§861poéta, atque ut haéc est fabré facta ab nóbis.
[No] poet [ever made], and how craftily this has been fashioned by us.
I would very much like the old man to come forward now with a battered face, than whom no more worthless old man lives.
Nor indeed do I think that man is any less worthless, who provides him a place.
I want you now, Pardalisca, to be our guard here, so that whoever comes out from here, you may make a mockery of him.
§869Libens fecero et solens.
I will do so gladly and habitually.
§870spectato: hinc omnia, intus quid agant
Watch! From here we can see all that they do inside.
§871pone me, amabo.
Stand behind me, please.
And there you may more boldly speak out freely what you wish.
§875Neque quó fugiam neque ubí lateam neque hoc dédecus quo modo célem §876scio, tántum erus atque ego flágitio superávimus nuptiis nóstris, §877ita núnc pudeo atque ita núnc paveo atque ita inrídiculo sumus ámbo.
Neither where to flee, nor where to hide, nor how to conceal this disgrace do I know, so greatly have my master and I surpassed in infamy by our wedding, so ashamed am I now, and so terrified now, and so much of a laughing-stock are we both.
§878sed ego ínsipiens nova núnc facio: pudet quém prius non puditum úmquamst.
But I, foolishly, am doing something new now: he is ashamed who was never ashamed before.
§879operám date, dum mea fácta itero: est operaé pretium auribus áccipere, §880ita rídicula auditu, íteratu ea súnt quae ego intus túrbavi.
Pay attention while I repeat my deeds: it is worth the effort to receive them with your ears, so ridiculous to hear and to repeat are those things which I threw into confusion inside.
§881ubi intro hánc novam nuptam déduxi, rectá via in conclave ábduxi.
When I led this new bride inside, I led her by the straight way into the chamber.
§882sed ténebrae ibi erant tamquam ín puteo; dum sénex abest
decumbe
ínquam.
But there was darkness there like in a well; while the old man is away, "Lie down," I say.
I place her, support her, soften her, coax her, so that I may consummate the marriage before the old man.
At once I began to be slow, because I kept looking back again and again, lest the old man [should come].
§887inlecebram stupri principio eam savium posco, §888réppulit míhi manum, néque enim dare sibi sávium me sivit.
To start the enticement of passion, I demand a kiss from her; she pushed my hand back, and indeed did not allow me to give her a kiss.
§889_890enim iám magis adproperó, magis iam libet ín Casinam inruere §891cupio íllam operam seni súrripere, forem óbdo, ne senex me ópprimeret.
But now I hurry more, now it pleases me more to rush upon Casina; I desire to steal that opportunity from the old man; I bolt the door, lest the old man catch me by surprise.
§892Ágedum, tuadi hunc.
Come on, go to him.
§892bÓpsecro, ubi túa nova núptast?
Please, where is your new bride?
§893_895Perii hércle ego, manifésta res.
By Hercules, I am ruined! The matter is manifest.
§893_895bOmnem órdine rem
All the matter in order...
§896fatéri ergo aequom est.
Therefore it is right to confess.
quíd intus agitur? quíd agit Casina?
What is being done inside? What is Casina doing?
§897satin mórigera est?
Is she compliant enough?
§897bPudet dícere.
I am ashamed to say.
§898Memora órdine, ut occéperas.
Tell it in order, as you had begun.
§899_900Pudet hércle.
By Hercules, I am ashamed.
§899_900bAge audacter
Come, boldly...
§901postquám decubuisti, índe volo memoráre quid est factum
After you lay down, I want you to tell from there what was done.
§902flagitium est.
It is a disgrace.
§902bCavebunt qui audierint.
Those who hear will be careful.
faciant
Let them do...
§903hoc magnus est.
This is a big thing.
§903bPerdis.
You are ruining me.
quin tu pergis?
Why don't you go on?
§903cVbi
When...
§904_905us suptus porro
[fragmentary] What?
§906Quid?
My word!
§906bBabae.
What?
§907est?
is it?
§907bOh, erat maximum.
Oh, it was huge.
§908ferrum ne haberet metui: id quaerere occepi
I feared lest she had a weapon; I began to search for it.
§909dum gladium quaero, ne habeat, arripio capulum.
While I search for a sword, lest she have one, I grab the hilt.
§910séd cum cogitó, non habuit gládium, nam esset frígidus.
But when I think about it, she didn't have a sword, for it would have been cold.
§911Éloquere.
Speak out.
§911bAt pudét.
But I am ashamed.
§911cNum radix fúit,
Was it a radish?
§911dNon fuít.
It was not.
§911eNum cucumis?
Was it a cucumber?
§912Profecto hercle non fuit quicquam holerum, §913nisí, quidquid erat, cálamitas profécto attigerat númquam.
By Hercules, it was certainly nothing of vegetables, except that, whatever it was, disaster had certainly never touched it.
§914íta, quidquid erat, grande erat.
Indeed, whatever it was, it was huge.
§915Quíd fit denique? edisserta.
What happens finally? Tell in detail.
[fragmentary] When I address Casina, I say: "Please, my little wife, why do you thus reject your husband, me?
§917nimis tú quidem hercle immérito §918_920meó mi haec facís, quia mihí te expetívi. ” §921ílla haud verbum fácit et saepit véste id qui estis múlieres.
By Hercules, you do these things to me very undeservedly on my part, because I desired you for myself." She says not a word and covers it with her dress, as you women do.
§922úbi illum saltum vídeo opsaeptum, rógo ut alteró sinat ire.
When I see that pass blocked, I ask her to let me go by another way.
§923volo, ut obvertam, cubitis im
I want to turn her, but with her elbows she...
§924ullum muttit e
[fragmentary] she utters not a word...
§925surgo, ut in eam in
I rise, so that upon her I...
§926atque illam in
and her...
§927Perlepide narrat
She tells it very delightfully!
§928Savium
A kiss...
§929itá quasi saetis lábra mihi compúngit barba, §930contínuo in genua ut ástiti, pectús mihi pedibus pércutit.
her beard pricks my lips just as if with bristles, and immediately as I stood on my knees, she kicks my chest with her feet.
§931decído de lecto praécipes: subsílit, optundit ós mihi.
I fall headlong from the bed; she leaps up, batters my face.
§932indé foras tacitus prófugiens exeo hóc ornatu quó vides, §933ut sénex hoc eodem póculo, quo egó bibi, biberet.
Thence, quietly fleeing outdoors, I go out in this attire in which you see me, so that the old man might drink from this same cup from which I drank.
§933bÓptume est.
That is excellent.
§934séd ubi est palliolúm tuom?
But where is your little cloak?
§934bHic íntus relíqui.
I left it inside here.
§935Quid núnc? satin lepide adita est vobís manus?
What now? Hasn't a hand been laid on you quite wittily?
§935bMérito.
Deservedly so.
§936séd concrepuerúnt fores.
But the doors creaked.
num illa mé nunc séquitur?
Is she following me now?
§937Máxumo ego ardeo flágitio néc quid agam meis rébus scio, §938néc meam ut uxorem áspiciam cóntra oculis, ita dísperii; §939ómnia palam súnt probra, §940ómnibus modis óccidi miser.
I burn with the greatest disgrace, and I do not know what to do in my situation, nor how to look my wife in the face; I am so completely ruined; all my shameful deeds are out in the open, in every way I have perished, wretched me.
§941ita mánufesto faucíbus teneor
so manifestly am I caught by the throat.