§81ea invenietur et pudica et libera, §82ingenua Atheniensis, neque quicquam stupri §83faciet profecto in hac quidem comoedia.
She will be found to be both chaste and free, a freeborn Athenian girl, and indeed no disgrace will she commit in this comedy at least.
§84mox hercle vero, post transactam fabulam, §85argentum si quis dederit, ut ego suspicor, §86ultro ibit nuptum, non manebit auspices.
But by Hercules, soon indeed, after the play is over, if anyone gives money, as I suspect, she will go to marry of her own accord, she won't wait for the auspices.
§87tantum est.
That is all.
valete, bene rem gerite et vincite §88virtute vera, quod fecistis antidhac.
Farewell, manage your affairs well, and win by true virtue, as you have done before.
Is it not allowed for me to speak and think about my own business, by myself, as I wish, without you as a witness?
§91quid tu, malum, me sequere?
Why, plague take you, are you following me?
§91bQuia certum est mihi, §92quasi umbra, quoquo tu ibis, te semper sequi; §93quin edepol etiam si in crucem vis pergere, §94sequi decretumst.
Because it is fixed for me, like a shadow, wherever you go, always to follow you; indeed, by Pollux, even if you wish to go to the gallows, to follow you is resolved.
dehinc conicito ceterum, §95possisne necne clam me sutelis tuis §96praeripere Casinam uxorem, proinde ut postulas.
Therefore, guess for the rest, whether or not you can, secretly from me by your tricks, snatch Casina away as a wife, just as you desire.
§97Quid tibi negotist mecum?
What business have you with me?
§97bQuid ais, impudens?
What do you say, impudent fellow?
§98quid in urbe reptas, vilice haud magni preti?
Why are you crawling in the city, you worthless bailiff?
§99Lubet.
I like it.
§99bQuin ruri es in praefectura tua?
Why are you not in the country, in your district?
Why do you not rather care for that business which was entrusted to you, and keep yourself from city affairs?
You have come hither to snatch away my bride from me: go to the country, go to the devil in your own province.
Chalinus, I have not forgotten my duty: yet I have appointed someone in the country to care for it properly.
§106ego huc quod veni in urbem si impetravero, §107uxorem ut istam ducam, quam tu deperis, §108bellam et tenellam Casinam, conservam tuam, §109quando ego eam mecum rus uxorem abduxero, §110ruri incubabo usque in praefectura mea.
If I obtain that for which I have come hither to the city, to marry that wife whom you love to death, the beautiful and tender Casina, your fellow-slave, when I have carried her away with me to the country as my wife, I will lie on her continuously in my district in the country.
§111Tun illam ducas? hercle me suspendio,
You marry her?
§112quam tu eius potior fias, satiust mortuom.
By Hercules, it is better for me to hang myself, to be dead, rather than you should get possession of her.
§113Mea praedast illa: proin tu te in laqueum induas.
She is my prey: therefore, put yourself in a noose.
§114Ex sterculino effosse, tua illaec praeda sit?
Dug out from a dunghill, is she to be your prey?
§115Scies hóc ita esse.
You shall know this to be so.
§115bVae tibi.
Woe to you.
In how many ways, if I live, shall I make you miserable at my wedding.
§117Quid tu mihi facies?
What will you do to me?
§117bEgone quid faciam tibi?
What will I do to you?
§118primum omnium huic lucebis novae nuptae facem; §119postilla, ut semper, improbus nihilique eris: §120post id locorum quando ad villam veneris, §121dabitur tibi amphora una et una semita, §122fons unus, unum ahenum et octo dolia: §123quae nisi erunt semper plena, ego te implebo flagris.
First of all, you shall carry the torch for this new bride; after that, as always, you shall be worthless and of no account: after that, when you come to the farm, one jar will be given to you, and one path, one spring, one bronze kettle, and eight vats: and unless these are always full, I will fill you with lashes.
I will make you so thoroughly bent by carrying water, that a crupper can be made out of you.
§126post autem érvi nisi tu acervom éderis §127aut quasi lumbricus terram, quod te postules §128gustare quicquam, numquam edepol ieiunium §129ieiunumst aeque atque ego te ruri reddibo.
And after that, unless you eat a heap of vetch, or earth like an earthworm, if you expect to taste anything else, by Pollux, never was a fast so empty as I will make you in the country.
After that, when you are tired and starving, it will be cared for that you sleep at night in a fitting manner.
§132Quid facies?
What will you do?
§132bConcludere in fénestram firmiter, §133unde auscultare possis quóm ego illam ausculer: §134quom mi illa dicet “mi animule, mi Olympio, §135mea vita, mea mellilla, mea festivitas, §136sine tuos ocellos deosculer, voluptas mea, §137sine amabo ted amari, meus festus dies, §138meus pullus passer, mea columba, mi lepus”, §139quom mi haec dicentur dicta, tum tu, furcifer, §140quasi mus, in medio pariete versabere.
You will be shut up tightly in a window, from where you can listen while I kiss her: when she says to me, "My sweet soul, my Olympio, my life, my little honey, my delight, let me kiss your sweet eyes, my pleasure, let me love you, please, and be loved, my festive day, my young sparrow, my dove, my little hare," when these words are said to me, then you, gallows-bird, like a mouse, will stir in the middle of the wall.
Now do not expect to answer me, I am going inside.
taedet tui sermonis. — §142bTe sequor.
I am tired of your talk.— I follow you.
§143hic quidem pol certo nil ages síne med arbitro. — §144Obsígnate céllas, reférte anulum ád me: §145ego húc transeo ín proxumum ád meam vicínam.
Indeed, by Pollux, you will do nothing here without me as a witness.— Seal up the storehouses, bring back the ring to me: I am crossing over hither to my neighbor's house next door.
§146vir sí quid volét me, facite hínc accersátis.
If my husband wants me for anything, see that you fetch me from there.
§147Prándium iússerat sénex sibi parari.
The old man had ordered lunch to be prepared for him.
§148St! tace átque abi;
Sh!
néque paro néque hodie coquetur, §149quándo is mi et fílio ádvorsatúr suo §150ánimi amorísque causá sui, §151flágitium illud hóminis.
Be silent and go away; I am neither preparing nor will anything be cooked today, since he opposes me and his own son for the sake of his own lust and love, that disgrace of a man.
ego illúm fame, ego illúm siti, §152maledíctis, malefáctis amátorem ulcíscar, §153_155ego pól illum probe íncommodís dictis ángam, §156fáciam uti proínde ut est dígnus vitám colat, §157Ácheruntis pábulum,
I will avenge myself on that lover with hunger, with thirst, with bad words and bad deeds, indeed, by Pollux, I will torment him properly with troublesome words, I will make him live his life just as he deserves, that food for Acheron.