§327Quot me censes homines iam deverberasse usque ad necem, §328Hospites, tun cives? quo magis novi, tanto saepius.
"How many men do you think I have already beaten to death," "strangers as well as citizens?
§329Cedodum, en unquam iniuriarum audisti mihi scriptam dicam? §330Qui istuc? §330bQuia non rete accipitri tenditur neque miluo, §331Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur. §332Quia enim in illis fructus est; in illis opera luditur. §333Aliis aliunde est periclum unde aliquid abradi potest: §334Mihi sciunt nihil esse.
The more I knew them, the more often I did it." "Tell me, did you ever hear of an action for damages being brought against me?" "How so?" "Because a net is not spread for a hawk or a kite," "who do us harm; it is spread for those who do none." "For in the latter there is profit; with the former, labor is lost." "Different people face danger from different sources, from where something can be scraped off;" "they know I have nothing.
Dices, "Ducent damnatum domum:" §335Alere nolunt hominem edacem; et sapiunt, mea quidem sententia, §336Pro maleficio si beneficium summum nolunt reddere. §337Non potest satis pro merito ab illo tibi referri gratia. §338Immo enim nemo satis pro merito gratiam regi refert. §339Tene asymbolum venire, unctum atque lautum e balneis, §340Otiosum ab animo, quum ille et cura et sumtu absumitur §341Dum tibi sit quod placeat; ille ringitur, tu rideas; §342Prior bibas, prior decumbas; coena dubia apponitur. §343Quid istuc verbi est? §343bUbi tu dubites quid sumas potissimum. §344Haec cum rationem ineas quam sint suavia et quam cara sint, §345Ea qui praebet non tu hunc habeas plane praesentem Deum? §346Senex adest: vide quid agas: prima coitio est acerrima. §347Si eam sustinueris, postilla iam, ut libet, ludas licet. §348En unquam cuiquam contumeliosius §349Audistis factam iniuriam quam haec est mihi? §350Adeste, quaeso. §350bIratus est. §350cQuin tu hoc age: st! §351Iam ego hunc agitabo.
You will say, 'They will take you home, condemned:'" "they don't want to feed a voracious man; and they are wise, in my opinion indeed," "if they do not want to return a supreme benefit for an injury." "No sufficient thanks can be returned to you by him according to your merit." "Nay, indeed, no one returns sufficient thanks to his patron." "That you should come without paying your share, anointed and clean from the baths," "easy in mind, while he is consumed by both care and expense" "so that you may have what pleases you; he snarls, while you may laugh;" "you drink first, you recline first; a doubtful dinner is served." "What is the meaning of that word?" "Where you would doubt what you should choose above all." "When you enter into a calculation of how sweet and how dear these things are," "should you not regard him who provides them as clearly a manifest God?" "The old man is here; watch what you do: the first encounter is the sharpest." "If you withstand that, after that you may play as you please." "Did you ever hear of a more insulting injury done to anyone" "than this which has been done to me?" "Be present, I beg." "He is angry." "Just pay attention to this: hush!" "Now I'll play him.
Pro Deum immortalium! §352Negat Phanium esse hanc sibi cognatam Demipho? §353Hanc Demipho negat esse cognatam? §353bNegat. §354Neque eius patrem se scire qui fuerit? §354bNegat. §355Ipsum esse opinor de quo agebam.
In the name of the immortal Gods!" "Does Demipho deny that Phanium is his relative?" "Does Demipho deny that she is his relative?" "He denies it." "And that he knows who her father was?" "He denies it." "(Aside) I think it is the very man I was talking about.
Sequimini. §356Nec Stilphonem ipsum scire qui fuerit? §356bNegat. §357Quia egens relicta est misera, ignoratur parens, §358Negligitur ipsa: vide avaritia quid facit. §359Si herum insimulabis avaritiae, male audies. §360O audaciam! etiam me ultro accusatum advenit? §361Nam iam adolescenti nihil est quod succenseam, §362Si illum minus norat: quippe homo iam grandior, §363Pauper, cui opera vita erat, ruri fere §364Se continebat: ibi agrum de nostro patre §365Colendum habebat.
Follow me." "And that he does not know who Stilpho himself was?" "He denies it." "Because the poor girl was left in poverty, her father is ignored," "she herself is neglected; see what avarice does." "If you charge my master with avarice, you will hear bad things." "O what audacity! Does he even come to accuse me first?" "For now I have no reason to be angry with the young man," "if he knew him but little; since he was already an elderly man," "poor, whose life was labor, and who kept himself mostly" "in the country; there he had land from my father" "to cultivate.
Saepe interea mihi senex §366Narrabat se hunc negligere cognatum suum:
Meanwhile, the old man often used to tell me" "that he neglected this relative of his;" "but what a man!
§367At quem virum! quem ego viderim in vita optimum. §368Videas te atque illum ut narras. §368bI in malam crucem. §369Nam nisi ita eum existimassem, nunquam tam graves §370Ob hanc inimicitias caperem in vestram familiam, §371Quam is aspernatur nunc tam illiberaliter. §372Pergin hero absenti male loqui, impurissime? §373Dignum autem hoc illo est. §373bAin tandem, career? §373cGeta. §374Bonorum extortor, legum contortor. §374bGeta. §375Responde. §375bQuis homo est? ehem!
The best I have ever seen in my life." "May you see yourself and him as you describe him." "Go to the gallows." "For if I had not thought so of him, I should never have taken up such heavy" "enmities against your family on her account," "whom he now rejects so ungenerously." "Do you go on speaking ill of my absent master, you most filthy fellow?" "But this is worthy of him." "Do you really say so, jailbird?" "Geta." "Extorter of property, twister of laws." "Geta." "Answer." "Who is it?
§375cTace. §375dAbsenti tibi §376Te indignas, seque dignas, contumelias §377Nunquam cessavit dicere hodie. §377bOhe, desine. §378Adolescens, primum abs te hoc bona venia peto, §379Si tibi placere potis est, mihi ut respondeas: §380Quem amicum tuum ais fuisse istum? explana mihi:
Oh!" "Be silent." "In your absence," "insults unworthy of you, but worthy of himself," "he has never ceased to utter today." "Oh, stop." "Young man, first I ask this of you with your good leave," "if it is possible for you to please to answer me:" "Who do you say that friend of yours was?
§381Et qui cognatum me sibi esse diceret. §382Proinde expiscare, quasi non nosses. §382bNossem? §382cIta. §383Ego me nego: tu qui ais redige in memoriam. §384Eho, tu sobrinum tuum non noras? §384bEnicas: §385Dic nomen. §385bNomen? §385cMaxime.
Explain to me;" "and how he said I was related to him." "Just fish for it, as if you didn't know." "That I knew?" "Yes." "I deny that I know; you who say so, bring it back to my memory." "What, did you not know your cousin?" "You plague me:" "Tell me the name." "The name?" "Yes, exactly.
Quid nunc taces? §386Perii hercle: nomen perdidi. §386bHem, quid ais? §386cGeta. §387Si meministi id quod olim dictum est, subiice.
Why are you silent now?" "(Aside) I'm ruined, by Hercules: I've lost the name." "Eh, what do you say?" "Geta." "If you remember what was said before, suggest it.
Hem, §388Non dico: quasi non noris, tentatum advenis. §389Egone autem tento? §389bStilpho. §389cAtque adeo quid mea? §390Stilpho est. §390bQuem dixti? §390cStilphonem, inquam, noveras? §391Neque ego illum noram; neque mihi cognatus fuit
Well," "I won't say it: as if you didn't know, you come to test me." "Am I testing you?" "Stilpho." "And indeed, what does it matter to me?" "It is Stilpho." "Whom did you say?" "Stilpho, I say, did you know him?" "I didn't know him, nor was he any relation to me."