§689quid animi habeam? sed quid huc vos revortimini tam cito?
What state of mind I have? But why do you return here so quickly?
§690an te auspicium commoratum est an tempestas continet §691qui non abiisti ad legiones, ita uti dudum dixeras?
Has an omen delayed you, or is a storm holding you back, seeing that you did not go away to the legions, just as you said a little while ago?
§692Dudum? quam dudum istuc factum est?
A little while ago? How long ago did that happen?
§692bTemptas.
You are testing me.
iam dudum, modo.
A long time ago, just now.
§693Qui istuc potis est fieri, quaeso, ut dicis: iam dudum, modo?
How is it possible for that to happen, I ask, as you say: a long time ago, just now?
§694Quid enim censes? te ut deludam contra lusorem meum, §695qui nunc primum te advenisse dicas, modo qui hinc abieris.
What indeed do you think? That I am mocking you in return, my playful one, you who say that you have arrived now for the first time, who just now departed from here?
§696Haec quidem deliramenta loquitur.
She is indeed speaking nonsense.
Wait a little while, until she sleeps off one sleep.
§697bQuaene vigilans somniat?
She who dreams while awake?
§698Equidem ecastor vigilo, et vigilans id quod factum est fabulor.
Indeed, by Castor, I am awake, and awake I tell what happened.
§699nam dudum ante lucem et istunc et te vidi.
For a little while ago, before dawn, I saw both him and you.
§699bQuo in loco?
In what place?
§700Hic in aedibús ubi tu habitas.
Here in the house where you dwell.
§700bNumquam factum est.
It never happened.
§700cNon taces?
Won't you be silent?
§701quid si e portu navis huc nos dormientis detulit?
What if the ship brought us here from the port while we were sleeping?
§702Etiam tu quoque adsentaris húic?
Do you also agree with her?
§702bQuid vis fieri?
What do you want to happen?
§703non tu scis? Bacchae bacchanti si velis advorsarier, §704ex insana insaniorem facies, feriet saepius; §705si obsequare, una resolvas plaga.
Don't you know? If you should wish to oppose a raging Bacchant, you will make her crazier from crazy, and she will strike more often; if you comply, you might release her with a single blow.
§705bAt pol qui certa res §706hanc est obiurgare, quae me hódie advenientem domum §707noluerit salutare.
But, by Pollux, it is a certain thing to scold this woman, who, when I arrived home today, refused to greet me.
§707bInritabis crabrones.
You will irritate hornets.
§707cTace.
Be silent.
§708Alcumena, unum rogare te volo.
Alcumena, I wish to ask you one thing.
§708bQuid vis roga.
Ask what you wish.
§709Num tibi aut stultitia accessit aut superat superbia?
Has either foolishness come upon you, or does pride overcome you?
§710Qui istuc in mentemst tibi ex me, mi vir, percontarier?
How did it come into your mind, my husband, to inquire this of me?
§711Quia salutare advenientem me solebas antidhac, §712appellare, itidem ut pudicae suos viros quae sunt solent.
Because previously you were accustomed to greet me on arrival, to address me, just as those who are chaste are accustomed to do to their husbands.
§713eo more expertem te factam adveniens offendi domi.
Arriving home, I found you deprived of that custom.
§714Ecastor equidem te certo heri advenientem ílico, §715et salutavi et valuissesne usque exquisivi simul, §716mi vir, et manum prehendi et osculum tetuli tibi.
By Castor, indeed I certainly, yesterday, upon your arrival on the spot, both greeted you and at the same time inquired if you had been well all along, my husband, and I took your hand and gave you a kiss.
§717Tun heri hunc salutavisti?
Did you greet him yesterday?
§717bEt te quoque etiam, Sosia.
And you too, Sosia.
Amphitruo, I hoped that she would bear a son for you; but she is not pregnant with a boy.
§719bQuid igitur?
What is she then?
§719cInsania.
Madness.
§720Equidem sana sum et deos quaeso, ut salva pariam filium.
Indeed, I am sane, and I pray to the gods that I may safely bear a son.
§721verum tu malum mágnum habebis, si hic suom officium facit: §722ob istuc omen, ominator, capies quod te condecet.
But you will have great trouble, if he does his duty: because of that omen, omen-teller, you will receive what is fitting for you.
§723Enim vero praegnati oportet et malum et malum dari, §724ut quod obrodat sit, animo si male esse occeperit.
Indeed, it is necessary that both an apple and a bad thing be given to a pregnant woman, so that there may be something to gnaw on, if she begins to feel sick at heart.
§725Tu me heri hic vidisti?
Did you see me here yesterday?
§725bEgo, inquam, si vis decies dicere.
I did, I say, if you wish me to say it ten times.
§726In somnis fortasse.
In dreams, perhaps.
§726bImmo vígilans vigilantem.
No, awake, seeing you awake.
§726cEi misero mihi.
Woe is wretched me.
§727Quid tibi est?
What is the matter with you?
§727bDelirat uxor.
My wife is raving.
§727cAtra bili percita est.
She is stirred up by black bile.
§728nulla res tam delirantis homines concinnat cito.
Nothing makes people rave so quickly.
§729Vbi primum tibi sensisti, mulier, impliciscier?
When did you first perceive yourself, woman, to be entangled?
§730Equidem ecastor sana et salva sum.
Indeed, by Castor, I am sane and healthy.
Why then do you declare that you saw me yesterday, we who arrived in port just this night?
§732ibi cenavi atque ibi quievi in navi noctem perpetem, §733neque meum pedem huc íntuli etiam in aedis, ut cum exercitu §734hinc profectus sum ad Teloboas hostis eosque ut vicimus.
There I dined, and there I rested in the ship the entire night, nor have I yet brought my foot here into the house, since I set out from here to the Teloboan enemies and since we conquered them.
§735Immo mecum cenavisti et mecum cubuisti.
On the contrary, you dined with me and lay down with me.
§735bQuid est?
What is it?
§736Vera dico.
I speak the truth.
§736bNon de hac quidem hercle re; de áliis nescio.
Not indeed concerning this matter, by Hercules; about others I do not know.
§737Primulo diluculo abiisti ad legiones.
At the very first dawn you went away to the legions.
§737bQuo modo?
In what way?
§738Recte dicit, ut commeminit: somnium narrat tibi.
She speaks correctly, as she remembers: she is telling you a dream.
§739sed, mulier, postquam experrecta es, te prodigiali Iovi §740aut mola salsa hodie aut ture comprecatam oportuit.
But, woman, after you woke up, you ought to have prayed to Jupiter, the averter of prodigies, either with salted meal or with incense today.
§741Vae capiti tuó.
Woe to your head!
§741bTua istuc refert—si curaveris.
That concerns you—if you should care.
§742Iterum iám hic in me inclementer dicit, atque id sine malo.
Already here he speaks harshly against me again, and that without punishment.
§743Tace tu.
Be silent, you.
tu dic: egone abs te abii hinc hodie cum diluculo?
You, tell me: did I depart from here from you today at dawn?
§744Quis igitur nisi vos narravit mi, illi ut fuerit proelium?
Who then, if not you, told me how the battle was there?