§674probam et sapientem et sobriam. §674bSi quid bonis §675boni fit, esse id et grave et gratum solet. §676Audin tu, Persa? ubi argentum ab hoc acceperis,
(Toxilus)...an honest, wise, and sober one. (Maiden) If any good happens to good people, it is usually both significant and welcome. (Toxilus) Do you hear, Persian?
§677simulato, quasi eas prorsum in navem. §677bNe doce. §678Per angiportum rursum te ad me recipito §679illac per hortum. §679bQuod futurum est praedicas. §680At ne cum argento protinam permittas domum, §681moneo, te. §681bQuod te dignumst, me dignum esse vis? §682Tace, párce voci: praeda progreditur foras. §683Probae hic argenti sunt sexaginta minae, §684duobus nummis minus est. §684bQuid ei nummi sciunt? §685Cruminam hanc emere aut facere uti remigret domum. §686Ne non sat esses leno, id metuebas miser, §687impure, avare, ne crumillam amitteres? §688Sine quaeso.
When you have received the silver from him, pretend as if you are going straight to the ship. (Sagaristio) Don't instruct me. (Toxilus) Take yourself back to me through the alleyway, there through the garden. (Sagaristio) You are predicting what is going to happen. (Toxilus) But do not run straight home with the silver, I warn you. (Sagaristio) Do you want me to be worthy of what is worthy of you? (Toxilus) Be silent, spare your voice: the prey is coming outside. (Dordalus) Here are sixty minae of proven silver, it is short by two coins. (Toxilus) What are those coins supposed to do? (Dordalus) To buy this purse, or to make it return home. (Toxilus) Were you afraid, you wretched man, that you wouldn't be enough of a pimp, you impure, greedy wretch, that you might lose a tiny purse? (Maiden) Please, let it go.
quando lenost, nil mirum facit. §689Lucro faciundo ego auspicavi in hunc diem: §690nil mihi tam parvist, quin me id pigeat perdere. §691age, accipe hoc sis. §691bHunc in collum, nisi piget, §692impone. §692bVero fiat. §692cNumquid ceterum §693me voltis? §693bQuid tam properas? §693cIta negotiumst: §694mandatae quae sunt, volo deferre epistulas; §695geminum autem fratrem servire audivi hic meum, §696eum ego ut requiram átque uti redimam volo. §697Atque edepol tu me commonuisti haú male. §698videor vidisse hic forma persimilem tui, §699eadém statura. §699bQuippe qui frater siet. §700Quid est tibi nomen? §700bquod ad te attinet. §701Quid attinet non scire? §701bAusculta ergo, ut scias: §702Vaniloquidorus Virginesvendonides §703Nugiepiloquides Argentumexterebronides §705Quodsemelarripides Numquameripides.
Since he is a pimp, he does nothing surprising. (Dordalus) I started this day with an omen for making a profit: nothing is so small to me that it wouldn't pain me to lose it. Come, take this, please. (Sagaristio) Hang this on my neck, unless it displeases you, place it. (Dordalus) Let it be done. (Sagaristio) Do you want anything else from me? (Dordalus) Why are you in such a hurry? (Sagaristio) Such is my business: I want to deliver the letters that were entrusted to me; moreover, I heard that my twin brother is serving here as a slave, I want to look for him and redeem him. (Dordalus) And by Pollux, you have reminded me not badly. I seem to have seen someone here very like you in appearance, of the same stature. (Sagaristio) Naturally, since he is my brother. (Dordalus) What is your name? (Sagaristio)...which concerns you. (Dordalus) What concerns me not to know? (Sagaristio) Listen then, so that you may know: Vaniloquidorus Virginesvendonides Nugiepiloquides Argentumexterebronides Quodsemelarripides Numquameripides.
em tibi. §706Eu hercle, nomen multimodis scriptumst tuom. §707Ita sunt Persarum mores, longa nomina, §708contortiplicata habemus.
There it is for you. (Dordalus) Well, by Hercules, your name is written in many ways. (Sagaristio) Such are the customs of the Persians, we have long, complexly intertwined names.
numquid ceterum §709voltis? §709bVale. §709cEt vos, nam animus iam in navist meus. §710Cras ires potius, hodie hic cenares. §710bVale. — §711Postquam illic hinc abiit, dicere hic quidvis licet. §712ne hic tibi dies inluxit lucrificabilis. §713nam non emisti hanc, verum fecisti lucri. §714Ille quidem iam scit, quid negoti gesserit, §715qui mihi furtivam meo periclo vendidit,
Do you want anything else? (Dordalus) Farewell. (Sagaristio) And you too, for my mind is already on the ship. (Dordalus) You should rather go tomorrow and dine here today. (Sagaristio) Farewell.— (Dordalus) Now that that fellow has departed from here, one may say whatever one likes here. Truly this day has dawned profitable for you, for you did not buy this girl, but truly made a profit. (Aside) He indeed already knows what business he has done, who sold me a stolen girl at my own risk, accepted the money, and left.
How do I know now, whether she will not be claimed as free immediately?
§718in Persas? nugas.
Where shall I follow him? To Persia?
§718bCredidi gratum fore §719beneficium meum apud te. §719bImmo equidem gratiam §720tibi, Toxile, habeo; nam te sensi sedulo §721mihi dare bonam operam.
Nonsense. (Toxilus) I believed my kindness would be welcome with you. (Dordalus) Nay indeed, I feel gratitude to you, Toxilus; for I perceived that you diligently gave me good assistance. (Toxilus) I to you?
Nay, diligently indeed. (Dordalus) Ah, I forgot inside just now to order what I wanted ordered.
adserva hanc. — §723bSalvast haec quidem. §724Pater nunc cessat. §724bQuid si admoneam? §724cTempus est. §725Heus, Saturio, exi.
Guard her.— (Toxilus) She is indeed safe. (Maiden) My father is delaying now. (Toxilus) What if I go and remind him? (Maiden) It is time. (Toxilus) Hey, Saturio, come out.
Now is that opportunity to take revenge on our enemy. (Saturio) Here I am.
numquid moror? §727Age, illúc abscede procul e conspectu, tace; §728ubi cum lenone me videbis conloqui, §729tum turbam facito. §729bDictum sapienti sat est. §730Tunc, quando abiero— §730bQuin taces? scio quid velis.
Am I delaying? (Toxilus) Come, withdraw over there far out of sight, be silent; when you see me conversing with the pimp, then raise a racket. (Saturio) A word is enough for the wise. (Toxilus) Then, when I have gone— (Saturio) Why don't you be silent?
§731Transcidi loris omnis adveniens domi, §732ita mihi supellex squalet atque aedes meae. §733Redis tu tandem? §733bRedeo. §733cNe ego hodie tibi §734bona multa feci. §734bFateor, habeo gratiam. §735Num quippiam aliud me vis? §735bVt bene sit tibi. §736Pol istúc quidem omen iám ego usurpabo domi, §737nam iam inclinabo me cum liberta tua. §738Nisi ego illum hominem perdo, perii.
I know what you want. (Dordalus) I cut everyone with whips upon arriving home, so dirty are my furniture and my house to me. (Toxilus) Are you back at last? (Dordalus) I am back. (Toxilus) Indeed today for you I have done many good things. (Dordalus) I confess it, I have gratitude. (Toxilus) Do you want anything else of me? (Dordalus) That it may be well with you. (Toxilus) By Pollux, that omen indeed I will now use at home, for I am now going to recline with your freedwoman. (Saturio) Unless I ruin that man, I am ruined.
atque optume §739eccum ipsum ante aedes. §739bSalve multum, mi pater. §740Salve, mea gnata. §740bEi, Persa me pessum dedit. §741Pater hic meus est. §741bHem, quid? pater? perii oppido.
And most excellently there he is himself before the house. (Maiden) Greetings, my father. (Saturio) Greetings, my daughter. (Dordalus) Alas, the Persian has ruined me. (Maiden) This is my father. (Dordalus) Ah, what?
§742quid ego igitur cesso infelix lamentarier
Father?
§743minas sexaginta? §743bEgo pol te faciam, scelus, §744te quoque etiam ipsum ut lamenteris. §744bOccidi. §745Age ambula in ius, leno. §745bQuid me in ius vocas? §746Illi apud praetorem dicam.
I am utterly ruined. Why then do I, unhappy man, delay to lament sixty minae? (Saturio) By Pollux, I will make you, scoundrel, lament yourself as well. (Dordalus) I am slain. (Saturio) Come, walk to court, pimp. (Dordalus) Why do you summon me to court? (Saturio) I will tell you there before the praetor.
sed ego in ius voco. §747Nonne antestaris?
But I summon you to court. (Dordalus) Won't you act as a witness?