§453Quem," inquit, "vocabo ad coenam meorum aequalium §454Potissimum nunc?" et, quod dicendum hic siet, §455Tu quoque perparce nimium.
"Whom," says he, "of my companions shall I invite to dinner especially now?" and, if it may be said here, you also are too extremely sparing.
Non laudo.
I do not praise it.
§455bTace.
Hold your tongue.
§456Commovi.
I have stirred him up.
§456bEgo istaec recte ut fiant videro.
I will see that those things are done properly.
§457Quidnam hoc rei est? quid hic vult veterator sibi?
What on earth is this business? What does this old fox want for himself?
§458Nam si hic mali est quicquam, hem illic est huic rei caput.
For if there is any mischief here, ah, there is the source of this affair.
Indeed, by Pollux, Lesbia, the matter is just as you said: you can hardly find a husband faithful to a woman.
§461Ab Andria est ancilla haec.
This maid is from the Andrian woman.
§461bQuid narras?
What are you saying?
§461cIta est.
It is so.
§463Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec muta facta sit.
I wish either this man had been made deaf or she dumb.
"For he ordered that what she brought forth should be brought up." O Jupiter!
§465Quid ego audio? Actum est siquidem haec vera praedicat.
What do I hear? It is all over indeed if she speaks the truth.
§466Bonum ingenium narras adolescentis. §466bOptimum. §467Sed sequere me intro, ne in mora illi sis. §467bSequor. §468Quod remedium nunc huic malo inveniam?
"You speak of a good disposition of the young man." "The best." "But follow me inside, lest you should be a delay to her." "I follow." What remedy shall I find now for this evil?
§468bQuid hoc?
What is this?
§469Adeone est demens? Ex peregrina? Iam scio; ah!
Is he so mad? By a foreign woman? Now I know; ah!
§470Vix tandem sensi stolidus.
Stupidly, I have hardly at last perceived it.
§470bQuid hic sensisse ait?
What does this man say he has perceived?
§471Haec primum adfertur iam mihi ab hoc fallacia: §472Hanc simulant parere quo Chremetem absterreant.
This is the first trick that is now brought to me by this man: they pretend she is giving birth, so that they may frighten Chremes away.
§473"Iuno Lucina fer opem, serva me, obsecro. " §474Hui tam cito? ridiculum: postquam ante ostium §475Me audivit stare approperat.
"Juno Lucina, bring aid, save me, I beseech you." Oh, so quickly? Ridiculous: after she heard me standing before the door, she makes haste.
Non sat commode §476Divisa sunt temporibus tibi, Dave, haec.
These things, Davus, have not been very conveniently timed by you.
§476bMihin?
By me?
§477Num immemor es discipuli?
Are you forgetful of your pupil?
§477bEgo quid narres nescio.
I do not know what you are saying.
If this man had attacked me unprepared in a real wedding, what sport he would have made of me!
§480Nunc huius periclo fit, ego in portu navigo.
Now it happens at his own risk; I sail in harbor.
§481Adhuc Archylis quae assolent quaeque oportet §482Signa esse ad salutem omnia huic esse video. §483Nunc primum fac istaec lavet: post deinde §484Quod iussi ei dari bibere et quantum imperavi §485Date: mox ego huc revertar. §486Per ecastor scitus puer est natus Pamphilo. §487Deos quaeso ut sit superstes, quandoquidem ipse est ingenio bono, §488Cumque huic est veritus optimae adulescenti facere iniuriam. §489Vel hoc quis non credat qui te norit abs te esse ortum?
"So far, Archylis, I see that all the signs which are customary and which ought to exist for recovery are present in her." "Now first see that she washes those parts: then afterwards give her what I ordered to be given to drink, and as much as I commanded; presently I will return here." "By Castor, a fine boy is born to Pamphilus." "I pray the gods that he may survive, since indeed he is of a good disposition himself, and has feared to do injury to this most excellent young woman." Who indeed would not believe this, who knows you, to have originated from you?
§489bQuidnam id est?
What indeed is that?
§490Non imperabat coram quid opus facto esset puerperae: §491Sed postquam egressa est illis quae sunt intus clamat de via.
He did not command in her presence what was necessary to be done for the woman in childbed; but after she has gone out, he shouts from the street to those who are inside.
§492O Dave, itan contemnor abs te? aut itane tandem idoneus
O Davus, am I so despised by you?
§493Tibi videor esse quem tam aperte fallere incipias dolis?
Or do I seem to you at last to be so fit a person whom you may begin to deceive so openly with tricks?
§494Saltem accurate, ut metui videar certe si resciverim.
At least do it carefully, so that I may certainly seem to be feared if I find it out.
§495Certe hercle nunc hic se ipsus fallit haud ego.
Certainly, by Hercules, now he deceives himself, not I.
Did I not tell you, did I not forbid you to do it? Did you fear? What did it avail?
§497Credon tibi hoc, nunc peperisse hanc e Pamphilo?
Am I to believe you in this, that she has now given birth to a child by Pamphilus?
§498Teneo quid erret: et quid agam habeo.
I hold where he errs, and I have what to do.
§498bQuid taces?
Why are you silent?
§499Quid credas? quasi non tibi renunciata sint haec sic fore.
What should you believe? As if these things had not been reported to you that they would be so.
§500Mihin quisquam?
To me? Anyone?
§500bEho an tute intellexti hoc assimulari?
Oh, or did you understand yourself that this was pretended?
§500cIrrideor.
I am being mocked.
§501Renunciatum est: nam qui istaec tibi incidit suspicio?
It was reported; for how did that suspicion fall upon you?
§502Qui? quia te noram.
How? Because I knew you.
§502bQuasi tu dicas factum id consilio meo.
As if you would say that it was done by my advice.
§503Certe enim scio.
For indeed I know it certainly.
§503bNon satis me pernosti etiam qualis sim Simo.
You do not yet know well enough what kind of person I am, Simo.
§504Ego non te?
I not know you?
§504bSed si quid narrare occoepi, continuo dari §505Tibi verba censes falso: itaque hercle nihil iam muttire audeo.
But if I have begun to tell you anything, immediately you think that words are falsely given to you; therefore, by Hercules, I now do not dare to mutter anything.
§506Hoc ego scio unum neminem peperisse hic.
This one thing I know, that no one has given birth here.
§506bIntellexti.
You have understood.
§507Sed nihilo setius mox deferent puerum huc ante ostium.
But nevertheless, presently they will carry the child here before the door.
§508Id ego iam nunc tibi renuntio here futurum, ut sis sciens. §509Ne tu hoc mihi posterius dicas Davi factum consilio aut dolis.
I report to you now, master, that this will happen, so that you may be aware, lest you should say to me afterwards that this was done by the advice or tricks of Davus.
§510Prorsus a me opinionem hanc tuam esse ego amotam volo.
I wish this opinion of yours to be entirely removed from me.
§511Unde id scis?
Whence do you know that?
I heard and I believe; many things concur together by which I now make this conjecture.
Iam primum haec se e Pamphilo
Now first, she says she is pregnant by Pamphilus—