§830Numquídnam tibi moléstumst, gnate mí, si haec nunc mecum áccubat? §831Pietas, pater, oculis dolorem prohibet.
Demaenetus: "Is it at all troublesome to you, my son, if she lies here with me now?" Argyrippus: "Piety, father, keeps pain from my eyes.
quamquam ego istánc amo, §832possum equidem inducere animum, ne aegre patiar quia tecum accubat. §833Decet verecundum esse adulescentem, Argyrippe. §833bEdepol, pater, §834merito tuo facere possum. §834bAge ergo, hoc agitemus convivium §835vino ut sermone suavi.
Although I love her," "I can indeed bring my mind not to take it hard that she lies with you." Demaenetus: "It becomes a young man to be modest, Argyrippus." Argyrippus: "By Pollux, father," "I can do so because of your merit." Demaenetus: "Come then, let us celebrate this banquet" "with wine and sweet talk.
nolo ego metui, amari mavolo, §836mi gnate, me abs te. §836bPol ego utrumque facio, ut aequom est filium. §837Credam istuc, si esse te hilarum videro. §837bAn tu me tristem putas? §838Putem ego, quem videam aeque esse maestum ut quasi dies si dicta sit? §839_840Ne dixis istuc. §839_840bNe sic fueris: ilico ego non dixero. §841Em aspecta: rideo. §841bVtinam male qui mihi volunt sic rideant. §842Scio equidem quam ob rem me, pater, tu tristem credas nunc tibi: §843quia istaéc est tecum.
I do not want to be feared, I prefer to be loved," "my son, by you." Argyrippus: "By Pollux, I do both, as is proper for a son." Demaenetus: "I will believe that, if I see you are cheerful." Argyrippus: "Do you think I am sad?" Demaenetus: "Should I not think so, when I see you just as sad as if a trial day had been set?" Argyrippus: "Do not say that." Demaenetus: "Do not be so: I will immediately not say it." Argyrippus: "Look, see: I am laughing." Demaenetus: "Would that those who wish me ill might laugh like that." Argyrippus: "Indeed I know, father, why you think I am sad now:" "because she is with you.
atque ego quidem hercle ut verum tibi dicam, pater, §844ea res me male habet; at non eo, quia tibi non cupiam quae velis; §845verum istam amo.
And indeed, by Hercules, to tell you the truth, father," "that matter makes me feel bad; yet not because I do not desire what you wish;" "but I love her.
aliam tecum esse equidem facile possum perpeti. §846At ego hanc volo. §846bErgo sunt quae exoptas: mihi quae ego exoptem volo. §847Vnum hunc diem perpetere, quoniam tibi potestatem dedi, §848cum hac annum ut esses, atque amanti argenti feci copiam. §849_850Em istoc me facto tibi devinxti. §849_850bQuin te ergo hilarum das mihi? §851Áin tu meum virum híc potare, óbsecro, cum fílio §852et ad amicam detulisse argenti viginti minas §853meoque filio sciente id facere flagitium patrem? §854Neque divini neque mi humani posthac quicquam accreduas, §855Artemona, si huius rei mé mendacem inveneris. §856At scelesta ego praeter alios meum virum † frugi rata, §857siccum, frugi, continentem, amantem uxoris maxume. §858At nunc dehinc scito illum ante omnes minimi mortalem preti, §859madidum, nihili, incontinentem atque osorem uxoris suae. §860Pol ni istaec vera essent, numquam faceret ea quae nunc facit. §861Ego quoque hercle illum antehac hominem semper sum frugi ratus, §862verum hoc facto sese ostendit, qui quidem cum filio §863potet una atque una amicam ductet, decrepitus senex. §864Hoc ecastor est quod ille it ad cenam cottidie. §865ait sese ire ad Archidemum, Chaeream, Chaerestratum, §866Cliniam, Chremem, Cratinum, Diniam, Demosthenem: §867is apud scortum corruptelae est liberis, lustris studet. §868Quin tu illum iubes ancillas rapere sublimen domum? §869Tace modo.
I could easily endure anyone else being with you." Demaenetus: "But I want this one." Argyrippus: "Therefore you have what you desire: I want what I desire for myself." Demaenetus: "Endure this one day, since I gave you the power" "to be with her for a year, and supplied the money for your love." Argyrippus: "Look, by that deed you have bound me to you." Demaenetus: "Why then do you not show yourself cheerful to me?" Artemona: "Did you say my husband is drinking here, I entreat you, with his son," "and has brought twenty minae of silver to his mistress," "and that the father is committing this outrage with my son's knowledge?" Parasitus: "Do not believe anything of mine hereafter, divine or human," "Artemona, if you find me a liar in this matter." Artemona: "But I, wretched woman, believed my husband was honest beyond others," "sober, honest, continent, and extremely loving of his wife." "But now, from here on, know him to be a mortal of the least value before all," "drunk, worthless, continent, and a hater of his own wife." Parasitus: "By Pollux, if those things were not true, he would never do what he is doing now." Artemona: "By Hercules, I too always thought that man was honest before this," "but by this deed he has shown himself, since indeed with his son" "he drinks together and together leads about a mistress, a decrepit old man." "By Castor, this is why he went to dinner every day!" "He says he is going to Archidemus, Chaerea, Chaerestratus," "Clinias, Chremes, Cratinus, Dinias, Demosthenes:" "he is at a courtesan's for the ruin of his children, and devotes himself to brothels." Parasitus: "Why do you not order the maidservants to carry him aloft home?" Artemona: "Just keep quiet.
ne ego illum ecastor miserum habebo. §869bEgo istúc scio, §870ita fore illi dum quidem cum íllo nupta eris. §870bEgo censeo. §871†eum etiam hominem in senatu dare operam aut clientibus, §872ibi labore delassatum noctem totam stertere: §873ille operé foris faciendo lassus noctu ad me advenit; §874fundum alienum arat, incultum familiarem deserit. §875is etiam corruptus porro suom corrumpit filium. §876Sequere hac me modó, iam faxo ipsum hominem manifesto opprimas. §877Nihil ecastor est quod facere mavelim. §877bMane dum. §877cQuid est? §878Possis, si forte accubantem tuom virum conspexeris §879cum corona amplexum amicam, si videas, cognoscere? §880Possum ecastor. §880bEm tibi hominem. §880cPerii. §880dPaulisper mane. §881aucupemus ex insidiis clanculum quam rem gerant. §882Quid modi, pater, amplexando facies? §882bFateor, gnate mi— §883Quid fatere? §883bMe ex amore húius corruptum oppido. §884Audin quid ait? §884bAudio. §884cEgon ut non domo uxori meae §885subripiam in deliciis pallam quam hábet, atque ad te deferam, §886non edepol conduci possum vita uxoris annua. §887Censen tu illum hodié primum ire ádsuetum esse in ganeum?
By Castor, indeed I will make him miserable." Parasitus: "I know that," "that it will be so for him as long as indeed you are married to him." Artemona: "I think so too." "That man was also supposedly busy in the senate or for his clients," "and, exhausted by labor there, snored the whole night long:" "he, worn out by doing work outdoors, comes to me at night;" "he plows another's field, and leaves his own familiar uncultivated." "he, moreover, corrupted himself, further corrupts his own son." Parasitus: "Just follow me this way, I will soon make you catch the man himself red-handed." Artemona: "By Castor, there is nothing I would rather do." Parasitus: "Wait a moment." Artemona: "What is it?" Parasitus: "If by chance you see your husband lying," "with a wreath, embracing his mistress, if you see him, would you recognize him?" Artemona: "I can, by Castor." Parasitus: "Look, there is your man." Artemona: "I am ruined." Parasitus: "Wait a little while." "let us watch secretly from ambush what they are doing." Argyrippus: "What limit, father, will you make to your embracing?" Demaenetus: "I admit, my son—" Argyrippus: "What do you admit?" Demaenetus: "That I am completely ruined by love for her." Artemona: "Do you hear what he says?" Parasitus: "I hear." Demaenetus: "How am I not to steal from home from my wife" "the mantle she has among her favorites, and bring it to you?" "By Pollux, I cannot be hired off from it even by a year's life of my wife." Parasitus: "Do you think that he is accustomed to go to the brothel today for the first time?"