It is less than fifteen days since, for this house, you received forty minae from Callicles.
§404estne hoc quod dico, Stasime?
Is this what I say, Stasimus?
§405bQuid factumst eo?
What was done with it?
§406Comessum, expotum; exussum: elotum in balineis, §407piscator, pistor apstulit, lanii, coqui, §408holitores, myropolae, aucupes: confit cito; §409non hercle minus divorse distrahitur cito, §410quam si tu obicias formicis papaverem.
It was eaten up, drunk up, washed away, and bathed away in the baths; the fishmonger, the baker carried it off, the butchers, the cooks, the greengrocers, the perfumers, the poulterers: it is quickly finished; by Hercules, it is distributed in different directions no less quickly than if you were to throw poppy seed to ants.
§411Minus hercle in istis rebus sumptumst sex minis.
By Hercules, less than six minae were spent on those things.
§412Quid quod dedisti scortis?
What about what you gave to courtesans?
§412bIbidem una traho.
I count that in the same place.
§413Quid quod égo defrudavi?
What about what I embezzled?
§413bEm, istaec ratio maxumast.
Ah, that is the greatest account of all.
It cannot be visible to you if you spend it, unless you think your money is immortal.
Too late and foolishly, what ought to have been guarded against beforehand, after he has devoured his property, he calculates the account afterwards.
§418Nequaquam argenti ratio comparet tamen.
Nevertheless, the account of the money by no means balances.
§419Ratio quidem hercle apparet: argentum οἴχεται.
By Hercules, the calculation is indeed clear: the money is gone.
You received forty minae from Callicles, and did he receive the house in formal transfer from you?
§421bAdmodum.
Exactly.
§422Pol opino adfinis noster aedis vendidit; §423pater quom peregre veniet, in portast locus, §424nisi forte in ventrem filio conrepserit.
By Pollux, I think our relative has sold the house; when his father comes back from abroad, his place is at the gate, unless by chance he creeps into his son's stomach.
To the banker, were the thousand drachmae for Olympicus, which you owed according to the account, paid back?
§427Nempe quás spopondi.
Surely those for which I stood security.
Rather, say "which I paid down" on behalf of that young man whom you said was rich.
§429Factum.
It was done.
§429bVt quidem illud perierit.
So that indeed it is lost.
§429cFactum id quoque est.
That also was done.
§430nam nunc eum vidi miserum et me eius miseritumst.
For now I have seen him in misery and I have pitied him.
§431Miseret te aliorum, tui nec miseret nec pudet.
You pity others, but you neither pity nor are ashamed of yourself.
§432Tempust adeundi.
It is time to go up to them.
§432bÉstne hic Philto qui advenit?
Is this Philto who is coming?
§433is herclest ipsus.
By Hercules, it is he himself.
By Pollux, I would really like him to become my slave with his own private property.
Philto bids the master and the slave, Lesbonicus and Stasimus, a very hearty greeting.
May the gods give to you, Philto, whatever you may wish.
quid agit filius?
How is your son?
§438Bene volt tibi.
He wishes you well.
§438bEdepol mutuom mecum facit.
By Pollux, he does the same as I do.
§439Nequam illud verbumst
bene volt
, nisi qui bene facit. §440ego quoque volo esse liber: nequiquam volo; §441hic postulet frugi esse: nugas postulet.
That expression "he wishes well" is worthless unless one does well; I too wish to be free, but I wish in vain; he may demand to be respectable, but he demands nonsense.
My son has sent me to you, so that between you and us I might bring about an alliance by marriage and goodwill.
He wishes to take your sister as his wife; and for me the opinion is the same and I wish it.
I do not recognize your usual character: in your prosperous circumstances you mock my bad fortune.
§447Homo ego sum, homo tu es: ita me amabit Iuppiter, §448neque te derisum advenio neque dignum puto.
I am a human being, you are a human being: so may Jupiter love me, I neither come to mock you, nor do I think you deserve it.
But this is what I said: my son begged me to ask for your sister as a wife for himself.
It is right for me to know the condition of my own affairs; our family status is not equal to yours.
§453adfinitatem vobis aliam quaerite.
Seek another marriage alliance for yourselves.
Are you quite sane in your mind or soul, who reject this proposal?
§456ferentárium esse amicum inventum intellego.
For I understand that he has been found to be a friend in need to you.
§457Abin hínc dierecte?
Will you not go away from here straight to the gallows?
§457bSi hercle ire occipiam, votes.
By Hercules, if I began to go, you would forbid me.
§458Nisi quid me aliud vis, Philto, respondi tibi.
Unless you wish anything else from me, Philto, I have answered you.
§459Benigniorem, Lesbonice, te mihi, §460quam nunc experior esse, confido fore; §461nam et stulte facere et stulte fabularier, §462utrumque, Lesbonice, in aetate hau bonumst.
Lesbonicus, I trust that you will be more kindly disposed toward me than I now experience you to be; for both to act foolishly and to speak foolishly, both, Lesbonicus, are by no means good at your age.
§463Verum hercle hic dicit.
By Hercules, he speaks the truth.
I will dig your eye out if you add another word.
By Hercules, I will say it nevertheless; for if it is not allowed this way, I will say it as a one-eyed man.
Do you say so now, that your family connections and wealth are not equal to ours?
§468Dico.
I do.
§468bQuid? nunc si in aedem ad cenam veneris
What?
§469atque ibi opulentus tibi par forte obvenerit §470(adposita cena sit, popularem quam vocant), §471si illi congestae sint epulae a cluentibus: §472si quid tibi placeat quod illi congestum siet, §473edisne an incenatus cum opulento accubes?
If you now go to a temple for dinner, and there a rich man happens to be your equal companion, where a dinner is served, such as they call a public one, if feasts have been piled up for him by his clients: if anything that has been piled up for him should please you, would you eat, or would you lie beside the rich man dinnerless?