§168..Miseretque me eius.
[Chremes] And I pity him.
But, as it is that time of day, must remind my neighbor Phanias here come to dinner.
Ibo, visam si domi est.
I will go and see if he is at home.
§171..Nihil opus fuit monitore: iam dudum domi §172..Praesto apud me esse aiunt: egomet convivas moror.
was no need of a reminder: they say he has been waiting my house for a long time: I myself am delaying the guests.
§173..Ibo adeo hinc intro: sed quid crepuerunt fores
will therefore go inside from here: but why did the door creak my house?
§174..Hinc a me? quisnam egreditur? huc concessero.
Who is coming out? I will step aside here.
§175..Nihil adhuc est quod vereare, Clinia: haudquaquam etiam cessant: §176..Et illam simul cum nuntio tibi hic ego affuturam hodie scio:
[Clitipho] There is nothing for you to fear yet, Clinia; they are by no means delaying; I know that she will be here today along with the messenger.
§177..Proin tu sollicitudinem istam falsam quae te excruciat mittas.
, you should dismiss that groundless anxiety which tortures you.
§178..Quicum loquitur filius?
[Chremes] (Aside) With whom is my son speaking?
§179..Pater adest quem volui: adibo. Pater, opportune advenis.
[Clitipho] (Aside) My father is here, whom I wanted; I will go to him. (To Chremes) Father, you arrive opportunely.
§180..Quid id est?
[Chremes] What is it?
§180b..Hunc Menedemum nostin nostrum vicinum?
[Clitipho] Do you know our neighbor Menedemus here?
§180c..Probe.
[Chremes] Well.
§181..Huic filium scis esse?
[Clitipho] Do you know he has a son?
§181b..Audivi esse in Asia.
[Chremes] I heard he is in Asia.
§182b..Quid ais?
[Chremes] What do you say?
§182c..Advenientem, e navi egredientem, ilico §183..Adduxi ad coenam: nam mihi magna cum eo iam inde usque a pueritia §184..Fuit semper familiaritas.
[Clitipho] As he arrived and was coming off the ship, I immediately him to dinner; for I have always had a great intimacy with him since our childhood.
§184b..Voluptatem magnam nuntias.
[Chremes] You bring great joy.
§185..Quam vellem Menedemum invitatum ut nobiscum esset hodie amplius; §186..Ut hanc laetitiam nec opinanti primus ei obiicerem domi:
I wish I had invited Menedemus more pressingly to be with us today; that I might be the first to present this joy to him unexpectedly at home!
§187..Atque etiam nunc tempus est.
even now there is time.
§187b..Cave faxis: non opus est, pater.
[Clitipho] Take care not to do it; there is no need, father.
§188..Quapropter?
[Chremes] Why so?
§188b..Quia enim incertum est etiam, quid se faciat.
[Clitipho] Because indeed it is still uncertain what he will do with himself.
Modo venit; §189..Timet omnia, patris iram et animum amicae se erga ut siet suae:
He has just arrived; fears everything—his father's anger, and how the mind of his mistress may be toward him.
§190..Eam misere amat: propter eam haec turba atque abitio evenit.
loves her desperately; on her account this trouble and departure happened.
§190b..Scio.
[Chremes] I know.
§191..Nunc servulum ad eam in urbem misit, et ego nostrum una Syrum.
[Clitipho] Now he has sent a slave to her in the city, and I have sent our Syrus along with him.
§192..Quid narrat?
[Chremes] What does he say?
§192b..Quid ille? miserum se esse.
[Clitipho] What does he say? That he is miserable.
§192c..Miserum? quem minus crederes?
[Chremes] Miserable? Whom would you less believe to be so?
§193..Quid reliqui est quin habeat quae quidem in homine dicuntur bona; §194..Parentes, patriam incolumem, amicos, genus, cognatos, divitias?
is lacking for him to have what are indeed called goods in man:, a safe country, friends, noble birth, relatives, wealth?
§195..Atque haec perinde sunt ut illius animus qui ea possidet: §196..Qui uti scit ei bona; illi qui non utitur recte mala.
these things are just according to the mind of him who possesses them: him who knows how to use them, they are goods; to him who does not use them rightly, they are evils.
§197..Immo ille fuit senex importunus semper: et nunc nihil magis §198..Vereor quam ne quid in illum iratus plus satis faxit, pater.
[Clitipho] Nay, but that old man was always unreasonable; and now, father, I fear more than that, in his anger, he may do something to him beyond what is sufficient.
§199..Illene? sed reprimam me: nam in metu esse hunc illi est utile.
[Chremes] (Aside) He? But I will restrain myself; for it is useful for him to be in fear.
§200..Quid tute tecum?
[Clitipho] What are you saying to yourself?
§200b..Dicam: ut ut erat, mansum tamen oportuit.
[Chremes] I will tell you: however it was, he ought nevertheless to have remained.
§201..Fortasse aliquantum iniquior erat praeter eius libidinem: §202..Pateretur; nam quem ferret, si parentem non ferret suum?
he was somewhat too unjust, contrary to his desire; should have borne it; for whom should he bear, if he did not bear his own parent?
§203..Huncine erat aequum ex illius more, an illum ex huius vivere?
it right for this one to live according to that one's custom, or that one according to this one's?
§204..Et quod illum insimulat durum, id non est: nam parentum iniuriae §205..Uniusmodi sunt ferme, paulo qui est homo tolerabilis.
as to his accusing him of being harsh, it is not so; for the injuries of parents almost of one kind, of any who is a somewhat tolerable man.
§206..Scortari crebro nolunt; nolunt crebro convivarier: §207..Praebent exigue sumtum: atque haec sunt tamen ad virtutem omnia.
do not wish them to frequent harlots; they do not wish them to feast frequently; afford a scanty allowance; and yet all these things tend to virtue.
§208..Verum ubi animus semel se cupiditate devinxit mala, §209..Necesse est, Clitipho, consilia consequi consimilia: hoc
when the mind has once bound itself to evil desire,, of necessity similar counsels must follow.
§210..Scitum est; periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quod ex usu siet.
This wise: to make trial from others of what may be of use to you.
§211..Ita credo.
[Clitipho] I believe so.
§211b..Ego ibo hinc intro, ut videam nobis quid coenae siet.
[Chremes] I will go inside from here, to see what there is for us for dinner.
§212..Tu, ut tempus est diei, vide sis ne quo hinc abeas longius.
, as the time of day is, take care, please, not to go too far from here.
§213..Quam iniqui sunt patres in omnes adolescentes iudices,
[Clitipho] (Aside) How unjust judges are fathers toward all young men!
§214..Qui aequum esse censent nos iam a pueris ilico nasci senes, §215..Neque illarum affines esse rerum quas fert adolescentia.
think it right that we should be born old men immediately from boys, have no sharing in those things which youth brings.
§216..Ex sua libidine moderantur, nunc quae est, non quae olim fuit.
govern us according to their own desire, which is now, not which was formerly.
§217..Mihi si unquam filius erit, nae ille facili me utetur patre; §218..Nam et cognoscendi et ignoscendi dabitur peccati locus; §219..Non ut meus, qui mihi per alium ostendit suam sententiam.
ever I have a son, truly he shall find in me an easy father; there shall be opportunity both for knowing and for pardoning a fault; like my father, who shows his opinion to me through another.
§220..Perii! is mihi, ubi adbibit plus paulo, sua quae narrat facinora!
it! When he has drunk a little too much, what pranks of his own does he relate to me!
§221..Nunc ait, "Periculum ex aliis facito, tibi quod ex usu siet:"
he says: "Take warning from others of what may be of use to you."