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title: "The Woman of Andros · Andria"
author: "Terence"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 3 of 3
url: https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/3/
cite: "Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, The Woman of Andros · Andria, section 3. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/terence-andria/3/"
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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.

## 3. Lines 625–981

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

[¶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.