§565Laudo, Ctesipho; patrissas: abi, virum te iudico.
Demea: I praise you, Ctesipho; you take after your father. Go to, I judge you to be a man.
§566Laudas? Nae ille continebit posthac si sapiet manus.
Syrus: You praise him? Indeed he will keep his hands to himself hereafter, if he is wise.
§567Fortiter.
Demea: Bravely done.
§567bPerquam! quia miseram mulierem, et me servulum §568Qui referire non audebam, vicit: hui, perfortiter!
Syrus: Exceedingly so! since he beat a wretched woman, and me, a poor slave who didn't dare strike back. Whew, very bravely indeed!
§569Non potuit melius: idem quod ego sensit te esse huic rei caput.
Demea: He could not have done better: he perceived, just as I did, that you are the head of this business.
§570Sed estne frater intus?
But is my brother inside?
§570bNon est.
Syrus: He is not.
§570cUbi illum quaeram cogito.
Demea: I am thinking where to seek him.
§571Scio ubi sit; verum hodie nunquam monstrabo.
Syrus: I know where he is; but I will never tell you today.
§571bHem, quid ais?
Demea: Ha! What do you say?
§571cIta.
Syrus: Just so.
§572Diminuetur tibi quidem iam cerebrum.
Demea: Your brain indeed will be bashed in right now.
Syrus: But I don't know the name of that man; but I know the place where he is.
§573bDic ergo locum.
Demea: Tell me the place, then.
§574Nostin porticum apud macellum hanc deorsum?
Syrus: Do you know this portico down here by the meat-market?
§574bQuidni noverim?
Demea: Why shouldn't I know it?
§575Praeterito hac recta platea sursum: ubi eo veneris, §576Clivus deorsum versus est: hac te praecipitato: postea §577Est ad hanc manum sacellum; ibi angiportum propter est.
Syrus: Go past it, straight up this street: when you have come there, there is a downward slope: hurry down this way; afterwards there is a chapel on this hand; there is an alley next to it.
§578Quonam?
Demea: Which one?
§578bIllic ubi etiam caprificus magna est: nostin?
Syrus: There where there is also a large wild fig-tree. Do you know it?
§578cNovi.
Demea: I know it.
§578dHac pergito.
Syrus: Go along this way.
§579Id quidem angiportum non est pervium.
Demea: But that alley is not a thoroughfare.
§579bVerum hercle.
Syrus: True, by Hercules!
Vah, §580Censen hominem me esse? erravi.
Ah, do you think I am human? I made a mistake.
In porticum rursum redi: §581Sane hac multo propius ibis, et minor est erratio.
Return back to the portico: Indeed this way you will go much closer, and there is less error.
§582Scin Cratini huius ditis aedes?
Do you know the house of this rich Cratinus?
§582bScio.
Demea: I know it.
§582cUbi eas praeterieris §583Ad sinistram hac recta platea: ubi ad Dianae veneris §584Ito ad dextram: priusquam ad portam venias apud ipsum lacum §585Est pistrilla et exadversum fabrica: ibi est.
Syrus: When you have passed it, turn to the left, straight along this street: when you have come to Diana's, go to the right: before you come to the gate, right by the basin there is a small bakery and opposite it a workshop: he is there.
§585bQuid ibi facit?
Demea: What is he doing there?
§586Lectulos in sole ilignis pedibus faciendos dedit.
Syrus: He has given out an order for some couches with holm-oak feet to be made in the sun.
§587Ubi potetis vos? Bene sane.
Demea: For you guys to drink on? Very fine indeed!
Sed cesso ad eum pergere?
But why do I delay to go to him?
§588I sane.
Syrus: Go, by all means.
Ego te exercebo hodie ut dignus es, silicernium.
I will keep you on the run today as you deserve, you old dry-bones!
§589Aeschinus odiose cessat: prandium corrumpitur.
Aeschinus is annoyingly late; the luncheon is getting spoiled.
§590Ctesipho autem in amore est totus.
Ctesipho is entirely in love.
Ego iam prospiciam mihi: §591Nam iam adibo, atque unumquicquid quod quidem erit bellissimum §592Carpam; et cyathos sorbilans paulatim hunc producam diem.
I will now look out for myself: for I will now go inside, and I will pluck every single thing that is most delicious; and sipping my cups little by little, I will spin out this day.
§593Ego in hac re nihil reperio quamobrem lauder tantopere, Hegio: §594Meum officium facio; quod peccatum a nobis ortum est corrigo:
Micio: I find nothing in this matter, Hegio, why I should be praised so much: I am doing my duty; I am correcting the fault that originated from us.
§595Nisi si me in illo credidisti esse hominum numero qui ita putant, §596Sibi fieri iniuriam ultro si quam fecere ipsi expostules, §597Et ultro accusant: id quia non est a me factum agis gratias?
Unless, perhaps, you believed me to be in the number of those men who think that an injury is done to them, if you demand satisfaction for one they themselves have committed, and who even go so far as to accuse you: because that was not done by me, do you thank me?
§598Ah, minime: nunquam te aliter atque es in animum induxi meum.
Hegio: Ah, not at all; I have never imagined you to be otherwise than you are.
§599Sed quaeso ut una mecum ad matrem virginis eas, Micio, §600Atque istaec eadem quae mihi dixti tute dicas mulieri; §601Suspicionem hanc propter fratrem eius esse et illam psaltriam.
But I beg you, Micio, to go with me to the mother of the maiden, and that you yourself tell the woman these same things you have told me: namely, that this suspicion is on account of his brother and that music-girl.
§602Si ita aequum censes, aut si ita opus est facto, camus.
Micio: If you think it right, or if there is need for it to be done, let us go.
§602bBene facis; §603Nam et illi animum iam relevabis, quae dolore ac miseria §604Tabescit; et tuo officio fueris functus: sed si aliter putas, §605Egomet narrabo quae mihi dixti.
Hegio: You do well; for both you will now relieve her mind, who is wasting away with grief and misery, and you will have performed your duty; but if you think otherwise, I myself will tell her what you told me.
§605bImmo ego ibo.
Micio: Nay, I will go.
§605cBene facis.
Hegio: You do well.
§606Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt nescio quomodo §607Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; §608Propter suam impotentiam se semper credunt negligi; §609Quapropter te ipsum purgare ipsis coram placabilius est.
All those whose circumstances are less prosperous are, I know not how, more suspicious; they take everything more as an insult; on account of their own helplessness, they always believe themselves to be neglected; therefore, to clear yourself to them in person is more appeasing.
§610Et recte et verum dicis.
Micio: You speak both rightly and truly.
§610bSequere me ergo hac intro.
Hegio: Follow me then this way inside.
§610cMaxime.
Micio: By all means.
§611Discrucior animi: §612Hocine de improviso mali mihi obiici §613Tantum, ut neque quid de me faciam neque quid agam certum siet!
Aeschinus: I am tormented in my mind: that such a great misfortune should be thrown upon me unexpectedly, so that it is not certain what I should do with myself or what I should act!
My limbs are weak with fear; my mind is numbed with dread; no counsel can settle in my breast.
Vah! quomodo me ex hac expediam turba? Tanta nunc
Ah! how shall I extricate myself from this trouble?
Such a great suspicion has fallen upon me; and not undeservedly: Sostrata believes that I bought this music-girl.
§619Id anus mihi indicium fecit.
The old woman made this clear to me.
§620Nam ut hinc forte ea ad obstetricem erat missa, ubi eam vidi ilico §621Accedo, rogito Pamphila quid agat, iam partus adsiet; §622Eone obstetricem arcessat.
For as she happened to be sent from here to the midwife, when I saw her, I immediately approach her, I ask how Pamphila is doing, whether the delivery is near, and whether she is fetching the midwife for that purpose.
Illa exclamat, "Abi, abi iam, Aeschine.
She cries out: 'Away, away now, Aeschine!'