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- Terence. Publii Terentii Comoediae Sex. Parry, Edward St. John, editor. London: Whittaker and Co.; George Bell, 1857.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi0134.phi004.humanitext-lat2:814-866
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
After Nausistrata leaves, Chremes reveals to Demipho that Antipho's wife is actually his own daughter. Later, an excited Geta appears before Antipho and Phormio, bringing the news that Chremes has confirmed the truth inside.
Sic pol commodius esse in omnes arbitror quam ut coeperas,1
Nausistrata: “By Pollux, I think this is more convenient for everyone than what you had begun,”
Mancre2 hanc; nam perliberalis visa est quum vidi mihi.
”for her to stay; for she seemed to me very ladylike when I saw her.”
Quid istuc negoti est?
Demipho: “What is this business?”
Iamne operuit ostium?
Chremes: “Has she shut the door already?”
Iam.
Demipho: “Already.”
O Iupiter,
Chremes: “O Jupiter,”
Di nos respiciunt: gnatam inveni nuptam cum tuo filio.
”the gods look upon us: I have found my daughter married to your son.”
Hem,
Demipho: “What?”
Quo pacto id potuit?
”How could that be?”
Non satis tutus est ad narrandum hic locus.
Chremes: “This place is not safe enough for telling.”
At tu abi intro.
Demipho: “Then go inside.”
Heus, ne filii quidem nostri hoc resciscant volo.
Chremes: “Hey, I don’t want even our sons to find this out.”
Laetus sum, ut meae res sese habent, fratri obtigisse quod vult.
Antipho: “I am glad, however my own affairs stand, that what my cousin wants has happened to him.”
Quam scitum est eiusmodi parare in animo cupiditates
”How clever it is to nurture such desires in the mind,”
Quas, quum res adversae sient, paulo mederi possis!3
”which, when things go wrong, you can cure with a little trouble!”
Hic simul argentum repperit cura sese expedivit.
”He, as soon as he found the money, freed himself from care.”
Ego nullo possum remedio me evolvere ex his turbis
”I can extricate myself from these troubles by no remedy,”
Quin, si hoc celetur, in metu, sin patefit, ill probro sim.4
”without being in fear if this is concealed, or in disgrace if it is revealed.”
Neque me domum nunc reciperem, ni mihi esset spes ostenta
”And I would not return home now, if hope had not been shown to me”
Huiusce habendae. Sed ubinam Getam invenire possum,
”of keeping her. But where on earth can I find Geta,”
Ut rogem quod tempus conveniendi patris me capere iubeat?
”to ask what time he would advise me to choose for meeting my father?”
Argentum accepi; tradidi lenoni; abduxi mulierem;
Phormio: “I have received the money; delivered it to the pimp; carried off the woman;”
Curavi propria ea Phaedria ut poteretur; nam emissa est manu.
”I have seen to it that Phaedria should possess her as his own; for she has been manumitted.”
Nunc una mihi res etiam restat quae est conficienda, otium
”Now one thing also still remains for me to settle, to get leisure”
Ab senibus ad potandum ut habeam;5 nam aliquot hos sumam dies.
”from the old men for drinking; for I will take these next few days for it.”
Sed Phormio est. Quid ais?
Antipho: “But there is Phormio. What do you say?”
Quid?
Phormio: “What?”
Quidnam nunc facturus Phaedria?
Antipho: “What is Phaedria going to do now?”
Quo pacto satietatem amoris ait se velle sumere?
”In what way does he say he wants to take his fill of love?”
Vicissim partes tuas acturus est.
Phormio: “In his turn, he is going to play your part.”
Quas?
Antipho: “Which one?”
Ut fugitet patrem.
Phormio: “To run away from his father.”
Te suam rogavit rursum ut ageres, causam ut pro se diceres;
”He has asked you to play his part in turn, and plead his cause for him;”
Nam potaturus est apud me. Ego me ire senibus Sunium
”for he is going to drink at my place. I will tell the old men”
Dicam ad mercatum, ancillulam emtum quam dudum dixit Geta;
”that I am going to Sunium to the market, to buy the little slave-girl Geta mentioned just now;”
Ne quum hic non videant me conficere credant argentum suum.
”lest, when they don’t see me here, they believe I am squandering their money.”
Sed ostium concrepuit abs te.
”But the door of your house creaked.”
Vide quis egrediatur.
Antipho: “See who is coming out.”
Geta est.
Phormio: “It is Geta.”
O Fortuna, O Fors fortuna, quantis commoditatibus
Geta: “O Fortune, O Lady Fortune, with what great blessings”
Quam subito hero meo Antiphoni ope vestra hunc onerastis diem;
”how suddenly have you loaded this day with your aid for my master Antipho!”
Quidnam hic sibi vult?
Antipho: “What on earth does he mean?”
nosque amicos eius exonerastis metu!
Geta: “And have freed us, his friends, from fear!”
Sed ego nunc mihi cesso qui non humerum hunc onero pallio,
”But why do I delay now, and don’t load this shoulder with my cloak,”
Atque hominem propero invenire, ut haec quae contigerint sciat.
”and hasten to find the man, so that he may know these things that have happened?”
Num tu intelligis hic quid narret?
Phormio: “Do you understand at all what he is talking about?”
Num tu?
Antipho: “Do you?”
Nihil.
Phormio: “Nothing.”
Tantundem ego.
Antipho: “Just as much as you.”
Ad lenonem hinc ire pergam: ibi nunc sunt.
Geta: “I will proceed to go from here to the pimp’s house: they are there now.”
Heus Geta.
Phormio: “Hey, Geta!”
Hem tibi.
Geta: “There you go.”
Num mirum aut novum est revocari, cursum quum institueris?
”Is it anything strange or new to be called back when you’ve started running?”
Geta.
Phormio: “Geta!”
Pergit hercle. Nunquam tu odio tuo me vines.
Geta: “By Hercules, he persists. You will never conquer me with your annoying ways.”
Non manes?
Phormio: “Won’t you stop?”
Vapula.6
Geta: “Go and be hanged.”
Id quidem tibi iam fiet, nisi resistis, verbero.
Phormio: “That indeed will happen to you right now, unless you stop, you scoundrel.”
Familiariorem oportet esse hunc: minitatur malum.
Geta: “This fellow must be rather intimate: he threatens me with mischief.”
Sed isne es quem quaero an non? ipsus est.
”But is that the man I am looking for or not? It is he himself.”
Congredere actutum.
”Come here quickly.”
Quid est?
Antipho: “What is it?”
O omnium quantum est qui vivunt hominum homo ornatissime!7
Geta: “O of all the men who live, the most highly favored man!”
Nam sine controversia ab Dis solus diligere, Antipho.
”For without controversy, you alone are beloved by the gods, Antipho.”
Ita velim: sed qui istuc credam ita esse mihi diei velim.
Antipho: “I should wish it so: but I should like to be told why I should believe it to be so.”
Satin est si te delibutum gaudio reddo?
Geta: “Is it enough if I render you drenched in joy?”
Enicas.
Antipho: “You are killing me.”
Quin tu hinc pollicitationes aufer, et quod fers cedo.
Phormio: “Why don’t you do away with your promises, and give us what you bring?”
Oh,
Geta: “Oh,”
Tu quoque hic aderas, Phormio?
”were you here too, Phormio?”
Aderam: sed cessas?
Phormio: “I was: but why do you delay?”
Accipe, hem,
Geta: “Listen then, here,”
Ut modo argentum tibi dedimus apud forum, recta domum
”As soon as we gave you the money just now at the forum, straight home”
Sumus profecti: interea mittit herus me ad uxorem tuam.
”we set out: in the meantime my master sends me to your wife.”
Quamobrem?
Antipho: “For what reason?”
Omitto proloqui; nam nihil ad hanc rem est, Antipho.
Geta: “I omit to mention that; for it has nothing to do with this matter, Antipho.”
Ubi in gynaeceum ire occipio, puer ad me adcurrit Mida;
”Just as I began to go into the women’s apartments, the slave-boy Mida runs up to me;”
Pone apprehendit pallio; resupinat: respicio; rogo
”he catches me from behind by my cloak; pulls me back: I look back; I ask”
Quamobrem retineat me: ait esse vetitum intro ad heram accedere.
”why he holds me back: he says it has been forbidden to go inside to his mistress.”
Sophrona modo fratrem huc, inquit, senis introduxit Chremem,
”’Sophrona just now introduced here’, says he, ‘Chremes, the old man’s brother,’”
Eumque nunc esse intus cum illis. Hoc ubi ego audivi, ad fores
”’and he is now inside with them.’ As soon as I heard this, to the door”
- 814ut coeperas
Indicative pluperfect. It means 'what you had begun (or were about to begin),' referring to Chremes's initial plan to dismiss Phanium while keeping her identity a secret from Nausistrata.
- 815Mancre
A scribal error for manere. It forms an accusative with infinitive construction (hanc manere 'for her to stay') governed by arbitror (line 814), serving as the subject of commodius esse in the preceding clause.
- 821cupiditates / Quas, quum res adversae sient, paulo mederi possis
The subjunctive possis in the relative clause quas... possis expresses potentiality or a generalizing second person. paulo is an ablative of means (or an adverbial accusative) meaning 'with a little effort' or 'easily'.
- 825Quin... sim
Governed by the preceding negative expression nullo possum remedio me evolvere ('I can extricate myself by no remedy'), this quin clause (quin + present subjunctive sim) introduces a result or attendant circumstance, meaning 'without being...' or 'so that I am not...'.
- 831otium / ... ut habeam
An appositive clause explaining the content of the noun otium ('leisure'), or a purpose clause with ut. Here it means 'to get leisure from the old men for the purpose of drinking'.
- 850Vapula
Present imperative of the verb vapulo ('to be beaten'). This is a neuter-passive (or active in form but passive in meaning) verb; while literally meaning 'be beaten', it is used colloquially as a curse or abusive expression like 'go and be hanged' or 'get lost'.
- 853O omnium quantum est qui vivunt hominum homo ornatissime
A highly exaggerated colloquial vocative. omnium hominum ('of all men') acts as a partitive genitive modifying homo ornatissime ('most highly favored man'), with the relative clause quantum est qui vivunt ('as many as live') inserted parenthetically or in apposition.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-22) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-21)
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