§545Immo est quod satis est, et di faciant ut siet §546plus plusque et istuc sospitent quod nunc habes.
Megadorus: Nay, there is what is enough, and may the gods grant that it may be more and more, and may they preserve for you that which you now have.
Euclio: [Aside] That expression does not please me, "which you now have." He knows that I have this just as well as I do myself.
anus fecit palam.
The old woman has made it known.
§549Quid tu te solus e senatu sevocas?
Megadorus: Why do you withdraw yourself alone from our council?
§550Pol ego ut te accusem merito meditabar.
Euclio: By Pollux, I was meditating how I might deservedly accuse you.
§550bQuid est?
Megadorus: What is it?
§551Quid sit me rogitas? qui mihi omnis angulos
Euclio: You ask me what it is?
§552furum implevisti in aedibus misero mihi, §553qui mi intro misti in aedis quingentos coquos, §554cum senis manibus, genere Geryonaceo; §555quos si Argus servet, qui oculeus totus fuit, §556quem quondam Ioni Iuno custodem addidit, §557is numquam servet.
You who have filled all the corners of my house with thieves, to my misery, you who have sent into my house five hundred cooks, with six hands each, of the race of Geryon; whom even if Argus should watch, who was all eyes, whom formerly Juno set as a guard over Io, he could never watch them.
praeterea tibicinam, §558quae mi interbibere sola, si vino scatat, §559Corinthiensem fontem Pirenam potest.
Besides, that music-girl, who, by herself, if it flowed with wine, could drink up the Corinthian fountain of Pirene.
And then as for the provisions— Megadorus: By Pollux, there is enough even for a legion.
§561etiam agnum misi.
I even sent a lamb.
Euclio: Than which lamb, I know well, there is nowhere any beast more lean.
§563Volo ego ex te scire qui sit agnus curio.
Megadorus: I want to know from you how the lamb is lean.
§564Quia ossa ac pellis totust, ita cura macet.
Euclio: Because it is all skin and bone, it is so wasted with care.
Why, you may inspect its entrails in the sun while it is alive; it is as transparent as a Punic lantern.
§567Caedundum conduxi égo illum.
Megadorus: I hired it to be slaughtered.
Euclio: Then it is best that you also hire someone to carry it out to be buried; for I believe it is already dead.
§569Potare ego hodie, Euclio, tecum volo.
Megadorus: I want to drink with you today, Euclio.
§570Non potem égo quidem hercle.
Euclio: Indeed I will not drink, by Hercules.
Megadorus: But I will order a jar of old wine to be brought from my house.
§572Nolo hercle, nam mihi bibere decretum est aquam.
Euclio: I don't want it, by Hercules, for I am resolved to drink water.
Megadorus: I will make you thoroughly wet today, as I live, you who are resolved to drink water.
§574bScio quam rem agat: §575ut me deponat vino, eam adfectat viam, §576post hoc quod habeo ut commutet coloniam.
Euclio: [Aside] I know what he is driving at: he is trying that way, to overcome me with wine, so that after this he may change the colony of what I possess.
§577ego id cavebo, nam alicubi abstrudam foris.
I will guard against that, for I will hide it somewhere outside.
§578ego faxo et operam et vinum perdiderit simul.
I will make him lose both his labor and his wine at the same time.
§579Ego, nisi quid me vis, eo lavatum, ut sacruficem. —
(To Megadorus) If you want nothing more of me, I am going to bathe, so that I may perform the sacrifice.
[Aside, to his pot] By Pollux, indeed, pot, you have many enemies, and that gold which has been entrusted to you.
Now this is the best thing for me to do, to carry you away, pot, into the temple of Faith: there I will hide you well.
Faith, you know me, and I know you: take you care, lest you change your name toward me, if I entrust this to you.
§586ibo ad te fretus tua, Fides, fiducia. — §587Hóc est servi facinus frugi, facere quod ego persequor, §588ne morae molestiaeque imperium erile habeat sibi.
I will go to you, trusting in your good faith, Faith. (Exit Euclio) Strobilus: This is the conduct of an honest slave, to do what I am doing, so that his master's command may not bring delay and trouble to him.
§589nam qui ero ex sententia servire servos postulat,
For the slave who intends to serve his master according to his wish, ought to undertake what concerns his master quickly, and what concerns himself slowly.
§590in erum matura, in se sera condecet capessere. §591sin dormitet, ita dormitet, servom sese ut cogitet.
But if he sleeps, let him so sleep that he remembers he is a slave.
§593si érum videt superare amorem, hoc servi esse officium reor, §594retinere ad salutem, non enim quo incumbat eo impellere.
If he sees his master overcome by love, I think this is the duty of a slave, to hold him back for his safety, and not to push him in the direction he is leaning.
§595quasi pueri qui nare discunt scirpea induitur ratis, §596qui laborent minus, facilius ut nent et moveant manus, §597eodem modo servom ratem esse amanti ero aequom censeo, §598ut eum toleret, ne pessum abeat tamquam
Just as a basket of rushes is put on children who are learning to swim, so that they may labor less, and swim and move their hands more easily, in the same way I think it is right for a slave to be a raft to a master who is in love, so that he may support him, lest he go to the bottom like...
§599† erile imperium ediscat, ut quod frons velit oculi sciant; §600quod iubeat citis quadrigis citius properet persequi.
let him learn his master's commands thoroughly, so that what his forehead wishes his eyes may know; what he orders, let him hasten to perform more quickly than a swift chariot.
§601qui éa curabit, abstinebit censione bubula, §602nec sua opera rediget umquam ín splendorem compedes.
He who takes care of these things will keep clear of the bovine tax, nor will he ever by his own doing polish his fetters.
§603nunc erus meus amat fíliam huius Euclionis pauperis; §604eam ero nunc renuntiatum est nuptum huic Megadoro dari.
Now my master is in love with the daughter of this poor Euclio; word has just been brought to my master that she is being given in marriage to this Megadorus.
§605is speculatum huc misit me, ut quae fierent fieret particeps.
He has sent me here to spy, so that he may become acquainted with what is going on.
§606nunc sine omní suspicione in ara hic adsidam sacra; §607hinc ego et huc et illuc potero quid agant arbitrarier.
Now without any suspicion I will sit down here on this sacred altar; from here I shall be able to observe what they are doing on both sides.
§608Tu modo cave quoiquam indicassis aurum meum esse istic, Fides:
Euclio: Only do you take care, Faith, that you do not disclose to anyone that my gold is there.