§629adero, dum ego tecum, bellator, arbitrum aequom ceperim.
I will be here, warrior, as soon as I have found a fair arbitrator between me and you.
§630sed ego cesso hinc me amoliri, ventre dum salvo licet?—
But why do I delay to get myself away from here, while my belly is safe?
§631Datin sóleas? atque me intro actutum ducite,
Are you giving me my sandals?
§632nam mihi de vento miserae condoluit caput. —
And lead me inside immediately, for my head, poor me, has begun to ache because of the wind.
§633Quid mihi futurum est, cui duae ancillae dolent,
What will become of me, who am grieving for the two maidservants whom I gave to you?
§634quibus té donavi? iamne abiisti? em sic datur.
Have you already gone? Look, that's how I am treated.
§635quo pacto excludi, quaeso, potui planius,
How, I ask, could I have been shut out more clearly than I am shut out now?
§636quam exclusus nunc sum? púlcre ludificor.
I am beautifully made a fool of.
sine.
Let it be.
With how little effort could I now be persuaded to break the ankles of everyone in this whole house.
§639num quippiam tam immutat mores mulierum?
Does anything change the character of women so much?
§640postquam filiolum peperit, animos sustulit.
Since she gave birth to a little son, she has raised her spirits.
Now it is as if she said to me: I neither order you nor forbid you to enter the house.
at ego nolo, non eo.
But I don't want to, I am not going.
I will make her say in a few days that I am a hard-hearted man.
sequere me hac.
Follow me this way.
verbum sat est. —
A word is enough.
My father ordered me some time ago to go from here to the countryside, to bring out acorns for the oxen's midday meal.
§647post illoc quam veni, advenit, si dis placet, §648ad villam argentum meo qui debebat patri, §649qui ovis Tarentínas erat mercatus de patre.
After I arrived there, if it please the gods, a man who owed money to my father came to the villa, who had bought Tarentine sheep from my father.
§650quaerit patrem.
He was looking for my father.
dico esse in urbe.
I told him he was in the city.
interrogo, §651quid eum velit
I asked him what he wanted with him.
The man took down his purse from his neck, gave me twenty minae.
accipio libens, §654condo in cruminam.
I received them gladly, put them in my purse.
ille abit.
He departed.
ego propere minas §655ovis ín crumina hác in urbem detuli.
I quickly sheep in this purse brought into the city.
By Edepol, Mars was very angry with my father, for his sheep are not far off from the wolves.
Now I shall expose those elegant city lovers with this blow, and cast them all out of doors.
I am resolved first of all to root out my father, and after that my mother.
nunc hoc deferam §662argentum ad hanc, quam mage amo quam matrem meam.
Now I will carry this money to her, whom I love more than my own mother.
§663tat, ecquis intust? ecquis hoc aperit ostium?
Oh, is anyone inside? Is anyone opening this door?
What is that? Are you a stranger, my dear Strabax, that you did not enter immediately?
§666bAnne oportuit?
Ought I to have?
§667Ita te quidem, qui es familiaris.
Indeed yes, for you are a friend of the house.
§668bLepide facis.
You do nicely.
§669Mirum videtur, rure erilem filium §670Strabacem non rediisse; nisi si clanculum §671conlapsus est hic in corruptelam suam.
It seems strange that the master's son Strabax has not returned from the countryside; unless he has secretly slipped in here to his ruin.
§672Iam pol illic inclamabit me si aspexerit.
By Pollux, he will now shout at me if he sees me.
I am much less fierce now, Astaphium, than I was, now I am not truculent, do not fear.
§675Quid vis? quid metuam? tuam expecto truculentiam.
What do you want? What should I fear? I expect your truculence.
§676Dic impera mihi quid libet quo vis modo.
Tell me, command me what you please, in whatever way you wish.
§677novos ómnis mores habeo, veteres perdidi.
I have all new habits, I have lost my old ones.
§678vel amare possum vel iam scortum ducere.
I can either love or now keep a courtesan.
§679Lepide mecastor nuntias.
By Castor, you bring nice news.
But tell me, do you have— Perhaps you mean to say a purse?
§681Intellexisti lepide quid ego dicerem.
You understood nicely what I was going to say.
Look here, now that I frequently resort to the city, I have become witty.
iam sum caullator probus.
Now I am a fine jester.
What is that, please? Those ridiculous things, jests, I suppose you mean to say?
§686Istud pauxillum differt a cavillibus.
That differs very little from jests.
§687Sequere intro, amabo, mea voluptas.
Follow me inside, please, my delight.
Hold this for yourself: have this earnest money, so that you may be with me tonight.
§689Perii, rabonem? quam esse dicam hanc beluam?
Ah, "rabonem" (earnest money)? What shall I call this beast?
§690quin tu arrabonem dicis?
Why don't you say "arrabonem"?
I make a profit of the "A", as "conia" is "ciconia" to the Praenestines.
§692Sequere, obsecro.
Follow, please.
I will just wait here for Strabax, to see if he comes from the countryside.
That Strabax is indeed here with us, he has just come from the countryside.
§694bPriusne quam ad matrem suam?
Before he went to his mother?
§695eu edepol hominem nihili.
Ah, by Edepol, a worthless man.
§695bIamne autem ut soles?
But are you starting already, as you usually do?
§696Iamne nihil dico?
Am I to say nothing now?
§696bI intro, amabo, cedo manum.
Go inside, please, give me your hand.
§697Tene.
Take it.
in tabernam ducor devorsoriam, §698ubi male accipiar mea mihi pecunia. —
I am being led into a tavern, where I shall be badly received at my own expense.