§233bNón potes ímpetrare.
You cannot obtain it.
§233cÉnecas.
You are killing me.
§234Véra dicás velim.
I wish you were speaking the truth.
§234bCrédo ego istúc tibi.
I believe you on that point.
§235Réspice, o mi lepos.
Look back at me, oh my charm.
§235bNempe ita ut tú mihi es.
Surely just as you are to me.
§236unde híc, amabo, unguénta olent?
From where, pray, does this smell of perfume come?
cessó caput pállio detérgere?
Shall I delay to wipe my head with my cloak?
§238út te bonus Mercúrius perdat, mýropola, quia haec míhi dedisti.
May the good Mercury destroy you, perfume-seller, because you gave me these things.
§239Ého tu nihili, cána culex, vix téneor quin quae décent te dicam, §240sénecta aetate únguentatus pér vias, ignáve, incedis?
Hey you, good-for-nothing, gray gnat, I can scarcely restrain myself from saying what is fitting for you, walking through the streets anointed with perfume at your advanced age, you worthless wretch?
§241Pól ego amico dédi cuidam operam, dum émit unguenta.
By Pollux, I was helping a friend of mine while he was buying perfume.
§241bVt cito comméntust.
How quickly he made that up.
§242écquid te pudet?
Are you not ashamed at all?
§242bÓmnia quae tu vís.
Everything that you wish.
§242cVbi in lustrá iacuisti?
Where in the dens of vice have you been lying?
§243Égone in lustra?
I in dens of vice?
§243bScío plus quam tu me árbitrare.
I know more than you think I do.
§243cQuíd id est? quid scis?
What is that? What do you know?
§244Té sene omniúm † senem néminem esse ignáviorem.
That of all old men, there is no old man more worthless than you.
§245únde is, nihili? ubí fuisti? ubí lustratu'slustratus es? úbi bibisti?
Where are you coming from, good-for-nothing? Where have you been? Where have you been carousing? Where did you drink?
§246mádes mecastor: víde, palliolum ut rúgat.
By Castor, you are soaked: look how your little cloak is wrinkled.
May the gods bring ruin upon me and you, if I have put a drop of wine into my mouth today.
Nay, go on, as you please, drink, eat, waste our property.
§248_250bÓhe, iam satis, uxór, comprime te, nímium tinnis, §251relínque aliquantum orátionis, crás quod mecum lítiges.
Whoa, that's enough, wife! Restrain yourself, you chatter too much, leave some words so that you may argue with me tomorrow.
§252séd quid ais? iam domuisti animum, potius ut quod vir velit §253fieri, id facias, quam adversere contra?
But what do you say? Have you subdued your mind by now, so that you would rather do what your husband wants done, than oppose him?
§253bQua de re?
Concerning what matter?
§253cRogas?
You ask?
§254super ancilla Casina, ut detur nuptum nostro vilico, §255servo frugi atque ubi illi bene sit ligno, aqua calida, cibo, §256vestimentis, ubique educat pueros quos pariat † potius §257quam illi servo nequam des, armigero nili atque improbo, §258cui hominí hodie peculi nummus non est plumbeus.
concerning the handmaid Casina, that she be given in marriage to our bailiff, an honest servant, and one with whom she would be well off for firewood, warm water, food, clothing, and where she may bring up the children she bears, rather than that you should give her to that worthless servant, a good-for-nothing and wicked armor-bearer, a man who today doesn't have a lead coin of personal savings.
By Castor, it is surprising that at your advanced age you do not remember your duty.
§260bQuid iam?
Why so?
Because, if you were to act rightly or properly, you would let me take care of the handmaids, which is my business.
§262Qui, malum, homini scutigerulo dáre lubet?
Why, the plague, do you want to give her to that armor-bearer?
Because indeed it is fitting for us to help our only son.
§263bAt quamquam unicust, §264nihilo magis ille unicust mihi filius quam ego illi pater: §265illum mi aequiust quam me illi quae volo concedere.
But although he is an only son, he is no more an only son to me than I am a father to him: it is more just for him to yield to my wishes than for me to yield to his.
§266Tu ecastor tibi, homo, malam rem quaeris.
By Castor, you are looking for trouble for yourself, fellow.
§266bSubolet, sentio.
She smells a rat, I feel it.
§267egone?
I?
§267bTu.
You.
nam quid friguttis? quid istuc tam cupide cupis?
For why are you stammering? Why do you desire that so eagerly?
§268Vt enim frugi servo detur potius quam servo improbo.
Why, so that she may be given to an honest servant rather than to a wicked one.
What if I obtain a concession and prevail upon the bailiff, for my sake, to yield her to him?
§270bQuid si ego autem ab armigero impetro,
And what if I, on the other hand, obtain a concession from the armor-bearer to yield her to him?
§271ut eam illi permittat? atque hóc credo impetrassere.
And I believe I shall obtain this.
§272Convenit.
Agreed.
vin tuis Chalinum huc evocem verbis foras?
Do you want me to call Chalinus out here in your name?
§273tú eum orato, ego autem orabo vilicum.
You entreat him, and I will entreat the bailiff.
§273bSane volo.
I certainly wish so.
§274Iam hic erit.
He will be here soon.
nunc experiemur, nostrum uter sit blandior. — §275Hercules dique istam perdant, quod nunc liceat dicere.
Now we shall test which of us is the more persuasive. — May Hercules and the gods destroy her, as far as I am permitted to say now.
Wretched I am tortured by love, while she opposes me as if on purpose.
subolet hoc iam uxori quod ego machinor: §278propter eam rem magis armigero dat operam de industria.
My wife already smells a rat about what I am plotting: for that reason, she supports the armor-bearer all the more on purpose.
§279qui illum di omnes deaeque perdant.
May all the gods and goddesses destroy him!
§280bEgo énim vocari iussi.
Indeed, I ordered you to be called.
§280cEloquere quid velis.
Tell me what you want.
§281Primum ego te porrectiore fronte volo mecum loqui; §282stultitia est ei te esse tristem, cuius potestas plus potest.
First, I want you to speak with me with a smoother forehead; it is foolishness for you to be sullen toward one whose power is greater.
§283probum te et frugi hominem iam pridem esse arbitror.
I have long thought you to be an honest and worthy fellow.
§283bIntellego.
I understand.
§284_285quin, si ita arbitrare, emittis me manu?
Then, if you think so, why don't you set me free?
§284_285bQuin id volo.
Indeed, I want to do that.
§286sed nihil est, me cupere factum, nisi tu factis adiuvas.
But it is nothing for me to desire it done, unless you help by your actions.
§287Quid velis modo id velim me scire.
I only wish to know what you want.
§287bAusculta, ego eloquar.
Listen, I will tell you.
§288Casinam ego uxorem promisi vilico nostro dare.
I have promised to give Casina as wife to our bailiff.
§289At tua uxor filiusque promiserunt mihi.
But your wife and son promised her to me.
§289bScio.
I know.