§621Hic est danista, haec illa est autem, quam emi de praeda.
Stratippocles: This is the money-lender, and this is the girl whom I bought from the booty.
§621bHaecinest?
Epidicus: Is this her?
§622Haec est.
Stratippocles: This is her.
estne ita ut tibi dixi? aspecta et contempla, Epidice:
Is it not just as I told you?
§623usque ab unguiculo ad capillum summumst festivissuma.
Look and contemplate, Epidicus: from her little toenail to the top of her hair she is most delightful.
§624estne consímilis quasi cum signum pictum pulchre aspexeris?
Is she not just as if you were looking at a beautifully painted picture?
§625Ex tuis verbis meum futurum corium pulchrum praedicas, §626quém Apella atque Zeuxis duo pingent pigmentis ulmeis.
Epidicus: By your words you predict that my future hide will be beautiful, which Apelles and Zeuxis, two painters, will paint with elm pigments.
§627Di immortales, sicin iussi ad me ires? pedibus † pulmunes
Stratippocles: Immortal gods, did I order you to come to me in such a way?
§628qui perhíbetur prius venisset quam tu advenisti mihi.
A man who is said to have feet of lungs would have arrived sooner than you have come to me.
§629Haec edepol remorata med est.
Danista: By Pollux, this girl delayed me.
Epidicus: If indeed for her sake, you delayed because she wished it, you have arrived too quickly.
§631Age age, absolve me atque argentum numera, ne comites morer.
Danista: Come on, release me and count out the money, so that I don't delay my companions.
§632Pernumeratumst.
Stratippocles: It is fully counted out.
§632bTene cruminam: huc inde.
Hold the purse: from there to here.
§632cSapienter venis.
Epidicus: You arrive wisely.
§633opperire, dum effero ad te argentum.
Stratippocles: Wait, while I bring out the money to you.
§633bMatura.
Danista: Hurry up.
§633cDomist. —
Stratippocles: It is in the house.
§634Satin ego oculis utilitatem optineo sincere an parum?
Epidicus: Do I obtain the use of my eyes truly enough or too little?
§635videon ego Telestidem te, Periphanai filiam, §636ex Philippa matre natam Thebis, Epidauri satam?
Do I see you, Telestis, daughter of Periphanes, born of your mother Philippa at Thebes, brought up at Epidaurus?
§637Quis tu homo es, qui meum parentum nomen memoras et meum?
Telestis: Who are you, man, who mention the name of my parents and mine?
§638Non me nosti?
Epidicus: Don't you know me?
§638bQuod quidem nunc veniat in mentem mihi.
Telestis: As far as indeed comes into my mind now.
Epidicus: Don't you remember me bringing to you on your birthday a golden crescent and a tiny golden ring for your finger?
§640bMemini, mi homo.
Telestis: I remember, my friend.
§641tune is es?
Are you he?
Epidicus: I am, and that man there who bought you is your brother, by a different mother, but from one father.
§643Quid pater meus? vivit?
Telestis: What about my father? Is he alive?
§643bAnimo liquido et tranquillo es, tace.
Epidicus: Have a clear and quiet mind, be silent.
§644Di me ex perdita servatam cupiunt, si vera autumas.
Telestis: The gods wish me to be saved from ruin, if you speak the truth.
§645Non habeo ullam occasionem, ut apud te falsa fabuler.
Epidicus: I have no reason to tell you falsehoods.
§646Accipe argentum hoc, danista.
Stratippocles: Take this money, money-lender.
hic sunt quadraginta minae.
Here are forty minae.
§647siquid erit dubium, immutabo.
If there is any doubt, I will change it.
§647bBene fecisti, bene vale. —
Danista: You have done well. Fare well.
§648Nunc enim tú mea es.
Stratippocles: For now you are mine.
§648bSoror quidem edepol, ut tu aeque scias.
Epidicus: Your sister indeed, by Pollux, as you should equally know.
§649salve, frater.
Telestis: Greetings, brother.
§649bSanan haec est?
Stratippocles: Is she sane?
§649cSana, si appellat suom.
Epidicus: Sane, if she calls her own.
§650Quid? ego modo amator sum huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo?
Stratippocles: What? Have I, just now her lover, become her brother while I go in and out?
§651Quod boni est id tacitus taceas tute tecum et gaudeas.
Epidicus: What is good, you should keep silent and rejoice within yourself.
§652Perdidisti et repperisti me, soror.
Stratippocles: You have ruined and found me, sister.
§652bStultu'sstultus es, tace.
Epidicus: You are foolish, be silent.
§653tibi quidem quod ames domi praéstost, fidicina, opera mea; §654et sororem in libertatem idem opera concilio mea.
The harp-player whom you love is ready for you at home, through my effort; and at the same time, through my effort, I obtain freedom for your sister.
§655Epidice, fateor— §655bAbi intro ac iúbe huic aquam calefieri; §656cetera haec posterius faxo scibis, ubi erit otium.
Stratippocles: Epidicus, I confess— Epidicus: Go inside and order water to be heated for her; I will see to it that you know the rest of these things later, when there is leisure.
§657Sequere hac me, soror.
Stratippocles: Follow me this way, sister.
Epidicus: I will order Thesprio to cross over here to you.
sed memento, si quid saevibunt senes, §659suppetias mihi cum sorore ferre.
But remember, if the old men rage at all, to bring help to me along with your sister.
§659bFacile istuc erit. —
Stratippocles: That will be easy.
Epidicus: Thesprio, go out that way through the garden, bring help to me at the house, it is a great matter.
minoris multo facio quam dudum senes.
I care much less for the old men than I did just now.
§662remeabo intro, ut accurentur advenientes hospites.
I will go back inside, so that the arriving guests may be attended to.
§663eádem haec intus edocebo quae ego scio Stratippoclem.
At the same time, I will fully inform Stratippocles inside of these very things that I know.
I am not fleeing, it is certain that I will be at home; nor will that man reproach me that he was challenged by my feet.
abeo intro, nimis longum loquor. —
I go inside, I speak too long.
Periphanes: Has that man not made enough of a mockery of us two decrepit old men?
§667bImmo edepol tu quidem míserum med habes miseris modis.
Apoecides: Rather, by Pollux, you indeed keep me miserable in miserable ways.
§668Tace sis, modo sine me hóminem apisci.
Periphanes: Be silent, please, just let me catch the man.
§668bDico ego tibi iam, ut scias: §669alium tibi te comitem meliust quaerere; ita, dum te sequor, §670lassitudine invaserunt misero in genua flemina.
Apoecides: I tell you now, so that you may know: it is better for you to seek another companion for yourself; so much so that while I follow you, swellings have invaded the knees of miserable me from weariness.
§671Quot illic homo hodie me exemplis ludificatust atque te, §672ut illic autem exenteravit mihi opes argentarias!
Periphanes: By how many examples has that man made a fool of me today, and of you, and how he has gutted my money resources!
§673Apage illum a me, nam ille quidem Volcani iratist filius: §674quaqua tangit, omne amburit, si astes, aestu calefacit.
Apoecides: Keep him away from me, for he is indeed the son of an angry Vulcan: wherever he touches, he burns everything; if you stand near, he makes you hot with his heat.
§675Duodecim deis plus quam in caelo deorumst immortalium §676mihi nunc auxilio adiutores sunt et mecum militant.
Epidicus: Twelve gods, more than there are immortal gods in heaven, are now helpers to me for aid and are fighting with me.
§677quidquid ego malefeci, auxilia mi et suppetiae sunt domi,
Whatever wrong I have done, my aid and assistance are at home.