§594cVae aetati tuae. §595Vasa lautum, non ad cenam dico. §595bDi te perduint. §596quid ais, Pamphilippe? §596bAd cenam hercle alio promisi foras. §597Quid, foras? §597bForas hércle vero. §597cQui malum tíbi lasso libet §598foris cenare? §598bVtrum tu censes? §598cIuben domi cenam coqui §599atque ad illúm renuntiari? §599bSolus cenabo domi? §600Non enim sólus: me vocato. §600bAt ille ne suscenseat, §601mea qui causa sumptum fecit. §601bFacile excusari potest.
“Woe to your old age!” “To wash the dishes, I mean, not for dinner.” “May the gods destroy you!” “What do you say, Pamphilippus?” “By Hercules, I have promised to go out to dinner elsewhere.” “What, out?” “Out, by Hercules, indeed.” “How the devil does it please you, tired as you are, to dine out?” “Which do you think?” “Won't you order dinner to be cooked at home and send word to him that you decline?” “Shall I dine alone at home?” “Not alone indeed: invite me!” “But lest he should be angry, who has gone to expense for my sake.” “It can easily be excused.
§602mihi modo ausculta, iube cénam domi coqui. §602bNon me quidem §603faciet auctore, hodie ut illum decipiat. §603bNon tu hinc abis?
Just listen to me, order dinner to be cooked at home.” “He certainly won't make me the adviser to deceive him today.” “Won't you get away from here?
§604nisi me non perspicere censes quid agas.
Unless you think I don't see what you're doing.
cave sis tu tibi, §605nam illic homó tuam hereditatem inhiát, quasi esuriens lupus. §606non tu scis, quam éfflictentur homines noctu hic in via? §607Tanto pluris qui defendant ire advorsum iussero. §608Non it, non it, quia tanto opere suades ne ebitat. §608bIube §609domi mi tibique tuaeque uxori celeriter cenam coqui.
You'd better watch out, for that fellow is gaping for your inheritance like a starving wolf.” “Don't you know how people are beaten up at night here in the street?” “All the more I shall order slaves to go and meet me to defend me.” “He's not going, he's not going, because you urge him so much not to go.” “Order dinner to be cooked quickly at home for me, you, and your wife.
§610si hercle faxis, non opinor dices deceptum fore. §611Per hanc tibi cenam incenato, Gelasime, esse hodie licet. §612Ibisne ad cenam foras? §612bApud frátrem ceno in proxumo. §613Certumnest? §613bCertum. §613cEdepol te hodie lapide percussum velim. §614Non metuo: per hortúm transibo, non prodibo in publicum. §615Quid ais, Gelasime? §615bOratores tu accipis, habeas tibi. §616Tua pol refert. §616bEnim, si quidem meá refert, opera utere. §617Posse edepol tibi opinor etiam uni locum condi §618ubi accubes. §618bSane faciundum censeo. §618cO lux oppidi. §619Si arte poteris accubare. §619bVél inter cuneos ferreos; §620tantillum loculi, ubi catellus cubet, id mi satis est loci. §621Exorabo aliquo modo.
By Hercules, if you do this, I don't think you will say you have been deceived.” “As far as this dinner is concerned, Gelasimus, you may go dinnerless today.” “Will you go out to dinner?” “I am dining next door at my brother's.” “Is it certain?” “Certain.” “By Pollux, I wish you'd be hit by a stone today.” “I'm not afraid: I'll go through the garden, I won't go out in public.” “What do you say, Gelasimus?” “You receive ambassadors, keep them to yourself.” “By Pollux, it concerns you.” “Indeed, if it concerns me, use my services.” “By Pollux, I think a place can even be found for you alone where you may recline.” “I think we should certainly do that.” “O light of the town!” “If you can recline in a tight squeeze.” “Even between iron wedges!” “Such a tiny bit of space where a puppy might lie, that's enough space for me.” “I'll persuade them somehow.
Come.” “Here?” “No, into prison;" “for here at least you won't make your genius any better.
eamus, tu. §623Deos salutabo modo, poste ad te continuo transeo. — §624Quid igitur? §624bDixi equidem, in carcerem ires. §624cQuin si iusseris, §625eo quoque ibo. §625bDi immortales, hic quidem pól summam in crucem §626cena aut prandio perduci potest. §626bIta ingenium meumst: §627quicumvis depugno multo facilius quam cum fame. §628Dum parasitus mi atque fratri fuisti, rem confregimus. §629Non nego ista ápud te. §629bSatis spectatast mihi iam tua felicitas; §630nunc ego nolo ex Gelasimo mihi fieri te Catagelasimum. —
Let's go, you.” “I will just greet the gods, then I'll cross over to your house immediately.” “What then?” “I said indeed, you should go to prison.” “Why, if you order it, I'll go there too.” “Immortal gods, this man indeed can be led to the highest gallows for a dinner or a lunch.” “That is my nature: I fight anyone much more easily than with hunger.” “While you were a parasite to me and my brother, we ruined our estate.” “I don't deny those things at your house.” “Your good fortune is already sufficiently observed by me; now I do not want you to become Catagelasimus to me instead of Gelasimus.” “Have you gone already?
§631Iamne abiisti? Gelasime, vide quíd es capturus consili.
Gelasimus, see what plan you are going to adopt.
§632egone? tune.
Me? You.
mihine? tibine.
To me? To you.
viden ut annonast gravis?
Do you see how high the price of corn is?
§633viden, benignitates hominum ut periere et prothymiae?
Do you see how men's kindness and goodwill have perished?
§634viden ridiculos nihili fieri, atque ipsos parasitarier?
Do you see that jesters are worth nothing, and they themselves play the parasite?
§635numquam edepol me vivom quisquam in crastinum inspiciet diem; §636nam mihi iam intus potione iuncea onerabo gulam, §637_640neque ego hoc committam, ut me esse homines mortuom dicant fame. — §641More hoc fit, atque stulte mea sententia: §642si quem hominem exspectant, eum solent provisere; §643qui hercle illa causa ócius nihilo venit.
By Pollux, no one shall see me alive tomorrow; for now indoors I shall load my throat with a rush-drink, nor will I allow people to say that I died of hunger.” “This is done by custom, and foolishly in my opinion: if they are expecting someone, they are accustomed to look out for him; who, by Hercules, comes not a bit faster for that reason.
I am doing the same thing now, looking out for Sagarinus, who will come not a bit faster because of this, however.
§646iam hercle ego decumbam solus, si ille huc non venit.
By Hercules, I shall now recline alone, if he does not come here.
I will just bring a jar with wine from my place to here, afterwards I shall recline.
quasi nix tabescit dies. — §649Salvete, Athenae, quae nutrices Graeciae,
The day is melting away like snow.” “Greetings, Athens, nurse of Greece!
§650sperata erilis patria, te video libens.
Longed-for homeland of my master, I see you gladly.
But how my mistress and fellow-slave Stephanium is doing is my concern, that she is well.