- Source
- 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-lat2:867-933b
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
Geta informs Antipho that his wife Phanium is actually Chremes' long-lost daughter, bringing great joy to Antipho who rushes inside. Phormio sees a golden opportunity to keep the money for Phaedria and confront the old men, demanding the dowry as compensation for the cancelled marriage.
Suspenso gradu placide ire perrexi; accessi; adstiti;
Geta: “I proceeded to go quietly with suspended step; I approached; I stood still;”
Animam compressi; aurem admovi: ita animum coepi attendere,
”I held my breath; I applied my ear: in this way I began to pay attention,”
Hoc modo sermonem captans.
”catching the conversation in this manner.”
Eu Geta.
Phormio: “Well done, Geta!”
Hic pulcherrimum
Geta: “There I heard the most beautiful”
Facinus audivi: itaque paene hercle exclamavi gaudio.
”news: so that by Hercules I almost cried out for joy.”
Quod?
Antipho: “What?”
Quodnam arbitrare?
Geta: “What indeed do you think?”
Nescio.
Antipho: “I don’t know.”
Atqui mirificissimum:
Geta: “But it is most wonderful:”
Patruus tuus pater est inventus Phanio uxori tuae.
”Your uncle has been found to be the father of your wife Phanium.”
Hem.
Antipho: “What?”
Quid ais?
Phormio: “What are you saying?”
Cum eius consuevit olim matre in Lemno clanculum.
Geta: “He was intimate with her mother formerly in Lemnos in secret.”
Somnium. Utine haec ignoraret suum patrem?1
Phormio: “A dream! Would she not know her own father?”
Aliquid credito,
Geta: “Believe that there is some”
Phormio, esse causae: sed me censen potuisse omnia
”reason, Phormio; but do you think I could have understood everything”
Intelligere extra ostium intus quae inter sese ipsi egerint?
”inside, which they did among themselves, outside the door?”
Atque hercle ego quoque illam audivi fabulam.
Antipho: “And by Hercules, I too have heard that story.”
Immo etiam dabo
Geta: “Nay, I will even give you something”
Quo magis credas. Patruus interea inde huc egreditur foras:
”by which you may believe more. In the meantime your uncle comes out of there:”
Haud multo post cum patre idem recipit se intro denuo:
”not long after, the same man returns inside again with your father:”
Ait uterque tibi potestatem eius habendae se dare.
”Each of them says that he gives you the power of keeping her.”
Denique ego missus sum te ut requirerem atque adducerem.
”Finally, I was sent to look for you and bring you.”
Quin ergo rape me: quid cessas?
Antipho: “Why then don’t you carry me off? Why do you delay?”
Fecero.
Geta: “I will do so.”
O mi Phormio,
Antipho: “O my Phormio,”
Vale.
”farewell.”
Vale, Antipho: bene, ita me Di ament, factum: gaudeo
Phormio: “Farewell, Antipho. Well done! So love me the gods, I am glad”
Tantam fortunam de improviso esse his datam.
”that so great fortune has been given to them unexpectedly.”
Summa eludendi occasio est mihi nunc senes,
”There is now a great opportunity for me to elude the old men,”
Et Phaedriae curam adimere argentariam,
”and to take away from Phaedria his money care,”
Ne cuiquam suorum aequalium supplex siet:
”lest he should be a suppliant to any of his equals:”
Nam idem hoc argentum, ita ut datum est, ingratiis2
”for this same money, just as it was given, will be given to him”
Ei datum erit: hoc qui cogam re ipsa repperi.
”in spite of them: I have found how I may compel this in reality.”
Nunc gestus mihi vultusque est capiendus novus.
”Now I must adopt a new gesture and expression.”
Sed hince concedam in angiportum hoc proximum:
”But I will withdraw from here into this next alley:”
Inde hisce ostendam me, ubi erunt egressi foras.
”thence I will show myself to them, when they have come out.”
Quo me assimularam ire ad mercatum non eo.
”I am not going where I had pretended I was going, to the market.”
Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,
Chremes: “I have and offer great thanks to the gods deservedly,”
Quando evenere haec nobis, frater, prospere.
”since these things have turned out successfully for us, brother.”
Quantum potest nunc conveniendus Phormio est,
Demipho: “Now Phormio must be met as soon as possible,”
Priusquam dilapidet nostras triginta minas
”before he squanders our thirty minae,”
Ut auferamus.
”so that we may take them back.”
Demiphonem, si domi est,
Phormio: “If Demipho is at home,”
Visam: ut, quod—
”I will see him: so that, what—“
At nos ad te ibamus, Phormio.
Demipho: “But we were going to you, Phormio.”
De eadem hac fortasse causa.
Phormio: “About this same cause, perhaps?”
Ita hercle.
Demipho: “Yes, by Hercules.”
Credidi.
Phormio: “I believed so.”
Quid ad me ibatis? Ridiculum. Verebamini
”Why were you going to me? Ridiculous. Were you afraid”
Ne non id facerem quod recepissem semel?
”lest I should not do what I had once undertaken?”
Heus, quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen
”Look here, however great this poverty of mine is, yet”
Adhuc curavi unum hoc quidem, ut mihi esset fides.
”up to now I have taken care of this one thing at least, that I should have credit.”
Estne ea, ita ut dixi, liberalis?
Chremes: “Is she, as I said, ladylike?”
Oppido.
Demipho: “Extremely.”
Itaque ad vos venio nuntiatum, Demipho,
Phormio: “And so I come to you to announce, Demipho,”
Paratum me esse: ubi vultis, uxorem date;
”that I am ready: when you wish, give me the wife;”
Nam omnes posthabui mihi res, ita uti par fuit,
”for I have put all my affairs in the background, as was proper,”
Postquam tantopere id vos velle animadverteram.
”after I had perceived that you wished it so greatly.”
At hic dehortatus est me ne illam tibi darem;
Demipho: “But he has discouraged me from giving her to you;”
"Nam qui erit rumor populi," inquit, "si id feceris?
”’For what will the public rumor be,’ says he, ‘if you do that?”
Olim quum honeste potuit tum non est data:
”’Formerly when she could have been given respectably, she was not given:”
Nunc viduam extrudi turpe est:" ferme eadem omnia
”’now it is disgraceful for a divorced woman to be thrust out:’ almost all the same things”
Quae tute dudum coram me incusaveras.
”which you yourself had complained of just now in my presence.”
Satis superbe illuditis me.
Phormio: “You mock me quite insolently.”
Qui?
Demipho: “How?”
Rogas?
Phormio: “You ask?”
Quia ne alteram quidem illam potero ducere:
”Because I shall not be able to marry even that other woman:”
Nam quo redibo ore ad eam quam contemserim?
”For with what face shall I return to her whom I have slighted?”
Tum autem Antiphonem video ab sese amittere
”Then moreover, I see that Antipho is parting from her”
Invitum eam; inque.
Chremes: “unwillingly; and in...”
Tum autem video filium
Demipho: “Then moreover I see that my son”
Invitum sane mulierem ab se amittere.
”is indeed unwilling to part with the woman.”
Sed transi sodes ad forum, atque illud mihi
”But please go over to the forum, and that”
Argentum rursum iube rescribi,3 Phormio.
”money order to be transferred back to me, Phormio.”
Quodne ego discripsi porro illis quibus debui
Phormio: “What? The money which I have already paid out to those to whom I owed?”
Quid igitur fiet?
Demipho: “What then will happen?”
Si vis mihi uxorem dare,
Phormio: “If you wish to give me the wife”
Quam despondisti, ducam: sin est ut velis4
”whom you betrothed, I will marry her; but if it is that you wish”
Mancre illam apud te, dos hic maneat, Demipho.
”her to stay with you, the dowry must stay here, Demipho.”
Nam non est aequum me propter vos decipi,
”For it is not fair that I should be cheated on your account,”
Quum ego vestri honoris causa repudium alterae
”when for the sake of your honor I have sent a rejection to the other woman,”
Remiserim quae dotis tantundem dabat.
”sent back, who was giving just as much of a dowry.”
I hinc in malam rein cum istac magnificentia,
Demipho: “Go to the devil with that grand talk of yours,”
Fugitive: etiam nunc credis te ignorarier,
”runaway! Do you even now believe that you are unknown,”
Aut tua facta adeo?
”or indeed your deeds?”
Irritor.
Phormio: “I am being provoked.”
Tune hanc duceres,
Chremes: “Would you marry this girl,”
Si tibi data esset?
”if she had been given to you?”
Fac periclum.
Phormio: “Make the trial.”
- 874Utine haec ignoraret suum patrem?
The combination of the particle utine (ut + -ne) and the imperfect subjunctive ignoraret forms an independent question of indignant disbelief or protest ("Could she not know her own father?!").
- 888ingratiis
An adverbial expression derived from the ablative plural of ingratia, meaning "against one's will" or "unwillingly". Here it refers to the old men having to part with the money for Phaedria despite themselves.
- 922rescribi
A financial term meaning "to transfer back" or "to repay" by changing the entries in the account book. Demipho is demanding that the money previously transferred to Phormio be written back to his own account due to the cancellation of the agreement.
- 925sin est ut velis
An impersonal construction est ut + subjunctive (velis), meaning "it is the case that you wish", used here within the conditional clause sin to express "but if it is your wish that..." in a slightly roundabout, formal way.