§147Nescio ego istaec: philosophari numquam didici neque scio.
I do not know those things: I have never learned to philosophize, nor do I know how.
§148ego bonum, malum quo accedit, mihi dari haud desidero.
I do not at all desire a good to be given to me, to which evil is added.
§149Cedo tuam mihi dexteram, agedum, Acanthio.
Give me your right hand, come now, Acanthio.
§149bEm dabitur, tene.
There, it shall be given, hold it.
§150Vin tu te mihi obsequentem esse an nevis?
Do you wish to be obedient to me, or do you not?
§150bOpera licet §151experiri, qui me rupi causa currendo tua, §152ut quae scirem scire actutum tibi liceret.
You may test it by experience, me who have ruptured myself by running for your sake, so that what I knew, it might be permitted for you to know immediately.
Free status I will make for you within a few months.
§153bPalpo percutis.
You are stroking me with soft words.
§154_155Egon ausim tibi usquam quicquam facinus falsum proloqui?
Would I dare to speak any false deed to you anywhere?
§156quin iam prius quam sum elocutus, scis si mentiri volo.
Why, even before I have spoken, you know if I wish to lie.
Ah, by Hercules, your words add weariness to me, you are killing me.
§158Sicine mi obsequens es?
Is this how you are obedient to me?
§158bQuid vis faciam?
What do you want me to do?
§158cTun? id quod volo.
You? That which I wish.
§159Quid id est igitur quod vis?
What is that then, which you wish?
§159bDicam.
I will tell you.
§159cDice.
Tell me.
§159dAt énim placide volo.
But indeed I want it quietly.
§160Dormientis spectatores metuis ne ex somno excites?
Are you afraid lest you wake the sleeping spectators from sleep?
§161Vae tibi.
Woe to you.
§161bTibi equidem a portu adporto hoc—
For my part, I bring this to you from the harbor— What do you bring?
§161cQuid fers? dic mihi.
Tell me.
§162Vim metum, cruciatum curam, iurgiumque atque inopiam.
Force, fear, torture, care, and quarrel, and want.
§163Perii, tu quidem thensaurum huc mi adportavisti mali.
I am ruined; you indeed have brought a treasure of evil here to me.
§164nullus sum.
I am nothing.
On the contrary, you are— I know already, you will say "miserable".
§164dDixi ego tacens.
I said it in silence.
§165Quid istuc est mali?
What is that evil?
§165bNe rogites, maxumum infortunium est.
Do not ask; it is the greatest misfortune.
§166Obsecro, dissolve iam me; nimis diu animi pendeo.
I beseech you, release me now; too long am I in suspense.
§167Placide, multa exquirere etiam prius volo quam vapulem.
Quietly, I still want to ask many things before I am beaten.
§168Hercle vero vapulabis, nisi iam loquere aut hinc abis.
By Hercules, you will indeed be beaten, unless you speak now or get away from here.
§169Hoc sis vide, ut palpatur.
Look at this, please, how he coaxes.
nullust, quando occepit, blandior.
No one is flatter, when he has begun.
§170Obsecro hercle oroque ut istuc quid sit actutum indices, §171quandoquidem mihi supplicandum servolo video meo.
By Hercules, I beseech and entreat you to declare immediately what that is, since indeed I see that I must supplicate my own little slave.
§172Tandem indignus videor?
Finally, do I seem unworthy?
§172bImmo dignus.
On the contrary, worthy.
§172cEquidem credidi.
Indeed I believed so.
§173Obsecro, num navis periit?
I beseech you, surely the ship hasn't perished?
§173bSalvast navis, ne time.
The ship is safe, do not fear.
§174Quid alia armamenta?
What of the other equipment?
§174bSalva et sana sunt.
They are safe and sound.
Why then do you not disclose what that is, for which you were just now running through the city seeking me?
§176Tu quidem ex óre orationem mi eripis.
You indeed snatch the speech out of my mouth.
§176bTaceo.
I am silent.
§176cTace.
Be silent.
§177credo, si boni quid ad te nuntiem, instes acriter, §178qui nunc, quom malum audiendumst, flagitas me ut eloquar.
I believe, if I were to announce any good to you, you would press eagerly, you who now, when evil must be heard, demand that I speak out.
§179Obsecro hercle te, istuc ut tu mihi malum facias palam.
By Hercules, I beseech you, make that evil plain to me.
§180Eloquar, quandoquidem me oras. tuos pater—
I will speak out, since indeed you beg me.
§180bQuid meus pater?
Your father— What about my father?
§181cVidit.
Saw her.
§181dVidit? vae misero mihi.
Saw her? Woe to miserable me!
§183Qui potuit videre?
How was he able to see her?
§183bOculis.
With his eyes.
§183cQuo pacto?
In what manner?
§183dHiantibus.
Wide open.
§184In hinc dierectus? núgare in re capitali mea.
Go hang yourself! You trifle in my capital danger.
§185Qui, malum, ego nugor, si tibi quod me rogas respondeo?
How, plague, do I trifle, if I answer you what you ask me?
§186Certen vidit?
Did he certainly see her?
§186bTam hercle certe quám ego te aut tu me vides.
By Hercules, as certainly as I see you or you see me.
§187Vbi eam vidit?
Where did he see her?
Inside, within the ship, as he stood near; and he conversed with her.
§188bPerdidisti me, pater.
You have ruined me, father.
§189eho tu, eho tu, quin cavisti ne eam videret, verbero?
Hey you, hey you, why didn't you take care lest he see her, you scoundrel?
§190quin, sceleste, ábstrudebas, né eam conspiceret pater?
Why, wicked fellow, didn't you hide her, lest your father spy her?
Because we were busy with our own business: we were intent on folding and arranging the tackle.
§193dum haec aguntur, lembo advehitur tuos pater pauxillulo, §194neque quisquam hominem conspicatust, donec in navem subit.
While these things were being done, your father arrived in a very small boat, and no one saw the man until he boarded the ship.
§195Nequiquam, mare, subterfugi á tuis tempestatibus: §196equidem me iam censebam esse in terra atque in tuto loco, §197verum video med ad saxa ferri saevis fluctibus.
In vain, sea, have I escaped from your tempests: for my part I already believed myself to be on land and in a safe place, but I see that I am carried to the rocks by the cruel waves.
§198loquere porro, quid sit actum.
Speak further, what was done.
After he looked at the woman, he began to ask whose she was.
§199_200bQuid respondit?
What was answered?
Immediately I ran up and interrupted, saying that you had bought her as a maidservant for your mother.
§202bVisun est tibi credere id?
Did he seem to you to believe that?
§202cEtiam rogas?
Do you still ask?
§203sed scelestus subigitare occepit.
But the scoundrel began to fondle her.
§203bIllamne, obsecro?
Her? I beseech you!
§204Mirum quin me subigitaret.
It would be a wonder if he had fondled me instead.
By Pollux, my wretched heart, which wastes away drop by drop, as if you had put salt into water.
§206perii.
I am ruined.
§206bEm istuc unum verbum dixisti verissimum.
Look, that single word you have spoken is most true.
§207stultitia istaec est.
That is foolishness.
§207bQuid faciam? credo, non credet pater,
What shall I do? I believe my father will not believe it,