§146bFáctum volo.
(Eunomia) I wish it done.
§147Quid ést id, sorór?
(Megadorus) What is it, sister?
§147bQuod tibí sempitérnum §148salútare sit: liberís procreándis §149(ita dí faxint) volo te úxorem §150domum dúcere.
(Eunomia) What may be eternally salutary for you: to beget children, (so may the gods grant) I want you to lead a wife home.
§150bEi occidí.
(Megadorus) Oh, I am ruined!
§150cQuid ita?
(Eunomia) Why so?
(Megadorus) Because your words, sister, knock out the brains of miserable me; you are speaking stones.
§153Heia, hoc face quod te iubet soror.
(Eunomia) Come, do this which your sister bids you.
§153bSi lubeat, faciam.
(Megadorus) If it should please me, I would do it.
§154In rem hoc tuam est.
(Eunomia) This is to your advantage.
§154bVt quidem emoriar prius quam ducam.
(Megadorus) Yes, indeed, that I should die before I marry.
But if you want to give me any woman on these terms, I will marry her: let her come tomorrow, and on the day after be carried out; do you want to give her on these terms?
§157his legibús dare vís? cedo: nuptiás adorna.
Tell me, prepare the wedding.
(Eunomia) I can give you one, brother, with the greatest dowry; but she is rather advanced in years, she is of middle age.
§160eam sí iubes, fratér, tibi me póscere, poscam.
If you bid me, brother, to ask for her for you, I will do so.
§161Núm non vis me intérrogare te?
(Megadorus) You don't mind if I ask you a question, do you?
§161bÍmmo, si quid vís, roga.
(Eunomia) On the contrary, if you want anything, ask.
§162Post mediam aetatem qui media ducit uxorem domum, §163si eam senex anum praegnatem fortuito fecerit, §164quid dubitas, quin sit paratum nomen puero Postumus?
(Megadorus) He who leads home a middle-aged wife after his own middle age, if he, an old man, should by chance make that old woman pregnant, why do you doubt that the name Postumus is ready for the boy?
§165nunc ego istúm, soror, laborem demam et deminuam tibi.
Now, sister, I will take away and lessen that labor for you.
§166ego virtute deum et maiorum nostrum dives sum satis.
I am rich enough by the favor of the gods and of our ancestors.
§167istas magnas factiones, animos, dotes dapsiles, §168clámores, impéria, eburata véhicla, pallas, púrpuram, §169nil moror quae in servitutem sumptibus redigunt viros.
Those great connections, high spirits, lavish dowries, clamors, commands, ivory carriages, robes, purple garments, which reduce men to slavery by their expenses, I care nothing for.
§170Dic mihi, quaeso, quis ea est, quam vis ducere uxorem?
(Eunomia) Tell me, please, who is she whom you wish to marry?
§170bEloquar.
(Megadorus) I will tell you.
§171nostin hunc senem Euclionem ex proximo pauperculum?
Do you know this poor old man Euclio from next door?
§172Novi, hominem haud malum mecastor.
(Eunomia) I know him, by Castor, not a bad man.
(Megadorus) I desire his maiden daughter to be betrothed to me.
verba ne facias, soror.
Do not speak, sister.
§174scio quid dictura es: hanc esse pauperem.
I know what you are about to say: that she is poor.
haec pauper placet.
This poor girl pleases me.
§175Di bene vortant.
(Eunomia) May the gods turn it to good.
§175bIdem ego spero.
(Megadorus) I hope the same.
§175cQuid me? num quid vis?
(Eunomia) What about me? Do you want anything of me?
§175dVale.
(Megadorus) Farewell.
(Eunomia) And you, brother.— (Megadorus) I will meet Euclio, if he is at home.
§177sed eccum video.
But look, I see him.
nescio unde sese homo recipit domum.
I don't know from where the man is returning home.
§178Praesagibat mi animus frustra me ire, quom exibam domo; §179itaque abibam invitus; nam neque quisquam curialium §180venit neque magister quem dividere argentum oportuit.
(Euclio) My mind presaged that I was going in vain when I went out of the house; and so I went unwillingly; for neither did any of the curiales come, nor the master whose duty it was to distribute the money.
§181nunc domum properare propero, nam egomet sum hic, animus domi est.
Now I hasten to hasten home, for I myself am here, but my mind is at home.
§182Salvos atque fortunatus, Euclio, semper sies.
(Megadorus) May you always be safe and fortunate, Euclio.
§183Di te ament, Megadore.
(Euclio) May the gods love you, Megadorus.
§183bQuid tu? recten atque ut vis vales?
(Megadorus) How are you? Are you well and as you wish to be?
§184Non temerarium est, ubi dives blande appellat pauperem.
(Euclio) It is not for nothing when a rich man addresses a poor man gently.
§185iam illic homo aurum scit me habere, eo me salutat blandius.
Already that man knows I have gold, therefore he greets me more gently.
§186Ain tu te valere?
(Megadorus) Do you say that you are well?
§186bPol ego haud perbene a pecunia.
(Euclio) By Pollux, I am not very well off as to money.
§187Pol si est animus aequos tibi, sat hábes qui bene vitam colas.
(Megadorus) By Pollux, if you have a contented mind, you have enough with which to lead a good life.
§188Anus hercle huic indicium fecit de auro, perspicue palam est, §189cui ego iam linguam praecidam atque oculos effodiam domi.
(Euclio) By Hercules, the old woman has given him information about the gold, it is perfectly clear; I will soon cut out her tongue and gouge out her eyes at home.
§190Quid tu solus tecum loquere?
(Megadorus) Why are you talking to yourself alone?
§190bMeam pauperiem conqueror.
(Euclio) I am complaining of my poverty.
I have a grown-up maiden daughter, without a dowry and unmarriageable, nor can I marry her to anyone.
§192bTace, bonum habe animum, Euclio.
(Megadorus) Be silent, have a good heart, Euclio.
§193dabitur, adiuvabere a me.
It shall be given, you shall be helped by me.
dic, si quid opust, impera.
Say if there is need of anything, command.
§194Nunc petit, cum pollicetur; inhiat aurum ut devoret.
(Euclio) Now he is seeking, while he promises; he gapes to devour the gold.
§195altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera.
He carries a stone in one hand, and shows bread in the other.
§196nemini credo qui large blandust dives pauperi: §197ubi manum inicit benigne, ibi onerat aliqua zamia.
I trust no rich man who is lavishly gentle to a poor man; when he offers his hand kindly, he is loading one with some damage.
§198ego istos novi polypos, qui ubi quidquid tetigerunt tenent.
I know those octopuses, who hold whatever they have touched.
§199Da mi operam parumper.
(Megadorus) Give me your attention for a moment.
paucis, Euclio, est quod te volo §200de communi re appellare mea et tua.
Euclio, there is something I wish to address you about briefly, concerning our common interest, yours and mine.
§200bEi misero mihi,
(Euclio) Oh, miserable me!
§201aurum mi intus harpagatum est.
My gold has been plundered inside.
nunc hic eam rem volt, scio, §202mecum adire ad pactionem.
Now he wants, I know, to come to an agreement with me about that matter.
verum intervisam domum.
But I will go and look inside my house.
§203Quo abis?
(Megadorus) Where are you going?
§203bIam ad te revortar: nunc est quod visam domum. — §204Credo edepol, ubi mentionem ego fecero de filia, §205mi ut despondeat, sese a me derideri rebitur; §206neque illo quisquam est alter hodie ex paupertate parcior.
(Euclio) I will return to you soon; now I must go and look at my house.— (Megadorus) By Pollux, I believe, when I make mention of his daughter, that he may betroth her to me, he will think he is being mocked by me; nor is there any other man today more stingy from poverty than he.