§818bMaxime.
Mysis: Most gladly.
§819Sequar hos: nolo me in tempore hoc videat senex.
Davus: I'll follow them; I don't want the old man to see me at this moment.
§820Satis iam satis Simo spectata erga te amicitia est mea:
Chremes: Enough, Simo, quite enough has my friendship toward you been tested.
§821Satis pericli coepi adire: orandi iam finem face.
I have begun to face danger enough; make an end of your entreaties now.
§822Dum studeo obsequi tibi paene illusi vitam filiae.
While I study to oblige you, I have almost made a plaything of my daughter's life.
§823Immo enim nunc quum maxime abs te postulo atque oro Chreme §824Ut beneficium verbis initum dudum nunc re comprobes.
Simo: Nay, but now of all times, Chremes, I request and entreat you, that the favor begun a while ago in words, you would now prove in fact.
§825Vide quam iniquus sis prae studio.
Chremes: See how unjust you are because of your eagerness.
Dum id efficias quod cupis, §826Neque modum benignitatis neque quid me ores cogitas: §827Nam si cogites, remittas iam me onerare iniuriis.
While you would accomplish what you desire, you think neither of the limit of kindness, nor of what you are asking of me: For if you were to think, you would now cease to burden me with injustices.
§828Quibus?
Simo: What injustices?
§828bAh! rogitas? perpulisti me ut homini adolescentulo
Chremes: Ah! do you ask?
§829In alio occupato amore, abhorrenti ab re uxoria, §830Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias, §831Eius labore atque eius dolore gnato ut medicarer tuo.
You urged me so that, to a young man occupied with another love, and averse to marriage, I should give my daughter into strife and into an uncertain marriage, so that by her labor and her pain I might cure your son.
§832Impetrasti: incepi dum res tetulit: nunc non fert; feras.
You obtained your wish: I began while the situation allowed: now it does not allow; bear it.
§833Illam hinc civem esse aiunt: puer est natus: nos missos face.
They say she is a citizen from here; a child is born; let us go free.
§834Per ego te deos oro ut ne illis animum inducas credere §835Quibus id maxime utile est illum esse quam deterrimum.
Simo: By the gods I entreat you, do not bring your mind to believe them to whom it is most useful that he should be as worthless as possible.
§836Nuptiarum gratia haec sunt ficta atque incepta omnia.
For the sake of preventing the marriage all these things have been feigned and begun.
§837Ubi ea causa quamobrem haec faciunt erit adempta his desinent.
When that cause, for which they do these things, is taken away from them, they will stop.
§838Erras: cum Davo egomet vidi iurgantem ancillam.
Chremes: You are mistaken: I myself saw the maid-servant quarreling with Davus.
§838bScio.
Simo: I know.
Chremes: But with a real look on their faces, when neither of them then perceived that I was present there.
§840Credo; et id facturas Davus dudum praedixit mihi: §841Et nescio qui tibi sum oblitus hodie ac volui dicere.
Simo: I believe it; and Davus foretold to me a while ago that they would do so; and I forgot, I know not how, to tell you today, though I wished to do so.
I command you now to be of an easy mind— Chremes: Ah, here is Davus for you.
§843Unde egreditur?
Simo: Where is he coming out from?
§843bmeo praesidio atque hospitis.
Davus: Under my protection and the stranger's.
§843cQuid illud mali est?
Simo: What mischief is that?
§844Ego commodiorem hominem, adventum, tempus non vidi.
Davus: I have never seen a more convenient man, arrival, or time.
§845bOmnis res est iam in vado.
Davus: The whole matter is now in shallow water.
§845cCesso alloqui?
Simo: Why do I hesitate to address him?
§846Herus est: quid agam?
Davus: It is my master; what shall I do?
§846bO salve bone vir.
Simo: Oh, greetings, good man!
§846cEhem Simo! o noster Chreme!
Davus: Oh, Simo! Oh, our Chremes!
§847Omnia apparata iam sunt intus.
Everything is now prepared inside.
§847bCurasti probe.
Simo: You have cared for it well.
§848Ubi voles arcesse.
Davus: Fetch her when you wish.
§848bBene sane; id enimvero hinc nunc abest.
Simo: Very well indeed; for that is indeed what is now missing here.
§849Etiam tu hoc respondes? quid istic tibi negoti est?
Do you further answer this? What business have you there?
§849bMihine?
Davus: Me?
§850Ita.
Simo: Yes.
§850bMihine?
Davus: Me?
§850cTibi ergo.
Simo: You, indeed.
§850dModo introii.
Davus: I just went in.
§850eQuasi ego, quam dudum, rogem.
Simo: As if I were asking "how long ago"!
§851Cum tuo gnato una.
Together with your son.
§851bAnne est intus Pamphilus? crucior miser.
Simo: Is Pamphilus inside? Wretched me, I am tortured.
§852Eho, non tu dixti esse inter eos inimicitias, carnufex?
Ho, did you not say there was enmity between them, executioner?
§853Sunt.
Davus: There is.
§853bCur igitur hic est?
Simo: Why then is he here?
§853cQuid illum census? cum illa litigat.
Davus: What do you think? He is quarreling with her.
§854Immo vero indignum Chreme iam facinus faxo ex me audias.
Simo: Nay, Chremes, I shall cause you to hear a shameful deed from me now.
§855Nescio quis senex modo venit: ellum confidens, catus.
Davus: Some old man or other has just come: look at him, self-confident, cunning.
§856Quum faciem videas videtur esse quantivis preti.
When you look at his face, he seems to be of any value.
§857Tristis severitas inest in vultu, atque in verbis fides.
A grim severity is in his face, and truth in his words.
§858Quidnam apportas?
Simo: What on earth do you bring?
§858bNihil equidem nisi quod illum audivi dicere.
Davus: Nothing indeed, except what I heard him say.
§859Quid ait tandem?
Simo: What does he say, then?
§859bGlycerium se scire civem esse Atticam.
Davus: That he knows Glycerium is an Attic citizen.
§859cHem,
Simo: What!
§860Dromo, Dromo.
Dromo, Dromo!
§860bQuid est?
Davus: What is it?
§860cDromo.
Simo: Dromo!
§860dAudi.
Davus: Hear me.
§860eVerbum si addideris.
Simo: If you add another word...
Dromo.
Dromo!
§861Audi, obsecro.
Davus: Hear me, pray.
§861bQuid vis?
Dromo: What do you want?
§861cSublimem hunc intro rape, quantum potes.
Simo: Seize this fellow and carry him high inside, as fast as you can.
§862Quem?
Dromo: Whom?
§862bDavum.
Simo: Davus.
§862cQuamobrem?
Dromo: Why?
§862dQuia libet: rape, inquam.
Simo: Because I please: seize him, I say.
§862eQuid feci?
Davus: What have I done?
§862fRape.
Simo: Seize him.
§863Si quicquam invenies me mentitum, occidito.
Davus: If you find that I have lied in anything, kill me.
§863bNihil audio.
Simo: I hear nothing.
§864Ego iam te commotum reddam.
I will soon make you tremble.
§864bTamen etsi hoc verum est?
Davus: Even though this is true?
§864cTamen.
Simo: Even so.
§865Cura asservandum vinctum: atque audin? quadrupedem constringito.
Take care he is kept bound: and do you hear? Bind him hand and foot.
§866Age nunc iam: ego pol hodie, si vivo, tibi §867Ostendam herum quid sit pericli fallere, §868Et illi, patrem.
Go on now: by Pollux, today, if I live, I will show you what danger there is in deceiving a master, and to him, what danger there is in deceiving a father.
§868bAh, ne saevi tantopere.
Chremes: Ah, do not rage so greatly.
Simo: Oh, Chremes, the piety of my son! Do you not pity me?
§870Tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?
That I should undertake so much trouble on account of such a son?
§871Age Pamphile, exi Pamphile: ecquid te pudet?
Come now, Pamphilus, come out, Pamphilus; are you not ashamed at all?
§872Quis me vult? perii: pater est.
Pamphilus: Who wants me? I am ruined: it is my father.
§872bQuid ais, omnium—?
Simo: What do you say, of all...?
Chremes: Ah, speak rather of the matter itself, and cease speaking harshly.
§874Quasi quicquam in hunc iam gravius dici possiet.
Simo: As if anything could now be said too harsh against him.