§273dNe sis: sed quid videtur
Don't be so: but how does this maidservant look to you?
§274cUro hominem.
GNATHO: [Aside] I am burning the fellow.
§274dUt falsus animi est!
PARMENO: [Aside] How mistaken he is in his mind!
§275Quam hoc munus gratum Thaidi arbitrare esse?
GNATHO: How acceptable do you think this present will be to Thais?
PARMENO: What you mean to say now is this, that we are shut out: oh, there is a change in all things.
§277Sex ego te totos Parmeno hos menses quietum reddam, §278Ne sursum deorsum cursites, neve usque ad lucem vigiles.
GNATHO: I will give you peace, Parmeno, for these next six whole months, so that you won't have to run up and down, or watch until daylight.
§279Ecquid beo te?
Do I make you somewhat happy?
§279bMen? papae!
PARMENO: Me? Wonderful!
§279cSic soleo amicos.
GNATHO: That's my way with friends.
§279dLaudo.
PARMENO: I praise you.
§280Detineo te fortasse: tu profectus alio fueras.
GNATHO: Perhaps I am detaining you; you were going somewhere else.
§281Nusquam.
PARMENO: Nowhere.
GNATHO: Then do me a little favor: manage so that I may be admitted to her.
§282bAge modo; nunc tibi patent fores hae, quia istam ducis.
PARMENO: Go on then; these doors are open to you now, because you are bringing that girl.
§283Numquam evocari hinc vis foras?
GNATHO: Do you wish me to have you called out here?
§283bSine biduum hoc praetereat: §284Qui mihi nunc uno digitulo fores aperis fortunatus §285Nae tu istas faxo calcibus saepe insultabis frustra.
PARMENO: Let but these two days pass: you who are now so lucky as to open the door for me with a single finger, I will make you kick at that door with your heels many a time in vain, I assure you.
§286Etiam nunc hic stas Parmeno? eho numnam hic relictus custos, §287Ne quis forte internuntius clam a milite ad istam curset?
GNATHO: Are you still standing here, Parmeno? Hey, are you left here as a guard, lest some messenger from the captain should by chance run secretly to her?
§288Facete dictum: mira vero militi quae placeant.
PARMENO: Witty, indeed! A wonderful thing, indeed, to please the captain.
§289Sed video herilem filium minorem huc advenire.
But I see my master’s younger son coming this way.
§290Miror quid ex Piraeeo abierit; nam ibi custos publice est nunc.
I wonder why he has left Piraeus, for he is now on public guard-duty there.
§291Non temere est; et properans venit: nescio quid circumspectat.
It is not for nothing; and he comes in a hurry: he is looking around for something, I know not what.
§292Occidi.
CHAEREA: I am ruined!
§293Neque virgo est usquam; neque ego, qui illam e conspectu amisi meo.
The girl is nowhere to be seen, and neither am I, who lost her from my sight.
§294Ubi quaeram? Ubi investigem? Quem perconter? Quam insistam viam?
Where shall I search? Where shall I track her? Whom shall I ask? Which path shall I take?
§295Incertus sum: una haec spes est; ubi ubi est, diu celari non potest.
I am in doubt; this is my only hope: wherever she is, she cannot be concealed for long.
§296O faciem pulchramn! deleo omnes dehinc ex animo mulieros.
Oh, what a beautiful face! From now on, I efface all other women from my mind.
§297Taedet quotidianarum harum formarum.
I am weary of these everyday beauties.
§297bEcce autem alterum!
PARMENO: [Aside] Look at that, now, another one!
§298Nescio quid de more loquitur.
He is talking about I know not what, in his usual fashion.
§298bO infortunatum senem!
Oh, unfortunate old man!
§299Hic vero est qui si occeperit lucidum iocumque dices §300Illum alterum fuisse praeut quae dabit huius rabies.
But indeed, if this youth should begin, you will say that the other one was mere light play and joke, compared to what the madness of this one will bring.
§301Ut illum Di Deaeque senium perdant qui me hodie remoratus est, §302Meque adeo qui restiterim; tum autem qui illum floccifecerim.
CHAEREA: May the gods and goddesses destroy that old fellow who delayed me today, and me as well, for stopping; and then for having cared a straw for him.
§303Sed eccum Parmenonem: salve.
But look, there is Parmeno. Hello!
§303bQuid tu es tristis? quidve es alacris?
PARMENO: Why are you so sad? Or why are you so excited?
§304Unde is?
Where do you come from?
CHAEREA: I? By Hercules, I don't know, neither where I am coming from nor where I am going; so entirely have I forgotten myself.
§306Qui quaeso?
PARMENO: How so, pray?
§306bAmo.
CHAEREA: I am in love.
§306cHem!
PARMENO: Ah!
§306dNunc Parmeno te ostendes qui vir sies.
CHAEREA: Now, Parmeno, you must show what kind of man you are.
§307Scis te mihi saepe pollicitum esse; "Chaerea aliquid inveni §308Modo quod ames: in ea re utilitatem ego faciam ut cognoscas meam; " §309Cum in cellulam ad te patris penum omnem congerebam clanculum.
You know you have often promised me: "Chaerea, find something only to love; in that matter I will make you see my usefulness," when I used to carry off all my father’s provisions secretly to your little room.
§310Age, inepte.
PARMENO: Go on, you foolish fellow.
§310bHoc hercle factum est: fac sis nunc promissa appareant; §311Sive adeo digna res est ubi tu nervos intendas tuos.
CHAEREA: By Hercules, this was done: make your promises appear now, if you please, or indeed, it is a matter worthy for you to exert your strength.
§312Haud similis virgo est virginum nostrarum quas matres student §313Demissis humeris esse, vincto pectore, ut gracilae sient.
The girl is not like our girls, whom mothers strive to make with sloping shoulders, and with tight-laced chests, so that they may be slender.
§314Si qua est habitior paulo, pugilem esse aiunt, deducunt cibum.
If any one is a little plumper, they say she is a boxer, and reduce her food.
Though her constitution is good, they make them as slender as rushes by their treatment: and therefore they are loved.
§316bQuid tua istaec?
PARMENO: What is your girl like?
§316cNova figura oris.
CHAEREA: A new style of face.
§316dPapae!
PARMENO: Wonderful!
§317Color verus, corpus solidum et succi plenum.
CHAEREA: Real color, a firm body and full of health.
§317bAnni?
PARMENO: Her age?
§317cAnni? sedecim.
CHAEREA: Her age? Sixteen.
§318Flos ipse.
The very flower of youth.
This girl, whether by force, or by stealth, or by entreaty, manage to deliver to me: it matters nothing to me, so long as I obtain her.
§320Quid? virgo cuia est?
PARMENO: What? Whose girl is she?
§320bNescio hercle.
CHAEREA: By Hercules, I don't know.
§320cUnde est?
PARMENO: Where is she from?
§320dTantundem.
CHAEREA: Just as much.
§320eUbi habitat?
PARMENO: Where does she live?
§321Ne id quidem.
CHAEREA: Not even that.
§321bUbi vidisti?
PARMENO: Where did you see her?
§321cIn via.
CHAEREA: In the street.
§321dQua ratione amisti?
PARMENO: In what way did you lose her?
§322Id equidem adveniens mecum stomachabar modo; §323Nec quenquam esse ego hominem arbitror cui magis bonae §324Felicitates omnes adversae sient.
CHAEREA: That is the very thing I was just now vexing myself about as I came along; and I don't think there is any man to whom all favorable fortunes turn out more adverse.
§325Quid hoc est sceleris?
What a misfortune is this!
§325bPerii.
I am ruined.
§325cQuid factum est?
PARMENO: What happened?
§325dRogas?
CHAEREA: You ask?
My father’s relative and contemporary, Archidemides, do you know him?
§327bQuidni?
PARMENO: Why not?
§327cIs dum sequor hanc fit mihi obviam.
CHAEREA: While I am pursuing her, he runs into me.
§328Incommode hercle.
PARMENO: Most inconveniently, by Hercules.
§328bImmo enimvero infeliciter;
CHAEREA: Nay, rather, most unfortunately;