That I may be allowed to spend my life with you — You wish for too much.
I don't mean myself, but my mistress, who is dying of love for you.
Many other women desire that same thing, for whom there is no opportunity.
§1041bÉcastor haud mírum, si te habes cárum, §1042hominém tam pulchrum et praéclarum virtute et forma et factis.
By Castor, indeed it's no wonder if you hold yourself dear, a man so beautiful and outstanding in valor, appearance, and deeds.
§1043deus dígnior fuit quisquam hómo qui esset?
Was there ever any man more worthy to be a god?
By Hercules, then he is not human — for I believe a vulture has more humanity in him.
I shall make myself grand, now that she praises me so.
§1045bViden tu ígnavum, ut sese ínfert?
Do you see the lazy fellow, how he carries himself?
§1046quin tu huíc responde, haec íllaec est ab illá quam dudum dixi.
Why don't you answer her? She is that one from her whom I mentioned just now.
§1047Qua ab íllarum? nam ita me óccursant multaé: meminisse haud póssum.
From which of them? For so many run to meet me: I cannot remember.
§1048Ab illá quae digitos déspoliat suos ét tuos digitos décorat.
From her who despoils her own fingers and decorates yours.
§1049nam hunc ánulum áb tui cupienti huic détuli, hic ad te pórro.
For I brought this ring from her who desires you to this woman, and she in turn to you.
§1050Quid núnc tibi vis, muliér? memora.
What do you want for yourself now, woman? Speak.
§1050bVt quae té cupit, eam ne spérnas, §1051quae pér tuam nunc vitám vivit: sit nécne sit, spes in te úno est.
That you do not despise her who desires you, who now lives by your life: whether she exists or not, her hope is in you alone.
§1052Quid núnc volt?
What does she want now?
§1052bTe compéllare et complécti et contrectáre.
To address you, and embrace you, and caress you.
§1053nam nísi tu illi fers súppetias, iam illa ánimum despondébit.
For unless you bring her help, she will soon lose heart.
§1054age, mí Achilles, fiat quód te oro, serva íllam pulchram púlchre, §1055expróme benignum ex te íngenium, urbícape, occisor régum.
Come, my Achilles, let what I ask be done, save that beautiful woman beautifully, bring forth your kindly nature, city-taker, slayer of kings.
§1056Eu hercle ódiosas res.
Good Hercules, what troublesome business.
quótiens hoc tibi, vérbero, ego interdíxi, §1057meam né sic volgo póllicitere operám?
How many times, you scoundrel, have I forbidden you, to promise my service to the crowd in this way?
§1057bAudin tu, múlier?
Do you hear, woman?
§1058dixi hóc tibi dudum, et núnc dico: nisi huic vérri adfertur mérces, §1059non híc suo seminió quemquam porclénam impertitúrust.
I told you this just now, and I say it now: unless a reward is brought to this boar, he will not bestow any little pig of his breed on anyone.
§1061Dabitúr quantum ipsus pretí poscet.
It shall be given, as much price as he himself shall demand.
He needs a talent of Philippic gold; he will accept less from no one.
§1062bEu ecastór nimis vilest tándem.
Ah, by Castor, that is too cheap after all!
§1063Non míhi avaritia umquam ínnatast: satis hábeo divitiárum, §1064plus mi aúri mille est módiorum Philippí.
Greed was never inborn in me: I have riches enough, I have more than a thousand pecks of Philippic gold.
§1064bPraeter thensaúros.
Besides the treasures.
§1065tum argénti montes, nón massas habet, Aetna mons non aeque altos. †
Then he has mountains of silver, not lumps; Mount Etna is not as high.
§1066Eu ecástor hominem périurum.
Ah, by Castor, what a lying man!
§1066bVt ludó?
How am I playing him?
§1066cQuid ego? ut sublécto?
And me? How am I flattering him?
§1067sed amábo, mitte me áctutum.
But please, let me go immediately.
Why don't you answer her something, either that you will do it or will not do it?
Why do you torture the mind of that wretched woman, who has never deserved badly of you?
§1069bIube eámpse exire huc ád nos.
Bid her come out here to us herself.
§1070dic me ómnia quae volt fácturum.
Tell her I will do everything she wishes.
Now you act as it is right for you to do, since you wish for her who wishes for you.
§1071bNon ínsulsum huic ingénium.
She has a non-silly wit.
§1072Quomque me óratricem haud sprévisti sistíque exorare éx te.
And since you did not despise me as a pleader, and allowed yourself to be entreated.
§1073quid est? út ludo?
What is it? How am I playing him?
§1073bNequeo hércle equidem risú meo moderari.
By Hercules, indeed I cannot control my laughter.
§1074ob eám causam huc abs te ávorti.
For that reason I turned away from you here.
By Pollux, you do not know, woman, how much honor I am now paying her.
§1075bScio, et ístuc illi dícam.
I know, and I shall tell her that.
§1076Contra aúro alii hanc vendére potuit operám.
I could have sold this service to others for gold.
§1076bPol istuc tibi crédo.
By Pollux, I believe that of you.
Pure warriors are born, whom this man has made pregnant, and the children live for eight hundred years.
§1078bVae tibi, nugátor.
Woe to you, trifler.
§1079Quin mílle annorum pérpetuo vivónt, ab saeclo ad saéclum.
Nay, they live continuously for a thousand years, from age to age.
§1080Eo mínus dixi, ne haec cénseret me advórsum se mentíri.
I said less, lest she should think I was lying against you.
§1081Perií, quot hic ipse annós vivet, cuius fílii tam diu vívont?
Good grief, how many years will he himself live, whose sons live so long?
§1082Postríduo natus sum égo, mulier, quam Iúppiter ex Ope nátust.
I was born, woman, the day after Jupiter was born from Ops.
§1083Si hic prídie natus forét quam ille est, hic habéret regnum in caélo.
If he had been born the day before him, he would have the kingdom in heaven.
§1084Iam iám sat, amabo, est.
Now, now that is enough, please.
sínite abeam, si póssum, viva a vóbis.
Let me depart, if I can, alive from you.
§1085Quin érgo abis, quando résponsumst?
Why don't you depart then, since the answer is given?
I shall go and bring her here, for whose sake I have this task.
númquid vis?
Do you want anything else?
§1086bNe mágis sim pulcher quám sum,
That I should not be more beautiful than I am,