§574ubi saepe ad languorem tua duritia dederis octo §575validos lictores, ulmeis adfectos lentis virgis.
in that you have often, by your toughness, worn out to exhaustion the eight strong lictors, equipped with flexible elm rods.
§576num male relata est gratia, ut collegam collaudavi?
Was I ungrateful in return, when I praised my colleague?
§577Vt meque teque maxime atque ingenio nostro decuit.
It was done as was most fitting for both me and you, and for our natural talents.
§578Iam omitte ista atque hoc quod rogo responde.
Now drop those matters and answer this which I ask.
§578bRogita quod vis.
Ask whatever you wish.
§579Argenti vinginti minas habesne?
Do you have twenty minae of silver?
§579bHariolare.
You are prophesying.
By Pollux, the old man Demaenetus has been delightful to us: how wittily he pretended that I was Saurea!
§582nimis aegre risum contini, ubi hospitem inclamavit, §583quod se absente mihi fidem habere noluisset.
I could hardly contain my laughter when he shouted at the guest, because he had been unwilling to trust me in his absence.
§584ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat atriensem!
how well from memory he called me Saurea the hall-steward!
§585Mane dúm.
Wait a moment.
§585bQuid est?
What is it?
Is this Philaenium who is coming out from inside, and Argyrippus together with her?
§586bOpprime os, is est.
Keep your mouth shut, it is he.
subauscultemus.
Let us eavesdrop.
§587Lacrumantem lacinia tenet lacrumans.
Weeping, he holds her weeping by her cloak.
quidnam esse dicam?
What on earth should I say it is?
§588taciti auscultemus.
Let us listen in silence.
§588bAttatae, modo hercle in mentem venit,
Ha!
§589nimis véllem habere perticam.
By Hercules, it just came into my mind, I wish very much that I had a long pole.
§589bQuoi rei?
For what purpose?
To beat the asses, if by chance they should begin to bray here from inside the purse.
§591Cur me retentas?
Why do you hold me back?
§591bQuia tui amans abeuntis egeo.
Because, loving you, I need you as you depart.
§592Vale.
Farewell.
§592bAliquanto ámplius valerem, si hic maneres.
I should be considerably more well, if you remained here.
§593Salve.
Hail.
§593bSalvere me iubes, quoi tu abiens offers morbum.
You bid me hail, to whom by departing you bring sickness.
§594Mater supremam mihi tua dixit, domum ire iussit.
Your mother has given me the final word, she ordered me to go home.
§595Acerbum funus filiae faciet, si te carendum est.
She will perform a bitter funeral for her daughter, if I must do without you.
§596Homo hercle hinc exclusust foras.
By Hercules, the man has been shut out of doors from here.
§596bIta res est.
That is how it is.
§596cMitte quaeso.
Let go, please.
§597Quo nunc abis? quin tu hic manes?
Where are you going now? Why do you not stay here?
§597bNox, si voles, manebo.
At night, if you wish, I will stay.
§598Audin hunc opera ut largus est nocturna? nunc enim esse
Do you hear how generous this man is with his night work?
For now, clearly, during the day, he is a busy Solon, writing laws for the people to bound themselves by.
gerrae!
Nonsense!
§601qui sese parere apparent huius légibus, profecto §602numquam bonae frugi sient, dies noctesque potent.
Those who prepare to obey his laws, indeed, would never come to any good; they will drink day and night.
§603Ne iste hercle ab ista non pedem discedat, si licessit, §604qui nunc festinat atque ab hac minatur sese abire.
By Hercules, that man would not move a foot from her, if it were allowed, who now hurries and threatens that he is going away from her.
§605Sermoni iam finem face tuo, huius sermonem accipiam.
Put an end to your talk now; let me catch his speech.
§606Vale.
Farewell.
§606bQuo properas?
Whither do you hasten?
§606cBene vale, apud Orcum te videbo.
Fare you well, I shall see you in Orcus.
§607nam equidem me iam quantum potest a vita abiudicabo.
For indeed I shall now, as quickly as possible, judge myself away from life.
§608Cur tu, obsecro, immerito meo me morti dedere optas?
Why do you, I pray, wish to surrender me to death when I do not deserve it?
§609Ego te? quam si intellegam deficere vita, iam ipse §610vitam meam tibi largiar et de mea ad tuam addam.
I surrender you? If I understood that you were failing in life, at once I myself would bestow my own life upon you and add from mine to yours.
§611Cur ergo minitaris mihi, te vitam esse amissurum?
Why then do you threaten me that you will lose your life?
§612nam quid me facturam putas, si istuc quod dicis faxis?
For what do you think I will do, if you do that which you say?
§613mihi certum est facere in me omnia eadem quae tu in te faxis.
I am resolved to do to myself all the very same things that you do to yourself.
§614Oh melle dulci dulcior tu es.
Oh, you are sweeter than sweet honey.
§614bCerte enim tú vita es mi.
Surely indeed you are my life.
§615complectere.
Embrace me.
§615bFacio lubens.
I do so gladly.
§615cVtinam sic efferamur.
Would that we were carried out to burial like this.
§616O Libane, uti miser est homo qui amat.
O Libanus, how wretched is the man who loves.
Nay indeed, by Hercules, he who hangs is much more wretched.
§617bScio qui periclum feci.
I know, who have made trial of it.
§618circum sistamus, alter hinc, hinc alter appellemus.
Let us stand around them, one from here, another from there let us address them.
§619ere, salve.
Master, hail.
sed num fumus est haec mulier quam amplexare?
But is this woman whom you embrace smoke?
§620Quidum?
How so?
§620bQuia oculi sunt tibi lacrumantes, eo rogavi.
Because your eyes are weeping, that is why I asked.
§621Patronus qui vobis fuit futurus, perdidistis.
You have lost the one who was going to be your patron.
§622Equidem hercle nullum perdidi, ideo quia numquam ullum habui.
Indeed, by Hercules, I have lost none, for the reason that I never had any.
§623Philaenium, salve.
Philaenium, hail.
§623bDabunt di quae velitis vobis.
May the gods give you what you wish for yourselves.
§624Noctem tuam et vini cadum velim, si optata fiant.
I would like your night and a jar of wine, if wishes were to come true.
§625Verbum cave fáxis, verbero.
Mind you do not say a word, you scoundrel.
§625bTibi equidem, non mihi opto.
I wish it indeed for you, not for myself.
§626Tum tu igitur loquere quod lubet.
Then you, therefore, say what you please.
§626bHunc hercle verberare.
By Hercules, to beat this fellow.
§627Quisnam istuc adcredat tibi, cinaede calamistrate?
Who on earth would believe you in that, you curled-haired pervert?
§628tun verberes, qui pro cibo habeas te verberari?
Would you do the beating, you who hold it as your food to be beaten?
How far your fortunes excel mine, Libanus, who shall by no means live till evening today.
§630bQuapropter, quaeso?
Why so, pray?