For what damage and what outrage you have committed could have been distributed to the people man by man.
§442idne tú mirare, si patrissat filius?
Do you wonder at that, if the son acts like his father?
§443ὦ Ζεῦ, quam pauci éstis homines commodi.
O Zeus, how few of you convenient men there are!
em, §444illic ést pater patrem esse ut aequom est filio.
Look, there is a father, just as it is proper for a father to be to his son.
§445Quis hic lóquitur? meus est hic quidem sérvos Pseudolus.
Who is speaking here? Why, this is indeed my servant Pseudolus.
§446hic mihi corrumpit filium, scelerum caput; §447hic dux, hic illi est paedagogus, hunc ego §448cupio excruciari.
This guy corrupts my son for me, the fountainhead of crimes; he is the leader, he is the tutor for him, I desire him to be tortured.
Already that is foolishness, to wear anger on display.
quanto satius est §450adire blandis verbis atque exquaerere, §451sintne illa necne sint quae tibi renuntiant.
How much better it is to approach with mild words and inquire whether those things which they report to you are so or not.
§452bonus animus in mala re dimidiumst mali.
A good mind in a bad situation is half of the evil.
§453Tibi auscultabo.
I will listen to you.
§453bItur ad te, Pseudole.
They are coming toward you, Pseudolus.
§454orationem tibi para advorsum senem.
Prepare your speech against the old man.
I greet my master first, as is proper; afterwards, if anything is left over, I bestow it upon the neighbors.
§457Salve.
Hello.
quid agitur?
What is being done?
§457bStatur hic ad hunc modum.
Standing is being done here in this manner.
§458Statum vide hominis, Callipho, quam basilicum.
See the posture of the man, Callipho, how royal it is.
§459Bene confidenterque adstitisse intellego.
I perceive that he has stood quite confidently.
It is fitting for a servant who is innocent and harmless to be proud, especially in the presence of his master.
There are things we want to ask you, which we ourselves know and have heard as if through a mist.
This fellow will soon finish you with words, so that you would think not Pseudolus, but Socrates is speaking with you.
§466Itast, iam pridem tu me spernis, sentio.
So it is, for a long time now you despise me, I feel it.
§467parvam esse apud te mihi fidem ipse intellego.
I myself understand that there is little faith in me with you.
§468cupis me ésse nequam: tamen ero frugi bonae.
You desire me to be worthless: yet I shall be of good value.
Make the chambers of your ears vacant, Pseudolus, so that my words can migrate where I wish.
§471Age loquere quidvis, tametsi tibi suscenseo.
Come, speak whatever you wish, although I am angry with you.
§472Mihin dómino servos tu suscenses?
You, a servant, are angry with me, your master?
§473bHercle qui, ut tu praedicas, §474cavendum est mi aps te irato; atque alio tu modo §475me verberare atque ego te soleo cogitas.
By Hercules, according to what you declare, I must be on my guard against you when you are angry; and you are thinking of beating me in another way than I am accustomed to beat you.
§476quid censes?
What do you think?
By Pollux, I think he is angry with good reason, since there is little trust in him with you.
Now I let it be so; let him be angry: I will take care that he does no harm.
§479sed quid ais? quid hoc, quod te rogo?
But what do you say? What about this which I ask you?
§479bSí quid vis, roga.
If you wish anything, ask.
§480quod scibo, Delphis tibi responsum dicito.
What I shall know, consider it spoken to you as an oracle from Delphi.
§481Advorte ergo animum et fac sis promissi memor.
Pay attention then and see that you are mindful of your promise.
What do you say? Do you know that my son loves a certain flute-girl?
§483bναὶ γάρ.
Yes, indeed.
§483cLiberare quam velit?
Whom he wants to set free?
§484καὶ τοῦτο ναὶ γάρ.
And that too, yes indeed.
Are you planning to take twenty minae away from me?
§486bAbs te ego auferam?
I take away from you?
§487Ita, quas meo gnato des, qui amicam liberet?
Yes, which you may give to my son, so that he may set his mistress free?
§488fatere, dic.
Confess, speak.
§488bκαὶ τοῦτο ναί, καὶ τοῦτο ναί.
And that too is yes, and that too is yes.
§489Fatetur.
He confesses.
§489bDixin, Callipho, dudum tibi?
Did I not tell you just now, Callipho?
§490Memini.
I remember.
Why were these things, as soon as you found them out, concealed from me? Why did I not find out?
§491bEloquar.
I will speak out.
Because I did not want a bad custom to be produced from me, that a servant should accuse his master in the presence of his master.
§494Iuberes hunc praecipitem in pistrinum trahi.
You would have ordered him to be dragged headlong into the tread-mill.
§495Numquid peccatum est, Simo?
Has there been any wrongdoing, Simo?
§495bImmo maxime.
On the contrary, very much so.
Desist, Callipho, I understand my own business well; the faults are mine.
animum advorte nunciam.
Pay attention now.
Why I kept you ignorant of your son's love, I knew the tread-mill was ready for me, if I had spoken.
Did you not know the tread-mill was ready for you from me, when you kept quiet about those things?
§501bScibam.
I knew it.
§501cQuin dictum est mihi?
Why then was it not told to me?
Because that evil was near, while this one was further away; that one was present, while this one had some days of delay.
§504Quid nunc agetis? nam hinc quidem a me non potest §505argentum auferri, qui praesertim senserim.
What will you do now? For from me indeed money cannot be taken, especially since I have perceived it.
§506ne quisquam credat nummum, iam edicam omnibus.
I will now proclaim to everyone, so that no one may trust him with a single coin.
By Pollux, I will never beg of anyone, as long as you live.
tu mihi hercle árgentum dabis, §509abs te equidem sumam.
By Hercules, you will give me the money, I will indeed take it from you.
§509bTu a me sumes?
You will take it from me?
§509cStrenue.
Vigorously.
§510Excludito mi hercle oculum, si dedero.
By Hercules, knock out my eye, if I give it.
§510bDabis.
You will give it.
§511iam dico ut a me caveas.
Now I tell you to be on your guard against me.
§511bCerte edepol scio,
By Pollux, I know it indeed,