§747bTuan ego causa, carnufex, §748cuiquam mortali libero auris atteram, §749qui hic commercaris civis homines liberos?
(Witness) For your sake, you executioner, would I pull the ears of any free mortal (to make them a witness), you who trade here in free citizens?
§750Sine dicam.
(Dordalus) Let me speak.
§750bNolo.
(Saturio) I don't want to.
§750cAúdi.
(Dordalus) Listen.
§750dSurdus sum.
(Saturio) I am deaf.
ambula.
Walk.
§751sequere hac, sceleste, feles virginaria.
Follow this way, scoundrel, you cat after maidens.
§752sequere hac, mea gnata, me usque ad praetorem. — §752bSequor. — §753Hostíbus victis, civíbus salvis, re plácida, pacibus pérfectis, §754bello éxstincto, re béne gestá, integró exércitu et praésidiis, §755cum béne nos, Iuppiter, iúvisti, dique álii omnes caelípotentes, §756eas vóbis habeo grátes atque ago, quía probe sum últus meum ínimicum.
Follow this way, my daughter, to the praetor's.— (Maiden) I follow.— (Toxilus) With the enemies conquered, the citizens safe, the state peaceful, and peace achieved, the war extinguished, the business well done, and the army and garrisons intact, since you, Jupiter, and all the other heaven-ruling gods, have greatly helped us, I hold and give you these thanks, because I have thoroughly avenged myself on my enemy.
§757nunc ób eam rem inter párticipes didám praedam et partícipabo.
Now for that reason I will distribute and share the booty among my accomplices.
Come outside: here, before the entrance and the door, I want to receive my accomplices well.
§759státuite hic léctulos, pónite hic quae ádsolent.
Set up the couches here, place here the things that are customary.
§759ahic státui volo primum † aliqua mihi, §760unde égo omnis hilaros, lúdentis, laetíficantis faciam út fiant, §761quorum ópera mihi facilía factu facta haéc sunt, quae volui éffieri.
I want first to be set up here for me some things, whereby I may cause all to become cheerful, playful, and rejoicing, by whose help these things which I wished to be brought about have been made easy for me to do.
§762nam impróbus est homo qui béneficium scit áccipere et reddére nescit.
For he is a wicked man who knows how to receive a benefit but does not know how to return it.
§763Toxíle mi, cur ego síne te sum, cur tu aútem sine me es?
(Lemniselenis) My Toxilus, why am I without you, and why indeed are you without me?
(Toxilus) Come then, come to me and embrace me, please.
§764bEgo véro.
(Lemniselenis) Indeed I will.
§764cOh, nihil hoc mágis dulcest.
(Toxilus) Oh, nothing is sweeter than this.
§765sed, amábo, oculus meus, quín lectis nos áctutum comméndamus?
(Lemniselenis) But, please, my darling, why don't we immediately entrust ourselves to the couches?
§766Omnía quae tu vis, éa cupio.
(Toxilus) Whatever you wish, I desire.
§766bMutúa fiunt a me. age, age ergo,
It is mutual on my part.
§767tu Ságaristio, accumbe ín summo.
Come, come then, you, Sagaristio, recline at the top.
§767bEgo níl moror: cedo parem, quém pepigi.
(Sagaristio) I don't mind; give me the partner I bargained for.
§768Temperí.
(Toxilus) In due time.
§768bMi istuc temperí serost.
(Sagaristio) That 'due time' of yours is too late for me.
§768cHoc age, accúmbe.
(Toxilus) Attend to this, recline.
hunc diém suavem §769meum nátalem agitemús amoenum.
Let us celebrate this sweet, pleasant birthday of mine.
date aquám manibus, apponíte mensam.
Give water for the hands, set the table.
§770do hanc tíbi florentem flórenti.
I give this blooming wreath to you, blooming yourself.
tu hic éris dictatrix nóbis.
You shall be our female director here.
§771Age, púere, ab summo séptenis cyathís committe hos lúdos.
Come, boy, start these games from the top with seven cups each.
§772Move mánus, propera, Paegniúm, tarde cyathós mihi das, cedo sáne.
Move your hands, hurry, Paegnium, you give me the cups too slowly, hand it over indeed.
§773bene míhi, bene vobis, béne meae amicae, optátus hic míhi dies dátus hodiést.
Good luck to me, good luck to you, good luck to my sweetheart!
§774ab dís, quia te licet líberam med amplécti.
This wished-for day has been given to me today by the gods, because I am allowed to embrace you as a free woman.
§774bTua factum ópera.
(Lemniselenis) It was done by your effort.
§775Bene omníbus nobis.
(Toxilus) Good luck to us all.
hoc méa manus tuaé poclúm donat, ut amántem §776amantí decet.
My hand gives this cup to yours, as is fitting for a lover to a lover.
§776bCédo.
(Lemniselenis) Give it.
§776cAccípe.
(Toxilus) Take it.
§776dBene eí qui invidét mi et eí qui hoc gaúdet.
(Lemniselenis) Good luck to him who envies me and to him who rejoices in this.
§777Qui súnt † qui erunt quiqué fuerunt quiqué futuri sunt pósthac, §778solus ego omnibus antideo facilé, miserrímus hominum út vivam.
(Dordalus) Of those who are, who have been, and who will be hereafter, I alone easily surpass them all in living as the most wretched of men.
§779_780perii, ínterii.
I am ruined, I am dead.
pessímus hic mi dies hódie inluxit córruptor, §781ita mé Toxilus perfábricavit itaqué meam rem divéxavit.
This worst day, a destroyer, has dawned for me today, so did Toxilus frame me and so did he tear my property to pieces.
§782vehiclum árgenti miser éieci, neque quam ób rem eieci, hábeo.
I, a wretched man, have thrown away a wagonload of silver, and I do not have anything to show for why I threw it away.
§783qui illúm Persam atque omnís Persas atque étiam omnis persónas §784male di ómnes perdant, íta misero Toxílus haec mihi concívit.
Whom—that Persian, and all Persians, and indeed all characters (masks)— may all the gods curse and destroy, so has Toxilus stirred up these troubles for wretched me.
§785quia eí fidem non habui árgenti, eo míhi eas machinas mólitust; §786quem pól ego ut non in crúciatum atque in cómpedis cogam, sí vivam, §787siquidem húc umquam erus rediérit eius, quod spéro—sed quid ego áspicio?
Because I did not trust him with the silver, for that reason he set these engines of fraud in motion against me; whom, by Pollux, if I live, I will surely drive into torture and shackles, if indeed his master ever returns here, which I hope—but what do I see?
§788hoc víde, quae haec fabulast? híc quidem pol potánt.
Look at this, what play is this? By Pollux, they are drinking here indeed.
adgrediar.
I will approach.
ó bone vir, §789_790salvéto, et tu, bona líberta.
O good man, greetings, and you, good freedwoman.
§789_790bDordálus hic quidemst.
(Toxilus) This is indeed Dordalus.
§789_790cQuin iúbe adire.
(Sagaristio) Why don't you bid him approach?
§791Adi, sí libet.
(Toxilus) Approach, if you please.
§791bAgite, adplaúdamus.
Come, let us applaud.
§791cDordále, homo lepidissúme, salve.
Dordalus, most charming man, greetings!
§792locus híc tuos est, hic accumbe.
Here is your place, recline here.
férte aquam pédibus.
Bring water for his feet.
praeben tú puere?
Are you providing it, boy?
§793Ne sís me uno digito áttigeris, ne te ád terram, scelus, ádfligam.
(Dordalus) Don't you dare touch me with a single finger, lest I dash you to the ground, you scoundrel.
§794At tíbi ego hoc continuó cyatho oculum éxcutiam † tuum.
(Sagaristio) And I will immediately knock out your eye with this cup.
§795Quid aís, crux, stimulorúm tritor? quo módo me hodie versávisti,
(Dordalus) What do you say, you cross-gallows, you worn-out whip-fodder?
§796ut me ín tricas coniécisti, quo módo de Persa mánus mi aditast?
In what way did you turn me upside down today, how did you throw me into these tangles, how was a trick played on me concerning the Persian?
§797Iurgium hínc auféras, si sápias.
(Toxilus) Take your quarreling away from here, if you are wise.
§798At, bóna liberta, haec scívisti et me célavisti?
(Dordalus) But, good freedwoman, did you know these things and conceal them from me?
(Lemniselenis) It is foolishness for one who is allowed to enjoy oneself to turn first to lawsuits.
posterius ístaec te
Later on, those things of yours...