§187iam ego mé convortam in hirúdinem atque eorum éxsugebo sánguinem, §188senáti qui columén cluent.
Now I will turn myself into a leech and suck their blood, who are called the pillars of the senate.
§189_190cóntinuo ut maritus fiat.
immediately, so that he may become a husband.
§189_190bLaudo consilium tuom.
I praise your plan.
For I heard that he is stuck in love with some music-girl or other, and I am tortured by that.
§192bDi hercle omnis me ádiuvant augent amant: §193ipsi hí quidem mihi dant viam, quo pacto ab se argentum auferam.
By Hercules, all the gods help, increase, and love me: these very men themselves show me the way how I may carry off the money from them.
§194age núnciam orna te, Epidice, et palliolum in collum conice §195itaque ádsimulato quasi per urbem totam hominem quaesiveris.
Come now, equip yourself, Epidicus, and throw your cloak over your shoulder, and so pretend as though you have been searching for the man through the whole city.
§196áge, si quid agis.
Come, if you are going to do anything.
di immortales, utinam conveniam domi §197Periphanem, per omnem urbém quem sum defessus quaerere: §198per medicinas, per tonstrinas, in gymnasio atque in foro, §199per myropolia et lanienas circumque argentarias.
Immortal gods, would that I might meet Periphanes, whom I am tired out with searching for through the whole city: through the doctors' shops, the barbers' shops, in the gymnasium and in the forum, through the perfume-shops and the butcher-shops and around the bankers' stalls.
§200rogitando sum raucus factus, paene in cursu concidi.
By asking I have become hoarse, and almost collapsed in my running.
§201Epidice.
Epidicus!
§201bEpidicum quis est qui revocat?
Who is it that calls Epidicus back?
§201cEgo sum, Periphanes.
It is I, Periphanes.
§202Et ego Apoecides sum.
And I am Apoecides.
§202bEt ego quidem sum Epidicus.
And indeed I am Epidicus.
sed, ere, optuma §203vos video opportunitate ambo advenire.
But, master, in the best opportunity I see you both arrive.
§203bQuid rei est?
What is the matter?
§204Mane dum, sine respirem quaeso.
Just wait, let me catch my breath, I beg.
§204bImmo adquiesce.
Nay, rest yourself.
§204cAnimo malest.
I feel faint.
§205Recipe anhelitum.
Recover your breath.
§205bClementer, requiesce.
Gently, rest.
§205cAnimum advortite.
Pay attention.
§206a legione omnes remissi sunt domum Thebis.
Everyone has been sent home from the army at Thebes.
§207bEgo ita factum esse dico.
I say that it has so happened.
§207cScin tu istuc?
Do you know that?
§207dScio.
I know it.
§208Qui tu scis?
How do you know?
Because I saw the soldiers marching, filling the streets; they are bringing back their arms and leading their beasts of burden.
§209bNimis factum bene.
Exceedingly well done.
§210Tum captivorum quid ducunt secum! pueros, virgines, §211binos, ternos, alius quinque; fit concursus per vias, §212filios suos quisque visunt.
Then what a number of captives they lead with them! boys, maidens, two, three, another five; there is a crowd in the streets, everyone is looking out for their own sons.
§212bHercle rem gestam bene.
By Hercules, a matter well managed.
§213Tum meretricum numerus tantus, quantum in urbe omni fuit, §214obviam ornatae occurrebant suis quaeque amatoribus, §215eos captabant.
Then such a number of courtesans, as many as were in the whole city, met them, adorned, each to meet her own lover, and were trying to catch them.
id adeo qui maxime animum advorterim?
How indeed did I especially notice that?
§216pleraeque eae sub vestimentis secum habebant retia.
Most of them had nets with them under their garments.
§217quom ad portam venio, átque ego illam ílli video praestolarier §218et cum ea tibicinae ibant quattuor.
When I come to the gate, and I see her waiting there, and with her were going four female flute-players.
§218bQuicum, Epidice?
With whom, Epidicus?
§219Cum illa quam tuos gnatus annos multos deamat, deperit, §220ubi fidemque remque seque teque properat perdere; §221ea praestolabatur illum apud pórtam.
With her whom your son has been desperately in love with for many years, where he is in a hurry to ruin his credit, his property, himself, and you; she was waiting for him at the gate.
§221bViden veneficam?
Do you see the witch?
§222Sed vestita, aurata, ornata ut lepide, ut concinne, ut nove.
But dressed, golden-adorned, how gracefully, how neatly, how fashionably equipped.
§223Quid erat induta? an regillam induculam an mendiculam?
What was she wearing? A royal undergarment, or a beggar-like one?
§224Inpluviatam, ut istaec faciunt vestimentis nomina.
A rain-gullied one, as they make those names for garments.
§225Vtin inpluvium induta fuerit?
As though she were dressed in a rain-well?
§225bQuid istuc tam mirabile est?
What is so wonderful about that?
§226quasi non fundis exornatae multae incedant per vias.
As if many women do not walk through the streets adorned with estates.
§227at tributus quom imperatus est, negant pendi potis: §228illis quibus tributus maior penditur, pendi potest.
But when the war-tax is ordered, they say it cannot be paid; yet to those to whom a larger tribute is paid, it can be paid.
§229quid istae, quae vesti quotannis nomina inveniunt nova?
What about those who invent new names for clothing every year?
§230tunicam rallam, tunicam spissam, linteolum caesicium, §231indusiatam, patagiatam, caltulam aut crocotulam, §232subparum aut subnimium, ricam, basilicum aut exoticum, §233cumatile aut plumatile, carinum aut cerinum—gerrae maxumae.
the thin tunic, the thick tunic, the sky-blue linen, the sleeved, the gold-bordered, the marigold-colored or the saffron-colored, the undergarment or the over-large, the veil, the royal or the exotic, the wave-colored or the feather-patterned, the walnut-colored or the wax-colored—sheer nonsense.
§234cani quoque etiam ademptumst nomen.
Even from the dog, too, its name has been taken away.
§234bQui?
How?
§234cVocant Laconicum.
They call it Laconian.
§235haec vocabula auctiones subigunt ut faciant viros.
These names force men to hold auctions.
§236Quin tu ut occepisti loquere?
Why don't you speak as you began?
§236bOccepere aliae mulieres §237duae post me sic fabulari inter sese—égo abscessi sciens §238paulum ab illis, dissimulabam earum operam sermoni dare; §239nec satis exaudibam, nec sermonis fallebar tamen, §240quae loquerentur.
Other women, two, began behind me to talk thus among themselves—I went away on purpose a little from them, pretending not to pay attention to their speech; and though I did not hear fully, yet I was not deceived about their speech, what they were saying.
§240bId lubidost scire.
I have a desire to know that.
There, one of them said to her with whom she was walking—(What?
§242postquam illam sunt conspicatae, quam tuos gnatus deperit: §243“quam facile et quam fortunate évenit illi, obsecro, §244mulieri, quam liberare volt amator. ”
quisnam is est? §245inquit altera illi.
Be quiet then, so that you may hear) after they beheld her, whom your son is desperately in love with: "How easily and how fortunately it has turned out for her, I pray, that woman, whom her lover wishes to set free." "Who is he, pray?" says the other to her.
ibi illa nominat Stratippoclem §246Periphanai filium.
Then she names Stratippocles, the son of Periphanes.
§246bPerii hercle.
By Hercules, I am ruined!
quid ego ex te audio?
What is this I hear from you?
§247Hoc quod actum est.
Just what has happened.
egomet postquam id illas audivi loqui, §248coepi rursum vorsum ad illas pauxillatim accedere,
After I myself heard them say that, I began to approach them again, little by little,