§1147Quin tu mecum fabulare?
Harpax: Why don't you speak with me?
§1147bFabulor.
Ballio: I am speaking.
quid vis tibi?
What do you want?
§1148Argentum accipias.
Harpax: Take the money.
§1148bIamdudum, si des, porrexi manum.
Ballio: For a long time, if you would give it, I have held out my hand.
§1149Accipe: hic sunt quinque argenti lectae numeratae minae.
Harpax: Take it: here are five select, counted minae of silver.
§1150hoc tibi erus me iussit ferre Polymachaeroplagides, §1151quod deberet, atque ut mecum mitteres Phoenicium.
my master Polymachaeroplagides ordered me to bring this to you, which he owed, and that you should send Phoenicium along with me.
§1153bTe ad me misit Polymachaeroplagides?
Ballio: Polymachaeroplagides sent you to me?
§1154Vera memoras.
Harpax: You speak the truth.
§1154bHoc argentum ut mihi dares?
Ballio: To give this money to me?
§1155bAtque ut a me mulierem tu abduceres?
Ballio: And for you to take the woman away from me?
§1156Ita.
Harpax: Yes.
§1156bPhoenicium esse dixit?
Ballio: Did he say Phoenicium?
§1156cRecte meministi.
Harpax: You remember correctly.
§1156dMane.
Ballio: Wait.
§1157iam redeo ad te.
I will return to you shortly.
Harpax: But make haste quickly, for I am in a hurry: you see that it is already late in the day.
§1158bVideo: hunc advocare etiam volo; §1159mane modo istic, iam revertar ad te. quid nunc fit, Simo?
Ballio: I see. (To Simo) I want to call this man over too; (To Harpax) just wait there, I will return to you shortly. (To Simo) What happens now, Simo?
§1160quid agimus? manufesto hunc hominem teneo, qui argentum attulit.
What are we doing? I have this man red-handed, the one who brought the money.
§1161Quidum?
Simo: How so?
§1161bAn nescis quae sit haec res?
Ballio: Or do you not know what this matter is?
§1161cIuxta cum ignarissimis.
Simo: Just as much as the most ignorant.
Ballio: Your Pseudolus suborned this man, as if he were from the Macedonian soldier.
§1163bHaben argentum ab homine?
Simo: Do you have the money from the man?
§1163cRogitas quod vides?
Ballio: Do you ask what you see?
Simo: Hey, remember then to give me half of the prey from there: that ought to be shared.
§1165bQuid, malum? id totum tuom est.
Ballio: What, plague? That is all yours.
§1166Quam mox mi operam das?
Harpax: How soon will you attend to me?
§1166bTibi do equidem.
Ballio: I am indeed attending to you.
quid nunc mi es auctor, Simo?
What do you advise me now, Simo?
§1167Exploratorem hunc faciamus ludos suppositicium, §1168adeo donicum ipsus sese ludos fieri senserit.
Simo: Let us make sport of this substitute scout, even until he himself senses that he is being made sport of.
§1169Sequere.
Ballio: (To Harpax) Follow.
quid ais? nempe tu illíus servos es?
What do you say? Surely you are that man's servant?
§1169bPlanissume.
Harpax: Most clearly.
§1170Quanti te emit?
Ballio: For how much did he buy you?
§1170bSuarum in pugna virium victoria.
Harpax: By the victory of his own strength in battle.
§1171nám ego eram domi imperator summus in patria mea.
For I was the supreme commander at home in my homeland.
§1172An etiam umquam ille expugnavit carcerem, patriam tuam?
Simo: Did he ever conquer a prison, your homeland?
§1173Contumeliam si dices, audies.
Harpax: If you speak insults, you will hear them.
Ballio: On what day did you arrive here from Sicyon?
§1174bAltero ad meridie.
Harpax: On the second day at noon.
§1175Strenue mehercle iisti.
Ballio: By Hercules, you went quickly.
§1175bQuamvis pernix híc est homo: §1176ubi suram aspicias, scias pósse eum—gerere crassas compedes.
Simo: This man is as swift as you like: when you look at his calf, you know he can—wear thick shackles.
§1177Quid ais? tune etiam cubitare solitu’s in cunis puer?
Ballio: What do you say? Were you also accustomed to lie in a cradle as a boy?
§1178Scilicet.
Harpax: Of course.
§1178bEtiamne facere solitus es—scin quid loquar?
Ballio: Were you also accustomed to do—you know what I mean?
§1179Scilicet solitum esse.
Harpax: Of course I was accustomed to.
§1179bSanine estis?
Are you in your right mind?
§1179cQuíd hoc quod te rogo?
Ballio: What about this which I ask you?
§1180noctu in vigiliam quando ibat miles, quom tu ibas simul, §1181conveniebatne in vaginam tuam machaera militis?
when the soldier went on watch at night, when you went along with him, did the soldier's sword fit into your scabbard?
§1182I in malam crucem.
Harpax: Go to the gallows.
§1182bIre licebit tamen tibi hodie temperi.
Ballio: You will be allowed to go there early enough today.
§1183Quin tu mulierem mi emittis, aut redde argentum.
Harpax: Why don't you release the woman to me, or else give back the money.
§1183bMane.
Ballio: Wait.
§1184Quid maneam?
Harpax: What should I wait for?
§1184bChlamydem hanc commemora quanti conductast.
Ballio: Tell me how much this cloak was hired for.
§1184cQuid est?
Harpax: What's that?
§1185Quid meret machaera?
Ballio: What is the sword worth?
§1185bElleborum hisce hóminibus opus ést.
Harpax: These men need hellebore.
§1185cEho.
Simo: Hey.
§1186Mitte.
Harpax: Let go.
§1186bQuid mercedis petasus hodie domino demeret?
Ballio: What wage would the hat bring to its master today?
Harpax: What master? What are you dreaming of? I have all these of my own, bought with my own savings.
§1188bNempe quod fémina summa sustinent.
Simo: No doubt with what the upper thighs support.
§1189_1190Vncti hi sunt senes, fricari sese ex antiquo volunt.
Harpax: These old men are well-oiled, they want themselves rubbed down in the old-fashioned way.
§1191Responde, opsecro hercle, vero serio hoc quod te rogo: §1192quid meres? quantillo argento te conduxit Pseudolus?
Ballio: Answer, by Hercules, I pray, in real earnest to this which I ask you: what is your wage? For how small a sum of money did Pseudolus hire you?
§1193Quis istic Pseudolust?
Harpax: Who is that Pseudolus?
§1193bPraeceptor tuos, qui te hanc fallaciam §1194docuit, ut fallaciis hinc mulierem a me abduceres.
Ballio: Your teacher, who taught you this trick, so that you might carry off the woman from me from here by tricks.
§1195Quem tu Pseudolum, quas tu mihi praedicas fallacias?
Harpax: What Pseudolus, what tricks are you preaching to me?
§1196quem égo hominem † nullius coloris novi.
I know no such man of any color.
§1196bNon tu istinc abis?
Ballio: Won't you go away from there?
§1197nihil est hodie hic sucophantis quaestus: proin tu Pseudolo §1198nunties abduxisse alium praedam, qui occurrit prior §1199Harpax.
today there is no profit here for sycophants: therefore, announce to Pseudolus that another has carried off the prey, who ran up earlier, even Harpax.
§1199bIs quidem edepol Harpax ego sum.
Harpax: By Pollux, I indeed am that Harpax.
§1199cImmo edepol esse vis.
Ballio: Nay, by Pollux, you only wish to be.
§1200purus putus hic sucophanta est.
This is a pure, unadulterated sycophant.
§1200bEgo tibi argentum dedi §1201et dudum, adveniens extemplo, sumbolum servo tuo, §1202eri imágine obsignatam epistulam, hic ante ostium.
Harpax: I gave you the money, and just now, immediately upon arriving, the token to your servant, the letter sealed with my master's image, here before the door.
§1203Meo tu epistulam dedisti servo? quoi servo?
Ballio: You gave the letter to my servant? To which servant?
§1203bSuro.
Harpax: To Syrus.
§1204Non confidit sycophanta hic nugis: meditatus malest.
Ballio: This sycophant has no confidence in his nonsense; he has planned it badly.