"Pigs for purification and healthy?" "For a few coins." "Take a coin from me: order yourself to be purified with my money.
§292nam équidem insanum esse te certo scio, §293qui mihi molestu's homini ignoto, quisquis es. §294Cylindrus ego sum: non nosti nomen meum? §295Si tu Cylindrus seu Coriendrus, perieris.
For indeed, I know for certain that you are mad, who are troublesome to me, a man unknown to you, whoever you are." "I am Cylindrus; do you not know my name?" "Whether you are Cylindrus or Coriendrus, go to ruin.
§296ego te non novi, neque novisse adeo volo. §297Est tibi Menaechmo nomen, tantum quod sciam. §298Pro sano loqueris quom me appellas nomine.
I do not know you, nor indeed do I wish to know you." "Your name is Menaechmus, as far as I know." "You speak like a sane person when you call me by my name.
§299sed ubi novisti me? §299bVbi ego te noverim, §300qui amicam habes eram meam hanc Erotium? §301Neque hercle ego habeo, neque te quis homo sis scio. §302Non scis quis ego sim, qui tibi saepissime §303cyathisso apud nos, quando potas? §303bEi mihi, §304quom nihil est qui illi homini diminuam caput. §305Tun cyathissare mihi soles, qui ante hunc diem §306Epidamnum numquam vidi neque veni? §306bNegas? §307Nego hercle vero. §307bNon tu in illisce aedibus §308† habitas? §308bDi illos homines, qui illic habitant, perduint. §309Insanit hic quidem, qui ipse male dicit sibi.
But where did you get to know me?" "Where indeed should I know you, since you have my mistress Erotium here as your sweetheart?" "By Hercules, I have no such mistress, nor do I know what sort of man you are." "Do you not know who I am, who very often pour wine for you at our house, when you drink?" "Alas for me, since there is nothing with which I may break that man's head!" "Are you accustomed to pour wine for me, who before this day have never seen or come to Epidamnus?" "Do you deny it?" "By Hercules, indeed I deny it." "Do you not live in that house there?" "May the gods destroy those people who live there!" "This man indeed is mad, who speaks ill of himself.
§310audin, Menaechme? §310bQuid vis? §310cSi me consulas, §311nummum illum quem mihi dudum pollicitu's dare— §312nam tu quidem hercle certo non sanu's satis, §313Menaechme, qui nunc ipsus male dicas tibi— §314_315iubeas, si sapias, porculum adferri tibi. §316Eu hercle hominem multum, et odiosum mihi. §317Solet iocari saepe mecum illoc modo.
Do you hear, Menaechmus?" "What do you want?" "If you would take my advice, that coin which you promised to give me just now— for indeed, by Hercules, you are certainly not sane enough, Menaechmus, who now yourself speak ill of your own house— you should, if you are wise, order a little pig to be brought for yourself." "By Hercules, a very talkative man, and hateful to me." "He is accustomed to joke with me often in that way.
§318quam vis ridiculus est, ubi uxor non adest.
He is ever so amusing when his wife is not present.
§319quid ais tu? §319bQuid vis, inquam. §319cSatin hoc quod vides §320tribus vóbis opsonatumst, an opsono amplius, §321tibi et parasito et mulieri? §321bQuas mulieres, §322quos tu parasitos loquere? §322bQuod te urget scelus, §323qui huic sis molestus? §323bQuid tibi mecum est rei?
What do you say?" "What do you want, I say?" "Is this marketing which you see sufficient for the three of you, or should I buy more, for you, the parasite, and the woman?" "What women, what parasites are you talking about?" "What wickedness drives you, to be troublesome to this gentleman?" "What business have you with me?
I do not know you; I am talking with this man whom I know." "By Castor, you are not a sane man, I know for certain.
§326Iam ergo haec madebunt faxo, nil morabitur.
Now therefore I will make these things cooked; there will be no delay.
§327proin tu ne quo abeas longius ab aedibus.
Therefore do not go any further from the house.
§328numquid vis? §328bVt eas maximam malam crucem. §329Ire hercle meliust te interim atque accumbere, §330dum ego haec appono ad Volcani violentiam.
Do you want anything else?" "That you go to the greatest and worst cross." "By Hercules, it is better for you to go inside meanwhile and recline, while I subject these to the violence of Vulcan.
§331ibo intro et dicam te hic adstare Erotio, §332ut te hinc abducat potius quam hic adstes foris. — §333Iamne abiit illic? edepol haud mendacia
I will go inside and tell Erotium that you are standing here, so that she may lead you away from here rather than you stand here outside." "Has he gone now?
§334tua verba experior esse. §334bObservato modo: §335nam istic meretricem credo habitare mulierem, §336ut quidem ille insanus dixit, qui hinc abiit modo. §337Sed miror qui ille noverit nomen meum.
By Castor, I find by experience that your words are not false." "Just watch: for I believe a courtesan woman lives there, as indeed that madman said, who just now went away from here." "But I wonder how he knew my name." "By Hercules, it is not at all surprising.
§338Minime hercle mirum. morem hunc meretrices habent: §339ad portum mittunt servolos, ancillulas; §340si quae peregrina navis in portum advenit, §341rogitant cuiatis sit, quid ei nomen siet, §342postilla extemplo se applicant, agglutinant: §343si pellexerunt, perditum amittunt domum.
Courtesans have this custom: they send their young male slaves and little maidservants to the harbor; if any foreign ship arrives in the harbor, they keep asking what countryman he is, what his name is; afterwards they immediately apply themselves to him, stick to him; if they have enticed him, they send him home ruined.
§344nunc ín istoc portu stát navis praedatoria, §345aps qua cavendum nobis sane censeo. §346Mones quidem hercle recte. §346bTum demum sciam §347recte monuisse, si tu recte caveris. §348Tace dúm parumper, nam concrepuit ostium: §349videamus qui hinc egreditur. §349bHoc ponam interim.
Now in that harbor stands a pirate ship, from which I certainly think we must guard ourselves." "By Hercules, you warn me rightly." "Then at last I shall know that I warned you rightly, if you guard yourself rightly." "Be quiet for a little while, for the door creaked; let us see who is coming out of here." "I will set this down meanwhile.
Keep guard over these, please, ship-feet." "Leave the doors so; go away, I do not want them to be closed.
§352intús para, curá, vide, quod opúst fiat: §353sterníte lectos, incéndite odores; múnditia §354_355inlécebra animost amántium.
Prepare inside, attend, see that what is necessary is done: spread the couches, burn the perfumes; cleanliness is an enticement to the minds of lovers.
§356amánti amoenitás malost, nobís lucrost.
To a lover, luxury is a loss, to us a gain.
§357sed ubi ílle est, quem coquos ánte aedis esse áit? atque eccum video,
But where is he, whom the cook said was before the house?
§358qui mi ést usui et plurímum prodest.
And look, I see him, who is of use to me and profits me most of all.
§359item hinc últro fit, ut méret, potissimus nostraé domi ut sit; §360nunc éum adibo, adloquar ultro. §361animúle mi, mihi mirá videntur,
Likewise, of his own accord it happens, as he deserves, that he is the most important in our house; now I will go to him, and speak to him of my own accord." "My little soul, it seems strange to me,