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title: "The Woman of Andros · Andria"
author: "Terence"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
url: https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/
cite: "Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Woman of Andros · Andria. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/"
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# The Woman of Andros · Andria

*Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A father arranges a marriage; his son loves a girl from Andros.

> Latin: ed. Edward St. John Parry, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0134.phi001, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0134.phi001.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.

## Contents

1. [Lines 1–337](https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/1.md)
2. [Lines 301–683](https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/2.md)
3. [Lines 625–981](https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/3.md)

## 1. Lines 1–337

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/1/#p-N

[¶0] THE TITLE OF THE PLAY. PERFORMED at the Megalensian Games; M. Fulvius and M. Glabrio being Curule Aediles. Ambivius Turpio and Lucius Atilius Praenestinus performed it. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music, to a pair of treble flutes and bass flutes alternately. And it is entirely Grecian. Published—M. Marcellus and Cneius Sulpicius being Consuls.
PROLOGUE.:
THE POET, when first he applied his mind to writing, thought that the only duty which devolved on him was, that the Plays he should compose might please the public. But he perceives that it has fallen out entirely otherwise;
for he is wasting his labor in writing Prologues, not for the purpose of relating the plot, but to answer the slanders of a malevolent old Poet. Now I beseech you, give your attention to the thing which they impute as a fault. Menander composed the Andrian and the Perinthian.
He who knows either of them well, will know them both; they are in plot not very different, and yet they have been composed in different language and style. What suited, he confesses he has transferred into the Andrian from the Perinthian, and has employed them as his own.
These parties censure this proceeding; and on this point they differ from him, that Plays ought not to be mixed up together. By being thus knowing, do they not show that they know nothing at all? For while they are censuring him, they are censuring Naevius, Plautus, and Ennius, whom our Poet has for his precedents;
whose carelessness he prefers to emulate, rather than the mystifying carefulness of those parties. Therefore, I advise them to be quiet in future, and to cease to slander; that they may not be made acquainted with their own misdeeds. Be well disposed, then; attend with unbiased mind, and consider the matter,
that you may determine what hope is left; whether the Plays which he shall in future compose anew, are to be witnessed, or are rather to be driven off the stage.
(Enter SIMO and SOSIA, followed by SERVANTS carrying provisions.)
SIMO: (to the Servants.)
Do you carry those things away in-doors; begone. (Beckoning to SOSIA.) Sosia, just step here; I want a few words with you.

> Latin: INTRODUCTION. THE Andria derives its name from Glycerium, the heroine of the play; who was from Andros. Upon her previous history turns the dénouement of the plot. Chremes and Phania were brothers, two Athenian citizens. On occasion of a voyage to Asia Chremes had left his only daughter Pasibula with Phania, who shortly afterwards followed his brother to Asia to escape from a war that was raging in Greece. He was overtaken by a storm, and shipwrecked, together with Pasibula, upon the island Andros. He there attached himself as a client to a citizen, who entertained him liberally, and upon his death, which occurred shortly after, adopted Pasibula and brought her up with his own daughter Chrysis, having changed her name to Glycerium. Chrysis upon the death of her father went to Athens with her reputed sister, and, after making shift for an honest livelihood, at last took up the profession of a courtezan. At her house many young men congregated, and among others Pamphilus, the son of Simo, who there saw and fell in love with Glycerium, and became her accepted lover, making her a promise of marriage, which was rendered more binding by the parting injunctions of Chrysis, who upon her deathbed commended Glycerium as a sacred trust to Pamphilus. Meanwhile Pamphilus has another affair on his hands. For Chremes has had another daughter since the loss of Pasibula, and is very anxious that she should be well married to such an excellent young man as Pamphilus, who, happily, while enjoying himself in his own way, has gained a character which is the admiration of every one. So Philumena and Pamphilus are betrothed by their parents, entirely without the knowledge of the bridegroom elect. All this time Simo has fully believed in his son’s excellence; but is undeceived by an event which takes place at the funeral of Chrysis, where Pamphilus shows something more than an ordinary solicitude for a young woman whom Simo ascertains to be the sister of Chrysis. The matter takes wind, and reaches the ears of Chremes, with the additional circumstance of Pamphilus’ connexion with her, upon which he breaks off the match.
This brings us to the point at which the action of the play commences. Simo determines to tell Pamphilus that he is to be married to Philumena, hoping to place him in a dilemma; for if he refused, then he could take him severely to task; if he consented, then Chremes might be gained over, and after all the match might take place. Accordingly he tells Pamphilus by the way in the Forum that he is to be married that very day. Pamphilus returns home in amazement; but is met by Mysis, servant of Glycerium, who revives his old affection for her mistress. Davus meanwhile sifts the whole matter to the bottom; finds that the marriage is a pretence, and accordingly recommends Pamphilus to humour his father to the utmost, and express his entire readiness to marry as soon as he pleases. At the same time he is to keep up his intimacy with Glycerium, that Chremes may be as shy of his connexion as he is now. Meanwhile there is a by-plot at work. One Charinus, a friend of Pamphilus, who is in love with Philumena, hears with dismay that she is to be married to his friend, and urges him to do all in his power to defer the marriage if possible. So affairs stand when Glycerium is brought to bed of a son, Simo, who hears what is going on, imagining, and being confirmed by Davus in the belief, that this is merely an artifice of Glycerium and her friends to prevent Pamphilus’ marriage. He accordingly again treats with Chremes on the subject of the marriage of Pamphilus and Philumena, and extorts a reluctant consent. This places Davus in a great strait; for Pamphilus now reproaches him with his untoward advice, which has got him into this mischief; and Charinus too is indignant to the last degree at the treachery of Pamphilus. As a last resource Davus places the child before Simo’s door, and contrives that Chremes shall hear its history from Mysis. This causes a fresh rupture between Chremes and Simo. At this moment there arrives a native of Andros, Crito, next of kin to Chrysis, who has come to Athens to claim her property. He clears up the previous history of Glycerium, who is joyfully recognized as Chremes’ daughter, and all parties are made happy; Simo being with some difficulty gained over to forgive past offences, and to receive his son and Davus into favour again.
ANDRIA. ACTA LUDIS MEGALENSIB M. FULVIO ET M. GLABRIONE AEDILIB. CURULIB. EGERUNT L. AMBIVIUS TURPIO, L. ATTILIUS PRAENESTINUS. MODOS FECIT FLACCUS CLAUDII FILIUS, TIBIIS PARIBUS DEXTRIS ET SINISTRIS. ET EST TOTA GRAECA. EDITA M. MARCELLO, CN. SULPITIO COSS.
PROLOGUS:
Poeta quum primum animum ad scribendum appulit,
Id sibi negoti credidit solum dari
Populo ut placerent quas fecisset fabulas.
Verum aliter evenire multo intelligit.
Nam in prologis scribundis operam abutitur,
Non qui argumentum narret, sed qui malevoli
Veteris poetae maledictis respondeat.
Nunc quam rem vitio dent quaeso animum advortite.
Menander fecit Andriam et Perinthiam.
Qui utramvis recte norit ambas noverit.
Non ita dissimili sunt argumento, sed tamen
Dissimili oratione sunt factae ac stilo.
Quae convenere in Andriam ex Perinthia
Fatetur transtulisse atque usum pro suis.
Id isti vituperant factum; atque in eo disputant,
Contaminari non decere fabulas.
Faciuntne intelligendo ut nihil intelligant.
Qui quum hunc accusant Naevium, Plautum, Ennium
Accusant, quos hic noster auctores habet:
Quorum aemulari exoptat negligentiam
Potius, quam istorum obscuram diligentiam.
Dehinc ut quiescant porro moneo et desinant
Maledicere, malefacta ne noscant sua.
Favete, adeste aequo animo, et rem cognoscite,
Ut pernoscatis, ecquid spei sit reliquum,
Posthac quas faciet de integro comoedias,
Spectandae an exigendae sint vobis prius.
(SIMO. SOSIA.)
SIMO:
Vos istaec intro auferte: abite. Sosia,
Adesdum: paucis te volo.

[¶1] SOSIA:
Consider it as said;
that these things are to be taken care of, I suppose.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Dictum puta:
Nempe ut curentur recte haec.

[¶2] SIMO:
No, it’s another matter.

> Latin: SIMO:
Immo aliud.

[¶3] SOSIA:
What is there that my ability can effect for you more than this?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Quid est
Quod tibi mea ars efficere hoc possit amplius?

[¶4] SIMO:
There’s no need of that ability in the matter which I have in hand; but of those qualities which I have ever known as existing in you, fidelity and secrecy.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nihil istac opus est arte ad hanc rem quam paro:
Sed iis quas semper in te intellexi sitas,
Fide et taciturnitate.

[¶5] SOSIA:
I await your will.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Exspecto quid velis.

[¶6] SIMO:
Since I purchased you, you know that, from a little child, your servitude with me has always been easy and light. From a slave I made you my freedman; for this reason, because you served me with readiness. The greatest recompense that I possessed, I bestowed upon you.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ego postquam te emi, a parvulo ut semper tibi
Apud me iusta et clemens fuerit servitus
Scis: feci e servo ut esses libertus mihi.
Propterea quod servibas liberaliter.
Quod habui summum pretium, persolvi tibi.

[¶7] SOSIA:
I bear it in mind.

> Latin: SOSIA:
In memoria habeo.

[¶8] SIMO:
I am not changed.

> Latin: SIMO:
Haud muto factum.

[¶9] SOSIA:
If I have done or am doing aught that is pleasing to you, Simo, I am glad that it has been done; and that the same has been gratifying to you, I consider sufficient thanks. But this is a cause of uneasiness to me; for the recital is, as it were, a censure to one forgetful of a kindness.
But tell me, in one word, what it is that you want with me.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Gaudeo
Si tibi quid feci aut facio quod placet, Simo,
Et gratum id fuisse advorsum te habeo gratiam.
Sed mihi hoc molestum est: nam istaec commemoratio
Quasi exprobratio est immemoris benefici.
Quin tu uno verbo dic quid est quod me velis.

[¶10] SIMO:
I’ll do so. In the first place, in this affair I give you notice: this, which you suppose to be such, is not a real marriage.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ita faciam: hoc primum in hac re praedico tibi;
Quas credis esse has non sunt verae nuptiae.

[¶11] SOSIA:
Why do you pretend it then?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Cur simulas igitur?

[¶12] SIMO:
You shall hear all the matter from the beginning; by that means you’ll be acquainted with both my son’s mode of life and my own design,
and what I want you to do in this affair. For after he had passed youthfulness, Sosia, and had obtained free scope of living, (for before, how could you know or understand his disposition, while youthful age, fear, and a master were checking him?)—

> Latin: SIMO:
Rem omnem a principio audies;
Eo pacto et gnati vitam, et consilium meum
Cognosces, et quid facere in hac re te velim.
Nam is postquam excessit ex ephebis, Sosia,
Liberius vivendi fuit potestas: nam antea
Qui scire posses, aut ingenium noscere,
Dum aetas, metus, magister, prohibebant?

[¶13] SOSIA:
That’s true.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Ita est.

[¶14] SIMO:
What all young men, for the most part, do,—devote their attention to some particular pursuit, either to training horses or dogs for hunting, or to the philosophers; in not one of these did he engage in particular beyond the rest, and yet in all of them in a moderate degree.
I was pleased.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quod plerique omnes faciunt adolescentuli,
Ut animum ad aliquod studium adiungant, aut equos
Alere aut canes ad venandum, aut ad philosophos:
Horum ille nihil egregie praeter caetera
Studebat: et tamen omnia haec mediocriter.
Gaudebam.

[¶15] SOSIA:
Not without reason; for this I deem in life to be especially advantageous; that one do nothing to excess.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Non iniuria: nam id arbitror
Apprime in vita esse utile ut ne quid nimis.

[¶16] SIMO:
Such was his mode of life; readily to bear and to comply with all; with whomsoever he was in company, to them to resign himself; to devote himself to their pursuits; at variance with no one;
never preferring himself to them. Thus most readily you may acquire praise without envy, and gain friends.

> Latin: SIMO:
Sic vita erat: facile omnes perferre ac pati
Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere:
Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini:
Nunquam praeponens se illis: ita facillime
Sine invidia laudem invenias et amicos pares.

[¶17] SOSIA:
He has wisely laid down his rule of life; for in these days obsequiousness begets friends; sincerity, dislike.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Sapienter vitam instituit: namque hoc tempore
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.

[¶18] SIMO:
Meanwhile, three years ago, a certain woman
from Andros removed hither into this neighborhood, driven by poverty and the neglect of her relations, of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.

> Latin: SIMO:
Interea mulier quaedam abhinc triennium
Ex Andro commigravit huc viciniae,
Inopia et cognatorum negligentia
Coacta, egregia forma atque aetate integra.

[¶19] SOSIA:
Ah! I’m afraid that this Andrian will bring some mischief.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Hei vereor ne quid Andria apportet mali.

[¶20] SIMO:
At first, in a modest way, she passed her life with thriftiness and in hardship,
seeking a livelihood with her wool and loom. But after an admirer made advances, promising her a recompense, first one and then another; as the disposition of all mankind has a downward tendency from industry toward pleasure, she accepted their proposals, and then began to trade upon her beauty.
Those who then were her admirers, by chance, as it often happens, took my son thither that he might be in their company. Forthwith I said to myself, “He is surely caught; he is smitten.” In the morning I used to observe their servant-boys coming or going away; I used to make inquiry, “Here, my lad,”
“tell me, will you, who had Chrysis yesterday?” for that was the name of the Andrian.
(touching SOSIA on the arm.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Primum haec pudice vitam parce ac duriter
Agebat, lana ac tela victum quaeritans.
Sed postquam amans accessit, pretium pollicens,
Unus et item alter, ita ut ingenium est omnium
Hominum a labore proclive ad libidinem,
Accepit conditionem, dein quaestum occipit.
Qui tum illam amabant forte, ita ut fit, filium
Perduxere illuc secum ut una esset meum.
Egomet continuo mecum, “Certe captus est,”
“Habet.” Observabam mane illorum servulos
Venientes aut abeuntes: rogitabam, “Heus puer,”
“Dic sodes, quis heri Chrysidem habuit?” Nam Andriae
Illi id erat nomen.

[¶21] SOSIA:
I understand.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Teneo.

[¶22] SIMO:
Phaedrus, or Clinias, or Niceratus, they used to say; for these three then loved her at the same time. “Well now, what did Pamphilus do?” “What? He gave his contribution; he took part in the dinner.” Just so on another day
I made inquiry, but I discovered nothing whatever that affected Pamphilus. In fact, I thought him sufficiently proved, and a great pattern of continence; for he who is brought into contact with dispositions of that sort, and his feelings are not aroused even under such circumstances,
you may be sure that he is already capable of undertaking the governance of his own life. This pleased me, and every body with one voice began to say all kinds of flattering things, and to extol my good fortune, in having a son endowed with such a disposition. What need is there of talking? Chremes, influenced by this report,
came to me of his own accord, to offer his only daughter as a wife to my son, with a very large portion. It pleased me; I betrothed him; this was the day appointed for the nuptials.

> Latin: SIMO:
Phaedrum, aut Cliniam
Dicebant, aut Niceratum; nam hi tres tum simul
Amabant. “Eho, quid Pamphilus?” Quid? symbolam
Dedit, coenavit. Gaudebam. Item alio die
Quaerebam: comperiebam nihil ad Pamphilum
Quidquam attinere. Enimvero spectatum satis
Putabam, et magnum exemplum continentiae.
Nam qui cum ingeniis conflictatur eiusmodi,
Neque commovetur animus in ea re tamen,
Scias posse habere iam ipsum suae vitae modum.
Cum id mihi placebat tum uno ore omnes omnia
Bona dicere, et laudare fortunas meas
Qui gnatum haberem tali ingenio praeditum.
Quid verbis opus est? hac fama impulsus Chremes,
Ultro ad me venit unicam gnatam suam
Cum dote summa filio uxorem ut daret.
Placuit; despondi. Hic nuptiis dictus est dies.

[¶23] SOSIA:
What then stands in the way? Why should they not take place?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Quid obstat cur non verae fiant?

[¶24] SIMO:
You shall hear. In about a few days after these things had been agreed on,
Chrysis, this neighbor, dies.

> Latin: SIMO:
Audies.
Fere in diebus paucis quibus haec acta sunt
Chrysis vicina haec moritur.

[¶25] SOSIA:
Bravo! You’ve made me happy. I was afraid for him on account of Chrysis.

> Latin: SOSIA:
O factum bene!
Beasti; metui a Chryside.

[¶26] SIMO:
Then my son was often there, with those who had admired Chrysis; with them he took charge of the funeral; sorrowful, in the mean time, he sometimes wept with them in condolence. Then that pleased me.
Thus I reflected: “He by reason of this slight intimacy takes her death so much to heart; what if he himself had wooed her? What will he do for me his father?” All these things I took to be the duties of a humane disposition and of tender feelings. Why do I detain you with many words?
Even I myself, for his sake, went forth to the funeral, as yet suspecting no harm.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ibi tum filius
Cum illis qui amabant Chrysidem una aderat frequens;
Curabat una funus, tristis interim,
Nonnunquam collacrumabat: placuit tum id mihi.
Sic cogitabam; Hic, parvae consuetudinis
Causa, mortem huius tam fert familiariter:
Quid si ipse amasset? quid mihi hic faciet patri?
Haec ego putabam esse omnia humani ingeni
Mansuetique animi officia. Quid multis moror?
Egomet quoque eius causa in funus prodeo,
Nihil suspicans etiam mali.

[¶27] SOSIA:
Ha! what is this?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Hem, quid est?

[¶28] SIMO:
You shall know. She is brought out; we proceed. In the mean time, among the females who were there present, I saw by chance one young woman of beauteous form.

> Latin: SIMO:
Scies.
Effertur: imus. Interea inter mulieres
Quae ibi aderant forte unam adspicio adolescentulam,
Forma.

[¶29] SOSIA:
Very likely.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Bona fortasse.

[¶30] SIMO:
And of countenance, Sosia,
so modest, so charming, that nothing could surpass. As she appeared to me to lament beyond the rest, and as she was of a figure handsome and genteel beyond the other women, I approached the female attendants; I inquired who she was. They said that she was the sister of Chrysis.
It instantly struck my mind: “Ay, ay, this is it; hence those tears, hence that sympathy.”

> Latin: SIMO:
Et vultu, Sosia,
Adeo modesto, adeo venusto, ut nihil supra.
Quia tum mihi lamentari praeter caeteras
Visa est, et quia erat forma praeter caeteras
Honesta et liberali, accedo ad pedisequas;
Quae sit rogo. Sororem esse aiunt Chrysidis.
Percussit illico animum: at at! hoc illud est,
Hinc illae lacrumae; haec illa est misericordia.

[¶31] SOSIA:
How I dread what you are coming to!

> Latin: SOSIA:
Quam timeo, quorsum evadas.

[¶32] SIMO:
The funeral procession meanwhile advances; we follow; we come to the burying-place. She is placed upon the pile; they weep. In the mean time, this sister,
whom I mentioned, approached the flames too incautiously, with considerable danger. There, at that moment, Pamphilus, in his extreme alarm, discovers his well-dissembled and long-hidden passion; he runs up, clasps the damsel by the waist. “My Glycerium,” says he, “what are you doing? Why are you going to destroy yourself.”
Then she, so that you might easily recognize their habitual attachment, weeping, threw herself back upon him—how affectionately!

> Latin: SIMO:
Funus interim
Procedit: sequimur: ad sepulcrum venimus:
In ignem posita est: fletur. Interea haec soror
Quam dixi ad flammam accessit imprudentius,
Satis cum periclo. Ibi tum exanimatus Pamphilus
Bene dissimulatum amorem et celatum indicat.
Accurrit: mediam mulierem complectitur:
Mea Glycerium, inquit, quid agis? cur te is perditum?
Tum illa, ut consuetum facile amorem cerneres,
Reiecit se in eum flens quam familiariter.

[¶33] SOSIA:
What do you say?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Quid ais?

[¶34] SIMO:
I returned thence in anger, and hurt at heart: and yet there was not sufficient ground for reproving him. He might say; “What have I done? How have I deserved this, or offended, father?”
“She who wished to throw herself into the flames, I prevented; I saved her.” The defense is a reasonable one.

> Latin: SIMO:
Redeo inde iratus atque aegre ferens.
Nec satis ad obiurgandum causae. Diceret,
“Quid feci? quid commerui aut peccavi pater?”
“Quae sese in ignem iniicere voluit, prohibui,”
“Servavi.” Honesta oratio est.

[¶35] SOSIA:
You judge aright; for if you censure him who has assisted to preserve life, what are you to do to him who causes loss or misfortune to it?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Recte putas.
Nam si illum obiurges vitae qui auxilium tulit,
Quid facias illi qui dederit damnum aut malum?

[¶36] SIMO:
Chremes comes to me next day, exclaiming:
"Disgraceful conduct!"—that he had ascertained that Pamphilus was keeping this foreign woman as a wife. I steadfastly denied that to be the fact. He insisted that it was the fact. In short, I then left him refusing to bestow his daughter.

> Latin: SIMO:
Venit Chremes postridie ad me clamitans,
Indignum facinus; comperisse Pamphilum
Pro uxore habere hanc peregrinam. Ego illud sedulo
Negare factum; ille instat factum: denique
Ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam
Neget daturum.

[¶37] SOSIA:
Did not you then reprove your son?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Non tu ibi gnatum?

[¶38] SIMO:
Not even this
was a cause sufficiently strong for censuring him.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ne haec quidem
Satis vehemens causa ad obiurgandum.

[¶39] SOSIA:
How so? Tell me.

> Latin: SOSIA:
Qui cedo?

[¶40] SIMO:
“You yourself, father,” he might say, “have prescribed a limit to these proceedings. The time is near, when I must live according to the humor of another; meanwhile, for the present allow me to live according to my own.”

> Latin: SIMO:
“Tute ipse his rebus finem praescripsti pater.”
“Prope adest cum alieno more vivendum est mihi:”
“Sine nunc meo me vivere interea modo.”

[¶41] SOSIA:
What room for reproving him, then, is there left?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Qui igitur relictus est obiurgandi locus?

[¶42] SIMO:
If on account of his amour he shall decline to take a wife, that, in the first place, is an offense on his part to be censured. And now for this am I using my endeavors, that, by means of the pretended marriage, there may be real ground for rebuking him, if he should refuse; at the same time, that if that rascal Davus has any scheme,
he may exhaust it now, while his knaveries can do no harm: who, I do believe, with hands, feet, and all his might, will do every thing; and more for this, no doubt, that he may do me an ill turn, than to oblige my son.

> Latin: SIMO:
Si propter amorem uxorem nolit ducere,
Ea primum ab illo animadvertenda iniuria est.
Et nunc id operam do ut per falsas nuptias
Vera obiurgandi causa sit si deneget:
Simul sceleratus Davus siquid consili
Habet ut consumat nunc cum nihil obsint doli;
Quem ego credo manibus pedibus obnixe omnia
Facturum; magis id adeo mihi ut incommodet
Quam ut obsequatur gnato.

[¶43] SOSIA:
For what reason?

> Latin: SOSIA:
Quapropter?

[¶44] SIMO:
Do you ask? Bad heart, bad disposition. Whom, however, if I do detect —
But what need is there of talking? If it should turn out, as I wish, that there is no delay on the part of Pamphilus, Chremes remains to be prevailed upon by me; and I do hope that all will go well. Now it’s your duty to pretend these nuptials cleverly, to terrify Davus; and watch my son,
what he’s about, what schemes he is planning with him.
SOSIA:’Tis enough; I’ll take care; now let’s go in-doors.

> Latin: SIMO:
Rogas?
Mala mens, malus animus. Quem quidem ego si sensero—
Sed quid opus est verbis? Sin eveniat quod volo,
In Pamphilo ut nil sit morae, restat Chremes,
Qui mi exorandus est: et spero confore.
Nunc tuum est officium has bene ut adsimules nuptias:
Perterrefacias Davum: observes filium,
Quid agat, quid cum illo consili captet.
SOSIA:
Sat est:
Curabo: eamus nunc iam intro.

[¶45] SIMO:
You go first; I’ll follow.
(SOSIA goes into the house of SIMO.)
SIMO: (to himself.)
There’s no doubt but that my son doesn’t wish for a wife; so alarmed did I perceive Davus to be just now, when he heard that there was going to be a marriage. But the very man is coming out of the house. (Stands aside.)

> Latin: SIMO:
I prae, sequar.

[¶46] (Enter DAVUS from the house of SIMO.)
DAVUS: (aloud to himself.)
I was wondering if this matter was to go off thus; and was continually dreading where my master’s good humor would end; for, after he had heard that a wife would not be given to his son, he never uttered a word to any one of us, or took it amiss.

> Latin: (SIMO. DAVUS.)
SIMO:
Non dubium est quin uxorem nolit filius:
Ita Davum modo timere sensi, ubi nuptias
Futuras esse audivit. Sed ipse exit foras.
DAVUS:
Mirabar hoc si sic abiret, et heri semper lenitas
Verebar quorsum evaderet:
Qui postquam audierat non datum iri filio uxorem suo
Numquam cuiquam nostrum verbum fecit, neque id aegre tulit.

[¶47] SIMO: (apart, overhearing him.)
But now he’ll do so: and that, I fancy, not without heavy cost to you.

> Latin: SIMO:
At nunc faciet; neque, ut opinor, sine tuo magno malo.

[¶48] DAVUS: (to himself:)
He meant this, that we, thus unsuspecting, should be led away by delusive joy; that now in hope, all fear being removed, we might during our supineness be surprised, so that there might be no time for planning a rupture of the marriage. How clever!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Id voluit, nos sic nec opinantes duci falso gaudio,
Sperantes, iam amoto metu, interea oscitantes opprimi,
Ut ne esset spatium cogitandi ad disturbandas nuptias:
Astute.

[¶49] SIMO: (apart.)
The villain! what does he say?

> Latin: SIMO:
Carnufex, quae loquitur?

[¶50] DAVUS: (overhearing him, to himself.)
It’s my master, and I didn’t see him.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Herus est, neque provideram.

[¶51] SIMO:
Davus.

> Latin: SIMO:
Dave.

[¶52] DAVUS:
Well, what is it?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem, quid est?

[¶53] SIMO:
Just step this way to me.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ehodum ad me!

[¶54] DAVUS: (to himself.)
What does he want?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid hic volt?

[¶55] SIMO:
What are you saying?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid ais?

[¶56] DAVUS:
About what?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Qua de re?

[¶57] SIMO:
Do you ask the question? There’s a report that my son’s in love.

> Latin: SIMO:
Rogas?
Meum gnatum rumor est amare.

[¶58] DAVUS:
The public troubles itself about that, of course.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Id populus curat scilicet.

[¶59] SIMO:
Will you attend to this, or not?

> Latin: SIMO:
Hocine agis, an non?

[¶60] DAVUS:
Certainly, I will, to that.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego vero istuc.

[¶61] SIMO:
But for me to inquire now into these matters, were the part of a severe father. For what he has done hitherto, doesn’t concern me at all. So long as his time of life prompted to that course, I allowed him to indulge his inclination: now this day brings on another mode of life, demands other habits.
From this time forward, I do request, or if it is reasonable, I do entreat you, Davus, that he may now return to the right path.

> Latin: SIMO:
Sed nunc ea me exquirere
Iniqui patris est. Nam quod antehac fecit nihil ad me adtinet.
Dum tempus ad eam rem tulit, sivi animum ut expleret suum:
Nunc hic dies aliam vitam affert, alios mores postulat.
Dehinc postulo, sive aequum est te oro, Dave, ut redeat iam in viam.

[¶62] DAVUS: (aside.)
What can this mean?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hoc quid sit?

[¶63] SIMO:
All who are intriguing take it ill to have a wife given them.

> Latin: SIMO:
Omnes qui amant graviter sibi dari uxorem ferunt.

[¶64] DAVUS:
So they say.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ita aiunt.

[¶65] SIMO:
And if anyone has adopted a bad instructor in that course, he generally urges the enfeebled mind to pursuits still more unbecoming.

> Latin: SIMO:
Tum siquis magistrum cepit ad eam rem improbum
Ipsum animum aegrotum ad deteriorem partem plerumque applicat.

[¶66] DAVUS:
I’faith, I do not comprehend.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Non hercle intelligo.

[¶67] SIMO:
No? Ha—

> Latin: SIMO:
Non? hem!

[¶68] DAVUS:
No—I am Davus, not Oedipus.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Non: Davus sum, non Oedipus.

[¶69] SIMO:
Of course then, you wish me to speak plainly in what further I have to say.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nempe ergo aperte vis quae restant me loqui.

[¶70] DAVUS:
Certainly, by all means.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sane quidem.

[¶71] SIMO:
If I this day find out that you are attempting any trickery about this marriage, to the end that it may not take place; or are desirous that in this matter it should be proved how knowing you are; I’ll hand you over, Davus, beaten with stripes, to the mill, even to your dying day,
upon this condition and pledge, that if ever I release you, I shall grind in your place. Now, do you understand this? Or not yet even this?

> Latin: SIMO:
Si sensero hodie quicquam in his te nuptiis
Fallaciae conari quo fiant minus,
Aut velle in ea re ostendi quam sis callidus,
Verberibus caesum te in pistrinum Dave dedam usque ad necem,
Ea lege atque omine, ut si te inde exemerim ego pro te molam.
Quid, hoc intellextin? an nondum etiam ne hoc quidem?

[¶72] DAVUS:
Yes, perfectly: you have now spoken so plainly upon the subject, you have not used the least circumlocution.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Immo callide;
Ita aperte ipsam rem modo locutus nil circuitione usus es.

[¶73] SIMO:
In any thing would I more willingly allow myself to be imposed upon than in this matter.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ubi vis facilius passus sim, quam in hac re, me deludier.

[¶74] DAVUS:
Fair words, I entreat.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Bona verba, quaeso.

[¶75] SIMO:
You are ridiculing me: you don’t at all deceive me. I give you warning,
don’t act rashly, and don’t say you were not warned. Take care.
(Shaking his stick, goes into the house.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Irrides: nil me fallis. Edico tibi
Ne temere facias: neque tu hoc dicas tibi non praedictum. Cave.

[¶76] (DAVUS alone.)
DAVUS: (to himself.)
Assuredly, Davus, there’s no room for slothfulness or inactivity, so far as I’ve just now ascertained the old man’s mind about the marriage; which if it is not provided against by cunning, will be bringing either myself or my master to ruin. What to do, I am not determined; whether I should assist Pamphilus or obey the old man.
If I desert the former, I fear for his life; if I assist him, I dread the other’s threats, on whom it will be a difficult matter to impose. In the first place, he has now found out about this amour; with hostile feelings he watches me, lest I should be devising some trickery against the marriage. If he discovers it, I’m undone; or even if he chooses to allege any pretext, whether rightfully or wrongfully, he will consign me headlong to the mill.
To these evils this one is besides added for me. This Andrian, whether she is his wife, or whether his mistress, is pregnant by Pamphilus. It is worth while to hear their effrontery; for it is an undertaking worthy of those in their dotage, not of those who dote in love; whatever she shall bring forth, they have resolved to rear;
and they are now contriving among themselves a certain scheme, that she is a citizen of Attica. There was formerly a certain old man of this place, a merchant; he was shipwrecked off the Isle of Andros; he died. They say that there, the father of Chrysis, on that occasion, sheltered this girl, thrown on shore, an orphan, a little child. What nonsense!
To myself at least it isn’t very probable; the fiction pleases them, however. But Mysis is coming out of the house. Now I’ll betake myself hence to the Forum, that I may meet with Pamphilus, lest his father should take him by surprise about this matter.
(Exit.)

> Latin: (DAVUS.)
DAVUS:
Enimvero, Dave, nil loci est segnitiae neque socordiae,
Quantum intellexi modo senis sententiam de nuptiis:
Quae si non astu providentur me aut herum pessum dabunt.
Nec quid agam certum est: Pamphilumne adiutem an auscultem seni.
Si illum relinquo eius vitae timeo: sin opitulor huius minas;
Cui verba dare difficile est. Primum iam de amore hoc comperit:
Me infensus servat ne quam faciam in nuptiis fallaciam.
Si senserit perii: aut si lubitum fuerit causam ceperit,
Quo iure quaque iniuria praecipitem in pistrinum dabit.
Ad haec mala hoc mihi accedit etiam: haec Andria,
Si ista uxor sive amica est, gravida e Pamphilo est.
Audireque eorum est operae pretium audaciam:
Nam inceptio est amentium haud amantium:
Quicquid peperisset decreverunt tollere:
Et fingunt quandam inter se nunc fallaciam,
Civem Atticam esse hanc. Fuit olim hinc quidam senex,
Mercator: navem is fregit apud Andrum insulam:
Is obiit mortem: ibi tum hanc eiectam Chrysidis
Patrem recepisse orbam, parvam: Fabulae.
Mihi quidem hercle non fit verisimile; atque ipsis commentum placet.
Sed Mysis ab ea egreditur: at ego hinc me ad forum ut
Conveniam Pamphilum, ne de hac re pater imprudentem opprimat.

[¶77] (Enter MYSIS from the house of GLYCERIUM.)
MYSIS: (speaking at the door to Archylis within.)
I’ve heard you already, Archylis; you request Lesbia to be fetched. Really, upon my faith, she is a wine-bibbing and a rash woman,
and not sufficiently trustworthy for you to commit to her care a female at her first delivery; is she still to be brought? (She receives an answer from within, and comes forward.) Do look at the inconsiderateness of the old woman; because she is her pot-companion. Ye Gods, I do entreat you, give her ease in her delivery, and to that woman an opportunity of making her mistakes elsewhere in preference. But why do I see Pamphilus so out of spirits? I fear what it may be.
I’ll wait, that I may know whether this sorrow portends any disaster.
(Stands apart.)

> Latin: (MYSIS.)
MYSIS:
Audivi Archylis iamdudum: Lesbiam adduci iubes.
Sane pol illa temulenta est mulier et temeraria,
Nec satis digna cui committas primo partu mulierem;
Tamen eam adducam. Importunitatem spectate aniculae,
Quia compotrix eius est. Di date facultatem obsecro
Huic pariundi, atque illi in aliis potius peccandi locum.
Sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimatum video? Vereor quid siet.
Opperiar ut sciam numquidnam haec turbae tristitia adferat.

[¶78] (Enter PAMPHILUS, wringing his hands.)
PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
Is it humane to do or to devise this? Is this the duty of a father?

> Latin: (PAMPHILUS. MYSIS.)
PAMPHILUS:
Hocine est humanum factum aut inceptum? hocine est officium patris?

[¶79] MYSIS: (apart.)
What does this mean?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quid illud est?

[¶80] PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
O, by our faith in the Gods! what is, if this is not, an indignity? He had resolved that he himself would give me a wife to-day; ought I not to have known this beforehand? Ought it not to have been mentioned previously?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Pro deum atque hominum fidem, quid est si non haec contumelia est?
Uxorem decrerat dare sese mihi hodie: nonne oportuit
Praescisse me ante? nonne prius communicatum oportuit?

[¶81] MYSIS: (apart.)
Wretched me! What language do I hear?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Miseram me, quod verbum audio?

[¶82] PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
What does Chremes do? He who had declared that he would not intrust his daughter to me as a wife; because he himself sees me unchanged he has changed. Thus perversely does he lend his aid, that he may withdraw wretched me from Glycerium. If this is effected, I am utterly undone.
That any man should be so unhappy in love, or so unfortunate as I am! Oh, faith of Gods and men! shall I by no device be able to escape this alliance with Chremes? In how many ways am I contemned, and held in scorn? Every thing done, and concluded! Alas! once rejected I am sought again; for what reason? Unless perhaps it is this, which I suspect it is:
they are rearing some monster, and as she can not be pushed off upon any one else, they have recourse to me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid Chremes qui denegarat se commissurum mihi
Gnatam suam uxorem? id mutavit, quia me immutatum videt.
Itan obstinate operam dat ut me a Glycerio miserum abstrahat:
Quod si fit pereo funditus.
Adeon’ hominem esse invenustum aut infelicem quemquam ut ego sum?
Pro deum atque hominum fidem!
Nullon’ ego Chremetis pacto adfinitatem effugere potero?
Quot modis contemptus, spretus? facta, transacta omnia: hem,
Repudiatus repetor: quamobrem? nisi si id est quod suspicor:
Aliquid monstri alunt: ea quoniam nemini obtrudi potest,
Itur ad me.

[¶83] MYSIS: (apart.)
This language has terrified wretched me with apprehension.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Oratio haec me miseram exanimavit metu.

[¶84] PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
But what am I to say about my father? Alas! that he should so thoughtlessly conclude an affair of such importance! Passing me in the Forum just now, he said, “Pamphilus, you must be married to-day:”
“get ready; be off home.” He seemed to me to say this: “Be off this instant, and go hang yourself.” I was amazed; think you that I was able to utter a single word, or any excuse, even a frivolous, false, or lame one? I was speechless. But if any one were to ask me now what I would have done, if I had known this sooner, why, I would have done any thing rather than do this. But now, what course shall I first adopt?
So many cares beset me, which rend my mind to pieces; love, sympathy for her, the worry of this marriage; then, respect for my father, who has ever, until now, with such an indulgent disposition, allowed me to do whatever was agreeable to my feelings. Ought I to oppose him? Ah me! I am in uncertainty what to do.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nam quid ego nunc dicam de patre? ah
Tantam rem tam neglegenter agere! praeteriens modo
Mihi apud forum, “Uxor tibi ducenda est, Pamphile, hodie,” inquit, “para:”
“Abi domum.” Id mi visus est dicere, “Abi cito, et suspende te.”
Obstipui: censen’ me verbum potuisse ullum proloqui? aut
Ullam causam, saltem ineptam, falsam, iniquam? Obmutui.
Quod si ego rescissem id prius quid facerem, si quis nunc me roget?
Aliquid facerem ut hoc ne facerem. Sed nunc quid primum exsequar?
Tot me impediunt curae, quae meum animum divorsae trahunt,
Amor, misericordia huius, nuptiarum sollicitatio,
Tum patris pudor qui me tam leni passus animo est usque adhuc
Quae meo quomque animo libitum est facere. Eine ego ut advorser? hei mihi!
Incertum est quid agam.

[¶85] MYSIS: (apart.)
I’m wretchedly afraid how this uncertainty is to terminate.
But now there’s an absolute necessity, either for him to speak to her, or for me to speak to him about her. While the mind is in suspense, it is swayed by a slight impulse one way or the other.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Misera timeo incertum hoc quorsum accidat.
Sed nunc peropus est, aut hunc cum ipsa, aut me aliquid de illa adversum hunc loqui.
Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc vel illuc impellitur.

[¶86] PAMPHILUS: (overhearing her.)
Who is it speaking here? (Seeing her.) Mysis? Good-morrow to you.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quis hic loquitur? Mysis? salve.

[¶87] MYSIS:
Oh! Good-morrow to you, Pamphilus.

> Latin: MYSIS:
O salve, Pamphile.

[¶88] PAMPHILUS:
How is she?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid agit?

[¶89] MYSIS:
Do you ask? She is oppressed with grief, and on this account the poor thing is anxious, because some time ago the marriage was arranged for this day. Then, too, she fears this,
that you may forsake her.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Rogas?
Laborat e dolore; atque ex hoc misera sollicita est, diem
Quia olim in hunc sunt constitutae nuptiae: tum autem hoc timet,
Ne deseras se.

[¶90] PAMPHILUS:
Ha! could I attempt that? Could I suffer her, poor thing, to be deceived on my account? She, who has confided to me her affection, and her entire existence? She, whom I have held especially dear to my feelings as my wife? Shall I suffer her mind, well and chastely trained and tutored,
to be overcome by poverty and corrupted? I will not do it.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hem, egone istuc conari queam?
Ego propter me illam decipi miseram sinam
Quae mihi suum animum atque omnem vitam credidit,
Quam ego animo egregie caram pro uxore habuerim?
Bene et pudice eius doctum atque eductum sinam
Coactum egestate ingenium immutarier?
Non faciam.

[¶91] MYSIS:
I should have no fear if it rested with yourself alone; but whether you may be able to withstand compulsion—

> Latin: MYSIS:
Haud vereor si in te solo sit situm;
Sed ut vim queas ferre.

[¶92] PAMPHILUS:
Do you deem me so cowardly, so utterly ungrateful, inhuman, and so brutish, that neither intimacy, nor affection, nor shame,
can move or admonish me to keep faith?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Adeone me ignavum putas,
Adeone porro ingratum, aut inhumanum, aut ferum,
Ut neque me consuetudo neque amor neque pudor
Commoveat neque commoneat ut servem fidem?

[¶93] MYSIS:
This one thing I know, that she is deserving that you should not forget her.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Unum hoc scio, esse meritam ut memor esses sui.

[¶94] PAMPHILUS:
Forget her? Oh Mysis, Mysis, at this moment are those words of Chrysis concerning Glycerium written on my mind. Now at the point of death, she called me;
I went to her; you had withdrawn; we were alone; she began: “My dear Pamphilus, you see her beauty and her youth; and it is not unknown to you to what extent both of these are now of use to her, in protecting both her chastity and her interests. By this right hand I do entreat you, and by your good Genius,”
“by your own fidelity, and by her bereft condition, do not withdraw yourself from her, or forsake her; if I have loved you as my own brother, or if she has always prized you above all others, or has been obedient to you in all things.”
“You do I give to her as a husband, friend, protector, father. This property of mine do I intrust to you, and commit to your care.” She placed her in my hands; that instant, death came upon her. I accepted her; having accepted, I will protect her.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Memor essem? o Mysis Mysis, etiam nunc mihi
Scripta illa sunt in animo dicta Chrysidis
De Glycerio. Iam ferme moriens me vocat:
Accessi: vos semotae: nos soli: incipit:
“Mi Pamphile, huius formam atque aetatem vides:”
“Nec clam te est quam illi utraeque res nunc utiles”
“Et ad pudicitiam et ad rem tutandam sient.”
“Quod ego te per hanc dextram oro et ingenium tuum,”
“Per tuam fidem, perque huius solitudinem,”
“Te obtestor, ne abs te hanc segreges neu deseras,”
“Si te in germani fratris dilexi loco,”
“Sive haec te solum semper fecit maximi,”
“Seu tibi morigera fuit in rebus omnibus.”
“Te isti virum do amicum tutorem patrem.”
“Bona nostra haec tibi permitto et tuae mando fidei.”
Hanc mihi in manum dat: mors continuo ipsam occupat.
Accepi: acceptam servabo.

[¶95] MYSIS:
So indeed I hope.
(Moving.)

> Latin: MYSIS:
Ita spero quidem.

[¶96] PAMPHILUS:
But why are you leaving her?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Sed cur tu abis ab illa?

[¶97] MYSIS:
I’m going to fetch the midwife.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Obstetricem arcesso.

[¶98] PAMPHILUS:
Make all haste. And—do you hear?—
take care, and not one word about the marriage, lest that too should add to her illness.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Propera, atque audin’?
Verbum unum cave de nuptiis, ne ad morbum hoc etiam.

[¶99] MYSIS:
I understand.
(Exeunt severally.)

> Latin: MYSIS:
Teneo.

[¶100] (Enter CHARINUS and BYRRHIA. )
CHARINUS:
How say you, Byrrhia? Is she to be given in marriage to Pamphilus to-day?

> Latin: (CHARINUS.
BYRRHIA. PAMPHILUS.)
CHARINUS:
Quid ais Byrrhia? daturne illa Pamphilo hodie nuptum?

[¶101] BYRRHIA:
It is so.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Sic est.

[¶102] CHARINUS:
How do you know?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Qui scis?

[¶103] BYRRHIA:
I heard it just now from Davus at the Forum.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Apud forum modo e Davo audivi.

[¶104] CHARINUS:
Woe unto wretched me! As, hitherto, until now, my mind has been racked amid hope and fear; so, since hope has been withdrawn, wearied with care, it sinks overwhelmed.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Vae misero mihi.
Ut animus in spe atque in timore usque antehac attentus fuit,
Ita postquam adempta spes est lassus cura confectus stupet.

[¶105] BYRRHIA:
By my troth, Charinus, since that which you wish can not come to pass, prithee, do wish that which can.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Quaeso edepol, Charine, quoniam non potest id fieri quod vis,
Id velis quod possit.

[¶106] CHARINUS:
I wish for nothing else but Philumena.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Nil volo aliud nisi Philumenam.

[¶107] BYRRHIA:
Alas! How much better were it for you to endeavor to expel that passion from your mind, than to be saying that by which your desire is to no purpose still more inflamed.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Ah,
Quanto satius est te id dare operam qui istum amorem ex animo amoveas,
Quam id loqui quo magis libido frustra incendatur tua.

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[¶0] CHARINUS:
We all, when we are well, with ease give good advice to the sick. If you were in my situation, you would think otherwise.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia aegrotis damus.
Tu si hic sis aliter sentias.

[¶1] BYRRHIA:
Well, well, just as you like.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Age age, ut libet.

[¶2] CHARINUS: (looking down the side scene.)
But I see Pamphilus; I’m determined I’ll try every thing before I despair.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sed Pamphilum
Video: omnia experiri certum est prius quam pereo.

[¶3] BYRRHIA: (aside.)
What does he mean?

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Quid hic agit?

[¶4] CHARINUS:
I will entreat his own self; I will supplicate him; I will disclose to him my love. I think that I shall prevail upon him to put off the marriage for some days at least; in the mean time, something will turn up, I trust.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Ipsum hunc orabo: huic supplicabo: amorem huic narrabo meum:
Credo impetrabo ut aliquot saltem nuptiis prodat dies:
Interea fiet aliquid, spero.

[¶5] BYRRHIA:
That something is nothing.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Id aliquid nihil est.

[¶6] CHARINUS:
Byrrhia,
how seems it to you? Shall I accost him?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Byrrhia,
Quid tibi videtur? adeon’ ad eum?

[¶7] BYRRHIA:
Why not? Should you not prevail, that at least he may look upon you as a gallant ready provided for him, if he marries her.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Quidni? Si nihil impetres,
Ut te arbitretur sibi paratum moechum si illam duxerit?

[¶8] CHARINUS:
Away with you to perdition with that vile suggestion, you rascal!
(Enter PAMPHILUS.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Abin’ hinc in malam rem cum suspicione istac, scelus?

[¶9] PAMPHILUS:
I espy Charinus. (Accosting him.) Good-morrow!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Charinum video: salve.

[¶10] CHARINUS:
O, good-morrow. Pamphilus, I’m come to you, seeking hope, safety, counsel, and assistance.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
O salve Pamphile.
Ad te advenio spem, salutem, auxilium, consilium expetens.

[¶11] PAMPHILUS:
I’faith, I have neither time for counsel, nor resources for assistance. But what’s the matter now?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Neque pol consili locum habeo, neque auxili copiam.
Sed istuc quidnam est?

[¶12] CHARINUS:
To-day you are going to take a wife?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Hodie uxorem ducis?

[¶13] PAMPHILUS:
So they say.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Aiunt.

[¶14] CHARINUS:
Pamphilus, if you do that, you behold me this day for the last time.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Pamphile,
Si id facis hodie postremum me vides.

[¶15] PAMPHILUS:
Why so

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid ita?

[¶16] CHARINUS:
Ah me! I dread to tell it; prithee, do you tell it, Byrrhia.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Hei mihi,
Vereor dicere: huic dic quaeso Byrrhia.

[¶17] BYRRHIA:
I’ll tell it.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Ego dicam.

[¶18] PAMPHILUS:
What is it?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid est?

[¶19] BYRRHIA:
He’s in love with your betrothed.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Sponsam hic tuam amat.

[¶20] PAMPHILUS:
Assuredly he’s not of my way of thinking. Come now, tell me,
have you had any more to do with her, Charinus?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nae iste haud mecum sentit: Ehodum dic mihi:
Numquidnam amplius tibi cum illa fuit Charine?

[¶21] CHARINUS:
Oh Pamphilus, nothing.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Ah Pamphile
Nihil.

[¶22] PAMPHILUS:
How much I wish you had.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quam vellem.

[¶23] CHARINUS:
Now, by our friendship and by my affection, I do beseech you, in the first place, not to marry her.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Nunc te per amicitiam et per amorem obsecro
Principio ut ne ducas.

[¶24] PAMPHILUS:
For my own part I’ll use my endeavors.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Dabo equidem operam.

[¶25] CHARINUS:
But if that can not be, or if this marriage is agreeable to you—

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sed si id non potes,
Aut tibi nuptiae haec sunt cordi.

[¶26] PAMPHILUS:
Agreeable to me?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Cordi?

[¶27] CHARINUS:
Put it off for some days at least, while I go elsewhere, that I may not be witness.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Saltem aliquot dies
Profer, dum proficiscor aliquo ne videam.

[¶28] PAMPHILUS:
Now listen, once for all:
I think it, Charinus, to be by no means the part of an ingenuous man, when he confers nothing, to expect that it should be considered as an obligation on his part. I am more desirous to avoid this match, than you to gain it.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Audi nunc iam.
Ego Charine neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto
Cum is nihil promereat postulare id gratiae adponi sibi.
Nuptias effugere ego istas malo, quam tu adipiscier.

[¶29] CHARINUS:
You have restored me to life.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Reddidisti animum.

[¶30] PAMPHILUS:
Now, if you can do any thing, either you yourself, or Byrrhia here, manage, fabricate, invent, contrive some means, whereby she may be given to you;
this I shall aim at, how she may not be given to me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nunc si quid potes aut tute aut hic Byrrhia,
Facite, fingite, invenite, efficite qui detur tibi:
Ego id agam qui mihi ne detur.

[¶31] CHARINUS:
I am satisfied.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sat habeo.

[¶32] PAMPHILUS:
Most opportunely I perceive Davus, on whose advice I have depended.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Davom optume
Video cuius consilio fretus sum.

[¶33] CHARINUS: (turning to BYRRHIA.)
But you, i’faith, tell me nothing, except those things which there is no need for knowing. (Pushing him away.) Get you gone from here.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
At tu hercle haud quidquam mihi;
Nisi ea quae nihil opus sunt sciri. Fugin’ hinc?

[¶34] BYRRHIA:
Certainly I will, and with all my heart. (Exit.)

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Ego vero ac libens.

[¶35] (Enter DAVUS in haste.)
DAVUS: (not seeing PAMPHILUS and CHARINUS.)
Ye gracious Gods, what good news I bring! But where shall I find Pamphilus, that I may remove the apprehension in which he now is, and fill his mind with joy—?

> Latin: (DAVUS.
CHARINUS. PAMPHILUS.)
DAVUS:
Di boni, boni quid porto! sed ubi inveniam Pamphilum,
Ut metum in quo nunc est adimam, atque expleam animum gaudio?

[¶36] CHARINUS: (apart to PAMPHILUS.)
He’s rejoiced about something, I don’t know what.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Laetus est nescio quid.

[¶37] PAMPHILUS: (apart.)
It’s of no consequence; he hasn’t yet heard of these misfortunes.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nihil est: nondum haec rescivit mala.

[¶38] DAVUS: (to himself.)
For I do believe now, if he has already heard that a marriage is prepared for him—

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quem ego nunc credo, si iam audierit sibi paratas nuptias—

[¶39] CHARINUS: (apart.)
Don’t you hear him?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Audin’ tu illum?

[¶40] DAVUS: (to himself.)
He is seeking me distractedly all the city over. But where shall I look for him? Or in which direction now first to betake me—

> Latin: DAVUS:
toto me oppido exanimatum quaerere.
Sed ubi quaeram? quo nunc primum intendam?

[¶41] CHARINUS: (apart to PAMPHILUS.)
Do you hesitate to accost him?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Cessas adloqui?

[¶42] DAVUS: (to himself.)
I have it.
(Moving on.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Abeo.

[¶43] PAMPHILUS:
Davus, come here! Stop!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Dave: ades. Resiste.

[¶44] DAVUS:
Who’s the person that’s—(Turning round.) O Pamphilus,
you are the very man I’m looking for. Well done, Charinus! both in the nick of time: I want you both.
CHARINUS:
Davus, I’m undone!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quis homo est, qui me? O Pamphile,
Te ipsum quaero. Euge Charine: ambo opportune. Vos volo.
PAMPHILUS:
Dave, perii.

[¶45] DAVUS:
Nay but, do hear this.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quin tu hoc audi.

[¶46] PAMPHILUS:
I’m utterly ruined!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Interii.

[¶47] DAVUS:
I know what you are afraid of.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid timeas scio.

[¶48] CHARINUS:
I’faith, my life indeed is really in danger.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Mea quidem hercle certe in dubio vita est.

[¶49] DAVUS: (to CHARINUS.)
And what you are afraid of, I know.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Et quid tu scio.

[¶50] PAMPHILUS:
My marriage—

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nuptiae mihi.

[¶51] DAVUS:
As if I did not know it?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Etsi scio.

[¶52] PAMPHILUS:
This day—

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hodie.

[¶53] DAVUS:
Why keep dinning me with it, when I know it all? (To PAMPHILUS.) This are you afraid of, lest you should marry her; and you (to CHARINUS,) lest you should not marry her.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Obtundis, tametsi intellego.
Id paves ne ducas tu illam, tu autem ut ducas.

[¶54] CHARINUS:
You understand the matter.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Rem tenes.

[¶55] PAMPHILUS:
That’s the very thing.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Istuc ipsum.

[¶56] DAVUS:
And that very thing is in no danger; trust me for that.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Atque istuc ipsum nihil pericli est: me vide.

[¶57] PAMPHILUS:
I do entreat you, release wretched me as soon as possible from this apprehension.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Obsecro te, quam primum hoc me libera miserum metu.

[¶58] DAVUS:
Well, then, I will release you; Chremes is not going to give you his daughter at present.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem,
Libero; tibi uxorem non dat iam Chremes.

[¶59] PAMPHILUS:
How do you know?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Qui scis?

[¶60] DAVUS:
You shall know. Your father just now laid hold of me; he said that a wife was to be given you to-day, and many other things as well, which just now I haven’t time to relate.
Hastening to you immediately, I ran on to the Forum that I might tell you these things. When I didn’t find you, I ascended there to ahigh place. I looked around; you were nowhere. There by chance I saw Byrrhia, his servant (pointing to CHARINUS.). I inquired of him; he said he hadn’t seen you. This puzzled me. I considered what I was to do. As I was returning in the mean time, a surmise from the circumstances themselves occurred to me: “How now,—”
“a very small amount of good cheer; he out of spirits; a marriage all of a sudden; these things don’t agree.”

> Latin: DAVUS:
Scies.
Tuus pater me modo prehendit: ait tibi uxorem dari
Hodie; item alia multa quae nunc non est narrandi locus.
Continuo ad te properans percurro ad forum ut dicam tibi haec.
Ubi te non invenio ibi ascendo in quendam excelsum locum.
Circumspicio; nusquam. Ibi forte huius video Byrrhiam;
Rogo: negat vidisse. Mihi molestum. Quid agam, cogito.
Redeunti interea ex ipsa re mihi incidit suspicio: hem,
Paululum obsoni: ipsus tristis: de improviso nuptiae:
Non cohaerent.

[¶61] PAMPHILUS:
But to what purpose this?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quorsumnam istuc?

[¶62] DAVUS:
I forthwith betook myself to the house of Chremes. When I arrived there—stillness before the door; then I was pleased at that.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego me continuo ad Chremem.
Cum illo advenio solitudo ante ostium: iam id gaudeo.

[¶63] CHARINUS:
You say well.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Recte dicis.

[¶64] PAMPHILUS:
Proceed.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Perge.

[¶65] DAVUS:
I stopped there. In the mean time I saw no one going in, no one going out; no matron at the house,
no preparation, no bustle. I drew near; looked in—

> Latin: DAVUS:
Maneo: interea introire neminem
Video exire neminem, matronam nullam in aedibus,
Nil ornati, nil tumulti: accessi: intro aspexi.

[¶66] PAMPHILUS:
I understand; a considerable indication.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Scio.
Magnum signum.

[¶67] DAVUS:
Do these things seem to accord with a wedding?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Num videntur convenire haec nuptiis?

[¶68] PAMPHILUS:
I think not, Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Non opinor Dave.

[¶69] DAVUS:
Think, do you say? You don’t view it rightly; the thing is certain. Besides, coming away from there I saw the servant-boy of Chremes carrying some vegetables and little fishes, an obol’s worth, for the old man’s dinner.

> Latin: DAVUS:
“Opinor” narras? non recte accipis.
Certa res est. Etiam puerum inde abiens conveni Chremi
Olera et pisciculos minutos ferre obolo in coenam seni.

[¶70] CHARINUS:
This day, Davus, have I been delivered by your means.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Liberatus sum hodie Dave tua opera.

[¶71] DAVUS:
And yet not at all.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ac nullus quidem.

[¶72] CHARINUS:
Why so? Surely he will not give her to him, after all this. (Pointing to PAMPHILUS.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid ita? Nempe huic prorsus illam non dat.

[¶73] DAVUS:
You silly fellow! as though it were a necessary consequence that if he doesn’t give her to him you should marry her: unless, indeed, you look about you; unless you entreat and make court to the old man’s friends.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ridiculum caput,
Quasi necesse sit, si huic non dat, te illam uxorem ducere:
Nisi vides, nisi senis amicos oras, ambis.

[¶74] CHARINUS:
You advise well. I’ll go; although, upon my faith, this hope has often eluded me already. Farewell!
(Exit.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Bene mones.
Ibo: etsi hercle saepe iam me spes haec frustrata est. Vale.

[¶75] (PAMPHILUS and DAVUS.)
PAMPHILUS:
What then does my father mean? Why does he thus make pretense?

> Latin: (PAMPHILUS. DAVUS.)
PAMPHILUS:
Quid igitur sibi vult pater? cur simulat?

[¶76] DAVUS:
I’ll tell you. If now he were angry with you, because Chremes will not give you a wife, he would seem to himself to be unjust, and that not without reason, before he has ascertained your feelings as to the marriage, how they are disposed. But if you refuse to marry her, in that case he will transfer the blame to you;
then such disturbances will arise.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego dicam tibi.
Si id succenseat nunc quia non det tibi uxorem Chremes,
Ipsus sibi esse iniurius videatur, neque id iniuria,
Prius quam tuum ut sese habeat animum ad nuptias perspexerit.
Sed si tu negaris ducere, ibi culpam in te transferet:
Tum illae turbae fient.

[¶77] PAMPHILUS:
I will submit to any thing from him.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quidvis patiar.

[¶78] DAVUS:
He is your father, Pamphilus. It is a difficult matter. Besides, this woman is defenseless. No sooner said than done; he will find some pretext for driving her away from the city.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Pater est Pamphile.
Difficile est: tum haec sola est mulier: dictum ac factum invenerit
Aliquam causam quamobrem eiiciat oppido.

[¶79] PAMPHILUS:
Driving her away?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Eiiciat?

[¶80] DAVUS:
Aye, and quickly too.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Cito.

[¶81] PAMPHILUS:
Tell me then, Davus, what am I to do?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Cedo igitur quid faciam Dave?

[¶82] DAVUS:
Say that you will marry her.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Dic te ducturum.

[¶83] PAMPHILUS: (starting.)
Ha!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hem.

[¶84] DAVUS:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid est?

[¶85] PAMPHILUS:
What, am I to say so?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Egon dicam?

[¶86] DAVUS:
Why not?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Cur non?

[¶87] PAMPHILUS:
Never will I do it.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Numquam faciam.

[¶88] DAVUS:
Don’t say so.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ne nega.

[¶89] PAMPHILUS:
Don’t attempt to persuade me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Suadere noli.

[¶90] DAVUS:
Consider what will be the result of it.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ex ea re quid fiat vide.

[¶91] PAMPHILUS:
That I shall be deprived of the one, and fixed with the other.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ut ab illa excludar huc concludar.

[¶92] DAVUS:
Not so. In fact, I think it will be thus: Your father will say: “I wish you to marry a wife to-day.” You reply: “I’ll marry her.” Tell me, how can he raise a quarrel with you? Thus you will cause all the plans
which are now arranged by him to be disarranged, without any danger; for this is not to be doubted, that Chremes will not give you his daughter. Therefore do not hesitate in those measures which you are taking, on this account, lest he should change his sentiments. Tell your father that you consent; so that although he may desire it, he may not be able to be angry at you with reason.
For that which you rely on, I will easily refute; “No one,” you think, “will give a wife to a person of these habits.” But he will find a beggar for you, rather than allow you to be corrupted by a mistress. If, however, he shall believe that you bear it with a contented mind, you will render him indifferent; at his leisure he will look out for another wife for you; in the mean time something lucky may turn up.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Non ita est.
Nempe hoc sic esse opinor: dicturum patrem,
“Ducas volo hodie uxorem:” tu, “ducam,” inquies:
Cedo quid iurgabit tecum? Hic reddes omnia
Quae nunc sunt certa ei consilia incerta ut sient,
Sine omni periclo: nam hocce haud dubium est quin Chremes
Tibi non det gnatam. Nec tu ea causa minueris
Haec quae facis ne is mutet suam sententiam.
Patri dic velle, ut cum velit tibi iure irasci non queat.
Nam quod tu speres propulsabo facile. Uxorem his moribus
Dabit nemo; inveniet inopem potius quam te corrumpi sinat.
Sed si te aequo animo ferre accipiet, neglegentem feceris:
Aliam otiosus quaeret: interea aliquid acciderit boni.

[¶93] PAMPHILUS:
Do you think so?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Itan credis?

[¶94] DAVUS:
It really is not a matter of doubt.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Haud dubium id quidem est.

[¶95] PAMPHILUS:
Consider to what you are persuading me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Vide quo me inducas.

[¶96] DAVUS:
Nay, but do be quiet.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quin taces?

[¶97] PAMPHILUS:
Well, I’ll say it; but, that he mayn’t come to know that she has had a child by me, is a thing to be guarded against; for I have promised to bring it up.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Dicam. Puerum autem ne resciscat mihi esse ex illa cautio est:
Nam pollicitus sum suscepturum.

[¶98] DAVUS:
Oh, piece of effrontery.

> Latin: DAVUS:
O facinus audax!

[¶99] PAMPHILUS:
She entreated me that I would give her this pledge, by which she might be sure she should not be deserted.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hanc fidem
Sibi me obsecravit qui se sciret non deserturum ut darem.

[¶100] DAVUS:
It shall be attended to; but your father’s coming. Take care that he doesn’t perceive that you are out of spirits.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Curabitur. Sed pater adest. Cave te esse tristem sentiat.

[¶101] (Enter SIMO, at a distance.)
SIMO: (apart to himself.)
I’ve come back to see what they are about, or what scheme they are hatching.

> Latin: (SIMO.
DAVUS. PAMPHILUS.)
SIMO:
Reviso quid agant aut quid captent consili.

[¶102] DAVUS: (to PAMPHILUS.)
He has no doubt at present but that you’ll refuse to marry. Having considered his course, he’s come from a retired spot somewhere or other; he hopes that he has framed a speech by which to disconcert you; do you take care, then, to be yourself.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hic nunc non dubitat quin te ducturum neges.
Venit meditatus alicunde ex solo loco:
Orationem sperat invenisse se
Qui differat te: proin tu fac apud te ut sies.

[¶103] PAMPHILUS:
If I am only able, Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Modo ut possim Dave.

[¶104] DAVUS:
Trust me for that, Pamphilus, I tell you; your father will never this day exchange a single word with you, if you say that you will marry.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Crede inquam hoc mihi Pamphile,
Numquam hodie tecum commutaturum patrem
Unum esse verbum si te dices ducere.

[¶105] (Enter BYRRHIA, unperceived, at a distance behind SIMO.)
BYRRHIA: (apart to himself.)
My master has ordered me, leaving my business, to keep an eye on Pamphilus today, what he is doing with regard to the marriage. I was to learn it; for that reason, I have now followed him (pointing to SIMO.) as he came hither.
Himself, as well, I see standing with Davus close at hand; I’ll note this.

> Latin: (BYRRHIA.
SIMO.
DAVUS. PAMPHILUS.)
BYRRHIA:
Herus me relictis rebus iussit Pamphilum
Hodie observare, ut quid ageret de nuptiis
Scirem: id propterea nunc hunc venientem sequor.
Ipsum adeo praesto video cum Davo: hoc agam.

[¶106] SIMO: (apart to himself.)
I see that both of them are here.

> Latin: SIMO:
Utrumque adesse video.

[¶107] DAVUS: (in a low voice to PAMPHILUS.)
Now then, be on your guard.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem, serva.

[¶108] SIMO:
Pamphilus!

> Latin: SIMO:
Pamphile!

[¶109] DAVUS: (in a low voice.)
Look round at him as though taken unawares.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quasi de inproviso respice ad eum.

[¶110] PAMPHILUS: (turning round sharply.)
What, my father!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ehem pater.

[¶111] DAVUS: (in a low voice.)
Capital!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Probe.

[¶112] SIMO:
I wish you to marry a wife to-day, as I was saying.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hodie uxorem ducas ut dixi volo.

[¶113] BYRRHIA: (apart.)
Now I’m in dread for our side, as to what he will answer.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Nunc nostrae timeo parti quid hic respondeat.

[¶114] PAMPHILUS:
Neither in that nor in any thing else shall you ever find any hesitation in me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Neque istic neque alibi tibi erit usquam in me mora.

[¶115] BYRRHIA: (apart.)
Hah!

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Hem.

[¶116] DAVUS: (in a low voice to PAMPHILUS.)
He is struck dumb.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Obmutuit.

[¶117] BYRRHIA: (apart.)
What a speech!

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Quid dixit?

[¶118] SIMO:
You act as becomes you, when that which I ask I obtain with a good grace.

> Latin: SIMO:
Facis ut te decet
Cum istuc quod postulo impetro cum gratia.

[¶119] DAVUS: (aside to PAMPHILUS.)
Am I right?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sum verus?

[¶120] BYRRHIA:
My master, so far as I learn, has missed his wife.

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Herus, quantum audio, uxore excidit.

[¶121] SIMO:
Now, then, go in-doors, that you mayn’t be causing delay when you are wanted.

> Latin: SIMO:
I nunc iam intro; ne in mora cum opus sit sies.

[¶122] PAMPHILUS:
I’ll go.
(Goes into the house.)

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Eo.

[¶123] BYRRHIA: (apart.)
Is there, in no case, putting trust in any man? That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that “all had rather it to be well for themselves than for another.” I remember noticing, when I saw her, that she was a young woman of handsome figure; wherefore I am the more disposed to excuse Pamphilus,
if he has preferred that he himself, rather than the other, should embrace her in his slumbers. I’ll carry back these tidings, that, in return for this evil he may inflict evil upon me.
(Exit.)

> Latin: BYRRHIA:
Nullane in re esse homini cuiquam fidem?
Verum illud verbum est, vulgo quod dici solet,
Omnes sibi malle melius esse quam alteri.
Ego illam vidi virginem; forma bona
Memini videre: quo aequior sum Pamphilo,
Si se illam in somnis quam illum amplecti maluit.
Renuntiabo, ut pro hoc malo mihi det malum.

[¶124] (SIMO and DAVUS.)
DAVUS: (aside, coming away from the door of the house.)
He now supposes that I’m bringing some trick to bear against him, and that on that account I’ve remained here.

> Latin: (DAVUS. SIMO.)
DAVUS:
Hic nunc me credit aliquam sibi fallaciam
Portare, et ea me hic restitisse gratia.

[¶125] SIMO:
What does he say, Davus?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid Davus narrat?

[¶126] DAVUS:
Just as much as nothing.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Aeque quicquam nunc quidem.

[¶127] SIMO:
What, nothing? Eh?

> Latin: SIMO:
Nihilne? hem.

[¶128] DAVUS:
Nothing at all.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nihil prorsus.

[¶129] SIMO:
And yet I certainly was expecting something.

> Latin: SIMO:
Atqui expectabam quidem.

[¶130] DAVUS:
It has turned out contrary to your expectations. (Aside.) I perceive it; this vexes the man.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Praeter spem evenit: sentio: hoc male habet virum.

[¶131] SIMO:
Are you able to tell me the truth?

> Latin: SIMO:
Potin es mihi verum dicere?

[¶132] DAVUS:
I? Nothing more easy.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nihil facilius.

[¶133] SIMO:
Is this marriage at all disagreeable to him, on account of his intimacy with this foreign woman?

> Latin: SIMO:
Num illi molestae quippiam hae sunt nuptiae
Huiusce propter consuetudinem hospitae?

[¶134] DAVUS:
No, faith; or if at all, it is a two or three days’ annoyance this—you understand. It will then cease. Moreover, he himself has thought over this matter in a proper way.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nihil hercle: aut, si adeo, bidui est aut tridui
Haec sollicitudo: nosti: deinde desinet.
Etenim ipsus secum recta reputavit via.

[¶135] SIMO:
I commend him.

> Latin: SIMO:
Laudo.

[¶136] DAVUS:
While it was allowed him, and while his years prompted him,
he intrigued; even then it was secretly. He took precaution that that circumstance should never be a cause of disgrace to him, as behooves a man of principle;
now that he must have a wife, he has set his mind upon a wife.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Dum licitum est ei, dumque aetas tulit,
Amavit: tum id clam: cavit ne umquam infamiae
Ea res sibi esset, ut virum fortem decet:
Nunc uxore opus est: animum ad uxorem appulit.

[¶137] SIMO:
He seemed to me to be somewhat melancholy in a slight degree.

> Latin: SIMO:
Subtristis visus est esse aliquantulum mihi.

[¶138] DAVUS:
Not at all on account of her, but there’s something he blames you for.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nil propter hanc rem: sed est quod succenset tibi.

[¶139] SIMO:
What is it, pray?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quidnam est?

[¶140] DAVUS:
It’s a childish thing.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Puerile est.

[¶141] SIMO:
What is it?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid est?

[¶142] DAVUS:
Nothing at all.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nihil.

[¶143] SIMO:
Nay but, tell me what it is.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quin dic quid est?

[¶144] DAVUS:
He says that you are making too sparing preparations.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ait nimium parce facere sumptum.

[¶145] SIMO:
What, I?

> Latin: SIMO:
Mene?

[¶146] DAVUS:
You.—He says that there has hardly been fare provided to the amount of ten drachmae. —“Does he seem to be bestowing a wife on his son? Which one now, in preference, of my companions shall I invite to the dinner?” And, it must be owned,
you really are providing too parsimoniously—I do not commend you.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Te.
“Vix,” inquit, “drachmis est obsonatum decem:”
“Num filio videtur uxorem dare?”
“Quem,” inquit, “vocabo ad coenam meorum aequalium”
“Potissimum nunc?” et, quod dicendum hic siet,
Tu quoque perparce nimium. Non laudo.

[¶147] SIMO:
Hold your tongue.

> Latin: SIMO:
Tace.

[¶148] DAVUS: (aside.)
I’ve touched him up.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Commovi.

[¶149] SIMO:
I’ll see that these things are properly done. (DAVUS goes into the house.) What’s the meaning of this? What does this old rogue mean? But if there’s any knavery here, why, he’s sure to be the source of the mischief.
(Goes into his house.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Ego istaec recte ut fiant videro.
Quidnam hoc rei est? quid hic vult veterator sibi?
Nam si hic mali est quicquam, hem illic est huic rei caput.

[¶150] (Enter SIMO and DAVUS from the house of the former. MYSIS and LESBIA are coming toward the house of GLYCERIUM.)
MYSIS: (not seeing SIMO and DAVUS.)
Upon my faith, the fact is really as you mentioned, Lesbia,
you can hardly find a man constant to a woman.

> Latin: (MYSIS.
SIMO.
DAVUS.
LESBIA. GLYCERIUM.)
MYSIS:
Ita pol quidem res est ut dixti Lesbia:
Fidelem haud ferme mulieri invenias virum.

[¶151] SIMO: (apart to DAVUS.)
This maid-servant comes from the Andrian.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ab Andria est ancilla haec.

[¶152] DAVUS: (apart to SIMO.)
What do you say?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid narras?

[¶153] SIMO: (apart to DAVUS.)
It is so.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ita est.

[¶154] MYSIS:
But this Pamphilus—

> Latin: MYSIS:
Sed hic Pamphilus—

[¶155] SIMO: (apart to DAVUS.)
What is she saying?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid dicit?

[¶156] MYSIS:
Has proved his constancy.

> Latin: MYSIS:
firmavit fidem.

[¶157] SIMO: (apart.)
Hah!

> Latin: SIMO:
Hem.

[¶158] DAVUS: (apart to himself.)
I wish that either he were deaf, or she struck dumb.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec muta facta sit.

[¶159] MYSIS:
For the child she brings forth, he has ordered to be brought up.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Nam quod peperisset iussit tolli.

[¶160] SIMO: (apart.)
O Jupiter!
What do I hear! It’s all over, if indeed this woman speaks the truth.

> Latin: SIMO:
O Iupiter!
Quid ego audio? Actum est siquidem haec vera praedicat.

[¶161] LESBIA:
You mention a good disposition on the part of the young man.

> Latin: LESBIA:
Bonum ingenium narras adolescentis.

[¶162] MYSIS:
A most excellent one. But follow me in-doors, that you mayn’t keep her waiting.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Optimum.
Sed sequere me intro, ne in mora illi sis.

[¶163] LESBIA:
I’ll follow.
(MYSIS and LESBIA go into GLYCERIUM’s house.)

> Latin: LESBIA:
Sequor.

[¶164] DAVUS: (aside.)
What remedy now shall I find for this mishap?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quod remedium nunc huic malo inveniam?

[¶165] SIMO: (to himself aloud.)
What does this mean? Is he so infatuated? The child of a foreign woman? Now I understand; ah!
scarcely even at last, in my stupidity, have I found it out.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid hoc?
Adeone est demens? Ex peregrina? Iam scio; ah!
Vix tandem sensi stolidus.

[¶166] DAVUS: (aside to himself.)
What does he say he has found out?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid hic sensisse ait?

[¶167] SIMO: (aside.)
This piece of knavery is being now for the first time palmed upon me by this fellow; they are pretending that she’s in labor, in order that they may alarm Chremes.
GLYCERIUM: (exclaiming from within her house.)
Juno Lucina, grant me thine aid, save me, I do entreat thee!

> Latin: SIMO:
Haec primum adfertur iam mihi ab hoc fallacia:
Hanc simulant parere quo Chremetem absterreant.
GLYCERIUM:
“Iuno Lucina fer opem, serva me, obsecro.”

[¶168] SIMO:
Whew! so sudden? What nonsense! As soon as
she has heard that I’m standing before the door, she makes all haste. These incidents, Davus, have not been quite happily adapted by you as to the points of time.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hui tam cito? ridiculum: postquam ante ostium
Me audivit stare approperat. Non sat commode
Divisa sunt temporibus tibi, Dave, haec.

[¶169] DAVUS:
By me?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mihin?

[¶170] SIMO:
Are your scholars forgetful?
DAY.:
I don’t know what you are talking about.

> Latin: SIMO:
Num immemor es discipuli?
DAVUS:
Ego quid narres nescio.

[¶171] SIMO: (aside.)
If he at the real marriage of my son had taken me off my guard, what sport he would have made of me.
Now it is at his own risk; I’m sailing in harbor.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hicine me si imparatum in veris nuptiis
Adortus esset quos mihi ludos redderet?
Nunc huius periclo fit, ego in portu navigo.

[¶172] (Re-enter LESBIA from the house of GLYCERIUM.)
LESBIA: (speaking to ARCHYLIS at the door, and not seeing SIMO and DAVUS.)
As yet, Archylis, all the customary symptoms which ought to exist toward recovery, I perceive in her. Now, in the first place, take care and let her bathe; then, after that, what I ordered to be given her to drink, and as much as I prescribed,
do you administer: presently I will return hither. (To herself aloud.) By all that’s holy, a fine boy has been born to Pamphilus. I pray the Gods that he may survive, since the father himself is of a good disposition, and since he has hesitated to do an injustice to this most excellent young woman.
(Exit.)

> Latin: (LESBIA.
SIMO. DAVUS.)
LESBIA:
Adhuc Archylis quae assolent quaeque oportet
Signa esse ad salutem omnia huic esse video.
Nunc primum fac istaec lavet: post deinde
Quod iussi ei dari bibere et quantum imperavi
Date: mox ego huc revertar.
Per ecastor scitus puer est natus Pamphilo.
Deos quaeso ut sit superstes, quandoquidem ipse est ingenio bono,
Cumque huic est veritus optimae adulescenti facere iniuriam.

[¶173] SIMO:
Even this, who is there that knows you that would not believe that it originated in you?

> Latin: SIMO:
Vel hoc quis non credat qui te norit abs te esse ortum?

[¶174] DAVUS:
Why, what is this?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quidnam id est?

[¶175] SIMO:
She didn’t order in their presence what was requisite to be done for the woman lying in; but after she has come out, she bawls from the street to those who are in the house. O Davus, am I thus trifled with by you? Or pray, do I seem to you so very well suited to be thus openly imposed upon by your tricks? At all events it should have been with pre-caution; that at least I might have seemed to be feared, if I should detect it.

> Latin: SIMO:
Non imperabat coram quid opus facto esset puerperae:
Sed postquam egressa est illis quae sunt intus clamat de via.
O Dave, itan contemnor abs te? aut itane tandem idoneus
Tibi videor esse quem tam aperte fallere incipias dolis?
Saltem accurate, ut metui videar certe si resciverim.

[¶176] DAVUS: (aside.)
Assuredly, upon my faith, it’s he that’s, now deceiving himself, not I.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Certe hercle nunc hic se ipsus fallit haud ego.

[¶177] SIMO:
I gave you warning, I forbade you with threats to do it. Have you been awed? What has it availed? Am I to believe you now in this, that this woman has had a child by Pamphilus?

> Latin: SIMO:
Edixin tibi,
Interminatus sum ne faceres? num veritus? quid retulit?
Credon tibi hoc, nunc peperisse hanc e Pamphilo?

[¶178] DAVUS: (aside.)
I understand where he’s mistaken; and I see what I must do.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Teneo quid erret: et quid agam habeo.

[¶179] SIMO:
Why are you silent?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid taces?

[¶180] DAVUS:
What would you believe? As though word had not been brought you that thus it would happen.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid credas? quasi non tibi renunciata sint haec sic fore.

[¶181] SIMO:
Any word brought to me?

> Latin: SIMO:
Mihin quisquam?

[¶182] DAVUS:
Come now, did you of your own accord perceive that this was counterfeited?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Eho an tute intellexti hoc assimulari?

[¶183] SIMO:
I am being trifled with.

> Latin: SIMO:
Irrideor.

[¶184] DAVUS:
Word has been brought you; for otherwise how could this suspicion have occurred to you?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Renunciatum est: nam qui istaec tibi incidit suspicio?

[¶185] SIMO:
How? Because I knew you.

> Latin: SIMO:
Qui? quia te noram.

[¶186] DAVUS:
As though you meant to say that this has been done by my contrivance.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quasi tu dicas factum id consilio meo.

[¶187] SIMO:
Why, I’m sure of it, to a certainty.

> Latin: SIMO:
Certe enim scio.

[¶188] DAVUS:
Not yet even do you know me sufficiently, Simo, what sort of person I am.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Non satis me pernosti etiam qualis sim Simo.

[¶189] SIMO:
I, not know you!

> Latin: SIMO:
Ego non te?

[¶190] DAVUS:
But if I begin to tell you any thing, at once
you think that deceit is being practiced upon you in guile; therefore, upon my faith, I don’t dare now even to whisper.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sed si quid narrare occoepi, continuo dari
Tibi verba censes falso: itaque hercle nihil iam muttire audeo.

[¶191] SIMO:
This one thing I am sure of, that no person has been delivered here.
(Pointing to GLYCERIUM’s house.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Hoc ego scio unum neminem peperisse hic.

[¶192] DAVUS:
You have discovered that? Still, not a bit the less will they presently be laying the child here before the door. Of this, then, I now warn you, master, that it will happen, that you may be aware of it. Don’t you hereafter be saying that this was done through the advice or artifices of Davus.
I wish this suspicion of yours to be entirely removed from myself.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Intellexti.
Sed nihilo setius mox deferent puerum huc ante ostium.
Id ego iam nunc tibi renuntio here futurum, ut sis sciens.
Ne tu hoc mihi posterius dicas Davi factum consilio aut dolis.
Prorsus a me opinionem hanc tuam esse ego amotam volo.

[¶193] SIMO:
How do you know that?

> Latin: SIMO:
Unde id scis?

[¶194] DAVUS:
I’ve heard so, and I believe it: many things combine for me to form this conjecture. In the first place then, she declared that she was pregnant by Pamphilus; that has been proved to be false. Now, when she sees that preparations are being made for the wedding at our house, the maid-servant is directly sent
to fetch the midwife to her, and to bring a child at the same time. Unless it is managed for you to see the child, the marriage will not be at all impeded.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Audivi et credo: multa concurrunt simul
Qui coniecturam hanc nunc facio. Iam primum haec se e Pamphilo
Gravidam dixit esse; inventum est falsum: nunc, postquam videt
Nuptias domi apparari, missa est ancilla ilico
Obstetricem arcessitum ad eam, et puerum ut afferret simul.
Hoc nisi fit puerum ut tu videas, nihil moventur nuptiae.

[¶195] SIMO:
What do you say to this? When you perceived that they were adopting this plan, why didn’t you tell Pamphilus immediately?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid ais? Quom intellexeras
Id consili capere, cur non dixti extemplo Pamphilo?

[¶196] DAVUS:
Why, who has induced him to leave her, but myself? For, indeed, we all
know how desperately he loved her. Now he wishes for a wife. In fine, do you intrust me with that affair; proceed however, as before, to celebrate these nuptials, just as you are doing, and I trust that the Gods will prosper this matter.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quis igitur eum ab illa abstraxit nisi ego? nam omnes nos quidem
Scimus quam misere hanc amarit: nunc sibi uxorem expetit.
Postremo id mihi da negoti: tu tamen idem has nuptias
Perge facere ita ut facis: et id spero adiuturos deos.

[¶197] SIMO:
Very well; be off in-doors; wait for me there, and get ready what’s necessary to be prepared. (DAVUS goes into the house.) He hasn’t prevailed upon me even now altogether to believe these things,
and I don’t know whether what he has said is all true; but I deem it of little moment; this is of far greater importance to me—that my son himself has promised me. Now I’ll go and find Chremes; I’ll ask him for a wife for my son; if I obtain my request, at what other time rather than to-day should I prefer these nuptials taking place?
For as my son has promised, I have no doubt but that if he should prove unwilling, I can fairly compel him. And look! here’s Chremes himself, just at the very time.

> Latin: SIMO:
Immo abi intro: ibi me opperire, et quod parato opus est para.
Non impulit me haec nunc omnino ut crederem:
Atque haud scio an quae dixit sint vera omnia:
Sed parvi pendo: illud mihi multo maximum est
Quod mihi pollicitus est ipse gnatus. Nunc Chremem
Conveniam: orabo gnato uxorem: si impetro,
Quid alias malim quam hodie has fieri nuptias?
Nam gnatus quod pollicitus est haud dubium est mihi
Si nolit quin eum merito possim cogere.
Atque adeo in ipso tempore eccum ipsum obviam.

[¶198] (Enter CHREMES.)
SIMO:
I greet you, Chremes.

> Latin: (SIMO. CHREMES.)
SIMO:
Iubeo Chremetem.

[¶199] CHREMES:
O, you are the very person I was looking for.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
O, te ipsum quaerebam.

[¶200] SIMO:
And I for you.

> Latin: SIMO:
Et ego te.

[¶201] CHREMES:
You meet me at a welcome moment. Some persons have been to me, to say that they had heard from you, that my daughter
was to be married to your son to-day; I’ve come to see whether they are out of their senses or you.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Optato advenis.
Aliquot me adiere ex te auditum qui aiebant hodie filiam
Meam nubere tuo gnato: id viso tune an illi insaniant.

[¶202] SIMO:
Listen; in a few words you shall learn both what I want of you, and what you seek to know.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ausculta paucis: et quid ego te velim et tu quod quaeris scies.

[¶203] CHREMES:
I am listening; say what you wish.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Ausculto: loquere quid velis.

[¶204] SIMO:
By the Gods, I do entreat you, Chremes, and by our friendship, which, commencing with our infancy, has grown up with our years,
and by your only daughter and by my own son (of preserving whom the entire power lies with you), that you will assist me in this matter; and that, just as this marriage was about to be celebrated, it may be celebrated.

> Latin: SIMO:
Per te deos oro et nostram amicitiam Chreme
Quae incepta a parvis cum aetate accrevit simul,
Perque unicam gnatam tuam et gnatum meum,
Cuius tibi potestas summa servandi datur,
Ut me adiuves in hac re, atque ita ut nuptiae
Fuerant futurae fiant.

[¶205] CHREMES:
O, don’t importune me; as though you needed to obtain this of me by entreaty.
Do you suppose I am different now from what I was formerly, when I promised her? If it is for the advantage of them both that it should take place, order her to be sent for. But if from this course there would result more harm than advantage for each, this I do beg of you, that you will consult for their common good, as though she were your own daughter, and I the father of Pamphilus.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Ah ne me obsecra:
Quasi hoc te orando a me impetrare oporteat.
Alium esse censes nunc me atque olim cum dabam?
Si in rem est utrique ut fiant, arcessi iube.
Sed si ex ea re plus mali est quam commodi
Utrique, id oro te in commune ut consulas,
Quasi illa tua sit, Pamphilique ego sim pater.

[¶206] SIMO:
Nay, so I intend, and so I wish it to be, Chremes; and I would not ask it of you, did not the occasion itself require it.

> Latin: SIMO:
Immo ita volo itaque postulo ut fiat Chreme:
Neque postulem abs te nisi ipsa res moneat.

[¶207] CHREMES:
What is the matter?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid est?

[¶208] SIMO:
There is a quarrel between Glycerium and my son.

> Latin: SIMO:
Irae sunt inter Glycerium et gnatum.

[¶209] CHREMES: (ironically.)
I hear you.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Audio.

[¶210] SIMO:
So munch so, that I’m in hopes they may be separated.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ita magnae ut sperem posse avelli.

[¶211] CHREMES:
Nonsense!

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Fabulae.

[¶212] SIMO:
It really is so.

> Latin: SIMO:
Profecto sic est.

[¶213] CHREMES:
After this fashion, i’faith, I tell you,
“the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sic hercle ut dicam tibi:
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.

[¶214] SIMO:
Well—this I beg of you, that we may prevent it. While an opportunity offers, and while his passion is cooled by affronts, before the wiles of these women and their tears, craftily feigned,
bring back his love-sick mind to compassion, let us give him a wife. I trust, Chremes, that, when attached by intimacy and a respectable marriage, he will easily extricate himself from these evils.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hem, id te oro ut ante eamus dum tempus datur,
Dumque eius libido occlusa est contumeliis,
Prius quam harum scelera et lacrimae confictae dolis
Reducunt animum aegrotum ad misericordiam:
Uxorem demus: spero consuetudine et
Coniugio liberali devinctum Chreme
Dein facile ex illis sese emersurum malis.

[¶215] CHREMES:
So it appears to you; but I do not think that either he can possibly hold to her with constancy, or that I can put up with it if he does not.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Tibi ita hoc videtur: at ego non posse arbitror
Neque illum hanc perpetuo habere, neque me perpeti.

[¶216] SIMO:
How then can you be sure of that, unless you make the experiment?

> Latin: SIMO:
Qui scis ergo istuc nisi periclum feceris?

[¶217] CHREMES:
But for that experiment to be made upon a daughter is a serious thing—

> Latin: CHARINUS:
At istuc periclum in filia fieri grave est.

[¶218] SIMO:
Why look, all the inconvenience in fine amounts to this—possibly, which may the Gods forfend, a separation may take place. But if he is reformed, see how many are the advantages:
in the first place, you will have restored a son to your friend; you will obtain a sure son-in-law for yourself, and a husband for your daughter.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nempe incommoditas denique huc omnis redit:
Si eveniat quod Di prohibeant, discessio.
At si corrigitur, quot commoditates vide:
Principio amico filium restitueris;
Tibi generum firmum et filiae invenias virum.

[¶219] CHREMES:
What is one to say to all this? If you feel persuaded that this is beneficial, I don’t wish that any advantage should be denied you.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid istic? si ita istuc animum induxti esse utile,
Nolo tibi ullum commodum in me claudier.

[¶220] SIMO:
With good reason, Chremes, have I always considered you a most valuable friend.

> Latin: SIMO:
Merito te semper maximi feci Chreme.

[¶221] CHREMES:
But how say you—?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sed quid ais?

[¶222] SIMO:
What?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid?

[¶223] CHREMES:
How do you know that they are now at variance?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Qui scis eos nunc discordare inter se?

[¶224] SIMO:
Davus himself, who is privy to all their plans, has told me so; and he advises me to expedite the match as fast as I can. Do you think he would do so, unless he was aware that my son desired it? You yourself as well shall presently hear what he says. (Goes to the door of his house and calls.) Halloo there! Call Davus out here.
Look, here he is; I see him just coming out.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ipsus mihi Davus qui intimus est eorum consiliis dixit;
Et is mihi suadet nuptias quantum queam ut maturem.
Num censes faceret filium nisi sciret eadem haec velle?
Tute adeo iam eius verba audies. Heus evocate huc Davum.
Atque eccum: video ipsum foras exire.

[¶225] (Enter DAVUS from the house.)
DAVUS:
I was coming to you.

> Latin: (DAVUS.
SIMO. CHREMES.)
DAVUS:
Ad te ibam.

[¶226] SIMO:
Why, what’s the matter?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quidnam est?

[¶227] DAVUS:
Why isn’t the bride sent for? It’s now growing late in the day.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Cur uxor non accersitur? iam advesperascit.

[¶228] SIMO:
Do you hear me? I’ve been for some time not a little apprehensive of you, Davus, lest you should do that which the common class of servants is in the habit of doing, namely, impose upon me by your artifices; because my son is engaged in an amour.

> Latin: SIMO:
Audin tu illum?
Ego dudum non nihil veritus sum Dave abs te, ne faceres idem
Quod vulgus servorum solet dolis ut me deluderes
Propterea quod amat filius.

[¶229] DAVUS:
What, I do that?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Egone istuc facerem?

[¶230] SIMO:
I fancied so;
and therefore, fearing that, I concealed from you what I shall now mention.

> Latin: SIMO:
Credidi:
Idque adeo metuens vos celavi quod nunc dicam.

[¶231] DAVUS:
What?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid?

[¶232] SIMO:
You shall know; for now I almost feel confidence in you.

> Latin: SIMO:
Scies:
Nam propemodum habeo iam fidem.

[¶233] DAVUS:
Have you found out at last what sort of a person I am?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Tandem cognosti qui siem?

[¶234] SIMO:
The marriage was not to have taken place.

> Latin: SIMO:
Non fuerant nuptiae futurae.

[¶235] DAVUS:
How? Not to have taken place?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid? non?

[¶236] SIMO:
But I was making pretense, that I might test you all.

> Latin: SIMO:
Sed ea gratia
Simulavi vos ut pertentarem.

[¶237] DAVUS: (affecting surprise.)
What is it you tell me?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid ais?

[¶238] SIMO:
Such is the fact.

> Latin: SIMO:
Sic res est.

[¶239] DAVUS:
Only see! I was not able to discover that. Dear me! what a cunning contrivance!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Vide,
Numquam istuc ego quivi intellegere. Vah consilium callidum.

[¶240] SIMO:
Listen to this. Just as I ordered you to go from here into the house, he (pointing to CHREMES.) most opportunely met me.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hoc audi: ut hinc te introire iussi opportune hic fit mihi obviam.

[¶241] DAVUS: (aside.)
Ha! Are we undone, then?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem,
Numnam periimus?

[¶242] SIMO:
I told him what you just now told me.

> Latin: SIMO:
Narro huic quae tu dudum narrasti mihi.

[¶243] DAVUS: (aside.)
Why, what am I to hear?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quidnam audio?

[¶244] SIMO:
I begged him to give his daughter, and with difficulty I prevailed upon him.

> Latin: SIMO:
Gnatam ut det oro, vixque id exoro.

[¶245] DAVUS: (aside.)
Utterly ruined!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Occidi.

[¶246] SIMO: (overhearing him speaking.)
Eh—What was it you said?

> Latin: SIMO:
Hem,
Quid dixisti?

[¶247] DAVUS:
Extremely well done, I say.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Optime inquam factum.

[¶248] SIMO:
There’s no delay on his part now.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nunc per hunc nulla est mora.

[¶249] CHREMES:
I’ll go home at once; I’ll tell her to make due preparation, and bring back word here.
(Exit.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Domum modo ibo: ut apparentur dicam: atque huc renuntio.

[¶250] SIMO:
Now I do entreat you, Davus, since you by yourself have brought about this marriage for me—

> Latin: SIMO:
Nunc te oro Dave quoniam solus mihi effecisti has nuptias—

[¶251] DAVUS:
I myself, indeed!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego vero solus.

[¶252] SIMO:
Do your best still to reform my son.

> Latin: SIMO:
corrigere mihi gnatum porro enitere.

[¶253] DAVUS:
Troth, I’ll do it with all due care.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Faciam hercle sedulo.

[¶254] SIMO:
Do it now, while his mind is agitated.

> Latin: SIMO:
Potes nunc dum animus irritatus est.

[¶255] DAVUS:
You may be at ease.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quiescas.

[¶256] SIMO:
Come then; where is he just now?

> Latin: SIMO:
Age igitur ubi nunc est ipsus?

[¶257] DAVUS:
A wonder if he isn’t at home.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mirum ni domi est.

[¶258] SIMO:
I’ll go to him; and what I’ve been telling you, I’ll tell him as well.
(Goes into his house.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Ibo ad eum: atque eadem haec tibi quae dixi dicam itidem illi.

[¶259] DAVUS: (to himself.)
I’m a lost man!
What reason is there why I shouldn’t take my departure straightway hence for the mill? There’s no room left for supplicating; I’ve upset every thing now; I’ve deceived my master; I’ve plunged my master’s son into a marriage; I’ve been the cause of its taking place this very day, without his hoping for it, and against the wish of Pamphilus. Here’s cleverness for you! But, if I had kept myself quiet, no mischief would have happened. (Starting.)
But see, I espy him; I’m utterly undone! Would that there were some spot here for me, from which I might this instant pitch myself headlong!
(Stands apart.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nullus sum.
Quid causae est quin hinc in pistrinum recta proficiscar via?
Nihil est preci loci relictum; iam perturbavi omnia:
Herum fefelli; in nuptias conieci herilem filium;
Feci hodie ut fierent insperante hoc atque invito Pamphilo. Hem
Astutias! quod si quiessem nihil evenisset mali.
Sed eccum video ipsum: occidi.
Utinam mihi esset aliquid hic quo me nunc praecipitem darem.

[¶260] (Enter PAMPHILUS in haste from SIMO’s house.)
PAMPHILUS:
Where is he? The villain, who this day—I’m ruined;
and I confess that this has justly befallen me, for being such a dolt, so devoid of sense; that I should have in-trusted my fortunes to a frivolous slave!
I am suffering the reward of my folly; still he shall never get off from me un-punished for this.

> Latin: (PAMPHILUS. DAVUS.)
PAMPHILUS:
Ubi illic est scelus qui me perdidit?
DAVUS:
Perii.
PAMPHILUS:
Atque hoc confiteor mihi
Iure obtigisse; quandoquidem tam iners tam nulli consili
Sum. Servon fortunas meas me commisisse futili?
Ergo pretium ob stultitiam fero: sed inultum numquam id auferet.

[¶261] DAVUS: (apart.)
I’m quite sure that I shall be safe in future, if for the present I get clear of this mishap.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Posthac incolumem sat scio fore me nunc si hoc devito malum.

[¶262] PAMPHILUS:
But what now am I to say to my father? Am I to deny that I am ready, who have just promised to marry? With what effrontery could I presume to do that? I know not what to do with myself.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nam quid ego nunc dicam patri? Negabon velle me modo
Qui sum pollicitus ducere? Qua fiducia id facere audeam?
Nec quid me nunc faciam scio.

[¶263] DAVUS: (apart.)
Nor I with myself, and yet I’m giving all due attention to it.
I’ll tell him that I will devise something, in order that I may procure some respite in this dilemma.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nec quid me; atque id ago sedulo.
Dicam aliquid iam inventurum ut huic malo aliquam producam moram.

[¶264] PAMPHILUS: (catching sight of him.)
Oho!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ohe.

[¶265] DAVUS: (apart.)
I’m seen.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Visus sum.

[¶266] PAMPHILUS: (sneeringly.)
How now, good sir, what are you about? Do you see how dreadfully I am hampered by your devices?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ehodum bone vir quid ais? viden me consiliis tuis
Miserum impeditum esse?

[¶267] DAVUS:
Still, I’ll soon extricate you.

> Latin: DAVUS:
At iam expediam.

[¶268] PAMPHILUS:
You, extricate me?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Expedies?

[¶269] DAVUS:
Assuredly, Pamphilus.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Certe Pamphile.

[¶270] PAMPHILUS:
As you have just done, I suppose.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nempe ut modo.

[¶271] DAVUS:
Why no, better, I trust.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Immo melius spero.

[¶272] PAMPHILUS:
What, am I to believe you, you scoundrel?
You, indeed, make good a matter that’s all embarrassment and ruin! Just see, in whom I’ve been placing reliance—you who this day from a most happy state have been and plunged me into a marriage. Didn’t I say that this would be the case?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Oh tibi ego ut credam furcifer?
Tu rem impeditam et perditam restituas? Hem quo fretus siem,
Qui me hodie ex tranquillissima re coniecisti in nuptias.
Annon dixi esse hoc futurum?

[¶273] DAVUS:
You did say so.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Dixti.

[¶274] PAMPHILUS:
What do you deserve?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid meritus?

[¶275] DAVUS:
The cross. But allow me a little time to recover myself; I’ll soon hit upon something.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Crucem.
Sed sine paululum ad me redeam: iam aliquid dispiciam.

[¶276] PAMPHILUS:
Ah me! not to have the leisure to inflict punishment upon you as I desire! for the present conjuncture warns me to take precautions for myself, not to be taking vengeance on you.
(Exeunt.)

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hei mihi
Cum non habeo spatium ut de te sumam supplicium ut volo:
Namque hoc tempus praecavere mihi me haud te ulcisci sinit.

[¶277] (Enter CHARINUS, wringing his hands.)
CHARINUS: (to himself.)
Is this to be believed or spoken of; that malice so great could be inborn in any one as to exult at misfortunes, and to derive advantage from the distresses of another! Oh, is this true? Assuredly, that is the most dangerous class of men,
in whom there is only a slight degree of hesitation at refusing; afterward, when the time arrives for fulfilling their promises, then, obliged, of necessity they discover themselves. They are afraid, and yet the circumstances compel them to refuse. Then, in that case, their very insolent remark is,
“Who are you? What are you to me? What should I give up to you what’s my own? Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.” But if you inquire where is honor, they are not ashamed. Here, where there is occasion, they are not afraid; there, where there is no occasion, they are afraid. But what am I to do? Ought I not to go to him, and reason with him upon this outrage,
and heap many an invective upon him? Yet some one may say, “you will avail nothing.” Nothing? At least I shall have vexed him, and have given vent to my own feelings.
(Enter PAMPHILUS and DAVUS.)

> Latin: (CHARINUS.
PAMPHILUS. DAVUS.)
CHARINUS:
Hocine est credibile aut memorabile
Tanta vecordia innata cuiquam ut siet
Ut malis gaudeant atque ex incommodis
Alterius sua ut comparent commoda? ah
Idne est verum? immo id est genus hominum pessimum in
Denegando modo quis pudor paululum adest:
Post ubi tempus promissa iam perfici,
Tum coacti necessario se aperiunt,
Et timent: et tamen res premit denegare:
Ibi tum eorum impudentissima oratio est,
“Quis tu es? quis mihi es? cur meam tibi? Heus,”
“Proximus sum egomet mihi.” Attamen “Ubi fides,”
Si roges, nihil pudet; hic ubi opus est
Non verentur: illic ubi nihil opus est ibi verentur.
Sed quid agam? adeamne ad eum, et cum eo iniuriam hanc expostulem?
Ingeram mala multa? Atque aliquis dicat, “Nihil promoveris.”
Multum: molestus certe ei fuero: atque animo morem gessero.
PAMPHILUS:
Charine et me et te imprudens, nisi quid Di respiciunt, perdidi.
CHARINUS:
Itane imprudens? tandem inventa est causa: solvisti fidem.

[¶278] PAMPHILUS:
Charinus, unintentionally I have ruined both myself and you, unless the Gods in some way befriend us.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid tandem?

[¶279] CHARINUS:
Unintentionally, is it! An excuse has been discovered at last. You have broken your word.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Etiam nunc me ducere istis dictis postulas?

[¶280] PAMPHILUS:
How so, pray?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid istuc est?

[¶281] CHARINUS:
Do you expect to deceive me a second time by these speeches?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Postquam me amare dixi complacita est tibi.
Heu me miserum qui tuum animum ex animo spectavi meo.

[¶282] PAMPHILUS:
What does this mean?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Falsus es.

[¶283] CHARINUS:
Since I told you that I loved her, she has become quite pleasing to you. Ah wretched me! to have judged of your disposition from my own.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Nonne tibi satis esse hoc visum solidum est gaudium,
Nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres.
Habeas.

[¶284] PAMPHILUS:
You are mistaken.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Habeam? ah nescis quantis in malis verser miser;
Quantasque hic suis consiliis mihi confecit sollicitudines
Meus carnufex.

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[¶0] CHARINUS:
Did this pleasure appear to you not to be quite complete, unless you tantalized me in my passion, and lured me on by groundless hopes?—You may take her.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid istuc tam mirum est de te si exemplum capit?

[¶1] PAMPHILUS:
I, take her? Alas! you know not in what perplexities, to my sorrow, I am involved,
and what vast anxieties this executioner of mine (pointing to DAVUS.) has contrived for me by his devices.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Haud istuc dicas si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum.

[¶2] CHARINUS:
What is it so wonderful, if he takes example from yourself?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Scio: cum patre altercasti dudum: et is nunc propterea tibi
Succenset: nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres.

[¶3] PAMPHILUS:
You would not say that if you understood either myself or my affection.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Immo etiam, quo tu minus scis aerumnas meas,
Hae nuptiae non apparabantur mihi:
Nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare.

[¶4] CHARINUS:
I’m quite aware (ironically.); you have just now had a dispute with your father, and he is now angry with you in consequence, and has not been able to-day to prevail upon you to marry her.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.

[¶5] PAMPHILUS:
No, not at all,—as you are not acquainted with my sorrows, these nuptials were not in preparation for me; and no one was thinking at present of giving me a wife.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Mane:
Nondum scis.

[¶6] CHARINUS:
I am aware; you have been influenced by your own inclination.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Scio equidem illam ducturum esse te.

[¶7] PAMPHILUS:
Hold; you do not yet know all.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Cur me enicas? Hoc audi. Numquam destitit
Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri;
Suadere, orare, usque adeo donec perpulit.

[¶8] CHARINUS:
For my part, I certainly do know that you are about to marry her.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quis homo istuc?

[¶9] PAMPHILUS:
Why are you torturing me to death? Listen to this. He (pointing to DAVUS.) never ceased to urge me to tell my father that I would marry her; to advise and persuade me, even until he compelled me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Davus.—

[¶10] CHARINUS:
Who was this person?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Davus?

[¶11] PAMPHILUS:
Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
interturbat.

[¶12] CHARINUS:
Davus!
For what reason?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quamobrem?

[¶13] PAMPHILUS:
I don’t know; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods, for me to have listened to him.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nescio:
Nisi mihi deos satis scio fuisse iratos qui eis auscultaverim.

[¶14] CHARINUS:
Is this the fact, Davus?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Factum hoc est Dave?

[¶15] DAVUS:
It is the fact.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Factum.

[¶16] CHARINUS: (starting.)
Ha! What do you say, you villain? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds. Come now, tell me, if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage, what advice but this could they have given?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Hem, quid ais scelus?
At tibi Di dignum factis exitium duint.
Eho, dic mihi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias
Inimici vellent quod nisi hoc consilium darent?

[¶17] DAVUS:
I have been deceived, but I don’t despair.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Deceptus sum at non defatigatus.

[¶18] CHARINUS: (ironically.)
I’m sure of that.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Scio.

[¶19] DAVUS:
This way it has not succeeded; we’ll try another. Unless, perhaps, you think that because it failed at first, this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hac non successit, alia aggrediemur via.
Nisi id putas, quia primo processit parum,
Non posse iam ad salutem converti hoc malum.

[¶20] PAMPHILUS:
Certainly not; for I quite believe that if you set about it, you will be making two marriages for me out of one.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Immo etiam: nam satis credo si advigilaveris
Ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias.

[¶21] DAVUS:
I owe you this, Pamphilus, in respect of my servitude, to strive with hands and feet, night and day; to submit to hazard of my life, to serve you. It is your part, if any thing has fallen out contrary to expectation, to forgive me. What I was contriving has not succeeded; still, I am using all endeavors;
or, do you yourself devise something better, and dismiss me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego Pamphile hoc tibi pro servitio debeo,
Conari manibus pedibus noctesque et dies;
Capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi:
Tuum est si quid praeter spem evenit mihi ignoscere.
Parum succedit quod ago: at facio sedulo.
Vel melius tute reperi, me missum face.

[¶22] PAMPHILUS:
I wish to; restore me to the position in which you found me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum.

[¶23] DAVUS:
I’ll do so.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Faciam.

[¶24] PAMPHILUS:
But it must be done directly.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
At iam hoc opus est.

[¶25] DAVUS:
But the door of Glycerium’s house here makes a noise.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem! sed, mane. Concrepuit a Glycerio ostium.

[¶26] PAMPHILUS:
That’s nothing to you.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nihil ad te.

[¶27] DAVUS: (assuming an attitude of meditation.)
I’m in search of—

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quaero.

[¶28] PAMPHILUS: (ironically.)
Dear me, what, now at last?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Hem, nuncin demum?

[¶29] DAVUS:
Presently I’ll give you what I’ve hit upon.

> Latin: DAVUS:
At iam hoc tibi inventum dabo.

[¶30] (Enter MYSIS from the house of GLYCERIUM.)
MYSIS: (calling at the door to GLYCERIUM within.)
Now, wherever he is, I’ll take care that your own Pamphilus shall be found for you, and brought to you by me; do you only, my life, cease to vex yourself.

> Latin: (MYSIS.
PAMPHILUS.
CHARINUS. DAVUS.)
MYSIS:
Iam ubi ubi erit inventum tibi curabo et mecum adductum
Tuum Pamphilum: tu modo anime mi noli te macerare.
PAMPHILUS:
Mysis.
MYSIS:
Quid est? Ehem Pamphile, opportune te mihi offers.

[¶31] PAMPHILUS:
Mysis.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid est?

[¶32] MYSIS: (turning round.)
Who is it? Why, Pamphilus, you do present yourself opportunely to me.
My mistress charged me to beg of you, if you love her, to come to her directly; she says she wishes to see you.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Orare iussit si se ames hera iam ut ad sese venias:
Videre ait te cupere.

[¶33] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
Alas! I am undone; this dilemma grows apace! (To DAVUS.) For me and her, unfortunate persons, now to be tortured this way through your means;
for I am sent for, because she has discovered that my marriage is in preparation.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Vah, perii: hoc malum integrascit.
Sicine me atque illam opera tua nunc miseros sollicitarier?
Nam idcirco arcessor, nuptias quod mihi apparari sensit.

[¶34] CHARINUS:
From which, indeed, how easily a respite could have been obtained, if he (pointing to DAVUS.) had kept himself quiet.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quibus quidem quam facile potuerat quiesci si hic quiesset.

[¶35] DAVUS: (ironically to CHARINUS.)
Do proceed; if he isn’t sufficiently angry of his own accord, do you irritate him.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Age si hic non insanit satis sua sponte instiga.

[¶36] MYSIS: (to PAMPHILUS.)
Aye faith, that is the case; and for that reason, poor thing, she is now in distress.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Atque edepol
Ea res est: proptereaque nunc misera in maerore est.

[¶37] PAMPHILUS:
Mysis, I swear by all the Gods that I will never forsake her;
not if I were to know that all men would be my enemies in consequence. Her have I chosen for mine; she has fallen to my lot; our feelings are congenial; farewell they, who wish for a separation between us; nothing but Death separates her from me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Mysis,
Per omnes tibi adiuro deos numquam eam me deserturum;
Non si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnes homines.
Hanc mihi expetivi, contigit: conveniunt mores: valeant
Qui inter nos discidium volunt: hanc nisi mors mihi adimet nemo.

[¶38] MYSIS:
I begin to revive.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Resipisco.

[¶39] PAMPHILUS:
Not the responses of Apollo are more true than this. If it can possibly be contrived that my father may not believe
that this marriage has been broken off through me, I could wish it. But if that can not be, I will do that which is easily effected, for him to believe that through me it has been caused. What do you think of me?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum est.
Si poterit fieri ut ne pater per me stetisse credat
Quo minus hae fierent nuptiae, volo. Sed si id non poterit,
Id faciam in proclivi quod est per me stetisse ut credat.
Quis videor?

[¶40] CHARINUS:
That you are as unhappy as myself.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Miser aeque atque ego.

[¶41] DAVUS: (placing his finger on his forehead.)
I’m contriving an expedient.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Consilium quaero.

[¶42] CHARINUS:
You are a clever hand;
if you do set about any thing.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Fortis!
PAMPHILUS:
Scio quid conere?

[¶43] DAVUS:
Assuredly, I’ll manage this for you.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hoc ego tibi profecto effectum reddam.

[¶44] PAMPHILUS:
There’s need of it now.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Iam hoc opus est.

[¶45] DAVUS:
But I’ve got it now.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quin iam habeo.

[¶46] CHARINUS:
What is it?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid est?

[¶47] DAVUS:
For him (pointing to PAMPHILUS) I’ve got it, not for you, don’t mistake.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Huic, non tibi habeo, ne erres.

[¶48] CHARINUS:
I’m quite satisfied.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Sat habeo.

[¶49] PAMPHILUS:
What will you do? Tell me.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid facies? cedo.

[¶50] DAVUS:
I’m afraid that this day won’t be long enough for me to execute it, so don’t suppose that I’ve now got leisure for relating it; do you betake yourself off at once, for you are a hinderance to me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Dies mihi hic ut satis sit vereor
Ad agendum: ne vacuum esse me nunc ad narrandum credas.
Proinde hinc vos amolimini: nam mihi impedimento estis.

[¶51] PAMPHILUS:
I’ll go and see her.
(Goes into the house of GLYCERIUM.)

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ego hanc visam.

[¶52] DAVUS: (to CHARINUS.)
What are you going to do? Whither are you going from here?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid tu? quo hinc te agis?

[¶53] CHARINUS:
Do you wish me to tell you the truth?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Verum vis dicam?

[¶54] DAVUS:
No, not at all; (aside.) he’s making the beginning of a long story for me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Immo etiam
Narrationis incipit mihi initium.

[¶55] CHARINUS:
What will become of me?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid me fiet?

[¶56] DAVUS:
Come now, you unreasonable person, are you not satisfied that I give you a little respite, by putting off his marriage?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Eho tu impudens non satis habes quod tibi dieculam addo
Quantum huic promoveo nuptias?

[¶57] CHARINUS:
But yet, Davus—

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Dave attamen.

[¶58] DAVUS:
What then?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid ergo?

[¶59] CHARINUS:
That I may marry her—

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Ut ducam.

[¶60] DAVUS:
Absurd.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ridiculum.

[¶61] CHARINUS:
Be sure to come hither (pointing in the direction of his house.) to my house, if you can effect any thing.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Huc face ad me ut venias si quid poteris.

[¶62] DAVUS:
Why should I come? I can do nothing for you.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid veniam? nihil habeo.

[¶63] CHARINUS:
But still, if any thing—

> Latin: CHARINUS:
At tamen siquid.

[¶64] DAVUS:
Well, well, I’ll come.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Age veniam.

[¶65] CHARINUS:
If you can; I shall be at home.
(Exit.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Si quid
Domi ero.

[¶66] DAVUS:
Do you, Mysis, remain here a little while, until I come out.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Tu Mysis dum exeo parumper opperire hic.

[¶67] MYSIS:
For what reason?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quapropter?

[¶68] DAVUS:
There’s a necessity for so doing.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ita facto est opus.

[¶69] MYSIS:
Make haste.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Matura.

[¶70] DAVUS:
I’ll be here this moment, I tell you.
(He goes into the house of GLYCERIUM.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Iam inquam hic adero.

[¶71] MYSIS: (to herself.)
That nothing can be secure to any one! Ye Gods, by our trust in you! I used to make sure that this Pamphilus was a supreme blessing for my mistress; a friend, a protector, a husband secured under every circumstance; yet what anguish is she, poor thing, now suffering through him?
Clearly there’s more trouble for her now than there was happiness formerly. But Davus is coming out. (Enter DAVUS from the house of GLYCERIUM with the child.) My good sir, prithee, what is that? Whither are you carrying the child?

> Latin: (MYSIS. DAVUS.)
MYSIS:
Nihilne esse proprium cuiquam? Di vestram fidem:
Summum bonum esse herae putavi hunc Pamphilum,
Amicum, amatorem, virum in quovis loco
Paratum: verum ex eo nunc misera quem capit
Dolorem! facile hic plus mali est, quam illic boni.
Sed Davus exit. Mi homo quid istuc obsecro est?
Quo portas puerum?

[¶72] DAVUS:
Mysis, I now stand in need of your cunning being brought into play in this matter, and of your address.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mysis nunc opus est tua
Mihi ad hanc rem exprompta memoria atque astutia.

[¶73] MYSIS:
Why, what are you going to do?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quidnam incepturus?

[¶74] DAVUS: (holding out the child.)
Take it from me directly, and lay it down before our door.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Accipe a me hunc ocius,
Atque ante nostram ianuam appone.

[¶75] MYSIS:
Prithee, on the ground?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Obsecro
Humine?

[¶76] DAVUS: (pointing.)
Take some sacred herbs from the altar here, and strew them under it.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ex ara hinc sume verbenas tibi
Atque eas substerne.

[¶77] MYSIS:
Why don’t you do it yourself?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quamobrem id tute non facis?

[¶78] DAVUS:
That if perchance I should have to swear to my master that I did not place it there, I may be enabled to do so with a clear conscience.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quia si forte opus sit ad herum iurandum mihi
Non apposuisse ut liquido possim.

[¶79] MYSIS:
I understand;
have these new scruples only just now occurred to you, pray?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Intelligo:
Nova nunc religio in te istaec incessit cedo?

[¶80] DAVUS:
Bestir yourself quickly, that you may learn what I’m going to do next. (MYSIS lays the child at SIMO’s door.) Oh Jupiter!

> Latin: DAVUS:
Move ocius te, ut quid agam porro intelligas.
Pro Iupiter.

[¶81] MYSIS: (starting up.)
What’s the matter?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quid est?

[¶82] DAVUS:
The father of the intended bride is coming in the middle of it all. The plan which I had first purposed I now give up.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sponsae pater intervenit.
Repudio quod consilium primum intenderam.

[¶83] MYSIS:
I don’t understand what you are talking about.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Nescio quid narres.

[¶84] DAVUS:
I’ll pretend too that I’ve come in this direction from the right. Do you take care to help out
the conversation by your words, whenever there’s necessity.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego quoque hinc ab dextera
Venire me assimulabo: tu ut subservias
Orationi ut quomque opus sit verbis vide.

[¶85] MYSIS:
I don’t at all comprehend what you are about; but if there’s any thing in which you have need of my assistance, as you understand the best, I’ll stay, that I mayn’t in any way impede your success. (DAVUS retires out of sight.)

> Latin: MYSIS:
Ego quid agas nihil intelligo: sed si quid est
Quod mea opera opus sit vobis, aut tu plus vides,
Manebo, ne quod vestrum remorer commodum.

[¶86] (Enter CHREMES on the other side of the stage, going toward the house of SIMO.)
CHREMES: (to himself.)
After having provided the things necessary for my daughter’s nuptials, I’m returning, that I may request her to be sent for. (Seeing the child.) But what’s this? I’faith, it’s a child. (Addressing MYSIS.) Woman, have you laid that here (pointing to the child.)?

> Latin: (CHREMES.
MYSIS. DAVUS.)
CHREMES:
Revertor postquam quae opus fuere ad nuptias
Gnatae paravi, ut iubeam arcessi. Sed quid hoc?
Puer hercle est. Mulier tune apposuisti hunc?

[¶87] MYSIS: (aside, looking out for DAVUS.)
Where is he?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Ubi illic est?

[¶88] CHREMES:
Don’t you answer me?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Non mihi respondes?

[¶89] MYSIS: (looking about, to herself.)
He isn’t any where to be seen. Woe to wretched me! the fellow has left me and is off.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Nusquam est: vae miserae mihi,
Reliquit me homo atque abiit.

[¶90] DAVUS: (coming forward and pretending not to see them.)
Ye Gods, by our trust in you!
what a crowd there is in the Forum! What a lot of people are squabbling there! (Aloud.) Then provisions are so dear. (Aside.) What to say besides, I don’t know.
(CHREMES passes by MYSIS, and goes to a distance at the back of the stage.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Di vestram fidem,
Quid turbae est apud forum? quid illic hominum litigant?
Tum annona cara est: quid dicam aliud nescio.

[¶91] MYSIS:
Pray, why did you leave me here alone?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Cur tu obsecro hic me solam?

[¶92] DAVUS: (pretending to start on seeing the child.)
Ha! what story is this? How now, Mysis, whence comes this child? Who has brought it here?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quae est haec fabula?
Eho Mysis, puer hic unde est? quisve huc attulit?

[¶93] MYSIS:
Are you quite right in your senses, to be asking me that?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Satin sanus es qui me id rogites?

[¶94] DAVUS:
Whom, then, ought I to ask,
as I don’t see any one else here?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quem igitur rogem?
Qui hic neminem alium videam.

[¶95] CHREMES: (apart to himself.)
I wonder whence it has come.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Miror unde sit.

[¶96] DAVUS:
Are you going to tell me what I ask?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Dictura es quod rogo?

[¶97] MYSIS:
Pshaw!

> Latin: MYSIS:
Au.

[¶98] DAVUS: (in a whisper.)
Step aside to the right.
(They retire on one side.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Concede ad dexteram.

[¶99] MYSIS:
You are out of your senses; didn’t you your own self?
DAY.: (in a low voice.)
Take you care not to utter a single word beyond what I ask you.
Why don’t you say aloud whence it comes?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Deliras: non tute ipse?
DAVUS:
Verbum si mihi
Unum praeterquam quod te rogo faxis cave.

[¶100] MYSIS: (in a loud voice.)
From our house.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Male dicis?

[¶101] DAVUS: (affecting indignation.)
Heyday, indeed!
it really is a wonder if a woman, who is a courtesan, acts impudently.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Undest? Dic clare.
MYSIS:
A nobis.
DAVUS:
Attatae!
Mirum vero impudenter mulier si facit
Meretrix.

[¶102] CHREMES: (apart.)
So far as I can learn, this woman belongs to the Andrian.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ab Andria est haec quantum intelligo.

[¶103] DAVUS:
Do we seem to you such very suitable persons for you to be playing tricks with us in this way?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Adeon videmur vobis esse idonei
In quibus sic illudatis?

[¶104] CHREMES: (apart.)
I came just in time.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Veni in tempore.

[¶105] DAVUS:
Make haste then, and take the child away from the door here:
(in a low voice.) stay there; take care you don’t stir from that spot.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Propera adeo puerum tollere hinc ab ianua:
Mane: cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco.

[¶106] MYSIS: (aside.)
May the Gods confound you! you do so terrify poor me.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Di te eradicent: ita me miseram territas.

[¶107] DAVUS: (in a loud voice.)
Is it to you I speak or not?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Tibi ego dico annon?

[¶108] MYSIS:
What is it you want?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quid vis?

[¶109] DAVUS: (aloud.)
What—do you ask me again? Tell me, whose child have you been laying here? Let me know.

> Latin: DAVUS:
At etiam rogas?
Cedo cuium puerum hic apposuisti? dic mihi.

[¶110] MYSIS:
Don’t you know?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Tu nescis?

[¶111] DAVUS: (in a low voice.)
Have done with what I know; tell me what I ask.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mitte id quod scio: dic quod rogo.

[¶112] MYSIS: (aloud.)
It belongs to your people.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Vestri.

[¶113] DAVUS: (aloud.)
Which of our people?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Cuius nostri?

[¶114] MYSIS: (aloud.)
To Pamphilus.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Pamphili.

[¶115] DAVUS: (affecting surprise in a loud tone.)
How? What—to Pamphilus?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hem, quid? Pamphili?

[¶116] MYSIS: (aloud.)
How now—is it not so?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Eho, annon est?

[¶117] CHREMES: (apart.)
With good reason have I always been averse to this match, it’s clear.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Recte ego semper fugi has nuptias.

[¶118] DAVUS: (calling aloud.)
O abominable piece of effrontery!

> Latin: DAVUS:
O facinus animadvertendum.

[¶119] MYSIS:
Why are you bawling out so?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quid clamitas?

[¶120] DAVUS: (aloud.)
What, the very one I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi?

[¶121] MYSIS:
O you impudent fellow!

> Latin: MYSIS:
O hominem audacem.

[¶122] DAVUS: (aloud.)
It’s the truth. I saw Canthara stuffed out beneath her clothes.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Verum. Vidi Cantharam
Suffarcinatam.

[¶123] MYSIS:
I’faith, I thank the Gods that several free women were present at the delivery.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Dis pol habeo gratiam
Quum in pariundo aliquot affuerunt liberae.

[¶124] DAVUS: (aloud.)
Assuredly she doesn’t know him, on whose account she resorts to these schemes. Chremes, she fancies, if he sees the child laid before the door, will not give his daughter; i’faith, he’ll give her all the sooner.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ne illa illum haud novit cuius causa haec incipit.
Chremes si positum puerum ante aedes viderit
Suam gnatam non dabit? Tanto hercle magis dabit.

[¶125] CHREMES: (apart.)
I’faith, he’ll not do so.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Non hercle faciet.

[¶126] DAVUS: (aloud.)
Now therefore, that you may be quite aware, if you don’t take up the child, I’ll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road; and yourself in the same place I’ll roll over into the mud.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nunc adeo ut tu sis sciens,
Nisi puerum tollis iam ego hunc in mediam viam
Provolvam: teque ibidem pervolvam in luto.

[¶127] MYSIS:
Upon my word, man, you are not sober.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Tu pol homo non es sobrius.

[¶128] DAVUS: (aloud.)
One scheme brings on another. I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica—

> Latin: DAVUS:
Fallacia
Alia aliam trudit; iam susurrari audio
Civem Atticam esse hanc.

[¶129] CHREMES: (apart.)
Ha!

> Latin: CHREMES:
Eho.

[¶130] DAVUS: (aloud.)
And that, constrained by the laws, he will have to take her as his wife.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Coactus legibus
Eam uxorem ducet.

[¶131] MYSIS:
Well now, pray, is she not a citizen?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Au obsecro an non civis est?

[¶132] CHREMES: (apart.)
I had almost fallen unawares into a comical misfortune.
(Comes forward.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Iocularium in malum insciens paene incidi.

[¶133] DAVUS:
Who’s that, speaking? (Pretending to look about.) O Chremes, you have come in good time. Do listen to this.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quis hic loquitur? o Chreme, per tempus advenis.
Ausculta.

[¶134] CHREMES:
I have heard it all already.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Audivi iam omnia.

[¶135] DAVUS:
Prithee, did you hear it? Here’s villainy for you! she (pointing at MYSIS.) ought to be carried off hence to the torture forthwith. (To MYSIS, pointing at CHREMES.) This is Chremes himself; don’t suppose that you are trifling with Davus only.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ain tu? haec omnia!
CHREMES:
Audivi, inquam, a principio.
DAVUS:
Audistine obsecro? Hem
Scelera, hanc iam oportet in cruciatum hinc abripi.
Hic est ille: non te credas Davum ludere.

[¶136] MYSIS:
Wretched me! upon my faith I have told no untruth, my worthy old gentleman.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Me miseram: nihil pol falsi dixi mi senex.

[¶137] CHREMES:
I know the whole affair. Is Simo within?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Novi rem omnem: est Simo intus?

[¶138] DAVUS:
He is.
(CHREMES goes into SIMO’s house.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Est.

[¶139] MYSIS: (DAVUS attempting to caress her.)
Don’t touch me, villain. (Moving away.) On my word, if I don’t tell Glycerium all this—

> Latin: MYSIS:
Ne me attigas
Sceleste. Si pol Glycerio non omnia haec—

[¶140] DAVUS:
How now, simpleton, don’t you know what has been done?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Eho inepta nescis quid sit actum?

[¶141] MYSIS:
How should I know?

> Latin: MYSIS:
Quid sciam?

[¶142] DAVUS:
This is the bride’s father. It couldn’t any other way have been managed that he should know the things that we wanted him to know.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Hic socer est. Alio pacto haud poterat fieri
Ut sciret haec quae voluimus.

[¶143] MYSIS:
You should have told me that before.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Praediceres.

[¶144] DAVUS:
Do you suppose that it makes little difference whether you do things according to impulse,
as nature prompts, or from premeditation?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Paullum interesse censes ex animo omnia,
Ut fert natura, facias an de industria?

[¶145] (Enter CRITO, looking about him.)
CRITO: (to himself.)
It was said that Chrysis used to live in this street, who preferred to gain wealth here dishonorably to living honestly as a poor woman in her own country: by her death that property has descended to me by law.
But I see some persons of whom to make inquiry. (Accosting them.) Good-morrow to you.

> Latin: (CRITO.
MYSIS. DAVUS.)
CRITO:
In hac habitasse platea dictum est Chrysidem
Quae sese inhoneste optavit parere hic divitias
Potius quam in patria honeste pauper viveret.
Eius morte ea ad me lege redierunt bona.
Sed quos perconter video. Salvete.

[¶146] MYSIS:
Prithee, whom do I see? Isn’t this Crito, the kinsman of Chrysis? It is he.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Obsecro
Quem video? Estne hic Crito sobrinus Chrysidis?
Is est.

[¶147] CRITO:
O Mysis, greetings to you.

> Latin: CRITO:
O Mysis, salve.

[¶148] MYSIS:
Welcome to you, Crito.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Salvus sis Crito.

[¶149] CRITO:
Is Chrysis then—? Alas!

> Latin: CRITO:
Itan Chrysis? hem.

[¶150] MYSIS:
Too truly. She has indeed left us poor creatures quite heart-broken.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Nos quidem pol miseras perdidit.

[¶151] CRITO:
How fare you here, and in what fashion? Pretty well?

> Latin: CRITO:
Quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte?

[¶152] MYSIS:
What, we? Just
as we can, as they say; since we can’t as we would.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Nosne? “Sic”
“Ut quimus” aiunt, “quando ut volumus non licet.”

[¶153] CRITO:
How is Glycerium? Has she discovered her parents yet?

> Latin: CRITO:
Quid Glycerium? iam hic suos parentes repperit?

[¶154] MYSIS:
I wish she had.

> Latin: MYSIS:
Utinam.

[¶155] CRITO:
What, not yet? With no favorable omen did I set out for this place; for, upon my faith, if I had known that, I never would have moved a foot hither. She was always said to be, and was looked upon as her sister;
what things were hers she is in possession of; now for me to begin a suit at law here, the precedents of others warn me, a stranger, how easy and profitable a task it would be for me. At the same time, I suppose that by this she has got some friend and protector; for she was pretty nearly a grown-up girl when she left there. They would cry out
that I am a sharper; that, a pauper, I’m hunting after an inheritance; besides, I shouldn’t like to strip the girl herself.

> Latin: CRITO:
An nondum etiam? Haud auspicato huc me appuli:
Nam pol si id scissem nunquam huc tetulissem pedem:
Semper enim dicta est eius haec atque habita est soror:
Quae illius fuerunt possidet: nunc me hospitem
Lites sequi quam id mihi sit facile atque utile
Aliorum exempla commonent: simul arbitror
Iam aliquem esse amicum et defensorem ei; nam fere
Grandiuscula iam profecta est illinc. Clamitent
Me sycophantam, hereditates persequi,
Mendicum: tum ipsam despoliare non licet.

[¶156] MYSIS:
O most worthy stranger! I’faith, Crito, you still adhere to your good old-fashioned ways.

> Latin: MYSIS:
O optime hospes pol Crito antiquum obtines.

[¶157] CRITO:
Lead me to her, since I have come hither, that I may see her.

> Latin: CRITO:
Duc me ad eam, quando huc veni, ut videam.

[¶158] MYSIS:
By all means.
(They go into the house of GLYCERIUM.)

> Latin: MYSIS:
Maxime.

[¶159] DAVUS: (to himself.)
I’ll follow them; I don’t wish the old man to see me at this moment.
(He follows MYSIS and CRITO.)

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sequar hos: nolo me in tempore hoc videat senex.

[¶160] (Enter CHREMES and SIMO from the house of SIMO.)
CHREMES:
Enough already, enough, Simo, has my friendship toward you been proved. Sufficient hazard have I begun to encounter; make an end of your entreaties, then. While I’ve been endeavoring to oblige you, I’ve almost fooled away my daughter’s prospects in life.

> Latin: (CHREMES. SIMO.)
CHREMES:
Satis iam satis Simo spectata erga te amicitia est mea:
Satis pericli coepi adire: orandi iam finem face.
Dum studeo obsequi tibi paene illusi vitam filiae.

[¶161] SIMO:
Nay but, now in especial, Chremes, I do beg and entreat of you, that the favor, commenced a short time since in words, you’ll now complete by deeds.

> Latin: SIMO:
Immo enim nunc quum maxime abs te postulo atque oro Chreme
Ut beneficium verbis initum dudum nunc re comprobes.

[¶162] CHREMES:
See how unreasonable you are from your very earnestness; so long as you effect what you desire, you neither think of limits to compliance, nor what it is you request of me; for if you did think, you would now forbear to trouble me with unreasonable requests.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Vide quam iniquus sis prae studio. Dum id efficias quod cupis,
Neque modum benignitatis neque quid me ores cogitas:
Nam si cogites, remittas iam me onerare iniuriis.

[¶163] SIMO:
What unreasonable requests?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quibus?

[¶164] CHREMES:
Do you ask? You importuned me to promise my daughter to a young man engaged in another attachment, averse to the marriage state,
to plunge her into discord and a marriage of uncertain duration; that through her sorrow and her anguish I might reclaim your son. You prevailed; while the case admitted of it I made preparations. Now it does not admit of it; you must put up with it; they say that she is a citizen of this place; a child has been born; do cease to trouble us.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ah! rogitas? perpulisti me ut homini adolescentulo
In alio occupato amore, abhorrenti ab re uxoria,
Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias,
Eius labore atque eius dolore gnato ut medicarer tuo.
Impetrasti: incepi dum res tetulit: nunc non fert; feras.
Illam hinc civem esse aiunt: puer est natus: nos missos face.

[¶165] SIMO:
By the Gods, I do conjure you not to bring your mind to believe
those whose especial interest it is that he should be as degraded as possible. On account of the marriage, have all these things been feigned and contrived. When the reason for which they do these things is removed from them, they will desist.

> Latin: SIMO:
Per ego te deos oro ut ne illis animum inducas credere
Quibus id maxime utile est illum esse quam deterrimum.
Nuptiarum gratia haec sunt ficta atque incepta omnia.
Ubi ea causa quamobrem haec faciunt erit adempta his desinent.

[¶166] CHREMES:
You are mistaken; I myself saw the servant-maid wrangling with Davus.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Erras: cum Davo egomet vidi iurgantem ancillam.

[¶167] SIMO: (sneeringly.)
I am aware.

> Latin: SIMO:
Scio.

[¶168] CHREMES:
With an appearance of earnestness, when neither at the moment perceived that I was present there.

> Latin: CHREMES:
At
Vero vultu; quum ibi me adesse neuter tum praesenserat.

[¶169] SIMO:
I believe it; and Davus a short time since forewarned me that this would be the case; and I don’t know how I forgot to tell it you to-day, as I had intended.

> Latin: SIMO:
Credo; et id facturas Davus dudum praedixit mihi:
Et nescio qui tibi sum oblitus hodie ac volui dicere.

[¶170] (Enter DAVUS from the house of GLYCERIUM.)
DAVUS: (aloud at the door, not seeing SIMO and CHREMES.)
Now then, I bid you set your minds at ease.

> Latin: (DAVUS.
CHREMES.
SIMO. DROMO.)
DAVUS:
Animo nunc iam otioso esse impero—

[¶171] CHREMES: (to SIMO.)
See you, there’s Davus.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Hem Davum tibi.

[¶172] SIMO:
From what house is he coming out?

> Latin: SIMO:
Unde egreditur?

[¶173] DAVUS: (to himself.)
Through my means, and that of the stranger—

> Latin: DAVUS:
meo praesidio atque hospitis.

[¶174] SIMO: (overhearing.)
What mischief is this?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid illud mali est?

[¶175] DAVUS: (to himself.)
I never did see a more opportune person, encounter, or occasion.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ego commodiorem hominem, adventum, tempus non vidi.

[¶176] SIMO:
The rascal!
I wonder who it is he’s praising?

> Latin: SIMO:
Scelus,
Quem nam hic laudat?

[¶177] DAVUS:
All the affair is now in a safe position.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Omnis res est iam in vado.

[¶178] SIMO:
Why do I delay to accost him?

> Latin: SIMO:
Cesso alloqui?

[¶179] DAVUS: (to himself, catching sight of SIMO.)
It’s my master; what am I to do?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Herus est: quid agam?

[¶180] SIMO: (accosting him.)
O, save you, good sir!

> Latin: SIMO:
O salve bone vir.

[¶181] DAVUS: (affecting surprise.)
Hah! Simo! O, Chremes, my dear sir, all things are now quite ready in-doors.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ehem Simo! o noster Chreme!
Omnia apparata iam sunt intus.

[¶182] SIMO: (ironically.)
You have taken such very good care.

> Latin: SIMO:
Curasti probe.

[¶183] DAVUS:
Send for the bride when you like.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ubi voles arcesse.

[¶184] SIMO:
Very good: (ironically.) of course, that’s the only thing that’s now wanting here. But do you answer me this, what business had you there?
(Pointing to the house of GLYCERIUM.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Bene sane; id enimvero hinc nunc abest.
Etiam tu hoc respondes? quid istic tibi negoti est?

[¶185] DAVUS:
What, I?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mihine?

[¶186] SIMO:
Just so.

> Latin: SIMO:
Ita.

[¶187] DAVUS:
I?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Mihine?

[¶188] SIMO:
Yes, you.

> Latin: SIMO:
Tibi ergo.

[¶189] DAVUS:
I went in just now.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Modo introii.

[¶190] SIMO:
As if I asked how long ago!

> Latin: SIMO:
Quasi ego, quam dudum, rogem.

[¶191] DAVUS:
Together with your son.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Cum tuo gnato una.

[¶192] SIMO:
What, is Phamphilus in there? (Aside.) To my confusion, I’m on the rack! (To DAVUS.) How now? Didn’t you say that there was enmity between them, you scoundrel?

> Latin: SIMO:
Anne est intus Pamphilus? crucior miser.
Eho, non tu dixti esse inter eos inimicitias, carnufex?

[¶193] DAVUS:
There is.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Sunt.

[¶194] SIMO:
Why is he there, then?

> Latin: SIMO:
Cur igitur hic est?

[¶195] CHREMES:
Why do you. suppose he is? (Ironically.) Quarreling with her, of course.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quid illum census? cum illa litigat.

[¶196] DAVUS:
Nay but, Chremes, I’ll let you now hear from me a disgraceful piece of business.
An old man, I don’t know who he is, has just now come here; look you, he is a confident and shrewd person; when you look at his appearance, he seems to be a person of some consequence. There is a grave sternness in his features, and something commanding in his words.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Immo vero indignum Chreme iam facinus faxo ex me audias.
Nescio quis senex modo venit: ellum confidens, catus.
Quum faciem videas videtur esse quantivis preti.
Tristis severitas inest in vultu, atque in verbis fides.

[¶197] SIMO:
What news are you bringing, I wonder?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quidnam apportas?

[¶198] DAVUS:
Why nothing but what I heard him mention.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Nihil equidem nisi quod illum audivi dicere.

[¶199] SIMO:
What does he say then?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid ait tandem?

[¶200] DAVUS:
That he knows Glycerium to be a citizen of Attica.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Glycerium se scire civem esse Atticam.

[¶201] SIMO: (going to his door.)
Ho there!
Dromo, Dromo!
(Enter DROMO hastily from the house.)
DROMO:
What is it?

> Latin: SIMO:
Hem,
Dromo, Dromo.
DAVUS:
Quid est?

[¶202] SIMO:
Dromo!

> Latin: SIMO:
Dromo.

[¶203] DAVUS:
Hear me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Audi.

[¶204] SIMO:
If you add a word—Dromo!

> Latin: SIMO:
Verbum si addideris. Dromo.

[¶205] DAVUS:
Hear me, pray.
DROMO: (to SIMO.)
What do you want?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Audi, obsecro.
DROMO:
Quid vis?

[¶206] SIMO: (pointing to DAVUS.)
Carry him off on your shoulders in-doors as fast as possible.
DROMO:
Whom?

> Latin: SIMO:
Sublimem hunc intro rape, quantum potes.
DROMO:
Quem?

[¶207] SIMO:
Davus.

> Latin: SIMO:
Davum.

[¶208] DAVUS:
For what reason?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quamobrem?

[¶209] SIMO:
Because I choose. (To. DROMO.) Carry him off, I say.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quia libet: rape, inquam.

[¶210] DAVUS:
What have I done?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quid feci?

[¶211] SIMO:
Carry him off.

> Latin: SIMO:
Rape.

[¶212] DAVUS:
If you find that I have told a lie in any one matter, then kill me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Si quicquam invenies me mentitum, occidito.

[¶213] SIMO:
I’ll hear nothing. I’ll soon have you set in motion.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nihil audio.
Ego iam te commotum reddam.

[¶214] DAVUS:
What? Although this is the truth.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Tamen etsi hoc verum est?

[¶215] SIMO:
In spite of it.
(To DROMO.) Take care he’s kept well secured; and, do you hear? Tie him up hands and feet together. Now then, be off; upon my faith this very day, if I live, I’ll teach you what hazard there is in deceiving a master, and him in deceiving a father.
(DROMO leads DAVUS into the house.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Tamen.
Cura asservandum vinctum: atque audin? quadrupedem constringito.
Age nunc iam: ego pol hodie, si vivo, tibi
Ostendam herum quid sit pericli fallere,
Et illi, patrem.

[¶216] CHREMES:
Oh, don’t be so extremely vexed.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ah, ne saevi tantopere.

[¶217] SIMO:
O Chremes, the dutifulness of a son! Do you not pity me?
That I should endure so much trouble for such a son! (Goes to the door of GLYCERIUM’s house.) Come, Pamphilus, come out, Pamphilus! have you any shame left?

> Latin: SIMO:
O Chreme,
Pietatem gnati! nonne te miseret mei;
Tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?
Age Pamphile, exi Pamphile: ecquid te pudet?

[¶218] (Enter PAMPHILUS in haste from GLYCERIUM’s house.)
PAMPHILUS:
Who is it that wants me? (Aside.) I’m undone! it’s my father.

> Latin: (PAMPHILUS.
SIMO. CHREMES.)
PAMPHILUS:
Quis me vult? perii: pater est.

[¶219] SIMO:
What say you, of all men, the —?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid ais, omnium—?

[¶220] CHREMES:
Oh! rather speak about the matter itself, and forbear to use harsh language.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ah,
Rem potius ipsam dic, ac mitte male loqui.

[¶221] SIMO:
As if any thing too severe could now be possibly said against him.
Pray, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen—

> Latin: SIMO:
Quasi quicquam in hunc iam gravius dici possiet.
Ain tandem? civis Glycerium est?

[¶222] PAMPHILUS:
So they say.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ita praedicant.

[¶223] SIMO:
So they say! Unparalleled assurance! does he consider what he says? Is he sorry for what he has done? Does his countenance, pray, at all betray any marks of shame? That he should be of mind so weak, as, without regard
to the custom and the law of his fellow-citizens, and the wish of his own father, to be anxious, in spite of every thing, to have her, to his own utter disgrace!

> Latin: SIMO:
“Ita praedicant!” O ingentem confidentiam!
Num cogitat quid dicat? num facti piget?
Num eius color pudoris signum usquam indicat?
Adeo impotenti esse animo ut praeter civium
Morem atque legem et sui voluntatem patris
Tamen hanc habere studeat cum summo probro?

[¶224] PAMPHILUS:
Miserable that I am!

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Me miserum!

[¶225] SIMO:
Ha! have you at last found that out only just now, Pamphilus? Long since did that expression, long since, when you made up your mind, that what you desired must be effected by you at any price;
from that very day did that expression aptly befit you. But yet why do I torment myself? Why vex myself? Why worry my old age with this madness? Am I to suffer the punishment for his offenses? Nay then, let him have her, good-by to him, let him pass his life with her.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hem! modone id demum sensti Pamphile?
Olim istuc, olim, cum ita animum induxti tuum
Quod cuperes aliquo pacto efficiendum tibi,
Eodem die istuc verbum vere in te accidit.
Sed quid ego? cur me excrucio? cur me macero
Cur meam senectutem huius sollicito amentia? an
Ut pro huius peccatis ego supplicium sufferam?
Immo habeat; valeat; vivat cum illa.

[¶226] PAMPHILUS:
My father—

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Mi pater.

[¶227] SIMO:
How, “my father?” As if you stood in any need of this father. Home, wife, and children, provided by you against the will of your father! People suborned, too, to say that she is a citizen of this place! You have gained your point.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid “mi pater?” quasi tu huius indigeas patris.
Domus, uxor, liberi inventi invito patre:
Adducti qui illam civem hinc dicant: viceris.

[¶228] PAMPHILUS:
Father, may I say a few words?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Pater licetne pauca?

[¶229] SIMO:
What can you say to me?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid dices mihi?

[¶230] CHREMES:
But, Simo, do hear him.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Tamen Simo audi.

[¶231] SIMO:
I, hear him? Why should I hear him,
Chremes?

> Latin: SIMO:
Ego audiam? quid ego audiam
Chreme?

[¶232] CHREMES:
Still, however, do allow him to speak.

> Latin: CHREMES:
At tandem dicat sine.

[¶233] SIMO:
Well then, let him speak: I allow him.

> Latin: SIMO:
Age dicat; sino.

[¶234] PAMPHILUS:
I own that I love her; if that is committing a fault, I own that also. To you, father, do I subject myself. Impose on me any injunction you please; command me. Do you wish me to take a wife? Do you wish me to give her up? As well as I can I will endure it. This only I request of you, not to think that this old gentleman has been suborned by me.
Allow me to clear myself, and to bring him here before you.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ego me amare hanc fateor: si id peccare est, fateor id quoque.
Tibi pater me dedo: quidvis oneris impone; impera.
Vis me uxorem ducere? hanc amittere? ut potero, feram.
Hoc modo te obsecro, ut ne credas a me allegatum hunc senem.
Sine me expurgem atque illum huc coram adducam.

[¶235] SIMO:
To bring him here?

> Latin: SIMO:
Adducas!

[¶236] PAMPHILUS:
Do allow me, father.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Sine, pater.

[¶237] CHREMES:
He asks what’s reasonable; do give him leave.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Aequum postulat: da veniam.

[¶238] PAMPHILUS:
Allow me to obtain thus much of you.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Sine te hoc exorem.

[¶239] SIMO:
I allow it. I desire any thing, so long as I find, Chremes, that I have not been deceived by him.
(PAMPHILUS goes into the house of GLYCERIUM.)

> Latin: SIMO:
Sino.
Quidvis cupio dum ne ab hoc me falli comperiar Chreme.

[¶240] CHREMES:
For a great offense, a slight punishment ought to satisfy a father.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Pro peccato magno paulum supplici satis est patri.

[¶241] (Re-enter PAMPHILUS with CRITO.)
CRITO: (to PAMPHILUS, as he is coming out.)
Forbear entreating. Of these, any one reason prompts me to do it,
either your own sake, or the fact that it is the truth, or that I wish well for Glycerium herself.

> Latin: (CRITO.
CHREMES.
SIMO. PAMPHILUS.)
CRITO:
Mitte orare: una harum quaevis causa me ut faciam monet;
Vel tu, vel quod verum est, vel quod ipsi cupio Glycerio.

[¶242] CHREMES: (starting.)
Do I see Crito of Andros? Surely it is he.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Andrium ego Critonem video? certe is est.

[¶243] CRITO:
Greetings to you, Chremes.

> Latin: CRITO:
Salvus sis, Chreme.

[¶244] CHREMES:
How is it that, so contrary to your usage, you are at Athens?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quid tu Athenas insolens?

[¶245] CRITO:
So it has happened. But is this Simo?

> Latin: CRITO:
Evenit: sed hicine est Simo?

[¶246] CHREMES:
It is he.
CRITO:
Simo, were you asking for me?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Hic.

[¶247] SIMO:
How now, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place?

> Latin: SIMO:
Men quaeris? eho tu Glycerium hinc civem esse ais?

[¶248] CRITO:
Do you deny it?

> Latin: CRITO:
Tu negas?

[¶249] SIMO: (ironically.)
Have you come here so well prepared?

> Latin: SIMO:
Itane huc paratus advenis?

[¶250] CRITO:
For what purpose?

> Latin: CRITO:
Qua de re?

[¶251] SIMO:
Do you ask? Are you to be acting this way with impunity? Are you to be luring young men into snares here, inexperienced in affairs, and liberally brought up, by tempting them, and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises?

> Latin: SIMO:
Rogas?
Tune impune haec facias? tune hic homines adolescentulos
Imperitos rerum, eductos libere, in fraudem illicis?
Sollicitando et pollicitando eorum animos lactas—?

[¶252] CRITO:
Are you in your senses?

> Latin: CRITO:
Sanusne es?

[¶253] SIMO:
And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage?

> Latin: SIMO:
Ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?

[¶254] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
I’m undone! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Perii! metuo ut substet hospes.

[¶255] CHREMES:
If, Simo, you knew this person well,
you would not think thus; he is a worthy man.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Si Simo hunc noris satis,
Non ita arbitrere: bonus est hic vir.

[¶256] SIMO:
He, a worthy man! To come so opportunely to-day just at the very nuptials, and yet never to have come before? (Ironically.) Of course, we must believe him, Chremes.

> Latin: SIMO:
Hic vir sit bonus?
Itane attemperate venit hodie in ipsis nuptiis,
Ut veniret antehac nunquam? est vero huic credendum Chreme?

[¶257] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
If I didn’t dread my father, I have something, which, in this conjuncture, I could opportunely suggest to him

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ni metuam patrem, habeo pro illa re illum quod moneam probe.

[¶258] SIMO: (sneeringly, to CHREMES.)
A sharper!

> Latin: SIMO:
Sycophanta.

[¶259] CRITO: (starting.)
Hah!

> Latin: CRITO:
Hem!

[¶260] CHREMES:
It is his way, Crito; do excuse it.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Sic Crito est hic: mitte.

[¶261] CRITO:
Let him take heed how he behaves.
If he persists in saying to me what he likes, he’ll be hearing things that he don’t like. Am I meddling with these matters or interesting myself? Can you not endure your troubles with a patient mind? For as to what I say, whether it is true or false what I have heard, can soon be known. A certain man of Attica, a long time ago, his ship being wrecked, was cast ashore at Andros, and this woman together with him, who was then a little girl; he, in his destitution, by chance first made application
to the father of Chrysis—

> Latin: CRITO:
Videat qui siet.
Si mihi pergit quae volt dicere, ea quae non volt audiet.
Ego istaec moveo, aut curo? non tu tuum malum aequo animo feres?
Nam ego quae dico vera an falsa audieris iam sciri potest.
Atticus quidam olim navi fracta apud Andrum eiectus est,
Et istaec una parva virgo: tum ille egens forte applicat
Primum ad Chrysidis patrem se.

[¶262] SIMO: (ironically.)
He’s beginning his tale.
CHREM.:
Let him alone.

> Latin: SIMO:
Fabulam inceptat.
CHREMES:
Sine.

[¶263] CRITO:
Really, is he to be interrupting me in this way?

> Latin: CRITO:
Itane vero obturbat?

[¶264] CHREMES:
Do you proceed.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Perge.

[¶265] CRITO:
He who received him was a relation of mine. There I heard from him that he was a native of Attica. He died there.

> Latin: CRITO:
Tum is mihi cognatus fuit
Qui eum recepit. Ibi ego audivi ex illo sese esse Atticum.
Is ibi mortuus est.

[¶266] CHREMES:
His name?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Eius nomen?

[¶267] CRITO:
The name, in such a hurry!

> Latin: CRITO:
Nomen tam cito?

[¶268] PAMPHILUS:
Phania.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Phania.

[¶269] CHREMES: (starting.)
Hah! I shall die!

> Latin: CHREMES:
Hem, perii.

[¶270] CRITO:
I’faith, I really think it was Phania; this I know for certain,
he said that he was a citizen of Rhamnus.

> Latin: CRITO:
Verum hercle opinor fuisse Phaniam: hoc certo scio
Rhamnusium se aiebat esse.

[¶271] CHREMES:
O Jupiter!

> Latin: CHREMES:
O Iupiter!

[¶272] CRITO:
Many other persons in Andros have heard the same, Chremes.

> Latin: CRITO:
Eadem haec Chreme
Multi alii in Andro tum audivere.

[¶273] CHREMES: (aside.)
I trust it may turn out as I hope. (To CRITO.) Come now, tell me, what did he then say about her? Did he say she was his own daughter?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Utinam id sit quod spero. Eho, dic mihi,
Quid eam tum? suamne esse aibat?

[¶274] CRITO:
No.

> Latin: CRITO:
Non.

[¶275] CHREMES:
Whose then?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Cuiam igitur?

[¶276] CRITO:
His brother’s daughter.

> Latin: CRITO:
Fratris filiam.

[¶277] CHREMES:
She certainly is mine.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Certe mea est.

[¶278] CRITO:
What do you say?

> Latin: CRITO:
Quid ais?

[¶279] SIMO:
What is this that you say?

> Latin: SIMO:
Quid tu ais?

[¶280] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
Prick up your ears, Pamphilus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Arrige aures Pamphile.

[¶281] SIMO:
Why do you suppose so?

> Latin: SIMO:
Qui credis?

[¶282] CHREMES:
That Phania was my brother.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Phania ille frater meus fuit.

[¶283] SIMO:
I knew him, and I am aware of it.

> Latin: SIMO:
Noram et scio.

[¶284] CHREMES:
He, flying from the wars, and following me to Asia, set out from here. At the same time he was afraid to leave her here behind; since then, this is the first time I have heard what became of him.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Is hinc bellum fugiens, meque in Asiam persequens, proficiscitur.
Tum illam relinquere hic est veritus; postilla nunc primum audio
Quid illo sit factum.

[¶285] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
I am scarcely myself, so much has my mind been agitated by fear, hope, joy, and surprise at this so great, so unexpected blessing.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Vix sum apud me, ita animus commotus est metu,
Spe, gaudio, mirando hoc tanto tam repentino bono.

[¶286] SIMO:
Really, I am glad for many reasons that she has been discovered to be a citizen.

> Latin: SIMO:
Nae istam multimodis tuam inveniri gaudeo.

[¶287] PAMPHILUS:
I believe it, father.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Credo pater.

[¶288] CHREMES:
But there yet remains one difficulty with me, which keeps me in suspense.

> Latin: CHREMES:
At mihi unus scrupulus etiam restat qui me male habet.

[¶289] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
You deserve to be —, with your scruples, you plague. You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Dignus es
Cum tua religione odium: nodum in scirpo quaeris.

[¶290] CRITO: (to CHREMES.)
What is that?

> Latin: CRITO:
Quid istuc est?

[¶291] CHREMES:
The names don’t agree.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Nomen non convenit.

[¶292] CRITO:
Troth, she had another when little.

> Latin: CRITO:
Fuit hercle huic aliud parvae.

[¶293] CHREMES:
What was it, Crito? Can you remember it?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quid Crito?
Numquid meministi?

[¶294] CRITO:
I’m trying to recollect it.

> Latin: CRITO:
Id quaero.

[¶295] PAMPHILUS: (aside.)
Am I to suffer his memory to stand in the way of my happiness, when I myself can provide my own remedy in this matter? I will not suffer it. (Aloud.) Hark you, Chremes, that which you are trying to recollect is “Pasibula.”

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Egone huius memoriam patiar meae
Voluptati obstare, cum egomet possim in hac re medicari mihi?
Non patiar. Heus Chreme quod quaeris, Pasibula est.
CRITO:
Ipsa est.

[¶296] CHREMES:
The very same.
CRITO:
That’s it.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ea est.

[¶297] PAMPHILUS:
I’ve heard it from herself a thousand times.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ex ipsa millies audivi.

[¶298] SIMO:
I suppose, Chremes, that you believe that we all rejoice at this discovery.

> Latin: SIMO:
Omnes nos gaudere hoc Chreme
Te credo credere.

[¶299] CHREMES:
So may the Gods bless me, I do believe it.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ita me Di ament, credo.

[¶300] PAMPHILUS:
What remains to be done, father?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quid restat, pater?

[¶301] SIMO:
The event itself has quite brought me to reconcilement.

> Latin: SIMO:
Iam dudum res reduxit me ipsa in gratiam.

[¶302] PAMPHILUS:
O kind father! With regard to her as a wife, since I have taken possession of her, Chremes will not offer any opposition.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
O lepidum patrem!
De uxore, ita ut possedi, nihil mutat Chremes.

[¶303] CHREMES:
The plea is a very good one, unless perchance your father says any thing to the contrary.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Causa optima est,
Nisi quid pater ait aliud.

[¶304] PAMPHILUS:
Of course, I agree.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nempe.

[¶305] SIMO:
Then be it so.

> Latin: SIMO:
Id scilicet.

[¶306] CHREMES:
Her portion, Pamphilus, is ten talents.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Dos Pamphile est
Decem talenta.

[¶307] PAMPHILUS:
I alm satisfied.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Accipio.

[¶308] CHREMES:
I’ll hasten to my daughter. Come now, (beckoning.) along with me, Crito; for I suppose that she will not know me.
(They go into GLYCERIUM’s house.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Propero ad filiam. Eho mecum Crito:
Nam illam me credo haud nosse.

[¶309] SIMO: (To PAMPHILUS.)
Why don’t you order her to be sent for hither, to our house?

> Latin: SIMO:
Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?

[¶310] PAMPHILUS:
Well thought of; I’ll at once give charge of that to Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Recte admones. Davo ego istuc dedam iam negoti.

[¶311] SIMO:
He can’t do it.

> Latin: SIMO:
Non potest.

[¶312] PAMPHILUS:
How so?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Qui non potest?

[¶313] SIMO:
Because he has another matter that more nearly concerns himself, and of more importance.

> Latin: SIMO:
Quia habet aliud magis ex sese et maius.

[¶314] PAMPHILUS:
What, pray?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quidnam?

[¶315] SIMO:
He is bound.

> Latin: SIMO:
Vinctus est.

[¶316] PAMPHILUS:
Father, he is not rightly bound.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Pater non recte vinctus est.

[¶317] SIMO:
But I ordered to that effect.

> Latin: SIMO:
Haud ita iussi.

[¶318] PAMPHILUS:
Prithee, do order him to be set at liberty,

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Iube solvi obsecro.

[¶319] SIMO:
Well, be it so.

> Latin: SIMO:
Age fiat.

[¶320] PAMPHILUS:
But immediately.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
At matura.

[¶321] SIMO:
I’m going in.

> Latin: SIMO:
Eo intro.

[¶322] PAMPHILUS:
O fortunate and happy day!
(SIMO goes into his house.)

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
O faustum et felicem hunc diem!

[¶323] (Enter CHARINUS, at a distance.)
CHARINUS: (apart to himself.)
I’m come to see what Pamphilus is about; and look, here he is.

> Latin: (CHARINUS. PAMPHILUS.)
CHARINUS:
Proviso quid agat Pamphilus; atque eccum.

[¶324] PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
Some one perhaps might imagine that I don’t believe this to be true; but now it is clear to me that it really is true. I do think that the life of the Gods is everlasting,
for this reason, because their joys are their own. For immortality has been obtained by me, if no sorrow interrupts this delight. But whom in particular could I wish to be now thrown in my way, for me to relate these things to?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Aliquis forsan me putet
Non putare hoc verum: at mihi nunc sic esse hoc verum libet.
Ego Deorum vitam propterea sempiternam esse arbitror
Quod voluptates eorum propriae sunt; nam mihi immortalitas
Parta est, si nulla aegritudo huic gaudio intercesserit.
Sed quem ego mihi potissimum optem nunc cui haec narrem dari?

[¶325] CHARINUS: (apart to himself.)
What means this rapture?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Quid illud gaudi est?

[¶326] PAMPHILUS: (to himself.)
I see Davus. There is no one in the world whom I would choose in preference; for I am sure that he of all people will sincerely rejoice in my happiness.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Davum video: nemo est quem mallem omnium;
Nam hunc scio mea solide solum gavisurum gaudia.

[¶327] (Enter DAVUS.)
DAVUS: (to himself.)
Where is Pamphilus, I wonder?

> Latin: (DAVUS.
PAMPHILUS. CHARINUS.)
DAVUS:
Pamphilus ubinam hic est?
PAMPHILUS:
Dave.
DAVUS:
Quis homo est?

[¶328] PAMPHILUS:
Here he is, Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Ego sum.

[¶329] DAVUS: (turning round.)
Who’s that?
PAMPHILUS:’Tis I,
Pamphilus;
you don’t know what has happened to me.

> Latin: DAVUS:
O Pamphile.
PAMPHILUS:
Nescis quid mihi obtigerit.

[¶330] DAVUS:
No really; but I know what has happened to myself.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Certe; sed quid mihi obtigerit scio.

[¶331] PAMPHILUS:
And I too.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Et quidem ego.

[¶332] DAVUS:
It has fallen out just like human affairs in general, that you should know the mishap I have met with, before I the good that has befallen you.

> Latin: DAVUS:
More hominum evenit ut quod sim nactus mali
Prius rescisceres tu quam ego illud quod tibi evenit boni.

[¶333] PAMPHILUS:
My Glycerium has discovered her parents.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Mea Glycerium suos parentes repperit.

[¶334] DAVUS:
O, well done!

> Latin: DAVUS:
O factum bene!

[¶335] CHARINUS: (apart, in surprise.)
Hah!

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Hem!

[¶336] PAMPHILUS:
Her father is an intimate friend of ours.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Pater amicus summus nobis.

[¶337] DAVUS:
Who?

> Latin: DAVUS:
Quis?

[¶338] PAMPHILUS:
Chremes.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Chremes.

[¶339] DAVUS:
You do tell good news.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Narras probe.

[¶340] PAMPHILUS:
And there’s no hinderance to my marrying her at once.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Nec mora ulla est quin eam uxorem ducam.

[¶341] CHARINUS: (apart.)
Is he dreaming the same that he has been wishing for when awake?

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Num ille somniat
Ea quae vigilans voluit?

[¶342] PAMPHILUS:
Then about the child, Davus.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Tum de puero Dave?

[¶343] DAVUS:
O, say no more; you are the only person whom the Gods favor.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Ah desine.
Solus est quem diligunt Di.

[¶344] CHARINUS: (apart.)
I’m all right if these things are true. I’ll accost them.
(Comes forward.)

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Salvus sum si haec vera sunt.
Colloquar.

[¶345] PAMPHILUS:
Who is this? Why, Charinus, you meet me at the very nick of time.

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Quis homo est? O Charine in tempore ipso mihi advenis.

[¶346] CHARINUS:
That’s all right.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Bene factum.

[¶347] PAMPHILUS:
Have you heard—?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Audistine?

[¶348] CHARINUS:
Every thing; come, in your good fortune do have some regard for me. Chremes is now at your command; I’m sure that he’ll do every thing you wish.

> Latin: CHARINUS:
Omnia: age me in tuis secundis respice.
Tuus est nunc Chremes: facturum quae voles scio esse omnia.

[¶349] PAMPHILUS:
I’ll remember you; and because it is tedious for us to wait for him until he comes out, follow me this way; he is now in-doors at the house of Glycerium; do you, Davus, go home; send with all haste to remove her thence. Why are you standing there? Why are you delaying?

> Latin: PAMPHILUS:
Memini: atque adeo longum est nos illum expectare dum exeat.
Sequere hac me intus ad Glycerium nunc. Tu Dave abi domum:
Propere arcesse hinc qui auferant eam. Quid stas? quid cessas?

[¶350] DAVUS:
I’m going. (PAMPHILUS and CHARINUS go into the house of GLYCERIUM. DAVUS then comes forward and addresses the Audience.) Don’t you wait until they come out from there; she will be betrothed within: if there is any thing else that remains, it will be transacted in-doors.
Grant us your applause.

> Latin: DAVUS:
Eo.
Ne expectetis dum exeant huc: intus despondebitur;
Intus transigetur si quid est quod restet.
Ω:
Plaudite.