§456De fidicina istac?
About that music-girl?
§456bQuam venuste! quod dedit
How charmingly!
§457Principium adveniens.
What a starting-point she gave on coming.
§457bPlurimum merito tuo.
Most deservedly to you.
§458Eamus ergo ad coenam: quid stas?
Let's go then to dinner; why are you standing?
Ah, another one: you'd say this one was born for his belly.
§459bUbi vis, non moror.
Whenever you wish, I don't delay.
§460Adibo, atque adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam.
I will go up, and pretend as if I'm just coming out.
§461Ituran Thais quopiam es?
Are you going somewhere, Thais?
§461bEhem! Parmeno,
Ah!
§462Bene fecisti: hodie itura.
Parmeno, you have done well: I am going today.
§462bQuo?
Where?
§462cQuid? hunc non vides?
What? Don't you see this man?
I see him, and it tires me; whenever you wish, the gifts from Phaedria are here for you.
§464bQuid stamus? cur non imus hinc?
Why are we standing? Why don't we go from here?
I pray indeed that it may be allowed, by your leave, to give to her what we wish, and to meet and talk.
§467Perpulchra credo dona haud nostris similia.
Very beautiful gifts, I believe, not like ours.
§468Res indicabit.
The event will show.
Heus, iubete istos foras §469Exire quos iussi ocius: procede tu huc.
Ho, tell those whom I ordered to come out quickly; you, step forward here.
§470Ex Aethiopia est usque haec.
This girl is all the way from Ethiopia.
§470bHic sunt tres minae.
Here are three minae.
§471Vix.
Hardly.
§471bUbi tu es Dore? accede huc.
Where are you, Dorus? Come here.
Hem eunuchum tibi, §472Quam liberali facie, quam aetate integra!
Look, here is a eunuch for you, with how noble a face, and of how fresh an age!
§473Ita me Di ament honestus est.
So may the gods love me, he is handsome.
§473bQuid tu ais, Gnatho?
What do you say, Gnatho?
§474Numquid habes quod contemnas? quid tu autem Thraso?
Have you anything to look down upon? And what about you, Thraso?
§475Tacent; satis laudant.
They are silent; they praise enough.
Fac periclum in literis, §476Fac in palaestra, in musicis: quae liberum §477Scire aequum est adolescentem solertem dabo.
Test him in literature, test him in wrestling, in music: I will deliver a skilled youth who knows what a free-born youth ought to know.
§478Ego illum eunuchum, si opus siet, vel sobrius.
I would take that eunuch, if need be, even sober.
§479Atque haec qui misit non sibi soli postulat §480Te vivere, et sua causa excludi caeteros; §481Neque pugnas narrat; neque cicatrices suas §482Ostentat; neque tibi obstat, quod quidam facit: §483Verum ubi molestum non erit, ubi tu voles, §484Ubi tempus tibi erit, sat habet si tun recipitur.
And he who sent these does not demand that you live for him alone, and that others be excluded for his sake; nor does he tell of battles; nor does he show off his scars; nor does he stand in your way, as a certain person does; but when it will not be troublesome, when you wish, when there is time for you, he is satisfied if he is received then.
It appears this is the servant of a poor and wretched master.
Indeed, by Hercules, no one, I know well, who had the means to get another, could endure this one.
§488Tace tu, quem ego esse infra infimos omnes puto §489Homines; nam qui huic animum assentari induxeris, §490E flamma petere te cibum posse arbitror.
Be silent, you, whom I think to be below all the lowest of men; for you who have brought yourself to flatter this man, I believe you could seek food even from the midst of flames.
§491Iamne imus?
Are we going now?
I will lead these inside first, and at the same time command what I want; after that I will come out immediately.
§493Ego hine abeo; tu istam opperire.
I am off from here; you wait for her.
It is hardly fitting for a general to walk in the street together with his mistress.
§495Quid tibi ego multa dicam? domini similis es.
What many things should I say to you? You are just like your master.
§496Ha, ha, he.
Ha, ha, he!
§496bQuid rides?
Why do you laugh?
At what you just said; and also when that saying about the Rhodesian came to my mind.
§498Sed Thais exit.
But Thais is coming out.
Go on ahead, run, so that things may be ready at home.
§499bFiat.
It shall be done.
§499cDiligenter Pythias §500Fac cures, si Chremes huc forte advenerit, §501Ut ores primum ut maneat: si id non commodum est, §502Ut redeat: si id non poterit, ad me adducito.
Take diligent care, Pythias, if Chremes should happen to come here, to beg him first to stay; if that is not convenient, to return; if he cannot do that, bring him to me.
§503Ita faciam.
I will do so.
§503bQuid? quid aliud volui dicere?
What? What else did I want to say?
§504Ehem, curate istam diligenter virginem.
Ah, take diligent care of that girl.
§505Domi adsitis facite.
Make sure you are at home.
§505bEamus.
Let's go.
§505cVos me sequimini.
You all, follow me.
§506Profecto quanto magis magisque cogito, §507Nimirum dabit haec Thais mihi magnum malum: §508Ita me video ab ea astute labefactarier, §509Iam tum cum primum iussit me ad se arcessier.
Indeed, the more and more I think of it, surely this Thais will bring me great trouble; so cunningly do I see myself being undermined by her, even from the very first moment when she ordered me to be summoned to her.
Someone might ask, "What have you to do with her?" I did not even know her; when I came, she found a reason for me to stay there.
She said she had performed a sacrifice, and wanted to discuss serious business with me.
Iam tum erat suspicio §514Dolo malo haec fieri omnia: ipsa accumbere §515Mecum, mihi sese dare, sermonem quaerere.
Already then there was a suspicion that all this was being done with malicious intent; she herself reclined with me, gave herself to me, sought conversation.
§516Ubi friget, huc evasit; quam pridem pater
When it grew cold, she turned to this: how long ago my father and mother had died.
§517Mihi et mater mortui essent: dico, iam diu.
I said, a long time ago.
§518Rus Sunii ecquod haberem, et quam longe a mari?
Did I have any farm at Sunium, and how far from the sea?
§519Credo ei placere hoc: sperat se a me avellere.
I believe this pleases her; she hopes to snatch it from me.
§520Postremo, ecqua inde parva periisset soror?
Finally, had any little sister perished from there?
§521Ecquis cum ea una? quid habuisset cum perit?
Was anyone with her? What had she with her when she perished?
§522Ecquis eam posset noscere? Haec cur quaeritet?
Could anyone recognize her? Why should she ask these things?