Terence: Andria

INCIPIT ANDRIA TERENTI
ACTA LVDIS MEGALENSIBVS
M. FVLVIO M'. GLABRIONE AEDILIB. CVRVLIB.
EGERE L. AMBIVIVS TVRPIO L. HATILIVS PRAENESTINVS
MODOS FECIT FLACCVS CLAVDI
TIBIS PARIBVS TOTA
GRAECA MENANDRV
FACTA PRIMA
M. MARCELLO C. SVLPICIO COS.

HERE BEGINS THE ANDRIA OF TERENCE
PERFORMED AT THE MEGALENSIAN GAMES
UNDER THE CURULE AEDILES M. FULVIUS AND M'. GLABRIO
ACTED BY L. AMBIVIUS TURPIO AND L. HATILIUS OF PRAENESTE
THE MELODIES WERE COMPOSED BY FLACCUS OF CLAUDIUS
WITH EQUAL PIPES THROUGHOUT
FROM THE GREEK OF MENANDER
FIRST PERFORMED
IN THE CONSULSHIP OF M. MARCELLUS AND C. SULPICIUS

PERSONAE

PERSONS

PROLOGUS
SIMO SENEX
SOSIA LIBERTVS
DAVOS SERVOS
MYSIS ANCILLA
PAMPHILVS ADVLESCENS
CHARINVS ADVLESCENS
BYRRIA SERVOS
LESBIA OBSTETRIX
GLYCERIVM MVLIER
CHREMES SENEX
CRITO SENEX
DROMO LORARIVS

PROLOGUE
SIMO, OLD MAN
SOSIA, FREEDMAN
DAVOS, SLAVE
MYSIS, MAIDSERVANT
PAMPHILUS, ADOLESCENT
CHARINUS, ADOLESCENT
BYRRIA, SLAVE
LESBIA, MIDWIFE
GLYCERIUM, WOMAN
CHREMES, OLD MAN
CRITO, OLD MAN
DROMO, WHIP-MASTER

PERIOCHA
G. SVLPICI APOLLINARIS

SUMMARY
OF G. SULPICIUS APOLLINARIS

Sororem falso creditam meretriculae
Genere Andriae, Glycerium, uitiat Pamphilus
Grauidaque facta dat fidem, uxorem sibi
Fore hanc; namque aliam pater ei desponderat,
Gnatam Chremetis, atque ut amorem comperit,
Simulat futuras nuptias, cupiens suus
Quid haberet animi filius cognoscere.
Daui suasu non repugnat Pamphilus.
Sed ex Glycerio natum ut uidit puerulum
Chremes, recusat nuptias, generum abdicat.

Glycerium, of Andrian lineage, falsely believed to be the sister of a little courtesan,
Pamphilus deflowers; and when she has been made pregnant he gives his pledge that
this woman will be his wife; for his father had betrothed another to him,
the daughter of Chremes; and when he discovered the love,
he simulates forthcoming nuptials, wishing to learn what
his son had in mind.
Daus’s urging, Pamphilus does not resist.
But when Chremes saw the little boy born from Glycerium,
he refuses the nuptials, and renounces his son-in-law.

Mox Pamphilo, aliam dat Charino coniugem.

Soon, for Pamphilus’s sake, he gives Charinus another wife.

PROLOGVS

PROLOGUE

Poeta quom primum animum ad scribendum adpulit,
id sibi negoti credidit solum dari,
populo ut placerent quas fecisset fabulas.
verum aliter evenire multo intellegit;
nam in prologis scribundis operam abutitur, 5
non qui argumentum narret sed qui malevoli
veteris poetae maledictis respondeat.
nunc quam rem vitio dent quaeso animum adtendite.

When the poet first applied his mind to writing,
he believed that only this business was given to himself,
that the plays he had made should please the people.
but he understands it turns out much otherwise;
for in writing prologues he abuses his effort, 5
not to narrate the argument but so that he may respond
to the maledictions of a malevolent old poet.
now, to what matter they impute as a fault, I ask, give your attention.

Menander fecit Andriam et Perinthiam.
qui utramvis recte norit ambas noverit: 10
non ita dissimili sunt argumento, [s]et tamen
dissimili oratione sunt factae ac stilo.
quae convenere in Andriam ex Perinthia
fatetur transtulisse atque usum pro suis.

Menander made the Andria and the Perinthia.
whoever rightly knows either one will know both: 10
they are not so dissimilar in their argument, but nevertheless
they have been made with dissimilar oration and style.
the things which came into the Andria from the Perinthia
he admits he transferred and used as his own.

id isti vituperant factum atque in eo disputant 15
contaminari non decere fabulas.
faciuntne intellegendo ut nil intellegant?
qui quom hunc accusant, Naevium Plautum Ennium
accusant quos hic noster auctores habet,
quorum aemulari exoptat neglegentiam 20
potius quam istorum obscuram diligentiam.

They criticize that deed and argue this point 15
that it is not fitting for plays to be contaminated.
Do they, by “understanding,” contrive that they understand nothing?
For when they accuse this man, they accuse Naevius, Plautus, Ennius
whom our man here has as authors,
whose negligence he longs to emulate 20
rather than the obscure diligence of those men.

de(h)inc ut quiescant porro moneo et desinant
male dicere, malefacta ne noscant sua.
favete, adeste aequo animo et rem cognoscite,
ut pernoscatis ecquid <spei> sit relicuom, 25
posthac quas faciet de integro comoedias,
spectandae an exigendae sint vobis prius.

Then, furthermore, I advise that they be quiet and cease to speak ill, lest they come to know their own malefactions.
Favor us, be present with an even mind, and know the matter,
so that you may thoroughly know whether any hope is left remaining, 25
hereafter, in the comedies he will make anew,
whether they ought to be watched or examined by you first.

ACTVS I

ACT 1

Simo Sosia

SI. Vos istaec intro auferte: abite.-- Sosia,
ades dum: paucis te volo. SO. dictum puta:
nempe ut curentur recte haec? SI. immo aliud.

SI. You, carry these things inside: be off.-- Sosia,
come here a bit: I want you for a few words. SO. Consider it said:
namely, that these things be properly seen to? SI. No—something else.

SO. quid est 30
quod tibi mea ars efficere hoc possit amplius?
SI. nil istac opus est arte ad hanc rem quam paro,
sed eis quas semper in te intellexi sitas,
fide et taciturnitate. SO. exspecto quid velis.

SO. what is it 30
what can my art accomplish further for you in this?
SI. there is no need of that art for this matter which I am preparing,
but of those which I have always understood to be situated in you,
fidelity and taciturnity. SO. I await what you wish.

SI. ego postquam te emi, a parvolo ut semper tibi 35
apud me iusta et clemens fuerit servitus
scis. feci ex servo ut esses libertus mihi,
propterea quod servibas liberaliter:
quod habui summum pretium persolvi tibi.
SO. in memoria habeo.

SI. ever since I bought you, from boyhood, that always for you 35
with me the servitude has been just and clement
you know. I made you, from a slave, to be my freedman,
because you served liberally:
the highest price I had I paid in full to you.
SO. I have it in memory.

SI. haud muto factum. SO. gaudeo 40
si tibi quid feci aut facio quod placeat, Simo,
et id gratum <fui>sse advorsum te habeo gratiam.
sed hoc mihi molestumst; nam istaec commemoratio
quasi exprobratiost inmemoris benefici.

SI. I do not alter the deed. SO. I rejoice 40
if I have done or do anything that may please you, Simo,
and I have gratitude that this has been gratifying toward you.
but this is troublesome to me; for that commemoration
is as if a reproach of a forgotten benefaction.

quin tu uno verbo dic quid est quod me velis. 45
SI. ita faciam. hoc primum in hac re praedico tibi:
quas credis esse has non sunt verae nuptiae.
SO. quor simulas igitur?

why don’t you, in one word, say what it is that you want of me. 45
SI. I will do so. This first, in this matter, I predeclare to you:
what you believe these to be—these are not true nuptials.
SO. why do you simulate, then?

SI. rem omnem a principio audies:
<eo> pacto et gnati vitam et consilium meum
cognosces et quid facere in hac re te velim. 50
nam is postquam excessit ex ephebis, Sosia, <et>
~liberius vivendi fuit potestas~ (nam antea
qui scire posses aut ingenium noscere,
dum aetas metus magister prohibebant? SO. itast.)
SI. quod plerique omnes faciunt adulescentuli, 55
ut animum ad aliquod studium adiungant, aut equos
alere aut canes ad venandum aut ad philosophos,
horum ille nil egregie praeter cetera
studebat et tamen omnia haec mediocriter.
gaudebam.

SI. you will hear the whole matter from the beginning:
in this way you will come to know both my son’s life and my counsel,
and what I would wish you to do in this matter. 50
for after he departed from the ephebes, Sosia,
~there was a freer power of living~ (for before,
how could you know or come to know his disposition,
while age and fear the master were prohibiting? SO. it is so.)
SI. what nearly all adolescent lads do, 55
that they attach their mind to some study, either to keep horses,
or dogs for hunting, or to the philosophers,
of these he pursued nothing exceptionally beyond the rest,
and yet all these moderately. I rejoiced.

SO. non iniuria; nam id arbitror 60
adprime in vita esse utile, ut nequid nimis.
SI. sic vita erat: facile omnis perferre ac pati;
cum quibus erat quomque una is sese dedere,
<eo>rum obsequi studiis, adversus nemini,
numquam praeponens se illis; ita ut facillume 65
sine invidia laudem invenias et amicos pares.
SO. sapienter vitam instituit; namque hoc tempore
obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.

SO. not without reason; for I consider that 60
especially in life it is useful, that nothing be in excess.
SI. such was his life: to endure and bear everything easily; with whomsoever he was and whenever together, he would give himself over,
to comply with their pursuits, opposed to no one,
never putting himself before them; in such a way that most easily 65
without envy you may find praise and friends as equals.
SO. he established his life wisely; for at this time
compliance begets friends, truth begets hatred.

SI. interea mulier quaedam abhinc triennium
ex Andro commigravit huc viciniae, 70
inopia et cognatorum neglegentia
coacta, egregia forma atque aetate integra.
SO. ei, vereor nequid Andria adportet mali!
SI. primo haec pudice vitam parce ac duriter
agebat, lana ac tela victum quaeritans; 75
sed postquam amans accessit pretium pollicens
unus et item alter, ita ut ingeniumst omnium
hominum ab labore proclive ad lubidinem,
accepit condicionem, de(h)inc quaestum occipit.

SI. meanwhile a certain woman three years ago
from Andros migrated here to the neighborhood, 70
compelled by poverty and the neglect of her kinsfolk,
of excellent form and with her age intact. SO. ah, I fear lest Andria bring some evil!
SI. at first she was living chastely, sparingly and harshly,
seeking her victual by wool and loom; 75
but after a lover approached promising a price—one, and likewise another—just as the nature of all
humans is prone from labor to libido,
she accepted the terms; thereafter she begins the trade.

qui tum illam amabant forte, ita ut fit, filium 80
perduxere illuc, secum ut una esset, meum.
egomet continuo mecum "certe captus est:
habet". observabam mane illorum servolos
venientis aut abeuntis: rogitabam "heus puer,
dic sodes, quis heri Chrysidem habuit?" nam Andriae 85
illi id erat nomen. SO. teneo.

those who then happened to be loving her, as happens, led my son 80
there, so that he might be together with them, with them.
I myself immediately to myself, "surely he is captured:
he has it." I was observing in the morning their little slave-boys
coming or going: I kept asking, "hey, boy,
tell, please, who had Chrysis yesterday?" for to that Andrian 85
woman that was the name. SO. I get it.

SI. Phaedrum aut Cliniam
dicebant aut Niceratum; ~nam i tres tum simul~
amabant. "eho quid Pamphilus?" "quid? symbolam
dedit, cenavit." gaudebam.

SI. They used to say Phaedrus or Clinia
they used to say or Niceratus; ~for 1 the three then at the same time~
were in love. "Hey, what about Pamphilus?" "What? He paid his share,
he dined." I rejoiced.

item alio die
quaerebam: comperibam nil ad Pamphilum 90
quicquam attinere. enimvero spectatum satis
putabam et magnum exemplum continentiae;
nam qui cum ingeniis conflictatur ei(u)s modi
neque commovetur animus in ea re tamen,
scias posse habere iam ipsum <suae> vitae modum. 95
quom id mihi placebat tum uno ore omnes omnia
bona dicere et laudare fortunas meas,
qui gnatum haberem tali ingenio praeditum.
quid verbis opus est?

likewise on another day
I was inquiring: I discovered that nothing at all pertained to Pamphilus 90
indeed I thought him sufficiently tested
and a great example of continence;
for he who grapples with dispositions of that sort
and yet his mind is not moved in that matter,
you may know that he himself is now able to have the measure of his <suae> life. 95
when this pleased me, then with one voice everyone began to say all good things
and to praise my fortunes, that I had a son endowed with such a disposition.
what need is there of words?

hac fama inpulsus Chremes
ultro ad me venit, unicam gnatam suam 100
cum dote summa filio uxorem ut daret.
placuit: despondi. hic nuptiis dictust dies.

Driven by this report, Chremes
of his own accord came to me, to give his only daughter 100
with a very great dowry as wife to my son.
It pleased me: I betrothed him. This day has been appointed for the nuptials.

SO. quid obstat quor non verae fiant? SI. audies.
ferme in diebu' paucis quibus haec acta sunt
Chrysis vicina haec moritur.

SO. What prevents them from being true? SI. You will hear.
About within the few days during which these things were transacted
Chrysis, this neighbor, dies.

SO. o factum bene! 105
beasti; <ei> metui a Chryside. SI. ibi tum filius
cum illis qui amabant Chrysidem una aderat frequens;
curabat una funu'; tristis interim,
nonnumquam conlacrumabat. placuit tum id mihi.

SO. o well done! 105
you have blessed me; alas, I was afraid because of Chrysis. SI. there then the son
was in frequent attendance together with those who loved Chrysis;
he together took care of the funeral; sad meanwhile,
sometimes he wept along. Then that pleased me.

sic cogitabam "hic parvae consuetudinis 110
causa huiu' mortem tam fert familiariter:
quid si ipse amasset? quid hic mihi faciet patri?"
haec ego putabam esse omnia humani ingeni
mansuetique animi officia. quid multis moror?

thus I was thinking: "this man, for the sake of a small consuetude, 110
so familiarly bears her death:
what if he himself had loved? what will this man do to me, his father?"
I thought these were all the offices of a humane ingenuity
and of a gentle mind. Why do I delay with many words?

egomet quoque eiu' causa in funus prodeo, 115
nil suspicans etiam mali. SO. hem quid id est? SI. scies.

I myself too, for his sake, go forth to the funeral, 115
suspecting no harm as yet. SO. Ha, what is this? SI. You will know.

ecfertur; imus. interea inter mulieres
quae ibi aderant forte unam aspicio adulescentulam
forma . . SO. bona fortasse. SI. et voltu, Sosia,
adeo modesto, adeo venusto ut nil supra. 120
quia tum mihi lamentari praeter ceteras
visast et quia erat forma praeter ceteras
honesta ac liberali, accedo ad pedisequas,
quae sit rogo: sororem esse aiunt Chrysidis.

She is borne out; we go. Meanwhile, among the women
who chanced to be present there, I catch sight of one adolescent young woman
in beauty . . SO. good, perhaps. SI. and in countenance, Sosia,
so modest, so charming that nothing could surpass. 120
because then she seemed to me to be lamenting beyond the rest
and because she was in form beyond the rest
honorable and liberal in bearing, I go up to the attendants,
I ask who she is: they say she is the sister of Chrysis.

percussit ilico animum. attat hoc illud est, 125
hinc illae lacrumae, haec illast misericordia.
SO. quam timeo quorsum evadas!

it struck my mind immediately. aha, this is that, 125
hence those tears, this is that mercy.
SO. how I fear whither you may turn out!

SI. funus interim
procedit: sequimur; ad sepulcrum venimus;
in ignem inpositast; fletur. interea haec soror
quam dixi ad flammam accessit inprudentius, 130
sati' cum periclo. ibi tum exanimatus Pamphilus
bene dissimulatum amorem et celatum indicat:
adcurrit; mediam mulierem complectitur:
"mea Glycerium," inquit "quid agis?

SI. meanwhile the funeral proceeds: we follow; we come to the sepulcher;
she is placed upon the fire; there is weeping. meanwhile this sister
whom I mentioned approached the flame rather imprudently, 130
with quite enough peril. thereupon Pamphilus, beside himself,
reveals his well-dissimulated and concealed love:
he runs up; he embraces the woman about the middle:
“my Glycerium,” he says, “what are you doing?

quor te is perditum?"
tum illa, ut consuetum facile amorem cerneres, 135
reiecit se in eum flens quam familiariter!
SO. quid ais? SI. redeo inde iratus atque aegre ferens;
nec satis ad obiurgandum causae.

"why are you going to ruin yourself?"
then she, so that you might easily discern the accustomed love, 135
threw herself back onto him, weeping, how familiarly!
SO. what do you say? SI. I return from there angry and taking it ill; nor sufficient cause for objurgation.

diceret
"quid feci? quid commerui aut peccavi, pater?
quae sese in ignem inicere voluit, prohibui 140
servavi." honesta oratiost.

he would say
"what have I done? what have I merited or sinned, father?
she who wished to throw herself into the fire, I prevented; 140
I saved her." an honorable oration.

SO. recte putas;
nam si illum obiurges vitae qui auxilium tulit,
quid facias illi qui dederit damnum aut malum?
SI. venit Chremes postridie ad me clamitans:
indignum facinu'; comperisse Pamphilum 145
pro uxore habere hanc peregrinam. ego illud sedulo
negare factum.

SO. you think rightly;
for if you objurgate the man who brought assistance,
what would you do to him who has given damage or evil?
SI. Chremes came to me the next day, shouting:
an unworthy deed; that he had discovered Pamphilus 145
to be keeping this foreign woman as a wife. I diligently
denied that that had been done.

ille instat factum. denique
ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam
neget daturum. SO. non tu ibi gnatum . . ? SI. ne haec quidem
sati' vehemens causa ad obiurgandum.

he insists it was done. finally
I then depart from him in such a way that he says he will not give his daughter.
SO. did you not there rebuke your son . . ? SI. not even this indeed
is a sufficiently vehement cause for scolding.

SO. qui? cedo.          150
SI. "tute ipse his rebu' finem praescripsti, pater:
prope adest quom alieno more vivendumst mihi:
sine nunc meo me vivere interea modo."
SO. qui igitur relictus est obiurgandi locus?
SI. si propter amorem uxorem nolet ducere:            155
ea primum ab illo animum advortenda iniuriast;
et nunc id operam do, ut per falsas nuptias
vera obiurgandi causa sit, si deneget;
simul sceleratu' Davo' siquid consili
habet, ut consumat nunc quom nil obsint doli;          160
quem ego credo manibu' pedibu'que obnixe omnia
facturum, magis id adeo mihi ut incommodet
quam ut obsequatur gnato.

SO. how so? tell on.         150
SI. "you yourself prescribed an end to these things, father:
the time is near when I must live by another’s custom:
allow me now meanwhile to live in my own fashion."
SO. then what place for reproaching is left?
SI. if on account of love he should not wish to take a wife:           155
that is the injury which must first be brought to his attention;
and now I am giving effort, that through a sham wedding
there may be a true cause for reproaching, if he refuses;
at the same time, if the wicked Davus has any plan,
that he may expend it now, when tricks do no harm;         160
whom I believe, with hands and feet, strenuously, will do everything,
rather indeed to inconvenience me
than to comply with my son.

SO. quapropter? SI. rogas?
mala mens, malus animu'. quem quidem ego si sensero . .
sed quid opust verbis?

SO. wherefore? SI. you ask?
a bad mind, a bad spirit. whom indeed if I perceive . .
but what need is there of words?

sin eveniat quod volo, 165
in Pamphilo ut nil sit morae, restat Chremes
cui mi expurgandus est: et spero confore.
nunc tuomst officium has bene ut adsimules nuptias,
perterrefacias Davom, observes filium
quid agat, quid cum illo consili captet. SO. sat est: 170
curabo.

but if what I want comes to pass, 165
so that there may be no delay with Pamphilus, there remains Chremes,
with whom I must clear myself; and I hope it will come about.
now it is your duty to simulate these nuptials well,
to thoroughly terrify Davus, to watch the son—
what he does, what plan he is contriving with that fellow. SO. enough: 170
I will take care of it.

SI. eamu' nunciam intro: i prae, sequar.

SI. let’s go inside now: go ahead, I will follow.

Simo Davos

SI. Non dubiumst quin uxorem nolit filius;
ita Davom modo timere sensi, ubi nuptias
futuras esse audivit. sed ipse exit foras.
DA. mirabar hoc si sic abiret et eri semper lenitas 175
verebar quorsum evaderet.

SI. There is no doubt that the son does not want a wife;
thus I just sensed Davus to be afraid, when he heard that the nuptials
were going to be; but he himself is coming out.
DA. I was wondering whether this would thus turn out, and my master’s perpetual lenity 175
I feared where it would end up.

qui postquam audierat non datum iri filio uxorem suo,
numquam quoiquam nostrum verbum fecit neque id aegre tulit.
SI. at nunc faciet neque, ut opinor, sine tuo magno malo.
DA. id voluit nos sic necopinantis duci falso gaudio, 180
sperantis iam amoto metu, interoscitantis opprimi,
ne esset spatium cogitandi ad disturbandas nuptias:
astute.

who, after he had heard that a wife would not be given to his own son,
he never said a word to any of us, nor did he take it grievously.
SI. but now he will, and, as I opine, not without your great harm.
DA. he wanted us thus, unexpecting, to be led by false joy, 180
hoping now, with fear removed, while we waver, to be crushed,
lest there be space for thinking to disturb the nuptials:
astutely.

SI. carnufex quae loquitur? DA. erus est neque provideram.
SI. Dave.

SI. What does that executioner say? DA. It is the master, and I had not foreseen it.
SI. Dave.

DA. hem quid est? SI. eho dum ad me. DA. quid hic volt?
SI. quid ais?

DA. eh, what is it? SI. hey, come here a moment. DA. what does he want?
SI. what do you say?

DA. qua de re? SI. rogas?
<meu>m gnatum rumor est amare. DA. id populu' curat scilicet. 185
SI. hoccin agis an non?

DA. about what? SI. you ask?
there’s a rumor my son is in love. DA. sure, the public cares about that, I suppose. 185
SI. are you attending to this or not?

DA. ego vero istuc. SI. sed nunc ea me exquirere
iniqui patris est; nam quod ant(e)hac fecit nil ad me attinet.
dum tempus ad eam rem tulit, sivi animum ut expleret suom;
nunc hic d<ie>s aliam vitam defert, alios mores postulat:
de(h)inc postulo sive aequomst te oro, Dave, ut redeat iam in viam. 190
hoc quid sit?

DA. Yes, indeed. SI. but now to inquire into these things is the part of an iniquitous father; for what he did before does not pertain to me.
while the time bore for that matter, I allowed him to satisfy his own mind;
now this day brings another way of life, demands other manners:
from here on I demand—or, if it is equitable, I entreat you, Davus—that he return now into the way. 190
what is this?

omnes qui amant graviter sibi dari uxorem ferunt.
DA. ita aiunt. SI. tum siquis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,
ipsum animum aegrotum ad deteriorem partem plerumque adplicat.

all who are in love bear it gravely when a wife is given to them.
DA. so they say. SI. then if anyone has taken a master for that matter who is unscrupulous,
he commonly applies his very ailing spirit to the worse part.

DA. non hercle intellego. SI. non? hem.

DA. By Hercules, I do not understand. SI. Not? eh.

DA. non: Davo' sum, non Oedipus.
SI. nempe ergo aperte vis quae restant me loqui? DA. sane quidem. 195
SI. si sensero hodie quicquam in his te nuptiis
fallaciae conari quo fiant minus,
aut velle in <ea> re ostendi quam sis callidus,
verberibu' caesum te in pistrinum, Dave, dedam usque ad necem,
ea lege atque omine ut, si te inde exemerim, ego pro te molam. 200
quid, hoc intellexti[n]? an nondum etiam ne hoc quidem?

DA. no: I am Davus, not Oedipus.
SI. So then you want me to speak openly about what remains? DA. Indeed, certainly. 195
SI. If I perceive today that in these nuptials you are attempting any deception whereby they may come off the less,
or wanting in <ea> matter to show how cunning you are,
I will hand you over, Davus, beaten with lashes, to the mill, even unto death,
on this condition and omen: that, if I take you out from there, I myself will grind in your stead. 200
Well then, did you understand this? Or not yet, not even this?

DA. immo callide:
ita aperte ipsam rem modo locutu's, nil circum itione usus es.
SI. ubivis faciliu' passu' sim quam in hac re me deludier.
DA. bona verba, quaeso! SI. inrides?

DA. nay, cleverly:
so openly have you just spoken the very matter itself, you used no circumlocution at all.
SI. I could be more easily deluded anywhere than in this business.
DA. good words, I beg! SI. you mock?

nil me falli'. sed dico tibi:
ne temere facias; neque tu haud dicas tibi non praedictum: cave! 205

nothing deceives me. but I tell you:
do not act rashly; and don't you say to yourself that it was not predicted: beware! 205

Davos

Enimvero, Dave, nil locist segnitiae neque socordiae,
quantum intellexi modo senis sententiam de nuptiis:
quae si non astu providentur, me aut erum pessum dabunt.
nec quid agam certumst, Pamphilumne adiutem an auscultem seni.
si illum relinquo, ei(u)s vitae timeo; sin opitulor, hui(u)s minas, 210
quoi verba dare difficilest: primum iam de amore hoc comperit;
me infensu' servat nequam faciam in nuptiis fallaciam.

Indeed, Davos, there is no place for sloth nor sluggishness,
so far as I have just understood the old man’s judgment about the nuptials:
which, if they are not provided for by astuteness, will cast me or the master to perdition.
nor is it certain what I should do, whether I should aid Pamphilus or listen to the old man.
if I leave him, I fear for his life; but if I help, this man's menaces, 210
to whom it is most difficult to give words:
first, he has already found out about this love;
hostile, he watches me, lest I commit a roguish deception in the nuptials.

si senserit, perii: aut si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit
quo iure quaque iniuria praecipitem [me] in pistrinum dabit.
ad haec mala hoc mi accedit etiam: haec Andria, 215
si[ve] ista uxor sive amicast, gravida e Pamphilost.
audireque <eo>rumst operae pretium audaciam
(nam inceptiost amentium, haud amantium):
quidquid peperisset decreverunt tollere.

if he senses it, I’m ruined: or if it shall have pleased him, he will seize a pretext
by whatever right and whatever wrong he will pitch [me] headlong into the mill.
to these evils this also is added for me: this Andria, 215
whether that one is a wife or a sweetheart, is pregnant by Pamphilus.
and it is worth the effort to hear their audacity
(for the undertaking is of the demented, not of lovers):
whatever she shall have borne, they have decreed to rear.

et fingunt quandam inter se nunc fallaciam 220
civem Atticam esse hanc: "fuit olim quidam senex
mercator; navim is fregit apud Andrum insulam;
is obiit mortem." ibi tum hanc eiectam Chrysidis
patrem recepisse orbam parvam. fabulae!
miquidem hercle non fit veri simile; atque ipsis commentum placet. 225
sed Mysis ab ea egreditur.

and they now fashion a certain fallacy among themselves 220
that this woman is an Attic citizen: "there once was a certain old
merchant; he wrecked his ship at the island of Andros;
he met his death." thereupon, this girl cast ashore, that the father of Chrysis
took her in, a little orphan. Fables!
for my part, by Hercules, it is not at all likely; and yet the contrivance pleases them themselves. 225
but Mysis is coming out from her.

at ego hinc me ad forum ut
conveniam Pamphilum, ne de hac re pater inprudentem opprimat.

but I will go from here to the forum to
meet Pamphilus, lest in this matter his father catch him unawares.

Mysis

Audivi, Archylis, iamdudum: Lesbiam adduci iubes.
sane pol illa temulentast mulier et temeraria
nec sati' digna quoi committas primo partu mulierem. 230
tamen eam adducam? inportunitatem spectate aniculae
quia compotrix eius est.

I have heard, Archylis, for some time now: you order Lesbia to be brought in.
indeed, by Pollux, that woman is temulent and temerarious,
nor quite worthy enough to entrust a woman in her first childbirth to. 230
still, shall I bring her? look at the importunity of the little old woman,
because she is her drinking-companion.

di, date facultatem obsecro
huic pariundi atque illi in aliis potiu' peccandi locum.
sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimatum video? vereor quid siet.

gods, grant the faculty, I beseech, to this one of bringing forth, and to that one rather a place for sinning in other matters.
but what do I see—Pamphilus breathless? I fear what it may be.

opperiar, ut sciam num quid nam haec turba tristitiae adferat. 235

I will wait, so that I may know whether this disturbance brings any sadness. 235

Pamphilvs Mysis

Pamphilus Mysis

PA. Hoccinest humanum factu aut inceptu? hoccin[est] officium patris?
MY. quid illud est?

PA. Is this a human thing in the doing or in the inception? Is this the office of a father?
MY. What is that?

PA. pro d<eu>m fidem quid est, si haec non
contumeliast?
uxorem decrerat dare sese mi hodie: nonne oportuit
praescisse me ante? nonne priu' communicatum oportuit?

PA. By the gods’ faith, what is it, if this is not
contumely?
He had decreed to give me a wife today: ought I not to have
foreknown it before? ought it not to have been communicated prior?

MY. miseram me, quod verbum audio! 240
PA. quid? Chremes, qui denegarat se commissurum mihi
gnatam <sua>m uxorem, id mutavit quia me inmutatum videt?
itane obstinate operam dat ut me a Glycerio miserum abstrahat?

MY. Wretched me, what word I hear! 240
PA. What? Chremes, who had denied that he would commit his daughter to me as wife, has changed that because he sees me changed?
Is he so obstinately giving effort to drag me, a wretch, away from Glycerium?

quod si fit pereo funditus.
adeon hominem esse invenustum aut infelicem quemquam ut ego sum! 245
pro deum atque hominum fidem!
nullon ego Chremeti' pacto adfinitatem effugere potero?

but if this happens I perish utterly.
is any man to such a degree uncomely or ill-fated as I am! 245
O by the faith of gods and men!
shall I by no pact be able to escape an affinity with Chremes?

quot modis contemptu' spretu'! facta transacta omnia. hem
repudiatu' repetor. quam ob rem?

in how many ways contemned, spurned! everything done and transacted. ah
repudiated, I am sought again. for what reason?

nisi si id est quod suspicor:
aliquid monstri alunt: ea quoniam nemini obtrudi potest, 250
itur ad me. MY. oratio haec me miseram exanimavit metu.
PA. nam quid ego dicam de patre? ah
tantamne rem tam neglegenter agere!

unless it is as I suspect:
they are nursing some monster of a scheme: since that cannot be obtruded upon anyone, 250
they come at me. MY. this oration has left me, wretched, breathless with fear.
PA. for what am I to say about the father? ah—so great a matter to handle so negligently!

praeteriens modo
mi apud forum "uxor tibi ducendast, Pamphile, hodie" inquit: "para,
abi domum." id mihi visust dicere "abi cito ac suspende te." 255
obstipui. censen me verbum potuisse ullum proloqui? aut
ullam causam, ineptam saltem falsam iniquam?

just passing by
to me at the forum, "you must take a wife, Pamphilus, today," he says: "prepare,
go home." that seemed to me to be saying "go quickly and hang yourself." 255
i was stunned. do you think I could have uttered any word? or
any cause, inept at least, false, iniquitous?

obmutui.
quod si ego rescissem id priu', quid facerem siquis nunc me roget:
aliquid facerem ut hoc ne facerem. sed nunc quid primum exsequar?

I was struck mute.
but if I had found that out earlier, what would I do if anyone now should ask me:
I would do something so that I might not do this. but now what first shall I execute?

tot me inpediunt curae, quae meum animum divorsae trahunt: 260
amor, misericordia huiu', nuptiarum sollicitatio,
tum patri' pudor, qui me tam leni passus est animo usque adhuc
quae m<eo> quomque animo lubitumst facere. <ei>ne ego ut advorser? ei
mihi!

so many cares impede me, which, divergent, drag my mind in different directions: 260
love, compassion for this one, the solicitation of nuptials,
then pudor before my father, who has allowed me with so gentle a mind right up to now
to do whatever has been pleasing to my mind whenever. Should I oppose him? alas
for me!

incertumst quid agam. MY. misera timeo "incertum" hoc quorsus accidat.
sed nunc peropust aut hunc cum ipsa aut de illa aliquid me advorsum hunc loqui: 265
dum in dubiost animu', paullo momento huc vel illuc impellitur.

It is uncertain what I should do. MY. Poor me, I fear this “uncertainty” to what end it may happen.
but now it is very much needful that I speak face-to-face to him, either with her herself or about her something, over against him: 265
while the mind is in doubt, by a slight moment it is driven hither or thither.

PA. quis hic loquitur? Mysis, salve. MY. o salve, Pamphile.

PA. Who is speaking here? Mysis, greetings. MY. O greetings, Pamphilus.

PA. quid agit?
MY. rogas?
laborat e dolore atque ex hoc misera sollicitast, diem
quia olim in hunc sunt constitutae nuptiae.

PA. how is she?
MY. you ask?
she is suffering from pain, and because of this the poor woman is anxious, because the nuptials were long ago appointed for this day.

tum autem hoc timet,
ne deseras se. PA. hem egone istuc conari queam? 270
egon propter me illam decipi miseram sinam,
quae mihi suom animum atque omnem vitam credidit,
quam ego animo egregie caram pro uxore habuerim?
bene et pudice ei(u)s doctum atque eductum sinam
coactum egestate ingenium inmutarier? 275
non faciam. MY. haud verear si in te solo sit situm;
sed vim ut queas ferre.

then, however, she fears this,
lest you desert her. PA. Ha! Could I even attempt that? 270
Should I allow that wretched girl to be deceived on my account,
who has entrusted to me her heart and her whole life,
whom I have held in my soul as remarkably dear, as a wife?
shall I allow her character, well and modestly taught and brought up,
compelled by poverty, to be altered? 275
I will not do it. MY. I would not fear if it rested in you alone;
but whether you can bear force.

PA. adeon me ignavom putas,
adeon porro ingratum aut inhumanum aut ferum,
ut neque me consuetudo neque amor neque pudor
commoveat neque commoneat ut servem fidem? 280
MY. unum hoc scio, hanc meritam esse ut memor esses sui.
PA. memor essem? o Mysis Mysis, etiam nunc mihi
scripta illa dicta sunt in animo Chrysidis
de Glycerio.

PA. do you think me so craven,
so then so ungrateful or inhuman or savage,
that neither custom nor love nor modesty
should move me nor admonish me to keep faith? 280
MY. this one thing I know, that she has merited that you be mindful of her.
PA. Mindful? O Mysis, Mysis, even now those sayings of Chrysis about Glycerium are written in my mind.

iam ferme moriens me vocat:
accessi; vos semotae: nos soli: incipit               285
"mi Pamphile, huiu' formam atque aetatem vides,
nec clam te est quam illi nunc utraeque inutiles
et ad pudicitiam et ad rem tutandam sient.
quod ego per hanc te dexteram [oro] et genium tuom,
per tuam fidem perque huiu' solitudinem                 290
te obtestor ne abs te hanc segreges neu deseras.
si te in germani fratri' dilexi loco
sive haec te solum semper fecit maxumi
seu tibi morigera fuit in rebus omnibus,
te isti virum do, amicum tutorem patrem;           295
bona nostra haec tibi permitto et tuae mando fide[i]."
hanc mi in manum dat; mors continuo ipsam occupat.

now, almost dying, she calls me:
I approached; you withdrawn: we alone: she begins               285
"my Pamphilus, you see this one's beauty and age,
nor is it hidden from you how both are now unhelpful to her
both for guarding pudicity and for protecting her estate. What I [beg] you by this right hand and by your genius,
by your faith and by this one's solitude,                 290
I adjure you not to segregate this girl from yourself nor to desert her. If I loved you in the place of a germane brother,
or if this girl always esteemed you alone of the greatest account,
or if she has been morigerous to you in all matters,
to this girl I give you as husband, friend, tutor, father;           295
these our goods I entrust to you and commit to your faith."
she gives this girl into my hand; death immediately seizes her.

accepi: acceptam servabo. MY. ita spero quidem.
PA. sed quor tu abis ab illa?

I have accepted: what I have accepted I will keep. MY. so I do indeed hope.
PA. but why do you depart from her?

MY. obstetricem accerso. PA. propera.
atque audin?

MY. I’ll fetch the midwife. PA. Hurry.
and do you hear?

verbum unum cave de nuptiis, ne ad morbum hoc etiam . . MY. teneo. 300

beware even a single word about the nuptials, lest to the malady this too . . MY. I get it. 300

ACTVS II

ACT 2

Charinvs Byrria Pamphilvs

Charinus Byrria Pamphilus

CH. Quid ais, Byrria? daturne illa Pamphilo hodie nuptum? BY. sic est.

CH. What do you say, Byrria? Is that girl given to Pamphilus today in marriage? BY. So it is.

CH. qui scis? BY. apud forum modo e Davo audivi. CH. vae misero mihi!

CH. How do you know? BY. At the forum just now I heard from Davus. CH. Woe to wretched me!

ut animus in spe atque in timore usque ant(e)hac attentus fuit,
ita, postquam adempta spes est, lassu' cura confectus stupet.
BY. quaeso edepol, Charine, quoniam non potest id fieri quod vis, 305
id velis quod possit. CH. nil volo aliud nisi Philumenam.

as my mind has, all the way hitherto, been intent in hope and in fear,
so, after hope has been taken away, weary, worn out by care, it stands stupefied.
BY. I beg, by Pollux, Charinus, since that which you wish cannot be done, 305
wish for what can be. CH. I want nothing else except Philumena.

BY. ah
quanto satiust te id dare operam qui istum amorem ex animo amoveas [tuo],
quam id loqui quo mage lubido frustra incendatur tua!
CH. facile omnes quom valemu' recta consilia aegrotis damus.
tu si hic sis aliter sentias.

BY. ah
how much better it is that you give effort to removing that love from your mind [your],
than to say what only inflames your libido the more, and in vain!
CH. easily we all, when we’re well, give right counsels to the sick.
if you were here, you would think otherwise.

BY. age age, ut lubet. CH. sed Pamphilum 310
video. omnia experiri certumst priu' quam pereo.

BY. come on, come on, as you please. CH. but I see Pamphilus 310
I see him. I am resolved to try everything before I perish.

BY. quid hic agit?
CH. ipsum hunc orabo, huic supplicabo, amorem huic narrabo meum:
credo impetrabo ut aliquot saltem nuptiis prodat dies:
interea fiet aliquid, spero. BY. id "aliquid" nil est.

BY. what is he doing here?
CH. I will beg this very man, I will supplicate to him, I will narrate my love to him:
I believe I shall obtain that he at least put off the nuptials for several days:
in the meantime something will be done, I hope. BY. that "something" is nothing.

CH. Byrria,
quid tibi videtur? adeon ad eum? BY. quidni?

CH. Byrria,
what do you think? shall I go to him? BY. why not?

si nil impetres, 315
ut te arbitretur sibi paratum moechum, si illam duxerit.
CH. abin hinc in malam rem cum suspicione istac, scelus?
PA. Charinum video.

if you obtain nothing, 315
at least so that he may think you a adulterer prepared for himself, if he marries her.
CH. be off from here to the devil with that suspicion of yours, you criminal?
PA. I see Charinus.

salve. CH. o salve, Pamphile:
ad te advenio spem salutem auxilium consilium expetens.
PA. neque pol consili locum habeo neque ad auxilium copiam. 320
sed istuc quidnamst?

hello. CH. oh, hello, Pamphilus:
I come to you seeking hope, salvation, help, counsel.
PA. by Pollux, I have neither room for counsel nor means for help. 320
but what indeed is that?

CH. hodie uxorem ducis? PA. aiunt. CH. Pamphile,
si id facis, hodie postremum me vides.

CH. are you taking a wife today? PA. they say. CH. Pamphilus,
if you do that, today you see me for the last time.

PA. quid ita? CH. ei mihi,
vereor dicere: huic dic quaeso, Byrria. BY. ego dicam.

PA. why so? CH. alas for me,
I fear to say it: tell it to him, please, Byrria. BY. I will tell it.

PA. quid est?
BY. sponsam hic tuam amat. PA. ne iste haud mecum sentit.

PA. what is it?
BY. this fellow here loves your bride. PA. no: that fellow is not of one mind with me.

eho dum dic
mihi:
num quid nam ampliu' tibi cum illa f<ui>t, Charine? CH. ah[a], Pamphile, 325
nil. PA. quam vellem!

hey, come on, tell
me:
was there anything more for you with her, Charinus? CH. ah, Pamphilus, 325
nothing. PA. how I wish!

CH. nunc te per amicitiam et per amorem obsecro,
principio ut ne ducas. PA. dabo equidem operam. CH. sed si id non potest
aut tibi nuptiae hae sunt cordi, PA. cordi!

CH. now I beseech you by friendship and by love,
in the first place that you not marry. PA. I’ll certainly do my best. CH. but if that cannot be done
or these nuptials are dear to your heart, PA. dear to my heart!

CH. saltem aliquot dies
profer, dum proficiscor aliquo ne videam. PA. audi nunciam:
ego, Charine, ne utiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto, 330
quom is nil mereat, postulare id gratiae adponi sibi.
nuptias effugere ego istas malo quam tu adipiscier.

CH. at least
defer for several days, while I set out somewhere so that I may not see. PA. hear now:
I, Charinus, by no means think it the duty of a free man, 330
when he merits nothing, to demand that it be entered to his account as a favor.
I would rather escape those nuptials than that you acquire them.

CH. reddidisti animum. PA. nunc siquid potes aut tu aut hic Byrria,
facite fingite invenite efficite qui detur tibi;
ego id agam mihi qui ne detur. CH. sat habeo.

CH. you have restored my spirit. PA. now, if you or this Byrria here can do anything,
do, devise, discover, effect it so that she be given to you;
I will do this for myself, so that she not be given to me. CH. I am satisfied.

PA. Davom optume 335
video, quoi(u)s consilio fretu' sum. CH. at tu hercle haud quicquam mihi,
nisi ea quae nil opu' sunt scire. fugin hinc?

PA. Davus
I see very well, 335
on whose counsel I rely. CH. But you, by Hercules, not a single thing to me,
except those things which there is no need to know. Are you running away from here?

BY. ego vero ac lubens.

BY. I indeed, and gladly.

Davos Charinvs Pamphilvs

Davus Charinus Pamphilus

DA. Di boni, boni quid porto? sed ubi inveniam Pamphilum,
ut metum in quo nunc est adimam atque expleam animum gaudio?
CH. laetus est nescioquid.

DA. Good gods, good gods, what do I bring? But where shall I find Pamphilus,
that I may take away the fear in which he is now and fill his spirit with joy?
CH. He’s happy about something or other.

PA. nil est: nondum haec rescivit mala. 340
DA. quem ego nunc credo, si iam audierit sibi paratas nuptias . .
CH. audin tu illum? DA. toto me oppido exanimatum quaerere.
sed ubi quaeram?

PA. it is nothing: she has not yet found out these ills. 340
DA. whom am I now to believe, if he has already heard that nuptials are prepared for himself . .
CH. do you hear him? DA. to search for him through the whole town, out of breath. but where am I to search?

quo nunc primum intendam? CH. cessas conloqui?
DA. habeo.

Where am I now first to direct myself? CH. Do you delay to converse?
DA. I have it.

PA. Dave, ades resiste. DA. quis homost, qui me . . ? o
Pamphile,
te ipsum quaero. eugae, Charine!

PA. Dave, be here; stand fast. DA. Who is the man, who me . . ? oh
Pamphilus,
I am seeking you yourself. Bravo, Charinus!

ambo opportune: vos volo. 345
PA. Dave, perii. DA. quin tu hoc audi. CH. interii.

both of you, just in time: I want you. 345
PA. Dave, I am ruined. DA. Why don’t you listen to this. CH. I am undone.

DA. quid timeas
scio.
PA. mea quidem hercle certe in dubio vitast. DA. et quid tu, scio.

DA. what you fear
I know.
PA. indeed, by Hercules, my life is certainly in doubt. DA. and what you
I know.

PA. nuptiae mi . . DA. etsi scio? PA. hodie . . DA. obtundis, tam
etsi intellego?
id paves ne ducas tu illam; tu autem ut ducas.

PA. the nuptials for me . . DA. even though I know? PA. today . . DA. you keep pounding me, even
though I understand?
this is what you dread: that you may marry that girl; and you, on the other hand, that you may marry her.

CH. rem tenes.
PA. istuc ipsum. DA. atque istuc ipsum nil periclist: me vide. 350
PA. obsecro te, quam primum hoc me libera miserum metu.

CH. you grasp the matter.
PA. that very thing. DA. and that very thing is no peril: look at me. 350
PA. I beseech you, as soon as possible, liberate me, a miserable man, from this fear.

DA. em
libero: uxorem tibi non dat iam Chremes. PA. qui scis? DA. scio.

DA. there—
I free you: Chremes is not giving you a wife now. PA. how do you know? DA. I know.

tuo' pater modo me prehendit: <ai>t tibi uxorem dare
hodie, item alia multa quae nunc non est narrandi locus.
continuo ad te properans percurro ad forum ut dicam haec tibi. 355
ubi te non invenio ibi escendo in quendam excelsum locum,
circumspicio: nusquam. forte ibi huiu' video Byrriam;
rogo: negat vidisse.

your father just now apprehended me: he says he will give you a wife today,
likewise many other things which now is not the place for telling. at once, hastening to you, I run through to the Forum to tell these things to you. 355
when I do not find you there, there I ascend to a certain lofty place,
I look around: nowhere. by chance there I see this man’s Byrrias;
I ask: he denies he has seen you.

mihi molestum; quid agam cogito.
redeunti interea ex ipsa re mi incidit suspicio "hem
paullulum opsoni; ipsu' tristis; de inproviso nuptiae: 360
non cohaerent." PA. quorsu' nam istuc? DA. ego me continuo ad Chremem.

It’s troublesome to me; I consider what I should do.
Meanwhile, as I am returning, from the thing itself a suspicion occurs to me: “hah!
a little relish; the man himself gloomy; an unforeseen wedding: 360
they do not cohere.” PA. to what purpose, then, is that? DA. I straightway go
to Chremes.

quom illo advenio, solitudo ante ostium: iam id gaudeo.
CH. recte dici'. PA. perge. DA. maneo.

when I come there, solitude before the doorway: already I rejoice at that.
CH. you speak rightly. PA. go on. DA. I wait.

interea intro ire neminem
video, exire neminem; matronam nullam in aedibus,
nil ornati, nil tumulti: accessi; intro aspexi. PA. scio: 365
magnum signum. DA. num videntur convenire haec nuptiis?

meanwhile
I see no one go in,
no one go out; no matron in the house,
nothing of ornament, nothing of tumult: I approached; I looked inside. PA. I know: 365
a great sign. DA. Do these things seem to accord with nuptials?

PA. non opinor, Dave. DA. "opinor" narras? non recte accipis:
certa res est.

PA. I do not think so, Dave. DA. "I think," you say? you do not take it right:
it is a certain matter.

etiam puerum inde abiens conveni Chremi:
holera et pisciculos minutos fer[r]e obolo in cenam seni.
CH. liberatu' sum hodie, Dave, tua opera. DA. ac nullus quidem. 370
CH. quid ita?

Also, as I was going away from there, I met Chremes’s boy:
carrying greens and minute little fishes, for an obolus, for the old man’s dinner.
CH. I am liberated today, Davus, by your doing. DA. And not at all, indeed. 370
CH. Why so?

nempe huic prorsus illam non dat. DA. ridiculum caput,
quasi necesse sit, si huic non dat, te illam uxorem ducere,
nisi vides, nisi senis amicos oras ambis. CH. bene mones:
ibo, etsi hercle saepe iam me spes haec frustratast.

surely he does not at all give that girl to this fellow. DA. ridiculous
head,
as if it were necessary, if he does not give her to this one, that you should take that girl as a wife;
don’t you see? you must beg, you must go about canvassing the old man’s friends. CH. you advise well:
I will go, although, by Hercules, this hope has often already frustrated me.

vale.

farewell.

Pamphilvs Davos

Pamphilus Davus

PA. Quid igitur sibi volt pater? quor simulat? DA. ego dicam tibi. 375
si id suscenseat nunc quia non det tibi uxorem Chremes,
ipsu' sibi esse iniuriu' videatur, neque id iniuria,
priu' quam <tuo>m ut sese habeat animum ad nuptias perspexerit:
sed si tu negaris ducere, ibi culpam in te transferet:
tum illae turbae fient.

PA. What then does father want? why does he dissimulate? DA. I will tell you. 375
If he is angry now because Chremes does not give you a wife,
he would seem to himself to be in the wrong—and not without justice—
before he has looked into how your mind stands toward nuptials:
but if you say you refuse to marry, then he will transfer the blame onto you:
then those commotions will happen.

PA. quidvis patiar. DA. pater est, Pamphile: 380
difficilest. tum haec solast mulier.

PA. I will endure anything. DA. he is a father, Pamphilus: 380
it is difficult. then this woman is his solace.

dictum [ac] factum invenerit
aliquam causam quam ob rem eiciat oppido. PA. eiciat? DA. cito.

said [and] done he will have found
some cause on account of which he may eject you from the town. PA. eject me? DA. quickly.

PA. cedo igitur quid faciam, Dave? DA. dic te ducturum. PA. hem.

PA. Well then, what am I to do, Davus? DA. Say that you will marry her. PA.
eh.

DA.
quid est?
PA. egon dicam? DA. quor non?

DA.
what is it?
PA. I, shall I say it? DA. why not?

PA. numquam faciam. DA. ne nega.
PA. suadere noli.

PA. I will never do it. DA. do not deny.
PA. do not try to persuade.

DA. ex <ea> re quid fiat vide. 385
PA. ut ab illa excludar, hoc concludar. DA. non itast.
nempe hoc sic esse opinor: dicturum patrem
"ducas volo hodie uxorem"; tu "ducam" inquies:
cedo quid iurgabit tecum?

DA. see what comes from that matter. 385
PA. that I may be excluded by her, that I may be enclosed here. DA. it is not so.
surely I think it is thus: father will say
"I want you to lead a wife today"; you will say "I will lead her":
come, what will he argue with you about?

hic reddes omnia.
quae nunc sunt certa [ei] consilia, incerta ut sient 390
sine omni periclo. nam hoc haud dubiumst quin Chremes
tibi non det gnatam; nec tu <ea> causa minueris
haec quae facis, ne is mutet s<ua>m sententiam.

here you will make full restitution.
that the counsels which are now certain [for him] may become uncertain without all peril 390
for this is by no means doubtful, that Chremes will not give you his daughter; and do not on that account diminish
these things you are doing, lest he change his opinion.

patri dic velle, ut, quom velit, tibi iure irasci non queat.
nam quod tu speres "propulsabo facile uxorem his moribus; 395
dabit nemo": inveniet inopem potiu' quam te corrumpi sinat.
sed si te aequo animo ferre accipiet, neglegentem feceris;
aliam otiosu' quaeret: interea aliquid acciderit boni.

tell your father that you wish it thus, so that, when he wishes, he cannot by right be angry with you.
for as to your hoping “I shall easily fend off a wife with these manners; 395
no one will give [her]”: he will find a needy man rather than allow you to be corrupted.
but if he perceives you to bear it with an even mind, you will have made him negligent;
at leisure he will seek another; meanwhile something good will have happened.

PA. itan credis? DA. haud dubium id quidemst. PA. vide quo me inducas.

PA. do you think so? DA. that indeed is without doubt. PA. see into what you are inducing me.

DA. quin taces?
PA. dicam. puerum autem ne resciscat mi esse ex illa cautiost; 400
nam pollicitus sum suscepturum.

DA. why don’t you be quiet?
PA. I will speak. But it is a precaution that he not find out that there is a boy of mine from that woman; 400
for I have promised to take it up.

DA. o facinus audax! PA. hanc fidem
sibi me obsecravit, qui se sciret non deserturum, ut darem.
DA. curabitur.

DA. O audacious deed! PA. this pledge of faith
he implored me to give to himself, who knew that he would not desert.
DA. It will be taken care of.

sed pater adest. cave te esse tristem sentiat.

but the father is here. beware lest he sense you to be sad.

Simo Davos Pamphilvs

Simo Davus Pamphilus

SI. Reviso quid agant aut quid captent consili.
DA. hic nunc non dubitat quin te ducturum neges. 405
venit meditatus alicunde ex solo loco:
orationem sperat invenisse se
qui differat te: proin tu fac apud te ut sies.
PA. modo ut possim, Dave!

SI. I go back to see what they are doing or what counsel they are angling for.
DA. this fellow now does not doubt that you will deny you are going to take a wife. 405
he comes rehearsed from somewhere, out of a solitary place:
he hopes he has found a speech
to put you off: therefore see that you are self-possessed.
PA. only if I can, Davus!

DA. crede inquam hoc mihi, Pamphile,
numquam hodie tecum commutaturum patrem 410
unum esse verbum, si te dices ducere.

DA. Believe this from me, I say, Pamphilus,
never today will your father exchange a single word with you 410
if you say that you are taking a wife.

Byrria Simo Davos Pamphilvs

Byrria Simo Davos Pamphilus

BY. Eru' me relictis rebu' iussit Pamphilum
hodie observare, ut quid ageret de nuptiis
scirem: id propterea nunc hunc venientem sequor.
ipsum adeo praesto video cum Davo: hoc agam. 415
SI. utrumque adesse video. DA. em serva.

BY. The master, with other things left aside, ordered me to observe Pamphilus
today, so that I might know what he was doing about the nuptials:
for that reason I now follow this fellow as he comes.
Look, I see the man himself at hand with Davus: I will do this. 415
SI. I see that both are present. DA. There—keep watch.

SI. Pamphile.
DA. quasi de inproviso respice ad eum. PA. ehem pater.

SI. Pamphilus.
DA. Look back at him as if unexpectedly. PA. ahem, father.

DA. probe. SI. hodie uxorem ducas, ut dixi, volo.
BY. nunc nostrae timeo parti quid hic respondeat.

DA. good. SI. today I want you to take a wife, as I said.
BY. now I fear for our party what he will answer here.

PA. neque istic neque alibi tibi erit usquam in me mora. BY. hem. 420
DA. obmutuit.

PA. neither here nor elsewhere will there ever be any delay for you on my account. BY. hah. 420
DA. he has become mute.

BY. quid dixit? SI. facis ut te decet,
quom istuc quod postulo impetro cum gratia.
DA. sum verus?

BY. what did he say? SI. you do as befits you,
when I obtain that which I request with favor.
DA. am I true?

BY. eru', quantum audio, uxore excidit.
SI. i nunciam intro, ne in mora, quom opu' sit, sies.
PA. eo.-- BY. nullane in re esse quoiquam homini fidem! 425
verum illud verbumst, volgo quod dici solet,
omnis sibi malle melius esse quam alteri.

BY. Master, so far as I hear, he has been deprived of his wife.
SI. Go in now at once, so that you not be in delay when there is need.
PA. I’m going.— BY. Is there in no matter any trust for any man! 425
but that saying is true, which is commonly said,
everyone prefers it to be better for himself than for another.

ego illam vidi: virginem forma bona
memini videri: quo aequior sum Pamphilo,
si se illam in somnis quam illum amplecti maluit. 430
renuntiabo, ut pro hoc malo mihi det malum.

I saw that girl: I remember that she seemed a maiden of good form;
for which I am the more equitable toward Pamphilus,
if he preferred in dreams to embrace that girl rather than that fellow. 430
I will report it back, so that for this ill he may give me an ill.

Davos Simo

DA. Hic nunc me credit aliquam sibi fallaciam
portare et ea me hic restitisse gratia.
SI. quid Davo' narrat? DA. aeque quicquam nunc quidem.

DA. He now believes that I am carrying some trickery for him
and that for that sake I have stayed here.
SI. What is Davus telling? DA. Nothing at all just now.

SI. nilne? hem. DA. nil prorsus.

SI. nothing? eh. DA. nothing at all.

SI. atqui exspectabam quidem. 435
DA. praeter spem evenit, sentio: hoc male habet virum.
SI. potin es mihi verum dicere?

SI. and yet I was expecting indeed. 435
DA. it came about beyond expectation, I sense: this ill affects the man.
SI. can you tell me the truth?

DA. nil facilius.
SI. num illi molestae quidpiam haec sunt nuptiae
propter huiusce hospitai consuetudinem?
DA. nil hercle; aut, si adeo, biduist aut tridui 440
haec sollicitudo: nosti?

DA. nothing easier.
SI. are these nuptials in any way troublesome to her because of the custom of this hospitality?
DA. nothing, by Hercules; or, if at all, this concern is of two days or of three days 440
this solicitude: you know?

deinde desinet.
etenim ipsu' secum eam rem reputavit via.
SI. laudo.

then it will cease.
for indeed he himself considered that matter with himself on the way.
SI. I approve.

DA. dum licitumst ei dumque aetas tulit,
amavit; tum id clam: cavit ne umquam infamiae
ea res sibi esset, ut virum fortem decet. 445
nunc uxore opus est: animum ad uxorem adpulit.
SI. subtristi' visus est esse aliquantum mihi.
DA. nil propter hanc rem, sed est quod suscenset tibi.

DA. while it was licit for him and while his age bore it,
he loved; then, that was secretly: he took care that this matter should never be to himself a disgrace of infamy, as befits a brave man. 445
now there is need of a wife: he has inclined his mind toward a wife.
SI. he seemed to me to be somewhat downcast.
DA. not at all on account of this matter, but there is something for which he is incensed at you.

SI. quidnamst? DA. puerilest. SI. quid id est?

SI. What is it? DA. It’s puerile. SI. What is that?

DA. nil. SI. quin
dic, quid est?
DA. <ai>t nimium parce facere sumptum.

DA. nothing. SI. why not
say, what is it?
DA. he says you make expense too sparingly.

SI. mene? DA. te. 450
"vix" inquit "drachumis est opsonatum decem:
non filio videtur uxorem dare.
quem" inquit "vocabo ad cenam m<eo>rum aequalium
potissumum nunc?" et, quod dicendum hic siet,
tu quoque perparce nimium: non laudo.

SI. me? DA. you. 450
"'Hardly,' he says, 'has it been provisioned with viands for ten drachmas:
it does not seem that he is giving a wife to his son.
Whom,' he says, 'shall I call now to dinner as the foremost of my eorum equals?
And, what ought to be said here,
you too are over-sparing: I do not commend it."

SI. tace. 455
DA. commovi. SI. ego istaec recte ut fiant videro.
quidnam hoc est rei?

SI. be silent. 455
DA. I’ve stirred him up. SI. I will see that those things are done rightly.
what on earth is the matter here?

quid hic volt veterator sibi?
nam si hic malist quicquam, em illic est huic r<ei> caput.

what does this trickster want for himself?
for if there is any mischief here, look—there is the head of this business.

ACTVS III

ACT 3

Mysis Simo Davos Lesbia (Glycerivm)

Mysis Simo Davos Lesbia (Glycerium)

MY. Ita pol quidem res est, ut dixti, Lesbia:
fidelem haud ferme mulieri invenias virum. 460
SI. ab Andriast ancilla haec. DA. quid narras? ita est.

MY. Indeed, by Pollux, the matter is as you said, Lesbia:
you scarcely find a faithful man for a woman. 460
SI. She is a maidservant from Andros, this one. DA. What are you saying? So it is.

MY. sed hic Pamphilus . . SI. quid dicit? MY. firmavit fidem. SI. hem.

MY. but this Pamphilus . . SI. what does he say? MY. he confirmed his pledge. SI. huh.

DA. utinam aut hic surdus aut haec muta facta sit!
MY. nam quod peperisset iussit tolli. SI. o Iuppiter,
quid ego audio?

DA. If only either this man were deaf or this woman made mute!
MY. For what she had borne he ordered to be taken up. SI. O Jupiter,
what do I hear?

actumst, siquidem haec vera praedicat. 465
LE. bonum ingenium narras adulescentis. MY. optumum
sed sequere me intro, ne in mora illi sis. LE. sequor.--
DA. quod remedium nunc huic malo inveniam?

it's all over, if indeed what she declares is true. 465
LE. you tell of a good disposition of the young man. MY. the best;
but follow me inside, lest you be a delay to him. LE. I follow.—
DA. what remedy shall I now find for this evil?

SI. quid hoc?
adeon est demens? ex peregrina?

SI. What is this?
Is he so demented? From a foreign woman?

iam scio: ah
vix tandem sensi stolidu'. DA. quid hic sensisse ait? 470
SI. haec primum adfertur iam mi ab hoc fallacia:
hanc simulant parere, quo Chremetem absterreant.
GL. (intus) Iuno Lucina, fer opem, serva me, obsecro.
SI. hui tam cito?

now I know: ah
only just at last I realized, you dullard. DA. what does he say he has realized? 470
SI. this is the first piece of trickery that is now being brought to me by this fellow:
they pretend that she is in labor, to frighten Chremes away.
GL. (inside) Juno Lucina, bring help, save me, I beseech.
SI. huh, so quickly?

ridiculum: postquam ante ostium
me audivit stare, adproperat. non sat commode 475
divisa sunt temporibu' tibi, Dave, haec. DA. mihin?

ridiculous: after she heard me standing before the door, she makes haste.
not quite commodiously 475
these things are divided in their timings for you, Dave. DA. to me?

SI. num inmemores discipuli? DA. ego quid narres nescio.
SI. hicin me si inparatum in veris nuptiis
adortus esset, quos mihi ludos redderet!

SI. are the pupils forgetful? DA. I do not know what you are saying.
SI. if this fellow had attacked me unprepared at the real nuptials,
what sport he would have made of me!

nunc hui(u)s periclo fit, ego in portu navigo. 480

now by his peril it comes about that I sail in port. 480

Lesbia Simo Davos

LE. Adhuc, Archylis, quae adsolent quaeque oportent
signa esse ad salutem, omnia huic esse video.
nunc primum fac istaec [ut] lavet; post<e> deinde,
quod iussi dari bibere et quantum imperavi,
date; mox ego huc revortor. 485
per ecastor scitu' puer est natu' Pamphilo.
d<eo>s quaeso ut sit superstes, quandoquidem ipsest ingenio bono,
quomque huic est veritus optumae adulescenti facere iniuriam.--
SI. vel hoc quis [non] credat, qui te norit, abs te esse ortum?

LE. Thus far, Archylis, the signs that are wont and that ought to be for recovery, I see all of them to be present in her.
now first have her wash; then next, give to drink what I ordered to be given and as much as I commanded; soon I will return here. 485
by Castor, a fine boy has been born to Pamphilus.
I pray the gods that he may be a survivor, since he himself is of good disposition,
and since he has scrupled to do an injury to this excellent young woman.--
SI. Who that knows you would not believe even this, that he is sprung from you?

DA.
quidnam id est?
SI. non imperabat coram quid opu' facto esset puerperae, 490
sed postquam egressast, illis quae sunt intu' clamat de via
o Dave, itan contemnor abs te? aut itane tandem idoneus
tibi videor esse quem tam aperte fallere incipias dolis?
saltem accurate, ut metui videar certe, si resciverim.

DA.
what ever is that?
SI. she was not ordering in my presence what need there was to be done for the puerpera, 490
but after she had gone out, from the street she shouts to those who are inside
o Dave, is it thus that I am held in contempt by you? or do I at length seem
to you so fit a person that you begin so openly to deceive with tricks?
at least carefully, so that I may seem to be feared at any rate, if I should find it out.

DA. certe hercle nunc hic se ipsu' fallit, haud ego. SI. edixin tibi, 495
interminatu' sum ne faceres? num veritus?

DA. Surely, by Hercules, now this man is deceiving himself, not I. SI.
I told you, 495
did I not threaten you not to do it? were you not afraid?

quid re tulit?
credon tibi hoc nunc, peperisse hanc e Pamphilo?
DA. teneo quid erret et quid agam habeo.

what came of it?
do I credit you this now, that she has given birth by Pamphilus?
DA. I grasp wherein he errs, and I have what I must do.

SI. quid taces?
DA. quid credas? quasi non tibi renuntiata sint haec sic fore.

SI. Why are you silent?
DA. What would you believe? As if it had not been reported to you that these things would be so.

SI. mihin quisquam? DA. eho an tute intellexti [hoc] adsimularier? 500
SI. inrideor.
DA. renuntiatumst; nam qui istaec tibi incidit suspicio?

SI. To me, anyone? DA. Hey, have you yourself understood [this] to be simulated? 500
SI. I am derided.
DA. It has been reported; for how did that suspicion fall upon you?

SI. qui? quia te noram. DA. quasi tu dicas factum id consilio meo.

SI. how? because I knew you. DA. as if you were saying that was done by my counsel.

SI. certe enim scio. DA. non sati' me pernosti etiam quali' sim, Simo.
SI. egon te? DA. sed siquid tibi narrare occepi, continuo dari
tibi verba censes.

SI. for I surely know. DA. you have not yet fully learned even what sort I am, Simo.
SI. I, you? DA. but if I begin to narrate anything to you, straightway that words
are being given to you, you suppose.

SI. falso! DA. itaque hercle nil iam muttire audeo. 505
SI. hoc ego scio unum, neminem peperisse hic. DA. intellexti;
sed nilo setius referetur mox huc puer ante ostium.

SI. False! DA. and so, by Hercules, I don’t dare mutter anything now. 505
SI. This one thing I know: no one has given birth here. DA. You’ve understood;
but nonetheless the boy will soon be brought back here before the doorway.

id ego iam nunc tibi, ere, renuntio futurum, ut sis sciens,
ne tu hoc [mihi] posteriu' dicas Davi factum consilio aut dolis.
prorsus a me opinionem hanc t<ua>m esse ego amotam volo. 510
SI. unde id scis? DA. audivi et credo: multa concurrunt simul
qui coniecturam hanc nunc facio.

I right now report this back to you, master, that it will be so, so that you may be aware,
lest you later say [to me] that this was done by Davus’s counsel or by wiles.
absolutely I want this opinion of yours about me to be removed. 510
SI. how do you know that? DA. I have heard and I believe: many things converge at once,
on the basis of which I am now making this conjecture.

iam prius haec se e Pamphilo
gravidam dixit esse: inventumst falsum. nunc, postquam videt
nuptias domi adparari, missast ancilla ilico
obstetricem accersitum ad eam et puerum ut adferret simul. 515
hoc nisi fit, puerum ut tu videas, nil moventur nuptiae.
SI. quid ais?

already before, she said that she was pregnant by Pamphilus: it was found false. now, after she sees the nuptials being prepared at home, the maidservant has been sent immediately to summon the midwife to her and to bring the baby at the same time. 515
unless this is done, so that you may see the baby, the nuptials do not move forward.
SI. what do you say?

quom intellexeras
id consilium capere, quor non dixti extemplo Pamphilo?
DA. quis igitur eum ab illa abstraxit nisi ego? nam omnes nos quidem
scimu' quam misere hanc amarit: nunc sibi uxorem expetit. 520
postremo id mihi da negoti; tu tamen[i]dem has nuptias
perge facere ita ut facis, et id spero adiuturos deos.

When you had understood
that she was adopting that plan, why did you not tell Pamphilus at once?
DA. Who then drew him away from her except me? For we all indeed
know how miserably he has loved this woman: now he seeks a wife for himself. 520
Finally, give that business to me; you, nevertheless, go on to make these nuptials
just as you are doing, and I hope the gods will aid in that.

SI. immo abi intro: ibi me opperire et quod parato opus est para.--
non inpulit me haec nunc omnino ut crederem;
atque haud scio an quae dixit sint vera omnia, 525
sed parvi pendo: illud mihi multo maxumumst
quod mihi pollicitust ipsu' gnatu'. nunc Chremem
conveniam, orabo gnato uxorem: si impetro,
quid alias malim quam hodie has fieri nuptias?
nam gnatu' quod pollicitust, haud dubiumst mihi, id 530
si nolit, quin <eu>m merito possim cogere.
atque adeo in ipso tempore eccum ipsum obviam.

SI. No, go inside: wait for me there, and prepare what there is need to have prepared.--
This has not at all impelled me now to believe;
and I do not know but that what she said is all true, 525
but I set little store by it: that is by much the greatest thing for me,
what my own son himself promised me. Now I will meet Chremes,
I will ask for a wife for my son: if I obtain it,
what else would I prefer than that these nuptials be done today?
For as to what my son promised, there is no doubt for me, that 530
if he should be unwilling, I can deservedly compel him.
And indeed, at the very moment—behold, here he is himself, to meet me.

Simo Chremes

SI. Iubeo Chremetem . . CH. o te ipsum quaerebam. SI. et ego te. CH.
optato advenis.
aliquot me adierunt, ex te auditum qui <ai>bant hodie filiam
meam nubere tuo gnato; id viso tune an illi insaniant. 535
SI. ausculta pauca: et quid ego te velim et tu quod quaeris scies.

SI. I bid Chremes . . CH. oh, I was seeking you yourself. SI. and I you. CH.
you arrive as wished.
several have approached me, who said they had heard from you that today my daughter is to marry your son; I come to see whether you intend this or whether they are insane. 535
SI. listen a little: and you will know both what I would have of you and what you ask.

CH. ausculto: loquere quid velis.
SI. per te d<eo>s oro et nostram amicitiam, Chreme,
quae incepta a parvis cum aetate adcrevit simul,
perque unicam gnatam tuam et gnatum meum, 540
quoi(u)s tibi potestas summa servandi datur,
ut me adiuves in hac re atque ita uti nuptiae
fuerant futurae, fiant. CH. ah ne me obsecra:
quasi hoc te orando a me impetrare oporteat.

CH. I listen: speak what you wish.
SI. by you I beg the gods and our friendship, Chremes,
which, begun from childhood, has grown together with our age,
and by your only daughter and my son, 540
over whom to you the highest power of preserving is given,
that you aid me in this matter, and that, just as the nuptials
had been about to be, they may take place. CH. ah, do not beseech me:
as if it were fitting that you obtain this from me by begging.

alium esse censes nunc me atque olim quom dabam? 545
si in remst utrique ut fiant, accersi iube;
sed si ex ea re plus malist quam commodi
utrique, id oro te in commune ut consulas,
quasi si illa tua sit Pamphilique ego sim pater.
SI. immo ita volo itaque postulo ut fiat, Chreme, 550
neque postulem abs te ni ipsa res moneat. CH. quid est?

Do you think me to be different now than formerly when I was giving? 545
If it is in the interest of both that they be done, order them to be summoned;
but if from that matter there is more harm than advantage
for both, this I beg you, to consult for the common good,
as if she were yours and I were Pamphilus’s father.
SI. Nay rather, thus I wish and thus I demand that it be done, Chremes, 550
nor would I demand it of you unless the matter itself admonished. CH. What is it?

SI. irae sunt inter Glycerium et gnatum. CH. audio.
SI. ita magnae ut sperem posse avelli.

SI. There is ire between Glycerium and my son. CH. I hear.
SI. So great that I hope they can be torn apart.

CH. fabulae!
SI. profecto sic est. CH. sic hercle ut dicam tibi:
amantium irae amoris integratiost. 555
SI. em id te oro ut ante eamu', dum tempus datur
dumque ei(u)s lubido occlusast contumeliis,
priu' quam harum scelera et lacrumae confictae dolis
redducunt animum aegrotum ad misericordiam,
uxorem demu'. spero consuetudine et 560
coniugio liberali devinctum, Chreme,
de(h)inc facile ex illis sese emersurum malis.

CH. Nonsense!
SI. Indeed it is so. CH. Yes, by Hercules, I’ll tell you this:
lovers’ quarrels are the reintegration of love. 555
SI. Look, this I beg of you, that we go there at once, while time is given
and while her desire is shut off by insults,
before the crimes of these women and tears fabricated by wiles
lead back his sick mind to mercy,
let us give him a wife. I hope that by habit and 560
by a liberal conjugal bond, Chremes,
then thereafter he will easily emerge from those evils.

CH. tibi ita hoc videtur; at ego non posse arbitror
neque illum hanc perpetuo habere neque me perpeti.
SI. qui scis ergo istuc, nisi periclum feceris? 565
CH. at istuc periclum in filia fieri gravest.
SI. nempe incommoditas denique huc omnis redit
si eveniat, quod di prohibeant, discessio.

CH. to you this seems so; but I judge it not possible, neither that he should have her perpetually nor that I should endure it.
SI. how do you know that, then, unless you make a perilous trial? 565
CH. but that peril to be made upon a daughter is most grievous.
SI. surely the inconvenience, in the end, all comes back to this: if there should occur—may the gods forbid it—a separation.

at si corrigitur, quot commoditates vide:
principio amico filium restitueris, 570
tibi generum firmum et filiae invenies virum.
CH. quid istic? si ita istuc animum induxti esse utile,
nolo tibi ullum commodum in me claudier.

But if he is corrected, see how many advantages:
to begin with, you will have restored a son to your friend, 570
you will find for yourself a steady son-in-law and for your daughter a husband.
CH. What of it? If you have brought yourself to think that this is useful,
I do not want any advantage to be closed off to you on my account.

SI. merito te semper maxumi feci, Chreme.
CH. sed quid ais? SI. quid?

SI. deservedly I have always esteemed you most highly, Chremes.
CH. but what do you say? SI. what?

CH. qui scis eos nunc discordare inter se? 575
SI. ipsu' mihi Davo', qui intumust <eo>rum consiliis, dixit;
et is mihi persuadet nuptias quantum queam ut maturem.
num censes faceret, filium nisi sciret eadem haec velle?
tute adeo iam eius audies verba.

CH. How do you know they are now
at discord among themselves? 575
SI. Davus himself told me, who is innermost in their counsels;
and he persuades me to expedite the nuptials as much as I can.
Do you think he would do it, unless he knew the son wanted these same things?
You yourself will straightway hear his words.

[heus] evocate huc Davom.
atque eccum video ipsum foras exire. 580

[hey] call davus here.
and look, i see him himself coming out. 580

Davos Simo Chremes

DA. Ad te ibam. SI. quidnamst?
DA. quor uxor non accersitur?

DA. I was going to you. SI. What is it?
DA. Why is the wife not sent for?

iam advesperascit. SI. audin?
ego dudum non nil veritu' sum, Dave, abs te ne faceres idem
quod volgu' servorum solet, dolis ut me deluderes
propterea quod amat filius.

now it is getting toward evening. SI.
do you hear?
I have for some time been not a little afraid, Dave, that you would do the same
which the vulgar sort of slaves is wont to do, to delude me with wiles,
for the reason that my son is in love.

DA. egon istuc facerem? SI. credidi,
idque adeo metuens vos celavi quod nunc dicam. DA. quid?

DA. Would I do that? SI. I believed it,
and indeed, fearing that very thing, I hid from you what I am now going to say. DA. What?

SI. scies; 585
nam propemodum habeo iam fidem. DA. tandem cognosti qui siem?
SI. non fuerant nuptiae futurae.

SI. you will know; 585
for I pretty nearly have proof now. DA. have you at last recognized who I am? SI. the nuptials were not going to be.

DA. quid? non? SI. sed ea gratia
simulavi vos ut pertemptarem.

DA. what? no? SI. but for that reason
I feigned, so that I might thoroughly test you all.

DA. quid ais? SI. sic res est. DA. vide:
numquam istuc quivi ego intellegere.

DA. what say you? SI. thus the matter is. DA. see:
I could never understand that.

vah consilium callidum!
SI. hoc audi: ut hinc te intro ire iussi, opportune hic fit mi obviam. DA. hem 590
numnam perimu'? SI. narro huic quae tu dudum narrasti mihi.

vah, what a shrewd plan!
SI. listen to this: as I ordered you to go inside from here, opportunely he comes to meet me here. DA. hem 590
have we perished? SI. I narrate to this man what you just now narrated to me.

DA. quidnam audio? SI. gnatam ut det oro vixque id exoro. DA. occidi.SI. hem
quid dixti?

DA. what do I hear? SI. I beg that he give his daughter, and I scarcely obtain that by entreaty. DA. I am slain.SI. huh?
what did you say?

DA. optume inquam factum. SI. nunc per hunc nullast mora.
CH. domum modo ibo, ut adparetur dicam, atque huc renuntio.--
SI. nunc te oro, Dave, quoniam solu' mi effecisti has nuptias . . 595
DA. ego vero solu'. SI. corrigere mihi gnatum porro enitere.

DA. Excellent, I say, well done. SI. now, thanks to him, there’s no delay at all.
CH. I’ll just go home, I’ll say that preparation be made, and I’ll report back here.--
SI. now I beg you, Davus, since you alone have effected these nuptials for me . . 595
DA. yes indeed, I alone. SI. strive further to correct my son for me.

DA. faciam hercle sedulo. SI. potes nunc, dum animus inritatus est.
DA. quiescas.

DA. By Hercules, I will do it sedulously. SI. You can now, while his spirit is irritated.
DA. Be quiet.

SI. age igitur, ubi nunc est ipsu'? DA. mirum ni domist.
SI. ibo ad eum atque <ea>dem haec quae tibi dixi dicam idem illi.-- DA.
nullu' sum.
quid causaest quin hinc in pistrinum recta proficiscar via? 600
nil est preci loci relictum: iam perturbavi omnia:
erum fefelli; in nuptias conieci erilem filium;
feci hodie ut fierent, insperante hoc atque invito Pamphilo.

SI. come then, where is he himself now? DA. it would be a wonder if he weren’t at home.
SI. I’ll go to him and I’ll say these same things which I said to you to him likewise.-- DA.
I’m done for.
what reason is there why I shouldn’t set out straight from here to the mill-house? 600
there is no place left for entreaty: already I have perturbed everything:
I have deceived my master; I have cast the master’s son into marriage;
I made it today that they should take place, with Pamphilus unexpectant of this and unwilling.

em astutias! quod si quiessem, nil evenisset mali.
sed eccum ipsum video: occidi. 605
utinam mi[hi] esset aliquid hic quo nunc me praecipitem darem!

Look at the cunning! But if I had kept quiet, nothing evil would have come to pass.
But look, I see the man himself: I am slain. 605
If only I had something here on which I might now hurl myself headlong!

Pamphilvs Davos

Pamphilus Davus

PA. Vbi illic[e]st scelu' qui perdidit me? DA. perii. PA. atque hoc
confiteor iure
mi obtigisse, quandoquidem tam iners, tam nulli consili sum.
servon fortunas meas me commisisse futtili!

PA. Where is that villain who has ruined me? DA. I'm done for. PA. and this
I confess has by right
befallen me, since I am so inert, so of no counsel at all.
that I entrusted my fortunes to a futile slave!

ego pretium ob stultitiam fero: sed inultum numquam id auferet. 610
DA. posthac incolumem sat scio [fore] me, nunc si devito hoc malum.
PA. nam quid ego nunc dicam patri? negabon velle me, modo
qui sum pollicitu' ducere?

I bear the price on account of stupidity: but he will never carry that off unavenged. 610
DA. Hereafter I well know I shall be safe, if now I avoid this evil.
PA. For what shall I now say to my father? Shall I deny that I am willing, I who just now have promised to marry?

qua audacia id facere audeam?
nec quid nunc me faciam scio. DA. nec mequidem, atque id ago sedulo.

with what audacity would I dare to do this?
nor do I know what I should do with myself now. DA. nor I indeed, and I am doing that
sedulously.

dicam aliquid me inventurum, ut huic malo aliquam productem moram. 615
PA. oh! DA. visu' sum PA. eho dum, bone vir, quid ais? viden me
consiliis tuis
miserum inpeditum esse? DA. at iam expediam.

I will say that I will discover something, so that I may prolong some delay for this ill. 615
PA. oh! DA. I’ve been seen. PA. hey now, good man, what do you say? do you see me
by your counsels
wretched and impeded? DA. but now I will disentangle it.

PA. expedies? DA. certe,
Pamphile.
PA. nempe ut modo.

PA. will you extricate? DA. certainly,
Pamphilus.
PA. no doubt, as just now.

DA. immo meliu' spero. PA. oh tibi ego ut credam,
furcifer?
tu rem inpeditam et perditam restituas?

DA. nay, I hope for better. PA.
oh how am I to trust you,
gallows-bird?
you to restore a matter impeded and ruined?

em quo fretu' sim,
qui me hodie ex tranquillissuma re coniecisti in nuptias. 620
an non dixi esse hoc futurum? DA. dixti. PA. quid meritu's? DA. crucem.

Look, what reliance I am on,
you who today have hurled me from a most tranquil state into nuptials. 620
Did I not say this would be? DA. You said so. PA. What have you deserved? DA. the cross.

sed sine paullulum ad me redeam: iam aliquid dispiciam. PA. ei mihi,
quom non habeo spatium ut de te sumam supplicium ut volo!
namque hoc tempu' praecavere mihi me, haud te ulcisci sinit.

but let me return to myself a little: now I will discern something. PA. ah me,
since I do not have the leisure to exact punishment from you as I want!
for indeed this time allows me to take precautions for myself, not to avenge myself on you.

ACTVS IV

ACT 4

Charinvs Pamphilvs Davos

Charinus Pamphilus Davus

CH. Hoccinest credibile aut memorabile, 625
tanta vecordia innata quoiquam ut siet
ut malis gaudeant atque ex incommodis
alterius sua ut comparent commoda? ah
idnest verum? immo id est genus hominum pessumum in
denegando modo quis pudor paullum adest; 630
post ubi tempu' promissa iam perfici,
tum coacti necessario se aperiunt,
et timent et tamen res premit denegare;
ibi tum eorum inpudentissuma oratiost
"quis tu es? quis mihi es? quor meam tibi?

CH. Is this credible or memorable, 625
that so great an innate madness should be in anyone
that they rejoice at evils and from another’s incommodities
to procure their own commodities? ah—
is that true? nay rather, that is the worst genus of men: in
denying, for the moment a little modesty is present; 630
afterwards, when the time is now to perfect the promises,
then, compelled of necessity, they reveal themselves,
and they fear, and yet the matter presses them to deny;
there then is their most impudent oration:
“who are you? what are you to me? why should mine be yours?”

heus 635
proxumus sum egomet mihi."
at tamen "ubi fides?" si roges,
nil pudet hic, ubi opus [est]; illi ubi
nil opust, ibi verentur. 638a
sed quid agam? adeon ad eum et cum eo iniuriam hanc expostulem?
ingeram mala multa?

hey 635
“I myself am my own nearest.”
but yet, “where is good faith?” if you ask,
he is ashamed of nothing where there [is] need; those, where
there [is] no need, there they feel scruples. 638a
but what am I to do? am I to go to him and expostulate with him about this injustice?
shall I heap many evils upon him?

atque aliqui' dicat "nil promoveris":
multum: molestu' certe <ei> fuero atque animo morem gessero.
PA. Charine, et me et te inprudens, nisi quid di respiciunt, perdidi.
CH. itane "inprudens"? tandem inventast causa: solvisti fidem.

and someone may say "you will have advanced nothing":
much: I will certainly have been troublesome to him <ei> and I will have indulged his disposition.
PA. Charinus, unwittingly I have ruined both me and you, unless the gods have some regard.
CH. Is it so, "unwitting"? At last a pretext has been found: you have broken faith.

PA. quid "tandem"? CH. etiamnunc me ducere istis dictis postulas?
PA. quid istuc est? CH. postquam me amare dixi, conplacitast tibi. 645
heu me miserum qui tuom animum ex animo spectavi meo!

PA. what “at last”? CH. do you even now demand to lead me on with those sayings?
PA. what is that? CH. after I said that I love, she became pleasing to you. 645
alas, wretched me, who judged your spirit by my own spirit!

PA. falsus es. CH. non tibi sat esse hoc solidum visumst gaudium,
nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres?
habeas. PA. habeam?

PA. You are mistaken. CH. did this solid joy not seem enough for you,
unless you had milked me, a lover, and led me on with false hope?
have it. PA. have it?

ah nescis quantis in malis vorser miser
quantasque hic s<ui>s consiliis mihi conflavit sollicitudines 650
meu' carnufex. CH. quid istuc tam mirumst de te si exemplum capit?
PA. haud istuc dicas, si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum.

ah, you do not know in what great troubles I, a wretch, am being tossed about,
and how great anxieties this man here, by his own counsels, has kindled for me, 650
my hangman. CH. What is so strange about it, if he takes an example from you?
PA. You would not say that, if you knew either me or my love.

CH. scio: cum patre altercasti dudum et is nunc propterea tibi
suscenset nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres.
PA. immo etiam, quo tu minu' scis aerumnas meas, 655
haec nuptiae non adparabantur mihi
nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare.
CH. scio: tu coactu' tua voluntate es. PA. mane:
nondum scis.

CH. I know: you altercated with your father a short while ago, and he now on that account is incensed at you, nor could he today compel you to marry her.
PA. Nay rather, precisely so that you may the less know my hardships, 655
these nuptials were not being prepared for me,
nor now was anyone demanding to give me a wife.
CH. I know: you are coerced by your own will. PA. Wait:
you do not know yet.

CH. scio equidem illam ducturum esse te.
PA. quor me enicas? hoc audi: numquam destitit 660
instare ut dicerem me ducturum patri;
suadere orare usque adeo donec perpulit.
CH. quis homo istuc?

CH. I indeed know that you will marry her.
PA. Why do you wear me out? Hear this: he never stopped 660
pressing that I should say to my father I would marry;
advising, begging, even so far until he forced me.
CH. what man is that?

PA. Davo' . . CH. Davos? PA. interturbat. CH.
quam ob rem?

PA. Davus... CH. Davus? PA. he throws things into confusion. CH.
for what reason?

PA. nescio;
nisi mihi d<eo>s sati' scio fuisse iratos qui auscultaverim.
CH. factum hoc est, Dave? DA. factum.

PA. I do not know;
unless that I know well enough the gods were angry with me for having listened.
CH. Was this done, Dave? DA. Done.

CH. hem quid ais? scelus! 665
at tibi di dignum factis exitium duint!

CH. ha! what are you saying? villain! 665
but may the gods grant you a doom worthy of your deeds!

eho dic mi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias
inimici vellent, quod nisi hoc consilium darent?
DA. deceptu' sum, at non defetigatus. PA. scio.

hey, tell me, if all his enemies wanted him cast into marriage,
what counsel would they give, if not this?
DA. I’m deceived, but not wearied out. PA. I know.

DA. hac non successit, alia adoriemur via: 670
nisi si id putas, quia primo processit parum,
non posse iam ad salutem convorti hoc malum.
PA. immo etiam; nam sati' credo, si advigilaveris,
ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias.
DA. ego, Pamphile, hoc tibi pro servitio debeo, 675
conari manibu' pedibu' noctesque et dies,
capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi;
tuomst, siquid praeter spem evenit, mi ignoscere.

DA. this has not succeeded, let us assault another way: 670
unless, that is, you think that, because at first it progressed too little,
PA. nay rather yes; for I quite believe, if you keep vigil,
out of one you will complete for me twin nuptials. DA. I, Pamphilus, owe you this in return for your service, 675
to endeavor with hands and feet, nights and days,
to go into peril of my life, so long as I may be of use to you;
it is your part, if anything befalls beyond hope, to pardon me.

parum succedit quod ago; at facio sedulo.
vel meliu' tute reperi, me missum face. 680
PA. cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum.
DA. faciam.

What I am doing succeeds too little; but I do it sedulously.
Or find something better yourself, consider me dismissed. 680
PA. I desire it: restore me to the position in which you received me.
DA. I will do it.

PA. at iam hoc opust. DA. em . . sed mane; concrepuit a
Glycerio ostium.
PA. nil ad te. DA. quaero.

PA. But now this is what’s needed. DA. There ... but wait; it creaked from
Glycerium’s door.
PA. No concern of yours. DA. I’m checking.

PA. hem nuncin demum? DA. at iam hoc tibi
inventum dabo.

PA. Ha! now at last? DA. but now I will give you this
contrivance.

Mysis Pamphilvs Charinvs Davos

Mysis Pamphilus Charinus Davos

MY. Iam ubi ubi erit, inventum tibi curabo et mecum adductum
t<uo>m Pamphilum: modo tu, anime mi, noli te macerare. 685
PA. Mysis. MY. quis est? <e>hem Pamphile, optume mihi te offers.

MY. Now, wherever he is, I will see to it that your Pamphilus is found and brought along with me: only you, my dear soul, do not wear yourself away. 685
PA. Mysis. MY. Who is it? <e>hem, Pamphilus, you present yourself to me most opportunely.

PA.
quid <id> est?
MY. orare iussit, si se ames, era, iam ut ad sese venias:
videre te ait cupere. PA. vah perii: hoc malum integrascit.

PA.
what is it?
MY. Your mistress bade me to entreat you—if you love her—now to come to her:
she says she longs to see you. PA. ah, I am undone; this evil grows whole again.

sicin me atque illam opera tua nunc miseros sollicitari[er]!
nam idcirco accersor nuptias quod mi adparari sensit. 690
CH. quibu' quidem quam facile potuerat quiesci, si hic quiesset!
DA. age, si hic non insanit satis sua sponte, instiga. MY. atque edepol
ea res est, proptereaque nunc misera in maerorest.

Is it thus that by your doing both I and she are now made miserable and agitated!
for on that account I am summoned to the nuptials, because she has perceived that a marriage is being prepared for me. 690
CH. by which indeed how easily there could have been quiet, if this man had kept quiet!
DA. come on, if he is not insane enough of his own accord, goad him on. MY. and by Pollux, that is the matter, and for that reason now the wretched woman is in mourning.

PA. Mysis,
per omnis tibi adiuro deos numquam <ea>m me deserturum,
non si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines. 695
hanc mi expetivi: contigit; conveniunt mores: valeant
qui inter nos discidium volunt: hanc nisi mors mi adimet nemo.
MY. resipisco. PA. non Apollinis mage verum atque hoc responsumst.

PA. Mysis,
I adjure you by all the gods that I will never desert her,
not even if I should know that all men must be taken as enemies to me. 695
This woman I have sought; it has come to pass; our characters agree: let them fare as they please
who want division between us: no one will take her from me but Death. MY. I come to my senses. PA. No oracle of Apollo is more true than this
response.

si poterit fieri ut ne pater per me stetisse credat
quo minus haec fierent nuptiae, volo; sed si id non poterit, 700
id faciam, in proclivi quod est, per me stetisse ut credat.
quis videor? CH. miser, aeque atque ego.

if it can be brought about that my father not believe that it depended on me
that these nuptials not take place, I want it; but if that cannot be, 700
I will do what is easy: that he believe it depended on me.
who do I seem? CH. a wretch, just as I.

DA. consilium quaero. PA.forti's!
scio quid conere. DA. hoc ego tibi profecto effectum reddam.

DA. Counsel I seek. PA.You’re brave!
I know what you’re trying. DA. I will assuredly see this effected for you.

PA. iam hoc opus est. DA. quin iam habeo. CH. quid est?

PA. now this is what is needed. DA. why, I already have it. CH.
what is it?

DA. huic, non
tibi habeo, ne erres.
CH. sat habeo. PA. quid facies?

DA. I have it for him, not
for you, don’t be mistaken.
CH. I have enough. PA. what will you do?

cedo. DA. dies [hic] mi ut sati' sit vereor 705
ad agendum: ne vacuom esse me nunc ad narrandum credas:
proinde hinc vos amolimini; nam mi inpedimento estis.
PA. ego hanc visam.-- DA. quid tu? quo hinc te agis?

go on. DA. the day
[here] I fear will not be enough for me 705
for doing: don’t think that I am now vacant for narrating:
accordingly, be off from here; for you are an impediment to me.
PA. I’ll go see her.-- DA. what about you? where are you off to from here?

CH. verum vis
dicam? DA. immo etiam:
narrationis incipit mi initium. CH. quid me fiet?
DA. eho tu inpudens, non satis habes quod tibi dieculam addo, 710
quantum huic promoveo nuptias?

CH.
do you wish
that I tell the truth? DA. nay, even indeed:
the initiation of the narration begins for me. CH. what will become of me? DA. hey, you shameless fellow, is it not enough that I add a little day for you,
710
how far I am postponing his nuptials?

CH. Dave, at tamen . . DA. quid ergo?
CH. ut ducam. DA. ridiculum.

CH. Dave, but still . . DA. what then?
CH. to marry. DA. ridiculous.

CH. huc face ad me [ut] venias, siquid
poteris.
DA. quid veniam? nil habeo.

CH. see to it that you come here to me [so that], if you
can at all.
DA. why should I come? I have nothing.

CH. at tamen, siquid. DA. age veniam. CH. siquid,
domi ero.-- DA. tu, Mysis, dum exeo, parumper me opperire hic.

CH. but still, if anything. DA.
come on, I will come. CH. if anything,
I will be at home.-- DA. you, Mysis, while I go out, wait for me here a little while.

MY. quapropter? DA. ita factost opus. MY. matura.

MY. Why? DA. It must be done so. MY. Make haste.

DA. iam inquam hic adero. 715

DA. now, I say, I’ll be present here at once. 715

Mysis Davos

MY. Nilne esse proprium quoiquam! di vostram fidem!
summum bonum esse erae putabam hunc Pamphilum,
amicum, amatorem, virum in quovis loco
paratum; verum ex <eo> nunc misera quem capit
laborem!

MY. Is nothing anyone’s own! Gods, upon your faith!
I used to think this Pamphilus was the highest good for my mistress,
a friend, a lover, a husband ready in any place;
but now, from him, what labor the poor woman takes on!

facile hic plus malist quam illic boni. 720
sed Davos exit. mi homo, quid istuc obsecrost?
quo portas puerum?

easily here there is more evil than there is good there. 720
but Davos exits. my man, what is that, I beseech? where are you carrying the boy?

DA. Mysis, nunc opus est tua
mihi ad hanc rem exprompta memoria atque astutia.
MY. quidnam incepturu's? DA. accipe a me hunc ocius
atque ante nostram ianuam adpone. MY. obsecro, 725
humine?

DA. Mysis, now I have need, for this matter, of your ready memory and astuteness for me.
MY. What, pray, are you going to begin? DA. Take this one from me quickly and set him down before our door. MY. I beg, 725
on the ground?

DA. ex ara hinc sume verbenas tibi
atque <ea>s substerne. MY. quam ob rem id tute non facis?
DA. quia, si forte opu' sit ad erum iurandum mihi
non adposisse, ut liquido possim.

DA. from the altar here take for yourself vervain
and strew it beneath him. MY. for what reason do you not do that yourself?
DA. because, if by chance there is need for me to swear to the master
that I did not put it there, I can do so plainly.

MY. intellego:
nova nunc religio in te istaec incessit. cedo! 730
DA. move ocius te, ut quid agam porro intellegas.
pro Iuppiter!

MY. I understand:
a new religion has now come over you. hand it over! 730
DA. move quickly, so that you may understand what I am doing next.
O Jupiter!

MY. quid est? DA. sponsae pater intervenit.
repudio quod consilium primum intenderam.

MY. What is it? DA. The bride’s father has intervened.
I repudiate the plan I had first intended.

MY. nescio quid narres. DA. ego quoque hinc ab dextera
venire me adsimulabo: tu ut subservias 735
orationi, ut quomque opu' sit, verbis vide.
MY. ego quid agas nil intellego; sed siquid est
quod mea opera opu' sit vobis, [a]ut tu plus vides,
manebo, nequod vostrum remorer commodum.

MY. I do not know what you are saying. DA. I too will simulate that I am coming from here on the right-hand: you, see that you subserve the speech, as there is need, with words. 735
see to it. MY. I understand nothing of what you are doing; but if there is anything for which my service is needed by you, [or] you see more, I will remain, so that I may not delay any convenience of yours.

Chremes Mysis Davos

CH. Revortor, postquam quae opu' fuere ad nuptias 740
gnatae paravi, ut iubeam accersi. sed quid hoc?
puer herclest.

CH. I return, after I have prepared the things that were of need for my daughter's nuptials 740
to order that she be summoned. But what is this?
it’s the boy, by Hercules.

mulier, tun posisti hunc? MY. ubi illic est?
CH. non mihi respondes?

woman, did you place him? MY. where is he?
CH. do you not respond to me?

MY. nusquam est. vae miserae mihi!
reliquit me homo atque abiit.

MY. He is nowhere. Woe to wretched me!
The man has left me and gone away.

DA. di vostram fidem,
quid turbaest apud forum! quid illi hominum litigant! 745
tum annona carast. (quid dicam aliud nescio.)
MY. quor tu obsecro hic me solam?

DA. by your faith, gods,
what a crowd there is at the forum! how those men litigate! 745
and the grain-supply is dear. (I do not know what else to say.)
MY. why, I beseech you, am I alone here?

DA. hem quae haec est fabula?
eho Mysis, puer hic undest? quisve huc attulit?

DA. Ha! what is this fable?
Hey, Mysis, where is this boy from? Or who has brought him here?

MY. satin sanu's qui me id rogites? DA. quem ego igitur rogem
qui hic neminem alium videam? CH. miror unde sit. 750
DA. dictura es quod rogo?

MY. Are you quite sane to ask me that? DA. Whom then am I to ask,
since I see no one else here? CH. I marvel whence he is. 750
DA. Are you going to say what I ask?

MY. au! DA. concede ad dexteram.
MY. deliras: non tute ipse . . ? DA. verbum si mihi
unum praeter quam quod te rogo faxis: cave!
male dicis?

MY. ow! DA. step aside to the right.
MY. you’re delirious: aren’t you yourself . . ? DA. if you utter for me one word beyond what I ask you: beware!
do you speak ill?

undest? dic clare. MY. a nobis.

whence is it? say clearly. MY. from us.

DA. hahae!
mirum vero inpudenter mulier si facit 755
meretrix! CH. ab Andriast [ancilla] haec, quantum intellego.

DA. ha-ha!
a wonder indeed, if a woman acts impudently 755
a prostitute! CH. from the Andrian woman [maidservant] this is, as far as I understand.

DA. adeon videmur vobis esse idonei
in quibu' sic inludati'? CH. veni in tempore.
DA. propera adeo puerum tollere hinc ab ianua.
mane: cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco! 760
MY. di te eradicent!

DA. do we seem to you so fit as persons to be thus made sport of?
CH. you’ve come in time.
DA. hurry then to take the boy away from the doorway here.
wait: take care you don’t go anywhere from that spot! 760
MY. may the gods eradicate you!

ita me miseram territas.
DA. tibi ego dico an non? MY. quid vis?

so you terrify me, poor me.
DA. to you am I speaking or not? MY. what do you want?

DA. at etiam rogas?
cedo, quoium puerum hic adposisti? dic mihi.

DA. But do you even ask?
come, tell me: whose boy have you set here? tell me.

MY. tu nescis? DA. mitte id quod scio: dic quod rogo.
MY. vostri.

MY. Don’t you know? DA. Omit what I know; say what I ask.
MY. Yours.

DA. quoi(u)s nostri? MY. Pamphili. DA. hem quid?

DA. whose of ours? MY. of Pamphilus. DA. ha! what?

Pamphili? 765
MY. eho an non est? CH. recte ego has semper fugi nuptias.
DA. o facinus animadvortendum!

Pamphilus’s? 765
MY. Hey— is it not so? CH. Rightly have I always fled these nuptials. DA. O outrage to be taken note of!

MY. quid clamitas?
DA. quemne ego heri vidi ad vos adferri vesperi?
MY. o hominem audacem!

MY. Why are you shouting?
DA. Was it the one whom I saw yesterday being brought to your place in the evening?
MY. O audacious man!

DA. verum: vidi Cantharam
suffarcinatam. MY. dis pol habeo gratiam 770
quom in pariundo aliquot adfuerunt liberae.
DA. ne illa illum haud novit quoiu' causa haec incipit:
"Chremes si positum puerum ante aedis viderit,
s<ua>m gnatam non dabit": tanto hercle mage dabit.

DA. true: I saw Canthara
stuffed full. MY. by Pollux, I have gratitude to the gods 770
since several freeborn women were present at the delivery.
DA. why, that woman does not know the man on whose account this begins:
"If Chremes sees a boy laid before the house, he will not give his daughter": by Hercules, so much the more will he give her.

CH. non hercle faciet. DA. nunc adeo, ut tu sis sciens, 775
nisi puerum tolli' iam ego hunc in mediam viam
provolvam teque ibidem pervolvam in luto.
MY. tu pol homo non es sobrius.

CH. by Hercules, he will not do it. DA. now indeed, so that you may be aware, 775
unless the boy is taken up, right now I will roll this fellow into the middle of the road
and I will roll you likewise there in the mud.
MY. by Pollux, you are not sober.

DA. fallacia
alia aliam trudit: iam susurrari audio
civem Atticam esse hanc. CH. hem. DA. "coactus legibus 780
eam uxorem ducet." MY. au obsecro, an non civis est?

DA. one deceit
shoves on another: already I hear it being whispered
that this woman is an Attic citizen. CH. eh. DA. "compelled by the laws 780
he will take her as wife." MY. oh, I beg, or is she not a citizen?

CH. iocularium in malum insciens paene incidi.
DA. quis hic loquitur? o Chreme, per tempus advenis:
ausculta.

CH. Unknowing, I almost fell into a jocular trick to my harm.
DA. Who is speaking here? O Chremes, you arrive right on time: listen.

CH. audivi iam omnia. DA. an<ne> haec tu omnia?
CH. audivi, inquam, a principio.

CH. I have already heard everything. DA. Or have you heard all this?
CH. I have heard, I say, from the beginning.

DA. audistin, obsecro? hem 785
scelera! hanc iam oportet in cruciatum hinc abripi.

DA. Did you hear, I beg? Ha 785
crimes! She must now be dragged off from here to torture.

hic est ille: non te credas Davom ludere.
MY. me miseram! nil pol falsi dixi, mi senex.

here he is: do not believe you are deceiving Davus.
MY. miserable me! by Pollux, I said nothing false, my old man.

CH. novi omnem rem. est Simo intus? DA. est.-- MY. ne me atti[n]gas,
sceleste.

CH. I know the whole business. Is Simo inside? DA. He is.-- MY. don't touch me,
scoundrel.

si pol Glycerio non omnia haec . . 790
DA. eho inepta, nescis quid sit actum? MY. qui sciam?
DA. hic socer est.

if, by Pollux, to Glycerium not all these things . . 790
DA. hey, silly woman, do you not know what has been done? MY. how should I know?
DA. he is the father-in-law.

alio pacto haud poterat fieri
ut sciret haec quae voluimus. MY. praediceres.
DA. paullum interesse censes ex animo omnia,
ut fert natura, facias an de industria? 795

in another way it could not be done
that he might know these things which we wanted. MY. you should have told beforehand.
DA. do you think it makes little difference whether, from the heart, you do everything,
as nature bears it, or by design? 795

Crito Mysis Davos

CR. In hac habitasse platea dictumst Chrysidem,
quae sese inhoneste optavit parere hic ditias
potius quam honeste in patria pauper viveret:
ei(u)s morte ea ad me lege redierunt bona.
sed quos perconter video: salvete. MY. obsecro, 800
quem video?

CR. It is said that Chrysis dwelt on this street,
who chose to procure riches here dishonestly
rather than to live honestly poor in her fatherland:
at her death, by that law, her goods returned to me.
but whom do I see to question? greetings. MY. I beseech, 800
whom do I see?

estne hic Crito sobrinu' Chrysidis?
is est. CR. o Mysis, salve!

Is this Crito, the cousin of Chrysis, here?
It is he. CR. O Mysis, greetings!

MY. salvo' sis, Crito.
CR. itan Chrysis? hem.

MY. may you be safe, Crito.
CR. is it so about Chrysis? ahem.

MY. nos quidem pol miseras perdidit.
CR. quid vos? quo pacto hic?

MY. As for us, by Pollux, he has ruined us poor women.
CR. What about you? How so here?

satine recte? MY. nosne? sic
ut quimus, aiunt, quando ut volumu' non licet. 805
CR. quid Glycerium?

well enough? MY. we? so
as we can, they say, since as we will it is not permitted. 805
CR. what about Glycerium?

iam hic s<uo>s parentis repperit?
MY. utinam! CR. an nondum etiam?

has he already found his parents here?
MY. if only! CR. or not even yet?

haud auspicato huc me appuli;
nam pol, si id scissem, numquam huc tetulissem pedem.
semper eiu' dictast esse haec atque habitast soror;
quae illi(u)s fuere possidet: nunc me hospitem 810
litis sequi quam id mihi sit facile atque utile
aliorum exempla commonent. simul arbitror
iam aliquem esse amicum et defensorem <ei>; nam fere
grandi[us]cula iam profectast illinc: clamitent
me sycophantam, hereditatem persequi 815
mendicum.

Not under good auspices have I put in here;
for, by Pollux, if I had known that, I would never have set foot here.
It has always been said that this woman was his, and that his sister has dwelt here;
what were his, she possesses: now, that I, a stranger, should pursue a lawsuit—how easy and useful that would be for me—examples of others admonish me. 810
At the same time I suppose there is already some friend and defender for her; for pretty much by now she is rather grown-up and has set out from there: they will be shouting
that I am a sycophant, a beggar pursuing an inheritance. 815

tum ipsam despoliare non lubet.
MY. o optume hospes! pol, Crito, antiquom obtines.

then I do not care to despoil the woman herself.
MY. O best guest! by Pollux, Crito, you maintain the ancient way.

CR. duc me ad eam, quando huc veni, ut videam. MY. maxume.
DA. sequar hos: nolo me in tempore hoc videat senex.

CR. lead me to her, since I have come here, so that I may see her. MY. by all means.
DA. I will follow these men: I do not want the old man to see me at this time.

ACTVS V

ACT 5

Chremes Simo

CH. Sati' iam sati', Simo, spectata erga te amicitiast mea; 820
sati' pericli incepi adire: orandi iam finem face.
dum studeo obsequi tibi, paene inlusi vitam filiae.
SI. immo enim nunc quom maxume abs te postulo atque oro, Chreme,
ut beneficium verbis initum dudum nunc re comprobes.

CH. Enough now, enough, Simo, my friendship toward you has been put to the test; 820
I’ve begun to incur peril enough: now make an end of pleading.
while I strive to comply with you, I have nearly trifled with my daughter’s life.
SI. Nay rather, indeed, now when more than ever I request and beg of you, Chremes,
that the benefaction entered into in words a moment ago you now confirm in deed.

CH. vide quam iniquo' sis prae studio: dum id efficias quod lubet, 825
neque modum benignitati' neque quid me ores cogitas;
nam si cogites remittas iam me onerare iniuriis.
SI. quibus? CH. at rogitas?

CH. see how iniquitous you are through zeal: while you effect that which you please, 825
you consider neither a measure to benignity nor what you beseech me for;
for if you would consider, you would now cease to burden me with injuries.
SI. with what? CH. and you ask?

perpulisti me ut homini adulescentulo
in alio occupato amore, abhorrenti ab re uxoria,
filiam ut darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias, 830
eiu' labore atque eiu' dolore gnato ut medicarer tuo.
impetrasti: incepi, dum res tetulit. nunc non fert: feras.

you have driven me to give my daughter to a young man
occupied in another love, averse from the uxorial affair,
to give her into turmoil and into uncertain nuptials,
830
so that by his labor and his pain I might medicate your son.
you have prevailed: I began, while the matter bore it. Now it does not bear: you bear it.

illam hinc civem esse aiunt; puer est natu': nos missos face.
SI. per ego te d<eo>s oro, ut ne illis animum inducas credere,
quibus id maxume utilest illum esse quam deterrumum. 835
nuptiarum gratia haec sunt ficta atque incepta omnia.
ubi ea causa quam ob rem haec faciunt erit adempta his, desinent.

they say that that woman is a citizen from here; a boy has been born: dismiss us.
SI. by the gods I beg you, do not bring yourself to believe those for whom it is most advantageous that he be as downright worst as possible. 835
for the sake of nuptials all these things have been feigned and undertaken.
when the cause on account of which they do these things is taken away from them, they will cease.

CH. erras: cum Davo egomet vidi iurgantem ancillam. SI. scio. CH. at
vero voltu, quom ibi me adesse neuter tum praesenserant.

CH. you err: together with Davus I myself saw the maidservant jurgating. SI. I know. CH. but indeed by the countenance, when neither of them had then perceived that I was present there.

SI. credo et id facturas Davo' dudum praedixit mihi; et 840
nescio qui <i>d tibi sum oblitus hodie, ac volui, dicere.

SI. I believe it, and that you will do it—Davus long ago foretold that to me; and 840
I have somehow forgotten something to tell you today, and I meant to say it.

Davos Chremes Simo Dromo

DA. Animo nunciam otioso esse impero. CH. em Davom tibi!
SI. unde egreditur?

DA. I command my mind now to be at leisure. CH. There’s Davus for you!
SI. Whence is he coming out?

DA. meo praesidio atque hospiti'. SI. quid illud malist?
DA. ego commodiorem hominem adventum tempu' non vidi. SI. scelus,
quemnam hic laudat?

DA. my safeguard and host. SI. what evil is that?
DA. I have not seen a more convenient man in the timing of his arrival. SI. scoundrel,
whom is he praising here?

DA. omni' res est iam in vado. SI. cesso adloqui? 845
DA. erus est: quid agam? SI. o salve, bone vir.

DA. everything is now in the shallows. SI. do I delay to address? 845
DA. it’s the master: what am I to do? SI. O hail, good man.

DA. ehem Simo, o noster
Chreme,
omnia adparata iam sunt intu'. SI. curasti probe.
DA. ubi voles accerse. SI. bene sane; id enimvero hinc nunc abest.

DA. ahem, Simo, O our
Chremes,
everything is already prepared inside. SI. you have taken care of it well.
DA. when you wish, summon me. SI. very good indeed; that, to be sure, is now out of the question here.

etiam tu hoc respondes quid istic tibi negotist? DA. mihin? SI. ita.

Do you too give this reply: what business have you there? DA. to me? SI. yes.

DA. mihin? SI. tibi ergo. DA. modo introii.

DA. to me? SI. to you then. DA. I just came in.

SI. quasi ego quam dudum rogem. 850
DA. cum t<uo> gnato una. SI. anne est intu' Pamphilu'? crucior miser!
eho non tu dixti esse inter eos inimicitias, carnufex?

SI. as if I had been asking for a long time. 850
DA. together with your son. SI. or is Pamphilus inside?
I am racked, wretch that I am! hey, didn’t you say there were enmities between them, executioner?

DA. sunt. SI. quor igitur hic est? CH. quid illum censes?

DA. they are. SI. why then is he here? CH. what do you take him for?

cum illa litigat.
DA. immo vero indignum, Chreme, iam facinu' faxo ex me audies.
nescioquis senex modo venit, ellum, confidens catus: 855
quom faciem videas, videtur esse quantivis preti:
tristi' severitas inest in voltu atque in verbis fides.

he quarrels with her.
DA. Nay rather, a disgrace, Chremes; I’ll see to it you now hear the crime from me.
Some old man just came—there he is—confident, shrewd: 855
when you look at his face, he seems to be worth whatever price:
a grim severity is in his countenance, and in his words credibility.

SI. quidnam adportat? DA. nil equidem nisi quod illum audivi dicere.
SI. quid ait tandem?

SI. What does he bring? DA. Nothing indeed except what I heard that fellow say.
SI. What does he say, then?

DA. Glycerium se scire civem esse Atticam. SI. hem
Dromo, Dromo. DA. quid est?

DA. that he knows Glycerium to be an Attic citizen. SI. ah
Dromo, Dromo. DA. what is it?

SI. Dromo. DA. audi. SI. verbum si 860
addideris . . ! Dromo.

SI. Dromo. DA. listen. SI. if you 860
add a word . . ! Dromo.

DA. audi obsecro. DR. quid vis? SI. sublimem intro rape hunc, quantum
potest.

DA. listen, I beseech. DR. what do you want? SI. haul this fellow inside, aloft, as much
as possible.

DR. quem? SI. Davom. DA. quam ob rem?

DR. whom? SI. Davus. DA. for what reason?

SI. quia lubet. rape inquam.
DA. quid feci?

SI. Because it pleases me. Seize him, I say.
DA. What have I done?

SI. rape.
DA. si quicquam invenies me mentitum, occidito. SI. nil audio.

SI. seize.
DA. if you find I have lied in anything, kill me. SI. I hear nothing.

DR. ego iam te commotum reddam. DA. tamen etsi hoc verumst? SI. tamen.

DR. I will now make you upset. DA. Still—even if this is true? SI.
still.

cura adservandum vinctum, atque audin? quadrupedem constringito. 865
age nunciam: ego pol hodie, si vivo, tibi
ostendam erum quid sit pericli fallere,
et illi patrem.

take care that he be kept under guard, bound; and do you hear? bind him on all fours. 865
come now then: by Pollux, today, if I live, I
will show you what peril it is to deceive a master,
and to that fellow, a father.

CH. ah ne saevi tanto opere. SI. o Chreme,
pietatem gnati! nonne te miseret mei?

CH. ah, do not rage so greatly. SI. O Chremes,
the piety of your son! do you not pity me?

tantum laborem capere ob talem filium! 870
age Pamphile, exi Pamphile: ecquid te pudet?

to undergo so much labor on account of such a son! 870
come on, Pamphilus, come out, Pamphilus: are you at all ashamed?

Pamphilvs Simo Chremes

Pamphilus Simo Chremes

PA. Quis me volt? perii, pater est. SI. quid ais, omnium . . ? CH. ah
rem potius ipsam dic ac mitte male loqui.

PA. Who wants me? I’m ruined; it’s father. SI. What do you say, of all . . ? CH. ah
speak rather of the matter itself and stop speaking ill.

SI. quasi quicquam in hunc iam graviu' dici possiet.
<ai>n tandem, civi' Glyceriumst? PA. ita praedicant. 875
SI. "ita praedicant"? o ingentem confidentiam!

SI. as though anything more serious could now be said against him. Do you really say, then, Glycerium is a citizen? PA. so they proclaim. 875
SI. "so they proclaim"? O immense confidence!

num cogitat quid dicat? num facti piget?
vide num ei(u)s color pudori' signum usquam indicat.

is he thinking what he says? is he sorry for the deed?
see whether his color anywhere indicates a sign of shame.

adeo[n] inpotenti esse animo ut praeter civium
morem atque legem et s<ui> voluntatem patris 880
tamen hanc habere studeat cum summo probro!
PA. me miserum! SI. hem modone id demum sensti, Pamphile?

Is he indeed of such an uncontrolled spirit that, contrary to the citizens’ custom and the law and his father’s will 880
nevertheless he strives to have this woman, with the utmost disgrace!
PA. Alas for me! SI. Ha! Only just now at last did you realize that, Pamphilus?

olim istuc, olim quom ita animum induxti tuom,
quod cuperes aliquo pacto efficiundum tibi,
<eo>dem die istuc verbum vere in te accidit. 885
sed quid ego? quor me excrucio? quor me macero?

once that—once, when you had thus induced your mind,
that what you desired had somehow to be effected for yourself,
<eo>dem day that saying truly befell you. 885
but what am I doing? why do I excruciate myself? why do I macerate myself?

quor meam senectutem huius sollicito amentia?
an ut pro hui(u)s peccatis ego supplicium sufferam?
immo habeat, valeat, vivat cum illa.

why do I trouble my senescence with this man’s amentia?
or is it so that for this one’s sins I should suffer punishment?
no rather, let him have her, let him be well, let him live with her.

PA. mi pater!
SI. quid "mi pater"? quasi tu huius indigeas patris. 890
domus uxor liberi inventi invito patre;
adducti qui illam hinc civem dicant: viceris.
PA. pater, licetne pauca?

PA. my father!
SI. what “my father”? as if you were in need of this father. 890
a house, a wife, children have been procured with the father unwilling;
witnesses have been brought in to say that she is a citizen from here: you will have won.
PA. father, may I say a few words?

SI. quid dices mihi? CH. at
tamen, Simo, audi. SI. ego audiam?

SI. what will you say to me? CH.
but still, Simo, listen. SI. am I to listen?

quid audiam,
Chreme? CH. at tandem dicat. SI. age dicat, sino. 895
PA. ego me amare hanc fateor; si id peccarest, fateor id quoque.

what am I to hear,
Chremes? CH. but at last let him speak. SI. come, let him speak; I allow it. 895
PA. I confess that I love this woman; if that is a sin, I confess that too.

tibi, pater, me dedo: quidvis oneris inpone, impera.
vis me uxorem ducere? hanc vis [a]mittere?

to you, father, I surrender myself: impose any burden, command.
do you wish me to take a wife? do you wish me to [a]bandon this one?

ut potero feram.
hoc modo te obsecro, ut ne credas a me adlegatum hunc senem:
sine me expurgem atque illum huc coram adducam. SI. adducas?

I will bear it as I can.
In this way I beg you, that you not believe that this old man has been put forward by me as an advocate:
let me clear myself and bring him here before you. SI. You would bring him?

PA. 900
sine, pater.
CH. aequom postulat: da veniam. PA. sine te hoc exorem.

PA. 900
allow it, father.
CH. he asks what is equitable: grant pardon. PA. allow me to win you over for this.

SI. sino.
quidvis cupio dum ne ab hoc me falli comperiar, Chreme.
CH. pro peccato magno paullum supplici satis est patri.

SI. I permit it.
I desire anything, provided that I not be found to be deceived by this man, Chremes.
CH. For a great offense, a little punishment is sufficient for a father.

Crito Chremes Simo Pamphilvs

Crito Chremes Simo Pamphilus

CR. Mitte orare. una harum quaevis causa me ut faciam monet,
vel tu vel quod verumst vel quod ipsi cupio Glycerio. 905
CH. Andrium ego Critonem video? certe is est.

CR. Leave off entreating. Any one cause of these admonishes me to do it,
either you, or that which is true, or that I myself desire it for Glycerium. 905
CH. Do I see Criton the Andrian? certainly it is he.

CR. salvo' sis, Chreme.
CH. quid tu Athenas insolens? CR. evenit.

CR. May you be safe, Chremes.
CH. What brings you to Athens, so unaccustomed to it? CR. It happens.

sed hicinest Simo?
CH. hic. CR. Simo . . SI. men quaeris?

but is Simo here?
CH. here. CR. Simo . . SI. are you asking for me?

eho tu, Glycerium hinc civem
esse ais?
CR. tu negas? SI. itane huc paratus advenis?

Hey, you—do you say that Glycerium
is a citizen from here?
CR. do you deny it? SI. is it so—do you come here prepared like this?

CR. qua re? SI. rogas?
tune inpune haec facias? tune hic homines adulescentulos 910
inperitos rerum, eductos libere, in fraudem inlicis?

CR. for what reason? SI. you ask?
do you do these things with impunity? do you here entice young men 910
inexperienced in affairs, brought up freely, into fraud?

sollicitando et pollicitando <eo>rum animos lactas? CR. sanun es?
SI. ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?
PA. perii, metuo ut substet hospes.

by soliciting and promising do you beguile their minds? CR. are you sane?
SI. and do you glue meretricious loves to marriages?
PA. I’m undone; I fear the guest will not stand his ground.

CH. si, Simo, hunc noris satis,
non ita arbitrere: bonus est hic vir. SI. hic vir sit bonus? 915
itane adtemperate evenit, hodie in ipsis nuptiis
ut veniret, ant(e)hac numquam? est vero huic credundum, Chreme.

CH. If, Simo, you knew this man well enough,
you would not think so: this man is good. SI. This man be good? 915
Has it so seasonably come about, that today on the very nuptials
he should come, never before this? Truly this man is to be believed, Chremes.

PA. ni metuam patrem, habeo pro illa re illum quod moneam probe.
SI. sycophanta. CR. hem.

PA. If I did not fear my father, I have him to warn soundly about that matter.
SI. sycophant. CR. Hah.

CH. sic, Crito, est hic: mitte. CR. videat
qui siet.
si mihi perget quae volt dicere, ea quae non volt audiet. 920
ego istaec moveo aut curo?

CH. so, Crito, he is thus: leave it. CR. let him look out
who he is.
if he goes on saying to me what he wants, he will hear those things which he does not want. 920
do I move those things or care for them?

non tu t<uo>m malum aequo animo feras!
nam ego quae dico vera an falsa audierim iam sciri potest.
Atticus quidam olim navi fracta ad Andrum eiectus est
et istaec una parva virgo.

may you not bear your own misfortune with an even mind!
for as to what I say, whether I heard truths or lies can now be known.
a certain Attic man once, his ship wrecked, was cast ashore at Andros
and that girl there, a small maiden, along with him.

tum ille egens forte adplicat
primum ad Chrysidis patrem se. SI. fabulam inceptat. CH. sine. 925
CR. itane vero obturbat? CH. perge.

then he, needy, by chance applies himself
first to the father of Chrysis. SI. he begins a fable. CH. allow it. 925
CR. is he really thus disturbing? CH. proceed.

CR. Tu -- is mihi cognatus fuit
qui <eu>m recepit. ibi ego audivi ex illo sese esse Atticum.
is ibi mortuost.

CR. You --
he was my kinsman
who received him. There I heard from him that he was Attic.
he died there.

CH. ei(u)s nomen? CR. nomen tam cito? Phania?

CH. his name? CR. the name so quickly? Phania?

hem
perii! verum hercle opinor f<ui>sse Phaniam; hoc certo scio,
Rhamnusium se aiebat esse. CH. o Iuppiter!

ah—
I am undone! Truly, by Hercules, I opine it was Phania; this I know for certain,
he said he was a Rhamnusian. CH. O Jupiter!

CR. eadem haec, Chreme, 930
multi alii in Andro tum audi[ve]re. CH. utinam id sit quod spero! eho dic mihi,
quid eam tum? suamne esse aibat?

CR. These same things, Chremes, 930
many others on Andros heard then. CH. Would that this be what I hope! hey, tell me,
what about her then? did he say she was his own?

CR. non. CH. quoiam igitur? CR.
fratri' filiam.

CR. no. CH. whose then? CR.
his brother’s daughter.

CH. certe meast. CR. quid ais? SI. quid tu ais?

CH. certainly she is mine. CR. what do you say? SI. what do you say yourself?

PA. arrige auris, Pamphile!
SI. qui credi'? CH. Phania illic frater meu' fuit. SI. noram et scio.

PA. give ear, Pamphilus!
SI. who would believe it? CH. That man there, Phania, was my brother. SI. I knew him, and I know it.

CH. is bellum hinc fugiens meque in Asiam persequens proficiscitur: 935
tum illam relinquere hic est veritus.~ postilla nunc primum audio
quid illo sit factum. PA. vix sum apud me: ita animu' commotust metu
spe gaudio, mirando tanto tam repentino hoc bono.
SI. ne istam multimodis t<ua>m inveniri gaudeo.

CH. he, fleeing the war from here and pursuing me into Asia, sets out: 935
then this man here was afraid to leave that girl behind here.~ thereafter now for the first time I hear
what has become of him. PA. I am scarcely myself: so my spirit is moved with fear,
hope, joy, marveling at so great, so sudden a good. SI. By her, I rejoice in many ways that she is found to be yours.

PA. credo, pater.
CH. at mi unu' scrupulus etiam restat qui me male habet. PA. dignus es 940
cum t<ua> religione, odium: nodum in scirpo quaeri'. CR. quid istuc est?

PA. I believe it, father.
CH. But one scruple still remains for me that troubles me. PA. You are worthy, 940
with your scrupulous “religion”—odious! you’re looking for a knot in a bulrush. CR. What is that?

CH. nomen non convenit. CR. fuit hercle huic aliud parvae. CH. quod, Crito?

CH. the name does not agree. CR. By Hercules, there was another for this one when she was little. CH. What, Crito?

numquid meministi? CR. id quaero. PA. egon huiu' memoriam patiar meae
voluptati obstare, quom ego possim in hac re medicari mihi?

do you remember anything? CR. that is what I am asking. PA. am I to allow this one’s memory to stand in the way of my pleasure,
when I can in this matter medicate myself?

heus, Chreme, quod quaeri', Pasibulast. CH. ipsa <ea>st. CR. east. 945
PA. ex ipsa miliens audivi. SI. omnis nos gaudere hoc, Chreme,
te credo credere.

hey, Chremes, the thing being inquired—Pasibula it is. CH. she herself it is. CR. it is. 945
PA. from herself I have heard it a thousand times. SI. we all rejoice at this, Chremes,
I believe that you believe.

CH. ita me di ament, credo. PA. quod restat, pater . .
SI. iamdudum res redduxit me ipsa in gratiam. PA. o lepidum patrem!

CH. so may the gods love me, I believe. PA. as to what remains, father . .
SI. long since the matter itself has restored me to favor. PA. O delightful father!

de uxore, ita ut possedi, nil mutat Chremes? CH. causa optumast;
nisi quid pater ait aliud. PA. nempe id. SI. scilicet.

about the wife, just as I have possessed her, does Chremes change nothing? CH. the cause is optimum;
unless the father says anything else. PA. namely that. SI. of course.

CH. dos, Pamphile, est 950
decem talenta. PA. accipio. CH. propero ad filiam.

CH. the dowry, Pamphilus, is 950
ten talents. PA. I accept. CH. I hasten to my daughter.

eho mecum, Crito;
nam illam me credo haud nosse.-- SI. quor non illam huc transferri iubes?
PA. recte admones: Davo ego istuc dedam iam negoti. SI. non potest.

hey!
come with me, Crito;
for I believe I do not know that woman.-- SI. why don’t you order that woman to be transferred here?
PA. you advise rightly: I’ll hand over that business now to Davus. SI. it can’t be done.

PA. qui? SI. quia habet aliud magis ex sese et maiu'. PA. quidnam? SI. vinctus est.

PA. how so? SI. because he has another, and a greater, matter of his own. PA. what then? SI. he is bound.

PA. pater, non recte vinctust. SI. haud ita iussi. PA. iube solvi, obsecro. 955
SI. age fiat.

PA. Father, he is not rightly bound. SI. I did not order it so. PA. order him to be loosed, I beg. 955
SI. come, let it be done.

PA. at matura. SI. eo intro. PA. o faustum et felicem diem!

PA. but make haste. SI. I’m going inside. PA. o auspicious and felicitous day!

Charinvs Pamphilvs Davos

Charinus Pamphilus Davus

CH. Proviso quid agat Pamphilus. atque eccum. PA. aliquis fors[itan] me putet
non putare hoc verum, at mihi nunc sic esse hoc verum lubet.

CH. I will go see what Pamphilus is doing. And look—here he is. PA. someone perhaps may think that I do not think this true, but it now pleases me that this be true thus.

ego d<eo>rum vitam propterea sempiternam esse arbitror
quod voluptates <eo>rum propriae sunt; nam mi inmortalitas 960
partast, si nulla aegritudo huic gaudio intercesserit.
sed quem ego mihi potissumum optem, nunc quoi haec narrem, dari?
CH. quid illud gaudist?

I reckon the life of the gods to be sempiternal for this reason:
because their pleasures are proper to them; for for me immortality 960
is secured, if no affliction has intervened in this joy.
but whom should I prefer above all to be given me now, to whom I may tell these things?
CH. what is that joy?

PA. Davom video. nemost quem mallem omnium;
nam hunc scio mea solide solum gavisurum gaudia.
DA. Pamphilus ubinam hic est?

PA. I see Davus. there is no one of all whom I would prefer;
for I know that he alone will solidly rejoice at my joys.
DA. Where on earth is Pamphilus here?

PA. Dave. DA. quis homost? PA. ego sum. 965
DA. o Pamphile.

PA. Davus. DA. who is the man? PA. I am. 965
DA. O Pamphilus.

PA. nescis quid mi obtigerit. DA. certe; sed quid mihi obtigerit scio.
PA. et quidem ego.

PA. You do not know what has befallen me. DA. Certainly; but what has befallen me I know.
PA. And indeed I too.

DA. more hominum evenit ut quod sim nanctus mali
priu' rescisceres tu quam ego illud quod tibi evenit boni.
PA. Glycerium mea s<uo>s parentis repperit. DA. factum bene.

DA. in the manner of men it comes about that what evil I have chanced upon
you learn first, before I [learn] that good which has befallen you.
PA. Glycerium, my dear, has found her own parents. DA. well done.

CH. hem.
PA. pater amicu' summu' nobis. DA. quis?

CH. hey.
PA. the father is our greatest friend. DA. who?

PA. Chremes. DA. narras probe. 970
PA. nec mora ullast quin eam uxorem ducam.

PA. Chremes. DA. you tell it well. 970
PA. nor is there any delay at all but that I take her as my wife.

CH. num illic somniat
ea quae vigilans voluit? PA. tum de puero, Dave . . DA. ah desine!
solus est quem diligant di. CH. salvo' sum si haec vera sunt.

CH. is he over there
dreaming those things which, awake, he willed? PA. then about the boy, Dave . . DA. ah, stop!
he is the only one whom the gods love. CH. I'm safe if these things are true.

conloquar. PA. quis homost? [o] Charine, in tempore ipso mi advenis.

I will speak with him. PA. who is the man? [o] Charinus, you arrive for me at the very moment.

CH. bene factum. PA. audisti[n]? CH. omnia. age, me in t<ui>s 975
secundis respice.

CH. well done. PA. did you hear? CH. everything. come, look to me in your 975
good fortune.

tuos est nunc Chremes: facturum quae voles scio esse omnia.
PA. memini: atque adeo longumst illum me exspectare dum exeat.
sequere hac me: intus apud Glycerium nunc est.

Chremes is now yours: I know he will do everything you wish.
PA. I remember; and indeed it’s a long business for me to wait for him until he comes out.
follow me this way: he is now inside with Glycerium.

tu, Dave, abi domum,
propera, accerse hinc qui auferant. em quid stas? quid cessas?

you, Dave, go home,
make haste, summon from here those who will carry it off. look, why do you stand? why do you delay?

DA. eo.
ne exspecteti' dum exeant huc: intu' despondebitur; 980
intu' transigetur siquid est quod restet. CANTOR. plaudite!

DA.
I’m going.
don’t wait till they come out here: inside he will be affianced; 980
inside it will be transacted, if there is anything that remains. CANTOR. applaud!

EXITVS ALTER SVPPOSITICIVS

SECOND SUPPOSITITIOUS ENDING

PA. memini adq<ue adeo ut uolui commodum huc senex exit foras>.     977a
CH. m o                978a
CH.                       979a

PA. I remember, and indeed just as I wanted, just now the old man comes out here.     977a
CH. m o                978a
CH.                       979a

Pamphilvs Charinvs Chremes Davos

Pamphilus Charinus Chremes Davus

PA. Te expectabam: est de tua re quod agere ego tecum uolo.        980a
operam dedi ne me esse oblitum dicas tuae gnatae alterae.               981a
tibi me opinor inuenisse dignum te atque illa uirum. CHA. Ah,     982a
perii, Daue, de meo amore ac uita <nunc> sors tollitur.                   983a
CHR. non noua istaec mihi condicio est, si uoluissem, Pamphile. 984a
CHA. occidi, Daue.

PA. I was expecting you: there is something about your affair that I want to deal with you.        980a
I have taken pains so that you may not say that I have forgotten your other daughter.               981a
I think I have found for you a man worthy of you and of her. CHA. Ah,     982a
I am undone, Davus; from my love and my life <now> the lot is taken away.                   983a
CHR. That condition is not new to me, if I had wished it, Pamphilus. 984a
CHA. I am slain, Davus.

DA. mane. CHA. perii. CHR. id quamobrem non 985a
uolui eloquar:
non idcirco quod eum omnino adfinem mihi nollem . . CHA. hem!

DA. wait. CHA. I am undone. CHR. the reason why I did not 985a
wish it I will tell:
not for this reason, that I should in no way wish him as a kinsman by affinity to me . . CHA. eh!

DA. tace. 986a
CHR. sed amicitia nostra quae est a patribus nostris tradita           987a
nobis, aliquam partem studui adauctam tradi liberis.                       988a
nunc cum copia ac fortuna utrique ut obsequerer dedit,                   989a
detur. PA. bene factum.

DA. be silent. 986a
CHR. but our friendship which has been handed down to us by our fathers           987a
I have striven to have transmitted to our children, augmented by some measure.                       988a
now, since resources and fortune have afforded me the opportunity to oblige both,                   989a
let it be granted. PA. well done.

DA. adi atque age homini gratias. CHA.   990a
     salue, Chremes,
amicorum meorum omnium mihi ~agissime.                                   991a
quod mihi non minus est gaudio quam id <quod volo>                   992a
quod <abs te expecto et summo studio> abs te expeto:                    993a
me repperisse ut habitus antehac fui tibi.                                          994a
CHR. animum, Charine, quod ad cumque applicaueris                  995a
studium exinde ut erit tute existimaberis.                                          996a
id ita esse facere coniecturam ex me licet:                                         997a
alienus abs te tamen quis tu esses noueram.                                     998a
CHA. ita res est. CHR. gnatam tibi meam Philumenam                999a
uxorem et dotis sex talenta spondeo.                                              1000a

DA. go and give the man thanks. CHA.   990a
     hail, Chremes,
of all my friends to me most welcome;                                   991a
because this is to me no less a joy than that                    992a
which I seek from you:                    993a
that I have found myself to be held as I was formerly by you.                                          994a
CHR. your mind, Chares, to whatever pursuit you shall have applied it,                  995a
you yourself will be esteemed accordingly as that pursuit shall be.                                          996a
that this is so you may make a conjecture from me:                                         997a
though a stranger from you, nevertheless I knew what sort of man you were.                                     998a
CHA. so the matter is. CHR. I pledge my daughter Philumena to you as wife,                999a
and a dowry of six talents.                                              1000a