§565Nempe meae?
Labrax: Surely they are mine?
§565bNempe néscio istuc.
Sceparnio: Surely I don't know that.
§565cQua sunt facie?
Labrax: What are they like in appearance?
§565dScitula.
Sceparnio: Pretty.
§566vel ego amare utramvis possum, si probe adpotus siem.
Sceparnio: Indeed I could love either of them, if I were thoroughly drunk.
§567Nempe puellae?
Labrax: Surely young girls?
§567bNempe moléstus es.
Sceparnio: Surely you are a nuisance.
i vise, si lubet.
Go and look, if you like.
§568Meas oportet intus esse hic mulieres, mi Charmides.
Labrax: My women must be inside here, my Charmides.
§569Iuppiter te perdat, et si sunt, et si non sunt tamen.
Charmides: May Jupiter destroy you, whether they are, or whether they are not after all.
Labrax: I will break in here immediately into the temple of Venus.— Charmides: To the abyss, I would rather you go.
§571opsecro, hospes, da mihi aliquid ubi condormiscam loci.
Charmides: I pray, host, give me some place where I may sleep off my fatigue.
§572Istic ubi vis condormisce; nemo prohibet, publicum est.
Sceparnio: Sleep off your fatigue there wherever you like; no one forbids it, it is public.
§573At vides me ornatus ut sim vestimentis uvidis: §574recipe me in tectum, da mihi vestimenti aliquid aridi, §575dum arescunt mea; ín aliquo tibi gratiam referam loco.
Charmides: But you see how I am dressed in wet clothes: Charmides: receive me under your roof, give me some dry clothing, Charmides: while mine are drying; in some place I will return the favor to you.
§576Tegillum eccillud, mihi unum id aret; id si vis, dabo: §577eodem amictus, eodem tectus esse soleo, si pluit.
Sceparnio: There is that little rush mat, that single one is dry; if you want it, I will give it: Sceparnio: I am accustomed to be wrapped in the same, covered by the same, if it rains.
§578tu istaec mihi dato: exarescent faxo.
Sceparnio: You give me those wet clothes of yours: I'll make sure they dry.
Charmides: Hey, is it not enough for you, Charmides: that I was cleaned out in the sea, unless I am cleaned out again here on land?
§580Eluas tu an exunguare, ciccum non interduim.
Sceparnio: Whether you are cleaned out or anointed with oil, I don't care a straw.
§581tibi ego numquam quicquam credam, nisi si accepto pignore.
Sceparnio: I will never trust you with anything, unless I receive a pledge.
§582tu vel suda vel peri algu, vel tu aegrota vel vale.
Sceparnio: You may sweat or die of cold, or be sick or well, as you please.
§583barbarum hospitem mi in aedis nil moror.
Sceparnio: I have no use for a foreign guest in my house.
sat litiumst. —
There is enough trouble.
Charmides: Are you leaving already? He must have been a slave-dealer, whoever he is; Charmides: he is not merciful.
sed quid ego hic asto infelix uvidus?
But why do I stand here, unhappy wet wretch?
§586quin abeo huc in Veneris fanum, ut edormiscam hanc crapulam, §587quam potavi praeter animi quam libuit sententiam?
Charmides: Why don't I go away here into the temple of Venus, to sleep off this hangover, Charmides: which I drank contrary to my heart's desire?
§588quasi vinis Graecis Neptunus nobis suffudit mare, §589itaque alvom prodi speravit nobis salsis poculis; §590quid opust verbis? si invitare nos paulisper pergeret, §591ibidem obdormissemus: nunc vix vivos amisit domum.
Charmides: As if with Greek wines, Neptune poured the sea over us, Charmides: and so he hoped to loosen our bowels for us with those salty drinks; Charmides: what need of words? If he had continued to entertain us for a little longer, Charmides: we would have fallen asleep on the very spot: now he has let us go home barely alive.
§592nunc lenonem quid agat intus visam, convivam meum. — §593Miris modis di ludos faciunt hominibus: §595ne dormientis quidem sinunt quiescere.
Charmides: Now I will go and see what the pimp is doing inside, my dinner companion.— Daemones: In wondrous ways the gods make sport of men: Daemones: they do not allow even sleeping men to rest.
Daemones: Just as I, on this night which last preceded, Daemones: dreamed a wondrous and absurd dream.
§598ad hirundininum nidum visa est simia §599ascensionem ut faceret admolirier §600neque eas eripere quibat inde.
Daemones: A monkey seemed to be attempting to make Daemones: an ascent to a swallow's nest Daemones: and could not tear them away from there.
Afterwards Daemones: the monkey seems to approach me, Daemones: to ask me to lend a ladder for its use.
Daemones: I answer the monkey to this effect: Daemones: that swallows were born of Philomela and of Progne.
§605ago cum ílla, ne quid noceat meis popularibus.
Daemones: I plead with it, so that it might not do any harm to my fellow-countrymen.
Daemones: And it began to become more fierce in spirit; Daemones: it seems moreover to threaten me with harm.
§608in ius vocat med.
Daemones: It summons me to court.
ibi ego nescio quo modo §609iratus videor mediam arripere simiam; §610concludo in vincla bestiam nequissimam.
There, I know not how, Daemones: I seem in anger to seize the monkey by the waist; Daemones: I shut up the most worthless beast in chains.
Daemones: Now, to what purpose I should say this dream belongs, Daemones: I have not been able to arrive at a conjecture today.
Daemones: But what noise is this arising here Daemones: in the temple of Venus, next door to me? My mind wonders.
§615Pró Cyrenenses populares, vostram ego imploro fidem, §616agricolae, accolae propinqui qui estis his regionibus, §617ferte opem inopiae atque exemplum pessumum pessum date.
Trachalio: O citizens of Cyrene, I implore your aid, Trachalio: husbandmen, neighbors who are near these regions, Trachalio: bring aid to the helpless, and bring to ruin the worst of examples.
§618vindicate, ne impiorum potior sit pollentia §619quam innocentum, qui se scelere fieri nolunt nobiles.
Trachalio: Defend them, lest the power of the impious be greater Trachalio: than that of the innocent, who do not wish to become famous through crime.
§620statuite exemplum impudenti, date pudori praemium, §621facite hic lege potius liceat quam vi victo vivere.
Trachalio: Set an example for the shameless, give a reward to modesty, Trachalio: make it possible to live here by law rather than by force for the vanquished.
§622currite huc in Veneris fanum, vostram iterum imploro fidem, §623qui prope hic adestis quique auditis clamorem meum, §624ferte suppetias qui Veneri Veneriaeque antistitae §625more antiquo in custodelam suom commiserunt caput, §626praetorquete iniuriae prius cóllum quam ad vos pervenat.
Trachalio: Run hocr to the temple of Venus, again I implore your aid, Trachalio: you who are near here and who hear my cry, Trachalio: bring assistance to those who, to Venus and the priestess of Venus, Trachalio: in ancient fashion have committed their lives to their protection, Trachalio: wring the neck of injustice before it reaches you.
§627Quid istuc est negoti?
Daemones: What business is that?
§627bPer ego haec genua te optestor, senex, §628quisquis es— §628bQuin tu ergo omitte genua et quid sit mi expedi §629quod tumultues.
Trachalio: By these knees I implore you, old man, Trachalio: whoever you are— Daemones: Well then, let go of my knees and explain to me what it is Daemones: that you are making a tumult about.
§629bTeque oro et quaeso, si speras tibi
Trachalio: And I pray and entreat you, if you hope for yourself—