§867Suspenso gradu placide ire perrexi; accessi; adstiti; §868Animam compressi; aurem admovi: ita animum coepi attendere, §869Hoc modo sermonem captans. §869bEu Geta. §869cHic pulcherrimum §870Facinus audivi: itaque paene hercle exclamavi gaudio. §871Quod? §871bQuodnam arbitrare? §871cNescio. §871dAtqui mirificissimum: §872Patruus tuus pater est inventus Phanio uxori tuae. §872bHem. §873Quid ais? §873bCum eius consuevit olim matre in Lemno clanculum. §874Somnium.
Geta: "I proceeded to go quietly with suspended step; I approached; I stood still;" "I held my breath; I applied my ear: in this way I began to pay attention," "catching the conversation in this manner." Phormio: "Well done, Geta!" Geta: "There I heard the most beautiful" "news: so that by Hercules I almost cried out for joy." Antipho: "What?" Geta: "What indeed do you think?" Antipho: "I don't know." Geta: "But it is most wonderful:" "Your uncle has been found to be the father of your wife Phanium." Antipho: "What?" Phormio: "What are you saying?" Geta: "He was intimate with her mother formerly in Lemnos in secret." Phormio: "A dream!
Utine haec ignoraret suum patrem? §874bAliquid credito, §875Phormio, esse causae: sed me censen potuisse omnia §876Intelligere extra ostium intus quae inter sese ipsi egerint? §877Atque hercle ego quoque illam audivi fabulam. §877bImmo etiam dabo §878Quo magis credas.
Would she not know her own father?" Geta: "Believe that there is some" "reason, Phormio; but do you think I could have understood everything" "inside, which they did among themselves, outside the door?" Antipho: "And by Hercules, I too have heard that story." Geta: "Nay, I will even give you something" "by which you may believe more.
Patruus interea inde huc egreditur foras: §879Haud multo post cum patre idem recipit se intro denuo: §880Ait uterque tibi potestatem eius habendae se dare. §881Denique ego missus sum te ut requirerem atque adducerem.
In the meantime your uncle comes out of there:" "not long after, the same man returns inside again with your father:" "Each of them says that he gives you the power of keeping her." "Finally, I was sent to look for you and bring you." Antipho: "Why then don't you carry me off?
Why do you delay?" Geta: "I will do so." Antipho: "O my Phormio," "farewell." Phormio: "Farewell, Antipho.
§883bVale, Antipho: bene, ita me Di ament, factum: gaudeo §884Tantam fortunam de improviso esse his datam. §885Summa eludendi occasio est mihi nunc senes, §886Et Phaedriae curam adimere argentariam, §887Ne cuiquam suorum aequalium supplex siet: §888Nam idem hoc argentum, ita ut datum est, ingratiis §889Ei datum erit: hoc qui cogam re ipsa repperi. §890Nunc gestus mihi vultusque est capiendus novus. §891Sed hince concedam in angiportum hoc proximum: §892Inde hisce ostendam me, ubi erunt egressi foras. §893Quo me assimularam ire ad mercatum non eo. §894Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago, §895Quando evenere haec nobis, frater, prospere. §896Quantum potest nunc conveniendus Phormio est, §897Priusquam dilapidet nostras triginta minas §898Ut auferamus. §898bDemiphonem, si domi est, §899Visam: ut, quod— §899bAt nos ad te ibamus, Phormio. §900De eadem hac fortasse causa.
Well done! So love me the gods, I am glad" "that so great fortune has been given to them unexpectedly." "There is now a great opportunity for me to elude the old men," "and to take away from Phaedria his money care," "lest he should be a suppliant to any of his equals:" "for this same money, just as it was given, will be given to him" "in spite of them: I have found how I may compel this in reality." "Now I must adopt a new gesture and expression." "But I will withdraw from here into this next alley:" "thence I will show myself to them, when they have come out." "I am not going where I had pretended I was going, to the market." Chremes: "I have and offer great thanks to the gods deservedly," "since these things have turned out successfully for us, brother." Demipho: "Now Phormio must be met as soon as possible," "before he squanders our thirty minae," "so that we may take them back." Phormio: "If Demipho is at home," "I will see him: so that, what—" Demipho: "But we were going to you, Phormio." Phormio: "About this same cause, perhaps?" Demipho: "Yes, by Hercules." Phormio: "I believed so." "Why were you going to me?
Verebamini §902Ne non id facerem quod recepissem semel? §903Heus, quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen §904Adhuc curavi unum hoc quidem, ut mihi esset fides. §905Estne ea, ita ut dixi, liberalis? §905bOppido. §906Itaque ad vos venio nuntiatum, Demipho, §907Paratum me esse: ubi vultis, uxorem date; §908Nam omnes posthabui mihi res, ita uti par fuit, §909Postquam tantopere id vos velle animadverteram. §910At hic dehortatus est me ne illam tibi darem; §911"Nam qui erit rumor populi," inquit, "si id feceris? §912Olim quum honeste potuit tum non est data: §913Nunc viduam extrudi turpe est:" ferme eadem omnia §914Quae tute dudum coram me incusaveras. §915Satis superbe illuditis me. §915bQui? §915cRogas? §916Quia ne alteram quidem illam potero ducere: §917Nam quo redibo ore ad eam quam contemserim? §918Tum autem Antiphonem video ab sese amittere §919Invitum eam; inque. §919bTum autem video filium §920Invitum sane mulierem ab se amittere.
Were you afraid" "lest I should not do what I had once undertaken?" "Look here, however great this poverty of mine is, yet" "up to now I have taken care of this one thing at least, that I should have credit." Chremes: "Is she, as I said, ladylike?" Demipho: "Extremely." Phormio: "And so I come to you to announce, Demipho," "that I am ready: when you wish, give me the wife;" "for I have put all my affairs in the background, as was proper," "after I had perceived that you wished it so greatly." Demipho: "But he has discouraged me from giving her to you;" "'For what will the public rumor be,' says he, 'if you do that?" "'Formerly when she could have been given respectably, she was not given:" "'now it is disgraceful for a divorced woman to be thrust out:' almost all the same things" "which you yourself had complained of just now in my presence." Phormio: "You mock me quite insolently." Demipho: "How?" Phormio: "You ask?" "Because I shall not be able to marry even that other woman:" "For with what face shall I return to her whom I have slighted?" "Then moreover, I see that Antipho is parting from her" Chremes: "unwillingly; and in..." Demipho: "Then moreover I see that my son" "is indeed unwilling to part with the woman." "But please go over to the forum, and that" "money order to be transferred back to me, Phormio." Phormio: "What?
§921Sed transi sodes ad forum, atque illud mihi §922Argentum rursum iube rescribi, Phormio. §923Quodne ego discripsi porro illis quibus debui §924Quid igitur fiet? §924bSi vis mihi uxorem dare, §925Quam despondisti, ducam: sin est ut velis §926Mancre illam apud te, dos hic maneat, Demipho. §927Nam non est aequum me propter vos decipi, §928Quum ego vestri honoris causa repudium alterae §929Remiserim quae dotis tantundem dabat.
The money which I have already paid out to those to whom I owed?" Demipho: "What then will happen?" Phormio: "If you wish to give me the wife" "whom you betrothed, I will marry her; but if it is that you wish" "her to stay with you, the dowry must stay here, Demipho." "For it is not fair that I should be cheated on your account," "when for the sake of your honor I have sent a rejection to the other woman," "sent back, who was giving just as much of a dowry." Demipho: "Go to the devil with that grand talk of yours," "runaway!
§930I hinc in malam rein cum istac magnificentia, §931Fugitive: etiam nunc credis te ignorarier, §932Aut tua facta adeo? §932bIrritor. §932cTune hanc duceres, §933Si tibi data esset? §933bFac periclum.
Do you even now believe that you are unknown," "or indeed your deeds?" Phormio: "I am being provoked." Chremes: "Would you marry this girl," "if she had been given to you?" Phormio: "Make the trial."