---
title: "Truculentus"
author: "Plautus"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 3 of 3
url: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-truculentus/3/
cite: "Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, Truculentus, section 3. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-truculentus/3/"
---

# Truculentus

*Plautus, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A courtesan plays three lovers against each other.

> Latin: ed. Friedrich Leo, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0119.phi020, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0119.phi020.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.

## 3. Lines 684–968

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-truculentus/3/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/plautus-truculentus/3/#p-N

[¶0] ASTAPHIUM:
Prithee, what’s that? That’s nonsense;
perhaps you intend to mean “talking.”

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Quid id est, amabo? ístaec ridicularia,
cavillátiones, vis opinor dicere?

[¶1] STRATILAX:
Just so; it differs mighty little from stalking.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Istud pauxillum differt a cavillibus.

[¶2] ASTAPHIUM:
Prithee, do follow me in-doors, my love.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Sequere intro [me], amabo, mea voluptas.

[¶3] STRATILAX: (holding out some money to her.)
Take this for thyself; keep it as a ledger for thee, that thee mayst give me thy company this night.
ASTAPHIUM: (taking the money.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Tene hoc tibi:
rabonem habeto, ut mecum hanc noctem sies.

[¶4] You are the death of me, with your “ledger.” What kind of beast am I to say that is?

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Perii, rabonem? quam esse dicam hanc beluam?

[¶5] Thy don’t you say “pledge?”
STRATILAX:
The “r” I make a saving of; just as the Praenestines have “conia,” for “ciconia.”

> Latin: quin tu arrabonem dicis?
Stratophanes:
“A” facio lucri,
ut Praenestinis conia est ciconia.

[¶6] ASTAPHIUM:
Prithee, do follow me.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Sequere, obsecro.

[¶7] STRATILAX:
I’ll wait here a little for Strabax, till he comes from the farm.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Strabacem hic opperiar modo,
si rure veniat.

[¶8] ASTAPHIUM:
Why, Strabax is at our house. He has just come from the farm.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Is quidem hic ápud nos est Strabax,
modo rure venit.

[¶9] STRATILAX:
What, before he went to his own mother?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Priusne quam ad matrem suam?

[¶10] Alas, the man’s worth nought, i’ faith.
ASTAPHIUM:
What now, your old habit?

> Latin: eu edepol hominem nihili.
Astaphivm:
Iamne autem ut soles?

[¶11] STRATILAX:
Well, I’ll say nought.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Iamne nihil dico?

[¶12] ASTAPHIUM:
Prithee, do come indoors. Give me your hand.
(Takes his hand.)

> Latin: Astaphivm:
I intro, amabo, cedo manum.

[¶13] STRATILAX:
Well, take it. (To the AUDIENCE.) I’m being led off into a public-house, where I shall be but poorly entertained for my money.
(They go into the house of PHRONESIUM.) (Enter DINARCHUS.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Tene. in tabernam ducor devorsoriam,
ubi male accipiar mea mihi pecunia.—

[¶14] DINARCHUS: (to himself.)
There’s not a person born, nor will there be born, nor can there be found one,
to whom I would now wish praises to be given, or on whom attentions bestowed, rather than on Venus. Ye great Gods, how joyous I am, and how I’m transported with joyousness! Such great tidings of joy has Cyamus brought to me this day; that my presents have been esteemed and deemed acceptable by Phronesium. While this now is a delight, then besides this in especial is rare honey-drink to me,
that the Captain’s presents are held as disagreable and not acceptable. I’m all enraptured! The ball’s my own; if the Captain’s sent adrift, the woman will be mine. I’m saved, because I’m going to ruin; if I didn’t go to ruin, it’s clear I should die. Now I’ll keep watch, what’s going on there, who goes into the house, who comes out of doors; from here at a distance will I observe what is to be my lot.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Néque gnatust neque progignetur neque potest reperirier
cuí ego nunc ⟨aut⟩ dictum aut factum melius quam Veneri velim.
di magni, … ut ego laetus sum et laetitia differor.
ita ad me magna nuntiavit Cyamus hodie gaudia:
mea dona deamata acceptaque habita esse apud Phronesium;
quom hoc iam volup est, tum illuc nimium magnae mellinae mihi,
militis odiosa ingrataque habita. totus gaudeo.
mea pila est: si repudiatur miles, mulier mecum erit.
salvos sum, quia pereo; si non peream, plane perierim.
nunc speculabor quid ibi agatur, quis eat intro, qui foras
veniat; procul hinc observabo, meis quid fortunis fuat.

[¶15] Because I’ve got nothing, my feelings remind me of one thing; I’ll do everything by begging.
(Enter ASTAPHIUM, from the house of PHRONESIUM.)
ASTAPHIUM: (speaking to her MISTRESS as she comes out.)
I’ll cleverly do my duty, mistress; do you only take care that in-doors you do yours as well; love that which you ought, your own interest; clean that fellow thoroughly out. Now, while it pleases the fellow, while he has got something, adapt the opportunity to that purpose. Display all your charms to your lover that you may heighten his joys.

> Latin: quia nihil habeo unum animos movi mi hic omnia agam precario†
Astaphivm:
Lepide éfficiam meum ego ófficium: vide intús modo ut tu tuom item éfficias.
ama, íd quod decét, rem tuam: ístum exináni.
nunc dum isti lubet, dum habet, tempus ei rei † secundas
prome venustatem amanti tuam, ut gaudeat cum perdis.

[¶16] I meantime will stay here behind and watch at this door so long as he is thus transporting his presents home to you; nor, in the meantime, will I admit any one from there to you who may cause you annoyance. Do you go on, just as you please. Are you not diddling these fellows?

> Latin: ego híc interím restitáns praesidébo,
istíc dum sic fáciat domum ad te exagógam;
nec quémquam interim ístoc ad vós, qui sit ódio,
intró mittam: tú perge, ut lúbet, ludo in ístoc.

[¶17] DINARCHUS:
How now, Astaphium, tell me, who is this fellow that’s on the road to ruin?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quis ístest, Astaphium, índica, qui périt?

[¶18] ASTAPHIUM:
Prithee, were you here?

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Amabo, hicín tu eras?

[¶19] DINARCHUS:
What—am I troublesome?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Moléstusne súm?

[¶20] ASTAPHIUM:
More now than you were; for unless a person is of use to us, he is troublesome to us. But, prithee, do lend me your attention, that I may say what I want.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Nunc magís quam fuísti,
nam si quid nobis usust nobis molestus†
sed óbsecro, da mi óperam, ut narrem quaé volo.

[¶21] DINARCHUS:
Why, what is it? Does it concern myself?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Nám quid est? núm mea réfert?

[¶22] ASTAPHIUM:
Not a rap. But what hauls he is making present of in-doors.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Non mússito.
intús bolos quós dat!

[¶23] DINARCHUS:
How? Some new lover?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quíd? amator novos quíspiam?

[¶24] ASTAPHIUM:
A fresh one, and a brimming treasure she has hit upon.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Íntegrum et plénum adortást thensaurúm.

[¶25] DINARCHUS:
Who is he?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quis est?

[¶26] ASTAPHIUM:
I’ll tell you, but you be mum. Don’t you know this Strabax?
(Pointing to his FATHER’S house.)

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Éloquar, sed tú taceto. nóstin tu hunc Strabácem?

[¶27] DINARCHUS:
Why shouldn’t I?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quidni?

[¶28] ASTAPHIUM:
He alone rules the roast here at our house. He just now is a landed estate to us. With right good spirit is he wantonly wasting away his property.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Sólus summam ⟨núnc⟩ habet hic ápud nos, nunc is est fúndus nobis.
animó bono male ⟨rem⟩ gerit.

[¶29] DINARCHUS:
He’s on the road to ruin; i’ faith, I, too, have come to ruin.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Perit hercle, ego idem …
bona pérdidi, mala repperi, factus sum extimus a vobis.

[¶30] ASTAPHIUM:
You are a simpleton, to expect with words to make undone what is done.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Stúltus es, qui facta infecta facere verbis postules.

[¶31] DINARCHUS:
Even Thetis, too, in weeping, made lamentation for her son.

> Latin: Thetis quoque etiam lamentando pausam fecit filio.

[¶32] Can I not now be admitted in-doors to your house?
ASTAPHIUM:
Why so rather than the Captain?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Non ego nunc intro ad vos mittar?
Astaphivm:
Quidum quam miles magis?

[¶33] DINARCHUS:
Why, because I’ve given more.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quia enim plus dedi.

[¶34] ASTAPHIUM:
But you were admitted more, when you were giving more; let those who give, in return for that which they give, enjoy our services.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Plus enim es íntro missus, quom dabas:
sine vicissim qui dant [operam] ob illud quod dant operis utier.

[¶35] You’ve learnt your letters; since you know them yourself, let others learn them.

> Latin: litteras didicisti: quando scis, sine alios discere.

[¶36] DINARCHUS:
Let them learn, so long as it is allowed me to con my lesson, that I may not forget what I have paid for.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Discant, dum mihi commentari liceat, ni oblitus siem.

[¶37] ASTAPHIUM:
In the meantime, while you, who are a master, shall be conning your lesson, she, as well, is desirous to con hers.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Quid erit interea magistrae, dum tu commentabere?
volt [interim] illa itidem commentari.

[¶38] DINARCHUS:
How so?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quid?

[¶39] ASTAPHIUM:
In receiving money ever and anon.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Rem accipere identidem.

[¶40] DINARCHUS:
For my own part, this very day I gave five minae of silver to be carried to her,
besides one for provisions.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Dedi equidem hodie: ⟨iussi⟩ ei quinque argenti deferri minas,
praeterea una mína obsonatum.

[¶41] ASTAPHIUM:
I know that the same was brought; with it we are now enjoying ourselves upon your liberality.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Idem istuc delatum scio.
de eo nunc bene sunt tua virtute.

[¶42] DINARCHUS:
For these enemies of mine here to be devouring my property! By heavens, I’d rather that I were dead than submit to that!

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Ei, meane [ut] inimici mei
bona istic caedent? mortuom hercle me quam ut id pátiar mavelim.

[¶43] ASTAPHIUM:
You are a simpleton.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
†Stultus quid est aperire.

[¶44] DINARCHUS:
How’s that?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quid iam?

[¶45] ASTAPHIUM:
Wait.
DINARCHUS:
Why so?
ASTAPHIUM:
Because, I’ troth, I’d rather
that my enemies should envy me, than I my enemies; for to envy because it goes well with another, and goes badly with yourself, is wretchedness.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Quia pol mavelim
mihi inimicos invidere, quam med inimicis meis;
nam invidere alii bene esse, tibi male esse, miseria est.

[¶46] Those who are envious, are in want; they who are envied, possess property.

> Latin: qui invident egent; illis quibus invidetur, i rem habent.

[¶47] DINARCHUS:
May I not be a partaker of the provisions bought with the mina?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Non ⟨mei⟩ licet obsoni me participem fieri?

[¶48] ASTAPHIUM:
If you wanted to be a partaker, you should have taken half home. For here an account of the receipts is entered just as at Acheron;

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Si volebas participari, auferres dimidium domum.
nám item ut Acherunti hic ⟨apud nos⟩ ratio accepti scribitur:

[¶49] we take in-doors; when it’s got by us, it can’t be carried out of doors. (Turning on her heel.) Kindly farewell.
DINARCHUS: (catching hold of her.)
Do stay.

> Latin: intro accipitur; quando acceptumst, non potest ferri foras.
bene vale.
Diniarchvs:
Resiste.

[¶50] ASTAPHIUM: (struggling.)
Let me go! Leave off!

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Omitte.

[¶51] DINARCHUS:
Do let me go in.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
A, mitte intro.

[¶52] ASTAPHIUM:
Yes, to your own house,

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Ad te quidem.

[¶53] DINARCHUS:
Aye, but here into your house.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Immo istoc ad vos ⟨volo⟩ ire.

[¶54] ASTAPHIUM:
You cannot go.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Non potest, nimium petis.

[¶55] DINARCHUS:
I can, very well. Do let me try.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Experiri [sine]—

[¶56] ASTAPHIUM:
No, wait here; it’s sheer violence to try.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Immo opperire. vis est experirier.

[¶57] I’d say that you are here, if she wasn’t engaged.
(Runs to the door.)
DINARCHUS:
Ha! Do stop!

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Dic me adesse.

[¶58] ASTAPHIUM:
It’s of no use.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Abi, occupatast. res itast, ne frustra sis.

[¶59] DINARCHUS:
Are you going to return or not?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Redin an non redis?

[¶60] ASTAPHIUM:
I’d return, but a voice is calling me that has more influence with me than you have.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Vocat me quae in me potest plus quam potes.

[¶61] DINARCHUS:
In one word
I’ll say it.
You’ll receive me?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Vno verbo—

[¶62] ASTAPHIUM:
You are telling a lie—be off. One word, you said; but now three words have you uttered, and those untrue.
(Goes into the house, and shuts the door.)

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Eloquere.

[¶63] DINARCHUS: (to himself.)
She’s off, and she’s gone hence in-doors That I should endure these things to be done to me. By heavens, enticer, with my cries I’ll be exposing you to ridicule in the street,
you who, contrary to law, have received money from many a one. Upon my faith, I’ll forthwith cause your name to be before every magistrate, and after that I’ll sue you for fourfold, you sorceress, you kidnapper of children. By the powers, I’ll now disclose all your disgraceful deeds. Worthless creature that I am, who have lost everything I had! I’m become desperate,
and now I haven’t the slightest bit of concern what shoes I wear. But why am I trying here? What, suppose she were to order me to be let in? I could swear in solemn form that I wouldn’t do it if she wished. It’s nonsense. If you thump a goad with your fists, your hands are hurt the most. It’s no good to be angry at a thing of nothing; a creature that doesn’t value you a straw.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Mittin me intro?
Astaphivm:
Mendax es, abi.
unum aiebas, tria iam dixti verba, atque ⟨ea⟩ mendacia.—
Diniarchvs:
Abiit intro, exclusit. egon ut haec mihi patiar fieri?
iam hercle egó tibi, inlecebra, ludos faciam clamore in via,
quae adversum legem accepisti a plurimis pecuniam;
iam hercle apud nóvos omnis magistrátus faxo erit nomen tuom,
post id égo te manum iníciam quadrupuli, venefica,
suppostrix puerum. égo edepol iam tua probra aperibo omnia.
nihil me ⟨prohibet,⟩ perdidi omne quod fuit: fio impudens,
nec mi adeost tantillum pensi iam, quos capiam calceos.
sed quid ego hic clamo? quid si me iubeat intromittier?
conceptis me non facturum verbis iurem, si velit.
nugae sunt. si stimulos pugnis caedis, manibus plus dolet.
de nihilo nihil est irasci, quae te non flocci facit.

[¶64] (Starting.) But what’s this? O immortal Gods, I see old Callicles, him who was my connexion by marriage, bringing two female slaves in bonds, the one the hair-dresser of this Phronesium, the other his own servant-maid. I’m greatly alarmed! inasmuch as one care has so recently taken possession of my heart, I’m afraid lest all my former misdeeds should be discovered.
(Stands aside.) (Enter CALLICLES, attended by SLAVES, with his MAID-SERVANT and SYRA, bound.)
CALLICLES: (to his SERVANT.)

> Latin: sed quid hoc ést? pro di immortales, Calliclem video senem,
meus qui adfinis fuit, ancillas duas constrictas ducere,
alteram tonstricem húius, alteram ancillam suam.
pertimui: postquam una cura cor meum movit modo,
timeo ne male facta antiqua mea sint inventa omnia.

[¶65] Do I use ill language to you, or do I wish you so very ill? According to my ideas, you have both pretty well experienced how mild and gentle a person I am. I interrogated you both, as you were lashed and hanging up by the arms; I well remember it; the way in which you quite confessed each point, I know. Here now, I wish in the same way to learn; do you confess without a punishment.

> Latin: Callicles:
Egon tibi male dícam tibique aut male velim? ut animus meust,
propemodum expertae estis, quam ego sim mitis tranquillusque homo.
rogitavi ego vos verberatas ambas pendentis simul;
commemini, quo quicque pacto sitis confessae scio;
hic nunc volo scire eodem pacton sine malo fateamini.

[¶66] Although you are both of you of the serpent nature, I tell you beforehand, you mustn’t be having double tongues, lest with your two tongues I should be putting you to death; unless, perhaps, you wish to be taken to the men who go clink, clink.

> Latin: quamquam vos colubrino ingenio ambae estis, edico prius,
ne duplicis habeatis linguas, ne ego bilinguis vos necem,
nisi si ad tintinnaculos voltis vos educi viros.

[¶67] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
Violence forces me to confess the truth; the thongs do so gall my arms.

> Latin: Ancilla:
Vis subigit verum fateri, ita lora laedunt bracchia.

[¶68] CALLICLES:
But, if you confess the truth to me, you shall be relieved from the chains.
DINARCHUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Callicles:
At si verum mi eritis fassae, vinclis exsolvemini.

[¶69] Even now, what’s the matter, I’m at a loss to know and uncertain; except that still I’m afraid.
SYRA:
What I’ve done wrong I know not.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Etiamnum quid sit negoti, falsus incertusque sum,
nisi quia timeo tamen, egomet ⟨quia⟩ quod peccavi scio.

[¶70] CALLICLES:
First of all, then, you stand apart. (They stand apart.) Aye, so; that’s what I mean; that you mayn’t be making signs between you, I’ll be a party-wall. (To his MAID-SERVANT.) Speak you.

> Latin: Callicles:
Omnium primum diversae state—em sic, istuc volo;
neve inter vos significetis, ego ero paries. loquere tu.

[¶71] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
What am I to speak about?
CALLICLES:
What was done with the child that my daughter was delivered of? My grandchild, I mean? Tell me the circumstances of the case.
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
I gave it to her.
(Pointing to SYRA.)

> Latin: Ancilla:
Quid loquar?

[¶72] CALLICLES: (to the MAID-SERVANT.)

> Latin: Callicles:
Quid puero factumst, mea quem peperit filia,
meo nepote? capita rerum ⟨ede⟩ expedite.
Ancilla:
Istae dedi.

[¶73] Now hold your tongue. (To SYRA.) Did you receive the child from her?
SYRA:
I did receive it.
CALLICLES: (to SYRA.)
Hold your tongue; I want no more; you’ve confessed enough.
SYRA:
I’m not going to deny it.

> Latin: Callicles:
Iam tace. accepistin puerum tú ab hac?
Tonstrix:
Accepi.
Callicles:
Tace.
nil moror praeterea. satis es fassa.
Tonstrix:
Infitias non eo.

[¶74] CALLICLES:
By this you’ve now caused some relief for your shoulder-blades. So far, the account of each of them tallies.

> Latin: Callicles:
Iam livorem verbo scapulis istoc concinnas tuis.
conveniunt adhuc utriusque verba.

[¶75] DINARCHUS: (apart.)
Ah wretched me!
my doings are now being disclosed, which I hoped would be concealed.
CALLICLES: (to the MAID-SERVANT.)

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Vae misero mihi,
mea nunc facinora aperiuntur, clam quae speravi fore.

[¶76] Speak, you. Who bade you give the child to her?
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
My elder mistress.
CALLICLES: (to SYRA.)

> Latin: Callicles:
Loquere tu. qui dare te huic puerum iussit?
Ancilla:
Era maior mea.

[¶77] What say you? Why did you receive it?
SYRA:
My young mistress entreated me that the child might be brought, and that all this might remain secret.
CALLICLES: (to SYRA.)

> Latin: Callicles:
[Quid tu, cur eum accepisti?]
Tonstrix:
[Era med oravit minor,]
[puer ut ⟨sibi⟩ ferretur eaque ut celarentur omnia.]

[¶78] Speak, you. What did you do with this child?
SYRA:
I took it to my mistress.

> Latin: Callicles:
Loquere tu. quid eo fecisti puero?
Tonstrix:
Ad meam eram detuli.

[¶79] CALLICLES:
What did your mistress do with this child?
SYRA:
Gave it at once to my mistress.

> Latin: Callicles:
Quid eo puero tua era fecit?
Tonstrix:
Erae meae extemplo dedit.

[¶80] CALLICLES:
Plague on it, to what mistress?
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
There are two of them.

> Latin: Callicles:
Quoi, malum, erae?

[¶81] CALLICLES: (to the MAID.)
Take you care, unless I ask you anything, only to answer that which I ask of you.
SYRA:
The mother, I say, made a present of it to the daughter.

> Latin: Ancilla:
Duae sunt istae.
Callicles:
Cave tu nisi quod te rogo.
ex te exquiro.
Tonstrix:
Mater, inquam, filiae dono dedit.

[¶82] CALLICLES:
You are saying more than you did just now.
SYRA:
You are asking more.
CALLICLES:
Answer me quickly; what did she do, to whom it was given? Tell me.
SYRA:
She passed it off as—
CALLICLES:
Whose?
SYRA:
As her own
son.
CALLICLES:
As her own son?
Ye Gods, by my trust in you I do appeal to you, how much more easily does another than she to whom it belongs, bring forth another’s child! She, by the labours of another, has brought forth this child without pain. A child blest indeed! two mothers it has got, and grandams two. I’m now afraid how many fathers there may have been. Do see, please, the shocking deeds of women!

> Latin: Callicles:
Plus quam dudum [inqua] loquere.
Tonstrix:
Plus tu rogitas.
Callicles:
Responde ocius:
quid illa cui donatus ⟨puer⟩ est?
Tonstrix:
Supposivit.
Callicles:
Cui?
Tonstrix:
Sibi.
Callicles:
Pro filiolon?
Tonstrix:
Pro filiolo.
Callicles:
Di, obsecro vostram fidem,
ut facilius alia quam alia eundem puerum unum parit:
haec labore alieno puerum peperit sine doloribus.
puer quidem beatust: matres duás habet et avias duas:
iam metuo, patres quot fuerint. vide sis facinus muliebre.

[¶83] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
I’ troth, this fraud relates rather to the men than to the women.’Twas a man, and not a woman, that caused her pregnancy.
CALLICLES:
I know that too. You were a trusty guardian for it.
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
He can do the most, who is strong the most. He was a man; he was the strongest; he prevailed; what he wanted, he carried off.

> Latin: Ancilla:
Magis pol haec malitia pertinét ad viros quam ad mulieres:
vir illam, non mulier praegnatem fecit.
Callicles:
Idem ego istuc scio.
tu bona ei custos fuisti.
Ancilla:
Plus potest qui plus valet.
vir erat, plus valebat: vicit, quod petebat abstulit.

[¶84] CALLICLES:
And, i’ faith, he too brought a heavy mishap, in fact, upon yourself.

> Latin: Callicles:
Et tibi quidem hercle ídem attulit magnum malum.

[¶85] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
The thing itself experienced, I myself fully know that, even if you had held your tongue.

> Latin: Ancilla:
Idem istuc ipsa, etsi tu taceas, reapse experta intellego.

[¶86] CALLICLES:
Never, this day, have I been able to made you declare who he was.
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.: (aside, on catching sight of DINARCHUS.)

> Latin: Callicles:
Numquam te facere hodie quivi, ut is quis esset diceres.

[¶87] I’ve held my tongue; but now I shan’t hold my tongue, since he’s here; it’s necessary I should tell.
DINARCHUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Ancilla:
Tacui adhuc: nunc ⟨non⟩ tacebo, quando adest nec se indicat.

[¶88] I’m petrified; in my wretchedness, I dare not move myself; the matter’s all out! The trial’s now going on here for my life!

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Lapideus sum, commovere me miser non audeo.
res palam omnis est, meo illic nunc sunt capiti comitia.

[¶89] These are my misdeeds, this is my folly. I’m in dread how soon I may be named.
CALLICLES: (to the MAID-SERVANT.)

> Latin: meum illuc facinus, mea stultitia est. timeo, quam mox nominer.

[¶90] Speak out, who was it, debauched my maiden daughter?

> Latin: Callicles:
Loquere, filiam meam quis integram stupraverit.

[¶91] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
I see him near you. A supporter of the wall.
CALLICLES:
Hussy, who was it?
DINARCHUS: (apart.)

> Latin: Ancilla:
Video ego té, propter male facta qui es patronus parieti.

[¶92] I’m neither alive nor dead, nor know I what I am now to do; neither know I how to go away hence, nor how to accost him; I’m numbed with fear.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Neque vivos neque mortuos sum, ne⟨que⟩ quid nunc faciam scio,
neque ut hinc abeam neque ut hunc adeam scio, timore torpeo.

[¶93] CALLICLES:
Will you tell me, or no?
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
It is Dinarchus, to whom you first betrothed her.

> Latin: Callicles:
Dicin an non?

[¶94] CALLICLES: (looking round.)

> Latin: Ancilla:
Diniarchus, quoi illam prius desponderas.

[¶95] Where is this person whom you mention?
DINARCHUS: (stepping forward.)
Here I am, Callicles. (Falling on the ground.) By your knees I do entreat you that you will bear with wisdom that which was done in folly; and that you will pardon me that, which, losing my senses, I did through the bad influence of wine.

> Latin: Callicles:
Vbi is homost quem dicis?
Diniarchvs:
Adsum, Callicles. per tua obsecro
genua te, ut istuc insipienter factum sapienter feras,
mihique ignoscas quod animi impos vini vitio fecerim.

[¶96] CALLICLES:
You please me not. You throw the blame on what is dumb, that which cannot speak.

> Latin: Callicles:
Non placet ⟨qui⟩ in mutum culpam confert, ⟨qui non⟩ quit loqui.

[¶97] But the wine, if it could speak, would defend itself. It’s not wine that’s in the habit of ruling men, but men wine; those, indeed, who are virtuous men; but he who is bad, although he drinks water, or if indeed he abstains from intoxicating liquors, still, by nature he’s bad.

> Latin: nam vinum si fabulari possit, se defenderet.
non vinum ⟨viris⟩ moderari, sed viri vino solent,
qui quidem probi sunt; verum qui improbust si quasi bibit
sive adeo caret temeto, tamen ab ingenio improbust.

[¶98] DINARCHUS:
Well, I’m sensible that many reproaches must be heard by me, which I would prefer not.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Scio equidem quae nolo multa mi audienda ob noxiam.

[¶99] I confess that I’ve offended you, and am privy to the crime.

> Latin: ego tibi me obnoxium esse fateor culpae compotem.

[¶100] A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.:
Callicles, prithee beware that you do injury to no person; the accused is pleading his cause at large, the witnesses you are keeping in bonds.
CALLICLES: (to his SLAVES.)

> Latin: Ancilla:
Callicles, vide in quaéstione ne facias iniuriam:
reus solutus causam dicit, testis vinctos attines.

[¶101] Release those women. (They are unbound.) Come (to each of them in turn), do you be off home, and you home as well. (To SYRA.) Tell your mistress this: she must give up the child, if any one asks for it. (SYRA goes into the house of PHRONESIUM, and exit the MAID-SERVANT.)

> Latin: Callicles:
Solvite istas. agite, abite tu domum et tu autem domum.
eloquere haec erae tu: puerum reddat, si quis eum petat.

[¶102] You, Dinarchus, let’s go before the judge.
DINARCHUS:
Why do you wish me to go before the judge? You are the Praetor to me. But I entreat of you, Callicles, that you’ll give me your daughter for a wife.

> Latin: eamus tu in ius.
Diniarchvs:
Quid vis in ius me ire? tu es praetor mihi.
verum te obsecro, ut tuam gnatam des mi uxorem, Callicles.

[¶103] CALLICLES:
I’ faith, I find, indeed, that you’ve come to a decision on that point yourself; for you haven’t waited till I gave her; you have helped yourself. Now keep her, as you’ve got her, but I’ll fine you this grand haul;

> Latin: Callicles:
Eundem pol te iudicasse qui admisti eam rem intellego.
nam haud mansisti, dum ego darem illam: tute sumpsisti tibi.
nunc habeas ut nactu's nactus es. verum hoc ego te multabo bolo:

[¶104] six great talents will I deduct from her dowry for this folly.

> Latin: sex talenta magna dotis demam pro ista inscitia.

[¶105] DINARCHUS:
You act kindly towards me.
CALLICLES:’Twere best for you to demand your son back from thence. (Pointing to the house of PHRONESIUM.) But your wife, as soon as possible, take away from my house. I shall at once, therefore, send a messenger to that kinsman of mine by marriage, and tell him to look out for another match for his son.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Bene agis mecum.
Callicles:
Filium istinc tuom te meliust repetere.
ceterum uxorem quam primum potest abduce ex aedibus.
ego abeo. iam illi remittam nuntium adfini meo,
dicam ut aliam condicionem filio inveniat suo.—

[¶106] DINARCHUS: (to himself.)
But I’ll demand back the child of her, lest by-and-by she should deny it. That’s of no use; for she herself, of her own accord, has discovered the whole matter to me, how it happened. But see, right opportunely, i’ faith, is she coming out of doors from her house. Assuredly, a far-darting sting has that woman, who even from that distance is wounding my heart.
(Stands aside.) (Enter PHRONESIUM and ASTAPHIUM, from the house of the former.)
PHRONESIUM: (to herself.)

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
At ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat;
nihil est, nám eapse ultro ut factumst fecit omnem rem palam.
sed nimium pol opportune éccam eapse egreditur foras.
ne ista stimulum longum habet, quae usque illinc cor pungit meum.

[¶107] A woman is a spoony and a trolloping slut, if she hasn’t a view to her own interests, even in her cups.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Blitea et luteast meretrix nisi quae sapit in vino ad rem suam;

[¶108] If her other limbs are soaked in wine, at least let her head be sober. But it’s a vexation to me that my hair-dresser has been thus badly treated. She has been telling me that this child has been discovered to be the son of Dinarchus. When I heard that … (She moves, as if going.)
DINARCHUS: (apart.)
She’s going, in whose hands are all my fortune and my children.
PHRONESIUM: (seeing DINARCHUS.)

> Latin: si alia membra vino madeant, cor sit saltem sobrium.
nam mihi dividiaest, [in] tonstricem meam sic convictam male.
ea dixit, eum Diniarchi puerum inventum filium.
ubi id audivi, quám ⟨ego propere potui egressa huc sum foras.⟩
Diniarchvs:
⟨Lubet adire⟩ quam penes est mea omnis res et liberi.

[¶109] I see him who has constituted me the guardian of his property.
DINARCHUS: (coming forward.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Video eccum qui suis tutorem med optavit liberis.

[¶110] Madam, here am I.
PHRONESIUM:
It certainly is he. What’s the matter, my love?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Mulier, ad ⟨te⟩ sum profectus.
Phronesivm:
Quid agitur, voluptas mea?

[¶111] DINARCHUS:
No love; cease your trifling. I’ve nothing now to do with that subject.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Non voluptas, aufer nugas, nil ego nunc de istac re ago.

[¶112] PHRONESIUM:
By my faith, I know what you want, and what you desire, and what you ask for. You want to see me; you desire to caress me; you ask for the child.
DINARCHUS: (aside.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Scio mecastor quid velis ét quid postules et quid petas:
me videre vis, [et me] te a me ire postulas, puerum petis.

[¶113] Immortal Gods! how plain she speaks. How, in a few words, has she hit upon the very point!

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Di immortales, ut planiloqua est, paucis ut rem ipsam attigit.

[¶114] PHRONESIUM:
As for me, I know that you are betrothed, and that you have a son by your betrothed, and that a wife is now going to be married by you; that now your thoughts are elsewhere, that myself you are going to consider as forsaken. But still consider, the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is, which never entrusts its life to one hole only;
inasmuch as, if one hole is blocked up, it seeks another as a place of refuge.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Scio equidem sponsam tibi esse et filium ex sponsa tua
et tibi uxorem ducendam, [iam] esse alibi iám animum tuom
et ⟨me⟩ quasi pro derelicta: scio, abituru's abiturus es. sed tamen
cogitato, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia,
aetatem qui non cubili ⟨uni⟩ umquam committit suam,
quin, si unum obsideatur, aliud ⟨iam⟩ perfugium ⟨ele⟩gerit.

[¶115] DINARCHUS:
When there’s leisure, then I’ll talk to you on those matters more at large; at present, give me up the child.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Otium ubi erit, de istis rebus tum amplius tecum loquar.
nunc puerum redde.

[¶116] PHRONESIUM:
No; do, there’s a dear, let it be at my house the few next days.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Immo amabo ut hos dies aliquos sinas
eum esse apud me.

[¶117] DINARCHUS:
Certainly not.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Minime.

[¶118] PHRONESIUM:
Do, there’s a dear.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Amabo.

[¶119] DINARCHUS:
What occasion is there?

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Quid opus ⟨est⟩?

[¶120] PHRONESIUM:
It’s for my interest. This for the next three days at least, until the Captain is circumvented somehow;
for that same purpose. If I get anything, it shall be for your own advantage as well. If you take the child away, all hope in the Captain will evaporate from my heart.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
In rem meam ⟨est⟩.
triduom hoc saltem, dum áliquo miles circumducitur,
sine me habere: siquidem habebo, tibi quoque etiam proderit;
si auferes [puerum], a milite omnis [tum] mihi spes animam efflaverit.

[¶121] DINARCHUS:
I would have that done; but, when it’s taken home, to do it again, if I were to wish it, I have not the opportunity. Now make use of the child, and take care of it, because you have the means by which to take care of it.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Factum cupio, nam nefacere si velim, non est locus;
nunc puero utere et procura, quando quor cures habes.

[¶122] PHRONESIUM:
Upon my faith, I do love you much for this matter. When you shall be afraid of a scolding at home,
do you take shelter here in my house. At least, prove a friend, to help me to a profitable speculation.
DINARCHUS: (moving.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Multum amo te ób istam rem mecastor. ubi domi metues malum,
fugito huc ad me: saltem amicus mi esto † manubinarius.

[¶123] Kindly farewell, Phronesium.
PHRONESIUM:
Won’t you any longer call me “apple of your eye?”

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Bene vale, Phronesium.
Phronesivm:
⟨An non et⟩iam tuom oculum vocas?

[¶124] DINARCHUS:
That name too, meanwhile, shall be repeated full oft.

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Id quoque interim † futatim nomen commemorabitur.
numquid vis?

[¶125] PHRONESIUM:
Do you wish for anything else?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Fac valeas.

[¶126] DINARCHUS:
Fare thee well; when I have leisure, I’ll come to your house.
(Exit.)

> Latin: Diniarchvs:
Operae ubi mi erit, ad te venero.—

[¶127] PHRONESIUM:
Well, he’s gone away from here, and has taken his departure; we may say here whatever we please.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Ille quidem hinc abiit, abscessit. dicere hic quidvis licet.

[¶128] ’Tis a true proverb that’s quoted, “Where the friends are, there are the riches.” Through him, there’s still some hope that the Captain may be duped to-day; whom, by the powers, I love better than my own self,—so long as I get out of him what I want: since, when we have got much, not much of it is seen that has been given. Such are the brilliant prospects of Courtesans!
ASTAPHIUM:
Hush! hush! be quiet.

> Latin: verum est verbum quod memoratur: ubi amici ibidem ⟨sunt⟩ opes.
propter hunc spes etiamst hodie † tantum iri militem;
quém ego ecastor mage amo quam me, dum id quod cupio inde aufero.
quae cum multum abstulimus, hau multum ⟨eius⟩ apparet quod datum est:
ita sunt gloriae meretricum.
Astaphivm:
Áha tace.

[¶129] PHRONESIUM:
Prithee, what is it?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Quid est, obsecro?

[¶130] ASTAPHIUM:
The father of the child is coming.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
⟨Pater⟩ adest pueri.

[¶131] PHRONESIUM:
Well, let him come here. Let him, if it only is he,
let him come himself straight up to me here just as he chooses.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Sine eumpse adire huc. sine, si is est modo.
Astaphivm:
⟨Ipsus est⟩.
Phronesivm:
Sine eumpse adire, ut cupit, ad me.
Astaphivm:
Rectam tenet.

[¶132] If he does come, for very sure, i’ faith, I’ll do him to-day with some cunning tricks.
(They go into the house.) (PHRONESIUM and ASTAPHIUM appear before the door of the house. Enter STRATOPHANES.)
STRATOPHANES: (to himself.)
That I should love for this! I’m taking an atonement for my offences to my mistress! That that may be taken by her in kindly part which I’ve squandered before, I’ll add this as well.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Ne istum ecastor hodie aspiciam confectum fallaciis.
Stratophanes:
Ego minam auri fero supplicium † damnis ad amicam meam:
ut illud acceptum sit, prius quod perdidi, hoc addam insuper.

[¶133] But what’s this? I see the mistress and her maid before the house. I must accost her. (Addressing them.) What are you doing here?
PHRONESIUM:
Don’t speak to me.

> Latin: sed quid video? eram atque ancillam ante aedis. adeundae haec mihi.
quid hic vos agitis?
Phronesivm:
Ne me appella ⟨quaeso⟩.

[¶134] STRATOPHANES:
You are too angry.
(Pats her on the shoulder.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
⟨Aha⟩ nimium saeviter.

[¶135] PHRONESIUM:
Leave me alone. Can’t you possibly cease to be an annoyance to me?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Potine ut mihi molestus ne sis?

[¶136] STRATOPHANES:
What is the matter, my dear little Astaphium?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Ecquid, Astaphium, litiumst?

[¶137] ASTAPHIUM:
I’ faith, she’s angry with you with good reason.

> Latin: Astaphivm:
Merito ecastor tibi succenset.

[¶138] PHRONESIUM:
What, I? I’m not even half spiteful enough to. wards that fellow.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Egon, atque isti etiam parum
male volo.

[¶139] STRATOPHANES:
My love, if I have at all offended before,
I present you with this mina of gold. If you smile upon me, deign me a look.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Ego, mea voluptas, si quid peccavi prius,
supplicium ad te hanc mínam fero auri. si minus crédis, respice.

[¶140] PHRONESIUM:
My hand forbids me to believe anything, before it holds in its possession. We require food for the child; we require it for the dame as well, that bathes the child; we require it for the nurse, as well, that she may have a leather bottle full of old wine in ample style, that night and day she may tipple; we stand in need of fire; we want coals, too;
we want swathes, napkins, the cradle, the cradle-bed; oil we want; the child requires flour, for pap; all day we are wanting something; never, in the same one day, can our task be performed, but what there’s always need of something; for the children of officers cannot be reared upon medlars.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Manus vetat prius quám penes sese habeat quicquam credere.
puero opust cibo, opus est matri autem, ⟨opus est⟩ quae puerum lavit,
opus nutrici, lact ut habeat, veteris vini largiter
ut dies noctesque potet, ópust ligno, opust carbonibus,
fasciis opus est, pulvinis, cunis, incunabulis,
oleo ⟨opust⟩, opus est farina, porro opus est totum diem:
numquam hoc uno die efficiatur opus, quin opus semper siet;
non enim póssunt militares pueri † etauio exducier.

[¶141] STRATOPHANES:
Look upon me then. Take this (presenting the money), with which to satisfy these necessities.
PHRONESIUM: (taking it.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Respice ergo, áccipe hoc, qui ístuc efficias opus.

[¶142] Give it me, although it’s very little.
STRATOPHANES:
Whatever you shall order, shall be given at your demand. Give me a kiss now. (Tries to kiss her.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Cedo, quamquam parum est.
Stratophanes:
Addam etiam unam minam istuc post.
Phronesivm:
Parumst.
Stratophanes:
Tuo arbitratu quod iubebis dabitur. da nunc savium.

[¶143] PHRONESIUM:
Leave me alone, I say! You are a nuisance!

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Mitte me, inquam, odiosu's odiosus es.

[¶144] STRATOPHANES: (aside.)
It’s no use, I’m not loved by her; the day wears apace. More than ten pounds of silver have I lost in this short time by reason of my passion.
PHRONESIUM: (giving the money to ASTAPHIUM.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Nil fit, non amor, teritur dies.
plus decem pondo † moris pauxillisper perdidi.

[¶145] Take this, and carry it away in-doors. (ASTAPHIUM carries it in.) (Enter STRABAX, from the house.)
STRABAX: (to himself.)
Where in the world is my mistress?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Accipe hoc atque auferto intro.
Strabax:
Vbi mea amicast gentium?

[¶146] I get on with no business, either in the country or here, at this rate; I’m spoiling with mouldiness, I’m grown so dreadfully numbed with lying waiting here upon the couch. But look, I perceive her. Hallo! sweetheart, what are you about?
STRATOPHANES:
What fellow is that?

> Latin: neque ruri neque hic óperis quicquam facio, corrumpor situ,
ita miser cubando in lecto hic expectando obdurui.
sed eccam video. heús amica, quid agis? [mille].
Stratophanes:
Quis illic ⟨est⟩ homo?

[¶147] PHRONESIUM:
One that, upon my honor, I love far more than yourself.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Quém ego ecastor mage amo quam te. …

[¶148] STRATOPHANES:
Than myself? In what way?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Quam me? quo modo?

[¶149] PHRONESIUM:
Why, this way, that you are not to be troublesome to me. (Moves as if going.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Hoc modo, ut molestus ne sis.

[¶150] STRATOPHANES:
Are you going now, after you’ve got the gold?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Iam⟨ne⟩ abis, postquam aurum habes?

[¶151] PHRONESIUM:
What you’ve given me, I’ve put away in-doors.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Condidi intro quod dedisti.

[¶152] STRABAX:
Come here, sweetheart; I’ve got something to say to you.

> Latin: Strabax:
Ades, amica, te adloquor.

[¶153] PHRONESIUM:
Why, I was just coming to you.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
At ego ad te ibam, mea delicia.

[¶154] STRABAX:
To me, my charmer?
PHRONESIUM:
In serious truth, i’ faith.
STRABAX:
Although I seem a simpleton to you, I like myself to have a bit of recreation. For pretty though you are, you are so to your own loss, unless I amuse myself a bit with you.

> Latin: Strabax:
Hercle vero serio,
quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere aliqui me volo;
nam quamquam tu es bella, malo tuo, nisi ego aliqui gaudeo.

[¶155] PHRONESIUM:
Should you like me to embrace you and give you a kiss?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Vin te amplectar, savium dem?

[¶156] STRABAX:
Do whatever you like, I’ll deem it agreable.
(She kisses him.)

> Latin: Strabax:
Quidvis face ⟨qui⟩ gaudeam.

[¶157] STRATOPHANES:
What, shall I suffer her to be embracing other men before my eyes? I’ faith,’twere better that I were dead. Woman, take your hands off of him, unless, perhaps, by this sword of mine, won from the enemy, you wish yourself and him to die.
(Flourishing his sword.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Meosne ante oculos ego illam patiar alios amplexarier?
mortuom hercle me hodie satiust. apstine hoc, mulier, manum,
nisi si te mea manu † ui in machaera et hunc vis mori.

[¶158] PHRONESIUM:
There’s no use in “badinage,” Captain. If you want yourself to be loved, with gold, Stratophanes, not with iron, may you prevent him from loving me.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Nil halapari satiust, miles, si te amari postulas;
auro, hau ferro deterrere potes, ⟨hunc⟩ né amem, Stratophanes.

[¶159] STRATOPHANES:
How, the plague, are you pretty or witty, to be fond of a fellow of that description?
PHRONESIUM: (aside, to STRATOPHANES.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Qui, malum, bella aut faceta es, quaé ames hominem isti modi?

[¶160] Don’t it come to your recollection what an actor once said upon the stage? “All people have an eye to their profit, and are not over delicate.”

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Venitne in méntem tibi quod verbum in cavea dixit histrio:
omnes homines ad suom quaestum callent et fastidiunt.

[¶161] STRATOPHANES:
That you could possibly caress this fellow, so dirty and foul!

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Huncine hominem te amplexari tam horridum ac tam squalidum?

[¶162] PHRONESIUM:
Although he is dirty, although he is foul, still, he’s pretty to me.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Quamquam hic squalet, quam⟨quam⟩ hic horret, scitus ⟨et⟩ bellust mihi.

[¶163] STRATOPHANES:
Didn’t I give you some gold?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Dedin ego aurum—

[¶164] PHRONESIUM:
To me? You gave money for the child’s food.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Mihi? dedisti filio cibaria.

[¶165] STRABAX:
Now, if you hope to have her, another mina of gold is requisite.

> Latin: nunc, si hanc tecum esse speras, alia opust auri mina.

[¶166] STRATOPHANES:
A sore mishap upon these people, and a weighty one!
STRABAX:
By all means, keep that by way of provision for your own journey.

> Latin: Strabax:
Malam rem is et magnam magno opere, serva tibi viaticum.

[¶167] STRATOPHANES:
What does she owe you?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Quid isti debes?
Phronesivm:
Tria.

[¶168] STRABAX:
Three things.
STRATOPHANES:
What, pray?
STRABAX:
Perfumes, her favours, and kisses.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Quae tria nam?

[¶169] PHRONESIUM: (apart.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Vnguenta, noctem, savium.

[¶170] He answers him like for like. (To STRATOPHANES.) But now, at all events, if you do love me,
do you give me some little trifle from your most abundant treasures.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Par pari respondet. verum nunc saltem, ⟨et⟩si ⟨istunc⟩ amas,
dan tu mihi de tuis deliciis † sum quicquid pauxillulum?

[¶171] STRATOPHANES:
Do say, there’s a dear, what it is that I’m to give you; only say. If I have it left, you shall have it.
PHRONESIUM:
Mere kickshaws you’re talking about. Be off, be off.
(STRABAX kisses her.)
STRATOPHANES:
I’ve considered this over with myself. My good sir, take you care, will you, that she don’t inflict a wound upon you, whose teeth are made of iron.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Quid id, amabo, est quod dem? dic tum super feri†
†capas dicit auaui consultam istuc mihi homo†
cave faxis volnus tibi iam cui sunt dentes ferrei.

[¶172] She’s allowing access to her to all in common.
You take your hand off of her.
STRABAX: (striking him.)

> Latin: Strabax:
Volgo ad se omnis intromittit.
Stratophanes:
Abstine istac tu manum.

[¶173] Then, by my troth, do you take that, with a hearty punch, warlike man!

> Latin: Strabax:
Iam hercle cum magno ⟨malo⟩ tu vapula vir strenuos.

[¶174] STRATOPHANES:
I’ve given her gold.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Dedi ego huic aurum.

[¶175] STRABAX:
And I, silver.

> Latin: Strabax:
Át ego argentum.

[¶176] STRATOPHANES:
And I a mantle and a purple garment.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
†eat apale puram.

[¶177] STRABAX:
And I, sheep and wool; and many other things that she shall ask for I’ll give.’Twere better for you to contest it with me with minae than with menaces.

> Latin: Strabax:
At ego oves et lanam, et alia multa quae poscet dabo.
meliust te minis certare mecum quam minaciis.

[¶178] PHRONESIUM:
Upon my faith you are a funny mortal, my Strabax. Prithee, do proceed—
(Aside.) A fool and a madman are contending for their ruin; I’m all right.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Lepidu's lepidus es ecastor mortalis, mi Strabax, perge obsecro.
Astaphivm:
Stultus atque insanus damnis certant: nos salvae sumus.

[¶179] STRATOPHANES:
Come, younker, do you offer something first.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Age prior prompta aliquid.

[¶180] STRABAX:
Why no; do you squander first, and come to ruin.
STRATOPHANES: (to PHRONESIUM.)

> Latin: Strabax:
Immo tu prior perde et peri.

[¶181] Well, here’s a talent of silver for you. It’s in Philippean coins. Take it for yourself.
PHRONESIUM: (taking the money.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Em tibi talentum argenti. †Philippices est, tene tibi.

[¶182] So much the better. Be one of our family, but live at your own expense.
STRATOPHANES: (to STRABAX.)

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Tanto melior, noster esto—sed de vostro vivito.

[¶183] Where is that which you are going to give? Open your purse-strings.
PHRONESIUM:
That’s a challenge.
STRATOPHANES: (to STRABAX.)
What are you afraid of?

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Vbi est quod tu das? solve zonam, provocator. quid times?

[¶184] STRABAX:
You are from abroad. I live here (points to his FATHER’S house). I am afraid.
STRATOPHANES:
I am not. Walk off, then.

> Latin: Strabax:
Tu peregrinu's peregrinus es, hic ⟨ego⟩ habito: non cum zona ego ambulo:

[¶185] STRABAX:
I’m bringing her some sheep fastened in a purse to my neck.

> Latin: pecua ad hanc collo in crumina ego obligata defero.

[¶186] STRATOPHANES:
Because I gave that, how I did flounder the fellow.
STRABAX:
Why no, indeed, it’s I, who am going to give.
PHRONESIUM: (to STRATOPHANES.)

> Latin: quid dedi! ut discinxi hominem.
Strabax:
Immo ego vero, qui dedi.

[¶187] Come in-doors now, prithee, and (to STRABAX) do you then stay with me here.
STRATOPHANES:
You will give me your company then?
STRABAX: (to PHRONESIUM.)
What say you?
PHRONESIUM:
What?

> Latin: Phronesivm:
I intro, amabo, i, tú eris mecum; ⟨tum⟩ tu eris mecum quidem.

[¶188] STRABAX:
What do you say? What, with this fellow? Am I to be postponed?
STRATOPHANES:
I have made my present.
PHRONESIUM: (to STRATOPHANES.)

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Quid tu? quid ais? cum hocin ⟨eris⟩? ego ⟨ero⟩ posterior, ⟨qui⟩ dedi?

[¶189] You have given; (pointing to STRABAX) he’s going to give just now; the one I’ve got, the other I expect. But each of the two shall be indulged to his heart’s content.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Tu dedisti iam, ⟨hic⟩ daturust: ictuc habeo, hoc expeto.
verum utrique mos geratur amborum ex sententia.

[¶190] STRABAX:
So be it. As I see the matter stands, that must be taken that’s offered.

> Latin: Stratophanes:
Fiat. ut rem gnatam video, hoc accipiundumst quod datur.

[¶191] STRATOPHANES:
Indeed, I shall assuredly not be letting you take possession of my couch.
PHRONESIUM: (aside.)

> Latin: Strabax:
Meum quidem te lectum certe óccupare non sinam.

[¶192] I’ faith, I’ve cleverly netted them, and quite to my satisfaction.
(To the AUDIENCE.) And as I see my affairs successfully managed, yours likewise would I successfully manage. I’ll caress you in reality. If you are disposed to be doing anything, take care, will you, and let me know at once. For the sake of Venus, applaud; this Play is in her honor. Spectators, kindly farewell; grant applause, and then rise up.

> Latin: Phronesivm:
Lepide ecastor aucupavi atque ex mea sententia,
meamque ut rem video bene gestam, vostram rursum bene geram:
†romabo si quis animatust facere, faciat ut sciam.
Veneris causa adplaudite: eius haec in tutelast fabula.
spectatores, bene valete, plaudite atque exurgite.