§606nata, inquam, meo ero est filia. §606bCerte modo §607huius, quaé locuta est, quaerere aibas filiam.
“A daughter was born,” I say, “to my master.” To be sure, just now you were saying that you were seeking the daughter of this woman who was speaking.
§608Huius ergo quaero.
Therefore, I am seeking hers.
How then, I pray, is this one the former, who is now married?
You wear me out with your talk, woman, whoever you are.
The intermediate wife whom he married, from her was born this maiden who is being given to Alcesimarchus.
§613ea uxór diem obiit.
That wife died.
iam scis?
Do you know now?
§613bTeneo istuc satis.
I grasp that well enough.
But I am asking about that rough point, how the first can be the latter, and the latter can be the first?
§616Prius hanc compressit quam uxorem duxit domum, §617prius grávida facta est priusque peperit filiam; §618eam póstquam peperit, iussit parvam proici:
He ravished this one before he married a wife home; she became pregnant first and first gave birth to a daughter; after she gave birth to her, he ordered the little one to be exposed.
I exposed her, another woman picked her up, I watched.
érus hanc duxit postibi.
My master married this one afterwards.
§621eam núnc puellam filiam eius quaerimus.
Now we are seeking that girl, his daughter.
§622quid nunc supina susum in caelum conspicis?
Why are you now looking up at the sky, lying on your back?
§623Ei nunciam istuc quo properabas, nil moror.
Go now where you were hurrying, I do not delay you.
§624nunc intellexi.
Now I understand.
§624bDis hercle habeo gratiam, §625nam ni intellexes, numquam, credo, amitteres. — §626Nunc mihi bonae necessumst esse ingratiis, §627quamquam esse nolo.
By Hercules, I thank the gods, for if you had not understood, you would never, I believe, have let me go.— Now it is necessary for me to be good against my will, although I do not wish to be.
rem palam esse intellego: §628nunc egomet potius hanc inibo gratiam §629ab illis, quam illaec me indicet.
I understand that the matter is out in the open: now I myself will rather gain this gratitude from them, before that old woman betrays me.
ibo domum, §630atque ad parentes redducam Selenium. — §631Rem élocuta sum tibi omnem; sequere hac me, Selenium,
I will go home, and I will lead Selenium back to her parents.— (Melaenis) I have told you the whole story; follow me this way, Selenium, so that you may belong to those to whom you ought to belong, rather than to me.
§632ut eorum quoiam esse oportet te sis potius quam mea. §633quamquam invita te carebo, ánimum ego inducam tamen §634ut illud quem ad modum tuam in rem bene conducat consulam.
Although I shall be without you unwillingly, yet I will bring my mind to consult how it may best turn to your advantage.
§635nam hic crepundia insunt, quibuscum te illa olim ad me detulit, §636quae mihí dedit, parentes te ut cognoscant facilius.
For here are the tokens with which that old woman formerly brought you to me, which she gave to me, so that your parents might recognize you more easily.
§637accipe hanc cistellam, Halisca.
Take this little box, Halisca.
ágedum pulta illas fores.
Come, knock on those doors.
§638dic me orare ut aliquis intus prodeat propere ocius.
say that I pray that someone may come out from inside quickly and without delay.
§639Recipe me ad te, Mors, amicum et benevolum.
(Alcesimarchus) Receive me to yourself, Death, a friend and well-wisher.
§641bVtrum hac me feriam an ab laeva latus?
(Alcesimarchus) Shall I strike myself on this side, or my flank from the left?
§642Quid tibi est?
(Melaenis) What is the matter with you?
§642bAlcesimarchum non vides? ferrum tenet.
(Halisca) Do you not see Alcesimarchus? He holds a sword.
§643Ecquid agis? remorare.
(Alcesimarchus) Are you doing anything? You delay.
lumen linque.
Leave the light.
(Alcesimarchus) O health more healthful than my own Health (Salus), you now, whether I want to or not, alone make me live.
§646Haud voluisti istuc severum facere.
(Selenium) You did not really wish to do that harsh thing.
§646bNil mecum tibi, §647mortuos tibi sum: hanc ut habeo certum est non amittere; §648nam hercle iam ad me adglutinandam totam decretum est dare.
(Alcesimarchus) You have nothing to do with me, I am dead to you: having this woman, it is certain I will not let her go; for by Hercules, it is now decided to give her completely to be glued to myself.
§649ubi estis, servi? occludite aedis pessulis, repagulis
Where are you, servants?
Shut the house with bolts and bars immediately: I will carry this woman inside the threshold.— (Halisca) He is gone, he has carried off the woman.
ibo, persequar iam illum intro, ut haec ex me sciat §652éadem, si possum tranquillum facere ex irato mihi.
I will go, I will follow him inside now, so that he may know these same things from me, if I can make him calm instead of angry toward me.
§653Nullam ego me vidisse credo magis anum excruciabilem §654quam illaec est, quae dudum fassa est mihi quaene infitias eat.
(Lampadio) I believe I have seen no old woman more worthy of torture than that one is, who just now confessed to me, and now denies it.
§655sed eccam eram video.
But look, I see my mistress.
sed quíd hoc est, haec quod cistella hic iacet
But what is this, that this little box lies here with the tokens?
§656cum crepundiis? nec quemquam conspicor alium in via.
And I do not see anyone else on the street.
§657faciundum est puerile officium: conquiniscam ad cistulam.
I must do a boyish duty: I will bend down to the little box.
§658Quid agis, Lampadio?
(Phanostrata) What are you doing, Lampadio?
§658bHaec cistella numnam hinc ab nobis domo est?
(Lampadio) Is this little box from our house?
§659nam hinc ab ostio iacentem sustuli.
For I picked it up lying here by the door.
§660bScelestiorem in terra nullam esse alteram.
(Lampadio) That there is no other more wicked on earth.
§661omnia infitiatur ea quae dudum confessa est mihi.
She denies everything she just now confessed to me.
For by Hercules, rather than allow that old woman to mock me, it is better for me to die by any destruction.
§663bDi, obsecro vostram fidem.
(Phanostrata) Gods, I beseech your protection.
§664Quid deos obsecras?
(Lampadio) Why do you beseech the gods?
§664bServate nos.
(Phanostrata) Save us.
§665haec sunt, quibuscum tu extulisti nostram filiolam ad necem.
(Phanostrata) These are the tokens with which you carried out our little daughter to her death.
§666Sanane es?
(Lampadio) Are you sane?
§666bHaec sunt profecto.
(Phanostrata) These are surely they.
§666cPergin?
(Lampadio) Do you persist?
§666dHaec sunt.
(Phanostrata) These are they.