§153víctitabám volup, §154pársimonia ét duritia díscipulinae aliís eram, §155óptumi quique éxpetebant á me doctrinám sibi.
I used to live delightfully, I was to others a model of thrift and the severity of discipline, all the best people used to seek instruction for themselves from me.
§156núnc, postquam nihilí sum, id vero meópte ingenio répperi.
Now, after I am worth nothing, indeed I have found that through my own disposition.
§157Iam prídem ecastor frígida non lávi magis lubénter §158nec quom me melius, mea Scapha, rear esse deficatam.
By Castor, for a long time now I haven't bathed in cold water more delightfully, nor when I could consider myself better cleansed, my Scapha.
There is an outcome for all things, just as this year there was a great harvest.
§160bQuíd ea messis attinet ad meam lavationem?
What does that harvest have to do with my bathing?
§161Nihilo plus quam lavatio tua ad messim.
Nothing more than your bathing has to do with the harvest.
§161bO Venus venusta, §162haec illa est tempestas mea, mihi quae modestiam omnem §163detexit, tectus qua fui; tum mihi Amor et Cupido §164in pectus perpluit meum, neque iam umquam optigere possum: §165madent iam in corde parietes, periere haec oppido aedis.
O beautiful Venus, this is that storm of mine, which has stripped from me all my modesty, with which I was covered; then Love and Desire leaked into my breast, nor can I ever cover myself again: the walls in my heart are now damp, and this house has completely perished.
§166Contempla, amabo, mea Scapha, satin haec me vestis deceat.
Look, please, my Scapha, whether this dress suits me well enough.
§167volo mé placere Philolachi, meo ocello, meo patrono.
I want to please Philolaches, my darling, my patron.
§168Quin tu te exornas moribus lepidis, quom lepida tute es?
Why don't you adorn yourself with charming manners, since you yourself are charming?
§169non vestem amatores amant, sed vestis fartim.
Lovers do not love the dress, but the stuffing of the dress.
§170Ita me di ament, lepidast Scapha, sapit scelesta multum.
So may the gods love me, Scapha is charming, the wicked woman knows a lot.
§171ut lepide omnes mores tenet sententiasque amantum.
How charmingly she understands all the manners and feelings of lovers!
§172Quid nunc?
What now?
§172bQuid est?
What is it?
§172cQuin me aspice et contempla, ut haec me deceat.
Do look at me and contemplate how this suits me.
§173Virtute formae id evenit, te ut deceat quidquid habeas.
That comes from the virtue of your beauty, that whatever you have suits you.
§174Ergo ob istuc verbum te, Scapha, donabo ego hodie aliqui, §175neque patiar te istanc gratiis laudasse, quae placet mi.
Therefore, on account of that word, Scapha, I will present you with something today, nor will I allow you to have praised for nothing that which pleases me.
§176Nolo ego te adsentari mihi.
I do not want you to flatter me.
§176bNimis tú quidem stulta es mulier.
You are indeed an excessively foolish woman.
§177eho, mavis vituperarier falso quam vero extolli?
Oh, do you prefer to be falsely blamed than to be praised with truth?
§178equidem pol vel falso tamen laudari multo malo, §179_180quam vero culpari aut meam speciem alios inridere.
For my part, by Pollux, I much prefer to be praised, even falsely, than to be blamed with truth or to have others mock my appearance.
§181Ego verum amo, verum volo dici mihi: mendacem odi.
I love the truth, I want the truth to be told to me: I hate a liar.
§182Ita tu me ames, ita Philolaches tuos té amet, ut venusta es.
As you may love me, and as your Philolaches may love you, you are indeed lovely.
§183Quid ais, scelesta? quo modo adiurasti? ita ego istam amarem?
What are you saying, wicked woman? How did you swear? That I should love her like that?
§184quid istaéc me, id cur non additum est? infecta dona facio.
Why was "she loves me" not added to that? I make the gifts undone.
§185periisti: quod promiseram tibi donum, perdidisti.
You are ruined: the gift I had promised you, you have lost.
Indeed, by Pollux, I wonder that you, so clever, so compliant and well-instructed, are now acting foolishly in a foolish manner.
§187bQuin mone quaéso, si quid erro.
Do advise me, I pray, if I am doing anything wrong.
§188Tu ecastor erras, quae quidem illum expectes unum atque illi §189morem praecipue sic geras atque alios asperneris.
By Castor, you are indeed wrong, since you wait for him alone and to him especially behave thus obediently and scorn others.
§190matronae, non meretricium est unum inservire amantem.
It is for a married woman, not for a courtesan, to serve one lover.
§191Pro Iuppiter, nam quod malum versatur meae domi illud?
By Jupiter! What is that evil that is dwelling in my house?
§192di deaeque me omnes pessumis exemplis interficiant, §193nisi ego illam anum interfecero siti fameque atque algu.
May all the gods and goddesses destroy me by the worst examples, unless I kill that old woman with thirst, hunger, and cold.
§194Nolo ego mihi male te, Scapha, praecipere.
I do not want you, Scapha, to give me bad advice.
You are plainly foolish, who think that he will be an eternal friend and well-wisher to you.
§196moneo ego te: te ille deseret aetate et satietate.
I warn you: he will desert you with age and satiety.
§197Non spero.
I do not hope so.
§197bInsperata accidunt magis saépe quam quae speres.
Unexpected things happen more often than those which you hope for.
Finally, if you cannot be led by words to believe these words of mine to be true, learn the matter from facts.
vides quaé sim; et quae fui ante.
See what I am, and what I was before.
§200nihilo ego quam nunc tu amata sum; átque uni modo gessi morem: §201qui pol me, ubi aetate hoc caput colorem commutavit, §202reliquit deseruitque me.
I was loved no less than you are now; and I was obedient to only one: who, by Pollux, when age changed the color of this head, left and deserted me.
tibi idem futurum credo.
I believe the same will happen to you.
§203Vix comprimor, quin involem illi in oculos stimulatrici.
I can scarcely restrain myself from flying at the eyes of that instigator.
§204Solam ille me soli sibi suo sumptu liberavit: §205illi me soli censeo esse oportere opsequentem.
He alone freed me, for himself alone, at his own expense: I judge that I ought to be compliant to him alone.
§206Pro di immortales, mulierem lepidam et pudico ingenio.
By the immortal gods, a charming woman and of a modest character!
§207bene hercle factum et gaudeo mihi nihil esse huius causa.
By Hercules, well done! And I rejoice that there is nothing because of this for me.
§208Inscita ecastor tu quidem es.
By Castor, you are indeed ignorant.
§208bQuapropter?
Why so?
§209bCur obsecro non curem?
Why, I pray, should I not care?
§209cLibera es iam.
You are free now.