§784ne quis eam abripiat.
so that no one snatches her.
facite vostro animo volup.
Make things agreeable to your heart.
§785sed properate istum atque istam actutum emittere, §786tandem ut † veniamus luci; égo cras hic ero.
But hurry to send out that man and that woman immediately, so that we may finally arrive in daylight; I will be here tomorrow.
§787cras habuero, uxor, ego tamen convivium.
Tomorrow, wife, I shall nevertheless have a banquet.
What I said would happen is happening: the unfed old man the women are thrusting outdoors.
§789bQuid tu hic agis?
What are you doing here?
§790Ego eo quo me ipsa misit.
I am going where she herself sent me.
§790bVeron?
Really?
§790cSerio.
Seriously.
§791Quid hic speculare?
What are you spying here for?
§791bNil equidem speculor.
I indeed am not spying on anything.
Go away: you delay here, inside others are hurrying.
I am going. — Go away from here then, if you please, worst of the worst.
§794iamne abiit illaec? dicere hic quidvis licet.
Has she gone now? One can say anything here.
§795qui amat, tamen hercle, si esurit, nullum esurit.
He who loves, nevertheless, by Hercules, if he is hungry, is not hungry at all.
But look, there he comes forward with a wreath and a torch, my ally, equal, fellow-husband bailiff.
§798Áge tibicen, dum íllam educunt húc novam nuptám foras, §799suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc plateam hymenaeo.
Come, flute-player, while they lead out this new bride here outdoors, celebrate all this street with a sweet song, with the wedding hymn.
§800hymen hymenaee o hymen.
Hymen Hymenaeus, oh Hymen.
§801Quid agis, mea salus?
How are you doing, my salvation?
§801bEsurio hercle, atque adeo hau salubriter.
By Hercules, I am hungry, and indeed not at all wholesomely.
§802At ego amó.
But I am in love.
§802bAt ego hercle nihili facio.
But I, by Hercules, care nothing for it.
tibi amor pro cibost, §803mihi ieiunitate iam dudum intestina murmurant.
For you, love is in place of food, for me, from hunger my intestines have been rumbling for a long time.
§804Nam quid illaéc nunc tam diu intus remorantur remeligines?
For why are those delaying women staying inside so long now?
§805quasi ob industriam, quanto ego plus propero, procedit minus.
as if on purpose, the more I hurry, the less it goes forward.
§806Quid si etiam suffundam hymenaeum, si qui citius prodeant?
What if I also pour in a wedding song, to see if they might come out more quickly?
§807Censeo, et ego te adiutabo in nuptiis communibus.
I think so, and I will help you in our common nuptials.
§808Hymen hymenaee o hymen.
Hymen Hymenaeus, oh Hymen.
§809Perii hercle ego miser, dirumpi hymenaeum cantando licet: §810illo morbo quo dirumpi cupio, non est copia.
By Hercules, I am lost, wretched me, the wedding song may burst from singing: there is no opportunity for that disease by which I desire to burst.
§811Edepol ne tu, sí equos esses, esses indomabilis.
By Pollux, indeed, if you were a horse, you would be untamable.
§812Quo argumento?
By what proof?
§812bNimis tenax es.
You are too stubborn.
§812cNum me expertu'sexpertus esuspiam?
Have you tested me anywhere?
§813Di melius faciant.
May the gods do better!
sed crepuit ostium, exitur foras.
But the door creaked, they are coming outdoors.
§814Di hercle me cupiunt servatum.
By Hercules, the gods desire me saved.
iam oboluit Casinus procul.
I have already smelled Casina from afar.
§815Sensim supera tolle limen pedes, mea nova nupta; §816sospes iter incipe hoc, uti viro tuo §817sémper sis superstes, §818tuaque út potior polléntia sit vincásque virum victríxque sies, §819tua vóx superet tuomque imperium: vir te vestiat, tu virum despolies.
Gently lift your feet over the threshold, my new bride; begin this journey safe, so that to your husband you may always be a survivor, and that your power may be more powerful, and you may conquer your husband and be a victress, and your voice prevail, and your command: let your husband clothe you, you despoil your husband.
and that by night and by day you may be deceitful to your husband, I beseech you, remember.
§822_825Malo máxumo suo hercle ílico, ubi tántillum peccássit.
To his greatest misfortune, by Hercules, immediately, when he commits the slightest fault.
§826Tace.
Be silent.
§826bNón taceo.
I will not be silent.
§826cQuae rés?
What is the matter?
§826dMala malaé male monstrat.
A bad woman is showing bad things to a bad woman.
§827Faciés tu hanc rém mi ex paráta imparátam.
You will make this matter unprepared for me from prepared.
§828id quaérunt volúnt, haec ut ínfecta fáciant.
They seek and want this, to make these things undone.
Come, Olympio, since you wish, the wife receive this one from us.
§831Date érgo, datúrae si umquam éstis hodie.
Give her then, if you are ever going to give her today.
§832Abíte intro.
Go inside.
Please, to this untouched and inexperienced girl be gentle.
§833bFuturum est.
It shall be done.
§834Valéte.
Farewell.
§834bIte iám.
Go now.
§834cIte.
Go.
§834dIám valete.
Now farewell.
§835Iamne ábscessit úxor?
Has my wife gone now?
§835bDomíst, ne time.
She is at home, do not fear.
§837meúm corculúm, melculúm, verculum.
my little heart, my little honey, my little spring.
Hey you, you will beware of trouble, if you are wise; she is mine.
§839bSció, sed meus fructus est prior.
I know, but my enjoyment comes first.
§840Tene hánc lampadem.
Hold this torch.
§840bÍmmo ego hánc tenebo.
Nay, I will hold this one.
Mighty Venus, many good things to me you have given, since you have given me abundance of this one.
quae res?
What's the matter?
§845Quid est?
What is it?
Be silent, please, a cloud is not equally soft as her breast is.
§848Edepol papillam bellulam—ei misero mihi.
By Pollux, what a pretty little breast—oh, wretched me!
§849Quid est?
What is it?
§849bPéctus mi icit non cubito, verum ariete.
She struck my chest, not with an elbow, but with a battering ram.
§850Quid tu ergo hanc, quaeso, tractas tam dura manu?
Why then, I ask, do you handle her with so rough a hand?
§851at mihi, qui belle hanc tracto, non bellum facit.
but to me, who handle her nicely, she does not do anything un-nice.
§852Vah.
Ah!
§852bQuid negotist?
What's the matter?
I beseech you, how strong she is, she almost knocked me out with her elbow.
§853bCubitum ergo ire volt.
Therefore she wants to go to bed.
§854Quin imus ergo?
Why don't we go then?
§854bI, belle belliatula. — §855Accéptae bene ét commode éximus íntus §856ludós visere húc in viam nuptiális.
Go, pretty little pretty one. — Well and comfortably received, we come out from inside to watch the wedding games here in the street.
By Castor, never on any day have I laughed so much, nor in what is left of my life do I think I shall laugh more.
§859Lúbet Chalinum quíd agat scire, nóvom nuptum cum nóvo marito.
It pleases me to know what Chalinus is doing, the new bride with his new husband.
§860Nec fállaciam ástutiórem ullus fécit
Nor has anyone made a craftier trick...