§786minitare?
[Chrysalus] Are you threatening me?
§786bNosces tu illum actutum qualis sit.
You will soon know what kind of man he is.
§787nunc has tabellas ferre me iussit tibi.
Now he has ordered me to bring these tablets to you.
§788orabat, quod istic esset scriptum ut fieret.
He begged that what was written there should be done.
§789Cedo.
[Nicobulus] Give them to me.
§789bNosce signum.
[Chrysalus] Recognize the seal.
§789cNovi.
[Nicobulus] I recognize it.
ubi ipse est?
Where is he himself?
§789dNescio.
[Chrysalus] I do not know.
§790nil iam me oportet scire.
It is no longer proper for me to know anything.
oblitus sum omnia.
I have forgotten everything.
§791scio me ésse servom.
I know that I am a slave.
nescio etiam id quod scio.
I do not even know what I do know.
[Aside] Now this thrush is seeking the worm near the trap; [Aside] he will hang beautifully today, so tight have I stretched the snare.
[Nicobulus] Wait for a moment; I am coming out to you directly, Chrysalus.— [Chrysalus] [Aside] How he tries to deceive me, how he conducts some business I know not what.
§796servos arcessit intus qui me vinciant.
[Aside] He is summoning slaves from within to bind me.
§797bene navis agitatur, pulcre haec confertur ratis.
[Aside] The ship is well tossed, this raft is beautifully steered.
§798sed conticiscam, nam audio aperiri fores.
[Aside] But I will be quiet, for I hear the door opening.
§799Constringe tu illi, Artamo, actutum manus.
[Nicobulus] Bind his hands immediately, Artamo.
§800Quid feci?
[Chrysalus] What have I done?
§800bImpinge pugnum, si muttiverit.
[Nicobulus] Strike him with your fist if he mutters.
§801quid hae locuntur litterae?
What does this letter say?
§801bQuid me rogas?
[Chrysalus] Why do you ask me?
§802ut ab illo accepi, ad te obsignatas attuli.
Just as I received it from him, I brought it to you sealed.
§803Eho tu, loquitatusne es gnato meo §804male per sermonem, quia mi id aurum reddidit, §805et te dixisti id aurum ablaturum tamen
[Nicobulus] Hey you, did you speak ill of my son constantly because he returned that gold to me, and did you say you would take that gold away anyway through trickery?
§806cIta.
[Nicobulus] Yes.
§807Quis homost qui dicat me dixisse istuc?
[Chrysalus] Who is the man who says I said that?
[Nicobulus] Silence, no man says so: these tablets accuse you, which you yourself brought.
§809quas tu attulisti. em hae te vinciri iubent.
Look, these order you to be bound.
[Chrysalus] Ah, your son has made me a Bellerophon: I myself brought the tablets to be bound.
sine.
Let it be.
[Nicobulus] I do this so that you may not persuade my son to play the Greek with you, you thrice-accursed scoundrel.
[Chrysalus] O foolish, foolish man, you do not know that you are now being sold; and you are standing on the very stone, as the crier proclaims.
§816Responde: quis me vendit?
[Nicobulus] Answer: who is selling me?
[Chrysalus] He whom the gods love dies young, while he is strong, perceives, and is wise.
§818hunc si ullus deus amaret, plus annis decem, §819plus iam viginti mortuom esse oportuit: §820terrai ódium ámbulat, iam nil sapit §821nec sentit, tantist quantist fungus putidus.
If any god loved this man, more than ten, nay, more than twenty years ago he ought to have been dead: a curse of the earth walks here, he now has no wisdom nor perception, he is worth just as much as a rotten mushroom.
§822Tun terrae me odium esse autumas? abducite hunc
[Nicobulus] Do you say that I am a curse of the earth?
§823intro atque adstringite ad columnam fortiter.
Lead him inside and bind him tightly to the pillar.
§824numquam auferes hinc aurum.
You will never carry off the gold from here.
§824bÁt qui iam dabis.
[Chrysalus] But indeed you will give it soon.
§825Dabo?
[Nicobulus] I will give it?
§825bAtque orabis me quidem ultro ut auferam, §826cum illum rescisces criminatorem meum §827quanto in periclo et quanta in pernicie siet.
[Chrysalus] Yes, and indeed you will beg me of your own accord to carry it off, when you find out in how great a danger and ruin that accuser of mine is.
Then you will generously bestow freedom upon Chrysalus; though I indeed will never accept it.
[Nicobulus] Tell me, you head of wickedness, tell me, in what danger is my son Mnesilochus?
§831Sequere hac me, faxo iam scies.
[Chrysalus] Follow me this way, I will make you know soon.
§831bQuo gentium?
[Nicobulus] Where on earth?
§832Tres unos passus.
[Chrysalus] Just three steps.
§832bVel decem.
[Nicobulus] Even ten.
[Chrysalus] Come now, Artamo, open this door a tiny bit; quietly, don't make a creak; that is enough.
accede huc tu.
Step closer here, you.
viden convivium?
Do you see the banquet?
§835Video exadvorsum Pistoclerum et Bacchidem.
[Nicobulus] I see Pistoclerus and Bacchis opposite.
§836Qui sunt in lecto illo altero?
[Chrysalus] Who are they on that other couch?
§836bInterii miser.
[Nicobulus] I am ruined, wretched man that I am!
§837Novistine hominem?
[Chrysalus] Do you recognize the man?
§837bNovi.
[Nicobulus] I do.
[Chrysalus] Tell me, please, does the woman seem beautiful in appearance?
§838bAdmodum.
[Nicobulus] Very much so.
§839Quid illám, meretricemne esse censes?
[Chrysalus] What of her, do you think she is a courtesan?
§839bQuippini?
[Nicobulus] Why not?
§840Frustra es.
[Chrysalus] You are mistaken.
§840bQuis igitur obsecrost?
[Nicobulus] Who is she then, I beseech you?
§840cInveneris.
[Chrysalus] You will find out.
§841ex me quidem hodie numquam fies certior.
But you will never be informed of it by me today.
§842Meamne híc Mnesilochus, Nicobuli filius,
[Soldier] Is Mnesilochus, the son of Nicobulus, holding my woman here by force?
§843per vim ut retineat mulierem? quae haec factiost?
What kind of conduct is this?
§844Quis illést?
[Nicobulus] Who is that?
§844bPer tempus hic venit miles mihi.
[Chrysalus] [Aside] This soldier comes at the very right time for me.
[Soldier] He does not think of me as a soldier, but as a woman who cannot defend myself and mine.
§847nam neque Bellona mi umquam neque Mars creduat, §848ni illum exanimalem faxo, si convenero, §849nive exheredem fecero vitae suae.
For neither Bellona nor Mars would ever trust me, if I do not make him a corpse when I meet him, and if I do not disinherit him of his life.
§850Chrysale, quis ille est qui minitatur filio?
[Nicobulus] Chrysalus, who is that who is threatening my son?
§851Vir hic ést illius mulieris quacum accubat.
[Chrysalus] This is the husband of that woman with whom he is lying.
§852Quid, vir?
[Nicobulus] What, her husband?
§852bVir, inquam.
[Chrysalus] Her husband, I say.
§852cNuptanest illa, obsecro?
[Nicobulus] Is she married, I beseech you?
§853Scies haúd multo post.
[Chrysalus] You will know not long after.
§853bOppido interii miser.
[Nicobulus] I am completely ruined, wretched man that I am!
§854Quid nunc? scelestus tibi videtur Chrysalus?
[Chrysalus] What now?
§855age nunc vincito me, auscultato filio.
Does Chrysalus seem wicked to you? age now, bind me, listen to your son.
§856dixin tibi ego illum invénturum te qualis sit?
Didn't I tell you that you would find out what kind of man he is?
§857Quid nunc ego faciam?
[Nicobulus] What shall I do now?