§800bCras subscribam homini dicam.
Tomorrow I will file a lawsuit and bring a charge against the man.
§801Numquid me?
Do you want anything of me?
§801bApscedas, sumas ornatum tuom.
Go away, take off your costume.
§802Non sum nequiquam miles factus; paululum §803praedae intus feci: dum lenonis familia §804dormitat, extis sum satur factus probe.
I have not become a soldier in vain; a little prey I have made inside: while the pimp's household was dozing, I have filled myself quite well with the entrails.
§805abscedam hinc intro.
I will depart from here inside.
— §805bFactum a vobis comiter.
It was kindly done by you.
§806bonam dedistis, advocati, operam mihi.
You have given good assistance to me, advocates.
§807cras mane, quaeso, in comitio estote obviam.
Tomorrow morning, please, meet me in the comitium.
§808tu sequere me intro.
You follow me inside.
vos valete.
Farewell, you all.
— §808bEt tu vale.
And farewell to you.
That fellow demands an injury remarkably: he thinks that we should serve him at our own expense.
§811verum ita sunt isti nostri divites: §812si quid bene facias, levior pluma est gratia, §813si quid peccatumst, plumbeas iras gerunt.
But so indeed are those rich men of ours: if you do anything well, their gratitude is lighter than a feather; if any mistake is made, they bear leaden rages.
§814domos abeamus nostras, sultis, nunciam, §815quando id, quoi rei operam dedimus, impetravimus, §816ut perderemus corruptorem civium.
Let us go to our homes now, if you please, since we have obtained that for which we gave our effort: to ruin the corruptor of the citizens.
— §817Exspécto quo pactó meae techinaé processuraé sient.
I am waiting to see in what way my tricks are going to turn out.
§818studeo hunc lenonem perdere, qui meum erum miserum macerat, §819is me autem porro verberat, incursat pugnis, calcibus: §820servire amanti miseria est, praesertim qui quod amat caret.
I am eager to ruin this pimp, who torments my wretched master; but he in turn beats me, attacks me with fists and heels: to serve a lover is misery, especially one who lacks what he loves.
§821attat, e fano recipere video se Syncerastum, §822lenonis servom; quid habeat sermonis auscultabo.
Ah, I see Syncerastus returning from the temple, the pimp's servant; I will listen to what he says.
§823Sátis spectatum est, deos atque homines eius neglegere gratiam, §824quoí hominí erus est consimilis velut ego habeo hunc huius modi.
It has been sufficiently shown that gods and men disregard his well-being, to whatever man there is a master just like this one I have of this kind.
§825neque periurior neque peior alter usquam est gentium, §826quám erus meus est, neque tam luteus neque tam caeno conlitus.
There is no other man anywhere on earth more perjured or worse than my master is, nor so dirty, nor so besmeared with mud.
§827ita me di ament, vel in lautumiis vel in pistrino mavelim §828agere aetatem praepeditus latere forti ferreo, §829quam ápud lenonem hunc servitutem colere.
So may the gods love me, I would rather in the stone quarries or in the mill spend my life, bound with a strong iron chain, than serve as a slave at this pimp's house.
quid illuc est genus, §830quae illic hominum corruptelae fiunt.
What kind of place is that, what corruptions of men take place there!
di vostram fidem,
Gods, by your faith!
§831quodvis genus ibi hominum videas, quasi Acheruntem veneris, §832equitem peditem, libertinum, furem an fugitivom velis, §833verberatum, vinctum, addictum: quí habet quod det, utut homo est,
You may see any kind of men there, as if you had come to Acheron: knight or foot-soldier, freedman, thief or fugitive if you like, beaten, bound, adjudged to slavery; whoever has something to give, whatever kind of man he is, all kinds are received.
§834omnia genera recipiuntur; itaque in totis aedibus §835tenebrae latebrae, bibitur estur quasi in popina, hau secus.
And so in the whole house there are darkness and hiding places; they drink and eat just like in a tavern, no different.
§836ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistulas, §837pice signatas, nomina insunt cubitum longis litteris: §838ita vinariorum habemus nostrae dilectum domi.
There you may see lettered clay "letters", sealed with pitch; names are on them in letters a cubit long: thus we have a levy of wine-merchants at our house.
§839Omnia edepol mira sunt, nisi erus hunc heredem facit, §840nam id quidem, illi, uti meditatur, verba faciet mortuo.
By Pollux, all these things are wondrous, unless my master makes this fellow his heir; for indeed, as he is practicing, he will deliver a speech for that dead man.
§841et adire lubet hominem et autem nimis eum ausculto lubens.
I want to approach the man, and yet I listen to him with too much pleasure.
§842Haec quom hic video fieri, crucior: pretiis emptos maxumis, §843apud nos expeculiatos servos fieri suis eris.
When I see these things happen here, I am tortured: that slaves bought at the highest prices are despoiled of their savings at our house for their own masters.
§844sed ad postremum nihil apparet: male partum male disperit.
But in the end nothing is visible: what is badly acquired, badly passes away.
§845Proinde habet orationem, quasi ipse sit frugi bonae, §846qui ipsus hercle ignaviorem potis est facere Ignaviam.
He delivers his speech just as if he himself were of good character, who himself, by Hercules, is able to make Laziness itself more lazy.
§847Nunc domum haec ab aede Veneris refero vasa, ubi hostiis §848erus nequivit propitiare Venerem suo festo die.
Now I am carrying these vessels back home from the temple of Venus, where with sacrifices my master was unable to win the favor of Venus on her feast day.
§849Lepidam Venerem.
Lovely Venus!
For our courtesans, with their very first sacrifices, appeased Venus immediately.
§850bO lepidam Venerem denuo.
Oh, lovely Venus once again!
§851Nunc domum ibo.
Now I will go home.
§851bHeus, Synceraste.
Hey, Syncerastus!
§851cSyncerastum qui vocat?
Who calls Syncerastus?
§852Tuos amicus.
Your friend.
§852bHaud amice facis, qui cum onere offers moram.
You are acting in a very unfriendly way, offering delay to me with a burden.
§853At ob hanc moram tibi reddam operam úbi voles, ubi iusseris.
But for this delay I will return assistance to you whenever you want, wherever you order.
§854habe rem pactam.
Have the matter agreed upon.
§854bSi futurumst, do tibi operam hanc.
If that is going to be, I give you this attention.
§854cQuo modo?
In what way?
§855Vt enim ubi mihi vapulandum sit, tu corium sufferas.
That is, when I am to be beaten, you should offer your hide in my place.
§856apage, nesció quid viri sis.
Get away, I do not know what kind of man you are.
§856bMalus sum.
I am bad.
§856cTibi sis.
Be so to yourself.
§856dTe volo.
I want you.
§857At onus urget.
But the burden presses me.
§857bAt tu appone et respice ad me.
But put it down and look back at me.
§858bSalvos sis, Synceraste.
Good health to you, Syncerastus.
§859bQuemnam hominem?
Which man, pray?
Neither you nor me, Milphio; nor indeed my master.
§860bQuém ament igitur?
Whom should they love then?