§134bTum tu me sine illam vendere.
Then allow me to sell her.
§135Tun illam vendas?
You sell her?
No, I will commission someone else to sell her, who will claim to be a foreigner.
Just as that pimp has not been here six months since he moved from Megara.
§138bPereunt reliquiae.
The leftovers are going to ruin.
§139posterius istuc tamen potest.
Yet that can wait for later.
§139bScin quam potest?
Do you know how possible that is?
§140numquam hercle hodie hic prius edes, ne frustra sis, §141quam te hoc facturum quod rogo adfirmas mihi; §142atqué nisi gnatam tecum huc iam quantum potest §143adducis, exigam hercle ego te ex hac decuria.
By Hercules, you shall never eat here today—make no mistake— before you promise me that you will do what I ask; and unless you bring your daughter here with you as quickly as possible, by Hercules, I will expel you from this division.
§144quid nunc? quid est? quin dicis quid facturus sis?
What now? What is it? Why don't you say what you're going to do?
Please, by Hercules, sell me too as well, if you like, provided you sell me full.
§146bHoc, si facturu's, face.
If you're going to do this, do it.
§147Faciam equidem quae vis.
Indeed, I will do what you wish.
§147bBene facis.
You do well.
propera, abi domum; §148praemonstra docte, praecipe astu filiae, §149quid fabuletur: ubi se natam praedicet, §150qui sibi parentes fuerint, unde surpta sit.
Hurry, go home; instruct your daughter cleverly, advise her with cunning what she is to say: where she should declare she was born, who her parents were, and where she was stolen from.
But let her assert that she was born far from Athens; and let her weep when she mentions those things.
§152bEtiam tu taces?
Aren't you quiet yet?
§153ter tanto peior ipsa est quam illam tu esse vis.
She is three times more wicked herself than you want her to be.
§154Lepide hercle dicis.
By Hercules, you speak delightfully.
sed scin quid facias? cape
But do you know what you should do?
§155tunicam atque zonam, et chlamydem adferto et causeam, §156quam ille habeat qui hanc lenoni huic vendat.
Take a tunic and a belt, and bring a chlamys and a causea, which the man who sells her to this pimp should wear.
§156bEu, probe.
Oh, excellent.
§157Quasi sit peregrinus.
As if he were a foreigner.
§157bLaudo.
I approve.
And you, bring your daughter elegantly adorned in a foreign style.
§159πόθεν ornamenta?
From where the costumes?
Get them from the choragus; he must give them: the aediles contracted for them to be supplied.
§161Iam faxo hic aderunt.
I'll see to it they are here directly.
sed ego nihil horunc scio.
But I know nothing of these matters.
§162Nihil hercle vero.
Nothing indeed, by Hercules!
nam ubi ego argentum accepero, §163continuo tu illam a lenone adserito manu.
For when I have received the money, you immediately claim her from the pimp by laying hands on her.
§164Sibi habeat, si non extemplo ab eo abduxero.
Let him keep her for himself, if I don't drag her away from him immediately.
— §165Abi et istuc cura.
Go and attend to that.
interibi egó puerum volo §166mittere ad amicam meam, út habeat animum bonum, §167me esse effecturum hoc hodie.
In the meantime, I want to send my boy to my sweetheart, so that she may be of good cheer, knowing that I will accomplish this today.
nimis longum loquor. —
I am talking too long.
§168Satis fúit índoctae, ímmemori, insípienti dicére totiens.
It would have been enough to say it so many times to an untaught, forgetful, foolish woman.
§169nimis tándem me quidem pró barda et pro rústica reor habitam ésse aps te.
Really, I think I have been regarded by you as too stupid and too simple.
§170quamquam égo vinum bibo, at mándata non cónsuevi simul bíbere una.
Though I drink wine, I am not accustomed to drinking down my instructions along with it.
§171me quídem iam satis tibi spéctatam censébam esse et meos móres.
Indeed, I thought that I and my character had already been sufficiently tested by you.
§172nam equidém te iam sectór quintum hunc annúm, quom interea, crédo, §173ovis si ín ludum iret, pótuisset iam fíeri ut probe litterás sciret, §174quom interím tu meum ingeniúm fans atque infans nondum etiam edídicisti.
For indeed, I have been following you now for this fifth year, during which, I believe, if a sheep went to school, it could have been made to know its letters well, while in the meantime you, whether I speak or am silent, have not yet fully learned my nature.
§175potin út taceas? potin né moneas?
Can't you be quiet? Can't you stop lecturing me?
§176memini ét scio et calleo et cómmemini.
I remember, and I know, and I understand, and I keep it well in mind.
§177amas pól misera: id tuos scátit animus.
By Pollux, you are in love, poor thing: your mind is overflowing with it.
§178ego istúc placidum tibi ut sít faciam.
I will make sure that this turns out smoothly for you.
§179Miser ést qui amat. —
Miserable is the one who loves.
Certainly, indeed, he is nothing who loves nothing: what need has that man of life?
§181iré decet me, út erae opsequéns fiam, libéra ea opera ócius ut sit.
It is fitting for me to go, that I may be obedient to my mistress, so that by this effort she may be free all the faster.
§182convéniam hunc Toxilum: eius auris, quae mandata sunt, onerabo.
I will meet this Toxilus: I will load his ears with the messages I was charged with.
§183Sátin haec tibi sunt plána et certa? sátin haec meministi ét tenes?
Are these things sufficiently clear and certain to you? Do you remember and hold them well enough?
§184Melius quam tu qui docuisti.
Better than you who taught them.
§184bAin véro, verbereum caput?
Do you really say so, you whipping-post?
§185Aio enim véro.
Indeed I do.
§185bQuid ergo dixi?
What did I say then?
§185cEgo recte apud illam dixero.
I will speak correctly in her presence.
§186Non edepol scis.
By Pollux, you don't know.
§186bDa hercle pignus, ni omnia memini et scio, §187et quidem sí scis tute, quot hodie habeas digitos in manu.
By Hercules, lay a wager, if I don't remember and know everything— and indeed, if you yourself know how many fingers you have on your hand today.
§188Egon dem pignus tecum?
Should I lay a wager with you?
§188bAudacter, si lubido est perdere.
Boldly, if you have a mind to lose.
§189Bona pax sit potius.
Let there rather be a good peace.
§189bTum tu igitur sine me ire.
Then let me go.
Both I order and I allow; but I want you to go in such a way that you are at home when I think you are there.
§191Faciam.
I will do so.
§191bQuo ergo is nunc?
Where are you going now, then?
§191cDomum: uti domi sim, quom illi censeas.
Home: so that I may be at home when you think I am there.
§192Scelus tu pueri es, atque ob istánc rem ego aliqui te peculiabo.
You are a rascal of a boy, and for that matter I will punish you somehow.