§1241diutine uti bene licet partum bene.
it is permitted to enjoy for a long time what has been well acquired.
To me, that booty seems to be about to be plundered, so that it departs with a larger loss than it arrived with.
§1244egone ut quod ad me allatum esse alienum sciam,
Am I, when I know that what was brought to me belongs to another, to conceal it?
§1245celem? minime istuc faciet noster Daemones.
Our Daemones will by no means do that.
It is always most proper for a wise man to take heed of this, lest they themselves be accomplices to their own wrongdoings.
§1248ego mihi cum † lusi nil moror ullum lucrum.
I care nothing for any profit when gained from dishonesty.
§1249Spectavi ego pridem comicos ad istúnc modum §1250sapienter dicta dicere atque eis plaudier, §1251cum illos sapientis mores monstrabant poplo: §1252sed cum inde suam quisque ibant divorsi domum, §1253nullus erat illo pacto ut illi iusserant.
I have seen comic actors before in that manner speaking wise words and being applauded for them, when they showed those wise manners to the people; but when they went away from there, each to his own home in different directions, there was no one acting in that manner which they had ordered.
§1254Abi intro, ne molestu's, linguae tempera.
Go inside, don't be annoying, hold your tongue.
§1255ego tibi daturus nil sum, ne tu frustra sis.
I am not going to give you anything, so do not be in vain.
§1256At ego deos quaeso, ut quidquid ín illo vidulost, §1257si aurum si argentum est, omne id ut fiat cinis. — §1258Illuc est quod nos nequam servis utimur.
But I pray the gods that whatever is in that trunk, whether it is gold or silver, all of it may become ashes.— That is why we have worthless slaves.
§1259nam illic cum † servo si quo congressus foret, §1260et ipsum sese et illum furti adstringeret; §1261dum praedam habere se censeret, interim §1262praeda ipsus esset, praeda praedam duceret.
For if he had met with any other slave, he would have bound both himself and the other in theft; while he thought he had the booty, meanwhile he himself would have been the booty, and the booty would have led the booty away.
§1263nunc hinc intro ibo et sacrificabo, postibi §1264iubebo nobis cenam continuo coqui. — §1265Íterum mihi istaec omnia itera, mi anime, mi Trachalio, §1266mi liberte, mi patrone potius, immo mi pater.
Now I will go inside from here and sacrifice, and after that I will immediately order dinner to be cooked for us.— Repeat all those things to me again, my soul, my Trachalio, my freedman, my patron rather, or rather my father.
§1267repperit patrem Palaestra suom atque matrem?
Did Palaestra find her father and her mother?
§1267bRepperit.
She found them.
§1268Et popularis est?
And is she our fellow citizen?
§1268bOpino.
I believe so.
§1268cEt mihi nuptura est?
And is she to marry me?
§1268dSuspicor.
I suspect so.
§1269Censen hodie despondebit eam mihi, quaéso?
Do you think he will betroth her to me today, please?
§1269bCenseo.
I think so.
§1270Quid? patri etiam gratulabor cum illam invenit?
What? Shall I also congratulate the father when he has found her?
§1270bCenseo.
I think so.
§1271Quid matri eius?
What about her mother?
§1271bCenseo.
I think so.
§1271cQuid ergo censes?
What then do you think?
§1272bDic ergo quanti censes?
Tell me then at what value you assess it?
§1272cEgone? censeo.
I? I think so.
§1273Adsum equidem, ne censionem semper facias.
Indeed I am here, lest you always make an assessment.
§1273bCenseo.
I think so.
§1274Quid si curram?
What if I should run?
§1274bCenseo.
I think so.
§1274cAn sic potius placide?
Or rather thus calmly?
§1274dCenseo.
I think so.
§1275Etiamne eam ádveniens salutem?
Should I also greet her when arriving?
§1275bCenseo.
I think so.
§1275cEtiam patrem?
Also the father?
§1276Censeo.
I think so.
§1276bPost eius matrem?
Afterwards her mother?
§1276cCenseo.
I think so.
§1276dQuid postea?
What afterwards?
§1277etiamne adveniens complectar eius patrem?
Should I also embrace her father when arriving?
§1277bNon censeo.
I do not think so.
§1278Quid matrem?
What about the mother?
§1278bNon censeo.
I do not think so.
§1278cQuid eampse illam?
What about her herself?
§1278dNon censeo.
I do not think so.
§1279Perii, dilectum dimisit.
I am ruined, he has broken the pattern.
nunc non censet, cum volo.
Now he does not think so, when I wish it.
§1280Sanus non es.
You are not sane.
sequere. — §1280bDuc me, mi patrone, quo libet. — §1281Quis me ést mortalis miserior qui vivat alter hodie, §1282quem ad recuperatores modo damnavit Plesidippus?
Follow.— Lead me, my patron, wherever you please.— What other mortal is more wretched living today than I, whom Plesidippus just now condemned before the recuperatores?
§1283abiudicata a me modo est Palaestra.
Palaestra has just been taken away from me.
perditus sum.
I am ruined.
§1284nam lenones ex Gaudio credo esse procreatos, §1285ita omnés mortales, si quid est mali lenoni, gaudent.
For I believe procurers were born from Joy, so much does every mortal rejoice if any evil happens to a procurer.
§1286nunc alteram illam quae mea est visam huc in Veneris fanum, §1287saltem ut eam abducam, de bonis quod restat reliquiarum.
Now I will visit that other girl of mine here in the temple of Venus, at least to take her away, what remains of the remnants of my goods.
By Pollux, you will never see Gripus alive today by evening, unless the trunk is returned to me.
I am ruined, when I hear mention made anywhere of the trunk, it is as if a post strikes my chest.
§1291Istic scelestus liber est: ego qui in mari prehendi §1292reti atque excepi vidulum, ei dáre negatis quicquam.
That scoundrel is free: I who caught it in the sea with my net and drew up the trunk, you refuse to give anything to me.
§1293Pro di immortales, suo mihi hic sermone arrexit aures.
Oh immortal gods, with his talk here he has pricked up my ears.
§1294Cubitum hercle longis litteris signabo iam usquequaque, §1295si quis perdiderit vidulum cum auro atque argento multo, §1296ad Gripum ut veniat.
By Hercules, I will write notices in letters a cubit long everywhere now, if anyone has lost a trunk with much gold and silver, that he should come to Gripus.
non feretis istum, ut postulatis.
You shall not carry that off as you expect.
§1297Meum hercle illic homo vidulum scit quí habet, ut ego opinor.
By Hercules, that man knows who has my trunk, as I think.
§1298adeundus mihi illic est homo.
I must approach that man.
di, quaeso, subvenite.
Gods, I pray, help me.
§1299Quid me intro revocas? hoc volo hic ante ostium extergere.
Why do you call me back inside? I want to clean this here before the door.
§1300nam hoc quidem pol e robigine, non est e ferro factum, §1301ita quanto magis extergeo, rutilum atque tenuius fit.
For this indeed, by Pollux, is made of rust, it is not made of iron, so much the more I scrape it, the redder and thinner it becomes.
§1302† nam quidem hoc venenatumst verum: ita in manibus consenescit.
Indeed, this is utterly rusted; thus it decays in my hands.
§1303Adulescens, salve.
Young man, greetings.
§1303bDi te ament cum inraso capite.
May the gods love you, along with your unshaven head.
§1303cQuid fit?
What is going on?
§1304Verum extergetur.
Indeed, it is being cleaned.
§1304bVt vales?
How are you?