§subject_2..Chremes being unable to shake his friend’s determination, returns to keep the festival of Bacchus at his own house.
克雷梅斯无法动摇朋友的决心，便回到自己家中去庆祝巴克斯节。
There he finds the party assembled, and what with Bacchis and the young men they make a pretty night of it, nearly emptying his cellar, and turning the house upside down.
他在那里发现大伙儿聚集在一起，由于有巴克斯和年轻人们在，他们度过了一个极其放荡的夜晚，几乎清空了他的酒窖，并把房子弄得底朝天。
Early next morning Chremes, who has a strong head for an old man, goes to meet his friend Menedemus as he comes out to his work, and informs him of his son’s return.
第二天清晨，克雷梅斯——作为一个老人，他的酒量惊人——前去迎见出来干活的朋友门内德穆斯，并告知他儿子归来的消息。
He advises him to be cautious in receiving him, tells him what sort of a life he has to expect, and recommends him to do any thing rather than openly encourage his son in such debauchery.
他建议他在接纳儿子时要谨慎，告诉他将面临怎样的生活，并劝他宁可做任何事情，也不要公开放任儿子如此放荡。
Menedemus begs him to do any thing he can to bring about a reunion with his son, even if it be to encourage the young man and Syrus to cheat him in any imaginable way.
门内德穆斯恳求他尽一切努力促成他与儿子的重聚，即使是怂恿那个年轻人和西鲁斯用尽一切能想到的办法来欺骗他也在所不惜。
Chremes enters into the plan: and encourages Syrus to devise some scheme for making Menedemus supply Clinia with the means of indulgence.
克雷梅斯参与了这一计划，并鼓励西鲁斯想出某种计策，好让门内德穆斯向克里尼亚斯提供放荡的资金。
Syrus has already some such scheme on foot; but it is to be directed against Chremes, for he has promised Bacchis ten minae for her share in the night’s amusements, and intends to get it out of his master.
西鲁斯已经有了一个这样的计划在进行中，但这个计划却是针对克雷梅斯的，因为他已经许诺给巴克斯十个米纳作为她参与昨晚娱乐的报酬，并打算从自己的主人那里弄到这笔钱。
So he at once explains to his master a plausible scheme that he has, namely, to induce Menedemus to buy Antiphila from Bacchis, to whom she has been left in pawn by Philtere, on the representation that she is a captive from Caria whom her friends are sure to ransom very handsomely.
于是，他立刻向主人解释了他所拥有的一个看似合理的计划，即诱使门内德穆斯从巴克斯那里买下安提菲拉（她曾被菲尔特雷抵押给巴克斯），声称她是一个来自卡里亚的俘虏，她的朋友们肯定会用极其优厚的赎金来赎她。
Meanwhile Sostrata has discovered, through the medium of the aforesaid ring, that Antiphila is her own daughter.
与此同时，索斯特拉塔通过上述指轮发现安提菲拉是她自己的女儿。
This disconcerts Syrus, who now springs a new mine; he sends Bacchis off to Menedemus’ house, and explains to Chremes that the only way to deceive Menedemus now, is to pretend that she is Clitipho’s mistress, and at the same time to get Clinia to profess an attachment to Antiphila, and desire his father to demand her in marriage, for then the old man would have to supply him with money for the marriage, which of course would go to his mistress Bacchis.
这打乱了西鲁斯的阵脚，但他随即又生一计；他把巴克斯送往门内德穆斯的家，并向克雷梅斯解释说，现在欺骗门内德穆斯的唯一方法就是假装她（巴克斯）是克里蒂丰的情妇，同时让克里尼亚斯向安提菲拉示爱，并要求他的父亲向她提亲，因为这样一来，老头子就不得不为他提供结婚的资金，而这笔钱自然会落入他的情妇巴克斯手中。
At the same time Chremes is persuaded to release his daughter from her pledge to Bacchis; and the money is given to Clitipho to carry to Bacchis for the purpose forsooth of more fully persuading Menedemus that she is his mistress.
与此同时，克雷梅斯被说服将他的女儿从巴克斯的抵押中赎回；并且，这笔钱被交给了克里蒂丰带给巴克斯，名义上当然是为了更充分地让门内德穆斯相信她（巴克斯）是他的情妇。
At this point the dénouement takes place.
就在这时，结局出现了。
Clitipho acts his part of Bacchis’ lover a little too well, and all the circumstances are discovered by Menedemus, who proceeds to inform Chremes of the real state of the case.
克里蒂丰扮演巴克斯情人的角色演得有点过头，所有的真相都被门内德穆斯发现，他随之将事情的真实情况告知克雷梅斯。
Now the two old men change places, Chremes is enraged beyond measure at having been made the dupe of his dissolute son, and Menedemus has to urge upon him the same maxims of forbearance which Chremes had used to him.
现在，两位老人的处境发生了逆转，克雷梅斯因被自己放荡的儿子愚弄而愤怒到了极点，而门内德穆斯则不得不向他极力奉劝克雷梅斯曾用来劝说他的那些宽容家训。
Clitipho has to undergo a complete humiliation; but is ultimately received into favour by his father upon his promising to settle and lead a respectable life.
克里蒂丰不得不承受彻底的羞辱；但最终，在他保证安顿下来并过上体面的生活后，他重新获得了父亲的器重。