§142Palinúre?
Palinurus?
§142bEdepol qui amát, si eget, misera ádficitur, ere, aerúmna.
By Pollux, he who loves, if he is in want, is afflicted, master, with wretched trouble.
It is not so, for I trust that the parasite will arrive today with money to me.
§144bMagnum ínceptas, si id éxpectas quod núsquamst.
You are undertaking a great thing, if you expect that which is nowhere.
§145Quid si ádeam ad fores atque óccentem?
What if I go to the doors and sing a serenade?
§145bSi lúbet, neque veto neque iúbeo, §146quando égo te video immútatis moribus esse, ere, atque ingénio.
If it pleases you, I neither forbid nor command, since I see that you are of changed habits, master, and character.
§147Péssuli, heus péssuli, vós salutó lubens, §148vos amo, vos volo, vos peto atque obsecro, §149gérite amantí mihi mórem, amoeníssumi, §150fite causa mea ludii barbari, §151sussilite, obsecro, et mittite istanc foras, §152quae mihi misero amanti ebibit sanguinem.
Bolts, ho, bolts, I greet you willingly, I love you, I want you, I entreat and beseech you, grant my desire, I who love, O most delightful bolts, for my sake become foreign dancers, leap up, I beseech you, and send her out, who drains the blood of wretched me, who loves.
Look at this, how the worst bolts sleep nor move themselves any faster for my sake.
§155re spicio, nihili meam vos gratiam facere.
I see clearly that you make nothing of my favor.
§156st tace, tace.
Sh, be silent, be silent.
§156bTaceo hercle equidem.
By Hercules, I indeed am silent.
§156cSentio sonitum.
I hear a sound.
§157tandem edepol mihi morigeri pessuli fiunt.
At last, by Pollux, the bolts are becoming compliant to me.
§158Plácide egredere et sónitum prohibe fórium et crepitum cárdinum, §159ne quod hic agimus erus percipiat fieri, mea Planesium.
Step out gently, and prevent the sound of the doors and the creaking of the hinges, lest the master perceive that what we are doing here is being done, my Planesium.
§160mane, suffundam aquolam.
Wait, I will pour a little water.
§160bViden ut anus tremula medicinam facit?
Do you see how the trembling old woman applies her remedy?
§161eapse merum condidicit bibere, foribus dat aquam quam bibant.
She herself has learned to drink neat wine, but to the doors she gives water to drink.
§162Vbi tu es, qui me convadatu's Veneriis vadimoniis?
Where are you, who have summoned me with Venus's bail?
§163sisto ego tibi me et mihi contra itidem tu te ut sistas suadeo.
I present myself to you, and I advise that you likewise present yourself to me in turn.
§164Assum; nam si absim, haud recusem quin mihi male sit, mel meum.
I am here; for if I were absent, I would not refuse that it should go badly with me, my honey.
§165Anime mi, me procul amantem abesse haud consentaneumst.
My soul, it is not fitting for me, who love, to be far away.
§166Palinure, Palinure.
Palinurus, Palinurus.
§166bEloquere, quid est quod Palinurum voces?
Speak out, why is it that you call Palinurus?
§167Est lepida.
She is charming.
§167bNimis lepida.
Too charming.
§167cSum deus.
I am a god.
§167dImmo homo haud magni preti.
Nay, a man of no great value.
§168Quid vidisti aut quid videbis magis dis aequiparabile?
What have you seen or what will you see more comparable to the gods?
§169Male valere te, quod mi aegrest.
That you are out of your mind, which is a grief to me.
§169bMale mi morigeru's, tace.
You are ill-tempered to me, be silent.
§170Ipsus se excruciat qui homo quod amat videt nec potitur dum licet.
He tortures himself, the man who sees what he loves and does not enjoy it while it is permitted.
§171Recte obiurgat.
She chides rightly.
sane haud quicquamst, magis quod cupiam iam diu.
Indeed, there is nothing that I have desired more for a long time.
§172Tene me, amplectere ergo.
Hold me, embrace me then.
§172bHoc etiam est quam ob rem cupiam vivere.
This is even why I would desire to live.
§173quia te prohibet erus, clam potior.
Because the master forbids you, I enjoy you secretly.
§173bProhibet? nec prohibere quit,
Forbids?
§174nec prohibebit nisi mors méum animum aps te abalienaverit.
He neither can forbid, nor will forbid, unless death shall have alienated my mind from you.
§175Enim vero nequeo durare quin ego erum accusem meum: §176nam bonum est pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est; §177verum totum insanum amare, hóc est quod meus erus facit.
Indeed, I cannot bear not to accuse my master: for it is good to love a little, sanely; insanely is not good; but to love entirely insanely, this is what my master does.
§178Sibi sua habeant regna reges, sibi divitias divites, §179sibi honores, sibí virtutes, sibi pugnas, sibi proelia: §180dum mi abstineant invidere, sibi quisque habeant quod suom est.
Let kings keep their kingdoms for themselves, the rich their riches for themselves, for themselves their honors, their virtues, their fights, their battles: so long as they abstain from envying me, let each keep for themselves what is their own.
§181Quid tu? Venerin pervigilare te vovisti, Phaedrome?
What about you? Did you vow to keep vigil all night for Venus, Phaedrome?
§182nam hoc quidem edepol haud multo post luce lucebit.
For by Pollux, this will be shining with light not long hereafter.
§182bTace.
Be silent.
§183Quid, taceam? quin tu is dormitum?
What, be silent? Why don't you go to sleep?
§183bDormio, ne occlamites.
I am sleeping, don't cry out.
§184Tu quidem vígilas.
You are indeed awake.
§184bAt meo more dormio: hic somnust mihi.
But I sleep in my own way: this is sleep for me.
§185Heus tu, mulier, male mereri de inmerente inscitia est.
How you, woman, to deserve ill of one who does not deserve it is foolishness.
§186Irascere, si te edentem hic a cibo abigat.
You would be angry, if anyone should drive him away from food here while he is eating.
§186bIlicet,
It is all over.
§187pariter hos perire amando video, uterque insaniunt.
I see them both perishing equally by loving, both of them are mad.
§188viden ut misere moliuntur? nequeunt complecti satis.
Do you see how wretchedly they strive? They cannot embrace each other enough.
§189etiam dispertimini?
Are you still parting?
There is no lasting good for a human being: now to this pleasure this hatred has been joined.
§190bQuid ais, propudium?
What do you say, you shameful thing?
§191tun etiam cum noctuinis oculis odium me vocas?
Do you, even with your owl-like eyes, call me hatred?
§192ebrióla, persollae nugae.
You tipsy girl, a mere mask, a trifle.
§192bTun meam Venerem vituperas?
Do you find fault with my Venus?
§193† quod quidem mihi polluctus virgis servos sermonem serat?
Shall a slave offered up with rods join in conversation with me?
§194at ne tu hercle cum cruciatu magno dixisti id tuo.
But by Hercules, you have said that to your own great torment.
§195em tibi male dictis pro istis, dictis moderari ut queas.
There, take that for those evil words, so that you may know how to govern your speech.
§196Tuam fidem, Venus noctuvigila.
Your protection, night-watching Venus!
§196bPergin etiam, verbero?
Are you still going on, you scoundrel?
§197Noli, amabo, verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum.
Please do not beat a stone, lest you lose your hand.
§198Flagitium probrumque magnum, Phaedrome, expergefacis: §199bene monstrantem pugnis caedis, hanc amas, nugas meras.
You are awakening a great scandal and disgrace, Phaedrome: you beat with fists one who shows the right way, and you love her, a mere trifle.
§200hocine fieri, ut inmodestis hic te moderes moribus?
Is this to happen, that you govern yourself here with immoderate behavior?
§201Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem: a me aurum accipe.
Produce a moderate lover in exchange for gold: receive gold from me.