§324fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post potitur bonum.
He who bears evil bravely, the same afterwards enjoys good.
§325Quin rem actutum edisseris? cupio malum nanciscier.
Why do you not explain the matter immediately? I am eager to get hold of the evil.
§326Placide ergo unum quidquid rogita, ut adquiescam.
Therefore, ask each question calmly, so that I may recover my breath.
non vides §327me ex cursura anhelitum etiam ducere?
Do you not see that I am still drawing my breath from my running?
Come, come, I will wait at your pleasure, or even until you perish.
§328bVbinam est erus?
Where on earth is our master?
§329Maior apud forumst, minor hic est intus.
The elder one is at the forum, the younger is here inside.
§329bIam satis est mihi.
That is enough for me.
§330Túm igitur tu dives es factus?
Have you then become rich?
§330bMitte ridicularia.
Away with your joking.
§331Mitto.
I drop it.
istuc quod adfers aures exspectant meae.
My ears are waiting for what you bring.
§332Animum adverte, ut aeque mecum haéc scias.
Pay attention, so that you may know this equally with me.
§332bTaceo.
I am silent.
§332cBeas.
That's a blessing.
Do you remember that our steward sold Arcadian asses to the merchant of Pella?
§334_335bMemini.
I remember.
quid tum postea?
What then?
Lo, therefore, he has sent back the money here, to be given to Saurea for the asses.
adulescens venit modo, qui id argentum attulit.
A young man has just arrived, who brought that money.
§338Vbi is homost?
Where is that man?
§338bIam devorandum censes, si conspexeris?
Do you think he is to be devoured at once, if you see him?
§339Ita enim vero.
Quite so indeed.
sed tamen, tu nempe eos asinos praedicas §340vetulos, claudos, quibus subtritae ad femina iám erant ungulae?
But yet, you surely mean those asses, old, lame ones, whose hooves were already worn down to their thighs?
§341Ipsos, qui tibi subvectabant rure huc virgas ulmeas.
The very ones, which used to carry elm-rods here from the country for you.
§342Teneo, atque idem te hinc vexerunt vinctum rus.
I understand, and the same ones carried you bound from here to the country.
§342bMemor es probe.
You remember well.
§343verum in tonstrina ut sedebam, me infit percontarier, §344ecquem filium Stratonis noverim Demaenetum.
But as I was sitting in the barber's shop, he began to ask me if I knew any Demaenetus, the son of Straton.
I said immediately that I knew him, and declared myself to be his slave, and I showed him our house.
§346bQuid tum postea?
What then?
§347Ait se ob asinos ferre argentum átriensi Saureae, §348viginti minas, séd eum sese non nosse hominem qui siet, §349ipsum vero se novisse callide Demaenetum.
He said that he was bringing the money, twenty minae, for the asses to the steward Saurea, but that he did not know what sort of man he was, though he knew Demaenetus himself very well.
Since he spoke these things in this way— What then?
§350cAusculta ergo, scies.
Listen then, and you shall know.
Immediately I acted as a witty and grand gentleman, I said that I was the steward.
sic hoc respondit mihi: §353“ego pol Sauream non novi neque qua facie sit scio.
Thus he answered me: "By Pollux, I do not know Saurea, nor do I know what face he has.
§354te non aequomst suscensere.
It is not right for you to be angry.
sí erum vis Demaenetum, §355quém ego novi, adduce: argentum non morabor quin feras. ” §356ego me dixi erum adducturum et me domi praesto fore; §357ille in balineas iturust, inde huc veniet postea.
If you wish to bring your master Demaenetus, whom I know, bring him: I will not delay in letting you have the money." I said that I would bring my master and that I would be ready at home; he is going to the baths, and from there he will come here afterwards.
§358quid nunc consili captandum censes? dic.
What plan do you think we should adopt now? Tell me.
Lo, I am working on that, how I may cheat both the visitor and Saurea of the money.
§360iam hoc opus est † exasceatum; nam si ille argentum prius §361hospes huc affert, continuo nos ambo exclusi sumus.
This work must already be rough-hewn; for if that stranger first sets down the money here, we are both immediately shut out.
§362nam me hodie senex seduxit solum sorsum ab aedibus, §363mihi tibique interminatust nos futuros ulmeos, §364ní hodie Argyrippo éssent viginti argenti minae; §365iussit vel nos atriensem vel nos uxorem suam §366defraudare, dixit sese óperam promiscam dare.
For today the old man drew me aside alone, away from the house, and threatened both me and you that we would become elm-rods, unless today Argyrippus had twenty minae of silver; he ordered us either to defraud the steward or his own wife, and said that he would give his joint assistance.
§367nunc tu abi ad forum ad erum et narra haec ut nos acturi sumus: §368te ex Leonida futurum esse atriensem Sauream, §369dum argentum afferat mercator pró asinis.
Now go to the forum to our master and tell him these things as we are going to act: that you will be the steward Saurea instead of Leonida, while the merchant brings the money for the asses.
§369bFaciam ut iubes.
I will do as you bid.
§370Ego illum interea hic oblectabo, prius si forte advenerit.
Meanwhile, I will entertain him here if he happens to arrive first.
§371Quid ais?
What do you say?
§371bQuid vis?
What do you want?
If I strike your cheek with my fist by and by when I imitate Saurea, take care not to be angry.
§373Hercle vero tu cavebis ne me attingas, si sapis, §374né hodie malo cum auspicio nomen commutaveris.
By Hercules indeed, you will take care not to touch me, if you are wise, lest today you change your name with bad omen.
§375Quaeso, aequo animo patitor.
Pray, bear it with an even mind.
§375bPatitor tú item, cum ego te referiam.
Bear it likewise when I strike you back.
§376Dico ut usust fieri.
I speak of what is necessary to be done.
§376bDico hercle ego quoque ut facturus sum.
By Hercules, I also speak of what I am going to do.
§377Ne nega.
Do not refuse.
§377bQuin promitto, inquam, hostire contra ut merueris.
Nay, I promise, I say, to strike back as you deserve.
§378Ego abeo, tu iam, scio, patiere.
I am going; you will now bear it, I know.
sed quis hic est? is est,
But who is this?
§379ille est ipsus.
It is he, it is he himself!
iam ego recurro húc.
I will run back here immediately.
tu hunc interea hic tene.
Meanwhile, keep him here.
§380volo seni narrare.
I want to tell the old man.
§380bQuin tuom officium facis ergo ac fugis?
Why don't you do your duty then and run?
As they were pointed out to me, this must be the house where Demaenetus is said to live.
i, puere, pulta §383atque atriensem Sauream, si est intus, evocato huc.
Go, boy, knock, and call out the steward Saurea, if he is inside.