§970suapte culpa genere sapiunt, genus ingenio ímprobant.
Eutychus: By their own fault they are wise because of their birth, but they disgrace their family by their character.
§971Verum hic dicit.
Demipho: This man speaks the truth.
§971bTibi ergo dicit.
Lysimachus: Therefore he speaks to you.
§971cEo illud est verum magis.
Demipho: By so much the more is that true.
§972nam te istac aetate haud aequom filio fuerat tuo §973adulescenti amanti amicam eripere emptam argento suo.
Eutychus: For at your age it was by no means proper for you to snatch away from your son, Eutychus: a young man in love, the mistress bought with his own money.
§974Quid tu ais? Charini amicast illa?
Demipho: What do you say? Is she Charinus' mistress?
§974bVt dissimulat malus.
Lysimachus: How the rascal dissembles!
§975Ille quidem illam sese ancillam matri emisse dixerat.
Demipho: He indeed had said that he bought her as a maidservant for his mother.
§976Propterea igitur tu mercatu's, novos amator, vetus puer?
Eutychus: Did you therefore buy her for that reason, new lover, old boy?
§977Optume hercle, perge tú, ego ádsistam hinc altrinsecus.
Lysimachus: Excellent, by Hercules! Go on; I will stand by from this side.
§978quibus est dictis dignus, usque oneremus ambo.
Lysimachus: Let us both heap upon him the words he is worthy of.
§978bNullus sum.
Demipho: I am undone.
§979Filio suo qui innocenti fecit tantam iniuriam.
Eutychus: Who did so great an injury to his own innocent son.
Lysimachus: Whom indeed, by Hercules, when he was going into exile, I brought back home; Lysimachus: for he was going to live in exile.
§981bAn abiit?
Demipho: Has he gone?
§981cEtiam loquere, larua?
Lysimachus: Are you still speaking, ghost?
§982temperare istac aetate istis decebat artibus.
Eutychus: At that age it was fitting to abstain from those arts.
§983Fateor, deliqui profecto.
Demipho: I confess, I have certainly transgressed.
§983bEtiam loquere, larua?
Lysimachus: Are you still speaking, ghost?
§984itidem ut tempus anni, aetatem aliam áliud factum condecet; §985nam si istuc ius est, senecta aetate scortari senes, §986ubi locist res summa nostra publica?
Eutychus: Just as the season of the year, so one action befits one age, and another another; Eutychus: for if that is right, for old men to play the lover in old age, Eutychus: where is our supreme public state?
§986bEi, perii miser.
Demipho: Alas, miserable me, I am ruined.
§987Adulescentes rei agendae isti magis solent operam dare.
Lysimachus: Young men are more accustomed to give their attention to that business.
§988Iam obsecro hercle vobis habete cum porcis, cum fiscina.
Demipho: Now, I entreat you by Hercules, keep her for yourselves with her pigs and basket.
§989Redde illi.
Eutychus: Return her to him.
§989bSibi habeat, iam ut volt per me sibi habeat licet.
Demipho: Let him have her; indeed, as far as I am concerned, let him have her as he wishes.
§990Temperi edepol, quoniam ut aliter facias non est copia.
Lysimachus: In good time, by Pollux, since you have no power to do otherwise.
§991Supplici sibi sumat quid volt ipse ob hanc iniuriam, §992modo pacem faciatis oro, ut ne mihi iratus siet.
Demipho: Let him take whatever punishment he wishes for this injury; Demipho: I only pray that you make peace, so that he may not be angry with me.
§993si hercle scivissem sive adeo ioculo dixisset mihi, §994se illam amare, numquam facerem ut illam amanti abducerem.
Demipho: By Hercules, if I had known, or if he had told me even in jest, Demipho: that he loved her, I would never have done so as to take her away from him in his love.
§995Eutyche, ted oro, sodalis eius es, sérva et subveni: §996hunc senem para clientem; memorem dices benefici.
Demipho: Eutychus, I beg you, you are his companion, save and help me: Demipho: secure this old man as your client; you will say he is mindful of a benefit.
Lysimachus: Pray that he forgives your transgressions and your "youthful folly." Demipho: Are you still going on? Well, mock me proudly.
spero ego mihi quoque §999tempus tale eventurum, ut tibi gratiam referam parem.
I hope for myself too Demipho: that such a time will come that I may return equal thanks to you.
§1000Missas iam égo istas artis feci.
Demipho: I have already dismissed those arts.
§1000bEt quidem ego dehinc iam.
Lysimachus: And indeed, so have I from now on.
Eutychus: You do nothing: Eutychus: habit will lead your mind back here again.
quin loris caedite etiam, si lubet.
Why, even beat me with whips, if you please.
§1003Recte dicis.
Lysimachus: You speak rightly.
sed istuc uxor faciet, quom hoc resciverit.
But your wife will do that when she finds out.
§1004Nihil opust resciscat.
Demipho: There is no need for her to find out.
§1004bQuid istic? non resciscet, ne time.
Lysimachus: What of it? She won't find out, don't fear.
§1005eamus intro, non utibilest hic locus, factis tuis, §1006dum memoramus, arbitri ut sint qui praetereant per vias.
Lysimachus: Let us go inside; this place is not suitable, while we are recounting Lysimachus: your deeds, for those who pass by on the streets to be witnesses.
Demipho: By Hercules, you speak rightly; by the same token, the play will be Demipho: shorter.
eamus.
Let's go.
§1008bHic est intus filius apud nos tuos.
Eutychus: Your son is inside at our house.
§1009Optumest.
Demipho: Excellent.
illac per hortum nos domum transibimus.
We will cross over to our house through the garden there.
§1010Eutyche, hanc volo prius rém agi, quam meum intró refero pedem.
Demipho: Eutychus, I want this business to be done before I step foot inside.
§1011Quid istuc est?
Eutychus: What is that?
§1011bSuam quisque homo rem meminit.
Demipho: Every man remembers his own business.
responde mihi: §1012certon scis non suscensere mihi tuam matrem?
Answer me: Demipho: do you know for certain that your mother is not angry with me?
§1012bScio.
Eutychus: I know.
§1013Vide.
Demipho: Take care.
§1013bMea fide.
Eutychus: On my faith.
§1013cSatis habeo.
Demipho: I have enough.
sed quaeso hercle, etiam vide.
But pray, by Hercules, still take care.
§1014Non mihi credis?
Eutychus: Don't you believe me?
§1014bImmo credo, sed tamen metuo miser.
Demipho: Indeed I believe, but yet, miserable as I am, I fear.
§1015Eamus intro.
Demipho: Let us go inside.
§1015bImmo dicamus senibus legem censeo, §1016prius quam abeámus, qua se lege teneant contentique sint.
Eutychus: Rather, I think we should state a law for the old men, Eutychus: before we depart, by which law they may hold themselves and be content.
§1017annos gnatus sexaginta quí erit, si quem scibimus §1018si maritum sive hercle adeo caelibem scortarier, §1019cúm eo nos hac lege agemus: inscitum arbitrabimur, §1020et per nos quidem hercle egebit qui suom prodegerit.
Eutychus: Whoever is sixty years old, if we know anyone, Eutychus: whether a husband or, by Hercules, even a bachelor, to go a-whoring, Eutychus: we shall deal with him by this law: we shall judge him foolish, Eutychus: and indeed, by Hercules, he who wastes his own property will be in want through us.
§1021neu quisquam posthac prohibeto ádulescentem filium §1022quin amet et scortum ducat, quod bono fiat modo; §1023siquis prohibuerit, plus perdet clam quasi praehibuerit palam.
Eutychus: And let no one hereafter prohibit his young son Eutychus: from loving and bringing home a mistress, as long as it is done in a proper manner; Eutychus: if anyone prohibits it, he will lose more in secret than if he had provided it openly.
§1024haec adeó ut ex hac nocte primum lex teneat senes.
Eutychus: Let this law indeed hold the old men, beginning from this night first.