§1009ni hunc amittis, exurgebo quidquid umoris tibist.
If you don't let this go, I will squeeze out whatever moisture you have.
§1010Tange: adfligam ad terram te itidem ut piscem soleo polypum.
Touch it: I will dash you to the ground just as I usually do to an octopus.
§1011vis pugnare?
Do you want to fight?
§1011bQuid opust? quin tu potius praedam divide.
What's the need? Why don't you rather divide the booty?
§1012Hinc tu nisi malum frunisci nil potes, ne postules.
You can get nothing from this except to enjoy trouble, so do not expect it.
§1013abeo ego hinc.
I am leaving here.
§1013bAt ego hinc offlectam navem, ne quo abeas.
But I will block your ship's way from here so you won't go anywhere.
mane.
Wait.
§1014Si tu proreta isti navi es, ego gubernator ero.
If you are the lookout on that ship, I will be the pilot.
§1015mitte rudentem, sceleste.
Let go of the rope, villain.
§1015bMittam: omitte vidulum.
I'll let go: you let go of the trunk.
§1016Numquam hercle hinc hodie ramenta fies fortunatior.
By Hercules, you shall not become a scrap richer from here today.
§1017Non probare pernegando mihi potes, nisi pars datur §1018aut ad arbitrum reditur aut sequestro ponitur.
You cannot satisfy me by merely denying, unless a share is given, or we refer to an arbitrator, or it is placed with a stakeholder.
The trunk which I hauled up in the sea— But I watched it from the shore.
§1020Mea opera, labore et rete et horia?
With my work, labor, net, and boat?
§1020bNumqui minus, §1021si veniat nunc dominus cuiust, ego qui inspectavi procul §1022te hunc habere, fur sum quam tu?
Any the less, if the owner of it should come now, would I, who watched from afar that you have it, be any less of a thief than you?
§1022bNihilo.
Not at all.
§1022cMane, mastigia:
Wait, you scoundrel.
§1023quo argumento socius non sum, et fur sum? fac dum ex te sciam.
By what argument am I not a partner, but a thief? Let me know from you.
I don't know, nor do I know those city laws of yours, except that I say this is mine.
§1025bÉt ego item esse aio meum.
And I likewise say it is mine.
§1026Mane, iam repperi quo pacto nec fur nec socius sies.
Wait, I have just found a way for you to be neither a thief nor a partner.
§1027Quo pacto?
How?
§1027bSine me hinc abire, tú abi tacitus tuam viam; §1028nec tu me cuiquam indicassis neque ego tibi quicquam dabo; §1029tu taceto, ego mussitabo: hoc optimum atque aequissimum est.
Let me depart from here, and you go your way in silence; you shall not report me to anyone, and I will give nothing to you; you keep quiet, I will murmur nothing: this is best and most fair.
§1030Ecquid condicionis audes ferre?
Do you dare to propose any condition?
I have been proposing one for a long time: that you go away, let go of the rope, and stop being a nuisance to me.
§1032Mane, dum refero condicionem.
Wait, while I return a condition.
§1032bTe, opsecro hercle, aufer modo.
You, I pray by Hercules, just get yourself away.
§1033Ecquem in his locis novisti?
Do you know anyone in these parts?
§1033bOportet vicinos meos.
My neighbors, of course.
§1034Vbi tu hic habitas?
Where do you live here?
§1034bPorro illic longe usque in campis ultimis.
Far over there, all the way in the furthest fields.
§1035Vin qui in hac villa habitat, eius arbitratu fieri?
Do you want it to be done by the arbitration of the one who lives in this villa?
§1036Paulisper remitte restem, dum concedo et consulo.
Slacken the rope for a little while, while I step aside and consider.
§1037Fiat.
Let it be so.
§1037bEuge, salva res est, praeda haec perpetua est mea;
Excellent! The matter is safe, this booty is mine forever!
§1038ad meum erum arbitrum vocat me hic intra praesepis meas:
He is calling my master as arbitrator here within my own stalls!
§1039numquam hercle hodie abiudicabit ab suo triobolum.
By Hercules, today he will never decide even a farthing against his own man.
§1040ne iste haud scit quam condicionem tetulerit.
Indeed he doesn't know what kind of condition he has proposed.
íbo ad arbitrum.
I will go to the arbitrator.
§1041Quid igitur?
What then?
Although I know for certain that this is my right, let that be done rather than fight with you now.
§1042bNunc places.
Now you please me.
§1043Quamquam ad ignotum arbitrum me appellis, si adhibebit fidem, §1044etsist ignotus, notus: si non, notus ignotissimust.
Although you appeal me to an unknown arbitrator, if he acts with good faith, even if he is unknown, he is known: if not, though known, he is most unknown.
§1045Serio edepol, quamquam vobis volo quae voltis, mulieres, §1046metuo, propter vos ne uxor mea med extrudat aedibus, §1047quae me paelices adduxe dicet ante oculos suos.
Seriously, by Pollux, although I wish what you wish for you, women, I fear, because of you, lest my wife should drive me out of the house, who will say that I have brought mistresses before her very eyes.
§1048vos confugite in aram potius quám ego.
You flee to the altar rather than I.
§1048bMiserae periimus.
Wretched as we are, we are undone!
§1049Ego vos salvas sistam, ne timete.
I will make you safe, do not fear.
sed quid vos foras
But why do you follow me outdoors?
§1050prosequimini? quoniam ego adsum, faciet nemo iniuriam; §1051ite, inquam, domum ambo nunciam ex praesidio praesides.
Since I am present, no one will do you harm; go, I say, both of you home now from the stronghold, you guards.
§1052O ere, salve.
Oh, master, greetings.
§1052bSalve, Gripe.
Greetings, Gripus.
quid fit?
What's happening?
§1052cTúosne hic servos est?
Is this man your slave?
§1053Haud pudet.
I am not ashamed of it.
§1053bNíl ago tecum.
I have nothing to do with you.
§1053cErgo ábi hinc sis.
Then go away from here, please.
§1054bMeus est.
He is mine.
§1054cEm istuc optime, quando tuost.
Ah, that is excellent, since he is yours.
§1055iterum te saluto.
I greet you again.
§1055bEt ego te.
And I you.
tune es qui haud multo prius §1056abiisti hinc erum accersitum?
Are you the one who left here not much earlier to fetch your master?
§1056bEgo is sum.
I am he.
§1056cQuid nunc vis tibi?
What do you want now?
§1057Nempe hic tuos est?
Surely this man is yours?
§1057bMeus est.
He is mine.
§1057cIstuc optime, quando tuost.
That is excellent, since he is yours.
§1058Quid negotist?
What is the matter?
§1058bVir scelestus íllic est.
That man there is a scoundrel.
§1059bHomini ego isti talos subfringi volo.
I want to break that man's ankles.
§1060Quid est? qua de re litigatis nunc inter vos?
What is it? What are you arguing about now between yourselves?
§1060bEloquar.
I will speak.
§1061Immo ego eloquar.
No, I will speak.
§1061bEgo, opinor, rem facesso.
I think I will manage the matter.
If indeed you are decent, you would clear out of here.
§1062bGripe, animum advorte ac tace.
Gripus, pay attention and be quiet.
§1063Vtin istic prius dicat?
Is that fellow to speak first?
§1063bAudi.
Listen.
loquere tu.
You, speak.
§1063cAlienon prius
A stranger first—