the commissioned judges Plesidippus has just now cast? Palaestra has just been taken from me by award. I’m ruined outright. But I do believe that Procurers were procreated for mere sport;
so much do all persons make sport if any misfortune befalls a Procurer. Now I’ll go look here, in the Temple of Venus, for that other female, that her at least I may take away, the only portion of my property that remains.
(He retires a little distance.) (Enter GRIPUS, from the cottage of DAEMONES, with a spit in his hand.)
GRIPUS: (calling to the PEOPLE within.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Quis me ést mortalis miserior qui vivat alter hodie,
quem ad recuperatores modo damnavit Plesidippus?
abiudicata a me modo est Palaestra. perditus sum.
nam lenones ex Gaudio credo esse procreatos,
ita omnés mortales, si quid est mali lenoni, gaudent.
nunc alteram illam quae mea est visam huc in Veneris fanum,
saltem ut eam abducam, de bonis quod restat reliquiarum.

[¶146] By the powers, you shall never this day at nightfall behold Gripus alive, unless the wallet is restored to me.
LABRAX: (behind.)
I’m ready to die; when I hear mentior made anywhere of a wallet, I’m thumped, as it were with a stake, upon the breast.
GRIPUS: (at the door, continuing.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Numquam edepol hodie ad vesperum Gripum inspicietis vivom,
nisi vidulus mihi redditur.
Labrax:
Perii, cum mentionem
fieri audio usquam viduli … quasi palo pectus tundat.

[¶147] That scoundrel is free; I, the person that held the net in the sea, and drew up the wallet, to him you refuse to give anything.
LABRAX: (behind.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Istic scelestus liber est: ego qui in mari prehendi
reti atque excepi vidulum, ei dáre negatis quicquam.

[¶148] O ye immortal Gods! by his talk this person has made me prick up my ears.
GRIPUS: (continuing.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Pro di immortales, suo mihi hic sermone arrexit aures.

[¶149] By my troth, in letters a cubit long, I’ll immediately post it up in every quarter,
“If any person has lost a wallet with plenty of gold and silver, let him come to Gripus.” You shan’t keep it as you are wishing.
LABRAX: (behind.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Cubitum hercle longis litteris signabo iam usquequaque,
si quis perdiderit vidulum cum auro atque argento multo,
ad Gripum ut veniat. non feretis istum, ut postulatis.

[¶150] I’ faith, this person knows, as I think, who has got the wallet. This person must be accosted by me; ye Gods, aid me, I do entreat you.
(Some one calls GRIPUS, from within.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Meum hercle illic homo vidulum scit quí habet, ut ego opinor.
adeundus mihi illic est homo. di, quaeso, subvenite.

[¶151] GRIPUS:
Why are you calling me back in-doors? (He rubs away at the spit.) I want to clean this here before the door.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quid me intro revocas? hoc volo hic ante ostium extergere.

[¶152] But surely this, I’ faith, has been made of rust, and not of iron; so that the more I rub it, it becomes quite red and more slender. Why surely this spit has been drugged; it does waste away so in my hands.
LABRAX: (accosting him.)

> Latin: nam hoc quidem pol e robigine, non est e ferro factum,
ita quanto magis extergeo, rutilum atque tenuius fit.
† nam quidem hoc venenatumst verum: ita in manibus consenescit.

[¶153] Save you, young man.
GRIPUS:
May the Gods prosper you with your shorn pate.

> Latin: Labrax:
Adulescens, salve.
Gripvs:
Di te ament cum inraso capite.

[¶154] LABRAX:
What’s going on?

> Latin: Labrax:
Quid fit?

[¶155] GRIPUS:
A spit being cleaned.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Verum extergetur.

[¶156] LABRAX:
How do you do?

> Latin: Labrax:
Vt vales?

[¶157] GRIPUS:
What are you? Prithee, are you a medicant?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quid tu? num medicus, quaeso, es?

[¶158] LABRAX:
No, I’ faith, I am more than a medicant by one letter.

> Latin: Labrax:
Immo edepol una littera plus sum quam medicus.

[¶159] GRIPUS:
Then you are a “mendicant.”

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tum tu
mendicus es?

[¶160] LABRAX:
You’ve hit it to a nicety.

> Latin: Labrax:
Tetigisti acu.

[¶161] GRIPUS:
Your appearance seems suitable to it. But what’s the matter with you?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Videtur digna forma.
sed quid tibi est?

[¶162] LABRAX:
Troth, this last night I was shipwrecked at sea the vessel was cast away, and to my misfortune I lost there everything that I had.

> Latin: Labrax:
Hac proxima nocte in marí elavi.
confracta est navis, perdidi quidquid erat miser ibi omne.

[¶163] GRIPUS:
What did you lose?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quid perdidisti?

[¶164] LABRAX:
A wallet with plenty of gold and silver.

> Latin: Labrax:
Vidulum cum auro atque argento multo.

[¶165] GRIPUS:
Do you at all remember what there was in the wallet which was lost?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Ecquid meministi, in vidulo qui periit quid ibi infuerit?

[¶166] LABRAX:
What matters for us now to be talking of it, if, in spite of it, it’s lost?

> Latin: Labrax:
Quid refert, qui periit tamen? sine hoc, áliud fabulemur.

[¶167] GRIPUS:
What if I know who has found it? I wish to learn from you the tokens.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quid si ego sciam qui invenerit? volo ex te scire signa.

[¶168] LABRAX:
Eight hundred golden pieces were there in a purse, besides a hundred Philippean minae in a wash-leather bag apart.
GRIPUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Nummi octingenti aúrei in marsuppio infuerunt,
praeterea centum minaria Philippa ín pasceolo sorsus.

[¶169] Troth, it is a noble prize; I shall be getting a handsome reward. The Gods show respect to mortals; therefore I shall come off bounteously rewarded. No doubt, it is this man’s wallet. (To LABRAX.) Do you proceed to relate the rest.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Magna hercle praedast, largiter mercedis indipiscar;
di homines respiciunt: bené ego hinc praedatus ibo.
profecto húius est vidulus. perge alia tu expedire.

[¶170] LABRAX:
A large talent of silver of full weight was in a purse, besides a bowl, a goblet, a beaker, a boat, and a cup.

> Latin: Labrax:
Talentum argenti commodum magnum inerat in crumina,
praeterea sinus, cantharus, epichysis, gaulus, cyathus.

[¶171] GRIPUS:
Astonishing! you really did have some splendid riches.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Papae, divitias tu quidém habuisti luculentas.

[¶172] LABRAX:
A shocking expression is that, and a most abominable one. “You did have, and now have not.”

> Latin: Labrax:
Miserum istuc verbum et pessimum est, habuisse, et nihil habere.

[¶173] GRIPUS:
What would you be ready to give to one who should find these out for you, and give you information? Say, speedily and at once.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quid dare velis, qui istaec tibi investiget indicetque?
eloquere propere celeriter.

[¶174] LABRAX:
Three hundred didrachms.

> Latin: Labrax:
Nummos trecentos.

[¶175] GRIPUS:
Rubbish.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tricas.

[¶176] LABRAX:
Four hundred.

> Latin: Labrax:
Quadringéntos.

[¶177] GRIPUS:
Old thrums.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tramas putidas.

[¶178] LABRAX:
Five hundred.

> Latin: Labrax:
Quingentos.

[¶179] GRIPUS:
A rotten nut.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Cassam glandem.

[¶180] LABRAX:
Six hundred.

> Latin: Labrax:
Sescentos.

[¶181] GRIPUS:
You are prating about mere tiny weevils.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Curculiunculos minutos fabulare.

[¶182] LABRAX:
I’ll give seven hundred.

> Latin: Labrax:
Dabo séptingentos.

[¶183] GRIPUS:
Your mouth is hot, you are cooling it just now.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Os calet tibi, nunc id frigefactas.

[¶184] LABRAX:
I’ll give a thousand didrachms.

> Latin: Labrax:
Millé dabo nummum.

[¶185] GRIPUS:
You are dreaming.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Somnias.

[¶186] LABRAX:
I add no more;
be off with you.

> Latin: Labrax:
Nihil addo.

[¶187] GRIPUS:
Hear me then; if, I’ faith, I should be off from here, I shan’t be here.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Abi igitur.

[¶188] LABRAX:
Would you like a hundred as well as the thousand?

> Latin: Labrax:
Audi:
si hercle abiero hinc, hic non ero. vin centum et mille?

[¶189] GRIPUS:
You are asleep.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Dormis.

[¶190] LABRAX:
Say how much you ask.

> Latin: Labrax:
Eloquere quantum postules.

[¶191] GRIPUS:
That you mayn’t be adding anything against your inclination,
a great talent; it’s not possible for three obols to be bated thence; then do you say either “yes” or “no” at once.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quo nihil invitus addas:
talentum magnum. non potest triobolum hinc abesse.
proin tú vel aias vel neges.

[¶192] LABRAX: (aside.)
What’s to be done here? It’s a matter of necessity, I see: (to GRIPUS) the talent shall be paid.

> Latin: Labrax:
Quid istíc? necessum est, video:
dabitur talentum.

[¶193] GRIPUS: (going towards the altar.)
Just step this way; I wish Venus here to put the question to you.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Accede dum huc: Venus haec volo adroget te.

[¶194] LABRAX:
Whatever you please, that command me.

> Latin: Labrax:
Quod tibi libet id mi impera.

[¶195] GRIPUS:
Touch this altar of Venus.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tange aram hanc Veneris.

[¶196] LABRAX: (touching it.)
I am touching it.

> Latin: Labrax:
Tango.

[¶197] GRIPUS:
By Venus here must you swear to me.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Per Venerem hanc iurandum est tibi.

[¶198] LABRAX:
What must I swear?

> Latin: Labrax:
Quid iurem?

[¶199] GRIPUS:
What I shall bid you.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quod iubebo.

[¶200] LABRAX:
Dictate in words just as you like. (Aside.) What I’ve got at home, I shall never beg of any one else.

> Latin: Labrax:
Praei vérbis quidvis. íd quod domi est, numquam ulli supplicabo.

[¶201] GRIPUS:
Take hold of this altar.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tene aram hanc.

[¶202] LABRAX: (taking hold of it.)
I am taking hold of it.

> Latin: Labrax:
Teneo.

[¶203] GRIPUS:
Swear that you will pay me the money on that same day on which you shall gain possession of the wallet.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Deiera te mi argentum daturum
eodém die, ⟨tui⟩ viduli ubi sis potitus.

[¶204] LABRAX:
Be it so.
GRIPUS: (speaking, while LABRAX repeats after him.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Fiat.

[¶205] Venus of Cyrene, I invoke thee as my witness, if I shall find that wallet which I lost in the ship,
safe with the gold and silver, and it shall come into my possession—“Then to this Gripus do I promise;” say so and place your hand upon me.
LABRAX:
Then to this Gripus do I promise, Venus, do thou hear me—
GRIPUS: (followed by LABRAX.)
“That I will forthwith give him a great talent of silver.”"

> Latin: Gripvs:
Venus Cýrenensis, testem te testor mihi,
si vidulum illum, quém ego in navi perdidi,
cum auro atque argento salvom investigavero
isque in potestatem meam pervenerit,
tum ego húic Gripo, ínquito, et me tangito—
Labrax:
Tum ego húic Gripo (dico, Venus, ut tu audias)
talentum argenti magnum continuo dabo.

[¶206] GRIPUS:
If you defraud me, say, may Venus utterly destroy your body, and your existence in your calling. (Aside.) As it is, do you have this for yourself, when you’ve once taken the oath.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Si ⟨quid⟩ fraudassis, dic ut te in quaestu tuo
Venus eradicet, caput atque aetatem tuam.
tecum hoc habeto tamen, ubi iuraveris.

[¶207] LABRAX:
If, Venus, I shall do anything amiss against this oath, I supplicate thee that all Procurers may henceforth be wretched.
GRIPUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Illaec advorsum si quid peccasso, Venus,
veneror te ut omnes miseri lenones sient.

[¶208] As it is, it shall be so, even if you do keep your oath. Do you wait here; (going towards the cottage)—I’ll at once make the old gentleman come out; do you forthwith demand of him that wallet.
(Goes in.)
LABRAX: (to himself.)
If ever so much he shall restore to me this wallet, I’m not this day indebted to him three obols even.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Tamen fíet, etsi tu fidem servaveris.
tu hic opperire, iam ego faxo exibit senex;
eum tú continuo vidulum reposcito.—
Labrax:
Si maxime mi illum reddiderit vidulum,
non ego illi hodie debeo triobolum.

[¶209] It’s according to my own intention what my tongue swears. (The door opens.) But I’ll hold my peace; see, here he’s coming out, and bringing the old man.
(Enter GRIPUS, followed by DAEMONES, with the wallet.)

> Latin: meus arbitratust, lingua quod iuret mea.
sed conticiscam: eccum exit et ducit senem.

[¶210] GRIPUS:
Follow this way.
Where is this Procurer?
Hark you (to LABRAX), see now; this person (pointing at DAEMONES) has got your wallet.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Séquere hac.
Daemones:
Vbi istic lenost?
Gripvs:
Heus tu. ém tibi, hic habet vidulum.

[¶211] DAEMONES:
I have got it, and I confess that it is in my possession; and if it’s yours, you may have it. Everything, just as each particular was in it, shall in like manner be given safe to you.

> Latin: Daemones:
Habeo et fateor esse apud me, et, si tuos est, habeas tibi.
omnia, ut quídquid infuit, ita salva sistentur tibi.

[¶212] (Holding it out.) Take it, if it’s yours.
LABRAX:
Immortal Gods, it is mine. (Takes it.) Welcome, dear wallet.

> Latin: tene, si tuost.
Labrax:
O di immortales, meus est. salve, vidule.

[¶213] DAEMONES:
Is it yours?

> Latin: Daemones:
Tuosne est?

[¶214] LABRAX:
Do you ask the question? If indeed, I’ faith, it were in Jove’s possession, still it is my own.

> Latin: Labrax:
Rogitas? si quidem hercle Iovis fuit, meus est tamen.

[¶215] DAEMONES:
Everything in it is safe; there has only been one casket taken out of it, with some trinkets, by means of which this day I have found my daughter.

> Latin: Daemones:
Omnia insunt salva; una istinc cistella excepta est modo
cum crepundiis, quibuscum hódie filiam inveni meam.

[¶216] LABRAX:
What person?

> Latin: Labrax:
Quam?

[¶217] DAEMONES:
Palaestra, who was your property, she has been discovered to be my own daughter.

> Latin: Daemones:
Tua quae fuit Palaestra, ea filia inventast mea.

[¶218] LABRAX:
By my troth, it has happily turned out so; since this matter has happened so fortunately for you according to your wishes, I’m rejoiced.

> Latin: Labrax:
Bene mehercle factum est. cum istaec res tibi ex sententia
pulchre evenit, gaudeo.

[¶219] DAEMONES:
In that I don’t readily believe you.

> Latin: Daemones:
Istuc facile non credo tibi.

[¶220] LABRAX:
Aye, by my faith, that you may be sure that I’m rejoiced, you shan’t give me three obols for her; I excuse you.

> Latin: Labrax:
Immo hercle, ut scias gaudere me, mihi triobolum
ob eam ne duis, condono te.

[¶221] DAEMONES:
I’ faith, you are acting kindly.

> Latin: Daemones:
Benigne edepol facis.

[¶222] LABRAX:
No, troth; it’s really yourself, indeed, that’s doing so.
(Going off with the wallet.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Immo tu quidem hercle vero.

[¶223] GRIPUS:
Hark you, you’ve got the wallet now.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Heus tu, iám habes vidulum.

[¶224] LABRAX:
I have got it.

> Latin: Labrax:
Habeo.

[¶225] GRIPUS:
Make haste.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Propera.

[¶226] LABRAX:
Make haste about what?

> Latin: Labrax:
Quid properabo?

[¶227] GRIPUS:
To pay me the money.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Reddere argentum mihi.

[¶228] LABRAX:
By my troth, I’ll neither give you anything nor do I owe you anything.

> Latin: Labrax:
Neque edepol tibi do, neque quicquam debeo.

[¶229] GRIPUS:
What mode of proceeding is this? Don’t you owe it me?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quae haec factio est?
non debes?

[¶230] LABRAX:
Troth, not I indeed.

> Latin: Labrax:
Non hercle vero.

[¶231] GRIPUS:
Didn’t you promise it me upon your oath?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Non tu iuratus mihi es?

[¶232] LABRAX:
I did take an oath, and now I’ll take an oath, if it is in any way my own pleasure; oaths were invented for preserving property, not for losing it.

> Latin: Labrax:
Iuratus sum, et nunc iurabo, si quid vóluptati est mihi:
ius iurandum rei servandae, non perdendae conditum est.

[¶233] GRIPUS:
Give me, will you, a great talent of silver, you most perjured fellow.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Cedo sis mihi talentum magnum argenti, periurissime.

[¶234] DAEMONES:
Gripus, what talent is it you are asking him for?

> Latin: Daemones:
Gripe, quod tu istum talentum poscis?

[¶235] GRIPUS:
He promised it me on oath.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Iuratust mihi
dare.

[¶236] LABRAX:
I chose to swear; (turning to DAEMONES) are you the priest as to my perjury?
DAEMONES: (to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Libet iurare. tun meo póntifex peiurio es?

[¶237] For what reason did he promise you the money?
GRIPUS:
If I restored this wallet into his hands, he swore that he would give
me a great talent of silver.

> Latin: Daemones:
Qua pro re argentum promisit hic tibi?
Gripvs:
Si vidulum
hunc redegissem in potestatem eius, iuratust dare
mihi talentum magnum argenti.

[¶238] LABRAX:
Find me a person with whom I may go to the judge, to decide whether you did not make the bargain with wicked fraudulence, and whether I am yet five-and-twenty years old.

> Latin: Labrax:
Cedo quicum habeam iudicem,
ni dolo malo instipulatus sis nive etiamdum ⟨haud⟩ siem
quinque et viginti annos natus.

[¶239] GRIPUS: (pointing to DAEMONES.)
Go to the judge with him.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Habe cum hóc.

[¶240] LABRAX:
No; I must have some other person.
DAEMONES: (to LABRAX.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Aliost opus.

[¶241] Then I shan’t allow you to take it away from him, unless I shall have found him guilty. Did you promise him the money?
LABRAX:
I confess it.

> Latin: Daemones:
Iám ab isto auferre haud ⟨potis⟩ sim, si istunc condemnavero.
promisistin huic argentum?
Labrax:
Fateor.

[¶242] DAEMONES:
What you promised my slave
must needs be my own. Don’t you be supposing, Procurer, that you are to be using your pimping honesty here. That can’t be.

> Latin: Daemones:
Quod servo ⟨meo⟩
promisisti, meum esse oportet, ne tu, leno, postules
te hic fide lenonia uti: non potes.

[¶243] GRIPUS: (to LABRAX.)
Did you fancy now that you had got hold of a person whom you might cheat? It must be paid down here (holding his hand), good silver coin; I shall, at once, pay it to him (pointing to DAEMONES), so that he may give me my liberty.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Iam te ratu's ratus es
nactum hominem quem defraudares? dandum huc argentum est probum:
id ego continuo huic dabo adeo, mé ut hic emittat manu.

[¶244] DAEMONES:
Inasmuch, therefore, as I have acted courteously towards you, and by my means these things (pointing to the wallet) have been saved for you—

> Latin: Daemones:
Quando ergo erga te benignus ⟨ego⟩ fui atque opera mea
haec tibi sunt servata—

[¶245] GRIPUS:
I’ faith, by my means, rather; don’t say by yours.
DAEMONES: (to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Immo hercle mea, ne tu dicas tua.

[¶246] If you are prudent you’ll hold your tongue. (To LABRAX.) Then it befits you in a like courteous manner kindly to return the obligation to myself, who so well merit the same.
LABRAX:
You are pleading, of course, for my right?

> Latin: Daemones:
(Si sapies, tacebis) tum te mihi benigne itidem addecet
bene merenti bene referre gratiam.
Labrax:
Nempe pró meo
iure oras?

[¶247] DAEMONES: (ironically.)
It would be a wonder if I didn’t, at a loss to myself, ask you to forego your right.
GRIPUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Daemones:
Mirum quin tuom ius meo periclo aps te expetam.

[¶248] I’m all right; the Procurer’s giving way; my freedom is at hand.
DAEMONES: (pointing to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Salvos sum, leno labascit, libertas portenditur.

[¶249] He found this wallet; he is my slave. I therefore have preserved this for you, together with a large sum of money.

> Latin: Daemones:
Vidulum istunc ille invenit, illud mancipium meum est;
ego tibi hunc porro servavi cum magna pecunia.

[¶250] LABRAX:
I return you thanks, and with regard to the talent that I promised on oath to him, there’s no reason that you shouldn’t receive it.

> Latin: Labrax:
Gratiam habeo, et de talento nulla causa est quin feras,
quod isti sum iuratus.

[¶251] GRIPUS:
Hark you, give it me then, if you are wise.
DAEMONES: (to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Gripvs:
Heus tu, mihi dato ergo, si sapis.

[¶252] Will you hold your tongue, or not?
GRIPUS:
You pretend to be acting on my side: I tell you …
by my troth, you shan’t do me out of that, if I did lose the other booty.

> Latin: Daemones:
Tacen an non?
Gripvs:
Tu meam rem simulas agere, tibi mu ….
non hercle istoc me intervortes, si aliam praedam perdidi.

[¶253] DAEMONES:
You shall have a beating if you add a single word.

> Latin: Daemones:
Vapulabis, verbum si addis istúc unum.

[¶254] GRIPUS:
Troth now, do you kill me even; I’ll never be silent on any terms, unless my mouth is shut with the talent.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Vel hercle énica,
non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi talento comprimor.

[¶255] LABRAX:
For yourself, in fact, is he using his exertions; do hold your tongue.

> Latin: Labrax:
Tibi operam hic quidem dát. tace.

[¶256] DAEMONES:
Step this way, Procurer.

> Latin: Daemones:
Concede hoc tu, leno.

[¶257] LABRAX:
Very well.
(They walk on one side.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Licet.

[¶258] GRIPUS:
Proceed openly; I don’t want any whisperings or mumblings to be going on.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Palam age, nolo ego murmurillum neque susurrum fieri.

[¶259] DAEMONES:
Tell me, at what price did you buy that other young woman, Ampelisca?

> Latin: Daemones:
Dic mihi, quanti íllam emisti tuam alteram mulierculam,
Ampeliscam?

[¶260] LABRAX:
I paid down a thousand didrachms.

> Latin: Labrax:
Mille nummum denumeravi.

[¶261] DAEMONES:
Should you like me to make you a handsome offer?

> Latin: Daemones:
Vin tibi
condicionem luculentam ferre me?

[¶262] LABRAX:
I should like it much.

> Latin: Labrax:
Sane volo.

[¶263] DAEMONES:
I’ll divide the talent.

> Latin: Daemones:
Dividuom talentum faciam.

[¶264] LABRAX:
You act fairly.

> Latin: Labrax:
Bene facis.

[¶265] DAEMONES:
For that other woman Ampelisca, that she may be free, take you one half, and give the other half to him.

> Latin: Daemones:
Pro illa altera,
libera ut sit, dimidium tibi sume, dimidium huc cedo.

[¶266] LABRAX:
By all means.

> Latin: Labrax:
Maxime.

[¶267] DAEMONES:
For that half I’ll give his freedom to Gripus, by means of whom you found your wallet, and I my daughter.

> Latin: Daemones:
Pro illo dimidio égo Gripum emittam manu,
quem propter tu vidulum et ego gnatam inveni.

[¶268] LABRAX:
You act fairly; I return you many thanks.
(They return to GRIPUS.)

> Latin: Labrax:
Bene facis,
gratiam habeo magnam.

[¶269] GRIPUS:
How soon then is the money to be returned to me?

> Latin: Gripvs:
Quam mox mi argentum ergo redditur?

[¶270] DAEMONES:
The money’s paid, Gripus; I’ve got it.

> Latin: Daemones:
Res soluta est, Gripe. ego habeo.

[¶271] GRIPUS:
You, faith; but I had rather it were myself.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Át ego me hercle mavolo.

[¶272] DAEMONES:
I’ faith, there’s nothing for you here, so don’t you be expecting it. I wish you to release him from his oath.

> Latin: Daemones:
Nihil hercle hic tibi est, né tu speres. iuris iurandi volo
gratiam facias.

[¶273] GRIPUS: (aside.)
Troth, I’m undone; if I don’t hang myself, I’m utterly done for. (Aloud.) I’ faith, after this day you certainly shall never be cheating me again.

> Latin: Gripvs:
Perii hercle. nisi me suspendo, occidi.
numquam hercle iterum defraudabis me quidem post hunc diem.

[¶274] DAEMONES:
Dine here to-day, Procurer.

> Latin: Daemones:
Hic hodie cenato, leno.

[¶275] LABRAX:
Be it so; the proposal is to my taste.

> Latin: Labrax:
Fiat, condicio placet.

[¶276] DAEMONES:
Do you both follow me in-doors. (He comes forward and addresses the AUDIENCE.) Spectators, I would invite you to dinner as well, were it not that I’m going to give nothing, and that there is no good cheer at all at home;
and if, too, I didn’t believe that you are invited to dinner elsewhere. But if you shall be willing to give hearty applause to this Play, do you all come to make merry at my house some sixteen years hence. Do you (to LABRAX and GRIPUS) both dine here with me to-day.
GRIPUS:
Be it so.
An ACTOR: (To the AUDIENCE)
Now give us your applause.

> Latin: Daemones:
Sequimini intro. spectatores, vos quoque ad cenam vocem,
ni daturus nil sim neque sit quicquam pollucti domi,
nive adeo vocatos credam vos esse ad cenam foras.
verum si voletis plausum fabulae huic clarum dare,
comissatum omnes venitote ad me ad annos sedecim.
vos hic hodie cenatote ambó.
Labrax:
Fiat.
Daemones:
Plausum date.