§467sed Lysimacho amico mandabo.
(to himself) but I will commission my friend Lysimachus.
is se ad portum dixerat §468ire dudum.
He said a while ago that he was going to the harbor.
me moror quom hic asto. —
I delay myself by standing here.
§468bNullus sum, occidi.
I am nothing, I am ruined.
§469Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas: nugas maximas §470fuisse credo, praeut quo pacto égo divorsus distrahor.
They say the Bacchants tore Pentheus to pieces: I believe that was the greatest nonsense, compared to how I am being torn apart in different directions.
§471cur ego vivo? cur non morior? quid mihist in vita boni?
Why do I live? Why do I not die? What good is there for me in life?
§472certumst, ibo ad medicum atque ibi me toxico morti dabo, §473quando id mi adimitur, qua causa vitam cupio vivere.
It is resolved, I will go to the doctor and there give myself to death with poison, since that is taken away from me, for the sake of which I desire to live my life.
§474Mane, mane obsecro, Charine.
Eutychus: Stay, stay, I beseech you, Charinus.
§474bQuis me revocat?
Charinus: Who calls me back?
Eutychus: Eutychus, your friend and companion, and at the same time your closest neighbor.
§476Non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam.
Charinus: You do not know how many evils I am enduring.
Eutychus: I know; I listened to all those things from the doorway, I know the whole affair.
§478Quid id est quod scis?
Charinus: What is it that you know?
Eutychus: Your father wants to sell— Charinus: You have the whole thing.
§479Tuam amicam.
Eutychus: Your mistress.
§479bNimium multum scis.
Charinus: You know too much.
§479cTuis ingratiis.
Eutychus: In spite of you.
§480Plurimum tu scis.
Charinus: You know very much indeed.
sed qui scis esse amicam illam meam?
But how do you know she is my mistress?
§481Tute heri ipsus mihi narrasti.
Eutychus: You yourself told me yesterday.
Charinus: How completely I had forgotten that I told you?
§482bHau mirumst factum.
Eutychus: It is no wonder.
§482cTe nunc consulo.
Charinus: I consult you now.
§483responde: quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?
answer: by what death do you think it best for me to perish?
§484Non taces? cave tu istuc dixis.
Eutychus: Won't you be silent? Take care you do not say that.
§484bQuid vis me igitur dicere?
Charinus: What then do you want me to say?
§485Vin patri sublinere pulchre me os tuo?
Eutychus: Do you want me to trick your father handsomely?
§485bSane volo.
Charinus: Indeed I do.
Eutychus: Do you want me to [go] to the harbor— Charinus: How could I wish it more?
§487bQui potius quam auro expendas?
Charinus: How rather than that you should weigh it out in gold?
§487cVnde erit?
Eutychus: Where will it come from?
§488Achillem orabo, aurum ut mihi det, Hector qui expensus fuit.
Charinus: I will beg Achilles to give me the gold for which Hector was weighed.
§489Sanun es?
Eutychus: Are you sane?
§489bPol sanus si sim, non te medicum mi expetam.
Charinus: By Pollux, if I were sane, I would not seek you as my doctor.
§490Tanti quanti poscit, vin tanti illam emi?
Eutychus: For as much as he demands, do you want her to be bought for that much?
Charinus: An extra amount add even a thousand coins more than he demands.
§491bIam tace.
Eutychus: Be silent now.
§492sed quid ais? unde erit argentum quod des, quom poscet pater?
But tell me, where will the money be for you to give when your father demands it?
§493Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet; enicas.
Charinus: It will be found, it will be searched out, something will happen; you are killing me.
§494Iam istuc 'aliquid fiet' metuo.
Eutychus: I am already afraid of that 'something will happen'.
§494bQuin taces?
Charinus: Why don't you be silent?
§494cMuto imperas.
Eutychus: You are commanding a mute.
§495Satin istuc mandatumst?
Charinus: Is that entrusted enough?
§495bPotin ut aliud cures?
Can you mind something else?
§495cNon potest.
Eutychus: It is not possible.
§496Bene vale.
Charinus: Farewell.
§496bNon edepol possum prius quam tu ad me redieris.
Eutychus: By Pollux, I cannot, until you return to me.
§497Melius sanus sis.
Charinus: You had better be sane.
§497bVale, vince ét me serva.
Farewell, conquer and save me.
§497cEgo fecero.
Eutychus: I will do so.
§498domi maneto me.
Wait for me at home.
§498bErgo actutum face cum praeda recipias. —
Charinus: Then make sure you return immediately with the prize.
Lysimachus: I have done a friendly service for a friend: because my neighbor asked, I bought this merchandise.
mea es tu, sequere sane.
You are mine, follow along.
§501ne plora: nimis stulte facis, oculos corrumpis tales.
Do not weep: you are acting very foolishly, you are spoiling such eyes.
§502quin tibi quidem quod rideas magis est, quam ut lamentere.
indeed, there is rather cause for you to laugh than to lament.
Pasicompsa: Please, by Castor, my old gentleman, tell me— Lysimachus: Ask whatever you wish.
§504Cur emeris me.
Pasicompsa: Why you bought me.
Lysimachus: You? So that you may do what is commanded, just as, if you should command me anything, I would do it.
Pasicompsa: I am resolved to do, according to my means and wisdom, what I shall think you wish.
§507Laboriosi nil tibi quicquam operis imperabo.
Lysimachus: I will not command any laborious work of you.
§508Namque edepol equidem, mi senex, non didici baiolare §509nec pecua ruri pascere nec pueros nutricare.
Pasicompsa: For indeed, by Pollux, my old gentleman, I have not learned to carry heavy burdens, nor to pasture cattle in the country, nor to nurse children.
§510Bona si esse vis, bene erit tibi.
Lysimachus: If you wish to be good, it will be well with you.
§510bTum pol ego perii misera.
Pasicompsa: Then, by Pollux, I am undone, miserable me.
§511Qui?
Lysimachus: Why?
§511bQuia illim unde huc advecta sum, malis bene esse solitumst.
Pasicompsa: Because there, from whence I was brought here, it is customary for the bad to fare well.
§512Quasi dicas nullam mulierem bonam esse.
Lysimachus: As if you were saying that no woman is good.
Pasicompsa: Indeed, I do not say that, nor is it my habit to declare what I believe everyone knows.
§514Oratio edepol pluris est huius quam quanti haec emptast.
Lysimachus: By Pollux, the speech of this girl is worth more than what she was bought for.
§515rogare hoc unum te volo.
I want to ask you this one thing.
§515bRoganti respondebo.
Pasicompsa: I will answer the inquirer.
§516Quid ais tu? quid nomen tibi dicam esse?
Lysimachus: What do you say? What should I say your name is?
§516bPasicompsae.
Pasicompsa: Pasicompsa.
§517Ex forma nomen inditumst. sed quid ais, Pasicompsa?
Lysimachus: The name was given from your appearance.
§518possin tu, si usus venerit, subtemen tenue nere?
But tell me, Pasicompsa, could you, if the need arises, spin a fine weft?
§519Possum.
Pasicompsa: I can.
§519bSi tenue scis, scio te uberius posse nere.
Lysimachus: If you know how to spin fine, I know you can spin more thickly.
§520De lanificio neminem metuo, una aetate quae sit.
Pasicompsa: As for wool-working, I fear no one of my own age.
§521Bonam hercle te et frugi arbitror, matura iam † inde aetate §522quom scis facere officium tuom, mulier.
Lysimachus: By Hercules, I think you are good and useful, being now of mature age, since you know how to do your duty, woman.
§522bPol docta didici.
Pasicompsa: By Pollux, being well-taught, I learned.
§523operam accusari non sinam meam.
Pasicompsa: I will not allow my service to be blamed.