§603b..Intelligo.
[Chremes] I understand.
§604..Hanc secum huc adduxit, ea quae est nunc apud uxorem tuam.
[Syrus] She brought this girl here with her, the one who is now at your wife's house.
§605..Quid tum?
[Chremes] What then?
§605b..Cliniam orat sibi uti id nunc det; illam illi tamen
[Syrus] She entreats Clinia to give her that sum now; yet she says she will give her up to him afterwards.
§606..Post daturam. Mille nummum poscit.
She demands a thousand coins.
§606b..Et poscit quidem?
[Chremes] And does she really demand it?
§607b..Ego sic putavi: quid nunc facere cogitas?
[Chremes] I thought so: what do you intend to do now?
§608..Egone? ad Menedemum ibo: dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria
[Syrus] Me?
§609..Ditem et nobilem; si redimat, magnum inesse in ea lucrum.
I will go to Menedemus: I will say that this girl was captured from Caria, rich and noble; if he ransoms her, there will be a great profit in her.
§610..Erras.
[Chremes] You are mistaken.
§610b..Quid ita?
[Syrus] Why so?
§610c..Pro Menedemo nunc tibi ego respondeo:
[Chremes] I will now answer you on behalf of Menedemus:
§611..Non emo: quid ais?
"I will not buy." What do you say to that?
§611b..Optata loquere.
[Syrus] You say what I wish.
§611c..Atqui non est opus.
[Chremes] And yet, there is no need.
§612..Non opus est?
[Syrus] Is there no need?
§612b..Non hercle vero.
[Chremes] No indeed, by Hercules.
§612c..Quid istuc? miror.
[Syrus] What is that? I wonder.
§612d..Iam scies.
[Chremes] You shall know soon.
§613..Mane, mane: quid est quod tam a nobis graviter crepuerunt fores?
[Chremes] Wait, wait: why is it that our door has creaked so loudly?
§614..Nisi me animus fallit, hic profecto est annulus quem ego suspicor §615..Is quicum exposita est gnata.
[Sostrata] Unless my mind deceives me, this is surely the very ring which I suspect was the one with which my daughter was exposed.
§615b..Quid volt sibi, Syre, haec oratio?
[Chremes] Syrus, what does this speech mean?
§616..Quid est? isne tibi videtur?
[Sostrata] How is it? Does it seem so to you?
[Phrygia] I said indeed, as soon as you showed it to me, that it was.
§617b..At ut satis contemplata modo sis, mea nutrix.
[Sostrata] But mind that you have examined it enough just now, my nurse.
§617c..Satis.
[Phrygia] Quite enough.
§618..Abi iam nunc intro, atque illa si iam laverit mihi nuntia: §619..Hic ego virum interea opperibor.
[Sostrata] Go inside now, and let me know if she has already bathed: here meanwhile I will wait for my husband.
§619b..Te vult: videas, quid velit.
[Syrus] She wants you: see what she wishes.
§620..Nescio quid tristis est: non temere est: metuo quid sit.
[Chremes] She is sad about something: it is not for nothing: I fear what it may be.
§620b..Quid siet?
[Syrus] What could it be?
§621..Nae, ista hercle magno iam conatu magnas nugas dixerit.
Truly, by Hercules, she with great effort will have some great nonsense to say.
§622..Ehem mi vir.
[Sostrata] Ah, my husband!
§622b..Ehem mea uxor.
[Chremes] Ah, my wife!
§622c..Te ipsum quaero.
[Sostrata] I am looking for you.
§622d..Loquere quid velis.
[Chremes] Tell me what you want.
[Sostrata] First, I entreat you not to believe that I have dared to do anything contrary to your command to have been done.
§624b..Vin me istuc tibi, etsi incredibile est, credere?
[Chremes] Do you want me to believe that of you, although it is incredible?
§625..Credo.
[Sostrata] I do.
§625b..Nescio quid peccati portet haec purgatio.
[Syrus] I don't know what blunder this self-exculpation brings.
§626..Meministin me esse gravidam, et mihi te maximopere dicere, §627..Si puellam parerem nolle tolli?
[Sostrata] Do you remember that I was pregnant, and that you told me most earnestly that if I should bring forth a girl, you would not have her brought up?
[Chremes] I know what you have done: you have brought her up.
§628b..Sic est factum, domina, ergo herus damno auctus est.
[Syrus] So indeed it is, mistress; therefore master has increased his loss.
[Sostrata] By no means: but there was here a Corinthian old woman, not a bad person: to her I gave the child to be exposed.
§630b..O Iupiter, tantamne esse in animo inscitiam!
[Chremes] O Jupiter! that there should be such great folly in a mind!
§631..Perii: quid ego feci?
[Sostrata] I am undone: what have I done?
§631b..Rogitas?
[Chremes] Do you ask?
§631c..Si peccavi, mi Chreme,
[Sostrata] If I have done wrong, my Chremes,
§632..Insciens feci.
I did it in ignorance.
§632b..Id equidem ego si tu neges, certo scio §633..Te inscientem atque imprudentem dicere ac facere omnia: §634..Tot peccata in hac re ostendis: nam iam primum, si meum
[Chremes] Even if you deny it, I know for certain that you say and do everything in ignorance and without foresight: you show so many blunders in this affair.
§635..Imperium exsequi voluisses, interemtam oportuit; §636..Non simulare mortem verbis, re ipsa spem vitae dare.
For indeed, in the first place, if you had wished to execute my order, she ought to have been put to death; not to pretend her death in words, but in reality to give her a hope of life.
§637..At id omitto: misericordia, animus maternus: sino.
But I pass over that: compassion, a mother's feeling: I allow it.
§638..Quam bene vero abs te prospectum est! quid voluisti? cogita.
But how well indeed you provided! What did you intend? Think.
§639..Nempe anui illi prodita abs te filia est planissime, §640..Per te vel uti quaestum faceret, vel uti veniret palam.
Surely your daughter was most clearly betrayed by you to that old woman, so that through your means she might either make a trade of her, or be openly sold.
§641..Credo id cogitasti: "Quidvis satis est dum vivat modo. "
I suppose you thought this: "Anything is enough, so long only as she lives."
§642..Quid cum illis agas, qui neque ius, neque bonum atque aequum sciunt?
What can you do with those who know neither law, nor what is good and just?
§643..Melius, peius;
prosit, obsit; nihil vident, nisi quod libet.
Better or worse, useful or harmful; they see nothing except what pleases them.
§644..Mi Chreme, peccavi, fateor: vincor: nunc hoc te obsecro, §645..Quanto tuus est animus natu gravior, ignoscentior, §646..Ut meae stultitiae in iustitia tua sit aliquid praesidi.
[Sostrata] My Chremes, I have done wrong, I confess it: I am overcome: now I entreat you of this, as much as your mind is more mature by age and more forgiving, that there may be some protection for my folly in your justice.
§647..Scilicet equidem istuc factum ignoscam: verum, Sostrata, §648..Male docet te mea facilitas multa.
[Chremes] To be sure, I will indeed forgive that deed: but, Sostrata, my easy temper teaches you many bad things.
Sed istuc, quicquid est, §649..Qua hoc occeptum est causa loquere.
But whatever that business is, speak of the cause for which it was begun.
§649b..Ut stultae et misere omnes sumus §650..Religiosae, quum exponendam do illi, de digito annulum §651..Detraho; et eum edico ut una cum puella exponeret; §652..Si moreretur, ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis.
[Sostrata] As we women are all foolish and miserably superstitious, when I gave her to that woman to be exposed, I drew a ring from my finger, and directed her to expose it together with the girl; so that if she should die, she might not be without a share of our possessions.
§653..Istuc recte: conservasti te atque illam.
[Chremes] That was right: you saved both yourself and her.
§653b..Is hic est annulus.
[Sostrata] This is that ring.
§654..Unde habes?
[Chremes] Where did you get it?
§654b..Quam Bacchis secum adduxit adolescentulam.
[Sostrata] From the young girl whom Bacchis brought with her.
§654c..Hem!
[Chremes] Ha!
§655..Quid ea narrat?
[Chremes] What does she say?
§655b..Ea lavatum dum it servandum mihi dedit.
[Sostrata] While she went to bathe, she gave it to me to keep.
§656..Animum non adverti primum; sed postquam aspexi, ilico
[Sostrata] I did not notice it at first; but after I looked at it, immediately—