§251bTe volo. §251cát vos ego ámbos. §252vorte hác te, puere. §252bNon licét conloquí te? §253At míhi non lubét. §253bSin tuámst quippiam ín rem? §254Licétne, opsecró, bitere án non licet? §254bVah, §255mánta. §255bOmitte. §255cBállio, audi. §255dSúrdus sum † profecto inanilogistae. §256Dedí dum fuít. §256bNon petó quod dedísti. §257Dabó quando erít. §257bDucitó quando habébis. §258éheu, quam ego malis pérdidi modis §259quód tibi détuli et quód dedi. §259bMórtua §260vérba re núnc facis; stúltus es, rem áctam agis. §261Nósce saltem húnc quis est. §261bIám diu scio §262quí fuit: núnc qui sit ipsús sciat. §263ámbula tú. §263bPotin út semel modo, §264Bállio, huc cúm lucro respícias? §265Réspiciam istoc prétio; nam si sácruficem summó Iovi §266atque in manibus exta teneam, ut poriciam, interea loci §267si lucri quid detur, potius rem divinam deseram. §268non potest pietati opsisti huíc, utut rés sunt ceterae. §269Deos quidem, quos maxume aequom est metuere, eos minimi facit.
want to speak to you. I want both of you to be destroyed. yourself this way, boy. it not allowed to speak with you? I do not please to. what if it is something to your advantage? it allowed, I pray, to go or is it not allowed?, go., listen. am indeed deaf to a babbler of empty words. gave while I had it. do not ask for what you gave. will give when there is any. her when you have it., in what wretched ways I have lost I brought to you and what I gave. you are now making about a past matter; you are foolish, you are doing what is already done. least recognize who this is. have known for a long time he was; as for who he is now, let him know it himself. on, you. it possible that just once,, you look back this way with profit? will look back at that price; for if I should be sacrificing to supreme Jupiter, should hold the entrails in my hands to offer them, and meanwhile some profit were offered, I would rather abandon the divine service. piety cannot be resisted, however other matters stand. gods indeed, whom it is most fitting to fear, he values the least. will address him.
§270Compellabo. salve multum, serve Athenis pessume. §271Di te deaeque ament vel huius arbitratu vel meo, §272vel, si dignu’s alio pacto, neque ament nec faciant bene. §273Quid agitur, Calidore? §273bAmatur atque egetur acriter. §274Misereat, si familiam alere possim misericordia. §275Heia, scimus nos quidem te qualis sis; ne praedices. §276sed scin quid nos volumus? §276bPol ego propemodum: ut male sit mihi. §277Et id et hoc quod te revocamus.
A very good day to you, worst slave in Athens. the gods and goddesses love you, either by his decision or by mine,, if you are worthy of another way, may they neither love you nor do you good. is being done, Calidorus? is being done, and being in want, fiercely. would pity you, if I could feed my household on pity., we indeed know what kind of man you are; do not proclaim it. do you know what we want? Pollux, I know almost: that it go badly for me. that and this for which we call you back.
quaeso animum advorte. §277bAudio. §278atque in pauca, ut occupatus nunc sum, confer quid velis. §279Hunc pudet, quod tibi promisit quaque id promisit die, §280quia tibi minas viginti pró amica etiam non dedit. §281Nimio id quod pudet facilius fertur quam illud quod piget. §282non dedisse istunc pudet: me quia non accepi piget. §283At dabit, parabit: aliquot hos dies manta modo. §284nám hic id metuit, ne illam vendas ob simultatem suam. §285Fuit occasio, si vellet, iam pridem argentum ut daret. §286Quid, si non habui? §286bSi amabas, invenires mutuom, §287ad danistam devenires, adderes faenusculum, §288surruperes patri. §288bSurruperet hic patri, audacissume? §289non periclumst ne quid recte monstres. §289bNon lenoniumst. §290Egon patri surrupere possim quicquam, tam cauto seni? §291atque adeo, si facere possim, pietas prohibet. §291bAudio. §292pietatem ergo istam amplexator noctu pro Phoenicio. §293sed cum pietatem te amori video tuo praevortere, §294omnes homines tibi patres sunt? nullus est tibi quem roges
Please pay attention. am listening., as I am busy now, compress what you want into few words. is ashamed of what he promised you and of the day on which he promised it, he has not yet given you twenty minae for his mistress. which causes shame is borne much more easily than that which causes annoyance. shames him not to have given: it annoys me because I did not receive. he will give, he will prepare: just wait these few days. he fears this, lest you sell her because of his rivalry. was an opportunity, if he wished, to give the money long ago. if I did not have it? you loved her, you would find a loan, would go to a money-lender, you would add a little interest, would steal from your father. steal from his father, most audacious man? is no danger of your advising anything right. is not like a pimp. I steal anything from my father, such a cautious old man? indeed, even if I could do it, piety forbids. hear. embrace that piety of yours at night instead of Phoenicium. since I see you prefer piety to your love, all men fathers to you?
§295mutuom argentum? §295bQuin nomen quoque iam interiit mutuom. §296Heus tu, postquam hercle isti a mensa surgunt satis poti viri, §297qui suom repetunt, alienum reddunt nato nemini, §298postilla omnes cautiores sunt, ne credant alteri. §299Nimis miser sum, nummum nusquam reperire argenti queo; §300ita miser et amore pereo et inopia argentaria. §301Eme die caeca hercle olivom, id vendito oculata die: §302iam hercle vel ducentae fieri possunt praesentes minae. §303Perii, annorum lex me perdit quinavicenaria. §304metuont credere omnes. §304bEadem est mihi lex: metuo credere.
Is there no one from whom you can ask loan of money?, even the very name of 'loan' has now perished. you, by Hercules, since those well-drunk men rise from the table, demand their own, but return what belongs to another to nobody born, then everyone is more cautious not to trust another. am too wretched, I cannot find a silver coin anywhere; wretchedly do I perish both of love and of monetary want. oil, by Hercules, on a blind day, and sell it on a seeing day;, by Hercules, even two hundred ready minae can be made. am undone, the law of twenty-five years destroys me. fears to trust. have the same law: I fear to trust. indeed?
§305Credere autem? eho an paenitet te, quanto hic fuerit usui? §306Non est usu quisquam amator nisi qui perpetuat data; §307det, det usque: quando nil sit, simul amare desinat. §308Nilne te miseret? §308bInanis cedis, dicta non sonant. §309atque ego te vivom salvomque vellem. §309bEho an iam mortuost? §310Vtut est, mihi quidem profecto cum istis dictis mortuost: §311ilico vixit amator, ubi lenoni supplicat.
Hey, are you dissatisfied with how much use he has been to you? lover is of use except the one who perpetuates his giving; him give, let him give constantly: when there is nothing left, let him cease to love at the same time. you have no pity at all? depart empty-handed; words do not make a sound. yet I would wish you alive and well., is he dead already? that may be, to me at least indeed with those words he is dead: a lover has lived, when he begs a pimp.