§908Quid est negoti?
What is the matter?
§908bDevoravi nomen imprudens modo.
I carelessly swallowed the name just now.
§909Non placet qui amicos intra dentes conclusos habet.
I don't like a man who keeps his friends locked up inside his teeth.
§910Atque etiam modo vorsabatur mi in labris primoribus.
And yet it was just now on the very tip of my lips.
§911Temperi huic hodie anteveni.
I have come in good time today to forestall him.
§911bTeneor manifesto miser.
I am caught red-handed, wretched me.
§912Iam recommentatu's nomen?
Have you remembered the name yet?
§912bDeum hercle me atque hominum pudet.
By Hercules, I am ashamed before gods and men.
§913Vide modo ut hóminem noveris.
Just see how well you know the man!
§913bTam quam me.
As well as myself.
fieri istuc solet, §914quod in manu teneas atque oculis videas, id desideres.
That is accustomed to happen, that what you hold in your hand and see with your eyes, that you look for.
§915litteris recomminiscar.
I will recall it by the letters.
C est principium nomini.
'C' is the beginning of the name.
§916Callias?
Callias?
§916bNon est.
No, it isn't.
§916cCallippus?
Callippus?
§916dNon est.
No, it isn't.
§916eCallidemides?
Callidemides?
§917Non est.
No, it isn't.
§917bCallinicus?
Callinicus?
§917cNon est.
No, it isn't.
§917dCallimarchus?
Callimarchus?
§917eNil agis.
You are doing nothing.
§918neque adeo edepol flocci facio, quando egomet memini mihi.
Nor indeed, by Pollux, do I care a straw, since I myself remember it for myself.
§919At enim multi Lesbonici sunt hic: nisi nomen patris §920dices, non monstrare istos possum homines quos tu quaeritas.
But indeed there are many Lesbonicuses here: unless you tell the father's name, I cannot show you those men whom you are seeking.
§921quod ad exemplum est? coniectura si reperire possumus.
What is it like? If we can find it by conjecture.
§922Ad hoc exemplum est—
It is like this pattern— Chares?
§922bAn Chares? an Charmides?
Or Charmides?
§922cEnim Charmides.
Indeed, Charmides!
§923em istic erit.
There, that will be he!
qui istum di perdant.
May the gods destroy him.
dixi ego iam dudum tibi: §924Te potius bene dicere aequomst homini amico, quam male.
I told you just now: It is more fitting for you to speak well of a friendly man, than ill.
§925Satin inter labra atque dentes latuit vir minimi preti?
Did that worthless man hide himself enough between my lips and teeth?
§926Ne male loquere apsenti amico.
Do not speak ill of an absent friend.
Why then did that most lazy fellow keep hiding from me?
§927bSi appellasses, respondisset, nomine.
If you had called him by name, he would have answered.
§928sed ipse ubi est?
But where is he himself?
§928bPol illúm reliqui ad Rhadamantem in Cecropia insula. †
By Pollux, I left him with Rhadamanthys in the Cecropian island.
§929Quis homo est me insipientior, qui ipse, egomet ubi sim, quaeritem?
What man is more foolish than me, who am asking where I myself am?
§930sed nil disconducit huic rei.
But it doesn't hinder this business at all.
quid ais? quid hoc quod te rogo?
What do you say? What about this that I ask you?
§931quos locos adiisti?
What places did you visit?
§931bNimium mirimodis mirabiles.
Exceedingly wonderful in wondrous ways.
§932Lubet audire, nisi molestumst.
I would like to hear, unless it is troublesome.
§932bQuin discupio dicere.
Why, I am eager to tell.
§933omnium prímum in Pontum advecti ad Arabiam terram sumus.
First of all, we sailed to Pontus, to the land of Arabia.
§934Eho an etiam Arabiast in Ponto?
Oh, is Arabia also in Pontus?
Yes, it is: not that one where frankincense is produced, but where wormwood grows and wild savory.
§936Nimium graphicum hunc nugatorem.
An exceedingly exquisite trifler.
sed ego sum insipientior, §937qui egomet unde redeam hunc rogitem, quae ego sciam atque hic nesciat; §938nisi quia lubet experiri, quo evasurust denique.
But I am more foolish, who am asking him where I myself am returning from, things which I know and he does not; except because I want to try where he will end up at last.
§939sed quid ais? quo inde isti porro?
But what do you say? Where did you go further from there?
§939bSi animum advortes, eloquar.
If you will pay attention, I will speak out.
§940ad caput amnis, quod de caelo exoritur sub solio Iovis.
To the source of the river which rises from heaven under the throne of Jupiter.
§941Sub solio Iovis?
Under the throne of Jupiter?
§941bIta dico.
So I say.
§941cE caelo?
From heaven?
§941dAtque e medio quidem.
And indeed from the very middle.
§942Eho an etiam ín caelum escendisti?
Oh, did you even ascend into heaven?
On the contrary, we were carried in a little boat, all the way against the stream up the river.
§943bEho an tu etiam vidisti Iovem?
Oh, did you also see Jupiter?
§944Alii di isse ad villam aiebant servis depromptum cibum.
The other gods said he had gone to his villa to distribute rations to the slaves.
Then further— Then further, I do not want you to declare anything.
nam pudicum neminem, §947Pax, referre oportet, qui aps terra ad caelum pervenerit.
For no modest man, Pax, ought to report, who has traveled from earth to heaven.
§948Faciam ita ut te velle video.
I will do just as I see you wish.
sed monstra hosce homines mihi, §949quos ego quaero, quibus me oportet has deferre epistulas.
But show me these men whom I seek, to whom I must deliver these letters.
§950Quid ais? tu nunc si forte eumpse Charmidem conspexeris, §951illum quem tibi istás dedisse commemoras epistulas, §952norisne hominem?
What do you say? If you now by chance should see Charmides himself, him who you mention gave you those letters, would you recognize the man?
By Pollux, you indeed think me a beast, who indeed could not know him with whom I have spent my life.
§954an ille tam esset stultus, qui mihi mille nummum crederet §955Philippum, quod me aurum deferre iussit ad gnatum suom §956atque ad amicum Calliclem, quoi rem aibat mandasse hic suam?
Or would he be so foolish, as to trust me with a thousand Philip gold coins, the gold which he ordered me to deliver to his son and to his friend Callicles, to whom he said here he had entrusted his property?
§957mihi concrederet, nisi me ille ét ego illum nossem approbe?
Would he trust it to me, unless he knew me and I knew him thoroughly?
§958Enim vero ego nunc sycophantae huic sycophantari volo, §959si hunc possum illo mille nummum Philippum circumducere, §960quod sibi me dedisse dixit, quem ego qui sit homo nescio §961neque oculis ante hunc diem umquam vidi.
But indeed I now wish to play the trickster back on this trickster, if I can cheat him of that thousand Philip gold coins, which he said I had given to him, though I do not know who the man is nor have ever seen with my eyes before this day.
eine aurum crederem,
Would I trust gold to him,