§622cor metu mortuomst, membra miserae tremunt,
My heart is dead with fear, my wretched limbs are trembling.
§623nescio unde auxili, praesidi, perfugi §624mi aut opis copiam comparem aut expetam: §625tanta factu modo mira miris modis §626intus vidi, novam atque integram audaciam.
I know not from where a supply of help, protection, refuge, or of assistance I should procure for myself or seek; so many strange things done in strange ways just now I saw inside, a new and untouched audacity.
Watch out for yourself, Cleostrata, step away from that woman, I beseech you, lest her stirred-up anger do some harm to you.
§629eripite isti gladium, quae suist impos animi.
Snatch the sword from that woman, who is not master of her own mind.
§630Nam quid est quod haec huc timida atque exanimata exsiluit foras?
For why is it that she has leaped out here in fear and breathless?
§631Pardalisca.
Pardalisca!
§631bPerii, unde meae usurpant aures sonitum?
I am ruined, from where do my ears catch this sound?
§632Respice modo ad me.
Just look back at me.
§632bO ere mi—
Oh, my master— What is the matter with you?
§632cQuid tibi est? quid timida es?
Why are you afraid?
§632dPerii.
I am ruined.
§633Quid, periisti?
What, you are ruined?
§633bPerii, et tu periisti.
I am ruined, and you are ruined too.
§633cA, perii? quid ita?
Ah, I am ruined? How so?
§634Vae tibi.
Woe to you.
§634bImmo, vae tibi sit.
Rather, let there be woe to you.
§634cNe cadam, amabo, tene me.
Hold me, please, lest I fall.
§635Quidquid est, eloquere mihi cito.
Whatever it is, tell me quickly.
I fear what this business may be, unless she has struck herself somewhere with the undiluted flower of Liber.
§641Óptine aurís, amabo.
Hold my ears, please.
§641bI ín malam a mé crucem, §642péctus, aurís, caput téque di pérduint, §643nám nisi ex té scio, quídquid hoc ést, cito, hoc §644iám tibi istúc cerebrúm dispércutiam, éxcetra tu, §645ludibrio pessuma adhuc quae me habuisti.
Go to the great bad cross away from me, may the gods ruin your chest, ears, head, and yourself, for unless I know from you quickly whatever this is, I will now scatter that brain of yours, you viper, who have held me in mock so far, you worst woman.
§646cNimiúm saevis.
You are too savage.
§646dNumeró dicis.
Exactly.
But speak out whatever this is, bring it to a few words: what tumult was that inside?
§648bScibis, aúdi.
You shall know, listen.
§649_650malúm pessumúmque hic modo intus ápud nos §651tua áncilla hoc pácto exordíri coépit, §652quod haúd Atticám condecét disciplínam.
A bad and most wicked thing just now inside our house— your maidservant has begun in this manner, which does not at all befit Attic discipline.
§653Quid ést id?
What is that?
§653bTimór praepedít dicta línguae.
Fear prevents the words of my tongue.
§654Possúm scire ego ístuc ex té quid negótist?
Can I not know from you what that business is?
§654bDicam.
I will tell you.
your maidservant, whom you want to give to your bailiff as wife, she inside— What inside?
§656bQuid íntus? quid ést?
What is it?
She imitates the bad discipline of bad women, who threaten their husband: the life— What then?
She says she wants to take his life, the sword— What?
§661Habet.
She has it.
§661bEí misero mihi, cúr eum habet?
Ah, wretched me! Why does she have it?
§662Inséctatur ómnis domí per aedis, §663nec quémquam prope ád se sínit adire: §664ita ómnes sub árcis, sub léctis laténtes §665metú mussitánt.
She chases everyone through the house, nor does she allow anyone to come near her: so everyone, hiding under chests and under beds, mutters with fear.
§665bOccidi átque intérii.
I am ruined and destroyed.
§666quid ílli obiéctumst malí tam repénte?
What evil has been cast upon her so suddenly?
§667Insánit.
She is mad.
§667bSceléstissimum me esse crédo.
I believe I am the most accursed man.
Nay, if you knew the words she spoke today— That is what I want to know.
quíd dixit?
What did she say?
§669bAúdi.
Listen.
she swore by all the gods and goddesses, that she would kill the one with whom she should sleep tonight.
§672Men óccidet?
Will she kill me?
§672bÁn quippiam ád te attinét?
Does it concern you at all?
§672cVah.
Ah.
§673Quid cúm ea negóti tibíst?
What business do you have with her?
I made a mistake: I meant to say that, the bailiff.
§675Sciéns de via ín semitám degrédere.
Knowingly you step aside from the road into the path.
§676Numquíd mihi minátur?
Does she threaten me with anything?
She is hostile to you alone more than to anyone else.
§677bQuam ob rem?
Why so?
§677cQuia se dés uxorem Olýmpioni, §678neque se tuam nec se suam neque viri vitam sinere in §679_680crástinum protólli: id huc míssa sum tibi ut dícerem, §681áb ea uti caveás tibi.
Because you give her as wife to Olympio, and she says she will not let either your life, or her own, or her husband's life be prolonged into tomorrow: I was sent here to tell you this, so that you may watch out for yourself from her.
§681bPerii hércle egó miser.
By Hercules, wretched me, I am ruined!
§681cDígnus es.
You deserve it.
There is not, nor has there been, any old man in love equally wretched as me.
§683_685bLudo ego húnc facete; §686nam quaé facta díxi omnia huíc falsa díxi: §687era átque haec dolum éx proxumo húnc protulérunt, §688ego húnc missa súm ludere.
I am playing this man beautifully; for all the things I said were done, I said falsely to him: my mistress and she next door brought forth this trick, I was sent to play him.
§688bHeús Pardalísca.
Hey, Pardalisca.
§689Quid ést?
What is it?
§689dÉst quod volo éxquirere éx te.
There is something I want to ask of you.
§690Moram óffers mihi.
You bring delay to me.
§690bÁt tu mihi óffers maerórem.
But you are bringing sorrow to me.
§691sed étiamne habét nunc Cásina gladium?
But does Casina still have the sword now?
§692Habét, sed duós.
She has it, indeed two.
§692bQuid, duós?
What, two?
With one she says she will kill you, and with the other the bailiff today.
§694Occísissimús sum omniúm qui vivont.
I am the most utterly slain of all who live.
§695lorícam induám mi optumum ésse opinor.
I think it is best for me to put on a breastplate.
§696quid úxor mea? nón adiit átque ademit?
What about my wife? Did she not go and take it away?
§697Nemo aúdet prope áccedere.
No one dares to go near.
§697bÉxoret.
Let her entreat her.