§685Et me tui pudet.
Aeschinus: And I am ashamed before you.
Micio: By Hercules, I believe it; for I know your nature is generous: but I fear lest you should be too negligent.
§687In qua civitate tandem te arbitrare vivere?
In what city, pray, do you think you are living?
§688Virginem vitiasti quam te ius non fuerat tangere.
You have wronged a maiden whom you had no right to touch.
§689Iam id peccatum primum magnum; magnum, at humanum tamen.
Now that is indeed a first great offense; great, but yet human.
§690Fecere alii saepe item boni: at postquam id evenit, cedo
Others, and good men too, have often done the same: but after that happened, tell me, did you look about at all?
§691Numquid circumspexti? aut numquid tute prospexti tibi, §692Quid fieret, qua fieret? si te ipsum mihi puduit dicere, §693Qua resciscerem? Haec dum dubitas menses abierunt decem.
Or did you provide at all for yourself, as to what should be done, or how it should be done? If you were ashamed to tell me yourself, by what means was I to find out? While you hesitated, ten months passed away.
§694Prodidisti et te, et illam miseram, et gnatum, quod quidem in te fuit.
You have betrayed both yourself, and that wretched girl, and your son, as far as was in your power.
§695Quid? credebas dormienti haec tibi confecturos Deos, §696Et illam sine tua opera in cubiculum iri deductum domum?
What? Did you believe that the Gods would manage these things for you while you slept, and that she would be brought home into your bedchamber without your own labor?
§697Nolim ceterarum rerum te socordem eodem modo.
I should be unwilling for you to be equally negligent in other matters.
§698Bono animo es: duces uxorem hanc.
Be of good heart: you shall marry this girl.
§698bHem.
Aeschinus: What?
§698cBono animo es, inquam.
Micio: Be of good heart, I say.
Aeschinus: Father, I beseech you, are you not playing with me now?
§699bEgo te? quamobrem?
Micio: I with you?
§699cNescio;
Why?
§700Nisi quia tam misere hoc esse cupio verum eo vereor magis.
Aeschinus: I don't know; except that because I so desperately wish this to be true, I fear it the more.
§701Abi domum, ac Deos comprecare ut uxorem arcessas: abi.
Micio: Go home, and pray to the Gods to bring your wife: go.
§702Quid? iam uxorem?
Aeschinus: What? My wife now?
§702bIam.
Micio: Now.
§702cIam?
Aeschinus: Now?
§702dIam, quantum potest.
Micio: Now, as soon as possible.
Aeschinus: Father, may all the Gods hate me, if I do not love you more than my own eyes now.
§704Quid? quam illam?
Micio: What? More than her?
§704bAeque.
Aeschinus: Equally.
§704cPerbenigne.
Micio: Very kind indeed.
§704dQuid? ille ubi est Milesius?
Aeschinus: But where is that Milesian?
§705Abiit; periit; navem adscendit.
Micio: He is gone; he is perished; he has boarded his ship.
Sed cur cessas?
But why do you delay?
§705bAbi pater: §706Tu potius Deos comprecare; nam tibi eos certo scio, §707Quo vir melior multo es quam ego, obtemperaturos magis.
Aeschinus: Go, father: do you rather pray to the Gods; for I know for certain that they, since you are a much better man than I, will listen to you more.
§708Ego eo intro ut quae opus sunt parentur: tu fac ut dixi, si sapis.
Micio: I will go inside so that what is necessary may be prepared: do as I said, if you are wise.
§709Quid hoc est negoti! Hoc est patrem esse? aut hoc est filium esse?
Aeschinus: What business is this! Is this to be a father? Or is this to be a son?
§710Si frater aut sodalis esset, qui magis morem gereret?
If he were a brother or a companion, how could he be more obliging?
§711Hic non amandus? hicine non gestandus in sinu est? hem!
Is he not to be loved? Is he not to be carried in one's bosom? Oh!
§712Itaque adeo magnam mili iniecit sua commoditate curam §713Ne forte imprudens faciam quod nolit: sciens cavebo.
Therefore, indeed, he has inspired in me a great care by his kindness, lest by chance I should unintentionally do what he would not wish: knowingly I will beware.
§714Sed cesso ire intro ne morae meis nuptiis egomet siem?
But why do I delay to go inside, lest I myself should be a delay to my own wedding?
§715Defessus sum ambulando.
Demea: I am tired of walking.
Ut, Syre, te cum tua §716Monstratione magnus perdat Iupiter!
May great Jupiter destroy you, Syrus, with your directing!
§717Perreptavi usque omne oppidum: ad portam, ad lacum: §718Quo non? neque illic fabrica ulla erat, neque fratrem homo §719Vidisse se aibat quisquam: nunc vero domi §720Certum obsidere est usque donec redierit.
I have crawled through the whole town: to the gate, to the pool: where not? And there was no workshop there, nor did any man say he had seen my brother: but now indeed I am determined to sit at home until he returns.
§721Ibo, illis dicam nullam esse in nobis moram.
Micio: I will go and tell them that there is no delay on our part.
§722Sed eccum ipsum: te iamdudum quaero, Micio.
Demea: But there he is: I have been looking for you this long time, Micio.
§723Quidnam?
Micio: What is it?
Demea: I bring you other monstrous misdeeds of that "good" young man.
§724bEcce autem!
Micio: There you go again!
§725bOhe, iam.
Micio: Oh, enough now.
§725cNescis qui vir sit.
Demea: You don't know what kind of man he is.
§725dScio.
Micio: I know.
Demea: O foolish man, you dream that I am talking about the music-girl: this offense is against a maiden who is a citizen.
§727bScio.
Micio: I know.
§728Oho, scis et patere?
Demea: Oh, you know and you tolerate it?
§728bQuidni patiar?
Micio: Why shouldn't I tolerate it?
§729bNon.
Micio: No.
Malim quidem— §730Puer natus est.
I should prefer indeed— Demea: A child is born.
§730bDi bene vertant!
Micio: May the Gods turn it to good!
§730cVirgo nihil habet.
Demea: The maiden has nothing.
§731Audivi.
Micio: I heard.
§731bEt ducenda indotata est?
Demea: And she must be married without a dowry?
§731cScilicet.
Micio: To be sure.
§732Quid nunc futurum est?
Demea: What is to happen now?
Micio: Why, that which the matter itself brings: the maiden will be transferred from there to here.
§733bO Iupiter!
Demea: O Jupiter!
§734Istocine pacto oportet?
Is it right in that fashion?
§734bQuid faciam amplius?
Micio: What more should I do?
Demea: What should you do? If it does not grieve you in the matter itself, to pretend at least is the part of a man.
§736bQuin iam virginem §737Despondi; res composita est; fiunt nuptiae: §738Demsi metum omnem: haec magis sunt hominis.
Micio: Nay, I have already betrothed the maiden; the matter is settled; the wedding is taking place: I have removed all fear: this is more the part of a man.
Micio: No, if I could change it: now, since I cannot, I bear it with an easy mind.
§741Ita vita est hominum quasi quum ludas tesseris: §742Si illud quod maxime opus est iactu non cadit, §743Illud quod cecidit forte id arte ut corrigas.
The life of men is like when you play with dice: if that which is most necessary does not fall by the throw, that which has fallen by chance, you must correct by art.