§cast## FABULAE INTERLOCUTORES.
AESCHINUS, adolescens.
戏剧登场人物。 埃斯基努斯，青年。
CANTHARA, nutrix Pamphilae.
坎塔拉，潘菲拉的乳母。
CTESIPHO, adolescens, frater Aeschini.
克特西波，青年，埃斯基努斯的弟弟。
DROMO, servus Micionis.
德罗莫，米基奥的奴隶。
DEMEA, senex, frater Micionis, pater Aeschini et Ctesiphonis.
德美亚，老人，米基奥的兄弟，埃斯基努斯和克特西波的父亲。
GETA, servus Sostratae.
格塔，索斯特拉塔的奴隶。
HEGIO, senex, propinquus Pamphilae.
赫吉奥，老人，潘菲拉的亲戚。
MICIO, senex, frater Demeae, pater adoptivus Aeschini.
米基奥，老人，德美亚的兄弟，埃斯基努斯的养父。
PAMPHILA, filia Sostratae, amica Aeschini.
潘菲拉，索斯特拉塔的女儿，埃斯基努斯的情人。
SANNIO,leno.
桑尼奥，奴隶贩子。
SOSTRATA, mater Pamphilae.
索斯特拉塔，潘菲拉的母亲。
SYRUS, servus Aeschini.
西鲁斯，埃斯基努斯的奴隶。
§subject_1INTRODUCTION. This play derives its name from the two pairs of brothers who are introduced.
引言。 本剧的名字源于剧中引入的两对兄弟。
Demea and Micio, the elders, had always been very dissimilar in character and manner of life.
年长者德美亚和米基奥在性格和生活方式上一直截然不同。
Micio was a pleasant old bachelor, and had always lived in town, and was very lenient and indulgent towards his young relations.
米基奥是一个和蔼的单身老人，一直住在城里，对年轻的晚辈非常宽容和溺爱。
Demea on the contrary had kept up the thrifty habits of his early years, residing on his farm and taking a severe view of the conduct of his sons.
相反，德美亚保留了年轻时的节俭习惯，住在自己的农场里，对儿子的行为要求非常严格。
Ctesipho, the younger of his sons, lived with his father at this farm; but Aeschinus, the elder, had been adopted by his uncle.
他的小儿子克特西波和父亲一起住在农场里；而大儿子埃斯基努斯则被他的叔叔收养。
They had accordingly been very differently brought up.
因此，他们的成长环境完全不同。
Ctesipho had been kept very strictly at home, and was, to the best of his father’s belief, a model of propriety.
克特西波在家里受到非常严格的管教，在父亲的心目中是品行端正的模范。
Aeschinus had been indulged by his uncle in every way, till he was notorious for his dissipation.
埃斯基努斯则受到叔叔各方面的溺爱，以至于因放荡而声名狼藉。
He went so far at last as to offer violence to a young lady named Pamphila, whom he met one night when he was intoxicated.
他最后甚至做出了强暴一位名叫潘菲拉的年轻女子的举动，那是他某天晚上醉酒时遇到的。
This was the last of his excesses.
这是他最后的过激行为。
He promised to make all amends in his power by marrying Pamphila, and on this condition the matter was kept quiet by Sostrata her mother.
他承诺通过娶潘菲拉来尽其所能做出补偿，在此条件下，她的母亲索斯特拉塔将此事隐瞒了下来。
Ctesipho in one of his visits to the town had fallen in love with a music girl belonging to a slave-merchant, and was carrying on an intercourse with her under the cover of his brother’s name; for Aeschinus had taken the credit of the affair to himself that his father might not hear of Ctesipho’s doings.
克特西波在一次进城时，爱上了一个属于奴隶贩子的琴女，并用他哥哥的名义与她交往；因为埃斯基努斯把这件事情的责任揽到了自己身上，以免父亲知道克特西波的所作所为。
After a time the slave-merchant gave notice to Ctesipho that unless he bought the music girl at his price she should be immediately sold.
过了一段时间，奴隶贩子向克特西波发出警告，除非他按其开价买下这个琴女，否则她将立刻被卖掉。
Ctesipho was in the greatest despair at this announcement, and was half inclined to run away from his troubles and leave the country, when Aeschinus, hearing the state of the case, cut matters short by breaking into the house of Sannio the slave-merchant, maltreating him, and carrying off the girl to his own house, where she was received by Ctesipho.
听到这个消息后，克特西波陷入了极大的绝望之中，半倾向于逃离烦恼、离开这个国家，而埃斯基努斯得知情况后，直接闯入奴隶贩子桑尼奥的家中，将其痛打一顿，并将姑娘带回自己家中，从而快刀斩乱麻地解决了问题，而她在那里被克特西波接纳。