§8.1ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Ὅστις δέ, ὦ Χρυσί, μήτε ζηλοτυπεῖ μήτε ὀργίζεται μήτε ἐρράπισέ ποτε ἢ περιέκειρεν ἢ τὰ ἱμάτια περιέσχισεν, ἔτι ἐραστὴς ἐκεῖνός ἐστιν; ΧΡΥΣΙΣ
Οὐκοῦν ταῦτα μόνα ἐρῶντος, ὦ Ἀμπελί, δείγματα; ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Ναί, ταῦτ' ἀνδρὸς θερμοῦ·
ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ But, Chrysis, is a man still a lover if he neither gets jealous, nor angry, nor has ever slapped you, nor cut your hair, nor torn your clothes? ΧΡΥΣΙΣ Are these then the only signs of a lover, Ampelis? ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ Yes, of a passionate man.
ἐπεὶ τἆλλα, φιλήματα καὶ δάκρυα καὶ ὅρκοι καὶ τὸ πολλάκις ἥκειν ἀρχομένου ἔρωτος σημεῖον καὶ φυομένου ἔτι·
For other things—kisses, tears, oaths, and frequent visits—are signs of a beginning love, still growing.
τὸ δὲ πῦρ ὅλον ἐκ τῆς ζηλοτυπίας ἐστίν.
But the whole fire comes from jealousy.
ὥστε εἰ καὶ σέ, ὡς φῄς, ὁ Γοργίας ῥαπίζει καὶ ζηλοτυπεῖ, χρηστὰ ἔλπιζε καὶ εὔχου ἀεὶ τὰ αὐτὰ ποιεῖν. ΧΡΥΣΙΣ
Τὰ αὐτά;
So if Gorgias slaps you and is jealous, as you say, hope for the best and pray that he always does the same. ΧΡΥΣΙΣ The same?
τί λέγεις;
What do you mean?
ἀεὶ ῥαπίζειν με; ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Οὐχί, ἀλλ’ ἀνιᾶσθαι, εἰ μὴ πρὸς μόνον αὐτὸν βλέποις, ἐπεὶ εἰ μὴ ἐρᾷ γε, τί ἂν ὀργίζοιτο, εἰ σύ τινα ἕτερον ἐραστὴν ἔχεις; ΧΡΥΣΙΣ
Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἔχω ἔγωγε·
Always slap me? ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ No, but be vexed if you do not look at him alone. For if he does not love you, why should he be angry if you have another lover? ΧΡΥΣΙΣ But I do not even have one.
ὁ δὲ μάτην ὑπέλαβε τὸν πλούσιόν μου ἐρᾶν, διότι ἄλλως ἐμνημόνευσά ποτε αὐτοῦ.
He groundlessly imagined that the rich man loved me, just because I happened to mention him on another occasion.
§8.2ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Καὶ τοῦτο ἡδὺ τὸ ὑπὸ πλουσίων οἴεσθαι σπουδάζεσθαί σε·
ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ And this too is pleasant, that he thinks you are sought after by rich men.
οὕτω γὰρ ἀνιάσεται μᾶλλον καὶ φιλοτιμήσεται, ὡς μὴ ὑπερβάλοιντο αὐτὸν οἱ ἀντερασταί. ΧΡΥΣΙΣ
Καὶ μὴν οὗτός γε μόνον ὀργίζεται καὶ ῥαπίζει, δίδωσι δὲ οὐδέν. ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Ἀλλὰ δώσει—ζηλοτυπεῖ γάρ—καὶ μάλιστα ἢν λυπῇς αὐτόν.
For in this way he will be more vexed and will strive to compete, so that his rivals might not surpass him. ΧΡΥΣΙΣ And yet he only gets angry and slaps me, but gives nothing. ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ But he will give—for he is jealous—and especially if you provoke him.
ΧΡΥΣΙΣ
Οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπως ῥαπίσματα λαμβάνειν βούλει με, ὦ Ἀμπελίδιον. ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ
Οὔκ, ἀλλ’, ὡς οἶμαι, οὕτως οἱ μεγάλοι ἔρωτες γίγνονται, καὶ εἰ πείθοιντο ἀμελεῖσθαι, εἰ δὲ πιστεύσαι μόνος ἔχειν, ἀπομαραίνεταί πως ἡ ἐπιθυμία.
ΧΡΥΣΙΣ I don't know why you want me to receive slaps, Ampelidion. ΑΜΠΕΛΙΣ No, but as I think, great loves are born in this way, if they believe they are being neglected. But if a man believes he has you all to himself, his desire somehow fades away.
ταῦτα λέγω πρὸς σὲ εἴκοσιν ὅλοις ἔτεσιν ἑταιρήσασα, σὺ δὲ ὀκτωκαιδεκαέτις, οἶμαι, ἢ ἔλαττον οὖσα τυγχάνεις.
I say this to you after having been a courtesan for twenty whole years, while you happen to be eighteen, I think, or even less.
εἰ βούλει δέ, καὶ διηγήσομαι ἃ ἔπαθόν ποτε οὐ πάνυ πρὸ πολλῶν ἐτῶν·
If you like, I will tell you what happened to me not so many years ago.
ἤρα μου Δημόφαντος ὁ δανειστὴς ὁ κατόπιν οἰκῶν τῆς Ποικίλης.
Demophantus the moneylender, who lived behind the Painted Colonnade, was in love with me.
οὗτος οὐδεπώποτε πλέον πέντε δραχμῶν δέδωκε καὶ ἠξίου δεσπότης εἶναι.
This man never gave me more than five drachmas and expected to be my master.
ἤρα δέ, ὦ Χρυσί, ἐπιπόλαιόν τινα ἔρωτα οὔτε ὑποστένων οὔτε δακρύων οὔτε ἀωρὶ παραγιγνόμενος ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ μόνον συνεκάθευδέ μοι ἐνίοτε, καὶ τοῦτο διὰ μακροῦ.
And he loved me, Chrysis, with a superficial love, neither sighing, nor weeping, nor coming to my door at unseasonable hours, but only sleeping with me sometimes, and that at long intervals.
§8.3ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐλθόντα ποτὲ ἀπέκλεισα—Καλλίδης γὰρ ὁ γραφεὺς ἔνδον ἦν δέκα δραχμὰς πεπομφώς—τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀπῆλθέ μοι λοιδορησάμενος·
But when he came once and I shut him out—for Callides the painter was inside, having sent ten drachmas—at first he went away after abusing me.
ἐπεὶ δὲ πολλαὶ μὲν διῆλθον ἡμέραι, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ προσέπεμπον, ὁ Καλλίδης δὲ ἔνδον ἦν, ὑποθερμαινόμενος ἤδη τότε ὁ Δημόφαντος καὶ αὐτὸς ἀναφλέγεται ἐς τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ἐπιστάς ποτε ἀνεῳγμένην τηρήσας τὴν θύραν ἔκλαεν, ἔτυπτεν, ἠπείλει φονεύσειν, περιερρήγνυε τὴν ἐσθῆτα, ἅπαντα ἐποίει, καὶ τέλος τάλαντον δοὺς μόνος εἶχεν ὀκτὼ ὅλους μῆνας.
But when many days passed and I did not send for him, and Callides remained inside, Demophantus, already getting warm, then caught fire over the matter. And arriving one day and finding the door open, he wept, beat me, threatened to kill me, tore his clothes, did everything. And finally, giving me a talent, he had me all to himself for eight whole months.
ἡ γυνὴ δὲ αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἅπαντας ἔλεγεν ὡς ὑπὸ φαρμάκων ἐκμήναιμι αὐτόν.
His wife told everyone that I had driven him mad with drugs.
τό δὲ ἦν ἄρα ζηλοτυπία τὸ φάρμακον.
But the drug was actually jealousy.
ὥστε, Χρυσί, καὶ σὺ χρῶ ἐπὶ τὸν Γοργίαν τῷ αὐτῷ φαρμάκῳ·
So, Chrysis, you too use the same drug on Gorgias.
πλούσιος δὲ ὁ νεανίσκος ἔσται, ἤν τι ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ πάθῃ.
The youth will be rich if anything happens to his father.