§630hoc anno multum futurum sirpe et laserpicium §631eamque eventuram exagogam Capuam salvam et sospitem, §632atque ab lippitudine usque siccitas ut sit tibi, §634ut te ne pigeat dare operam mihi quod te orabo, senex.
Trachalio: (if you hope for yourself) that this year there will be a great crop of laserwort and laserpicium, Trachalio: and that its export to Capua will turn out safe and sound, Trachalio: and that you may have a continuous dryness from your sore eyes, Trachalio: so that you may not begrudge, old man, giving your assistance to me in what I shall entreat of you.
§635At ego te per crura et talos tergumque obtestor tuom, §636ut, tibi ulmeam ni deesse speres virgidemiam §637et tibi eventuram hoc anno úberem messem mali, §638ut mi istuc dicas negoti quid sit, quod tumultues.
Daemones: But I implore you by your legs and ankles and your back, Daemones: that, unless you hope that a harvest of elm-rods will not be lacking to you, Daemones: and that a rich harvest of trouble will turn out for you this year, Daemones: you tell me what that business is of yours, about which you are making a tumult.
§639Qui lubet maledicere? equidem tibi bona optavi omnia.
Trachalio: Why do you like to speak evil? Indeed, I wished all good things for you.
§640Bene equidem tibi dico, qui te digna ut eveniant precor.
Daemones: Indeed, I speak well to you, since I pray that things worthy of you may happen to you.
§641Obsecro, hoc praevortere ergo.
Trachalio: I beseech you, then, turn your attention to this first.
§641bQuid negotist?
Daemones: What is the matter?
§641cMulieres §642duae innocentes intus hic sunt, tui indigentes auxili, §643quibus advorsum ius legesque ínsignite iniuria hic §644facta est fitque in Veneris fano; tum sacerdos Veneria §645indigne adflictatur.
Trachalio: Women— Trachalio: two innocent women are inside here, in need of your help, Trachalio: against whom, contrary to justice and laws, a notable injury here Trachalio: has been and is being done in the temple of Venus; moreover, the priestess of Venus Trachalio: is being unworthily abused.
Daemones: What man is of such great impudence, Daemones: who dares to violate the priestess? But those women, Daemones: who are they?
§647quae sunt? aut quid is iniqui fit?
Or what injustice is being done to them?
§647bSi das operam, eloquar.
Trachalio: If you give me your attention, I will speak out.
§648Veneris signum sunt amplexae.
Trachalio: They have clasped the statue of Venus.
nunc homo audacissimus §649eas deripere volt.
Now a most audacious man Trachalio: wants to drag them away.
eas ámbas esse oportet liberas.
Both of them ought to be free.
§650Quis istic est qui deos tam parvi pendit? paucis expedi.
Daemones: Who is that person who values the gods so little? Explain in a few words.
§651Fraudis sceleris parricidi periuri plenissimus, §652legirupa impudens impurus inverecundissimus, §653uno verbo absolvam, lenost: quid illum porro praedicem?
Trachalio: Most full of deceit, crime, sacrilege, and perjury, Trachalio: a law-breaker, shameless, impure, most indecent, Trachalio: to settle it in one word, he is a pimp: why should I describe him further?
§654Edepol infortunio hominem praedicas donabilem.
Daemones: By Pollux, you describe a man deserving of misfortune.
§655Qui sacerdoti scelestus faucis interpresserit.
Trachalio: A scoundrel who would squeeze the throat of the priestess!
§656At malo cum magno suo fecít hercle.
Daemones: But by Hercules, he did it to his own great harm.
ite istinc foras, §657Turbalio, Sparax.
Go out from there, Daemones: Turbalio, Sparax!
ubi estis?
Where are you?
§658bIterum haud imperabo.
Daemones: I will not order a second time.
sequimini hac.
Follow this way.
Trachalio: Come now, Trachalio: order his eyes to be squeezed out, just as cooks do to cuttlefish.
Trachalio: Drag the man out here by his feet, just like a slaughtered pig.— Trachalio: I hear a tumult.
opinor, leno pugnis pectitur.
I think the pimp is being combed with fists.
§662nimis velim improbissimo homini malas edentaverint.
Trachalio: I would very much like them to have knocked the teeth out of the cheeks of that most wicked man.
§663sed eccas ipsae huc egrediuntur timidae e fano mulieres.
Trachalio: But look, the frightened women themselves are coming out here from the temple.
Palaestra: Now is the time when the lack of all resources and means, Palaestra: of help and protection, holds us.
§666núlla nunc spéculast quaé salutem áfferat, §667néc quam in partem íngredi pérsequamur §668scímus: tanto ín metu núnc sumus ambae, §669tánta importúnitas tántaque iniúria §670fácta in nos ést modo hic íntus ab nóstro ero, §671quí scelestús sacerdótem anum praécipes §672réppulit própulit pérquam indignís modis §673nósque ab signo íntimo ví deripuít sua.
Palaestra: There is now no hope that brings safety, Palaestra: nor do we know in which direction to proceed Palaestra: to escape: in such great fear are we both now, Palaestra: such great outrage and such great injury Palaestra: has just been done to us here inside by our master, Palaestra: who, wicked as he is, threw the aged priestess headlong, Palaestra: pushed her away, drove her out in most unworthy ways, Palaestra: and tore us away from the innermost statue by his violence.
Palaestra: But now, as our circumstances and fortunes bear themselves, Palaestra: it is fitting to die.
neque est mélius morte ín malis, §676rébus miserís.
Nor is anything better than death in misfortunes, Palaestra: in miserable affairs.
§676bQuid est? quae íllaec orátiost?
Trachalio: What is it? What talk is that?
§677césso ego has cónsolari? heús, Palaestra!
Trachalio: Do I hesitate to console them? Hey, Palaestra!
§677bQuí vocat?
Palaestra: Who calls?
§678Ámpelisca.
Trachalio: Ampelisca!
§678bÓbsecro, quis est qui vocat?
Ampelisca: I beseech you, who is it that calls?
§679Quís is est qui nóminat?
Palaestra: Who is it that names me?
§679bSí respexís, scies.
Trachalio: If you look back, you will know.
§680Ó salutís meae spés.
Palaestra: O hope of my safety!
§680bTace ac bóno animo es.
Trachalio: Be silent and be of good courage.
§680amé vide.
Trachalio: Look at me.
Palaestra: If only that be allowed, so that violence may not oppress us, Palaestra: which violence drives me to bring violence upon myself.
§681bAh, désine, nímis inepta es.
Trachalio: Ah, cease, you are too foolish.
§682Desíste dictis núnciam miserám me consolári; §683nisi quid re praesidium apparas, Trachalio, acta haec res est.
Palaestra: Cease now to console me in my misery with words; Palaestra: unless you prepare some protection in deed, Trachalio, this matter is finished.
§684Certumst moriri quam hunc pati saevire lenonem in me.
Palaestra: It is certain to die rather than to allow this pimp to rage against me.
§685sed muliebri animo sum tamen: miserae quom venit in mentem §686mihi mortis, metus membra occupat.
Palaestra: But still I have a woman's mind: when death comes to my mind, Palaestra: miserable that I am, fear occupies my limbs.
edepol hunc acerbum.
By Pollux, this bitter day!
§687Bonum animum habete.
Trachalio: Have good courage.
§687bNam, obsecro, unde ánimus mi invenitur?
Palaestra: But, I beseech you, from where is courage to be found for me?
§688Ne, inquam, timete; adsidite hic in ara.
Trachalio: Do not, I say, fear; sit down here on the altar.
§688bQuid istaec ara §689prodesse nobis plus potest quam signum in fano hic intus §690Veneris, quod amplexae modo, unde abreptae per vim miserae?
Palaestra: How can that altar Palaestra: benefit us more than the statue inside this temple of Venus, Palaestra: which we just now clasped, from which we miserable ones were torn away by force?
§691Sedete hic modo, ego hinc vós tamen tutabor.
Trachalio: Just sit here, I will nevertheless protect you from here.
aram habete hanc §692vobis pro castris, moenia hinc égo vos defensabo;
Have this altar Trachalio: as a camp for yourselves, from here I will defend you as walls;