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

*Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A young man disguises himself as a eunuch to reach the girl he loves.

> Latin: ed. Edward St. John Parry, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0134.phi003, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0134.phi003.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 718–1093

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

[¶0] PYTHIAS:
I’ll do so.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Ita faciam.

[¶1] DORIAS:
But don’t I see Chremes? Thais will be here just now.

> Latin: DORIAS:
Sed videon Chremem?
Thais iam aderit.

[¶2] PYTHIAS:
Why so?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid ita?

[¶3] DORIAS:
Because when I came away from there, a quarrel had just commenced between them.

> Latin: DORIAS:
Quia cum inde abeo, iam tum inceperat
Turba inter eos.

[¶4] PYTHIAS:
Take in these golden trinkets; I shall learn from him what’s the matter.
(DORIAS takes the casket into the house.) (Enter CHREMES, somewhat drunk.)

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Aufer aurum hoc: ego scibo ex hoc quid siet.
(CHREMES. PYTHIAS.)

[¶5] CHREMES:
Heyday! upon my faith, I’ve been bamboozled: the wine that I’ve drunk has got the upper hand. But, so long as I was reclining, how extremely sober I did seem to myself to be; when I got up, neither feet nor senses were quite equal to their duty.

> Latin: CHREMES:
At at! data hercle verba mihi sunt: vicit vinum quod bibi.
Ac, dum accubabam, quam videbar mihi esse pulchre sobrius!
Postquam surrexi, neque pes neque mens satis suum officium facit.

[¶6] PYTHIAS:
Chremes!

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Chreme!

[¶7] CHREMES: (turning round.)
Who’s that? What, Pythias; dear me, how much more charming you now
seem to me than a short time since!

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quis est? ehem Pythias. Vah, quanto nunc formosior
Videre mihi quam dudum!

[¶8] PYTHIAS:
Troth now, you are much more merry, that’s certain.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Certe tu quidem pol et multo hilarior.

[¶9] CHREMES:
Upon my faith, it is a true saying, that “Venus grows cold without Ceres and Bacchus.” But has Thais got here long before me?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Verbum hercle hoc verum est; sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus.
Sed Thais multo antevenit?

[¶10] PYTHIAS:
Has she already come away from the Captain’s?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Anne abiit iam a milite?

[¶11] CHREMES:
A long time ago; an age since. There has been a most violent quarrel between them.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Iamdudum; aetatem: lites sunt inter eos factae maximae.

[¶12] PYTHIAS:
Did she say nothing about you following her?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nihil dixit ut sequerere sese?

[¶13] CHREMES:
Nothing at all; only, on going away, she gave me a nod.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Nihil, nisi abiens mihi innuit.

[¶14] PYTHIAS:
Well now, wasn’t that enough?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Eho, nonne id sat erat?

[¶15] CHREMES:
Why, I didn’t know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension; for he bundled me out of the house. But look, here she is; I wonder how it was I got here before her.
(Enter THAIS.)
THAIS: (to herself.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
At nescibam id dicere illam; nisi quia
Correxit miles quod intellexi minus: nam me extrusit foras.
Sed eccam ipsam: miror ubi ego huic anteverterim.
(THAIS.
CHREMES. PYTHIAS.)

[¶16] I really do believe that he’ll be here presently, to force her away from me. Let him come; but if he touches her with a single finger, that instant his eyes shall be torn out.

> Latin: THAIS:
Credo equidem illum iam adfuturum esse, ut illam a me eripiat. Sine veniat.
Atqui si illam digito attigerit uno, oculi ilico effodientur.

[¶17] I can put up with his impertinences and his high-sounding words, as long as they remain words: but if they are turned into realities, he shall get a drubbing.

> Latin: Usque adeo ego illius ferre possum ineptias et magnifica verba,
Verba dum sint: verum enim si ad rem conferentur, vapulabit.

[¶18] CHREMES:
Thais, I’ve been here some time.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Thais, ego iam dudum hic adsum.

[¶19] THAIS:
O my dear Chremes, you are the very person I was wanting. Are you aware that this quarrel took place on your account, and that the whole of this affair, in fact, bore reference to yourself?

> Latin: THAIS:
O mi Chreme, te ipsum exspectabam.
Scin tu turbam hanc propter te esse factam, et adeo ad te attinere hanc
Omnem rem?

[¶20] CHREMES:
To me? How so, pray?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ad me? qui, quaeso, istuc?

[¶21] THAIS:
Because, while I’ve been doing my best
to recover and restore your sister to you, this and a great deal more like it I’ve had to put up with.

> Latin: THAIS:
Quia, dum tibi sororem studeo
Reddere et restituere, haec atque huiusmodi sum multa passa.

[¶22] CHREMES:
Where is she?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ubi ea est?

[¶23] THAIS:
At home, at my house.

> Latin: THAIS:
Domi apud me.

[¶24] CHREMES: (starting.)
Hah!

> Latin: CHREMES:
Hem, quid est?

[¶25] THAIS:
What’s the matter? She has been brought up in a manner worthy of yourself and of her.

> Latin: THAIS:
Educta ita uti teque illaque dignum est.

[¶26] CHREMES:
What is it you say?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quid ais?

[¶27] THAIS:
That which is the fact. Her I present to you, nor do I ask of you any return for her.

> Latin: THAIS:
Id quod res est.
Hanc tibi dono do, neque repeto pro illa quicquam abs te preti.

[¶28] CHREMES:
Thanks are both felt and shall be returned in such way, Thais, as you deserve.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Et habetur et referetur, Thais, a me ita uti merita es gratia.

[¶29] THAIS:
But still, take care, Chremes, that you don’t lose her, before you receive her from me; for it is she, whom the Captain is now coming to take away from me by force. Do you go, Pythias, and bring out of the house the casket with the tokens.
CHREMES: (looking down the side Scene.)

> Latin: THAIS:
At enim cave ne prius quam hanc a me accipias, amittas Chreme;
Nam haec ea est quam miles a me vi nunc ereptum venit.
Abi tu, cistellam, Pythias, domo effer cum monumentis.

[¶30] Don’t you see him, Thais?
PYTHIAS: (to THAIS.)
Where is it put?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Viden tu illum, Thais—
PYTHIAS:
Ubi sita est?

[¶31] THAIS:
In the clothes’ chest. Tiresome creature, why do you delay?
(PYTHIAS goes into the house.)

> Latin: THAIS:
In risco. Odiosa cessas?—

[¶32] CHREMES:
What a large body of troops the Captain is bringing with him against you.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Militem secum ad te quantas copias adducere?

[¶33] Bless me!
THAIS:
Prithee, are you frightened, my dear sir?

> Latin: Atat.
THAIS:
Num formidolosus obsecro es, mi homo?

[¶34] CHREMES:
Get out with you. What, I frightened? There’s not a man alive less so.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Apage sis:
Egon formidolosus? nemo est hominum qui vivat minus.

[¶35] THAIS:
Then now is the time to prove it.

> Latin: THAIS:
Atque ita opus est.

[¶36] CHREMES:
Why, I wonder what sort of a man you take me to be.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ah, metuo qualem tu me esse hominem existimes.

[¶37] THAIS:
Nay, and consider this too; the person that you have to deal with is a foreigner; of less influence than you, less known, and one that has fewer friends here.

> Latin: THAIS:
Immo hoc cogitato; quicum res tibi est peregrinus est,
Minus potens quam tu, minus notus, minus amicorum hic habens.

[¶38] CHREMES:
I’m aware of that; but it’s foolish to run the risk of what you are able to avoid. I had rather we should prevent it, than, having received an injury, avenge ourselves upon him. Do you go in and fasten the door, while I run across hence to the Forum; I should like us to have the aid of some legal adviser in this disturbance.
(Moves, as if going.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Scio istuc. Sed tu quod cavere possis stultum admittere est.
Malo ego nos prospicere quam hunc ulcisci accepta iniuria.
Tu abi, atque obsera ostium intus, dum ego hinc transcurro ad forum.
Volo ego adesse hic advocatos nobis in turba hac.

[¶39] THAIS: (holding him.)
Stay.

> Latin: THAIS:
Mane.

[¶40] CHREMES:
Let me go, I’ll be here presently.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Melius est.

[¶41] THAIS:
There’s no occasion, Chremes.

> Latin: THAIS:
Mane.
CHREMES:
Omitte; iam adero.
THAIS:
Nihil opus est istis, Chreme:

[¶42] Only say that she is your sister, and that you lost her when a little girl, and have now recognized her; then show the tokens.
(Re-enter PYTHIAS from the house, with the trinkets.)
PYTHIAS: (giving them to THAIS.)
Here they are.

> Latin: Hoc modo die, sororem illam tuam esse, et te parvam virginem
Amisisse; nunc cognosse. Signa ostende.
PYTHIAS:
Adsunt.

[¶43] THAIS: (giving them to CHREMES.)
Take them. If he offers any violence, summon the fellow to justice; do you understand me?

> Latin: THAIS:
Cape.
Si vim faciet, in ius ducito hominem: intellextin?

[¶44] CHREMES:
Perfectly.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Probe.

[¶45] THAIS:
Take care and say this with presence of mind.

> Latin: THAIS:
Fac animo haec praesenti dicas.

[¶46] CHREMES:
I’ll take care.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Faciam.

[¶47] THAIS:
Gather up your cloak. (Aside.) Undone! the very person whom I’ve provided as a champion, wants one himself.
(They all go into the house.) (Enter THRASO, followed by GNATHO, SANGA, and other Attendants.)

> Latin: THAIS:
Attolle pallium.
Perii! huic ipsi est opus patrono quem defensorem paro.
(THRASO.
GNATHO.
SANGA.
CHREMES. THAIS.)

[¶48] THRASO:
Am I to submit, Gnatho, to such a glaring affront as this being put upon me? I’d die sooner. Simalio, Donax, Syriscus, follow me! First, I’ll storm the house.

> Latin: THRASO:
Hancine ego ut contumeliam tam insignem in me accipiam, Gnatho?
Mori me satius est. Simalio, Donax, Syrisce, sequimini.
Primum aedes expugnabo.

[¶49] GNATHO:
Quite right.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Recte.

[¶50] THRASO:
I’ll carry off the girl.

> Latin: THRASO:
Virginem eripiam.

[¶51] GNATHO:
Very good.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Probe.

[¶52] THRASO:
I’ll give her own self a mauling.

> Latin: THRASO:
Male mulcabo ipsam.

[¶53] GNATHO:
Very proper.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Pulchre.

[¶54] THRASO: (arranging the men.)
Advance hither to the main body, Donax, with your crowbar; you, Simalio, to the left wing; you, Syriscus, to the right.

> Latin: THRASO:
In medium huc agmen cum vecti Donax;
Tu, Simalio in sinistrum cornu; tu Syrisce in dexterum.

[¶55] Bring up the rest; where’s the centurion Sanga, and his maniple of rogues?
SANGA: (coming forward.)
See, here he is.

> Latin: Cedo alios: ubi centurio est Sanga, et manipulus furum?
SANGA:
Eccum adest.

[¶56] THRASO:
What, you booby, do you think of fighting with a dish-clout, to be bringing that here?

> Latin: THRASO:
Quid ignave? peniculon pugnare, qui istuc huc portes, cogitas?

[¶57] SANGA:
What, I? I knew the valor of the general, and the prowess of the soldiers; and that this could not possibly go on without bloodshed; how was I to wipe the wounds?

> Latin: SANGA:
Egone? Imperatoris virtutem noveram et vim militum;
Sine sanguine hoc fieri non posse; qui abstergerem vulnera.

[¶58] THRASO:
Where are the others?

> Latin: THRASO:
Ubi alii?

[¶59] SANGA:
Plague on you, what others? Sannio is the only one left on guard at home.
THRASO: (to GNATHO.)

> Latin: SANGA:
Qui, malum, alii? solus Sannio servat domi.

[¶60] Do you draw up your men in battle order; I’ll be behind the second rank; from that position I’ll give the word to all.
(Takes his place behind the second rank.)
GNATHO: (aside.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Tu hosce instrue: hic ego ero post principia: inde omnibus signum dabo.

[¶61] That’s showing prudence; as soon as he has drawn them up, he secures a retreat for himself.
THRASO: (pointing to the arrangements.)

> Latin: GNATHO:
Illuc est sapere! ut hosce instruxit, ipsus sibi cavit loco.

[¶62] This is just the way Pyrrhus used to proceed.
(CHREMES and THAIS appear above at a window.)
CHREMES:
Do you see, Thais, what plan he is upon? Assuredly, that advice of mine about closing the door was good.

> Latin: THRASO:
Idem hoc iam Pyrrhus factitavit.
CHREMES:
Viden tu Thais quam hic rem agit?
Nimirum consilium illud rectum est de occludendis aedibus.

[¶63] THAIS:
He who now seems to you to be a hero, is in reality a mere vaporer;

> Latin: THAIS:
Sane quod tibi nunc vir videatur esse hic nebulo magnus est.

[¶64] don’t be alarmed.
THRASO: (to GNATHO.)
What seems best to you?

> Latin: Ne metuas.
THRASO:
Quid videtur?

[¶65] GNATHO:
I could very much like a sling to be given you just now, that you might pelt them from here on the sly at a distance; they would be taking to flight.
THRASO: (to GNATHO.)

> Latin: GNATHO:
Fundam tibi nunc nimis vellem dari,
Ut tu illos procul hinc ex occulto caederes: facerent fugam.

[¶66] But look (pointing), I see Thais there herself.
GNATHO:
How soon are we to fall to?

> Latin: THRASO:
Sed eccam Thaidem ipsam video.
GNATHO:
Quam mox irrimus?

[¶67] THRASO:
Hold (holding him back); it behooves a prudent person to make trial of every thing before arms. How do you know but that she may do what I bid her without compulsion?

> Latin: THRASO:
Mane.
Omnia prius experiri quam armis sapientem decet.
Qui scis an quae iubeam sine vi faciat?

[¶68] GNATHO:
Ye Gods, by our trust in you,
what a thing it is to be wise! I never come near you but what I go away from you the wiser.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Di vestram fidem!
Quanti est sapere! numquam accedo quin abs te abeam doctior.

[¶69] THRASO:
Thais, in the first place, answer me this. When I presented you that girl, did you not say that you would give yourself up to me alone for some days to come?

> Latin: THRASO:
Thais, primum hoc mihi responde; cum tibi do istam virginem
Dixtine hos mihi dies soli dare te?

[¶70] THAIS:
Well, what then?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid tum postea?

[¶71] THRASO:
Do you ask the question? You, who have been and brought your lover under my very eyes?

> Latin: THRASO:
Rogitas, quae mihi ante oculos coram amatorem adduxti tuum?

[¶72] What business had you with him?
With him, too, you clandestinely betook yourself away from me.

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid cum illo agas?
THRASO:
Et cum eo clam te subduxti mihi?

[¶73] THAIS:
I chose to do so.

> Latin: THAIS:
Libuit.

[¶74] THRASO:
Then give me back Pamphila; unless you had rather she were taken away by force.

> Latin: THRASO:
Pamphilam ergo huc redde, nisi vi mavis eripi.

[¶75] CHREMES:
Give her back to you, or you lay hands upon her? Of all the—

> Latin: CHREMES:
Tibi illam reddat? aut tu illam tangas omnium—?

[¶76] GNATHO:
Ha! What are you about? Hold your tongue.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Ah, quid agis? tace.

[¶77] THRASO:
What do you mean? Am I not to touch my own?

> Latin: THRASO:
Quid tu tibi vis? ego non tangam meam?

[¶78] CHREMES:
Your own, indeed, you gallows-bird!
GNATHO: (to CHREMES.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Tuam autem furcifer!

[¶79] Have a care, if you please. You don’t know what kind of man you are abusing now.
CHREMES: (to GNATHO.)
Won’t you be off from here? Do you know how matters stand with you? If you cause any disturbance here to-day,
I’ll make you remember the place, and day, and me too, for the rest of your life.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Cave sis; nescis cui nunc male dicas viro.
CHREMES:
Non tu hinc abis?
Scin tu ut tibi res se habeat? Si quicquam hodie hic turbae coeperis,
Faciam ut huius loci, dieique, meique, semper memineris.

[¶80] GNATHO:
I pity you, who are making so great a man as this your enemy.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Miseret tui me qui hunc tantum hominem facias inimicum tibi.

[¶81] CHREMES:
I’ll break your head this instant if you are not off.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Diminuam ego caput tuum hodie, nisi abis.

[¶82] GNATHO:
Do you really say so, puppy? Is it that you are at?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Ain vero, canis?
Sicine agis?

[¶83] THRASO: (to CHREMES.)
What fellow are you? What do you mean? What business have you with her?

> Latin: THRASO:
Quis tu es homo? quid tibi vis? quid cum illa rei tibi est?

[¶84] CHREMES:
I’ll let you know: in the first place, I assert that she is a freeborn woman.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Scibis: principio eam esse dico liberam.

[¶85] THRASO: (starting.)
Ha!

> Latin: THRASO:
Tem!

[¶86] CHREMES:
A citizen of Attica.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Civem Atticam.

[¶87] THRASO:
Whew!

> Latin: THRASO:
Hui!

[¶88] CHREMES:
My own sister.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Meam sororem.

[¶89] THRASO:
Brazen face!

> Latin: THRASO:
Os durum!

[¶90] CHREMES:
Now, therefore, Captain, I give you warning; don’t you use any violence toward her. Thais, I’m going to Sophrona, the nurse, that I may bring her here and show her these tokens.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Miles, nunc adeo edico tibi
Ne vim facias ullam in illam. Thais, ego eo ad Sophronam
Nutricem, ut ean adducam, et signa ostendam haec.

[¶91] THRASO:
What! Are you to prevent me from touching what’s my own?

> Latin: THRASO:
Tun me prohibeas
Meam ne tangam?

[¶92] CHREMES:
I will prevent it, I tell you.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Prohibeo, inquam.

[¶93] GNATHO: (to THRASO.)
Do you hear him? He is convicting himself of theft. Is not that enough for you?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Audin tu? hic furti se alligat.
Satis hoc tibi est.

[¶94] THRASO:
Do you say the same, Thais?

> Latin: THRASO:
Idem hoc tu ais, Thais?

[¶95] THAIS:
Go, find some one to answer you.
(She and CHREMES go away from the window.)
THRASO: (to GNATHO.)

> Latin: THAIS:
Quaere qui respondeat.

[¶96] What are we to do now?
GNATHO:
Why, go back again: she’ll soon be with you, of her own accord, to entreat forgiveness.

> Latin: THRASO:
Quid nunc agimus?
GNATHO:
Quin redimus? Iam haec tibi aderit supplicans
Ultro.

[¶97] THRASO:
Do you think so?

> Latin: THRASO:
Credin?

[¶98] GNATHO:
Certainly, yes. I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won’t; when you won’t, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Immo certe. Novi ingenium mulierum:
Nolunt ubi velis; ubi nolis cupiunt ultro.

[¶99] THRASO:
You judge right.

> Latin: THRASO:
Bene putas.

[¶100] GNATHO:
Shall I dismiss the army then?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Iam dimitto exercitum?

[¶101] THRASO:
Whenever you like.

> Latin: THRASO:
Ubi vis.

[¶102] GNATHO:
Sanga, as befits gallant soldiers, take care in your turn to remember your homes and hearths.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Sanga, ita uti fortes decet
Milites, domi focique fac vicissim ut memineris.

[¶103] SANGA:
My thoughts have been for some time among the sauce-pans.
GNATHO:
You are a worthy fellow.

> Latin: SANGRA:
Iamdudum animus est in patinis.
GNATHO:
Frugi es.

[¶104] THRASO: (putting himself at their head.)
You follow me this way.
(Exeunt omnes.) (Enter THAIS from her house, followed by PYTHIAS.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Vos me hac sequimini.
(THAIS. PYTHIAS.)

[¶105] THAIS:
What! do you persist, hussy, in talking ambiguously to me? “I do know;” “I don’t know;” “he has gone off;” “I have heard;” “I wasn’t there.” Don’t you mean to tell me plainly, whatever it is? The girl in tears, with her garments torn, is mute;

> Latin: THAIS:
Pergin scelesta mecum perplexe loqui?
“Scio; nescio; abiit; audivi; ego non affui.”
Non tu istuc mihi dictura aperte es quicquid est?
Virgo conscissa veste lacrimans obticet.

[¶106] the Eunuch is off: for what reason? What has happened? Won’t you speak?

> Latin: Eunuchus abiit; quamobrem? quid factum est? taces?

[¶107] PYTHIAS:
Wretch that I am, what am I to say to you? They declare that he was not a Eunuch.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid tibi ego dicam misera? Illum eunuchum negant
Fuisse.

[¶108] THAIS:
What was he then?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quis fuit igitur?

[¶109] PYTHIAS:
That Chaerea.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Iste Chaerea.

[¶110] THAIS:
What Chaerea?

> Latin: THAIS:
Qui Chaerea?

[¶111] PYTHIAS:
That stripling, the brother of Phaedria.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Iste ephebus, frater Phaedriae.

[¶112] THAIS:
What’s that you say, you hag?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid ais venefica?

[¶113] PYTHIAS:
And I am satisfied of it.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Atqui certo comperi.

[¶114] THAIS:
Pray, what business had he at my house? What brought him there?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid is obsecro ad nos? quamobrem adductus est?

[¶115] PYTHIAS:
I don’t know; unless, as I suppose, he was in love with Pamphila.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nescio;
Nisi amasse credo Pamphilam.

[¶116] THAIS:
Alas! to my confusion, unhappy woman that I am, I’m undone, if what you tell me is true. Is it about this that the girl is crying?

> Latin: THAIS:
Hem, misera occidi;
Infelix, siquidem tu istaec vera praedicas.
Num id lacrimat virgo?

[¶117] PYTHIAS:
I believe so.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Id opinor.

[¶118] THAIS:
How say you, you arch-jade? Did I not warn you about this very thing, when I was going away from here?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid ais sacrilega?
Istucine interminata sum hinc abiens tibi?

[¶119] PYTHIAS:
What could I do? Just as you ordered, she was intrusted to his care only.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid facerem? ita ut tu iusti soli credita est.

[¶120] THAIS:
Hussy, I’ve been intrusting the sheep to the wolf. I’m quite ashamed to have been imposed upon in this way. What sort of man was he?

> Latin: THAIS:
Scelesta lupo ovem commisisti. Dispudet
Sic mihi data esse verba. Quid illic hominis est?

[¶121] PYTHIAS:
Hush! hush! mistress, pray; we are all right. Here we have the very man.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Hera mea tace; tace obsecro; salvae sumus:
Habemus hominem ipsum.

[¶122] THAIS:
Where is he?

> Latin: THAIS:
Ubi is est?

[¶123] PYTHIAS:
Why there, to the left.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Hem ad sinistram:

[¶124] Don’t you see?
THAIS:
I see.

> Latin: Viden?
THAIS:
Video.

[¶125] PYTHIAS:
Order him to be seized as quickly as possible.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Comprehendi iube quantum potest.

[¶126] THAIS:
What can we do to him, simpleton?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid illo faciemus stulta?

[¶127] PYTHIAS:
What do to him, do you ask? Pray, do look at him; if his face doesn’t seem an impudent one.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid facias rogas?
Vide amabo si non, qutun adspicias, os impudens
Videtur: non est? tum quae eius confidentia est!
(CHAEREA.

[¶128] THAIS:
Not at all.
PYTHIAS:
Besides, what effrontery he has.
(Enter CHAEREA, in the EUNUCH’s dress, on the other side of the stage.)
CHAEREA: (to himself.)

> Latin: THAIS. PYTHIAS.)

[¶129] At Antipho’s, both of them, father and mother,
just as if on purpose, were at home, so that I couldn’t any way get in, but that they must have seen me. In the mean time, while I was standing before the door, a certain acquaintance of mine was coming full upon me. When I espied him, I took to my heels as fast as I could down a narrow unfrequented alley; thence again
to another, and thence to another; thus have I been most dreadfully harassed with running about, that no one might recognize me. But isn’t this Thais that I see? It is she. I’m at a stand. What shall I do? But what need I care? What can she do to me?
THAIS: (to PYTHIAS.)

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Apud Antiphonem uterque, mater et pater,
Quasi dedita opera domi erant, ut nullo modo
Introire possem quin viderent me. Interim
Dum ante ostium sto, notus mihi quidam obviam
Venit. Ubi vidi, ego me in pedes quantum queo
In angiportum quoddam desertum; inde item
In aliud, inde in aliud: ita miserrimus
Fui fugitando ne quis me cognosceret.
Sed estne haec Thais quam video? Ipsa est. Haereo.
Quid faciam? quid mea autem? quid faciet mihi?

[¶130] Let’s accost him. (To CHAEREA.) Good Mister Dorus, welcome; tell me,
have you been running away?
CHAEREA:
Madam, I did so.

> Latin: THAIS:
Adeamus. Bone vir Dore salve. Die mihi,
Aufugistine?
CHAEREA:
Hera, factum.

[¶131] THAIS:
Are you quite pleased with it?

> Latin: THAIS:
Satin id tibi placet?

[¶132] CHAEREA:
No.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Non.

[¶133] THAIS:
Do you fancy that you’ll get off with impunity?

> Latin: THAIS:
Credin te impune habiturum?

[¶134] CHAEREA:
Forgive this one fault; if I’m ever guilty of another, then kill me.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Unam hanc noxiam
Mitte: si aliam admisero umquam, occidito.

[¶135] THAIS:
Were you in fear of my severity?

> Latin: THAIS:
Num meam saevitiam veritus es?

[¶136] CHAEREA:
No.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Non.

[¶137] THAIS:
No? What then?
CHAEREA: (pointing at PYTHIAS.)

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid igitur?

[¶138] I was afraid of her, lest she might be accusing me to you.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Hanc metui ne me criminaretur tibi.

[¶139] THAIS:
What had you done?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quid feceras?

[¶140] CHAEREA:
A mere trifle.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Paulum quiddam.

[¶141] PYTHIAS:
Come now, a trifle, you impudent fellow. Does this appear a trifle to you, to ravish a virgin, a citizen?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Eho, paulum, impudens?
An paulum hoc esse tibi videtur, virginem
Vitiare civem?

[¶142] CHAEREA:
I took her for my fellow-servant.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Conservam esse credidi.

[¶143] PYTHIAS:
Fellow-servant? I can hardly restrain myself from flying at his hair. A miscreant! Even of his own free will he comes to make fun of us.
THAIS: (to PYTHIAS.)

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Conservam? Vix me contineo quin involem in
Capillum. Monstrum etiam ultro derisum advenit.

[¶144] Won’t you begone from here, you mad woman?
PYTHIAS:
Why so? Really, I do believe I should be something in this hang-dog’s debt, if I were to do so; especially as he owns that he is your servant.

> Latin: THAIS:
Abin hinc, insana?
PYTHIAS:
Quid ita vero? debeam,
Credo, isti quicquam furcifero, si id fecerim;
Praesertim cium se servum fateatur tuum.

[¶145] THAIS:
We’ll pass that by. Chaerea, you have behaved unworthily of yourself; for if I am deserving in the highest degree of this affront,
still it is unbecoming of you to be guilty of it. And, upon my faith, I do not know what method now to adopt about this girl: you have so confounded all my plans, that I can not possibly return her to her friends in such a manner as is befitting and as I had intended;
in order that, by this means, I might, Chaerea, do a real service to myself.

> Latin: THAIS:
Missa haec faciamus. Non te lignum, Chaerea,
Fecisti; nam etsi ego digna hac contumelia
Sum maxime, at tu indignius qui faceres tamen.
Neque edepol quid nunc consili capiam scio
De virgine istac: ita conturbasti mihi
Rationes omnes, ut eam non possim suis,
Ita ut aequum fuerat atque ut studui, tradere,
Ut solidum parerem hoc mihi beneficium, Chaerea.

[¶146] CHAEREA:
But now, from henceforth, I hope, Thais, that there will be lasting good-will between us. Many a time, from some affair of this kind and from a bad beginning, great friendships have sprung up. What if some Divinity has willed this?

> Latin: CHAEREA:
At nunc dehinc spero aeternam inter nos gratiam
Fore, Thais. Saepe ex huiusmodi re quapiam et
Malo principio magna familiaritas
Conflata est. Quid si hoc quispiam voluit Deus?

[¶147] THAIS:
I’faith, for my own part I both take it in that view and wish to do so.

> Latin: THAIS:
Equidem pol in eam partem accipioque et volo.

[¶148] CHAEREA:
Yes, prithee, do so. Be sure of this one thing, that I did not do it for the sake of affronting you, but in consequence of passion.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Immo ita quaeso. Unum hoc scito; contumeliae
Non me fecisse causa sed amoris.

[¶149] THAIS:
I understand, and, i’faith, for that reason do I now the more readily forgive you. I am not, Chaerea, of a disposition so ungentle, or so inexperienced,
as not to know what is the power of love.

> Latin: THAIS:
Scio;
Et pol propterea magis nunc ignosco tibi.
Non adeo inhumano ingenio sum, Chaerea,
Neque ita imperita ut quid amor valeat nesciam.

[¶150] CHAEREA:
So may the Deities kindly bless me, Thais; I am now smitten with you as well.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Te quoque iam, Thais, ita me Di bene ament, amo.

[¶151] PYTHIAS:
Then, i’faith, mistress, I foresee you must have a care of him.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Tum pol tibi ab istoc, hera, cavendum intelligo.

[¶152] CHAEREA:
I would not dare—

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Non ausim.

[¶153] PYTHIAS:
I won’t trust you at all in any thing.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nihil tibi quicquam credo.

[¶154] THAIS: (to PYTHIAS.)
Do have done.

> Latin: THAIS:
Desinas.

[¶155] CHAEREA:
Now I entreat you that you will be my assistant in this affair.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Nunc ego te in hac re mihi oro ut adiutrix sies:

[¶156] I intrust and commit myself to your care; I take you, Thais, as my protectress; I implore you; I shall die if I don’t have her for my wife.

> Latin: Ego me tuae commendo et committo fidei;
Te mihi patronam capio, Thais; te obsecro.
Emoriar si non hanc uxorem duxero.

[¶157] THAIS:
But if your father should say any thing—

> Latin: THAIS:
Tamen si pater—.

[¶158] CHAEREA:
Oh, he’ll consent, I’m quite sure of that, if she is only a citizen.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Quid? ah volet, certo scio;
Civis modo haec sit.

[¶159] THAIS:
If you will wait a little,
the brother himself of the young woman will be here presently; he has gone to fetch the nurse, who brought her up when a little child; you yourself, shall be present Chaerea, at his recognition of her.

> Latin: THAIS:
Paululum opperirier
Si vis, iam frater ipse hic aderit virginis:
Nutricem arcessitum it quae illam aluit parvulam.
In cognoscendo tute ipse aderis, Chaerea.

[¶160] CHAEREA:
I certainly will stay.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Ego vero maneo.

[¶161] THAIS:
In the mean time, until he comes, would you prefer that we should wait for him in the house, rather than here before the door?

> Latin: THAIS:
Vin interea, dum is venit,
Domi opperiamur potius quam hic ante ostium?

[¶162] CHAEREA:
Why yes, I should like it much.
PYTIH.: (to THAIS.)
Prithee, what are you going to do?

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Immo percupio.
PYTHIAS:
Quam tu rem actura obsecro es?

[¶163] THAIS:
Why, what’s the matter?

> Latin: THAIS:
Nam quid ita?

[¶164] PYTHIAS:
Do you ask? Do you think of admitting him after this into your house?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Rogitas? hunc tu in aedes cogitas
Recipere posthac?

[¶165] THAIS:
Why not?

> Latin: THAIS:
Cur non?

[¶166] PYTHIAS:
Trust my word for it, he’ll be creating some new disturbance.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Crede hoc meae fidei;
Dabit hic aliquam pugnam denuo.

[¶167] THAIS:
O dear, prithee, do hold your tongue.

> Latin: THAIS:
Au tace obsecro.

[¶168] PYTHIAS:
You seem to me to be far from sensible of his assurance.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Parum perspexisse eius videre audaciam.

[¶169] CHAEREA:
I’ll not do any thing, Pythias.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Non faciam, Pythias.

[¶170] PYTHIAS:
Upon my faith, I don’t believe you, Chaerea, except in case you are not trusted.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Non pol credo, Chaerea,
Nisi si commissum non erit.

[¶171] CHAEREA:
Nay but, Pythias, do you be my keeper.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Quin Pythias,
Tu me servato.

[¶172] PYTHIAS:
Upon my faith, I would neither venture to give any thing to you to keep, nor to keep you myself: away with you!

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Neque pol servandum tibi
Quicquam dare ausim, neque te servare: apage te.

[¶173] THAIS:
Most opportunely the brother himself is coming.

> Latin: THAIS:
Adest optime ipse frater.

[¶174] CHAEREA:
I’faith, I’m undone. Prithee,
let’s be gone in-doors, Thais. I don’t want him to see me in the street with this dress on.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Perii hercle: obsecro,
Abeamus intro Thais: nolo me in via
Cum hac veste videat.

[¶175] THAIS:
For what reason, pray? Because you are ashamed?

> Latin: THAIS:
Quamobrem tandem? an quia pudet?

[¶176] CHAEREA:
Just so.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Id ipsum.

[¶177] PYTHIAS:
Just so? But the young woman—

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Id ipsum? Virgo vero.

[¶178] THAIS:
Go first; I’ll follow. You stay here, Pythias, that you may show Chremes in.
(THAIS and CHAEREA go into the house.) (Enter CHREMES and SOPHRONA.)
PYTHIAS: (to herself.)

> Latin: THAIS:
I prae; sequor.
Tu istic mane, ut Chremem introducas, Pythias.
(PYTHIAS.
CHREMES. SOPHRONA.)

[¶179] Well! what now can suggest itself to my mind?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid? quid venire in mentem nunc possit mihi?

[¶180] What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this fellow off upon us?
CHREMES:
Really, do bestir yourself more quickly, nurse.
SOPHRONA:
I am bestirring.

> Latin: Quidnam qui referam illi sacrilego gratiam
Qui hunc supposuit nobis?
CHREMES:
Move vero ocius
Te nutrix.
SOPHRONA:
Moveo.

[¶181] CHREMES:
So I see; but you don’t stir forward.
PYTHIAS: (to CHREMES.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Video; sed nihil promoves.

[¶182] Have you yet shown the tokens to the nurse?
CHREMES:
All of them.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Iamne ostendisti signa nutrici?
CHREMES:
Omnia.

[¶183] PYTHIAS:
Prithee, what does she say? Does she recognize them?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Amabo quid ait? cognoscitne?

[¶184] CHREMES:
Yes, with a full recollection of them.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ac memoriter.

[¶185] PYTHIAS:
Upon my faith, you do bring good news; for I really wish well to this young woman. Go in-doors: my mistress has been for some time expecting you at home. (CHREMES and SOPHRONA go into THAIS’s house.) But look, yonder I espy that worthy fellow, Parmeno, coming: just see, for heaven’s sake, how leisurely he moves along. I hope I have it in my power to torment him after my own fashion.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Bene edepol narras; nam illi faveo virgini.
Ite intro: iamdudum hera vos exspectat domi.
Virum bonum eccum Parmenonem incedere
Video. Vide ut otiosus it si Dis placet.
Spero me habere qui hunc meo excruciem modo.

[¶186] I’ll go in-doors, that I may know for certain about the discovery; afterward I’ll come out, and give this villain a terrible fright.
(Goes into the house.) (Enter PARMENO.)
PARMENO: (to himself.)

> Latin: Ibo intro de cognitione ut certum sciam:
Post exibo atque hunc perterrebo sacrilegum.
(PARMENO. PYHIAS.)

[¶187] I’ve just come back to see what Chaerea has been doing here. If he has managed the affair with dexterity, ye Gods, by our trust in you, how great and genuine applause will Parmeno obtain!

> Latin: PARMENO:
Reviso quidnam Chaerea hic rerum gerat.
Quod si astu rem tractavit, Di vestram fidem,
Quantam et quam veram laudem capiet Parmeno!

[¶188] For not to mention that a passion, full of difficulty and expense, with which he was smitten for a virgin, belonging to an extortionate courtesan, I’ve found means of satisfying for him, without molestation, without outlay, and without cost; then, this other point—that is really a thing that I consider my crowning merit,
to have found out the way by which a young man may be enabled to learn the dispositions and manners of courtesans, so that by knowing them betimes, he may detest them ever after. (PYTHIAS enters from the house unperceived.) For while they are out of doors, nothing seems more cleanly, nothing more neat or more elegant;

> Latin: Nam ut mittam, quod ei amorem difficillimum et
Carissimum, ab meretrice avara virginem
Quam amabat eam confeci sine molestia,
Sine surtu, sine dispendio; tum hoc alterum,
Id vero est quod ego mihi puto palmarium
Me repperisse, quo modo adolescentulus
Meretricum ingenia et mores posset noscere;
Mature ut quum cognorit perpetuo oderit.
Quae dum foris sunt, nihil videtur mundius;
Nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegans:

[¶189] and when they dine with a gallant, they pick daintily about: to see the filth, the dirtiness, the neediness of these women; how sluttish they are when at home, and how greedy after victuals; in what a fashion they devour the black bread with yesterday’s broth:—to know all this, is salvation to a young man.
(Enter PYTHIAS from the house.)
PYTHIAS: (apart, unseen by PARMENO.)

> Latin: Quae, cum amatore suo quum coenant, liguriunt.
Harum videre illuviem, sordes, inopiam;
Quam inhonestae solae sint domi, atque avidae cibi;
Quo pacto ex iure hesterno panem atrum vorent;
Nosse omnia haec salus est adolescentulis.

[¶190] Upon my faith, you villain, I’ll take vengeance upon you for these sayings and doings; so that you sha’n’t make sport of us with impunity. (Aloud, coming forward.) O, by our trust in the Gods, what a disgraceful action! O hapless young man! O wicked Parmeno, to have brought him here!
PARMENO:
What’s the matter?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Ego pol te pro istis dictis et factis, scelus,
Ulciscar, ut ne impune in nos illuseris.
Proh Deum fidem, facinus foedum! O infelicem adolescentulum!
O scelestum Parmenonem qui istum huc adduxit!
PARMENO:
Quid est?

[¶191] PYTHIAS:
I do pity him; and so that I mightn’t see it, wretched creature that I am, I hurried away out of doors.
What a dreadful example they talk of making him!

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Miseret me: itaque ut ne viderem misera huc effigi foras
Quae futura exempla dicunt in eum indigna.

[¶192] PARMENO:
O Jupiter! What is this tumult? Am I then undone? I’ll accost her. What’s all this, Pythias? What are you saying? An example made of whom?

> Latin: PARMENO:
O Iupiter,
Quae illaec turba est? numnam ego perii? Adibo. Quid istuc Pythias?
Quid ais? in quem exempla fient?

[¶193] PYTHIAS:
Do you ask the question, you most audacious fellow? You’ve proved the ruin of the young man whom you brought hither for the Eunuch, while you were trying to put a trick upon us.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Rogitas audacissime?
Perdidisti istum quem adduxti pro eunucho adolescentulum,
Dum studes dare verba nobis.

[¶194] PARMENO:
How so, or what has happened? Tell me.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid ita? aut quid factum est? cedo.

[¶195] PYTHIAS:
I’ll tell you: that young woman who was to-day made a present to Thais, are you aware that she is a citizen of this place, and that her brother is a person of very high rank?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Dicam. Virginem istam Thaidi quae hodie dono data est
Scis eam hinc civem esse, et fratrem eius esse apprime nobilem?

[¶196] PARMENO:
I didn’t know that.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Nescio.

[¶197] PYTHIAS:
But so she has been discovered to be; he, unfortunate youth, has ravished her. When the brother came to know of this being done, in a most towering rage, he—

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Atqui sic inventa est: eam iste vitiavit miser.
Ille ubi id rescivit factum, frater violentissimus —

[¶198] PARMENO:
Did what, pray?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quidnam fecit?

[¶199] PYTHIAS:
First, bound him in a shocking manner.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
colligavit primum eum miseris modis.

[¶200] PARMENO:
Bound him?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Colligavit?

[¶201] PYTHIAS:
And even though Thais entreated him that he wouldn’t do so—

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Atque equidem orante ut ne id faceret Thaide.

[¶202] PARMENO:
What is it you tell me?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid ais?

[¶203] PYTHIAS:
Now he is threatening that he will also do that which is usually done to ravishers; a thing that I never saw done, nor wish to.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nunc minatur porro sese id quod moechis solet;
Quod ego numquam vidi fieri, neque velim.

[¶204] PARMENO:
With what assurance does he dare perpetrate a crime so heinous?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Qua audacia
Tantum facinus audet?

[¶205] PYTHIAS:
How “so heinous?”

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Quid ita tantum?

[¶206] PARMENO:
Is it not most heinous? Who ever saw any one taken up as a ravisher in a courtesan’s house?

> Latin: PARMENO:
An non tibi hoc maximum est?
Quis homo pro moecho umquam vidit in domo meretricia
Prehendi quemquam?

[¶207] PYTHIAS:
I don’t know.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nescio.

[¶208] PARMENO:
But that you mayn’t be ignorant of this, Pythias, I tell you, and give you notice that he is my master’s son.

> Latin: PARMENO:
At ne hoc nesciatis, Pythias,
Dico, edico vobis, nostrum esse illum herilem filium.

[¶209] PYTHIAS:
How! Prithee, is it he?

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Hem
Obsecro, an is est?

[¶210] PARMENO:
Don’t let Thais suffer any violence to be done to him. But why don’t I go in myself?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Ne quam in illum Thais vim fieri sinat.
Atque adeo autem cur non egomet intro eo?

[¶211] PYTHIAS:
Take care, Parmeno, what you are about, lest you both do him no good and come to harm yourself; for it is their notion,
that whatever has happened, has originated in you.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Vide, Parmeno,
Quid agas, ne neque illi prosis et tu pereas; nam hoc putant,
Quicquid factum est a te esse ortum.

[¶212] PARMENO:
What then, wretch that I am, shall I do, or how resolve? But look, I see the old gentleman returning from the country; shall I tell him or shall I not? By my troth, I will tell him; although I am certain that a heavy punishment is in readiness for me; but it’s a matter of necessity, in order that he may rescue him.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid igitur faciam miser?
Quidve incipiam? ecce autem video rure redeuntem senem.
Dicam huic, an non? dicam hercle, etsi mihi magnum malum
Scio paratum; sed necesse est huic ut subveniat.

[¶213] PYTHIAS:
You are wise. I’m going in-doors; do you relate to him every thing exactly as it happened.
(Goes into the house.) (Enter LACHES.)
LACHES: (to himself.)

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Sapis.
Ego abeo intro: tu isti narra omnem rem ordine ut factum siet.
(LACHES. PARMENO.)

[¶214] I have this advantage from my country-house being so near at hand; no weariness, either of country or of town, ever takes possession of me; when satiety begins to come on, I change my locality. But is not that our Parmeno? Surely it is he. Whom are you waiting for, Parmeno, before the door here?
PARMENO: (pretends not to see him.)

> Latin: LACHES:
Ex meo propinquo rure hoc capio commodi,
Neque agri neque urbis odium me umquam percipit.
Ubi satias coepit fieri commuto locum.
Sed estne ille noster Parmeno? et certe ipsus est.
Quem praestolare, Parmeno, hic ante ostium?

[¶215] Who is it (Turning round.) Oh, I’m glad that you have returned safe.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quis homo est? ehem, salvum te advenire, here, gaudeo.

[¶216] LACHES:
Whom are you waiting for?

> Latin: LACHES:
Quem praestolare?

[¶217] PARMENO: (aside.)
I’m undone: my tongue cleaves to my mouth through fright.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Perii: lingua haeret metu.

[¶218] LACHES:
Why, what is it you are trembling about? Is all quite right? Tell me.

> Latin: LACHES:
Hem, quid est? quid trepidas? satin salve? dic mihi.

[¶219] PARMENO:
Master, in the first place, I would have you persuaded of what is the fact; whatever has happened in this affair has happened through no fault of mine.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Here, primum te arbitrari quod res est velim;
Quicquid huius factum est culpa non factum est mea.

[¶220] LACHES:
What is it?

> Latin: LACHES:
Quid?

[¶221] PARMENO:
Really you have reason to ask. I ought first to have told you the circumstances. Phaedria purchased a certain Eunuch, to make a present of to this woman here.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Recte sane interrogasti: oportuit
Rem praenarrasse me. Emit quendam Phaedria
Eunuchum quem dono huic daret.

[¶222] LACHES:
To what woman?

> Latin: LACHES:
Cui?

[¶223] PARMENO:
To Thais.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Thaidi.

[¶224] LACHES:
Bought? Good heavens, I’m undone! For how much?

> Latin: LACHES:
Emit? perii hercle: quanti?

[¶225] PARMENO:
Twenty minae.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Viginti minis.

[¶226] LACHES:
Done for, quite.

> Latin: LACHES:
Actum est.

[¶227] PARMENO:
Then, Chaerea is in love with a certain music-girl here.
(Pointing to THAIS’s house.)

> Latin: PARMENO:
Tum quandam fidicinam amat hic Chaerea.

[¶228] LACHES:
How! What? In love? Does he know already what a courtesan means? Is he come to town? One misfortune close upon another.

> Latin: LACHES:
Hem, quid? amat? an scit iam ille quid meretrix siet?
An in Astu venit? aliud ex alio malum.

[¶229] PARMENO:
Master, don’t look so at me; he didn’t do these things by my encouragement.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Here, ne me spectes: me impulsore haec non facit.

[¶230] LACHES:
Leave off talking about yourself. If I live, you hang-dog, I’ll— But first give me an account of it, whatever it is.

> Latin: LACHES:
Omitte de te dicere: ego te, furcifer,
Si vivo—Sed istuc, quicquid est, primum expedi.

[¶231] PARMENO:
He was taken to the house of Thais in place of the Eunuch.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Is pro illo eunucho ad Thaidem deductus est.

[¶232] LACHES:
In place of the Eunuch?

> Latin: LACHES:
Pro eunuchon?

[¶233] PARMENO:
Such is the fact. They have since apprehended him in the house as a ravisher, and bound him.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Sic est: hunc pro moecho postea
Comprehendere intus, et constrinxere.

[¶234] LACHES:
Death!

> Latin: LACHES:
Occidi.

[¶235] PARMENO:
Mark the assurance of courtesans.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Audaciam meretricum specta.

[¶236] LACHES:
Is there any other calamity or misfortune besides, that you have not told me of?

> Latin: LACHES:
Numquid est
Aliud mali damnive quod non dixeris
Reliquum?

[¶237] PARMENO:
That’s all.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Tantum est.

[¶238] LACHES:
Do I delay rushing in here?
(Runs into the house of THAIS.)
PARMENO: (to himself.)

> Latin: LACHES:
Cesso huc introrumpere?

[¶239] There’s no doubt but that I shall have a heavy punishment for this affair, only that I was obliged to act thus. I’m glad of this, that some mischief will befall these women here through my agency, for the old man has, for a long time, been on the look-out for some occasion
to do them a bad turn; at last he has found it.
(Enter PYTHIAS from the house of THAIS, laughing.)
PYTHIAS: (to herself, on entering.)

> Latin: PARMENO:
Non dubium est quin mihi magnum ex hac re sit malum;
Nisi quia necessus fuit hoc facere, id gaudeo,
Propter me hisce aliquid esse eventurum mali.
Nam iam diu aliquam causam quaerebat senex,
Quamobrem insigne aliquid faceret iis. Nunc repperit.
(PYTHIAS. PARMENO.)

[¶240] Never, upon my faith, for a long time past, has any thing happened to me that I could have better liked to happen, than the old gentleman just now, full of his mistake, coming into our house. I had the joke all to myself, as I knew what it was he feared.
PARMENO: (apart.)

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Numquam edepol quicquam iam diu quod magis vellem evenire
Mihi evenit quam quod modo senex intro ad nos venit errans.
Mihi solae ridiculo fuit, quae quid timeret scibam.

[¶241] Why, what’s all this?
PYTHIAS:
Now I’m come out to meet with Parmeno.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid hoc autem est?
PYTHIAS:
Nunc id prodeo ut conveniam Parmenonem.

[¶242] But, prithee, where is he?
(Looking around.)
PARMENO: (apart.)
She’s looking for me.

> Latin: Sed ubi, obsecro, is est?
PARMENO:
Me quaerit haec.

[¶243] PYTHIAS:
And there he is, I see; I’ll go up to him.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Atque eccum video: adibo.

[¶244] PARMENO:
What’s the matter, simpleton? What do you mean? What are you laughing about? Still going on?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid est inepta? quid tibi vis? quid rides? pergin?

[¶245] PYTHIAS: (laughing.)
I’m dying; I’m wretchedly tired with laughing at you.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Perii.
Defessa iam sum misera te ridendo.

[¶246] PARMENO:
Why so?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid ita?

[¶247] PYTHIAS:
Do you ask? Upon my faith, I never did see, nor shall see, a more silly fellow. Oh dear, I can not well express what amusement you’ve afforded in-doors.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Rogitas?
Numquam, pol, hominem stultiorem vidi nec videbo. Ah,
Non possum satis narrare quos ludos praebueris intus.

[¶248] And still I formerly took you to be a clever and shrewd person. Why, was there any need for you instantly to believe what I told you? Or were you not content with the crime, which by your advice the young man had been guilty of, without betraying the poor fellow to his father as well?

> Latin: At etiam primo callidum et disertum credidi hominem.
Quid? ilicone credere ea quae dixi oportuit te?
An poenitebat flagitii te auctore quod fecisset
Adolescens, ni miserum insuper etiam patri indicares?

[¶249] Why, what do you suppose his feelings must have been at the moment when his father saw him clothed in that dress? Well, do you now understand that you are done for?
(Laughing.)

> Latin: Nam quid illi credis animi tum fuisse ubi vestem vidit
Illam esse eum indutum pater? quid est? iam scis te perisse?

[¶250] PARMENO:
Hah! what is it you say, you hussy? Have you been telling me lies? What, laughing still? Does it appear so delightful to you, you jade, to be making fools of us?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Hem. Quid dixti, pessima? an mentita es? etiam rides?
Itan lepidum tibi visum est, scelus, nos irridere?

[¶251] PYTHIAS: (laughing.)
Very much so.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Nimium.

[¶252] PARMENO:
Yes, indeed, if you can do it with impunity.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Si quidem istuc impune habueris.

[¶253] PYTHIAS:
Exactly so.

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Verum.

[¶254] PARMENO:
By heavens, I’ll repay you!

> Latin: PARMENO:
Reddam hercle.

[¶255] PYTHIAS:
I believe you; but, perhaps, that which you are threatening, Parmeno, will need a future day;

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Credo.
Sed in diem istuc, Parmeno, est fortasse quod minare.

[¶256] you’ll be trussed up directly, for rendering a silly young man remarkable for disgraceful conduct, and then betraying him to his father; they’ll both be making an example of you.
(Laughing.)

> Latin: Tu iam pendebis, qui stultum adolescentulum nobilitas
Flagitiis, et eundem indicas: uterque exempla in te edent.

[¶257] PARMENO:
I’m done for!

> Latin: PARMENO:
Nullus sum.

[¶258] PYTHIAS:
This reward has been found you in return for that present of yours; I’m off.
(Goes into the house.)
PARMENO: (to himself.)

> Latin: PYTHIAS:
Hic pro illo munere tibi honos est habitus: abeo.

[¶259] Wretch that I am; just like a rat, this day I’ve come to destruction through betrayal of myself.
(Enter THRASO and GNATHO.)
GNATHO: (to THRASO.)

> Latin: PARMENO:
Egomet meo indicio miser quasi sorex hodie perii.
(GNATHO. THRASO.)

[¶260] Well now? With what hope, or what design, are we come hither? What do you intend to do, Thraso?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Quid nunc? qua spe aut quo consilio huc imus? quid inceptas, Thraso?

[¶261] THRASO:
What, I? To surrender myself to Thais, and do what she bids me.

> Latin: THRASO:
Egone? ut Thaidi me dedam, et faciam quod iubeat.

[¶262] GNATHO:
What is it you say?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Quid est?

[¶263] THRASO:
Why any the less so, than Hercules served Omphale.

> Latin: THRASO:
Qui minus quam Hercules servivit Omphalae?

[¶264] GNATHO:
The precedent pleases me. (Aside.) I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper; but her door makes a noise.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Exemplum placet.
Utinam tibi commitigari videam sandalio caput.
Sed fores crepuerunt ab ea.

[¶265] THRASO:
Confusion! Why, what mischiefsthis? I never saw this person before; why, I wonder, is he rushing out in such a hurry?
(They stand aside.) (Enter CHAEREA from the house of THAIS, on the other side of the stage.)
CHAEREA: (to himself, aloud.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Perii. Quid hoc autem est mali?
Hunc ego numquam videram etiam: quidnam hic properans prosilit?
(CHAEREA.
PARMENO.
PHAEDRIA.
GNATHO. THRASO.)

[¶266] O fellow-townsmen, is there any one alive more fortunate than me this day? Not any one, upon my faith: for clearly in me have the Gods manifested all their power, on whom, thus suddenly, so many blessings are bestowed.
PARMENO: (apart.)

> Latin: CHAEREA:
O populares, ecquis me hodie vivit fortunatior?
Nemo hercle quisquam; nam in me plane Di potestatem suam
Omnem ostendere, cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda.

[¶267] Why is he thus overjoyed?
CHAEREA: (seeing PARMENO, and running up to him.)
O my dear Parmeno, the contriver, the beginner, the perfecter of all my delights, do you know what are my transports?

> Latin: PARMENO:
Quid hic laetus est?
CHAEREA:
O Parmeno mi, O mearum voluptatum omnium
Inventor, inceptor, perfector; scin me in quibus sim gaudiis?

[¶268] Are you aware that my Pamphila has been discovered to be a citizen?
PARMENO:
I have heard so.

> Latin: Scis Pamphilam meam inventam civem?
PARMENO:
Audivi.

[¶269] CHAEREA:
Do you know that she is betrothed to me?

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Scis sponsam mihi?

[¶270] PARMENO:
So may the Gods bless me, happily done.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Bene, ita me Di ament, factum.

[¶271] GNATHO: (apart to THRASO.)
Do you hear what he says?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Audin tu hic quid ait?

[¶272] CHAEREA:
And then, besides, I am delighted that my brother’s mistress is secured to him; the family is united. Thais has committed herself to the patronage of my father; she has put herself under our care and protection.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Tum autem Phaedriae
Meo fratri gaudeo esse amorem omnem in tranquillo: una est domus.
Thais patri se commendavit in clientelam et fidem;
Nobis dedit se.

[¶273] PARMENO:
Thais, then, is wholly your brother’s.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Fratris igitur Thais tota est?

[¶274] CHAEREA:
Of course.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Scilicet.

[¶275] PARMENO:
Then this is another reason for us to rejoice, that the Captain will be beaten out of doors.

> Latin: PARMENO:
Iam hoc aliud est quod gaudeamus: miles pellitur foras.

[¶276] CHAEREA:
Wherever my brother is, do you take care that he hears this as soon as possible.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Tum tu frater, ubi ubi est, fac quam primum haec audiat.

[¶277] PARMENO:
I’ll go look for him at home.
(Goes into the house of LACHES.)
THRASO: (apart to GNATHO.)

> Latin: PARMENO:
Visam domum.

[¶278] Do you at all doubt, Gnatho, but that I am now ruined everlastingly?
GNATHO: (to THRASO.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Numquid, Gnatho, tu dubitas quin ego nunc perpetuo perierim?

[¶279] Without doubt, I do think so.
CHAEREA: (to himself.)
What am I to make mention of first, or commend in especial? Him who gave me the advice to do so, or myself, who ventured
to undertake it? Or ought I to extol fortune, who has been my guide, and has so opportunely crowded into a single day events so numerous, so important; or my father’s kindness and indulgence Oh Jupiter, I entreat you, do preserve these blessings unto us!
(Enter PHAEDRIA from the house of LACHES.)

> Latin: GNATHO:
Sine dubio opinor.
CHAEREA:
Quid commemorem primum aut laudem maxime?
Illumne qui mihi dedit consilium ut facerem; an me qui ausus sim
Incipere? an fortunam collaudem quae gubernatrix fuit;
Quae tot res, tantas tam opportune in unum conclusit diem?
An mei patris festivitatem et facilitatem? O Iupiter,
Serva, obsecro, haec nobis bona.

[¶280] PHAEDRIA: (to himself.)
Ye Gods, by our trust in you, what incredible things has Parmeno just related to me! But where is my brother?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Di vestram fidem, incredibilia
Parmeno modo quae narravit: sed ubi est frater?

[¶281] CHAEREA: (stepping forward.)
Here he is.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Praesto adest.

[¶282] PHAEDRIA:
I’m overjoyed.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Gaudeo.

[¶283] CHAEREA:
I quite believe you. There is no one, brother, more worthy to be loved than this Thais of yours: so much is she a benefactress to all our family.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Satis credo: nihil est Thaide hac, frater, tua
Dignius quod ametur; ita nostrae omni est fautrix familiae.

[¶284] PHAEDRIA:
Whew! are you commending her too to me?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Mihi illam laudas?

[¶285] THRASO: (apart.)
I’m undone; the less the hope I have, the more I am in love. Prithee, Gnatho, my hope is in you.

> Latin: THRASO:
Perii, quanto minus spei est, tanto magis amo.
Obsecro, Gnatho, in te spes est.

[¶286] GNATHO: (apart.)
What do you wish me to do?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Quid vis faciam?

[¶287] THRASO: (apart.)
Bring this about, by entreaties or with money, that I may at least share Thais’s favors in some degree.
GNATHO: (apart.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Perfice hoc
Precibus, pretio, ut haeream in parte aliqua tandem apud Thaidem.

[¶288] It’s a hard task.
THRASO: (apart.)
If you set your mind on any thing, I know you well. If you manage this, ask me for any present you like as your reward; you shall have what you ask.
GNATHO: (apart.)

> Latin: GNATHO:
Difficile est.
THRASO:
Si quid conlibuit, novi te: hoc si effeceris,
Quodvis donum et praemium a me optato, id optatum feres.

[¶289] Is it so?
THRASO: (apart.)
It shall be so.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Itane?
THRASO:
Sic erit.

[¶290] GNATHO: (apart.)
If I manage this, I ask that your house, whether you are present or absent, may be open to me; that, without invitation, there may always be a place for me.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Si efficio hoc, postulo ut mihi tua domus
Te praesente absente pateat; invocato ut sit locus
Semper.

[¶291] THRASO: (apart.)
I pledge my honor that it shall be so.

> Latin: THRASO:
Do fidem futurum.

[¶292] GNATHO: (apart.)
I’ll set about it then.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Accingar.

[¶293] PHAEDRIA:
Who is it I hear so close at hand? (Turning round.) O Thraso—

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Quem hic ego audio?
O Thraso!

[¶294] THRASO: (coming forward.)
Save you both—

> Latin: THRASO:
Salvete.

[¶295] PHAEDRIA:
Perhaps you are not aware what has taken place here.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Tu fortasse quae facta hic sient
Nescis.

[¶296] THRASO:
I am quite aware.

> Latin: THRASO:
Scio.

[¶297] PHAEDRIA:
Why, then, do I see you in this neighborhood?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Cur te ergo in his ego conspicor regionibus?

[¶298] THRASO:
Depending on your kindness.

> Latin: THRASO:
Vobis fretus.

[¶299] PHAEDRIA:
Do you know what sort of dependence you have? Captain, I give you notice, if ever I catch you in this street again, even if you should say to me, “I was looking for another person, I was on my road this way,” you are undone.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Scin quam fretus? Miles, edico tibi,
Si te in platea offendero hac post umquam, quod dicas mihi,
“Alium quaerebam, iter hac habui,” periisti.

[¶300] GNATHO:
Come, come, that’s not handsome.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Heia, haud sic decet.

[¶301] PHAEDRIA:
I’ve said it.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Dictum est.

[¶302] GNATHO:
I didn’t know you gave yourself such airs.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Non cognosco vestrum tam superbum.

[¶303] PHAEDRIA:
So it shall be.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Sic erit.

[¶304] GNATHO:
First hear a few words from me; and when I have said the thing, if you approve of it, do it.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Prius audite paucis; quod quum dixero, si placuerit,
Facitote.

[¶305] PHAEDRIA:
Let’s hear.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Audiamus.

[¶306] GNATHO:
Do you step a little that way, Thraso. (THRASO stands aside.) In the first place, I wish you both implicitly to believe me in this, that whatever I do in this matter, I do it entirely for my own sake;

> Latin: GNATHO:
Tu concede paullum istuc, Thraso.
Principio ego vos credere ambos hoc mihi vehementer velim,
Me, huius quicquid facio, id facere maxime causa mea:

[¶307] but if the same thing is of advantage to yourselves, it would be folly for you not to do it.

> Latin: Verum si idem vobis prodest, vos non facere inscitia est.

[¶308] PHAEDRIA:
What is it?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Quid id est?

[¶309] GNATHO:
I’m of opinion that the Captain, your rival, should be received among you.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Militem ego rivalem recipiendum censeo.

[¶310] PHAEDRIA: (starting.)
Hah!
CHAEREA:
Be received?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Hem,
Recipiendum?

[¶311] GNATHO: (to PHAEDRIA.)
Only consider. I’faith, Phaedria, at the free rate you are living with her, and indeed very freely you are living, you have but little to give; and it’s necessary for Thais to receive a good deal.
That all this may be supplied for your amour and not at your own expense, there is not an individual better suited or more fitted for your purpose than the Captain. In the first place, he both.has got enough to give, and no one does give more profusely. He is a fool, a dolt, a blockhead; night and day he snores away; and you need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him; you may easily have him discarded whenever you please.
CHAEREA: (to PHAEDRIA.)

> Latin: GNATHO:
Cogita modo. Tu hercle cum illa, Phaedria,
Et libenter vivis; etenim bene libenter victitas.
Quod des paulum est; et necesse est multum accipere Thaidem,
Ut tuo amori suppeditare possit sine sumtu tuo.
Ad omnia haec magis opportunus, nec magis ex usu tuo
Nemo est: principio et habet quod det, et dat nemo largius.
Fatuus est, insulsus, tardus: stertit noctesque et dies.
Neque istum metuas ne amet mulier: facile pellas, ubi velis.

[¶312] What shall we do?
GNATHO:
And this besides, which I deem to be of even greater importance,—not a single person entertains in better style or more bountifully.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Quid agimus?
GNATHO:
Praeterea hoc etiam, quod ego vel primum puto:
Accipit hominem nemo melius prorsus, neque prolixius.

[¶313] CHAEREA:
It’s a wonder if this sort of man can not be made use of in some way or other.
PHAEDRIA:
I think so too.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Mirum ni illoc homine quoquo pacto opus est.
CHAEREA:
Idem ego arbitror.

[¶314] GNATHO:
You act properly. One thing I have still to beg of you,—that you’ll receive me into your fraternity; I’ve been rolling that stone for a considerable time past.
PHAEDRIA:
We admit you.

> Latin: GNATHIO:
Riecte facitis. Unum etiam hoc vos oro, ut me in vestrum gregem
Recipiatis: satis diu hoc iam saxum volvo.
PHAEDRIA:
Recipimus.

[¶315] CHAEREA:
And with all my heart.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Ac libenter.

[¶316] GNATHO:
Then I, in return for this, Phaedria, and you, Chaerea, make him over to you to be eaten and drunk to the dregs.

> Latin: GNATHO:
At ego pro istoc, Phaedria, et tu, Chaerea,
Hunc comedendum et deridendum vobis propino.

[¶317] CHAEREA:
Agreed.

> Latin: CHAEREA:
Placet.

[¶318] PHAEDRIA:
He quite deserves it.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Dignus est.

[¶319] GNATHO: (calling to THRASO.)
Thraso, whenever you please, step this way.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Thraso, ubi vis accede.

[¶320] THRASO:
Prithee, how goes it?

> Latin: THRASO:
Obsecro te, quid agimus?

[¶321] GNATHO:
How? Why, these people didn’t know you; after I had discovered to them your qualities, and had praised you as your actions and your virtues deserved,
I prevailed upon them.

> Latin: GNATHO:
Quid? isti te ignorabant: postquam eis mores ostendi tuos,
Et collaudavi secundum facta et virtutes tuas,
Impetravi.

[¶322] THRASO:
You have managed well; I give you my best thanks. Besides, I never was any where but what all were extremely fond of me.
GNATHO: (to PHAEDRIA and CHAEREA.)

> Latin: THRASO:
Bene fecisti: gratiam habeo maximam.
Numquam etiam fui usquam quin me omlnes amarent plurimum.

[¶323] Didn’t I tell you that he was a master of the Attic elegance?

> Latin: GNATHO:
Dixine ego in hoc inesse vobis Atticam elegantiam?

[¶324] PHAEDRIA:
He is no other than you mentioned. (Pointing to his FATHER’s house.) Walk this way.
(To the AUDIENCE.) Fare you well, and grant us your applause.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Nihil praetermissum est: ite hac.
Ω:
Vol valete, et plaudite.