- Source
- Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.
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Eutychus appears before Charinus, who is about to go into exile, and detains him. Eutychus reveals that Charinus's mistress is at his own house, and Charinus, overjoyed, casts off his traveling clothes.
eundem ex confidente actutum diffidentem denuo.
And immediately make the same person, from being confident, distrustful again.
Cogito quonam égo illum curram quaeritatum.1
I am thinking where on earth I should run to search for him.
Certa res
It is a certain thing
me usque quaerere illam, quoquo hínc abductast gentium;2
that I will constantly search for her, to whatever part of the world she has been carried away from here;
neque mihi ulla obsistet amnis nec mons neque adeo mare,
and neither any river, nor mountain, nor even the sea shall stand in my way,
nec calor nec frigus metuo neque ventum neque grandinem;
nor do I fear heat or cold, nor wind or hail;
imbrem perpetiar, laborem sufferam, solem, sitim;
I will endure rain, I will bear toil, the sun, and thirst;
non concedam neque quiescam úsquam noctu neque dius
I will not yield nor rest anywhere, by night or by day,
prius profecto quam aut amicam aut mortem investigavero.
until I have surely found either my mistress or my death.
Nescio quóia3 vox ad aures mi advolavit.
I know not whose voice has flown to my ears.
Invoco
I invoke
vos, Lares viales, ut me bene tutetis.
you, Lares of the roads, that you protect me well.
Iuppiter,
Eutychus: Jupiter,
estne illic Charinus?
is that Charinus over there?
Cives, bene valete.
Charinus: Citizens, fare you well.
Ilico
Eutychus: On the spot
sta, Charine.
stand, Charinus.
Qui me revocat?
Charinus: Who calls me back?
Spes, Salus, Victoria.
Eutychus: Hope, Safety, Victory.
Quid me voltis?
Charinus: What do you want with me?
Ire tecum.
Eutychus: To go with you.
Alium comitem quaerite,
Charinus: Seek another companion,
non amittunt hi me comites qui tenent.
these companions who hold me do not let me go.
Qui sunt ei?
Eutychus: Who are they?
Cura, miseria, aegritudo, lacrumae, lamentatio.
Charinus: Care, misery, sickness of mind, tears, lamentation.
Repudia istos comites atque hoc respice et revortere.
Eutychus: Reject those companions, and look this way, and return.
Siquidem mecum fabulari vis, subsequere.
Charinus: If indeed you wish to talk with me, follow after.
Sta ilico.
Eutychus: Stand on the spot.
Male facis, properantem qui me commorare.4 sol abit.
Charinus: You do wrong, who delay me when I am in a hurry; the sun is setting.
Si huc item properes ut istuc properas, facias rectius:
Eutychus: If you were to hurry this way just as you hurry that way, you would do more rightly;
huc secundus ventus nunc est; cape modo vorsoriam:
here is a favorable wind now; just take the sheet-rope (tack about);
hic favonius serenust, istic auster imbricus;
here the west wind is clear, there the south wind brings rain;
hic facit tranquillitatem, iste omnis fluctus conciet.
this one brings tranquility, that one stirs up all the waves.
recipe te ad terram, Charine, huc. nonne ex advorso vides,
return to land, Charinus, this way. Do you not see opposite you,
nubis atra imberque ut instat? aspice ad sinisteram,
how a black cloud and rain are pressing on? Look to the left,
caelum ut est splendore plenum atque ut dei istuc vorti iubent?
how the sky is full of brightness, and how the gods command you to turn that way?
Religionem illic mi obiecit: recipiam me illuc.
Charinus: He has cast a religious scruple in my way there; I will return thither.
Sapis.
Eutychus: You are wise.
o Charine, contra pariter fer gradum et confer pedem,
O Charinus, take your step to meet me likewise, and bring your foot close,
porge bracchium.
stretch forth your arm.
Prehende. iam tenes?
Charinus: Take hold. Do you have it now?
Teneo.
Eutychus: I hold it.
Tene.
Charinus: Hold on.
Quo nunc ibas?
Eutychus: Where were you going just now?
Exulatum.
Charinus: Into exile.
Quid ibi faceres?
Eutychus: What would you do there?
Quod miser.
Charinus: What a miserable man does.
Ne pave, restituam iam ego te in gaudio antiquo ut sies.
Eutychus: Do not fear, I will now restore you so that you may be in your former joy.
maxime quod vis audire, id audies, quod gaudeas
What you most wish to hear, that you shall hear, so that you may rejoice
.
.
tuam amicam—
your mistress—
Quid eam?
Charinus: What of her?
Vbi sit ego scio.
Eutychus: Where she is, I know.
Tune, obsecro?
Charinus: You? I beseech you!
Sanam et salvam.
Eutychus: Safe and sound.
Vbi eam salvam?
Charinus: Where is she safe?
Ego scio.
Eutychus: I know.
Ego me mavelim.
Charinus: I would rather it were myself.
Potin ut animo sis tranquillo?
Eutychus: Can you be of a tranquil mind?
Quid si mi animus fluctuat?
Charinus: What if my mind is tossing?
Ego istum in tranquillo quieto tuto sistam: ne time.
Eutychus: I will place it in a tranquil, quiet, and safe harbor; fear not.
Obsecro te, loquere propere ubi sit, ubi eam videris.
Charinus: I beseech you, speak quickly where she is, where you saw her.
quid taces? dic. enicas me miserum tua reticentia.
Why are you silent? Speak. You are killing miserable me with your silence.
Non longe hinc abest a nobis.
Eutychus: She is not far away from here, from us.
Quin ergo commostras, si vides?†
Charinus: Why then do you not show her, if you see her?
Non video hercle nunc, sed vidi modo.
Eutychus: By Hercules, I do not see her now, but I saw her just now.
Quin égo videam facis?
Charinus: Won’t you make me see her?
Faciam.
Eutychus: I will do so.
Longum istuc amantist.
Charinus: That is too long for a lover.
Etiam metuis? omnia
Eutychus: Are you still afraid? All things
commonstrabo. amicior mihi nullus vivit atque is est
I will point out. No one lives more friendly to me than he is,
qui illam habet, neque est quoi magis me vélle melius aequóm siet.5
who has her, nor is there anyone for whom it is more proper that I should wish well.
Non curo istunc, de illa quaero.
Charinus: I do not care about that man, I am asking about her.
De illa ergo ego dico tibi.
Eutychus: It is about her indeed that I am telling you.
sane hoc non in mentem venit dudum, ut ubi sit dicerem.
Indeed, this did not come into my mind just now, to say where she is.
Dic igitur, ubi illa est?
Charinus: Tell me then, where is she?
In nostris aedibus.
Eutychus: In our house.
Aedis probas,
Charinus: You commend the house,
si tu vera dicis; pulchre aédificatas arbitro.
if you speak the truth; I judge it beautifully built.
sed qui ego istúc credam? vidistin an de audito nuntias?
But how am I to believe that? Did you see her yourself, or do you report from hearsay?
Egomet vidi.
Eutychus: I saw her myself.
Quis eam adduxit ad vos?
Charinus: Who brought her to your place?
Vt inique rogas.
Eutychus: How unfairly you ask.
quid tua refert, qui cum istac venerit?
What does it matter to you, who came with her?
Dum istic siet.
Charinus: As long as she is there.
vera dicis?
Are you speaking the truth?
Nil, Charine, te quidem quicquam pudet;
Eutychus: Really, Charinus, you are not ashamed of anything at all;
est profecto.
she is there indeed.
Opta ergo ob istunc nuntium quid vis tibi.
Charinus: Choose then, on account of this news, whatever you want for yourself.
Quid si optabo?
Eutychus: What if I choose?
Deos orato ut eius faciant copiam.
Charinus: Pray to the gods that they grant you abundance of her.
Derides.
Eutychus: You are mocking.
Servata res est demum, si illam videro.
Charinus: The matter is saved at last, if I shall see her.
sed quin ornatum hunc reicio? heus, aliquis actutum huc foras
But why don’t I cast off this traveling attire? Hey, someone quickly out here
exite illinc, pallium mi ecferte.
come out from there, bring out my cloak for me.
Em, nunc tu mihi places.
Eutychus: There, now you please me.
Optume advenis, pueré, cape chlamydem atque istic sta ilico,
Charinus: You come most opportunely, boy; take the cloak and stand there on the spot,
- 857quaeritatum
Accusative supine expressing purpose, used with the verb of motion curram ("to run") to mean "in order to search for."
- 858gentium
Partitive genitive modifying the adverb quoquo ("whithersoever"), forming the idiomatic phrase meaning "to whatever part of the world."
- 864quoia
Archaic possessive adjective quius, quia, quium ("whose", equivalent to the later genitive cuius), feminine nominative singular agreeing with vox.
- 873commorare
Second-person singular present indicative of the deponent verb commoror ("to delay"), using the archaic ending -re instead of -ris. It functions within the relative clause introduced by qui (not an imperative).
- 898quoi magis me velle melius aequom siet
The phrase velle melius is an idiomatic equivalent of bene velle ("to wish well to someone"). quoi is the dative relative pronoun governing this idiom. The accusative-and-infinitive clause (me velle) acts as the subject of aequom siet ("it would be fair/proper"), meaning "there is no one for whom it would be more proper that I wish well."