§745ego te simitu novi cum Porthaone.
I know you just as much as I know Porthaon.
If you mock me, by Pollux you cannot mock him, my father, who is coming here.
quin respicis?
Why don't you look back?
§748novistin tu illum?
Do you know him?
I know him just as well as Calchas: I saw him on the very same day that I saw you before today.
§750Negas novisse me? negas patrem meum?
Do you deny that you know me? Do you deny my father?
§751Idem hercle dicam, sí avom vis adducere.
By Hercules, I will say the same thing, if you want to bring your grandfather.
§752Ecastor pariter hoc atque alias res soles.
By Castor, you do this just as you are accustomed to do other things.
As my age is, and as there is need for this action, I will advance my step, I will hasten to go forward.
§755sed id quam mihi facile sit, haud sum falsus.
But how easy that is for me, I am by no means mistaken.
§756nam pernicitas deserit: consitus sum §757senectute, onustum gero corpus, vires §758reliquere: ut aetas mala est;
For swiftness deserts me: I am covered with old age, I carry a heavy body, my strength has left me.
mers mala ergost.
How bad is old age; therefore it is a bad commodity.
For it brings very many worst things when it arrives: which if I should mention them all, the speech would be too long.
§761sed haec res mihi in pectore et corde curaest, §762quidnam hóc sit negóti, quod fília sic §763repénte expetít me, ut ád sese irem.
But this matter is a care to me in my breast and heart, what on earth this business is, that my daughter so suddenly requests me to come to her.
Nor does she make it more certain to me what it is, what she wants, or why she sends for me.
§764averúm propemodúm iam sció, quid siet rei.
But I almost know by now what the matter is.
§765credo cum viro litigium natum esse aliquod.
I believe some quarrel has arisen with her husband.
That is how those women are accustomed to act, who, relying on their dowry, are fierce and demand that their husbands subject themselves to them.
§768et illi quoque haud abstinent saepe culpa.
And those men too do not often keep themselves free from blame.
§769verum est modus tamen, quoad pati uxorem oportet; §770nec pol filia umquam patrem accersit ad se, §771nisi aut quid commissi aut iurgi est iusta causa.
But yet there is a limit, up to which it is proper for a wife to endure; and by Pollux, a daughter never sends for her father to come to her, unless either some wrong has been committed or there is a just cause for a quarrel.
§772sed id quidquid est, iam sciam.
But whatever it is, I shall know soon.
atque eccam eampse §773ante aedis et eius virum tristem video.
And look, I see her herself before the house, and her husband looking gloomy.
§774id ést quod suspicábar.
That is what I was suspecting.
§775áppellabo hanc.
I will address her.
§775bIbo advorsum.
I will go to meet him.
sálve multum, mí pater.
Much health to you, my father.
§776Salva sis.
May you be well.
salven advenio? salven accersi iubes?
Do I arrive to find things well? Do you bid me be summoned while things are well?
§777quid tu tristis es? quid ille autem abs te iratus destitit?
Why are you sad? And why does he stand away from you in anger?
§778nescio quíd vos velitati éstis inter vos duos.
I do not know what skirmishing you two have had between yourselves.
§779loquere, uter meruistis culpam? paucis, non longos logos.
Speak, which of you has deserved the blame? In few words, no long speeches.
§780Nusquam equidem quicquam deliqui: hoc primum te absolvo, pater.
Indeed I have committed no fault anywhere: first, I acquit you on this point, father.
§781verum vivere hic non possum neque durare ullo modo.
But I cannot live here nor endure it in any way.
§782proin tu me hinc abducas.
Therefore, take me away from here.
§782bQuid istuc autem est?
But what is that matter?
§783bVnde?
By whom?
§783cAb illo, quoi me mandavisti, meo viro.
By him to whom you entrusted me, my husband.
§784Ecce autem litigium.
Look, there is the quarrel.
quotiens tandem édixi tibi, §785ut caveres, neuter ad me iretis cum querimonia?
How many times, I pray, have I declared to you that you should take care, that neither of you should come to me with a complaint?
§786Qui ego istuc, mi pater, cavere possum?
How can I, my father, take care of that?
§786bMen interrogas?
Do you ask me?
§787Nisi non vis.
Unless you do not wish to.
§787bQuotiens monstravi tibi, viro ut morem geras, §789quid ille faciat, né id observes, quó eat, quid rerum gerat.
How many times have I shown you that you should comply with your husband, and that you should not watch what he does, where he goes, or what business he transacts.
§790At enim ille hinc amat meretricem ex proxumo.
But indeed he is in love with a courtesan from next door here.
He is quite wise; and on account of that diligence of yours, I warrant he will love her even more.
§792Atque ibi potat.
And he drinks there.
§792bTua quidem ille causa potabit minus, §793si illic sive alibi libebit? quae haec, malum, impudentiast?
Will he drink less on your account, indeed, if it pleases him to do so there or elsewhere? What impudence, plague take it, is this?
§794una opera prohibere, ad cenam ne promittat, postules, §795neve quemquam accipiat alienum apud se.
You might as well demand that he should not accept an invitation to dinner, or receive any stranger at his house.
serviren tibi §796postulas viros? dare una ópera pensum postules,
Do you demand that husbands should be slaves to you?
§797inter ancillas sedere iubeas, lanam carere.
You might as well demand that he be given a task, order him to sit among the maidservants and card wool.
§798Non equidem mihi te advocatum, pater, adduxi, sed viro.
Indeed, father, I did not bring you as an advocate for myself, but for my husband.
§799hinc stas, illim causam dicis.
You stand on this side, yet you plead the cause for that side.
If he has committed any fault, I will accuse him much more than I have accused you.
§801quando te auratam et vestitam bene habet, ancillas penum §802recte praehibet, melius sanam est, mulier, mentem sumere.
Since he keeps you well provided with gold and clothing, and provides maidservants and food properly, it is better for you, woman, to take a sane mind.
§803At ille suppilat mihi aurum et pallas ex arcis domo, §804me despoliat, mea ornamenta clam ad meretrices degerit.
But he steals my gold and mantles from the chests in the house, he despoils me, and carries away my ornaments secretly to courtesans.
He does wrong if he does that; if he does not do it, you do wrong, who accuse an innocent man.
§806bQuin etiam nunc habet pallam, pater,
Why, even now he has the mantle, father,