§395bVapula.
Take a beating.
§396Vt libet quid tibi libet fac, quoniam pugnis plus vales; §397verum, utut es facturus, hoc quidem hercle haud reticebo tamen.
Do what you please, as you please, since you are stronger with your fists; but, however you are going to do, by Hercules I will not keep this quiet.
§398Tu me vivos hodie numquam facies quin sim Sosia.
Today you will never, while I am alive, make me not be Sosia.
§399Certe edepol tu me alienabis numquam quin noster siem; §400nec nobis praeter med alius quisquam est servos Sosia.
Assuredly, by Pollux, you will never alienate me so that I am not ours; and we have no other slave Sosia besides myself.
§402Hic homo sanus non est.
This man is not sane.
§402bQuod mihi praedicas vitium, id tibi est.
That defect which you charge me with, is yours.
§403quid, malum, non súm ego servos Amphitruonis Sosia?
What, plague, am I not Amphitruo's slave Sosia?
§404nonne hac noctu nostra navis huc ex portu Persico
Did not our ship come this very night from the Persian port, which carried me here?
§405venit, quae me advexit? nonne me huc erus misit meus?
Did not my master send me here?
§406nonne ego nunc sto ante aedes nostras? non mi est lanterna in manu?
Am I not now standing before our house? Do I not have a lantern in my hand?
§407non loquor, nón vigilo? nonne hic homo módo me pugnis contudit?
Am I not speaking? Am I not awake? Did not this man just now beat me with his fists?
§408fecit hercle, nam etiam misero nunc mihi malae dolent.
By Hercules he did, for even now my cheeks still hurt, miserable as I am.
§409quid igitur ego dubito, aut cur non intro eo in nostram domum?
Why then do I hesitate, or why do I not go inside into our house?
§410Quid, domum vostram?
What, your house?
§410bIta enim vero.
Yes, indeed.
Nay, everything you said just now you have lied about; for indeed I am Amphitruo's Sosia.
§412nam noctu hac soluta est navis nostra e portu Persico, §413et ubi Pterela rex regnavit oppidum expugnavimus, §414et legiones Teloboarum vi pugnando cepimus, §415et ipsus Amphitruo optruncavit regem Pterelam in proelio.
For this very night our ship set sail from the Persian port, and we took by storm the town where King Pterelas ruled, and by force of fighting we captured the legions of the Teloboans, and Amphitruo himself cut down King Pterelas in battle.
§416Egomet mihi non credo, cum illaec autumare illum audio; §417hic quidem cérte quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter.
I don't even believe myself when I hear him assert those things; this man certainly relates from memory the deeds that were done there.
§418sed quid ais? quid Amphitruoni doni a Telobois datum est?
But what do you say? What gift was given to Amphitruo by the Teloboans?
§419Pterela rex qui potitare solitus est patera aurea.
The golden bowl from which King Pterelas used to drink.
§420Elocutus est.
He has said it.
ubi patera nunc est?
Where is the bowl now?
It is in a little chest; sealed with Amphitruo's signet.
§421bSigni dic quid est?
Tell me, what is the seal?
§422Cum quadrigis Sol exoriens.
The rising Sun with a four-horse chariot.
quid me captas, carnufex?
Why do you try to catch me, you scoundrel?
§423Argumentis vicit, aliud nomen quaerundum est mihi.
He has beaten me with arguments, I must look for another name.
§424nescio unde haec hic spectavit.
I don't know from where he watched these things.
iám ego hunc decipiam probe; §425nam quod egomet solus feci, nec quisquam alius affuit, §426in tabernaclo, id quidem hodie numquam poterit dicere.
Now I will deceive him properly; for what I did all by myself in the tent, with no one else present, that indeed he will never be able to tell today.
§427si tu Sosia es, legiones cum pugnabant maxume, §428quid in tabernaclo fecisti? victus sum, si dixeris.
If you are Sosia, while the legions were fighting most fiercely, what did you do in the tent? I am vanquished if you tell.
§429Cadus erat vini, inde implevi hírneam.
There was a cask of wine, from which I filled a jug.
§429bIngressust viam.
He has entered on the right path.
§430Eam ego, ut matre fuerat natum, vini éduxi meri.
I drank it off, just as it had been born from its mother, of pure wine.
§431Factum est illud, ut ego illíc vini hirneam ebiberim meri.
That indeed happened, that I drank up a jug of pure wine there.
§432mira sunt nisi latuit intus illic in illac hirnea.
It is a wonder unless he lay hid inside there in that jug.
§433Quid nunc? vincon argumentis, te non esse Sosiam?
What now? Do I defeat you with arguments, that you are not Sosia?
§434Tu negas med esse?
Do you deny that I am myself?
§434bQuid ego ni negem, qui egomet siem?
Why should I not deny it, since I am he myself?
§435Per Iovem iuro med esse neque me falsum dicere.
I swear by Jove that I am he and that I do not speak falsely.
§436At ego per Mercurium iuro, tibi Iovem non credere; §437nam iniurato scio plus credet mihi quam iurato tibi.
But I swear by Mercury that Jove does not believe you; for I know he will believe me without an oath more than you with an oath.
§438Quis ego sum saltem, si non sum Sosia? te interrogo.
Who am I then, at least, if I am not Sosia? I ask you.
§439Vbi ego Sosia nolim esse, tu esto sane Sosia; §440nunc, quando ego sum, vapulabis, ni hinc abis, ignobilis.
When I do not wish to be Sosia, you may indeed be Sosia; now, since I am he, you shall be beaten unless you depart from here, you nameless fellow.
§441Certe edepol, quom illum contemplo et formam cognosco meam, §442quem ad modum ego sum (saepe in speculum inspexi), nimis similest mei; §443itidem habet petasum ac vestitum: tam consimilest atque ego; §444sura, pes, statura, tonsus, oculi, nasum vel labra, §445malae, mentum, barba, collus: totus.
Certainly, by Pollux, when I look at him and recognize my own form, how I am (I have often looked into a mirror), he is exceedingly like me; he has just such a hat and clothing; he is as like me as can be; calf, foot, stature, haircut, eyes, nose, or lips, cheeks, chin, beard, neck: the whole of him.
quid verbis opust?
What need of words?
§446si tergum cicatricosum, nihil hoc similist similius.
if his back is full of scars, nothing can be more like than this likeness.
§447sed quom cogito, equidem certo idem sum qui semper fui.
But when I reflect, indeed I am certainly the same as I have always been.
§448novi erum, novi aedis nostras; sane sapio et sentio.
I know my master, I know our house; I am certainly in my right mind and have my senses.
§449non ego illi obtempero quod loquitur.
I will not obey what he says.
pultabo foris.
I will knock at the door.
§450Quó agis te?
Whither are you taking yourself?
§450bDomum.
Home.