§750Qui hic neminem alium videam.
Davus: Since I see no one else here.
§750bMiror unde sit.
Chremes: I wonder where it is from.
§751Dictura es quod rogo?
Davus: Are you going to tell me what I ask?
§751bAu.
Mysis: Oh!
§751cConcede ad dexteram.
Davus: Move to the right.
§752Deliras: non tute ipse?
Mysis: You are raving; didn't you yourself...?
Davus: Take care you do not say a single word to me other than what I ask you.
§754Male dicis?
Mysis: Are you speaking harshly?
§754bUndest? Dic clare.
Davus: Where is it from? Speak clearly.
§754cA nobis.
Mysis: From our house.
§754dAttatae!
Davus: Oh, really!
§755Mirum vero impudenter mulier si facit
Chremes: It is indeed a wonder if a courtesan woman acts impudently.
Davus: As far as I understand, this woman is from the Andrian's household.
Davus: Do we seem to you to be so suitable for you to mock us in this way?
§758bVeni in tempore.
Chremes: I have come just in time.
§759Propera adeo puerum tollere hinc ab ianua:
Davus: Hurry then, take the child away from the door here.
§760Mane: cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco.
Davus: Wait: take care you do not stir from that spot.
§761Di te eradicent: ita me miseram territas.
Mysis: May the gods root you out; you terrify wretched me so.
§762Tibi ego dico annon?
Davus: Am I speaking to you or not?
§762bQuid vis?
Mysis: What do you want?
§762cAt etiam rogas?
Davus: Do you even ask that?
§763Cedo cuium puerum hic apposuisti? dic mihi.
Davus: Tell me, whose child have you placed here? Tell me.
§764Tu nescis?
Mysis: Don't you know?
§764bMitte id quod scio: dic quod rogo.
Davus: Dismiss what I know; tell me what I ask.
§765Vestri.
Mysis: Yours.
§765bCuius nostri?
Davus: Whose of ours?
§765cPamphili.
Mysis: Pamphilus's.
§765dHem, quid? Pamphili?
Davus: What? What? Pamphilus's?
§766Eho, annon est?
Mysis: Eh, is he not?
§766bRecte ego semper fugi has nuptias.
Chremes: I was quite right always to avoid this marriage.
§767O facinus animadvertendum.
Davus: Oh, what a punishable outrage!
§767bQuid clamitas?
Mysis: Why are you shouting so?
§768Quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi?
Davus: The child whom I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening?
§769O hominem audacem.
Mysis: Oh, what a bold man!
§769bVerum. Vidi Cantharam
Davus: It's true.
§770Suffarcinatam.
I saw Canthara stuffed out.
Mysis: By Pollux, I thank the gods that several free women were present at the birth.
§772Ne illa illum haud novit cuius causa haec incipit.
Davus: Indeed, she doesn't know the man for whose sake she is starting this.
§773Chremes si positum puerum ante aedes viderit §774Suam gnatam non dabit? Tanto hercle magis dabit.
Davus: "If Chremes sees a child placed before the house, won't he give his daughter?" By Hercules, so much the more will he give her!
§775Non hercle faciet.
Chremes: By Hercules, he will not do it.
§775bNunc adeo ut tu sis sciens, §776Nisi puerum tollis iam ego hunc in mediam viam §777Provolvam: teque ibidem pervolvam in luto.
Davus: So now, that you may know it, unless you take the child away immediately, I will roll him out into the middle of the street, and roll you there in the mud.
§778Tu pol homo non es sobrius.
Mysis: By Pollux, you are not a sober man.
Davus: One deceit pushes on another; I already hear it whispered that she is an Attic citizen.
§780bEho.
Chremes: What?
§781bAu obsecro an non civis est?
Mysis: Oh, pray, is she not a citizen?
§782Iocularium in malum insciens paene incidi.
Chremes: Unknowingly, I almost fell into a ridiculous disaster.
§783Quis hic loquitur? o Chreme, per tempus advenis.
Davus: Who is speaking here? Oh Chremes, you arrive just in time.
§784Ausculta.
Davus: Listen.
§784bAudivi iam omnia.
Chremes: I have already heard everything.
§784cAin tu? haec omnia!
Davus: Do you say so? All of this!
§785Audivi, inquam, a principio.
Chremes: I have heard it, I say, from the beginning.
§785bAudistine obsecro? Hem
Davus: Did you hear it, pray?
§786Scelera, hanc iam oportet in cruciatum hinc abripi.
Oh, you wicked woman, she ought to be dragged off to torture from here immediately.
§787Hic est ille: non te credas Davum ludere.
Davus: This is the man; don't you believe you are playing with Davus.
§788Me miseram: nihil pol falsi dixi mi senex.
Mysis: Wretched me; by Pollux, I have spoken nothing false, my old master.
§789Novi rem omnem: est Simo intus?
Chremes: I know the whole business. Is Simo inside?
§789bEst.
Davus: He is.
Si pol Glycerio non omnia haec—
By Pollux, if I do not tell Glycerium all of this...
§791Eho inepta nescis quid sit actum?
Davus: Hey, foolish woman, don't you know what has been done?
§791bQuid sciam?
Mysis: What should I know?
§792Hic socer est.
Davus: This is the father-in-law.
Alio pacto haud poterat fieri §793Ut sciret haec quae voluimus.
In no other way could it have been managed that he should know these things we wished.
§793bPraediceres.
Mysis: You should have forewarned me.
Davus: Do you think it makes little difference whether you do everything from the heart, as nature prompts, or of set purpose?
§796In hac habitasse platea dictum est Chrysidem §797Quae sese inhoneste optavit parere hic divitias §798Potius quam in patria honeste pauper viveret.
Crito: Chrysis was said to have lived in this street, who chose to acquire wealth here dishonorably rather than live honorably poor in her own country.
§799Eius morte ea ad me lege redierunt bona.
By her death, those goods have returned to me by law.
§800Sed quos perconter video.
But I see people to ask.
Salvete.
Good day.
§800bObsecro
Mysis: Pray, whom do I see?
§801Quem video? Estne hic Crito sobrinus Chrysidis?
Is this Crito, the cousin of Chrysis?
§802Is est.
Crito: It is he.
§802bO Mysis, salve.
Crito: Oh Mysis, greetings.
§802cSalvus sis Crito.
Mysis: May you be well, Crito.
§803Itan Chrysis? hem.
Crito: Is it so with Chrysis? Ah.
§803bNos quidem pol miseras perdidit.
Mysis: By Pollux, she has ruined us poor women.
§804Quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte?
Crito: What about you? How are you here? Well enough?
§804bNosne?
Sic
Mysis: Us?
§805Ut quimus
aiunt,
quando ut volumus non licet.
"As we can," they say, "when we may not as we would." Crito: What of Glycerium?
§806Quid Glycerium? iam hic suos parentes repperit?
Has she already found her parents here?
§807Utinam.
Mysis: I wish she had.
§807bAn nondum etiam? Haud auspicato huc me appuli:
Crito: Not even yet?
§808Nam pol si id scissem nunquam huc tetulissem pedem:
I have landed here with no good omen; for, by Pollux, if I had known that, I would never have set foot here.
§809Semper enim dicta est eius haec atque habita est soror: §810Quae illius fuerunt possidet: nunc me hospitem
For she was always called her sister, and held as such; she possesses what belonged to her.
Now, how easy and useful it would be for me, a stranger, to go to law, the examples of others warn me.
At the same time, I think there is already some friend and defender for her; for she was already almost grown up when she departed from there.
They would cry out that I am a sycophant, chasing after inheritances, a beggar; moreover, it is not right to despoil her herself.
§817O optime hospes pol Crito antiquum obtines.
Mysis: Oh, most excellent stranger, by Pollux, Crito, you preserve your old-fashioned virtue.
§818Duc me ad eam, quando huc veni, ut videam.
Crito: Lead me to her, since I have come here, that I may see her.