§343quid ais tu? quando illi apud me mecum caput et corpus copulas? †
(Agorastocles) What do you say? When will you join your head and body with me at my house?
§344Quo die Orcus Acherunte mortuos amiserit.
(Adelphasium) On the day when Orcus releases the dead from Acheron.
§345Sunt mihi intus nescio quot nummi aurei lymphatici.
(Agorastocles) I have inside I don't know how many mad gold coins.
§346Deferto ad me, faxo actutum constiterit lymphaticum.
(Adelphasium) Bring them to me, I will make sure they stop being mad immediately.
§347Bellula hercle.
(Agorastocles) By Hercules, she is pretty!
§347bI díerecte in maxumam malam crucem.
(Milphio) Go straight to the greatest evil cross.
§348Quam magis aspecto, tam magis est nimbata et nugae merae.
(Agorastocles) The more I look at her, the more she is storm-clouded and mere nonsense.
§349Segrega sermonem.
(Adelphasium) Cut off the conversation.
taedet.
It's tiresome.
§349bAge, sustolle hoc amiculum.
(Agorastocles) Come, lift up this little cloak.
§350Pura sum, comperce amabo me attrectare, Agorastocles.
(Adelphasium) I am pure, please refrain from touching me, Agorastocles.
§351Quid agam nunc?
(Agorastocles) What should I do now?
§351bSi sapias, curam hanc facere compendi potes.
(Milphio) If you are wise, you can save this care.
§352Quid? ego non te curem? quid ais, Milphio?
(Agorastocles) What? Should I not care for you? What do you say, Milphio?
§352bEcce odium meum.
(Milphio) Here is my disgust.
§353quid me vis?
(Milphio) What do you want of me?
§353bCur mi haec irata est?
(Agorastocles) Why is she angry with me?
§353cCur haec irata est tibi?
(Milphio) Why is she angry with you?
§354cur ego id curem? namque istaec magis meast curatio. †
(Milphio) Why should I care about that? For that care is more mine.
§355Iam hercle tu periisti, nísi illam mihi tam tranquillam facis §356quam mare olimst, quóm ibi alcedo pullos educit suos.
(Agorastocles) Now by Hercules you are dead, unless you make her as calm for me (Agorastocles) as the sea once is, when the halcyon brings out its chicks there.
§357Quid faciam?
(Milphio) What should I do?
§357bExora, blandire, expalpa.
(Agorastocles) Entreat, flatter, stroke.
§357cFaciam sedulo.
(Milphio) I will do so diligently.
§358sed vide sís, ne tu oratorem hunc pugnis pectas postea.
(Milphio) But see, please, that you do not comb this speaker with fists afterwards.
§359Non faciam.
(Agorastocles) I will not do so.
§359bNon aequos in me es, sed morare et male facis.
(Adelphasium) You are not fair to me, but you delay and do badly.
§360bene promittis multa ex multis: omnia in cassum cadunt.
(Adelphasium) You promise many good things out of many: all fall in vain.
§361liberare iuravisti me haud semel, sed centiens: §362dum te exspecto, neque ego usquam aliam mihi paravi copiam §363neque istuc usquam apparet; ita nunc servio nihilo minus.
(Adelphasium) You swore to free me not once, but a hundred times: (Adelphasium) While I wait for you, I have neither prepared any other resource for myself anywhere, (Adelphasium) Nor does that appear anywhere; thus now I serve no less.
§364i, soror.
(Adelphasium) Go, sister.
apscede tu a me.
Step away from me.
§364bPerii.
(Agorastocles) I am ruined.
ecquid agis, Milphio?
Are you doing anything, Milphio?
§365Mea voluptas, mea delicia, mea vita, mea amoenitas, §366meus ocellus, meum labellum, mea salus, meum savium, §367meum mel, meum cor, mea colustra, meus molliculus caseus— §368Mene ego illaéc patiar praesente dici? discrucior miser, §369nisi ego illum iubeo quadrigis cursim ad carnificem rapi.
(Milphio) My pleasure, my delight, my life, my charm, (Milphio) My little eye, my little lip, my salvation, my sweet kiss, (Milphio) My honey, my heart, my colostrum, my soft little cheese— (Agorastocles) Shall I suffer those things to be said with her present? I am wretchedly tortured, (Agorastocles) Unless I order him to be snatched swiftly by quadrigae to the executioner.
§370Noli, amabo, suscensere ero meo, causa mea.
(Milphio) Do not, please, be angry with my master, for my sake.
§371ego faxo, si non irata es, ninnium pro te dabit §372atque te fáciet ut sis civis Attica atque libera.
(Milphio) I will make sure, if you are not angry, he will give money for you (Milphio) And make you to be an Attic citizen and free.
§373quin adire sínis? quin tibi qui bene volunt, bene vis item?
(Milphio) Why do you not allow him to approach? Why do you not wish well to those who wish well to you?
§374si ante quid mentitust, nunciam dehinc érit verax tibi.
(Milphio) If he lied before, henceforth he will be truthful to you.
§375sine te exorem, sine prehendam auriculis, sine dem savium.
(Milphio) Let me win you over, let me take you by the ears, let me give you a kiss.
§376Apscede hinc sis, sycophanta par ero.
(Adelphasium) Go away from here, please, you will be equal to a sycophant.
§376bAt scin quo modo?
(Milphio) But do you know how?
§377iam hercle ego faciam ploratillum, nisi te facio propitiam, §378atque hic ne me verberetillum faciat, nisi te propitio, §379male formido: novi ego huius mores morosi malos.
(Milphio) Now by Hercules I will make you cry a little, unless I make you propitious, (Milphio) And lest this man make me a beaten-little-one, unless I propitiate you, (Milphio) I fear badly: I know his morose and bad manners.
§380quam ob rem amabo, mea voluptas, sine te hoc exorarier.
(Milphio) Therefore, please, my pleasure, allow yourself to be won over in this.
(Agorastocles) I am not a man worth three obols, unless I to that whip-scoundrel (Agorastocles) Knock out his eyes and teeth.
em voluptatem tibi, §383em mel, em cor, em labellum, em salutem, em savium.
Here is "pleasure" for you, (Agorastocles) Here is "honey", here is "heart", here is "little lip", here is "salvation", here is "kiss"!
§384Impias, ere, te: oratorem verberas.
(Milphio) You commit impiety, master: you beat your speaker.
(Agorastocles) Now so much the more: (Agorastocles) Did I order you to entreat in this way?
§386bQuo modo ergo orem?
(Milphio) How then should I entreat?
§386cRogas?
(Agorastocles) Do you ask?
§387sic enim díceres, sceleste: huius voluptas, te opsecro, §388huius mel, huius cor, huius labellum, huius lingua, huius savium, §389huius delicia, huiús salus amoena, huius festivitas: §391omnia illa, quae dicebas tua, ésse ea memorares mea.
(Agorastocles) You should say thus, scoundrel: "I beseech you, this man's pleasure, (Agorastocles) This man's honey, this man's heart, this man's little lip, this man's tongue, this man's kiss, (Agorastocles) This man's delight, this man's pleasant salvation, this man's festivity": (Agorastocles) All those things which you said were yours, you should mention as being mine.
§392Opsecro hercle te, voluptas huius atque odium meum, §393huius amica mammeata, mea inimica et malevola, §394oculus huius, lippitudo mea, mel huius, fel meum, §395ut tu huic irata ne sis aut, si id fieri non potest, §396capias restim ac te suspendas cúm ero et vostra familia.
(Milphio) I beseech you, by Hercules, this man's pleasure and my hatred, (Milphio) This man's breasted girlfriend, my enemy and malevolent one, (Milphio) This man's eye, my sore eye, this man's honey, my gall, (Milphio) That you do not be angry with this man, or, if that cannot be done, (Milphio) That you take a rope and hang yourself with your master and your household.