§861bLepide loquere.
You speak wittily.
§861cMe decet.
It becomes me.
§862Quid agis?
What are you doing?
§862bFacio quod manufesti moechi haú ferme solent.
I am doing what caught-in-the-act adulterers hardly ever do.
§863Quid id est?
What is that?
§863bRefero vasa salva.
I am bringing back the vessels safe.
§863cDi te et tuom erum perduint.
May the gods ruin you and your master.
§864Me non perdent; illum ut perdant facere possum, si velim, §865meum erum ut perdant, ni mihi metuam, Milphio.
Me they will not ruin; but him I can cause them to ruin, if I wish, to ruin my master, if I did not fear for myself, Milphio.
§865bQuid id est? cedo.
What is that? Tell me.
§866Malus es?
Are you bad?
§866bMalus sum.
I am bad.
§866cMale mihi est.
I am in a bad way.
§866dMemora, num esse aliter decet?
Tell me, should it be otherwise?
§867quid est, quod male sit tibi, quoi domi sit quod edis quod ames adfatim, §868neque triobolum ullum amicae das et ductas gratiis?
What is there that is bad for you, who have at home what you may eat and love in plenty, and you do not give a single triobolus to your mistress, and you lead her about for free?
So may Jupiter love me, As indeed, by Pollux, you are worthy.
§870Vt ego hanc familiam interire cupio.
How I wish this household to perish!
§870bAdde operam, si cupis.
Add your assistance, if you wish.
§871Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.
Flying is not easy without feathers: my wings have no feathers.
By Pollux, do not pluck them: in these two months already you will have your birds of rank-smelling armpit-hair.
§873bI in malam rem.
Go to the devil!
§873cI tu atque erus.
You go, and your master too.
§874Verum.
True.
enim qui hómo eum norit, norit.
Indeed, he who knows him, knows him.
cito homo pervorti potest.
The man can quickly be ruined.
§875Quid iam?
Why so?
§875bQuasi tu tacitum habere quicquam potis sis.
As if you were able to keep anything secret.
More correctly, I will keep things secret for you better than what was told to a mute woman.
§877Animum inducam facile ut tibi istuc credam, ni te noverim.
I would easily bring myself to believe you in that, if I did not know you.
§878Crede audacter meo periclo.
Believe boldly at my risk.
§878bMale credam, et credam tamen.
I shall believe with risk, and yet I will believe.
§879Scin tu erum tuom meo ero esse inimicum capitalem?
Do you know that your master is a mortal enemy to my master?
§879bScio.
I know.
§880cQuid iam?
Why so?
§880dQuia doctum doces.
Because you are teaching one who is already taught.
§881Quid ergo dubitas quin lubenter tuo ero meus quid possiet
Why then do you doubt that my master would gladly do whatever harm he can to your master, as he deserves?
And furthermore, if you help in any way, he will be able to do it that much more easily.
§883bAt ego hoc metuo, Milphio.
But I fear this, Milphio.
§884Quid est quod metuas?
What is it that you fear?
§884bDúm ero insidias paritem, ne me perduim.
Lest while I prepare snares for my master, I ruin myself.
§885si erus meus me esse elocutum quoiquam mortali sciat, §886continuo is me ex Syncerasto Crurifragium fecerit.
If my master knows that I have spoken to any mortal, immediately he will make me a "Leg-broken" instead of "Syncerastus".
§887Numquam edepol mortalis quisquam fiet e me certior, §888nisi ero meo uni indicasso, atque ei quoque ut ne enuntiet §889id esse facinus ex ted ortum.
By Pollux, no mortal shall ever be informed by me, unless I inform my master alone, and also to him that he must not declare that the deed originated from you.
§889bMale credam, et credam tamen.
I shall believe with risk, and yet I will believe.
§890sed hoc tu tecum tacitum habeto.
But keep this secret to yourself.
§890bFide non melius creditur.
No better trust is given than to fidelity.
§891loquere (locus occasioque est) libere: hic soli sumus.
Speak freely (here is the place and opportunity): we are alone here.
§892Erus si tuos volt facere frugem, meum erum perdet.
If your master wishes to do what is useful, he will ruin my master.
§892bQui id potest?
How is that possible?
§893Facile.
Easily.
§893bFac ergo id facile noscam ego, ut ille possit noscere.
Make me know it easily then, so that he may know it.
§894Quia Adelphasium, quám erus deamat tuos, ingenuast.
Because Adelphasium, whom your master is deeply in love with, is freeborn.
§894bQuo modo?
In what way?
§895Eodem quo soror illius altera Anterastilis.
In the same way as her other sister Anterastilis.
§896Cedo qui id credam.
Tell me how I am to believe that.
Because he bought them when they were very small in Anactorium from a Sicilian pirate.
§897bQuanti?
For how much?
For eighteen minae, those two and Giddenene their nurse, as the third.
And that man who was selling them said that he was selling stolen goods: he said that they were freeborn at Carthage.
§900bDi vostram fidem,
Gods, by your faith!
§901nimium lepidum memoras facinus.
You relate an exceedingly wonderful story.
nam erus meus Agorastocles §902ibidem gnatust, inde surptus fere sexennis, postibi §903qui eum surrupuit huc devexit meoque ero eum hic vendidit.
For my master Agorastocles was born in that very place, and was stolen from there when he was about six years old; and after that, the one who stole him brought him here and sold him here to my master's adoptive father.
§904is in divitias homo adoptavit hunc, quom diem obiit suom.
That man adopted him into great wealth when he met his death.
You are telling everything to make it easier: let him claim them as freeborn on behalf of his own countrywomen in a liberal cause.
§906bTacitus tace modo.
Silent, just be quiet.
§907Profecto ad incitas lenonem rediget, si eas abduxerit.
Surely he will reduce the pimp to ruins if he takes them away.
§908Quin prius disperibit faxo, quam unam calcem civerit.
Nay, I will make him ruin beforehand, before he can move a single foot.
§909ita paratumst.
Thus it has been prepared.
§909bIta di faxint, ne apud lenonem hunc serviam.
May the gods grant it so, that I may not serve as a slave at this pimp's house.
§910Hercle qui meus conlibertus faxo eris, si di volent.
By Hercules, I will make you my fellow-freedman, if the gods wish.
§911Ita di faxint.
May the gods grant it so.
numquid aliud me morare, Milphio?
Are you delaying me any further, Milphio?
§912Valeas beneque ut tibi sit.
Farewell, and may it be well with you.
§912bPol istuc tibi et tuost ero in manu.
By Pollux, that is in your hand and your master's.