§680ego tibi redimam bis tanto pluris pallam, quam voles.
I will buy another mantle for you, of twice as much value, as you wish.
§681Tibi dedi equidem illam, ad phrygionem út ferres, paulo prius, §682et illud spinter, ut ad aurificem ferres, ut fieret novom.
Indeed, I gave it to you just a little while ago, so that you might carry it to the embroiderer, and that bracelet too, so that you might carry it to the goldsmith, that it might be made new.
§683Mihi tu ut dederis pallam et spinter? numquam factum reperies.
That you gave the mantle and bracelet to me? You will never find it to have been done.
§684nam ego quidem postquam illam dudum tibi dedi atque abii ad forum, §685nunc redeo, nunc te postillac video.
For indeed, after I gave it to you a while ago and went away to the forum, I am returning only now, and I see you now for the first time since then.
§685bVideo quam rem agis.
I see what you are doing.
§686quia commisi, ut me defrudes, ad eam rem adfectas viam.
Because I allowed you to cheat me, you are making a way to that end.
§687Neque edepol te defrudandi causa posco (quin tibi §688dico uxorem rescivisse)— §688bNec te ultro oravi ut dares: §689tute ultro ad me detulisti, dedisti eam dono mihi; §690eandem nunc reposcis: patiar.
By Pollux, I do not ask for it for the sake of cheating you (rather, I tell you that my wife has found it out)— Nor did I ask you of my own accord to give it; you yourself brought it to me of your own accord, you gave it to me as a gift; now you demand the same back: I will bear it.
tibi habe, aufer, utere §691vel tu vel tua uxor, vel etiam in loculos compingite.
Keep it for yourself, take it away, use it either you or your wife, or even pack it away in your chests.
§692tu huc post hunc diem pedem intro non feres, ne frustra sis; §693quando tu me bene merentem tibi habes despicatui, §694nisi feres argentum, frustra me ductare non potes.
After this day you shall not set foot inside here, lest you be deceived; since you hold me, who deserved well of you, in contempt, unless you bring money, you cannot lead me along in vain.
§695aliam posthac invenito quám habeas frustratui.
From now on find another woman to have for your mockery.
— §696Nimis iracunde hercle tandem.
By Hercules, too angrily indeed at last.
heús tu, tibi dico, mane, §697redi.
Hey you, I am speaking to you, wait, come back.
etiamne astas? etiam audes mea revorti gratia?
Are you still standing there? Do you still dare to return for my sake?
§698abiit intro, occlusit aedis.
She has gone inside, and shut the house.
nunc ego sum exclusissimus: §699neque domi neque apud amicam mihi iam quicquam creditur.
Now I am the most shut-out man of all: neither at home nor at my mistress's is anything believed of me now.
§700ibo et consulam hanc rem amicos, quid faciendum censeant. —
I will go and consult my friends on this matter, as to what they think should be done.
I acted too foolishly a while ago, when I entrusted the purse with the money to Messenio.
§703immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum.
He has plunged himself somewhere, I believe, into a brothel.
§704Provisam quam mox vir meus redeat domum.
I will look out to see how soon my husband returns home.
§705sed eccum video.
But look, I see him.
salva sum, pallam refert.
I am saved, he is bringing back the mantle.
§706Demiror ubi nunc ambulet Messenio.
I wonder where Messenio is walking now.
§707Adibo atque hominem accipiam quibus dictis meret.
I will go to him and receive the fellow with such words as he deserves.
Are you not ashamed to come into my sight, you disgrace of a man, with that attire?
§709bQuid est?
What is it?
§710quae te res agitat, mulier?
What matter excites you, woman?
Do you still, shameless one, dare to mutter a single word or speak with me?
§712Quid tandem admisi in me, ut loqui non audeam?
What on earth have I committed, that I should not dare to speak?
§713Rogas me? o hominis impudentem audaciam!
Do you ask me? O, the shameless impudence of the man!
Do you not know, woman, why the Greeks used to declare Hecuba to be a dog?
§715bNon equidem scio.
Indeed I do not know.
Because Hecuba used to do the very same thing that you do now: she used to heap all kinds of abuse upon whomsoever she had looked upon.
§718itaque adeo iure coepta appellari est canes.
And so, therefore, with good reason she began to be called a dog.
§719Non ego istaec tua flagitia possum perpeti.
I cannot endure those disgraceful deeds of yours.
For I would rather spend my life as a widow, than endure those disgraceful deeds of yours which you do.
What is that to me, whether you can endure being married or are going to depart from your husband?
§724peregrino ut advenienti narrent fabulas?
Or is the custom here such, that they tell stories to a stranger who has just arrived?
What stories? I will not endure it henceforth, I say, but that I would rather live as a widow than put up with your behavior.
For my part, by Hercules, live as a widow, even as long as Jupiter shall hold his reign.
But you were denying to me just now that you had stolen it, now you hold that very same thing before my eyes: are you not ashamed?
§731Eu hercle, mulier, multum et audax et mala es.
Oh indeed, by Hercules, woman, you are very bold and bad.
Do you dare to say that this was stolen from you, which another woman gave to me that I might give it to be repaired?
Not so indeed, by Castor—I will now send for my father, and I will tell him of your disgraceful deeds which you do.
Go, Decio, look for my father, so that along with you he may come to me: tell him that the matter is so.
§738iam ego aperiam istaec tua flagitia.
Now I will lay open those disgraceful deeds of yours.
§738bSanan es?
Are you in your right mind?
§739quae mea flagitia?
What disgraceful deeds of mine?
My mantle and my gold, you steal from your wife from the house, and to your mistress you carry them.
satin haec recte fabulor?
Do I tell these stories rightly enough?
I pray, by Hercules, woman, if you know, show me what I may drink, that I may be able to endure your petulance.
§744quem tú hominem esse me arbitrere, nescio;
I do not know what man you think me to be;