§cast..## Fabulae Interlocutores. ANTIPHILA, amica Cliniae.
## 剧中的对话者安提菲拉，克里尼亚斯的情妇。
BACCHIS, amica Clitiphonis.
巴克斯，克里蒂丰的情妇。
CHREMES, Clitiphonis pater.
克雷梅斯，克里蒂丰的父亲。
CLINIA, Menedemi filius.
克里尼亚斯，门内德穆斯的儿子。
CLITIPHO, Chremetis filius.
克里蒂丰，克雷梅斯的儿子。
DROMO, servus Menedemi.
德罗莫，门内德穆斯的奴隶。
MENEDEMUS, Cliniae pater.
门内德穆斯，克里尼亚斯的父亲。
NUTRIX. PHRYGIA, ancilla.
乳母。 弗里吉亚，女仆。
SOSTRATA, Chremetis uxor.
索斯特拉塔，克雷梅斯的妻子。
SYRUS, servus Chremetis.
西鲁斯，克雷梅斯的奴隶。
§subject_1..INTRODUCTION. THE plot of the Heautontimorumenos turns, as is often the case, partly upon the recognition of a child which had been exposed as an infant.
导言：《自怨自艾者》的情节，如通常的情况一样，部分围绕着对一个婴儿时期被遗弃的孩子的认亲展开。
Sostrata the wife of Chremes had an infant daughter, which her husband refused to bring up, and ordered to be exposed.
克雷梅斯的妻子索斯特拉塔生了一个女婴，她的丈夫拒绝抚养，并命令将其遗弃。
She gave it to an old woman for that purpose, attaching to its dress a ring, from a superstitious feeling that the child ought not to be entirely disinherited.
出于一种迷信的心态，为了不让孩子完全失去继承权，她在孩子的衣服上系了一个戒指，并将孩子交给了老妇人以执行遗弃。
The old woman, instead of exposing the child, brought her up as her own daughter, and named her Antiphila.
老妇人没有遗弃孩子，而是把她当作自己的女儿抚养，并取名为安提菲拉。
When she grew up she attracted the attention of Clinia. son of Menedemus.
当她长大后，吸引了门内德穆斯的儿子克里尼亚斯的注意。
Their attachment continued for some time before it came to the knowledge of Clinia’s father.
在克里尼亚斯的父亲知晓此事之前，他们的恋情持续了一段时间。
As soon as he discovered it he began to persecute his son about the affair, till at last the young man, to put an end to the dispute, went to Asia, and there entered the service of the king.
他一发现这件事，就开始为此折磨他的儿子，直到最后，为了结束这场争执，年轻人前往亚洲，并在那里为国王效劳。
No sooner had he gone than his father repented his severity; and finding that his son was past recall, he determined, as the only amends he could make, to inflict upon himself a continual penance.
他一走，他的父亲就后悔自己的严厉；发现儿子已无法召回后，他决定作为唯一的补偿，对自己施加持久的惩罚。
He sold his house, and all his servants except a few to work upon a farm which he purchased.
他卖掉了房子，以及除少数留在购买的农场里干活的奴隶以外的所有仆人。
There he kept himself at work from morning to night.
在那里，他让自己从早到晚干活。
Three months passed in this way, and at the end of that time, Clinia, who could not support any longer his absence from his mistress, returns and is received into the house of Chremes, whose son Clitipho had been his friend from his childhood.
这样过了三个月，在那之后，无法再忍受与情妇分离的克里尼亚斯回来了，并被接纳进克雷梅斯的家中，克雷梅斯的儿子克里蒂丰自幼就是他的朋友。
No sooner has he arrived than his servant Dromo is sent with Syrus, Clitipho’s slave, to bring Antiphila to her lover.
他刚一到达，他的仆人德罗莫就和克里蒂丰的奴隶西鲁斯一起被派去把安提菲拉带到她爱人的身边。
Syrus discharges his errand more cleverly than was intended; he found Antiphila alone, for her reputed mother, Philtere, had died in the interval, and in circumstances which shewed that she was still faithful to Clinia.
西鲁斯比预想的更聪明地执行了他的任务；他发现安提菲拉独自一人，因为在这期间，她名义上的母亲菲尔特雷已经去世，而且当时的情况表明她对克里尼亚斯依然忠贞。
Thinking besides to do a stroke of business for his own master, he brings at the same time Bacchis, Clitipho’s mistress, a very different character from Antiphila: and that Chremes may have no suspicion of this connection of his son’s, it is arranged that Bacchis shall pass for Clinia’s mistress, and Antiphila for one of her servants.
此外，由于想为自己的主人捞点好处，他同时把克里蒂丰的情妇巴克斯也带了过来，巴克斯是和安提菲拉截然不同的性格；为了不让克雷梅斯怀疑他儿子的这段关系，便安排巴克斯冒充克里尼亚斯的情妇，而安提菲拉则冒充她的一个仆人。
While this is going on, Chremes and Menedemus have been talking together; Chremes remonstrating with Menedemus upon his unintelligible conduct in working himself to death instead of superintending his slaves, and Menedemus explaining his reasons by an account of what led to his son’s departure, and his consequent determination to punish himself till his return.
在这期间，克雷梅斯和门内德穆斯一直在交谈；克雷梅斯指责门内德穆斯不监督奴隶，反而干活累死自己的莫名其妙行为，而门内德穆斯则解释了他的原因，叙述了导致儿子离去的过程，以及他随后决定惩罚自己直至其归来的决心。