§222..Astutus: nae ille haud scit quam mihi nunc surdo narret fabulam.
[Clitipho] (Aside) Clever indeed! Truly he does not know to how deaf an ear he is now telling his story.
§223..Magis nunc me amicae dicta stimulant: "Da mihi, atque affer mihi; " §224..Cui quid respondeam nihil habeo; neque me quisquam est miserior:
Now the words of my mistress stimulate me more: "Give to me, and bring to me"; to whom I have nothing to answer; and no one is more miserable than I.
§225..Nam hic Clinia, etsi is quoque suarum rerum satagit, attamen §226..Habet bene ac pudice eductam, ignaram artis meretriciae.
For this Clinia here, although he too is busy enough with his own affairs, yet has a mistress well and modestly brought up, ignorant of the courtesan's art.
§227..Mea est potens, procax, magnifica, sumtuosa, nobilis.
Mine is demanding, bold, haughty, extravagant, and high-flown.
§228..Tum quod dem ei recte est; nam, nihil esse mihi, religio est dicere.
Moreover, what I might give her is fine; for, to say that I have nothing is a dread to me.
§229..Hoc ego mali non pridem inveni; neque etiamdum scit pater.
I found this trouble not long ago; and my father does not know it yet.
§230..Si mihi secundae res de amore meo essent, iamdudum, scio, §231..Venissent: sed vereor ne mulier me absente hic corrupta sit.
[Clinia] (Aside) If my affairs in love had been prosperous, long ago, I know, they would have come; but I fear lest, in my absence, the woman here has been corrupted.
§232..Concurrunt multae opiniones quae mihi animum exaugeant; §233..Occasio, locus, aetas, mater cuius sub imperio est mala; §234..Cui nihil iam praeter pretium dulce est.
Many opinions concur to increase my anxiety; opportunity, place, age, and an evil mother under whose sway she is; to whom nothing is now sweet except gain.
§234b..Clinia.
[Clitipho] Clinia.
§234c..Hei misero mihi!
[Clinia] Ah, miserable me!
§235..Etiam caves ne videat forte hinc te a patre aliquis exiens?
[Clitipho] Are you still taking care lest someone coming out from your father's house should happen to see you?
§236..Faciam: sed nescio quid profecto mihi animus praesagit mali.
[Clinia] I will do so; but my mind truly forebodes I know not what of evil.
§237..Pergin istuc prius diiudicare quam scis quid veri siet?
[Clitipho] Do you persist in judging that before you know what the truth is?
§238..Si nihil mali esset, iam hic adessent.
[Clinia] If there were nothing wrong, they would be here by now.
§238b..Iam aderunt.
[Clitipho] They will be here soon.
§238c..Quando istuc erit?
[Clinia] When will that be?
§239..Non cogitas hinc longule esse? et nosti mores mulierum: §240..Dum moliuntur, dum conantur, annus est.
[Clitipho] Don't you consider that it is a little far from here? And you know the ways of women: while they are getting ready, while they are trying, a whole year passes.
§240b..O Clitipho,
[Clinia] Oh Clitipho,
§241..Timeo.
I am afraid.
§241b..Respira: eccum Dromonem cum Syro: una adsunt tibi.
[Clitipho] Breathe again: look, here is Dromo with Syrus: they are with you together.
§242..Ain tu?
[Clinia] Do you say so?
§242b..Sic est.
[Clitipho] It is so.
[Syrus] But in the meantime, while we are chopping words, they have been left behind.
§243b..Mulier tibi adest; audin, Clinia?
[Clitipho] Your mistress is here; do you hear, Clinia?
§244..Ego vero audio nunc demum et video et valeo, Clitipho.
[Clinia] Indeed, now at last I hear and see and am well, Clitipho.
[Syrus] It is no wonder at all, they are so encumbered: a crowd of maids they bring with them.
§246b..Perii.
[Clinia] I am undone!
Unde illi sunt ancillae?
Where did she get those maids?
§246c..Men rogas?
[Clitipho] Do you ask me?
§247..Non oportuit relictas: portant quid rerum!
[Syrus] We ought not to have left them: what a quantity of things they are carrying!
§247b..Hei mihi.
[Clinia] Alas for me!
§248..Aurum, vestem: et vesperascit, et non noverunt viam.
[Syrus] Gold, clothing; and it is growing dark, and they do not know the way.
§249..Factum a nobis stulte est: abidum tu, Dromo, illis obviam,
We have acted foolishly: go you, Dromo, to meet them.
§250..Propera: quid stas?
Make haste: why do you stand still?
§250b..Vae misero mihi, quanta de spe decidi!
[Clinia] Woe to miserable me, from what a great hope have I fallen!
§251..Quid istuc? quae res te sollicitat autem?
[Clitipho] What is that? What is it that disturbs you now?
§251b..Rogitas quid siet?
[Clinia] Do you ask what it is?
Do you see the maids, the gold, the clothing? Her whom I left here with only one little maid.
Unde ea esse censes?
Whence do you suppose those things are?
§253b..Vah! nunc demum intelligo.
[Clitipho] Ah! Now at last I understand.
§254..Di boni, quid turbae est? aedes nostrae vix capient, scio.
[Syrus] Good gods, what a crowd! Our house will scarcely hold them, I know.
§255..Quid comedent? quid ebibent? quid sene erit nostro miserius?
What will they eat? What will they drink? Who will be more miserable than our old master?
§256..Sed video eccos quos volebam.
But I see those very people I wanted.
§256b..O Iupiter, ubinam est fides?
[Clinia] O Jupiter, where on earth is fidelity?
§257..Dum ego propter te errans patria careo demens, tu interea loci
While I, wandering for your sake, am foolishly deprived of my country, you in the meantime,
§258..Conlocupletasti te, Antiphila; et me in his deseruisti malis; §259..Propter quam in summa infamia sum, et meo patri minus obsequens; §260..Cuius nunc pudet me et miseret, qui harum mores cantabat mihi §261..Monuisse frustra; neque potuisse unquam ab hac me expellere; §262..Quod tamen nunc faciam: tum quum gratum mihi esse potuit nolui.
Antiphila, have enriched yourself, and deserted me in these evils; on whose account I am in the deepest disgrace, and disobedient to my father; of whom I am now ashamed and whom I pity, who used to drum into me the habits of these women, warning me in vain, and that he could never drive me away from her; which, however, I will now do; when it could have been pleasing to me to do so, I would not.
§263..Nemo est miserior me.
No one is more miserable than I.
§263b..Hic de nostris verbis errat videlicet §264..Quae hic sumus locuti. Clinia, aliter tuum amorem atque est accipis: §265..Nam et vita est eadem, et animus te erga idem ac fuit; §266..Quantum ex ipsa re coniecturam cepimus.
[Syrus] (Aside) This man is clearly mistaken because of our words which we spoke here. (To Clinia) Clinia, you take your love otherwise than as it is: for both her life is the same, and her mind toward you is the same as it was; as far as we have formed a conjecture from the fact itself.
§267..Quid est, obsecro? nam mihi nunc nihil rerum omnium est §268..Quod malim quam me hoc falso suspicarier.
[Clinia] What is it, I beseech you? For now there is nothing in all the world that I would prefer than that I have been falsely suspecting this.
§269..Hoc primum, ut ne quid huius rerum ignores; anus §270..Quae est dicta mater esse ei antehac non fuit:
[Syrus] This first, that you may be ignorant of none of her affairs; the old woman who was formerly said to be her mother was not; she died.
This she herself on the way to the other while relating, I happened to hear.
§272b..Quaenam est altera?
[Clitipho] Who is that other?
[Syrus] Stay: let me first finish relating this which I began, Clitipho: after that I will come to that.
§274b..Propera.
[Clitipho] Make haste.