§148Dic modo hoc quod ego te iubeo. §148bDico: homo lepidissime. §149Ecquid audes de tuo istuc addere? §149bAtque hilarissime. §150Perge porro. §150bNon pergo hercle, nisi scio qua gratia. §151litigium tibi est cum uxore, eo mi ábs te caveo cautius. §152Clam uxoremst ubi pulchre habeamus atque hunc comburamus diem. §153Age sane igitur, quando aequom oras, quam mox incendo rogum? §154_155dies quidem iam ad umbilicum est dimidiatus mortuos. §156Te morare, mihi quom obloquere. §156bOculum ecfodito per solum §157mihi, Menaechme, si ullum verbum faxo nisi quod iusseris. §158Concede huc a foribus. §158bFiat. §158cEtiam concede huc. §158dLicet. §159Etiam nunc concede audacter ab leonino cavo. §160Eu edepol ne tu, ut ego opinor, esses agitator probus. §161Quidum? §161bNe te uxor sequatur, respectas identidem. §162Sed quid ais?
\n"Just say this that I command you."\n\n"I say: 'O most charming man.'"\n\n"Do you dare to add anything of your own to that?"\n\n"And 'O most cheerful man.'"\n\n"Go on further."\n\n"By Hercules, I do not go on unless I know for what favor."\n\n"You have a dispute with your wife, therefore I guard myself against you more cautiously."\n\n"It is in secret from my wife where we may live beautifully and burn up this day."\n\n"Come on then, since you plead what is fair, how soon do I kindle the funeral pyre?"\n\n"Indeed, the day is already dead, halved to the navel."\n\n"You delay yourself when you contradict me."\n\n"Gouge out my eye through my sole,"\n\n"Menaechmus, if I speak any word except what you command."\n\n"Step this way from the door."\n\n"It shall be done."\n\n"Step this way even more."\n\n"Alright."\n\n"Even now step boldly away from the lion's den."\n\n"By Pollux, indeed, as I think, you would have been an excellent charioteer."\n\n"How so?"\n\n"Lest your wife follow you, you look back again and again."\n\n"But what do you say?"\n\n"I?
§162bEgone? id enim quod tu vis, id aio atque id nego. §163Ecquid tu de odore possis, si quid forte olfeceris, §164facere coniecturam? §165captum sit collegium. §166Agedum odorare hanc quam ego habeo pallam.
Indeed, what you want, that I say, and that I deny."\n\n"Would you be able, if by chance you smelled something, from the odor"\n\n"to make a conjecture?"\n\n"so that a guild might be assembled."\n\n"Come now, smell this cloak which I have.
quid olet? apstines? §167Summum ólfactare oportet vestimentum muliebre, §168nam ex istoc loco spurcatur nasum odore † inlucido. §169Olfacta igitur hinc, Penicule.
What does it smell of? Are you holding back?"\n\n"One ought to sniff the upper part of a woman's garment,"\n\n"for from that place the nose is fouled by an unclear odor."\n\n"Smell it here then, Peniculus.
lepide ut fastidis. §169bDecet.
How charmingly you dislike it."\n\n"It is fitting."\n\n"What then?
§170Quid igitur? quid olet? responde. §170bFurtum, scortum, prandium. §171tibi fuant §172elocutus, nam §173nunc ad amicam deferetur hanc meretricem Erotium. §174mihi, tibi atque illi iubebo iam adparari prandium. §174bEu. §175Inde usque ad diurnam stellam crastinam potabimus. §175bEu, §176expedite fabulatu's.
What does it smell of? Answer."\n\n"Theft, courtesan, luncheon."\n\n"may they be yours"\n\n"having spoken, for"\n\n"now it will be carried to this mistress, the courtesan Erotium."\n\n"I will order a luncheon to be prepared now for me, you, and her."\n\n"Excellent."\n\n"Then we will drink all the way to tomorrow's day-star."\n\n"Excellent,"\n\n"you've spoken clearly.
iam fores ferio? §176bFeri. §177vel mane etiam. §177bMille passum commoratu's cantharum. §178Placide pulta. §178bMetuis, credo, ne fores Samiae sient. §179_180Mane, mane obsecro hercle: eapse eccam exit.
Shall I strike the door now?"\n\n"Strike."\n\n"Or rather, wait."\n\n"You have delayed the tankard by a mile."\n\n"Knock gently."\n\n"I believe you fear lest the doors are of Samian ware."\n\n"Wait, wait, I beseech you by Hercules: look, she is coming out herself.
oh, solem vides §181satin ut occaecatust prae huius corporis candoribus? §182Anime mi, Menaechme, salve. §182bQuid ego? §182cExtra numerum es mihi. §183Idem istuc aliis adscriptivis fieri ad legionem solet. §184_185Ego istic mihi hodie adparari iussi apud te proelium. §186Hodie id fiet. §186bIn eo uterque proelio potabimus; §187uter ibi melior bellator erit inventus cantharo, §188† tuest legio adiudicato, cum utro hanc noctem sies. §189ut ego uxorem, mea voluptas, ubi te aspicio, odi male. §190Interim nequis quin eius aliquid indutus sies. §191quid hoc est? §191bInduviae tuae atque uxoris exuviae, rosa. §192Superas facile, ut superior sis mihi quam quisquam qui impetrant. §193Meretrix tantisper blanditur, dum illud quod rapiat videt; §194_195nam si amabas, iám oportebat nasum abreptum mordicus. §196Sustine hoc, Penicule: exuvias facere quas vovi volo. §197Cedo; sed obsecro hercle, salta sic cum palla postea.
Oh, do you see the sun,"\n\n"is it not clear how it is dimmed before the brightness of this body?"\n\n"My soul, Menaechmus, hail."\n\n"What about me?"\n\n"You are out of the number for me."\n\n"The same thing is accustomed to happen to other supernumeraries in the legion."\n\n"I ordered a battle to be prepared for me today there at your house."\n\n"It shall be done today."\n\n"In that battle we both shall drink;"\n\n"which of us shall be found there to be the better warrior with the tankard,"\n\n"your legion must decide, with which of the two you will spend this night."\n\n"How badly I hate my wife, my pleasure, when I look at you."\n\n"Meanwhile, you cannot help wearing something of hers."\n\n"What is this?"\n\n"Your clothing and your wife's spoils, my rose."\n\n"You surpass easily, so that you are superior in my eyes to anyone of those who obtain favors."\n\n"A courtesan coaxes only so long as she sees what she may snatch;"\n\n"for if you loved, by now your nose ought to have been bitten off."\n\n"Hold this, Peniculus: I want to make the spoils which I vowed."\n\n"Give it; but I beseech you by Hercules, dance like this with the cloak afterwards."\n\n"I dance?
§198Ego saltabo? sanus hercle non es. §198bEgone an tu magis? §199si non saltas, exue igitur. §199bNimio ego hanc periculo §200surrupui hodie.
By Hercules, you are not sane."\n\n"I, or you more?"\n\n"If you don't dance, then take it off."\n\n"I stole this with too much"\n\n"danger today.
meo quidem animo ab Hippolyta subcingulum §201Hercules haud aeque magno umquam abstulit periculo. §202cape tibi hanc, quando una vivis meis morigera moribus. §203Hoc animo decet animatos esse amatores probos. §204Qui quidem ad mendicitatem se properent detrudere. §205Quattuor minis ego emi istanc anno uxori meae. §206Quattuor minae perierunt plane, ut ratio redditur. §207Scin quid volo ego te accurare? §207bScio, curabo quae voles. §208Iube igitur tribus nóbis apud te prandium accurarier §209atque aliquid scitamentorum de foro opsonarier, §210glandionidam suillam, laridum pernonidam, §211aut sincipitamenta porcina aut aliquid ad eum modum, §212madida quae mi adposita in mensa miluinam suggerant; §213atque actutum. §213bLicet ecastor. §213cNos prodimus ad forum.
Indeed, in my opinion, the belt from Hippolyta"\n\n"Hercules never took away with equally great danger."\n\n"Take this for yourself, since you alone live compliant with my ways."\n\n"It is fitting for honest lovers to be of this mind."\n\n"Those indeed, who would hasten to thrust themselves down to beggary."\n\n"I bought that for four minae for my wife last year."\n\n"Four minae have clearly perished, as the account is rendered."\n\n"Do you know what I want you to prepare?"\n\n"I know, I will take care of what you want."\n\n"Order then a luncheon to be prepared for the three of us at your house"\n\n"and some delicacies to be bought from the market,"\n\n"neck-gland of pork, fat of ham,"\n\n"or pig's half-head, or something in that manner,"\n\n"which, served moist to me on the table, may suggest a kite-like hunger;"\n\n"and instantly."\n\n"It is allowed, by Castor."\n\n"We are going out to the market."