§70bQuid tu igitur rogitas, tene obiurigem?
Why then do you ask whether I am to chide you?
§71nisi tu me mihimet censes dicturum male.
Unless you think I am going to speak ill of myself.
§72nam si in te aegrotant artes antiquae tuae, §75omnibus amicis morbum tu incuties gravem, §76ut te videre audireque aegroti sient.
For if in you your old-fashioned virtues are sick, you will strike a heavy disease into all your friends, so that they may be sickened to see and hear you.
§77Qui in mentem venit tibi istaec dicta dicere?
How did it come into your mind to say such things?
Because it is fitting for all good men and women to take care that they may separate suspicion and fault from themselves.
§80Non potest utrumque fieri.
Both cannot be done.
§80bQuapropter?
Why so?
§80cRogas?
Do you ask?
As to not committing a fault, I am the dispenser of my own heart; suspicion is placed in another's heart.
§83nam nunc ego si te surrupuisse suspicer §84Iovi coronam de capite ex Capitolio, §85qui in columine astat summo: si id non feceris §86atque id tamen mihi lubeat suspicarier, §87qui tu id prohibere me potes ne suspicer?
For if I should now suspect that you have stolen the crown from the head of Jupiter on the Capitol, who stands on the highest column; even if you have not done it, and yet it should please me to suspect it, how can you prevent me from suspecting it?
§88sed istúc negoti cupio scire quid siet.
But I desire to know what that business is.
Have you any friend or intimate acquaintance, whose heart has wisdom?
§90bEdepol haud dicam dolo: §91sunt quos scio esse amicos, sunt quos suspicor, §92sunt quorum ingenia atque animos nequeo noscere, §93ad amici partem an ad inimici pervenant; §94sed tu ex amicis mi es certis certissimus.
By Pollux, I will speak without deceit: there are those whom I know to be friends, those whom I suspect to be so, and there are those whose dispositions and minds I cannot know, whether they turn to the side of a friend or an enemy; but of my reliable friends you are the most reliable.
If you know that I have done anything foolishly or dishonestly, if you do not accuse me of it, you yourself ought to be chided.
I know it; and if I came here to you for any other cause, you demand what is reasonable.
§98Expecto si quid dicas.
I am waiting to hear what you say.
§98bPrimumdum omnium, §99male dictitatur tibi volgo in sermonibus: §100turpilucricupidum te vocant cives tui; §101tum autem sunt alii, qui te volturium vocant: §102hostisne an civis comedis, parvi pendere.
First of all, you are commonly spoken ill of in public talk: your fellow citizens call you a greedy seeker of base gain; and then there are others who call you a vulture: and say that you care little whether you devour an enemy or a citizen.
§103haec cum audio in te dici, discrucior miser.
When I hear these things said against you, I, unhappy man, am tortured.
§104Est atque non est mi in manu, Megaronides: §105quin dicant, non est; merito ut ne dicant, id est.
It is and it is not in my power, Megaronides: that they should not speak, is not; that they should not speak with reason, is.
§106Fuitne híc tibi amicus Charmides?
Was Charmides a friend of yours here?
§106bEst et fuit.
He is and he was.
§107id ita esse ut credas, rem tibi auctorem dabo.
That you may believe it to be so, I will give you a proof from facts.
§108nam postquam hic eius rem confregit filius §109videtque ípse ad paupertatem protractum esse se §110suamque filiam esse adultam virginem, §111simul eius matrem suamque uxorem mortuam, §112quoniam hinc iturust ipsus in Seleuciam, §113mihi conmendavit virginem gnatam suam §114et rem suam omnem et illúm corruptum filium.
For after his son here ruined his property, and he saw himself dragged down to poverty, and that his daughter was a grown-up maiden, and at the same time her mother and his own wife was dead, since he himself was about to depart hence to Seleucia, he entrusted his maiden daughter to me, and all his property, and that ruined son.
§115haec, si mihi inimicus esset, credo haud crederet.
If he were an enemy to me, I believe he would not have entrusted these things.
§116Quid tu, adulescentem, quem esse corruptum vides, §117qui tuae mandatus est fide et fiduciae, §118quin eum restituis, quin ad frugem conrigis?
Why then, as for the young man whom you see to be ruined, who was entrusted to your faith and confidence, why do you not restore him, why do you not correct him to a better course?
§119ei rei óperam dare te fuerat aliquanto aequius, §120si qui probiorem facere posses, non uti §121in eandem tute accederes infamiam §122malumque ut eius cum tuo mísceres malo.
It would have been considerably more just for you to apply your efforts to that matter, if by any means you could have made him more honest, and not that you yourself should fall into the same infamy, and mix his trouble with your own evil deed.
§123Quid feci?
What have I done?
§123bQuod homo nequam.
What a worthless fellow does.
§123cNon istuc meumst.
That is not my way.
Did you buy this house from the young man (why are you silent?) where you yourself are now living?
I bought it, and I paid the money, forty minae, directly into the hands of the young man himself.
§127Dedistín argentum?
Did you give him the money?
§127bFactum, neque facti piget.
I did, and I do not regret the deed.
§128Edepol fide adulescentem mandatum malae.
By Pollux, a young man entrusted to bad faith!
§129dedistíne hoc facto ei gladium, qui se occideret?
Did you by this deed give him a sword with which to kill himself?
§130quid secus est aut quid interest dare te in manus §131argentum amanti homini adulescenti, animi impoti, §132qui exaedificaret suam incohatam ignaviam?
How is it different, or what does it matter whether you put into the hands of a young man in love, who has no self-control, money with which he might build up to completion his unfinished folly?
§133Non ego illi argentum redderem?
Should I not have paid the money to him?
§133bNon redderes, §134neque de illo quicquam neque emeres neque venderes, §135nec qui deterior esset faceres copiam.
You should not have paid it, nor should you have bought or sold anything from him, nor have given him the opportunity to become worse.
Did you not trick him who was entrusted to you, and did you not drive out of his house the very man who entrusted him?
§138edepol mandatum pulchre et curatum probe;
By Pollux, a beautifully managed trust and honestly cared for!
§139crede huic tutelam: suam melius rem gesserit.
Entrust guardianship to this man: he will manage his own business better.