§403..Quisnam hic adolescens est qui intuitur nos?
[Bacchis] Who is this young man looking at us?
§403b..Ah, retine me, obsecro.
[Antiphila] Ah, hold me up, I beseech you.
§404..Amabo, quid tibi est?
[Bacchis] Please, what is the matter with you?
§404b..Disperii, perii misera.
[Antiphila] I am undone, wretched me, I am lost.
§404c..Quid stupes,
[Bacchis] Why are you astounded,
§405..Antiphila?
Antiphila?
§405b..Videon Cliniam an non?
[Antiphila] Do I see Clinia, or not?
§405c..Quem vides?
[Bacchis] Whom do you see?
§406..Salve, anime mi.
[Clinia] Hail, my soul.
§406b..O mi exspectate, salve.
[Antiphila] O my long-expected one, hail.
§406c..Ut vales?
[Clinia] How are you?
§407..Salvum advenisse gaudeo.
[Antiphila] I am glad that you have arrived safe.
§407b..Teneone te,
[Clinia] Do I hold you,
§408..Antiphila, maxime animo exoptata meo?
Antiphila, most longed for by my soul?
§409..Ite intro: nam vos iamdudum exspectat senex.
[Syrus] Go inside: for the old men have been expecting you for a long time.
§410..Luciscit hoc iam: cesso pultare ostium §411..Vicini, primum ex me ut sciat sibi filium §412..Redisse? etsi adolescentem hoc nolle intelligo.
[Chremes] It is now growing light: do I hesitate to knock at the door of my neighbor, so that he may first know from me that his son has returned? although I understand that the young man does not wish this.
§413..Verum quum videam miserum hunc tam excruciarier
But when I see this miserable man so tormented by his departure, should I conceal such unlooked-for joy, since no danger can arise to him from the disclosure?
§416..Haud faciam: nam, quod potero, adiutabo senem;
§417..Ita ut filium meum amico atque aequali suo §418..Video inservire, et socium esse in negotiis; §419..Nos quoque senes est aequum senibus obsequi.
I will not do so: for, as far as I am able, I will assist the old man; just as I see my son serving his friend and equal, and being an associate in his affairs; it is right that we old men should also assist old men.
§420..Aut ego profecto ingenio egregie ad miserias §421..Natus sum: aut illud falsum est, quod vulgo audio §422..Dici, diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus: §423..Nam mihi quidem quotidie augescit magis §424..De filio aegritudo; et quanto diutius §425..Abest, magis cupio tanto et magis desidero.
[Menedemus] Either indeed I was born with a disposition singularly suited for miseries; or that is false which I commonly hear said, that time takes away grief from men: for to me indeed daily increases more and more my grief concerning my son; and the longer he is absent, so much the more do I long for him and desire him.
§426..Sed ipsum foras egressum video: ibo, alloquar.
[Chremes] But I see him coming out: I will go and speak to him.
§427..Menedeme, salve: nuntium apporto tibi,
§428..Cuius maxime te fieri participem cupis.
Menedemus, hail: I bring you news, of which you especially wish to be made partaker.
§429..Numquidnam de gnato meo audisti, Chreme?
[Menedemus] Have you heard anything about my son, Chremes?
§430..Valet atque vivit.
[Chremes] He is well and alive.
§430b..Ubinam est, quaeso?
[Menedemus] Where is he, pray?
§430c..Apud me domi.
[Chremes] At my house.
§431..Meus gnatus?
[Menedemus] My son?
§431b..Sic est.
[Chremes] It is so.
§431c..Venit?
[Menedemus] Has he come?
§431d..Certe.
[Chremes] Certainly.
§432b..Dixi.
[Chremes] I have said so.
§432c..Eamus: duc me ad eum, obsecro.
[Menedemus] Let us go: lead me to him, I beseech you.
§433..Non vult te scire se redisse etiam, et tuum §434..Conspectum fugitat, propter peccatum; tum hoc timet, §435..Ne tua duritia antiqua illa etiam adaucta sit.
[Chremes] He does not wish you to know yet that he has returned, and he shuns your sight, on account of his offense; besides, he fears this, lest that old severity of yours may even have been increased.
§436..Non tu ei dixisti ut essem?
[Menedemus] Did you not tell him how I was?
§436b..Non.
[Chremes] No.
§436c..Quamobrem, Chreme?
[Menedemus] Why so, Chremes?
§437..Quia pessime istoc in te atque in illum consulis, §438..Si te tam leni et victo animo esse ostenderis.
[Chremes] Because you consult worst in that way for yourself and for him, if you show yourself to be of so lenient and vanquished a mind.
[Menedemus] I cannot: enough, already enough have I been a harsh father. [Chremes] Ah!
You are too vehement in either direction, Menedemus, either in too great liberality, or in parsimony.
§442..In eandem fraudem ex hac re atque ex illa incides.
You will fall into the same error from this course as from that.
§443..Primum;
olim potius quam paterere filium §444..Commetare ad mulierculam, quae paululo §445..Tum erat contenta, cuique erant grata omnia, §446..Proterruisti hinc: ea coacta ingratiis §447..Postilla coepit victum vulgo quaerere.
First; formerly, rather than permit your son to visit a wench, who with a very little was then content, and to whom all things were acceptable, you frightened him away from here: she, forced against her will, since then began to seek a living from the public.
§448..Nunc cum sine magno intertrimento non potest
§449..Haberi, quidvis dare cupis: nam ut tu scias §450..Quam ea nunc instructa pulchre ad perniciem siet, §451..Primum, iam ancillas secum adduxit plus decem, §452..Oneratas veste atque auro.
Now when she cannot, without great loss, be kept, you wish to give anything whatever: for that you may know how beautifully she is now equipped for ruin, first, she has already brought with her more than ten maidservants, laden with clothing and gold.
If a satrap were her lover, he could never support her expenses; much less can you.
§454b..Estne ea intus?
[Menedemus] Is she inside?
§454c..Sit rogas?
[Chremes] Do you ask if she is?
§455..Sensi: namque ei unam coenam atque eius comitibus §456..Dedi; quod si iterum mihi sit danda, actum siet.
I have felt it: for I have given one dinner to her and her companions; which if it must be given again to me, it would be all over with me.
§457..Nam ut alia omittam, pytissando modo mihi §458..Quid vini absumsit! "Sic hoc," dicens; "Asperum, §459..Pater, hoc est; aliud lenius sodes vide. "
For, to omit other things, merely by tasting and spitting out, how much wine did she consume for me! saying, 'So-so, this'; 'Tart, father, is this; look, please, for some other milder.'
§460..Relevi dolia omnia, omnes serias;
I opened all the jars, all the casks;
§461..Omnes sollicitos habui: atque haec una nox.
I kept everyone on the stretch: and this was but one night.
§462..Quid te futurum censes quem assidue exedent?
What do you think will become of you whom they will constantly eat out of house and home?
So may the Gods love me, as I pity your fortune, Menedemus.
§464b..Faciat quod libet: §465..Sumat, consumat, perdat, decretum est pati, §466..Dum illum modo habeam mecum.
[Menedemus] Let her do what she pleases: let her take, consume, destroy, I am resolved to bear it, so long as I only have him with me.
§466b..Si certum est tibi §467..Sic facere, illud permagni referre arbitror, §468..Ut ne cientem sentiat te id sibi dare.
[Chremes] If you are determined to do so, I think it is of very great importance, that he may not perceive that you give it to him knowingly.
§469..Quid faciam?
[Menedemus] What shall I do?
§469b..Quidvis potius quam quod cogitas: §470..Per alium quemvis ut des; falli te sinas §471..Technis per servulum; etsi subsensi id quoque, §472..Illos ibi esse et id agere inter se clanculum.
[Chremes] Anything rather than what you are thinking of: give it through anyone else; allow yourself to be deceived by the tricks of a slave-boy; although I have also got a scent of this, that they are there, and are secretly doing that among themselves.
§473..Syrus cum illo vestro consusurrat; conferunt
Syrus is whispering with that slave of yours; they are consulting