"Everything is ready, follow me." Am I not a wretched man, who can nowhere rest in peace?
§589si domi sum, foris est animus, sin foris sum, animus domist.
if I am at home, my mind is abroad; but if I am abroad, my mind is at home.
§590ita mi in pectore atque in corde facit amor incendium: §591ni ex oculis lacrumae defendant, iam ardeat credo caput.
In such a way does love light up a conflagration in my breast and in my heart: if tears did not defend it from my eyes, I believe my head would already be on fire.
§592spem teneo, salutem amisi; redeat an non, nescio: §593si opprimit pater quod dixit, exsulatum abiit salus; §594sin sodalis quod promisit fecit, non abiit salus.
I hold onto hope, but I have lost my safety; whether it will return or not, I know not: if my father carries out what he said and crushes me, my safety has gone into exile; but if my comrade has done what he promised, my safety has not departed.
But yet, even if Eutychus had gouty feet, by now he might have returned from the harbor.
id illi vitium maxumumst, §597quod nimis tardus est advorsum mei animi sententiam.
That is his greatest fault, that he is too slow compared to the expectation of my mind.
§598sed in est, quem currentem video? ípsus est.
But who is that I see running? It is he himself.
ibo obviam.
I will go to meet him.
§599nunc, quod restat, ei disperii: voltus neutiquam huius placet; §600tristis incédit (pectus ardet, haereo), quassat caput.
Now, as for what remains, alas, I am undone: his countenance pleases me not at all; he approaches sadly (my breast burns, I am stuck), he shakes his head.
§601Eutyche.
Eutychus!
§601bEu, Charine.
Ah, Charinus.
§601cPrius quam recipias anhelitum,
Before you catch your breath, speak out in a single word: where am I?
§602uno verbo eloquere: ubi égo sum? hicine an apud mortuos?
Here or among the dead?
§603Neque apud mortuos neque hic es.
You are neither among the dead nor here.
I am safe, immortality has been given to me: this man bought her, he has beautifully wiped my father's face (deceived him).
§605impetrabilior qui vivat nullus est.
There is no living man who gets what he wants more easily.
dice, obsecro: §606si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, úbi sum?
Tell me, I beseech you: if I am neither here nor at Acheron, where am I?
§606bNusquam gentium.
Nowhere in the world.
§607Disperii, illaec interemit me modó oratio.
I am undone, that speech just now has killed me.
§608Odiosast oratio, cum rém agas longinquom loqui.
It is a hateful speech when, in conducting a matter, one speaks circuitously.
§609Quidquid est, ad capita rerum perveni.
Whatever it is, come to the core of the matter.
§610bQuin tu illud potius nuntias quod nescio?
Why don't you rather announce that which I do not know?
§611Mulier alienata est abs te.
The woman is alienated from you.
§611bEutyché, capital facis.
Eutychus, you are committing a capital crime.
§612Qui?
How so?
§612bQuia aequalem et sodalem, liberum civem, enicas.
Because you are killing your peer and comrade, a free citizen.
§613Ne di sierint.
May the gods not permit it.
§613bDemisisti gladium in iugulum: iam cadam.
You have thrust a sword into my throat: now I shall fall.
§614Quaeso hercle, animum ne desponde.
I beg you by Hercules, do not lose heart.
§614bNullust quem despondeam.
There is none for me to lose.
§615loquere porro aliam malam rem.
Speak further of another bad thing.
cui est empta?
For whom was she bought?
§615bNescio.
I do not know.
§616iam addicta atque abducta erat, quom ad portum venio.
She had already been knocked down and led away when I came to the harbor.
Woe to me, you have indeed been throwing mountains of burning evil upon me for a long time.
§618perge, excrucia, carnufex, quandoquidem occepisti semel.
Proceed, torture me, executioner, since you have once begun.
§625Quid ego feci?
What did I do?
§625bPerdidisti me et fidem mecum tuam.
You have ruined me and your pledge of faith with me.
§626Di sciunt culpam meam istanc non esse ullam.
The gods know that there is no fault of mine in this.
§626bEugepae,
Well, splendid!
§627deos absentis testis memoras: quí ego istuc credam tibi?
you mention absent gods as witnesses: how am I to believe that of yours?
§628Quia tibi in manu est quod credas, ego quod dicam, id mi in manust.
Because it is in your hand to believe what you will, and what I say is in my hand.
§629De istac ré argutus es, ut par pari respondeas, §630ad mandata claudus caecus mutus mancus debilis.
On that matter you are clever, to return like for like, but for commissions you are lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and weak.
§631promittebas te os sublinere meo patri: egomet credidi §632homini docto rem mandare, is lapidi mando maximo.
You promised that you would cheat my father: I myself believed I was committing the matter to a clever man, but I was committing it to the biggest stone.
§633Quid ego facerem?
What was I to do?
§633bQuid tu faceres? men rogas? requireres,
What were you to do? You ask me?
You should have searched, asked repeatedly who he was or where he was from, from what family, whether he was a citizen or a foreigner.
§635bCivem esse aibant Atticum.
They said he was an Attic citizen.
§636Vbi habitaret invenires saltem, si nomen nequis.
You should at least have found out where he lived, if you couldn't get his name.
§637Nemo aiebat scire.
No one said they knew.
§637bAt saltem hóminis faciem exquireres.
But at least you should have inquired about the man's appearance.
§638Feci.
I did.
§639canum, varum, ventriosum, bucculentum, breviculum, §640subnigris oculis, oblongis malis, pansam aliquantulum.
I will tell you: Gray-haired, bow-legged, pot-bellied, puff-cheeked, rather short, with darkish eyes, long jaws, and somewhat flat-footed.
§641Non hominem mihi, sed thensaurum nescio quem memoras mali.
You are describing to me not a man, but some treasure-trove of evil.
§642numquid est quod dicas aliud de illo?
Is there anything else you can say about him?
§642bTantum, quod sciam.
Only that, so far as I know.
§643Edepol ne ille oblongis malis mihi dedit magnum malum.
By Pollux, indeed that long-jawed fellow has given me a great evil.
§644non possum durare, certumst exulatum hinc ire me.
I cannot endure it; it is resolved that I go into exile from here.
§645sed quam capiam civitatem, cogito, potissimum:
but I am considering which city I should go to in preference.