§1010tun es is Harpax?
Are you that Harpax?
§1010bEgo sum, atque ipse ἅρπαξ quidem.
I am he, and indeed a rapacious one (Harpax) himself.
“He who brings that letter; I wish the money to be received from him, and the woman to be sent along with him at the same time.
§1013salutem scriptam dignum est dignis mittere: §1014te si arbitrarem dignum, misissem tibi. ” §1015Quid nunc?
It is fitting to send a written greeting to the worthy: if I had thought you worthy, I should have sent it to you.” What now?
§1015bArgentum des, abducas mulierem.
Give the money, and take the woman away.
§1016Vter remoratur?
Which of us is delaying?
§1016bQuin sequere ergo intro. — §1016cSequor. — §1017Peiorem ego hominem magisque vorsute malum §1018numquam edepol quemquam vidi, quám hic est Simia; §1019nimisque égo illum hominem metuo et formido male, §1020ne malus item erga me sit út erga illum fuit, §1021ne in re secunda nunc mi obvertat cornua, §1022si occasionem capsit qui sit mihi malus; §1023atque edepol equidem nolo, nam illi bene volo.
Why not follow me inside then?— I follow.— By Pollux, I have never seen any man worse and more slyly wicked than this Simia is; and I fear that man exceedingly and dread him terribly, lest he be just as wicked toward me as he was toward him, lest now, in prosperity, he should turn his horns against me, if he catches an opportunity to be wicked to me; and by Pollux, indeed I do not wish it, for I wish him well.
§1024_1025nunc in metu sum maximo, triplici modo: §1026primum omnium iam hunc comparem metuo meum, §1027ne deserat med atque ad hostis transeat; §1028metuo autem, né erus redeat etiam dum a foro, §1029ne capta praeda capti praedones fuant.
Now I am in the greatest fear, in a threefold way: first of all, I fear this companion of mine, lest he desert me and go over to the enemy; and I fear also lest my master return even now from the forum, lest the captured booty turn into captured plunderers.
§1030quom haec metuo, metuo ne ille huc Harpax advenat §1031prius quam hínc hic Harpax abierit cum muliere.
While I fear these things, I fear lest that Harpax should arrive here before this Harpax has gone away from here with the woman.
§1032perii hercle, nimium tarde egrediuntur foras.
By Hercules, I am ruined, they are coming out of doors far too slowly.
§1033cor conligatis vasis expectat meum, §1034_1035si non educat mulierem secum simul, §1036ut exulatum ex pectore aufugiat meo.
My heart is waiting with its baggage packed, if he does not lead the woman out along with him, to flee from my breast into exile.
§1037victor sum, vici cautos custodes meos.
I am victorious, I have conquered my cautious guards.
Do not weep, Phoenicium, you do not know how the matter stands, but not long after this I will make sure you know it, while reclining at table.
§1040non ego te ad illum duco dentatum virum §1041Macedoniensem, qui te nunc flentem facit: §1042cuiam esse te vis maxime, ad eum ducere: §1043Calidorum haud multo post faxo amplexabere.
I am not leading you to that toothy Macedonian man who is now making you weep: you are being led to him whose you most wish to be: not long after this I will make sure you embrace Calidorus.
§1044Quid tu intus quaeso desedisti quam diu?
Why did you, I pray, linger inside so long?
§1045mihi cor retunsumst oppugnando pectore.
My heart has been battered by hammering against my breast.
Have you found an opportunity, you scoundrel, to cross-examine me, amidst enemy ambushes?
§1048quin hinc metimur gradibus militariis?
Why do we not march away from here with military paces?
§1049_1050Atque edepol, quamquam nequam homo es, recte mones.
And by Pollux, although you are a worthless man, you advise rightly.
Go this straight way of triumph to the drinking cup.— Hahae, now at last my mind is in a safe place, after that fellow has gone from here and taken the woman away.
§1053postquam iste hinc abiit atque abduxit mulierem.
after that fellow has gone from here and taken the woman away.
Now bid Pseudolus, the head of mischief, come and take the woman from me by tricks.
§1056conceptis hercle verbis, satis certo scio, §1057ego periurare me mavellem miliens, §1058quam mi illum verba per deridiculum dare.
By Hercules, with formally drafted words, I know well enough, I would rather perjure myself a thousand times, than have him play a trick on me to make me a laughingstock.
Now, by Hercules, I will laugh at the man, if I meet him; but I believe he will be in the treadmill, as is appropriate.
Now I wish Simo would come to meet me, so that he may be joyful and share in my joy.
Let me go see what my Ulysses has accomplished, whether he already has the token from the citadel of Ballio.
O fortunate man, give me your fortunate hand, Simo.
§1066bQuíd est?
What is it?
§1066eNihil est quod metuas.
There is nothing for you to fear.
§1066fQuid est?
What is it?
§1067venitne homo ad te?
Did the man come to you?
§1067bNon.
No.
§1067cQuid est igitur boni?
What good news is there then?
The twenty minae are safe and sound for you, which Pseudolus bargained from you today.
§1070Velim quidem hercle.
Indeed, by Hercules, I wish so.
§1070bRóga me viginti minas, §1071si ille hodie ílla sit potitus muliere §1072sive eam tuo gnato hodie, ut promisit, dabit, §1074omnibus modis tibi esse rem ut salvam scias; §1075atque etiam habeto mulierem dono tibi.
Ask me for twenty minae, if that fellow has got possession of that woman today, or if he shall give her to your son today, as he promised, so that you may know by all means that your property is safe; and furthermore, have the woman as a gift for yourself.
There is no danger, as far as I know, in making the agreement, as you have phrased the words.
§1078dabin?
Will you give twenty minae?
§1078bDabuntur.
They shall be given.
§1078cHoc quidem actumst hau male.
This indeed is not badly transacted.