§333Reddidisti animum.
You have restored my spirit.
§333bNunc si quid potes aut tute aut hic Byrrhia, §334Facite, fingite, invenite, efficite qui detur tibi: §335Ego id agam qui mihi ne detur.
Now if you yourself or this Byrrhia here can do anything, do, devise, find, bring it about how she may be given to you; I will act so that she may not be given to me.
§335bSat habeo.
I am satisfied.
Davus most opportunely I see, on whose advice I rely.
But you, by Hercules, bring nothing to me; except things which there is no need to be known.
Fugin' hinc?
Won't you clear out of here?
§337bEgo vero ac libens.
Indeed I will, and gladly.
§338Di boni, boni quid porto! sed ubi inveniam Pamphilum,
Good gods, what good news I bring!
§339Ut metum in quo nunc est adimam, atque expleam animum gaudio?
But where shall I find Pamphilus, to remove the fear in which he now is, and fill his mind with joy?
§340Laetus est nescio quid.
He is happy about something.
§340bNihil est: nondum haec rescivit mala.
It is nothing: he has not yet learned of these troubles.
Who I believe now, if he has already heard that the wedding is prepared for him— Do you hear him?
§342btoto me oppido exanimatum quaerere.
is searching for me out of breath through the whole town.
§343Sed ubi quaeram? quo nunc primum intendam?
But where shall I search? Whither shall I first direct my steps now?
§343bCessas adloqui?
Do you hesitate to address him?
§344Abeo.
I am off.
§344bDave: ades.
Davus: here.
Resiste.
Stop.
Who is the man who calls me? Oh, Pamphilus, I am looking for you yourself.
Euge Charine: ambo opportune.
Well done, Charinus: both opportunely.
Vos volo.
I want you both.
§346Dave, perii.
Davus, I am ruined.
§346bQuin tu hoc audi.
Why don't you hear this?
§346cInterii.
I am dead.
§346dQuid timeas scio.
I know what you fear.
§347Mea quidem hercle certe in dubio vita est.
Indeed, by Hercules, my life at least is certainly in danger.
§347bEt quid tu scio.
And I know what you fear too.
§348Nuptiae mihi.
The wedding for me...
§348bEtsi scio.
Even though I know.
§348cHodie.
Today.
§348dObtundis, tametsi intellego.
You din it into me, although I understand.
§349Id paves ne ducas tu illam, tu autem ut ducas.
You fear lest you marry her, and you, on the other hand, lest you do not marry her.
§349bRem tenes.
You have hit the mark.
§350Istuc ipsum.
That very thing.
§350bAtque istuc ipsum nihil pericli est: me vide.
And that very thing is no danger at all: look to me.
§351Obsecro te, quam primum hoc me libera miserum metu.
I beseech you, free wretched me from this fear as soon as possible.
Well, I free you; Chremes is no longer giving you a wife.
§352bQui scis?
How do you know?
§352cScies.
You shall know.
§353Tuus pater me modo prehendit: ait tibi uxorem dari §354Hodie; item alia multa quae nunc non est narrandi locus.
Your father just now laid hold of me: he says that a wife is being given to you today; and many other things which now is not the place to relate.
§355Continuo ad te properans percurro ad forum ut dicam tibi haec.
Straightway hurrying to you, I ran to the forum to tell you these things.
§356Ubi te non invenio ibi ascendo in quendam excelsum locum.
When I did not find you there, I climbed up to a certain high place.
§357Circumspicio; nusquam.
I look around; nowhere.
Ibi forte huius video Byrrhiam; §358Rogo: negat vidisse.
There by chance I see this man's Byrrhia; I ask: he denies having seen you.
Mihi molestum.
It was troubling to me.
Quid agam, cogito.
I think what I should do.
§359Redeunti interea ex ipsa re mihi incidit suspicio: hem, §360Paululum obsoni: ipsus tristis: de improviso nuptiae: §361Non cohaerent.
Meanwhile, as I was returning, a suspicion struck me from the circumstances themselves: ah, very little provisions: the old man himself sad: a wedding on a sudden: they do not hang together.
§361bQuorsumnam istuc?
Whither indeed does that lead?
§361cEgo me continuo ad Chremem.
I straightway went to Chremes.
§362Cum illo advenio solitudo ante ostium: iam id gaudeo.
When I arrive there, there was solitude before the door: already I rejoice at that.
§363Recte dicis.
You say well.
§363bPerge.
Go on.
§363cManeo: interea introire neminem §364Video exire neminem, matronam nullam in aedibus, §365Nil ornati, nil tumulti: accessi: intro aspexi.
I wait: meanwhile I see no one enter and no one leave, no matron in the house, no preparation, no bustle: I approached: I looked inside.
§365bScio.
I understand.
§366Magnum signum.
A great sign.
§366bNum videntur convenire haec nuptiis?
Do these things seem to agree with a wedding?
§367Non opinor Dave.
I think not, Davus.
§367b"Opinor" narras? non recte accipis.
Do you say 'I think'? You do not understand aright.
§368Certa res est.
It is a certain thing.
Etiam puerum inde abiens conveni Chremi §369Olera et pisciculos minutos ferre obolo in coenam seni.
Also, as I was going away thence, I met Chremes's boy carrying vegetables and tiny little fish for an obol for the old man's supper.
§370Liberatus sum hodie Dave tua opera.
I have been set free today, Davus, by your help.
§370bAc nullus quidem.
And yet not at all.
§371Quid ita? Nempe huic prorsus illam non dat.
How so? Surely he is not giving her to him at all.
§371bRidiculum caput, §372Quasi necesse sit, si huic non dat, te illam uxorem ducere: §373Nisi vides, nisi senis amicos oras, ambis.
Silly fellow, as if it were necessary, if he does not give her to him, that you should marry her: unless you look out for it, unless you entreat and solicit the old man's friends.
§373bBene mones.
You advise well.
§374Ibo: etsi hercle saepe iam me spes haec frustrata est.
I will go: although indeed this hope has often disappointed me already.
Vale.
Farewell.
§375Quid igitur sibi vult pater? cur simulat?
What then does my father mean? Why does he pretend?
§375bEgo dicam tibi.
I will tell you.
§376Si id succenseat nunc quia non det tibi uxorem Chremes, §377Ipsus sibi esse iniurius videatur, neque id iniuria, §378Prius quam tuum ut sese habeat animum ad nuptias perspexerit.
If he should be angry now because Chremes does not give you a wife, he himself would seem to be unjust to himself, and not without reason, before he has seen how your mind stands towards the wedding.
But if you refuse to marry, then he will transfer the blame to you: then those troubles will arise.
§380bQuidvis patiar.
I will suffer anything.
§380cPater est Pamphile.
He is your father, Pamphilus.
§381Difficile est: tum haec sola est mulier: dictum ac factum invenerit §382Aliquam causam quamobrem eiiciat oppido.
It is difficult: then she is a friendless woman: no sooner said than done, he will find some pretext why he should cast her out of the town.
§382bEiiciat?
Cast her out?
§382cCito.
Quickly.
§383Cedo igitur quid faciam Dave?
Tell me then, what shall I do, Davus?
§383bDic te ducturum.
Say that you will marry her.
§383cHem.
What?
§383dQuid est?
What is the matter?
§384Egon dicam?
Am I to say so?
§384bCur non?
Why not?
§384cNumquam faciam.
I will never do it.
§384dNe nega.
Do not refuse.
§385Suadere noli.
Do not persuade me.
§385bEx ea re quid fiat vide.
See what will happen from that.
§386Ut ab illa excludar huc concludar.
That I should be shut out from her and shut in here.
§386bNon ita est.
It is not so.