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title: "Phormio"
author: "Terence"
translator: "Henry Thomas Riley"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 2 of 3
url: https://scriptura.si/works/terence-phormio/2/
cite: "Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley, Phormio, section 2. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/terence-phormio/2/"
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# Phormio

*Terence, tr. Henry Thomas Riley*

A clever parasite rescues two cousins from their fathers’ plans.

> Latin: ed. Edward St. John Parry, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0134.phi004, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Thomas Riley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0134.phi004.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

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

## 2. Acts 2–4

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/terence-phormio/2/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/terence-phormio/2/#p-N

[¶0] GETA: (apart.)
I commend him: but why do I hesitate at once to accost the old man? (Going forward to DEMIPHO.) Master, welcome to you! I’m glad to see you safe returned.

> Latin: GETA:
Laudo hunc; sed cesso adire quamprimum senem?
Here, salve: salvum te advenisse gaudeo.

[¶1] DEMIPHO: (ironically.)
Ah, excellent guardian! save you, stay of my family, no doubt, to whom, at my departure, I intrusted my son.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Oh,
Bone custos, salve, columen vero familiar,
Cui commendavi filium hinc abiens meum.

[¶2] GETA:
For some minutes past I’ve heard you accusing all of us
undeservedly; and me the most undeservedly of them all; for what would you have had me do for you in this affair? The laws do not allow a person who is a slave to plead; nor is there any giving evidence on his part.

> Latin: GETA:
Iam dudum te omnes nos accusare audio
Immerito, et me horunc omnium immeritissimo.
Nam quid me in hac re facere voluisti tibi?
Servum hominem causam orare leges non sinunt:
Neque testimoni dictio est.

[¶3] DEMIPHO:
I grant all that: I admit this too—the young man, unused to courts, was bashful; I allow it:
you, too, are a slave: still, if she was ever so near a relative, it was not necessary for him to marry her, but as the law enjoins, you might have given her a portion; she could have looked out for another husband. Why, then, in preference, did he bring a pauper home?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Mitto omnia.
Addo istuc; imprudens timuit adolescens: sino.
Tu servus: verum, si cognata est maxime,
Non fuit necesse habere: sed, id quod lex iubet,
Dotem daretis; quæreret alium virum.
Qua ratione inopem potius ducebat domum?

[¶4] GETA:
No particular reason; but he hadn’t the money.

> Latin: GETA:
Non ratio, verum argentum deerat.

[¶5] DEMIPHO:
He might have borrowed it
from some person or other.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Sumeret
Alicunde.

[¶6] GETA:
From some person or other? Nothing more easily said.

> Latin: GETA:
Alicunde? nihil est dictu facilius.

[¶7] DEMIPHO:
After all, if on no other terms, on interest.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Postremo, si nullo alio pacto, foenore.

[¶8] GETA:
Aye, aye, fine talking; as if any one would have trusted him, while you were living.

> Latin: GETA:
Hui, dixti pulchre: siquidem quisquam crederet
Te vivo.

[¶9] DEMIPHO:
No, it shall not be so; it must not be. Ought I to allow her to remain with him as his wife a single day?
She merits no indulgence. I should like this fellow to be pointed out to me, or to be shown where he lives.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Non, non sic futurum est: non potest.
Egone illam cum illo ut patiar nuptam unum diem?
Nihil suave meritum est. Hominem commonstrarier
Mihi istum volo, aut ubi habitet demonstrarier.

[¶10] GETA:
Phormio, do you mean?

> Latin: GETA:
Nempe Phormionem?

[¶11] DEMIPHO:
That fellow, the woman’s next friend?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Istum patronum mulieris.

[¶12] GETA:
I’ll have him here immediately.

> Latin: GETA:
Iam faxo hic aderit.

[¶13] DEMIPHO:
Where is Antipho at present?
GETA:
Away from home.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Antipho ubi nunc est?
PHAEDRIA:
Foris.

[¶14] DEMIPHO:
Go, Phedria, look for him, and bring him here.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Abi, Phaedria: eum require atque adduce huc.

[¶15] PHAEDRIA:
I’Il go straightway to the place.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Eo
Recta via equidem illuc.

[¶16] GETA: (aside.)
To Pamphila, you mean.
(Exeunt PHAEDRIA and GETA.)

> Latin: GETA:
Nempe ad Pamphilam.

[¶17] DEMIPHO: (to himself.)
I’ll just step home to salute the house-hold Gods. From there, I’ll go to the Forum, and summon some of my friends to give me their assistance in this affair; so that I may not be unprepared, when Phormio comes.
(Goes into his house.)

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
At ego Deos Penates hinc salutatum domum
Devertar; inde ibo ad forum, atque aliquot mihi
Amicos advocabo ad hanc rem qui assient,
Ut ne imparatus sim, si adveniat Phormio.

[¶18] (Enter PHORMIO and GETA.)
PHORMIO:
And so you say that, dreading his father’s presence, he has taken himself off?

> Latin: (PHORMIO. GETA.)
PHORMIO:
ITANE patris ais conspectum veritum hinc abisse?

[¶19] GETA:
Exactly so.

> Latin: GETA:
Admodum.

[¶20] PHORMIO:
That Phanium is left alone?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Phanium relictam solam?

[¶21] GETA:
Just so.

> Latin: GETA:
Sic.

[¶22] PHORMIO:
And that the old man is in a rage?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Et iratum senem?

[¶23] GETA:
Extremely so.

> Latin: GETA:
Oppido.

[¶24] PHORMIO:
The whole business, Phormio, rests on yourself alone; you yourself have hashed it up; it must all be swallowed by yourself, so set about it.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ad te summa solum, Phormio, rerum redit.
Tute hoc intristi: tibi omne est exedendum. Accingere.

[¶25] GETA:
I entreat you—

> Latin: GETA:
Obsecro te—

[¶26] PHORMIO: (to himself.)
If he inquires.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Si rogabit?

[¶27] GETA:
In you is all our hope.

> Latin: GETA:
In te spes est—

[¶28] PHORMIO: (to himself.)
Look at this, now:—
What if he sends her back?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Eccere.
Quid si reddet?

[¶29] GETA:
It was you that urged us.

> Latin: GETA:
Tu impulisti—

[¶30] PHORMIO: (to himself.)
I think that will do.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Sic opinor.

[¶31] GETA:
Do help us.

> Latin: GETA:
Subveni.

[¶32] PHORMIO: (with alacrity.)
Let the old gentleman come; all my plans are now ready prepared in my mind.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Cedo senem: iam instructa sunt mihi in corde consilia omnia.

[¶33] GETA:
What will you do?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid ages?

[¶34] PHORMIO:
What would you have me? But that Phanium may continue with him, and that I may clear Antipho from this charge, and turn upon myself all the wrath of the old gentleman?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Quid vis nisi uti maneat Phanium, atque ex crimine hoc
Antiphonem eripiam, atque in me omnem iram derivem senis?

[¶35] GETA:
O brave and kind man! But, Phormio, I often
dread lest this courage may end in the stocks at last.

> Latin: GETA:
O vir fortis, atque amicus. Verum hoc saepe, Phormio,
Vereor, ne istaec fortitudo in nervum erumpat denique.

[¶36] PHORMIO:
Oh, by no means; I’ve made trial, and have already pondered on the paths for my feet. How many men before to-day do you suppose I have beaten, even to death, strangers as well as citizens: the better I understand it, the oftener I try it. Just tell me, look you, did you ever hear of an action of damages being brought against me?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ah,
Non ita est: factum est periclum: iam pedum visa est via.
Quot me censes homines iam deverberasse usque ad necem,
Hospites, tun cives? quo magis novi, tanto saepius.
Cedodum, en unquam iniuriarum audisti mihi scriptam dicam?

[¶37] GETA:
How is that?

> Latin: GETA:
Qui istuc?

[¶38] PHORMIO:
Because the net is never spread for the hawk or the kite, that do us the mischief; it is spread for those that do us none: because in the last there is profit, while with the others it is labor lost. For persons, out of whom any thing can be got, there’s risk from others; they know that I’ve got nothing. You will say: “They will take you, when sentenced, into their house;”
they have no wish to maintain a devouring fellow; and, in my opinion, they are wise, if for an injury they are unwilling to return the highest benefits.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Quia non rete accipitri tenditur neque miluo,
Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.
Quia enim in illis fructus est; in illis opera luditur.
Aliis aliunde est periclum unde aliquid abradi potest:
Mihi sciunt nihil esse. Dices, “Ducent damnatum domum:”
Alere nolunt hominem edacem; et sapiunt, mea quidem sententia,
Pro maleficio si beneficium summum nolunt reddere.

[¶39] GETA:
It’s impossible that sufficient thanks can be returned you by him for your kindness.

> Latin: GETA:
Non potest satis pro merito ab illo tibi referri gratia.

[¶40] PHORMIO:
Why no; no person can return thanks sufficient to his patron for his kindness. For you to take your place at table at free cost, anointed and just washed at the bath,
with your mind at ease, whereas he is devoured with the care and expense: while every thing is being done to give you delight, he is being vexed at heart; you are laughing away, first to drink, take the higher place; a banquet full of doubts is placed before you—

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Immo enim nemo satis pro merito gratiam regi refert.
Tene asymbolum venire, unctum atque lautum e balneis,
Otiosum ab animo, quum ille et cura et sumtu absumitur
Dum tibi sit quod placeat; ille ringitur, tu rideas;
Prior bibas, prior decumbas; coena dubia apponitur.

[¶41] GETA:
What is the meaning of that expression?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid istuc verbi est?

[¶42] PHORMIO:
When you are in doubt which in especial to par-take of. When you enter upon a consideration how delicious these things are, and how costly they are,
the person who provides them, must you not account him a very God—neither more nor less?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ubi tu dubites quid sumas potissimum.
Haec cum rationem ineas quam sint suavia et quam cara sint,
Ea qui praebet non tu hunc habeas plane praesentem Deum?

[¶43] GETA:
The old man is coming; take care what you are about; the first onset is the fiercest; if you stand that, then, afterward, you may play just as you please.
(They retire to a distance.)

> Latin: GETA:
Senex adest: vide quid agas: prima coitio est acerrima.
Si eam sustinueris, postilla iam, ut libet, ludas licet.

[¶44] (Enter, at a distance, DEMIPHO, HEGIO, CRATINUS, and CRITO, following him.)
DEMIPHO:
Well now—did you ever hear of an injury being done to any person in a more affronting manner than this has to me?
Assist me, I do beg of you.

> Latin: (DEMIPHO.
GETA. PHORMIO.)
DEMIPHO:
En unquam cuiquam contumeliosius
Audistis factam iniuriam quam haec est mihi?
Adeste, quaeso.

[¶45] GETA: (apart.)
He’s in a passion.

> Latin: GETA:
Iratus est.

[¶46] PHORMIO: (apart.)
Do you mind your cue; I’ll rouse him just now. (Stepping forward and crying aloud.) Oh immortal Gods! does Demipho deny that Phanium here is related to him?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Quin tu hoc age: st!
Iam ego hunc agitabo. Pro Deum immortalium!
Negat Phanium esse hanc sibi cognatam Demipho?
Hanc Demipho negat esse cognatam?

[¶47] GETA:
He does deny it.
DEMIPHO: (to his friends.)
I believe it is the very man I was speaking about. Follow me. (They all come forward.)

> Latin: GETA:
Negat.

[¶48] PHORMIO: (to GETA.)
And that he knows who her father was?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Neque eius patrem se scire qui fuerit?

[¶49] GETA:
He does deny it.

> Latin: GETA:
Negat.
DEMIPHO:
Ipsum esse opinor de quo agebam. Sequimini.

[¶50] PHORMIO:
And that he knows who Stilpho was?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Nec Stilphonem ipsum scire qui fuerit?

[¶51] GETA:
He does deny it.

> Latin: GETA:
Negat.

[¶52] PHORMIO:
Because the poor thing was left destitute, her father is disowned; she herself is slighted: see what avarice does.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Quia egens relicta est misera, ignoratur parens,
Negligitur ipsa: vide avaritia quid facit.

[¶53] GETA: (in a loud voice.)
If you are going to accuse my: master of avarice, you shall hear what you won’t like.

> Latin: GETA:
Si herum insimulabis avaritiae, male audies.

[¶54] DEMIPHO:
Oh, the impudence of the fellow! Does he come on purpose to accuse me?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
O audaciam! etiam me ultro accusatum advenit?

[¶55] PHORMIO:
For really, I have no reason why I should be offended at the young man, if he did not know him; since that person, when growing aged and poor, and supporting himself by his labor, generally confined himself to the country; there he had a piece of land from my father
to cultivate; full oft, in the mean time, did the old. man tell me that this kinsman of his neglected him: but what a man? The very best I ever saw in all my life.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Nam iam adolescenti nihil est quod succenseam,
Si illum minus norat: quippe homo iam grandior,
Pauper, cui opera vita erat, ruri fere
Se continebat: ibi agrum de nostro patre
Colendum habebat. Saepe interea mihi senex
Narrabat se hunc negligere cognatum suum:
At quem virum! quem ego viderim in vita optimum.

[¶56] GETA: (in a loud voice.)
Look to yourself as well as to him, how you speak.

> Latin: GETA:
Videas te atque illum ut narras.

[¶57] PHORMIO: (with affected indignation.)
Away, to utter perdition, with you. For if I had not formed such an opinion of him, I should never
have incurred such enmity with your family on her account, whom he now slights in such an ungenerous manner.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
I in malam crucem.
Nam nisi ita eum existimassem, nunquam tam graves
Ob hanc inimicitias caperem in vestram familiam,
Quam is aspernatur nunc tam illiberaliter.

[¶58] GETA: (aloud.)
What, do you persist in speaking abusively of my master in his absence, you most abominable fellow?

> Latin: GETA:
Pergin hero absenti male loqui, impurissime?

[¶59] PHORMIO:
Why, it’s just what he deserves.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Dignum autem hoc illo est.

[¶60] GETA: (aloud.)
Say you so, you jail-bird?

> Latin: GETA:
Ain tandem, career?

[¶61] DEMIPHO: (calling aloud.)
Geta!

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Geta.

[¶62] GETA: (aloud.)
A plunderer of people’s property—a perverter of the laws!

> Latin: GETA:
Bonorum extortor, legum contortor.

[¶63] DEMIPHO: (calling aloud.)
Geta!

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Geta.

[¶64] PHORMIO: (apart, in a low voice.)
Answer him.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Responde.

[¶65] GETA:
Who is it? (Looking round.) Oh!—

> Latin: GETA:
Quis homo est? ehem!

[¶66] DEMIPHO:
Hold your peace.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Tace.

[¶67] GETA:
He has never left off uttering abuse against you behind your back, unworthy of you, and just befitting himself.

> Latin: GETA:
Absenti tibi
Te indignas, seque dignas, contumelias
Nunquam cessavit dicere hodie.

[¶68] DEMIPHO:
Well now, have done. (Addressing PHORMIO.) Young man, in the first place, with your good leave, I ask you this, if you may possibly be pleased to give me an answer:
explain to me who this friend of yours was, that you speak of, and how he said that he was related to me.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Ohe, desine.
Adolescens, primum abs te hoc bona venia peto,
Si tibi placere potis est, mihi ut respondeas:
Quem amicum tuum ais fuisse istum? explana mihi:
Et qui cognatum me sibi esse diceret.

[¶69] PHORMIO: (sneeringly.)
You are fishing it out, just as if you didn’t know.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Proinde expiscare, quasi non nosses.

[¶70] DEMIPHO:
I, know?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Nossem?

[¶71] PHORMIO:
Yes.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ita.

[¶72] DEMIPHO:
I say I do not; you, Who affirm it, recall it to my recollection.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Ego me nego: tu qui ais redige in memoriam.

[¶73] PHORMIO:
Come now, didn’t you know your own cousin-ger-man?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Eho, tu sobrinum tuum non noras?

[¶74] DEMIPHO:
You torture me to death;
tell me his name.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Enicas:
Dic nomen.

[¶75] PHORMIO:
His name?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Nomen?

[¶76] DEMIPHO:
Of course. (PHORMIO hesitates.) Why are you silent now?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Maxime. Quid nunc taces?

[¶77] PHORMIO: (aside.)
Heavens, I’m undone; I’ve forgot the name.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Perii hercle: nomen perdidi.

[¶78] DEMIPHO:
Well, what do you say?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Hem, quid ais?

[¶79] PHORMIO: (aside, to GETA.)
Geta, if you recollect the name I told you a short time since, prompt me. (Aloud, to DEMIPHO.) Well then, I sha’n’t tell you; as if you didn’t know, you come to pump me.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Geta.
Si meministi id quod olim dictum est, subiice. Hem,
Non dico: quasi non noris, tentatum advenis.

[¶80] DEMIPHO:
I, come to pump you, indeed?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Egone autem tento?

[¶81] GETA: (whispering to PHORMIO.)
Stilpho.

> Latin: GETA:
Stilpho.

[¶82] PHORMIO:
But, after all, what matters that to me?
It is Stilpho.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Atque adeo quid mea?
Stilpho est.

[¶83] DEMIPHO:
Whom did you say?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quem dixti?

[¶84] PHORMIO:
Stilpho, I tell you; you knew him.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Stilphonem, inquam, noveras?

[¶85] DEMIPHO:
I neither know him, nor had I ever any relation of that name.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Neque ego illum noram; neque mihi cognatus fuit
Quisquam istoc nomine.

[¶86] PHORMIO:
Say you so? Are you not ashamed of this? But if he had left you ten talents—

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Itane? non te horum pudet?
At si talentum rem reliquisset decem—

[¶87] DEMIPHO:
May the Gods confound you!

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Di tibi malefaciant.

[¶88] PHORMIO:
You’d have been the first, from memory,
to trace your line of kindred, even as far back as from grandfather and great-grandfather.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
primus esses memoriter
Progeniem vestram usque ab avo atque atavo proferens.

[¶89] DEMIPHO:
Very likely what you say. In that case, when I had undertaken it, I should have shown how she was related to me; do you do the same: tell me, how is she related to me?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Ita ut dicis: ego tum si advenissem, qui mihi
Cognata ea esset dicererm: itidem tu face.
Cedo qui est cognata?

[¶90] GETA:
Well done, my master, that’s right! (Threateningly to PHORMIO.) Hark you, take you care.

> Latin: GETA:
Eu, noster, recte. Heus tu, cave.

[¶91] PHORMIO:
I’ve already made the matter quite plain where I ought,
before the judges; besides, if it was untrue, why didn’t your son disprove it?

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Dilucide expedivi quibus me oportuit
Iudicibus: tum, si id falsum fuerat, filius
Cur non refellit?

[¶92] DEMIPHO:
Do you talk about my son to me? Of whose folly there is no speaking in the language it deserves.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Filium narras mihi,
Cuius de stultitia dici ut dignum est non potest?

[¶93] PHORMIO:
Then do you, who are so wise, go to the magistrates, that for you they may give a second decision in the same cause,
since you reign alone here, and are the only man allowed to get a second trial in the same cause.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
At tu qui sapiens es magistratus adi;
Iudicium de eadem causa iterum ut reddant tibi;
Quandoquidem solus regnas, et soli licet
Hic de eadem causa bis iudicium adipiscier.

[¶94] DEMIPHO:
Although wrong has been done me, still, however, rather than engage in litigation, or listen to you, just as though she had been my relation, as the law orders
one to find her a portion, rid me of her, and take five minae.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Etsi mihi facta iniuria est, verumtamen
Potius quam lites secter, aut quam te audiam,
Itidem ut cognata si sit, id quod lex iubet
Dotem dare, abduce hanc, minas quinque accipe.

[¶95] PHORMIO:
laughing.) Ha, ha, ha! a pleasant individual!

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ha, ha, he! homo suavis.

[¶96] DEMIPHO:
Well! am I asking any thing unfair? Or am I not to obtain even this, which is my right at common law?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quid est? num iniquum postulo?
An ne hoc quidelm adipiscar ego, quod ius publicum est?

[¶97] PHORMIO:
Pray, really is it so, that when you have abused-her like a courtesan, the law orders you to pay her hire and pack her off? Or
is it the fact, that in order that a citizen may bring no disgrace upon herself through poverty, she has been ordered to be given to her nearest relative, to pass her life with him alone? A thing which you mean to prevent.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Itane tandem quæso, item ut meretricem ubi abusus sis,
Mercedem dare lex iubet ei atque amittere? An,
Ut ne quid turpe civis in se admitteret
Propter egestatem, proximo iussa est dari,
Ut cum uno aetatem degeret? quod tu vetas.

[¶98] DEMIPHO:
Yes, to her nearest.relative, indeed; but why to us, or on what ground?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Ita proximo quidem! At nos unde? aut quamobrem—

[¶99] PHORMIO:
Well, well, a thing tried, they say, you can’t try over again.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ohe,
Actum, aiunt, ne agas.

[¶100] DEMIPHO:
Not try it? On the contrary, I shall not desist
until I have gone through with it.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Non agam? immo haud desinam,
Donec perfecero hoc.

[¶101] PHORMIO:
You are trifling.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Ineptis.

[¶102] DEMIPHO:
Only let me alone for that.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Sine modo.

[¶103] PHORMIO:
In short, Demipho, I have nothing to do with you; your son has been cast, and not you; for your time of life for marrying has now gone by.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Postremo tecum nihil rei nobis, Demipho, est.
Tuus est damnatus gnatus, non tu; nam tua
Præterierat iam ad ducendum aetas.

[¶104] DEMIPHO:
Consider that it is he that says to you all I now say,
or else assuredly, together with this wife of his, I’ll be forbidding him the house.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Omnia haec
Illum putato quae ego nunc dico dicere;
Aut quidem cum uxore hac ipsum prohibebo domo.

[¶105] GETA: (aside.)
He’s in a passion.

> Latin: GETA:
Iratus est.

[¶106] PHORMIO:
You’ll be acting more considerately.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Tute idem melius feceris.

[¶107] DEMIPHO:
Are you so resolved, you unlucky fellow, to do me all the mischief you can?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Itane es paratus facere me adversum omnia,
Infelix?

[¶108] PHORMIO: (aside, to GETA.)
He’s afraid of us, although he’s so careful to conceal it.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Metuit hic nos, tametsi sedulo
Dissimulat.

[¶109] GETA: (aside, to PHORMIO.)
Your beginning has turned out well.

> Latin: GETA:
Bene habent tibi principia.

[¶110] PHORMIO:
But if, on the contrary,
you endure what must be endured, you’ll be doing what’s worthy of you, so that we may be on friendly terms.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Quin quod est
Ferendum fers? tuis dignum factis feceris,
Ut amici inter nos simus.

[¶111] DEMIPHO: (indignantly.)
What, I seek your friendship, or have any wish to see or hear you?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Egon tuam expetam
Amicitiam? aut te visum aut auditum velim?

[¶112] PHORMIO:
If you can agree with her, you will have some one to cheer up your old age; just consider your time of life.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Si concordabis cum illa, habebis quae tuam
Senectutem oblectet; respice aetatem tuam.

[¶113] DEMIPHO:
Let her cheer up yourself; keep her to yourself.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Te oblectet; tibi habe.

[¶114] PHORMIO:
Really, do moderate your passion.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Minue vero iram.

[¶115] DEMIPHO:
Mark what I say. There have been words enough already; if you don’t make haste to fetch away the woman, I shall turn her out: I have said it, Phormio.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Hoc age:
Satis iam verborum est: nisi tu properas mulierem
Abducere, ego illam eiiciam. Dixi, Phormio.

[¶116] PHORMIO:
If you use her in any other manner than is befitting a free-born woman, I shall be bringing a swinging action against you: I have said it, Demipho.
(To GETA.) Hark you, if there should be any occasion for me, I shall be at home.

> Latin: PHORMIO:
Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignum est liberam,
Dicam tibi impingam grandem: dixi, Demipho.
Si quid opus fuerit, heus, domo me.

[¶117] GETA: (apart.)
I understand you.
(Exit PHORMIO.)

> Latin: GETA:
Intelligo.

[¶118] (DEMIPHO, HEGIO, CRATINUS, CRITO, and GETA.)
DEMIPHO:
What care and anxiety my son does bring upon me, by entangling himself and me in this same marriage! And he doesn’t so much as come into my sight, that at least I might know what he says about this matter. or what his sentiments are.
(To GETA.) Be off, go see whether he has returned home or not by this.

> Latin: (DEMIPHO.
GETA.
HEGIO. CRATINUS. CRITO.)
DEMIPHO:
Quanta me cura et sollicitudine afficit
Gnatus, qui me et se hisce impedivit nuptiis;
Neque mihi in conspectum prodit, ut saltem sciam
Quid de hac re dicat, quidve sit sententiae.
Abi; vise redieritne iam an nondum domum.

[¶119] GETA:
I will. (Goes into the house.)

> Latin: GETA:
Eo.

[¶120] DEMIPHO: (to the ASSISTANTS.)
You see how the case stands. What am I to do? Tell me, Hegio.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Videtis quo in loco res haec siet.
Quid ago? dic, Hegio.

[¶121] HEGIO:
What, I? I think Cratinus ought, if it seems good to you.

> Latin: HEGIO:
Ego Cratinum censeo,
Si tibi videtur.

[¶122] DEMIPHO:
Tell me, Cratinus.
CRATINUS:
What, do you wish me to speak?
I should like you to do what is most for your advantage;
it is my opinion, that what this son of yours has done in your absence, in law and justice ought to be annulled; and that you’ll obtain redress. That’s my opinion.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Dic, Cratine.
CRATINUS:
Mene vis?

[¶123] DEMIPHO:
Say now, Hegio.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Te.
CRATINUS:
Ego quae in rem tuam sint ea velim facias: mihi
Sic hoc videtur. Quod te absente hic filius
Egit restitui in integrum aequum est et bonum,
Et id impetrabis: dixi.
DEMIPHO:
Dic nunc, Hegio.

[¶124] HEGIO:
I believe that he has spoken with due deliberation; but it is the fact, “as many men, so many minds;” every, one his own way.
It doesn’t appear to me that what has been done by law can be revoked; and it is wrong to attempt it.

> Latin: HEGIO:
Ego sedulo hunc dixisse credo: verum ita est,
Quot homines, tot sententiae; suus cuique mos.
Mihi non videtur quod sit factum legibus
Rescindi posse; et turpe inceptum est.

[¶125] DEMIPHO:
Speak, Crito.
CRITO:
I am of opinion that we must deliberate further; it is a, matter of importance.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Dic, Crito.
CRITO:
Ego amplius deliberandum censeo:
Res magna est.

[¶126] HEGIO:
Do you want any thing further with us?

> Latin: HEGIO:
Numquid nos vis?

[¶127] DEMIPHO:
You have done very well. (Exeunt ASSISTANTS.) I am much more at a loss than before.
(Re-enter GETA, from the house.)

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Fecistis probe:
Incertior sum multo quam dudum.

[¶128] GETA:
They say that he has not come back.

> Latin: GETA:
Negant
Redisse.

[¶129] DEMIPHO:
I must wait for my brother. The advice that he gives me about this matter, I shall follow. I’ll go make inquiry at the harbor, when he is to come back.
(Exit.)

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Frater est exspectandus mihi:
Is quod mihi dederit de hac re consilium id sequar.
Percontatum ibo ad portum, quoad se recipiat.

[¶130] GETA:
And I’ll go look for Antipho, that he may learn what has passed here. But look, I see him coming this way, just in the very nick of time.

> Latin: GETA:
At ego Antiphonem quaeram, ut quae acta hic sint sciat.
Sed eccum ipsum video in tempore huc se recipere.

[¶131] (Enter ANTIPHO, at a distance.)
ANTIPHO: (to himself.)
Indeed, Antipho, in many ways you are to be blamed for these feelings; to have thus run away, and intrusted your existence to the protection of other people. Did you suppose that others would give more attention to your interests than your own self? For, however other matters stood, certainly you should have thought of her whom you have now at home, that she might not suffer any harm in consequence of her confiding in you,
whose hopes and resources, poor thing, are all now centred in yourself alone.

> Latin: (ANTIPHO. GETA.)
ANTIPHO:
Enimvero, Antipho, multimodis cum istoc animo es vituperandus.
Itane te hinc abisse et vitam tuam tutandam aliis dedisse?
Alios tuam rem credidisti magis quam tete animadversuros?
Nam, ut ut erant alia, illi certe quae nunc tibi domi est consuleres,
Ne quid propter tuam fidem decepta pateretur mali,
Cuius nunc miserae spes opesque sunt in te uno omnes sitae.

[¶132] GETA: (coming forward.)
Why really, master, we have for some time been censuring you here in your absence, for having thus gone away.

> Latin: GETA:
Equidem, here, nos iam dudum hic te absentem incusamus qui abieris.

[¶133] ANTIPHO:
You are the very person I was looking for.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Te ipsum quaerebam.

[¶134] GETA:
But still, we were not a bit the more remiss on that account.

> Latin: GETA:
Sed ea causa nihilo magis defecimus.

[¶135] ANTIPHO:
Tell me, I beg of you, in what posture are my interests and fortunes. Has my father any suspicion?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Loquere, obsecro; quonam in loco sunt res et fortunae meae?
Numquid patri subolet?

[¶136] GETA:
Not any at present.

> Latin: GETA:
Nihil etiam.

[¶137] ANTIPHO:
Is there still any hope?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Et quid spei porro est?

[¶138] GETA:
I don’t know.

> Latin: GETA:
Nescio.

[¶139] ANTIPHO:
Alas!

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Ah.

[¶140] GETA:
But Phaedria has not neglected to use his endeavors in your behalf.

> Latin: GETA:
Nisi Phaedria haud cessavit pro te eniti.

[¶141] ANTIPHO:
He did nothing new.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Nihil fecit novi.

[¶142] GETA:
Then Phormio, too; in this matter, just as in every thing else, showed himself a man of energy.

> Latin: GETA:
Tur Phormio itidem in hac re, ut in aliis, strenuum hominem praebuit.

[¶143] ANTIPHO:
What did he do?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quid is fecit?

[¶144] GETA:
With his words he silenced the old man, who was very angry.

> Latin: GETA:
Confutavit verbis admodum iratum patrem.

[¶145] ANTIPHO:
Well done, Phormio!

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Eu, Phormio.

[¶146] GETA:
I, too, did all I could.

> Latin: GETA:
Ego quod potui porro.

[¶147] ANTIPHO:
My dear Geta, I love you all.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Mi Geta, omnes vos amo.

[¶148] GETA:
The commencement is just in this position, as I tell you: matters, at present are going on smoothly,
and your father intends to wait for your uncle till he arrives.

> Latin: GETA:
Sic habent principia sese ut dico: adhuc tranquilla res est;
Mansurusque patruum pater est, dum huc adveniat.

[¶149] ANTIPHO:
Why him?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quid eum?

[¶150] GETA:
He said he was wishful to act by his advice, in all that relates to this business.

> Latin: GETA:
Ut aibat,
De eius consilio sese velle facere, quod ad hanc rem attinet.

[¶151] ANTIPHO:
How greatly now, Geta, I do dread my uncle’s safe arrival! For, according to his single sentence, from what I hear, I am to live or die.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quantus metus est mihi venire huc salvum nunc patruum, Geta.
Nam per eius unam, ut audio, aut vivam aut moriar sententiam.

[¶152] GETA:
Here comes Phaedria.

> Latin: GETA:
Phaedria tibi adest.

[¶153] ANTIPHO:
Where is he, pray?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Ubinam?

[¶154] GETA:
See, he’s coming from his place of exercise.

> Latin: GETA:
Eccum ab sua palaestra exit foras.

[¶155] (Enter from DORIO’S house, DORIO, followed by PHAEDRIA.)
PHAEDRIA:
Prithee, hear me, Dorio.

> Latin: (PHAEDRIA.
DORIO.
ANTIPHO. GETA.)
PHAEDRIA:
Dorio, audi,
Obsecro.

[¶156] DORIO:
I’ll not hear you.

> Latin: DORIO:
Non audio.

[¶157] PHAEDRIA:
Only a moment.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Parumper.

[¶158] DORIO:
Let me alone.

> Latin: DORIO:
Quin omitte me.

[¶159] PHAEDRIA:
Do hear what I have to say.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Audi quod dicam.

[¶160] DORIO:
Why really I am tired of hearing the same thing a thousand times over.

> Latin: DORIO:
At enim taedet iam audire eadem millies.

[¶161] PHAEDRIA:
But now, I have something to tell you that you’ll hear with pleasure.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
At nunc dicam quod libenter audias.

[¶162] DORIO:
Speak then; I’m listening.

> Latin: DORIO:
Loquere, audio.

[¶163] PHAEDRIA:
Can I not prevail on you to wait for only three days? Whither are you going now?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Nequeo te exorare ut maneas triduum hoc? Quo nunc abis?

[¶164] DORIO:
I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer.

> Latin: DORIO:
Mirabar si tu mihi quicquam afferres novi.

[¶165] ANTIPHO: (apart, to GETA.)
I’m afraid for this Procurer, lest—

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Hei, metuo lenonem ne quid—suo suat capiti.

[¶166] GETA: (apart, to ANTIPHO.)
Something may befall his own safety.

> Latin: GETA:
Idem ego metuo.

[¶167] PHAEDRIA:
You don’t believe me?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Non mihi credis?

[¶168] DORIO:
You guess right.

> Latin: DORIO:
Hariolare.

[¶169] PHAEDRIA:
But if I pledge my word.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Sin fidem do.

[¶170] DORIO:
Nonsense!

> Latin: DORIO:
Fabulae.

[¶171] PHAEDRIA:
You will have reason to say that this kindness was well laid out by you on interest.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Foeneratum istuc beneficium tibi pulchre dices.

[¶172] DORIO:
Stuff!

> Latin: DORIO:
Logi.

[¶173] PHAEDRIA:
Believe me, you will be glad you did so; upon my faith, it is the truth.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Crede mihi, gaudebis facto: verum hercle hoc est.

[¶174] DORIO:
Mere dreams!

> Latin: DORIO:
Somnia.

[¶175] PHAEDRIA:
Do but try; the time is not long.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Experire; non est longum.

[¶176] DORIO:
The same story over again.

> Latin: DORIO:
Cantilenam eandem canis.

[¶177] PHAEDRIA:
You will be my kinsman, my father, my friend; you—

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Tu mihi cognatus, tu parens, tu amicus, tu—

[¶178] DORIO:
Now, do prate on.

> Latin: DORIO:
Garri modo.

[¶179] PHAEDRIA:
For you to be of a disposition so harsh and inexorable, that neither by pity nor by entreaties can you be softened!

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Adeone ingenio esse duro te atque inexorabili
Ut neque misericordia neque precibus molliri queas?

[¶180] DORIO:
For you to be of a disposition so unreasonable and so unconscionable, Phaedria,
that you can be talking me over with fine words, and be for amusing yourself with what’s my property for nothing!

> Latin: DORIO:
Adeon te esse incogitantem atque impudentem, Phaedria,
Ut phaleratis dictis ducas me, et meam ductes gratiis?

[¶181] ANTIPHO: (apart, to GETA.)
I am sorry for him.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Miseritum est.

[¶182] PHAEDRIA: (aside.)
Alas! I feel it to be too true.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Hei veris vincor.

[¶183] GETA: (apart, to ANTIPHO.)
How well each keeps up to his character!

> Latin: GETA:
Quam uterque est similis sui.

[¶184] PHAEDRIA: (to himself.)
And would that this misfortune had not befallen me at a time when Antipho was occupied with other cares as well.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Neque, Antipho alia quum occupatus esset sollicitudine,
Tum hoc esse mihi obiectum malum!

[¶185] ANTIPHO: (coming forward.)
Ah Phaedria, why, what is the matter?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Ah, quid istuc autem est, Phaedria?

[¶186] PHAEDRIA:
O most fortunate Antipho!

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
O fortunatissime Antipho.

[¶187] ANTIPHO:
What, I?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Egone?

[¶188] PHAEDRIA:
To have in your possession the object of your love,
and have no occasion to encounter such a nuisance as this.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Cui quod amas domi est;
Nec cum huiusmodi unquam usus venit ut conflictares malo.

[¶189] ANTIPHO:
What I, in my possession? Why yes, as the saying is, I’ve got a wolf by the ears; for I neither know how to get rid of her, nor yet how to keep her.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Mihin domi est? immo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum.
Nam neque quomodo a me amittam invenio; neque uti retineam scio.

[¶190] DORIO:
That’s just my case with regard to him (pointing to PHAEDRIA).

> Latin: DORIO:
Ipsum istuc mihi in hoc est.

[¶191] ANTIPHO: (to DORIO.)
Aye, aye, don’t you show too little of the Procurer. (To PHAEDRIA.) What has he been doing?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Heia, ne parum leno sies.
Numquid hic confecit?

[¶192] PHAEDRIA:
What, he? Acting the part of a most inhuman fellow;
been and sold my Pamphila.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Hicine? quod homo inhumanissimus:
Pamphilam meam vendidit.

[¶193] GETA:
What! Sold her?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid? vendidit?

[¶194] ANTIPHO:
Sold her, say you?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Aine “vendidit?”

[¶195] PHAEDRIA:
Sold her.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Vendidit.

[¶196] DORIO: (ironically.)
What a shocking crime—a wench bought with one’s own money!

> Latin: DORIO:
Quam indignum facinus, ancillam aere emtam suo!

[¶197] PHAEDRIA:
I can not prevail upon him to wait for me the next three days, and so far break off the bargain with the person, while I get the money from my friends, which has been promised me; if I don’t give it him then, let him not wait a single hour longer.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Nequeo exorare ut me maneat, et cum illo ut mutet fidem,
Triduum hoc, dum id quod est promissum ab amicis argentum aufero.
Si tum non dedero, unam praeterea horam ne oppertus sies.

[¶198] DORIO:
Very good.

> Latin: DORIO:
Obtundis.

[¶199] ANTIPHO:
It’s not a long time that he asks, Dorio; do let him prevail upon you; he’ll pay you two-fold for having acted to him thus obligingly.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Haud longum est id quod orat, Dorio: exoret sine:
Idem hoc tibi quod bene promeritus fueris conduplicaverit.

[¶200] DORIO:
Mere words!

> Latin: DORIO:
Verba istaec sunt.

[¶201] ANTIPHO:
Will you allow Pamphila to be carried away from this place? And then, besides, can you possibly allow their love to be severed asunder?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Pamphilamne hac urbe privari sines?
Tum praeterea horunc amorem distrahi poterin pati?

[¶202] DORIO:
Neither I nor you cause that.

> Latin: DORIO:
Neque ego, neque tu.

[¶203] GETA:
May all the Gods grant you what you are deserving of!

> Latin: GETA:
Di tibi omnes id quod es dignus duint.

[¶204] DORIO:
I have borne with you for several months quite against my inclination; promising and whimpering, and yet bringing nothing; now, on the other hand, I have found one to pay, and not be sniveling; give place to your betters.

> Latin: DORIO:
Ego te complures adversum ingenium meum menses tuli
Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem, flentem: nunc contra omnia haec,
Repperi qui det neque lacrimet; da locum melioribus.

[¶205] ANTIPHO:
I’ faith, there surely was a day named, if I remember right, for you to pay him.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Certe hercle, ego si satis commemini, tibi quidem est olim dies
Quam ad dares huic praestituta.

[¶206] PHAEDRIA:
It is the fact.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Factum.

[¶207] DORIO:
Do I deny it?

> Latin: DORIO:
Num ego istuc nego?

[¶208] ANTIPHO:
Is that day past, then?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Iam ea praeteriit?

[¶209] DORIO:
No; but this one has come before it.

> Latin: DORIO:
Non; verum haec ei antecessit.

[¶210] ANTIPHO:
Are you not ashamed of your perfidy?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Non pudet
Vanitatis?

[¶211] DORIO:
Not at all, so long as it is for my interest.

> Latin: DORIO:
Minime, dum ob rem.

[¶212] GETA:
Dunghill!

> Latin: GETA:
Sterquilinium.

[¶213] PHAEDRIA:
Dorio, is it right, pray, for you to act thus?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Dorio,
Itane tandem facere oportet?

[¶214] DORIO:
It is my way; if I suit you, make use of me.

> Latin: DORIO:
Sic sum: si placeo, utere.

[¶215] ANTIPHO:
Do you try to trifle with him (pointing to PHAEDRIA) in this manner?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Sicine hunc decipis?

[¶216] DORIO:
Why really, on the contrary, Antipho, it’s he trifling with me, for he knew me to be a person of this sort; I supposed him to be quite a different man;
he has deceived me; I’m not a bit different to him from what I was before. But however that may be, I’ll yet do this; the captain has said, that to-morrow morning he will pay me the money; if you bring it me before that, Phaedria, I’ll follow my rule, that he is the first served who is the first to pay. Farewell! (Goes into his house.)

> Latin: DORIO:
Immo enimvero, Antipho, hic me decipit:
Nam hic me huiusmodi esse scibat; ego hunc esse aliter credidi.
Iste me fefellit; ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui.
Sed utut haec sunt, tamen hoc faciam: cras mane argentum mihi
Miles dare se dixit: si mihi prior tu attuleris, Phaedria,
Mea lege utar, ut potior sit qui prior ad dandum est. Vale.

[¶217] (PHAEDRIA, ANTIPHO, and GETA.)
PHAEDRIA:
What am I to do? Wretch that I am! where am I now in this emergency to raise the money for him,
I, who am worse than nothing? If it had been possible for these three days to be obtained of him, it was promised me by then.

> Latin: (PHAEDRIA.
ANTIPHO. GETA.)
PHAEDRIA:
Quid faciam? Unde ego nunc tam subito huic argentum inveniam miser,
Cui minus nihilo est? quod si hic potuisset nunc exorarier
Triduum hoc, promissum fuerat.

[¶218] ANTIPHO:
Geta, shall we suffer him to continue thus wretched, when he so lately assisted me in the kind way you were mentioning? On the contrary, why not, as there’s need of it try to do him a kindness in return?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Itane hunc patiemur, Geta,
Fieri miserum, qui me dudum, ut dixti, adiurit comiter,
Quin, quum opus est, beneficium rursum ei experiamur reddere?

[¶219] GETA:
For my part, I’m sure it is but fair.

> Latin: GETA:
Scio quidem hoc esse aequum.

[¶220] ANTIPHO:
Come then, you are the only man able to serve him.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Age ergo, solus servare hunc potes.

[¶221] GETA:
What can I do?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid faciam?

[¶222] ANTIPHO:
Procure the money.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Invenias argentum.

[¶223] GETA:
I wish I could; but where it is to come from—tell me that.

> Latin: GETA:
Cupio; sed id unde edoce.

[¶224] ANTIPHO:
My father has come home.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Pater adest hic.

[¶225] GETA:
I know; but what of that?

> Latin: GETA:
Scio; sed quid tum?

[¶226] ANTIPHO:
Oh, a word to the wise is quite enough.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Ah, dictum sapienti sat est.

[¶227] GETA:
Is that it, then?

> Latin: GETA:
Itane?

[¶228] ANTIPHO:
Just so.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Ita.

[¶229] GETA:
Upon my faith, you really do give me fine advice; out upon you! Ought I not to be heartily glad, if I meet with no mishap through your marriage, but what, in addition to that, you must now bid me, for his sake, to be seeking risk upon risk?
ANTIPHO:’Tis true what he says.

> Latin: GETA:
Sane hercle pulchre suades: etiam tu hinc abis?
Non triumpho ex nuptiis tuis si nihil nanciscor mali,
Ni etiam nunc me huius causa quaerere in maloiubeas crucem?
ANTIPHO:
Verum hic dicit.

[¶230] PHAEDRIA:
What! am I a stranger to you, Geta?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Quid? ego vobis, Geta, alienus sum?

[¶231] GETA:
I don’t consider you so. But is it so trifling a matter that the old gentleman is now vexed with us all, that we must provoke him still more, and leave no room for entreaty?

> Latin: GETA:
Haud puto.
Sed parumne est quod omnibus nunc nobis succenset senex,
Ni instigemus etiam ut nullus locus relinquatur preci?

[¶232] PHAEDRIA:
Is another man to take her away from before my eyes to some unknown spot? Alas!
speak to me then, Antipho, and look upon me while you have the opportunity, and while I’m present.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Alius ab oculis meis illam in ignotum hinc abducet locum? Hem!
Tum igitur dum licet dumque adsum loquimini mecum, Antipho;
Contemplamini me.

[¶233] ANTIPHO:
Why so, or what are you going to do? Pray, tell me.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quamobrem? aut quidnam facturus es cedo?

[¶234] PHAEDRIA:
To whatever part of the world she is borne away, I’m determined to follow her or to perish.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum certum est persequi,
Aut perire.

[¶235] GETA:
May the Gods prosper your design! Cautiously’s the word, however.

> Latin: GETA:
Di bene vertant, quod agas; pedetentim tamen.

[¶236] ANTIPHO: (to GETA.)
Do see if you can give him any assistance at all.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Vide si quid opis potes afferre huic.

[¶237] GETA:
Any at all—how?

> Latin: GETA:
Si quid? quid?

[¶238] ANTIPHO:
Pray, do try, that he mayn’t be doing something that we may afterward be more or less sorry for, Geta.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quaere, obsecro,
Ne quid plus minusve faxit quod nos post pigeat, Geta.

[¶239] GETA:
I’m considering, (He pauses.) He’s all safe, so far as I can guess: but still, I’m afraid of mischief.

> Latin: GETA:
Quaero. Salvus est, ut opinor; verum enim metuo malum.

[¶240] ANTIPHO:
Don’t be afraid: together with you, we’ll share good and bad.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Noli metuere: una tecum bona mala tolerabimus.

[¶241] GETA: (to PHAEDRIA.)
How much money do you want? Tell me.

> Latin: GETA:
Quantum tibi opus est argenti? loquere.

[¶242] PHAEDRIA:
Only thirty minae.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Solae triginta minae.

[¶243] GETA:
Thirty? Heyday! she’s monstrous dear, Phaedria.

> Latin: GETA:
Triginta? hui percara est, Phaedria.

[¶244] PHAEDRIA:
Indeed, she’s very cheap.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Istaec vero vilis est.

[¶245] GETA:
Well, well, I’ll get them for you.

> Latin: GETA:
Age, age; inventas reddam.

[¶246] PHAEDRIA:
Oh the dear man! (They both fall to hugging GETA.)

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
O lepidum!

[¶247] GETA:
Take yourselves off. (Shakes them of.)

> Latin: GETA:
Aufer te hinc.

[¶248] PHAEDRIA:
There’s need for them directly.

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Iam opus est.

[¶249] GETA:
You shall have them directly;
but I must have Phormio for my assistant in this business.

> Latin: GETA:
Iam feres.
Sed opus est mihi Phormionem ad hanc rem adiutorem dari.

[¶250] ANTIPHO:
He’s quite ready; right boldly lay on him any load you like, he’ll bear it: he, in especial, is a friend to his friend.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Praesto est: audacissime oneris quidvis impone, et feret.
Solus est homo amico amicus.

[¶251] GETA:
Let’s go to him at once then.

> Latin: GETA:
Eamus ergo ad eum ocius.

[¶252] ANTIPHO:
Will you have any occasion for my assistance?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Numquid est quod opera mea vobis opus sit?

[¶253] GETA:
None; but be off home, and comfort that poor thing, who I am sure is now in-doors almost dead with fear. Do you linger?

> Latin: GETA:
Nihil: verum abi domum;
Et illam miseram, quam ego nunc intus scio esse exanimatam metu,
Consolare: Cessas?

[¶254] ANTIPHO:
There’s nothing I could do with so much pleasure.
(Goes into the house of DEMIPHO.)

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Nihil est aeque quod faciam libens.

[¶255] PHAEDRIA:
What way will you manage this?

> Latin: PHAEDRIA:
Qua via istuc facies?

[¶256] GETA:
I’ll tell you on the road; first thing, betake yourself off. (Exeunt.)

> Latin: GETA:
Dicam in itinere: modo te hinc amove.

[¶257] (Enter DEMIPHO and CHREMES.)
DEMIPHO:
Well, have you brought your daughter with you, Chremes, for whom you went to Lemnos?

> Latin: (DEMIPHO. CHREMES.)
DEMIPHO:
Quid qua profectus causa hinc es Lemnum, Chreme,
Adduxtin tecum filiam?

[¶258] CHREMES:
No.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Non.

[¶259] DEMIPHO:
Why not?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quid ita non?

[¶260] CHREMES:
When her mother found that I staid here longer than usual,
and at the same time the age of the girl did not suit with my delays, they told me that she, with all her family, set out in search of me.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Postquam videt me eius mater esse hic diutius,
Simul autem non manebat aetas virginis
Neam negligentiam, ipsam cum omni familia
Ad me profectam esse aibant.

[¶261] DEMIPHO:
Pray, then, why did you stay there so long, when you had heard of this?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quid illic tam diu,
Quaeso, igitur commorabare, ubi id audiveras?

[¶262] CHREMES:
Why, faith, a malady detained me.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Pol me detinuit morbus.

[¶263] DEMIPHO:
From what cause? Or what was it?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Unlde? aut qui?

[¶264] CHREMES:
Do you ask me?
Old age itself is a malady. However, I heard that they had arrived safe, from the caps tain who brought them.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Rogas?
Senectus ipsa est morbus; sed venisse eas
Salvas audivi ex nauta qui illas vexerat.

[¶265] DEMIPHO:
Have you heard, Chremes, what has happened to my son in my absence?
CHREMES:’Tis that, in fact, that has embarrassed me in my plans. For if I offer my daughter in marriage to any person that’s a stranger,
it must all be told how and by whom I had her. You I knew to be fully as faithful to me as I am to myself; if a stranger shall think fit to be connected with me by marriage, he will hold his tongue, just as long as good terms exist between us: but if he takes a dislike to me, he’ll be knowing more than it’s proper he should know.
I am afraid, too, lest my wife should, by some means, come to know of it; if that is the case, it only remains for me to shake myself and leave the house; for I’m the only one I can rely on at home.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quid gnato obtigerit me absente audistin, Chreme?
CHREMES:
Quod quidem me factum consili incertum facit;
Nam hanc conditionem si cui tulero extrario,
Quo pacto aut unde mihi sit dicendum ordine est.
Te mihi fidelem ess aeque atque egomet sum mihi
Scibam: ille, si me alienus affinem volet,
Tacebit dum intercedet familiaritas;
Sin spreverit me, plus quam opus est scito sciet:
Vereorque ne uxor aliqua hoc resciscat mea;
Quod si fit, ut me excutiam atque egrediar domo
Id restat; nam ego meorum solus sum meus.

[¶266] DEMIPHO:
I know it is so, and that circumstance is a cause of anxiety to me; and I shall never cease trying,
until I’ve made good what I promised you.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Scio ita esse; et istaec mihi res sollicitudini est:
Neque defetiscar usque adeo experirier,
Donec tibi id quod pollicitus sum effecero.

[¶267] (Enter GETA, on the other side of the stage, not seeing DEMIPHO or CHREMES.)
GETA: (to himself.)
I never saw a more cunning fellow than this Phormio. I came to the fellow to tell him that money was needed, and by what means it might be procured. Hardly had I said one half, when he understood me;
he was quite delighted; complimented me; asked where the old man was; gave thanks to the Gods that an opportunity was afforded him for showing himself no less a friend to Phaedria than to Antipho: I bade the fellow wait for me at the Forum; whither I would bring the old gentleman.
But see, here’s the very man (catching sight of the Old Man). Who is the further one? Heyday, Phaedria’s father has got back! still, brute beast that I am, what was I afraid of? Is it because two are presented instead of one for me to dupe? I deem it preferable to enjoy a two-fold hope. I’ll try for it from him from whom I first intended: if he gives it me, well and good; if I can make nothing of him, then I’ll attack this new-comer.

> Latin: (GETA.)
GETA:
Ego hominem callidiorem vidi neminem
Quam Phormionem: venio ad hominem ut dicerem
Argentum opus esse, et id quo pacto fieret:
Vixdum dimidium dixeram, intellexerat;
Gaudebat; me laudabat; quaerebat senem;
Dis gratias agebat, tempus sibi dari
Ubi Phaedriae esse ostenderet nihilo minus
Amicum sese quam Antiphoni: hominem ad forum
Iussi operiri; eo me esse adducturum senem.
Sed eccum ipsum: quis est ulterior? atat, Phaedriae
Pater venit: sed quid pertimui autem, bellua?
An quia quos fallam pro uno duo sunt mihi dati?
Commodius esse opinor duplici spe utier.
Petam hinc unde a primo institui: is si dat, sat est:
Si ab eo nihil fiet, tum hunc adoriar hospitem.

[¶268] (Enter ANTIPHO from the house, behind at a distance.)
ANTIPHO: (to himself.)
I’m expecting every moment that Geta will be here. But I see my uncle standing close by, with my father. Ah me! how much I fear what influence his return may have upon my father!

> Latin: (ANTIPHO.
GETA.
CHREMES. DEMIPHO.)
ANTIPHO:
Exspecto quam mox recipiat huc sese Geta:
Sed patruum video cum patre adstantem. Hei mihi,
Quam timeo adventus huius quo impellat patrem.

[¶269] GETA: (to himself)
I’ll accost them. (Goes up to them.) O welcome to you, our neighbor Chremes.

> Latin: GETA:
Adibo hosce, O noster Chreme.

[¶270] CHREMES:
Save you, Geta.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Salve, Geta.

[¶271] GETA:
I’m delighted to see you safe returned.

> Latin: GETA:
Venire salvum volupe est.

[¶272] CHREMES:
I believe you.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Credo.

[¶273] GETA:
How go matters?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid agitur?

[¶274] CHREMES:
Many changes here upon my arrival, as usually the case.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Multa advenienti, ut fit, nova hic compluria.

[¶275] GETA:
True; have you heard what has happened to Antipho?

> Latin: GETA:
Ita: de Antiphone audistin quae facta?

[¶276] CHREMES:
All.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Omnia.

[¶277] GETA: (to DEMIPHO.)
What, have you told him? Disgraceful conduct, Chremes, thus to be imposed on.

> Latin: GETA:
Tun dixeras huic? facinus indignum, Chreme,
Sic circumiri.

[¶278] DEMIPHO:
It was about that I was talking to him just now.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Id cum hoc agebam commodum.

[¶279] GETA:
But really, on carefully reflecting upon this matter I think I have found a remedy.

> Latin: GETA:
Nalm hercle ego quoque id quidem agitans mecum sedulo
Inveni, opinor, remedium huic rei.
CHREMES:
Quid, Geta?

[¶280] DEMIPHO:
What is the remedy?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quod remedium?

[¶281] GETA:
When I left you, by accident Phormio met me.

> Latin: GETA:
Ut abii abs te, fit forte obviam
Mihi Phormio.

[¶282] CHREMES:
Who is Phormio?

> Latin: CHREMES:
Qui Phormio?

[¶283] GETA:
He who patronized her.

> Latin: GETA:
Is qui istam.

[¶284] CHREMES:
I understand.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Scio.

[¶285] GETA:
It seemed to me that I might first sound him;
I took the fellow aside: “Phormio,” said I, “why don’t we try to settle these matters between us rather with a good grace than with a bad one? My master’s a generous man, and one who hates litigation; but really, upon my faith, all his friends were just now ”
“advising him with one voice to turn her instantly out of doors.”

> Latin: GETA:
Visum est mihi ut eius tentarem sententiam.
Prendo hominem solum:“Cur non,” inquam, “Phormio,”
“Vides inter nos sic haec potius cum bona”
“Ut componantur gratia quam cum mala?”
“Herus liberalis est, et fugitans litium:”
“Nam caeteri quidem hercle amici omnes modo”
“Uno ore auctores fuere ut praecipitem hanc daret.”

[¶286] ANTIPHO: (apart.)
What is he about? Or where is this to end at last?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quid hic coeptat? aut quo evadet hodie?

[¶287] GETA: (continuing the supposed conversation.)
“He’ll have to give satisfaction at law, you say, if he turns her out? That has been already inquired into: aye, aye, you’ll have enough to do, if you engage with him; he is so eloquent.”
“But suppose he’s beaten; still, however, it’s not his life, but his money that’s at stake.” After I found that the fellow was influenced by these words, I said: “We are now by ourselves here; come now, what should you like to be given you, money down, to drop this suit with my master,”
“so that she may betake herself off, and you annoy us no more?”

> Latin: GETA:
“An legibus”
“Daturum poenas dices, si illam eiecerit?”
“Iam id exploratum est. Heia, sudabis satis,”
“Si cum illo inceptas homine: ea eloquentia est.”
“Verum pone esse victum eum: at tandem tamen”
“Non capitis eius res agitur, sed pecuniae.”
Postquam hominem his verbis sentio mollirier,
“Soli sumus nunc hic,” inquam; “eho dic, quid velis dari”
“Tibi in manum, ut herus his desistat litibus;”
“Haec hinc facessat; tu molestus ne sies.”

[¶288] ANTIPHO: (apart.)
Are the Gods quite on good terms with him?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Satin illi Di sunt propitii?

[¶289] GETA: (continuing the conversation.)
“For I’m quite sure, if you were to mention any thing that’s fair and reasonable, as he is a reasonable man, you’ll not have to bandy three words with him.”

> Latin: GETA:
“Nam sat scio,”
“Si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris,”
“Ut est ille bonus vir, tria non commutabitis”
“Verba hodie inter vos.”

[¶290] DEMIPHO:
Who ordered you to say so?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quis te istaec iussit loqui?

[¶291] CHREMES:
Nay, he could not have more happily contrived to bring about what we want.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Immo non potuit melius pervenirier
Eo quo nos volumus.

[¶292] ANTIPHO: (apart.)
Undone!

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Occidi.

[¶293] CHREMES:
Go on with your story.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Perge eloqui.

[¶294] GETA:
At first the fellow raved.
DEMIPHO:
Say, what did he ask?

> Latin: GETA:
A primo homo insanibat.
CHREMES:
Cedo, quid postulat?

[¶295] GETA:
What? A great deal too much.

> Latin: GETA:
Quid? nimium quantum libuit.

[¶296] CHREMES:
How much? Tell me.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Die.

[¶297] GETA:
Suppose he were to give a great talent.
DEMIPHO:
Aye, faith, perdition to him rather; has he no shame?

> Latin: GETA:
Si quis daret
Talentum magnum.
CHREMES:
Immo malum hercle: ut nihil pudet.

[¶298] GETA:
Just what I said to him: “Pray,” said I, “suppose he was portioning an only daughter of his own. It has been of little benefit that he hasn’t one of his own, when another has been found to be demanding a fortune.” To be brief, and to pass over his impertinences, this at last was his final answer:
“I,” said he, “from the very first, have been desirous to marry the daughter of my friend, as was fit I should; for I was aware of the ill results of this, a poor wife being married into a rich family, and becoming a slave. But, as I am now conversing with you unreservedly,”
“I was in want of a wife to bring me a little money with which to pay off my debts; and even yet, if Demipho is willing to give as much as I am to receive with her to whom I am engaged, there is no one whom I should better like for a wife.”

> Latin: GETA:
Quod dixi adeo ei. “Quaeso quid si filiam”
“Suam unicam locaret? parvi retulit”
“Non suscepisse: inventa est quae dotem petat.”
Ad pauca ut redeam, ac mittam illius ineptias;
Haec denique eius fuit postrema oratio:
“Ego,” inquit, “iam a principio amici filiam,”
“Ita ut acquum fuerat, volui uxorem ducere:”
“Nam mihi veniebat in mentem eius incommodum,”
“In servitutem pauperem ad ditem dari:”
“Sed mihi opus crat, ut aperte tibi nunc fabuler,”
“Aliquantulum quae afferret qui dissolverem”
“Quae debeo; et etiam nunc, si vult Demipho”
“Dare quantum ab hac accipio quae sponsa est mihi,”
“Nullam mihi malim quam istanc, uxorem dari.”

[¶299] ANTIPHO: (apart.)
Whether to say he’s doing this through folly or mischief,
through stupidity or design, I’m in doubt.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Utrum stultitia facere ego hunc an malitia
Dicam, scientem an imprudentem, incertus sum.

[¶300] DEMIPHO:
What if he’s in debt to the amount of his life?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quid si animam debet?

[¶301] GETA:
His land is mortgaged,—for ten minae he said.

> Latin: GETA:
“Ager oppositus est pignori,”
“Ob decem minas,” inquit.

[¶302] DEMIPHO:
Well, well, let him take her then; I’ll give it.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Age, age; iam ducat: dabo.

[¶303] GETA:
He has a house besides, mortgaged for another ten.

> Latin: GETA:
“Aediculae item sunt ob decem alias.”

[¶304] DEMIPHO:
Huy, huy! that’s too much.

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Oi! hui!
Nimium est.

[¶305] CHREMES:
Don’t be crying out; you may have those ten of me.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Ne clama: petito hasce a me decem.

[¶306] GETA:
A lady’s maid must be brought for his wife; and then too, a little more is wanted for some furniture, and some is wanted for the wedding expenses. “Well then,” said he, “for these items, put down ten more.”

> Latin: GETA:
“Uxori emenda ancillula est: tum pluscula”
“Supellectile opus est: opus est sumtu ad nuptias:”
“His rebus sane pone,” inquit, “decem minas.”

[¶307] DEMIPHO:
Then let him at once bring six hundred actions against me; I shall give nothing at all; is this dirty fellow to be laughing at me as well?

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Sexcentas proinde scribito iam mihi dicas.
Nihil do: impuratus me ille ut etiam irrideat?

[¶308] CHREMES:
Pray do be quiet; I’ll give it: do you only bring your son to marry the woman we want him to have.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Quaeso, ego dabo, quiesce: tu modo filius
Fac ut illam ducat nos quam volumus.

[¶309] ANTIPHO: (apart.)
Ah me! Geta, you have ruined me by your treachery.
CHREMES:’Tis on my account she’s turned off; it’s right that I should bear the loss.

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Hei mihi,
Geta, occidisti me tuis fallaciis.
CHREMES:
Mea causa eiicitur: me hoc est aequum amittere.

[¶310] GETA:
“Take care and let me know,” said he, “as soon as possible,”
“if they are going to let me have her, that I may get rid of the other, so that I mayn’t be in doubt; for the others have agreed to.pay me down the portion directly.”

> Latin: GETA:
“Quantum potest me certiorem,” inquit, “face;”
“Si illam dant, hanc ut mittam; ne incertus siem;”
“Nam illi mihi dotem iam constituerunt dare.”

[¶311] CHREMES:
Let him have her at once; let him give notice to them that he breaks off the match with the other, and let him marry this woman.

> Latin: CHREMES:
Iam accipiat; illis repudium renuntiet;
Hanc ducat.

[¶312] DEMIPHO:
Yes, and little joy to him of the bargain!

> Latin: DEMIPHO:
Quae quidem illi res vertat male.

[¶313] CHREMES:
Luckily, too, I’ve now brought home some money with me,
the rents which my wife’s farms at Lemnos produce. I’ll take it out of that, and tell my wife that you had occasion for it.
(They go into the house of CHREMES.)

> Latin: CHREMES:
Opportune adeo argentum nunc mecum attuli,
Fructum quem Lemni uxoris reddunt praedia:
Id sumam: uxori tibi opus esse dixero.

[¶314] (ANTIPHO and GETA.)
ANTIPHO: (coming forward.)
Geta.

> Latin: (ANTIPHO. GETA.)
ANTIPHO:
Geta.

[¶315] GETA:
Well.

> Latin: GETA:
Hem.

[¶316] ANTIPHO:
What have you been doing?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quid egisti?

[¶317] GETA:
Diddling the old fellows out of their money.

> Latin: GETA:
Emunxi argento senes.

[¶318] ANTIPHO:
Is that quite the thing?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Satin est id?

[¶319] GETA:
I’ faith, I don’t know: it’s just what I was told to do.

> Latin: GETA:
Nescio hercle: tantum iussus sum.

[¶320] ANTIPHO:
How now, whip-scoundrel, do you give me an answer to what I don’t ask you?
(Kicks him.)

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Eho, verbero, aliud mihi respondes ac rogo?

[¶321] GETA:
What was it then that you did ask?

> Latin: GETA:
Quid ergo narras?

[¶322] ANTIPHO:
What was it I did ask? Through your agency, matters have most undoubtedly come to the pass that I may go hang myself. May then all the Gods, Goddesses, Deities above and below, with every evil confound you! Look now, if you wish any thing to succeed, intrust it to him who may bring you from smooth water on to a rock.
What was there less advantageous than to touch upon this sore, or to name my wife? Hopes have been excited in my father that she may possibly be got rid of. Pray now, tell me, suppose Phormio receives the portion, she must be taken home by him as his wife: what’s to become of me?

> Latin: ANTIPHO:
Quid ego narrem? opera tua
Ad restim mihi quidem res rediit planissime.
Ut te quidem omnes Di, Deaeque, Superi, Inferi,
Malis exemplis perdant. Hem, si quid velis,
Huic mandes, qui te ad scopulum e tranquillo auferat.
Quid minus utibile fuit quam hoc ulcus tangere,
Aut nominare uxorem? iniecta est spes patri
Posse illam extrudi. Cedo nunc porro, Phormio
Dotem si accipiet, uxor ducenda est domum:
Quid fiet?