§631Post ubi tempus promissa iam perfici, §632Tum coacti necessario se aperiunt, §633Et timent: et tamen res premit denegare:
Afterward, when the time comes for the promises to be performed, then forced by necessity they reveal themselves, and they are afraid; and yet the situation presses them to refuse.
§634Ibi tum eorum impudentissima oratio est, §635"Quis tu es? quis mihi es? cur meam tibi? Heus, §636Proximus sum egomet mihi. "Attamen "Ubi fides," §637Si roges, nihil pudet; hic ubi opus est §638Non verentur: illic ubi nihil opus est ibi verentur.
Then, at that moment, their speech is most impudent: "Who are you? What are you to me? Why should I give my girl to you? Look, I am closest to myself." But if you ask, "Where is the good faith," they are not at all ashamed; here, where there is need, they do not fear; there, where there is no need, they fear.
§639Sed quid agam? adeamne ad eum, et cum eo iniuriam hanc expostulem?
Charinus: "But what should I do? Should I go to him and complain to him about this injustice?
§640Ingeram mala multa? Atque aliquis dicat, "Nihil promoveris. " §641Multum: molestus certe ei fuero: atque animo morem gessero. §642Charine et me et te imprudens, nisi quid Di respiciunt, perdidi.
Should I heap many insults on him? And someone might say, 'You will have accomplished nothing.' A great deal: I shall certainly have been troublesome to him, and I shall have gratified my passion." Pamphilus: "Charinus, imprudently indeed, unless the gods look upon us in some way, I have ruined both myself and you." Charinus: "Imprudently?
§643Itane imprudens? tandem inventa est causa: solvisti fidem. §644Quid tandem? §644bEtiam nunc me ducere istis dictis postulas? §645Quid istuc est? §645bPostquam me amare dixi complacita est tibi.
At last an excuse is found: you have broken your promise." Pamphilus: "What do you mean by 'at last'?" Charinus: "Do you ask to lead me on even now with those words of yours?" Pamphilus: "What is that?" Charinus: "After I said I loved her, she became pleasing to you.
§646Heu me miserum qui tuum animum ex animo spectavi meo. §647Falsus es. §647bNonne tibi satis esse hoc visum solidum est gaudium, §648Nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres.
Ah, wretched me, who judged your heart by my own!" Pamphilus: "You are mistaken." Charinus: "Did this joy not seem to you sufficiently solid, unless you lured me, a lover, with sweet words and kept me going with false hope?
§649Habeas.
Keep her." Pamphilus: "Keep her?
§649bHabeam? ah nescis quantis in malis verser miser; §650Quantasque hic suis consiliis mihi confecit sollicitudines §651Meus carnufex. §651bQuid istuc tam mirum est de te si exemplum capit? §652Haud istuc dicas si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum. §653Scio: cum patre altercasti dudum: et is nunc propterea tibi §654Succenset: nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres. §655Immo etiam, quo tu minus scis aerumnas meas, §656Hae nuptiae non apparabantur mihi: §657Nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare. §658Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es. §658bMane: §659Nondum scis. §659bScio equidem illam ducturum esse te.
Ah, you do not know in what great troubles I, wretched man, am involved; and how many anxieties this fellow here has caused me by his counsels, my executioner." Charinus: "What is so strange about that, if he takes an example from you?" Pamphilus: "You would not say that if you knew either me or my love." Charinus: "I know: you quarreled with your father just now; and he is now angry with you for that reason; nor could he force you today to marry her." Pamphilus: "Nay, indeed, so that you may know how little you understand my troubles, this wedding was not being prepared for me; nor was anyone demanding now that a wife be given to me." Charinus: "I know: you were forced by your own will." Pamphilus: "Wait; you do not know yet." Charinus: "I know indeed that you are going to marry her." Pamphilus: "Why do you plague me?
§660Cur me enicas? Hoc audi.
Listen to this.
Numquam destitit §661Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri; §662Suadere, orare, usque adeo donec perpulit. §663Quis homo istuc? §663bDavus. — §663cDavus? §663dinterturbat. §663eQuamobrem? §663fNescio: §664Nisi mihi deos satis scio fuisse iratos qui eis auscultaverim. §665Factum hoc est Dave? §665bFactum. §665cHem, quid ais scelus?
He never ceased urging me to tell my father that I would marry; persuading, begging, until at last he prevailed." Charinus: "Who did that?" Pamphilus: "Davus." Charinus: "Davus?" Pamphilus: "He threw everything into confusion." Charinus: "Why?" Pamphilus: "I don't know; except that I know well enough the gods were angry with me for listening to them." Charinus: "Was this done, Davus?" Davus: "It was done." Charinus: "Ah, what do you say, you scoundrel?
§666At tibi Di dignum factis exitium duint.
But may the gods bring you a destruction worthy of your deeds!
§667Eho, dic mihi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias §668Inimici vellent quod nisi hoc consilium darent? §669Deceptus sum at non defatigatus. §669bScio. §670Hac non successit, alia aggrediemur via.
Tell me, if all his enemies wished him plunged into a wedding, what advice but this would they give?" Davus: "I have been deceived, but I am not exhausted." Charinus: "I know." Davus: "It didn't succeed by this way; we will try another way.
§671Nisi id putas, quia primo processit parum, §672Non posse iam ad salutem converti hoc malum. §673Immo etiam: nam satis credo si advigilaveris §674Ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias. §675Ego Pamphile hoc tibi pro servitio debeo, §676Conari manibus pedibus noctesque et dies; §677Capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi: §678Tuum est si quid praeter spem evenit mihi ignoscere.
Unless you think that because it turned out poorly at first, this evil cannot now be turned to safety." Pamphilus: "Nay, indeed: for I believe well enough that if you are vigilant, you will make a double wedding for me out of a single one." Davus: "Pamphilus, I owe this to you as a duty of my service, to strive with hands and feet, night and day; to face danger to my life, as long as I may benefit you: it is your part to forgive me if anything turns out contrary to expectation.
§679Parum succedit quod ago: at facio sedulo.
What I am doing succeeds poorly, but I do it diligently.
§680Vel melius tute reperi, me missum face. §681Cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum. §682Faciam. §682bAt iam hoc opus est.
Or else, find a better way yourself, and let me go." Pamphilus: "I wish to: restore me to the state in which you found me." Davus: "I will do so." Pamphilus: "But there is need of this right now." Davus: "Ah!
§682cHem! sed, mane.
But wait.
Concrepuit a Glycerio ostium. §683Nihil ad te. §683bQuaero. §683cHem, nuncin demum? §683dAt iam hoc tibi inventum dabo. §684Iam ubi ubi erit inventum tibi curabo et mecum adductum §685Tuum Pamphilum: tu modo anime mi noli te macerare.
The door creaked from Glycerium's house." Pamphilus: "Nothing to do with you." Davus: "I am searching." Pamphilus: "Ah, only now?" Davus: "But I will soon give you this solution." Mysis: "Wherever he is, I will take care to find him and bring your Pamphilus back with me, your Pamphilus: only, my soul, do not torment yourself." Pamphilus: "Mysis." Mysis: "What is it?
§686Mysis. §686bQuid est? Ehem Pamphile, opportune te mihi offers. §686cQuid est? §687Orare iussit si se ames hera iam ut ad sese venias: §688Videre ait te cupere. §688bVah, perii: hoc malum integrascit.
Oh, Pamphilus, you present yourself to me opportunely." Pamphilus: "What is it?" Mysis: "My mistress bade me beg you, if you love her, to come to her right now: she says she longs to see you." Pamphilus: "Ah, I am ruined: this evil breaks out afresh." To think that she and I are now so miserably tormented by your doing!
§689Sicine me atque illam opera tua nunc miseros sollicitarier? §690Nam idcirco arcessor, nuptias quod mihi apparari sensit. §691Quibus quidem quam facile potuerat quiesci si hic quiesset.
For I am summoned for this reason, because she perceived that a wedding is being prepared for me." Which indeed could have been so easily avoided, if this fellow had remained quiet."