§323caecus, non luscitiosus esluscitiosu's.
"You are blind, not dim-sighted.
nam illa quidem domi. §324Quid, domi? §324bDomi hercle vero. §324cAbi, ludis me, Palaestrio. §325Tum mihi sunt manus ínquinatae. §325bQui dum? §325cQuia ludo luto. §326Vae capiti tuo. §326bTuo istuc, Sceledre, promitto fore, §327nisi oculos orationemque aliam commutas tibi. §328sed fores cóncrepuerunt nostrae. §328bAt ego ilico observo foris; §329nam nihil est qua hinc huc transire ea possit nisi recto ostio. §330Quin domi eccam.
For she indeed is at home." "What, at home?" "By Hercules, at home indeed." "Go away, you are mocking me, Palaestrio." "In that case my hands are dirty." "How so?" "Because I am playing with clay." "Woe to your head." "I promise that will be for yours, Sceledrus, unless you change those eyes and your talk." "But our door creaked." "But I will watch the door immediately; for there is no way she can pass from there to here except straight through the door." "Why, look, she is at home.
nescio quae te, Sceledre, scelera suscitant. §331Mihi ego video, mihi ego sapio, mihi ego credo plurumum:
I don't know what crimes are driving you, Sceledrus." "I see for myself, I understand for myself, I believe myself most of all: no man shall deter me from believing that she is in this house.
§332mé homo nemo deterrebit, quin ea sit in his aedibus. §333hic obsistam, ne imprudenti huc ea se subrepsit mihi. §334Meus illic homo est, deturbabo iam ego illum de pugnaculis. §335vin iam faciam, ut stultividum fateare? §335bAge face. §336Neque te quicquam sapere corde neque oculis uti? §336bVolo. §337Nempe tu istíc ais esse erilem concubinam? §337bAtque arguo §338eam me vidisse osculantem hic intus cum alieno viro. §339Scin tu nullum commeatum hínc esse a nobis? §339bScio. §340Neque solarium neque hortum, nisi per impluvium? §340bScio.
I will block the way here, lest she steal in here while I am off my guard." "(aside) That fellow is mine; now I will throw him down from his battlements. (to Sceledrus) Do you want me to make you confess right now that you see things foolishly?" "Come, do it." "And that you understand nothing with your heart and do not use your eyes?" "I do." "You say, of course, that the master's mistress is over there?" "And indeed I maintain that I saw her kissing with another man in here inside." "Do you know that there is no passage from our house to that one?" "I know." "Neither a balcony nor a garden, except through the skylight?" "I know." "What now?
§341Quid nunc? si ea domist, si facio, ut eam exire hinc videas domo, §342dignun es verberibus multis? §342bDignus. §342cServa istas fores, §343ne tibi clam se subterducat istinc atque huc transeat. §344Consilium est ita facere. §344bPede ego iam illam huc tibi sistam in viam. — §345Agedum ergo face.
If she is at home, if I make you see her come out from home here, are you deserving of many lashings?" "Deserving." "Watch those doors, lest she secretly slip out from there and cross over here without your knowing." "That is my plan." "I will make her stand here in the street before you on her own feet right now." "Come then, do it.
vólo scire, utrum egon id quod vidi viderim §346an illic faciat, quod facturum dicit, ut ea sit domi.
I want to know whether I saw what I saw, or whether that fellow will accomplish what he says he will, so that she is at home.
§347nam ego quidem meos oculos habeo nec rogo utendos foris.
For I indeed have my own eyes and do not ask to borrow others from outside.
§348sed hic illi subparasitatur semper, hic eae proxumust, §349primus ad cibum vocatur, primo pulmentum datur; §350nam illic noster est fortasse circiter triennium, §351neque cuiquam quam illi in nostra meliust famulo familia.
But this fellow is always playing the parasite to her, he is closest to her, he is called first to dinner, to him first the side-dish is given; for that fellow has been ours for about three years perhaps, and no slave in our household has it better than him.
§352sed ego hoc quod ago, id me agere oportet, hoc observare ostium.
But what I am doing, that I ought to do: to watch this door.
§353sic obsistam.
Thus I will stand in the way.
hac quidem pol certo verba mihi numquam dabunt. §354Praecépta facito ut mémineris. §354bTotiéns monere mírumst. §355At metuo ut satis sis subdola. §355bCedo vel decem, edocebo §356minime malas ut sint malae, mihi solae quod superfit. §357Age nunciam insiste in dolos; ego abs te procul recedam.
By Pollux, on this side they will certainly never deceive me." "Make sure you remember the instructions." "It is strange that you warn me so many times." "But I fear that you are not cunning enough." "Give me even ten simple women, I will teach them how to be bad when they are not at all bad, so much of it do I have left over for myself alone." "Come now, set about your tricks; I will withdraw far from you.
habeo auris, loquere quidvis. §359Credo ego istoc extemplo tibi esse eundum actutum extra portam, §360dispessis manibus, patibulum quom habebis. §360bQuamnam ob rem? §361Respice dum ad laevam: quis illaec est mulier? §361bPro di immortales,
I have ears, say what you like." "I believe that in that state you must go immediately, without delay, outside the gate, with your hands stretched out, when you carry the cross-bar." "For what reason, pray?" "Just look back to your left: who is that woman?" "O immortal gods!
This is indeed the master's mistress." "By Pollux, so it seems to me too.
§363age nunciam, quando lubet — §363bQuid agam? §363cPerire propera. §364Vbi iste ést bonus sérvos, qui probri me maxumi innocentem §365falso insimulavit?
Come now, since you like —" "What shall I do?" "Hurry to perish." "Where is that excellent slave, who falsely accused me, innocent of the greatest disgrace?
§365bEm tibi, hic mihi dixit tibi quae dixi. §366Tun me vidisse in proxumo hic, sceleste, ais osculantem? §367Atque cum álieno adulescentulo dixit. §367bDixi hercle vero. §368Tun me vidisti? §368bAtque his quidem hercle oculis. §368cCarebis, credo, §369qui plus vident quam quod vident. §369bNumquam hercle deterrebor §370quin viderim id quod viderim. §370bEgo stulta et mora multum, §371quae cum hoc insano fabuler, quem pol ego capitis perdam. §372Noli minitari: scio crucem futuram mihi sepulcrum; §373ibi meí sunt maiores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos.
There he is for you; this fellow told me what I told you." "Do you, wicked man, say that you saw me kissing here in the next house?" "And with a strange young man, he said." "By Hercules, indeed I said so." "You saw me?" "And with these eyes indeed, by Hercules." "You will lose them, I believe, which see more than what is to be seen." "By Hercules, I shall never be deterred from having seen what I saw." "I am very foolish and silly, to talk with this madman, whom by Pollux I will bring to ruin." "Do not threaten: I know that the cross will be my grave; there my ancestors are buried, my father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather.
These eyes of mine cannot be dug out by your threats." "But I want you in a few words, Palaestrio.
opsecro te, §376unde exit haec?
I beseech you, where did she come out from?"