My father was Antimachus, I am called Lyconides, mother is Eunomia.
§780bNovi genus.
I know the family.
nunc quid vis? id volo
Now what do you want?
§781noscere.
I wish to know that.
§781bFiliam ex te tú habes.
You have a daughter of yours.
§781cImmo éccillam domi.
Nay, look, she is at home.
§782Eam tu despondisti, opinor, meo avonculo.
You betrothed her, I believe, to my uncle.
§782bOmnem rem tenes.
You know the whole matter.
§783Is me nunc renuntiare repudium iussit tibi.
He has now ordered me to announce the rejection of the marriage to you.
§784Repudium rebus paratis, exornatis nuptiis?
Rejection of marriage, when things are prepared and the wedding is adorned?
§785ut illum di immortales omnes deaeque quantum est perduint, §786quem propter hodie auri tantum perdidi infelix, miser.
May all the immortal gods and goddesses, as many as there are, destroy him, on whose account I, unhappy and wretched, have lost so much gold today.
§787Bono animo es, bene dice.
Be of good heart, speak well.
nunc quae res tibi et gnatae tuae §788bene feliciterque vortat—ita di faxint, inquito. §789Ita di faciant.
Now, may this matter turn out well and happily for you and your daughter—say, "May the gods so grant." May the gods so do.
§789bEt mihi ita di faciant.
And may the gods so do to me.
audi nunciam.
Listen now.
There is no man of so little worth who, when he is ashamed, does not clear himself of the fault he has committed.
nunc te obtestor, Euclio, §792ut si quid ego erga te imprudens peccavi aut gnatam tuam, §793ut mi ignoscas eamque uxorem mihi des, ut leges iubent.
Now I implore you, Euclio, that if I have unwittingly committed any offense against you or your daughter, you may forgive me and give her to me as my wife, as the laws command.
§794ego me iniuriam fecisse filiae fateor tuae, §795Cereris vigiliis, per vinum atque impulsu adulescentiae.
I confess that I did injury to your daughter, at the festival of Ceres, through wine and the impulse of youth.
§796Ei mihi, quód ego facinus ex te aúdio?
Woe is me, what deed do I hear from you?
Why do you wail, when I have already made you a grandfather by the marriage of your daughter?
§798nam tua gnata peperit, decumo mense post: numerum cape; §799ea re repudium remisit avonculus causa mea.
For your daughter has given birth, in the tenth month: do the calculation; for that reason my uncle sent back the rejection of marriage for my sake.
§800i intro, exquaere, sitne ita ut ego praedico.
Go inside, inquire, whether it is as I declare.
I am utterly ruined, so many bad things glue themselves to my misfortune.
I will go inside, that I may know what of this is true.— I will follow you immediately.
§803haec própemodum iam esse ín vado salútis res vidétur.
This matter seems to be almost in the shoal of safety now.
§804nunc servom esse ubi dicam meum Strobilum non reperio; §805nisi etiam hic opperiar tamen paulisper; postea intro §806hunc subsequar.
Now I do not find where to say my servant Strobilus is; unless indeed I wait here yet a little while; afterwards I will follow him inside.
nunc interim spatium ei dabo exquirendi §807meum factum ex gnatae pedisequa nutrice anu: ea rem novit.
Now in the meantime I will give him space to inquire about my deed from his daughter's attendant, the old nurse: she knows the matter.
§808Di ímmortales, quíbus et quantis mé donatis gaúdiis.
Immortal gods, with what and how great joys you present me!
§809quadrilibrem aulam aúro onustam hábeo.
I have a four-pound pot laden with gold.
quis me est ditior?
Who is richer than I?
§810quis me Athenis nunc magis quisquam est homo cui di sint propitii?
Who is there now in Athens more favored by the gods than I?
§811Certo enim ego vocem hic loquentis modo mi audire visus sum.
For certainly I seemed to hear the voice of someone speaking here just now.
§811bHem,
Ha!
§812érumne ego aspició meum?
Do I see my master?
§812bVideón ego hunc servóm meum?
Do I see this servant of mine?
§813Ipsus est.
It is he himself.
§813bHaud alius est.
It is no other.
§813cCongrediar.
I will approach.
§813dContollam gradum.
I will step forward.
§814_815credo ego illum, út iussi, eámpse anum adiisse, huius nutrícem virginis.
I believe that he, as I ordered, has gone to that old woman, the nurse of this maiden.
§816Quin ego illi me invenisse dico hanc praedam
Why do I not tell him that I have found this prey?
§817igitur orabo ut manu me emittat.
Therefore I will pray that he set me free.
ibo atque eloquar.
I will go and speak out.
Not what children cry out that they have found in a bean.
§819bIamne autem, ut soles? deludis.
Are you at it again, as usual? You are mocking.
§820Ere, mane, eloquar iam, ausculta.
Master, stay, I will speak now, listen.
§820bAge ergo loquere.
Come then, speak.
§821bVbinam?
Where on earth?
§821cQuadrilibrem, inquam, aulam auri plenam.
A four-pound pot, I say, full of gold.
§822Quod ego facinus audio ex te? Euclioni hic seni subripuit.
What deed do I hear from you? He has stolen it from this old man Euclio.
§823ubi id est aurum?
Where is that gold?
§823bIn arca apud me.
In a chest at my house.
nunc volo me emitti manu.
Now I want to be set free.
Am I to set you free, you most heaped-up of crimes?
§826Abi, ere, scio quam rem geras.
Go on, master, I know what you are doing.
§827lépide hercle animum tuom temptavi.
By Hercules, I tested your mind playfully.
iám ut eriperes apparabas: §828quid faceres, si repperissem?
You were already preparing to snatch it away: what would you do if I had found it?
§828bNon potes probasse nugas.
You cannot make your nonsense approved.
§829i, redde aurum.
Go, return the gold.
§829bReddam ego aurum?
Am I to return the gold?
§829cRedde, inquam, út huic reddatur.
Return it, I say, so that it may be returned to him.
§829dVnde?
From where?
§830Quod modo fassus es esse in arca.
That which you just confessed was in the chest.
§830bSoleo hercle ego garrire nugas.
By Hercules, I am accustomed to babble nonsense.
§831bItá loquor.
So I speak.
§831cAt scin quo modo?
But do you know in what way?
Or by Hercules, torture me to death, you will never carry it away from me.
§834_frg1pro illís corcotis, stróphiis, sumptu uxório
In place of those saffron robes, breast-bands, and wifely expenses.
§834_frg2ut admemordit hominem
How he bit the man!
§834_frg3ego ecfodiebam ín die denos scrobes.
I used to dig ten ditches a day.
§834_frg4nec noctu nec diu quietus umquam servabam eam: nunc dormiam.
Neither by night nor by day did I ever watch it in quiet: now let me sleep.
§834_frg5qui mi holera cruda ponunt, hallec adduint.
Let those who serve raw vegetables to me add fish sauce.