T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.2

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415

Evclio

Redi. quó fugis nunc? téne, tene.
415

Congrio

Quid, stólide, clamas?

Evclio

Quia ad trís viros iam ego déferam nomén tuom.

Congrio

Quam ob rem?

Evclio

Quia cultrum habes.

Congrio

Cocum decet.

Evclio

Quid comminatu s es comminatu's

mihi?

Congrio

Istud male factum arbitror, quia nón latus fódi.

Evclio

Homo nullust te scelestior qui vivat hodie,

neque quoi égo de industria ámplius male plús libens fáxim.
420

Congrio

Pol etsí taceas, palam id quidem est: res ipsa testist;

ita fustibus sum mollior magis quam úllus cinaédus.

sed quid tibi nos tactiost, mendice homo?

Evclio

Quae res?

etiam rogitas? an quia minus quam aéquom erat feci?

Congrio

Sine, at hércle cum magnó malo tuo, si hóc caput séntit.
425

Evclio

Pol ego haud scio quid post fuat: tuom núnc caput séntit.

sed in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti

me absente, nisi ego iusseram? volo scíre.

Congrio

Tace érgo.

quia venimus coctum ad nuptias.

Evclio

Quid tu, malum, cúras,

utrum crudum an coctum ego edim, nisi tu mi es tutor?
430

Congrio

Volo scire, sínas an non sinas nos coquere hic cenam?

Evclio

Volo scire ego item, meae domi mean sálva futura?

Congrio

Vtinam mea mihi modo auferam, quae ádtuli, salva:

me haud paenitet, tua ne expetam.

Evclio

Scio, né doce, novi.

Congrio

Quid est quá prohibes nunc gratia nos coquere hic cenam?
435

quid fecimus, quid diximus tibi secus quam velles?

Evclio

Etiam rogitas, sceleste homo, qui angulós in omnis

mearum aedium et conclavium mihi pervium facitis?

ibi ubí tibi erat negotium, ad focum si adesses,

non fissile auferres caput: merito id tibi factum est.
440

adeo ut tu meam sententiam iam noscere possis:

si ad ianuam huc accesseris, nisi iussero, propius,

ego te faciam miserrimus mortalis uti sis.

scis iam meam sententiam.—

Congrio

Quo abis? redi rursum.

ita me bene amet Laverna, uti te iam, nisi reddi
445

mihí vasá iubes, pípulo hic differam ante aédis.

quíd ego nunc agám? ne ego edepol véni huc auspició malo.

nummo sum conductus: plus iam medico mercedest opus.

Aulularia. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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Aulularia (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.)

Translations (1)

Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 3.2 focus

415 (Enter EUCLIO, from his house, driving the COOKS and the MUSIC GIRL before him.)

EUCLIO

(calling out, while CONGRIO and the others are running off)

Come back! Where are you running to, now? Hold you!
415

LYCONIDES

Why are you crying out, you stupid?

EUCLIO

Because this instant I shall give your name to the Triumvirs ¹.

LYCONIDES

Why?

EUCLIO

Because you’ve got a knife.

LYCONIDES

’Tis the proper thing for a cook.

EUCLIO

Why did you threaten me?

LYCONIDES

I think that it was badly managed, that I didn’t pierce your side with it.

EUCLIO

There’s not a person that’s living this day a greater rascal than you,

nor one to whom designedly I would with greater pleasure cause a mischief.
420

LYCONIDES

I’ faith, though² you should hold your noise, really that’s quite clear; the thing itself is its own witness. As it is, I’m made softer by far with your sticks than any ballet-dancer. But what right have you to touch us, you beggarman? What’s the matter?

EUCLIO

Do you even ask me? Is it that I’ve done less than I ought to have done? Only let me—

(Is going to strike him.)

LYCONIDES

Now, by my faith, at your great peril, if this head should feel it!
425

EUCLIO

Troth, I don’t know what may happen ³ hereafter; your head feels it just now! But what business, pray, had you in my house, in my absence, unless I had ordered you? I want to know that.

LYCONIDES

Hold your noise, then; because we came to cook for the wedding.

EUCLIO

Why the plague do you trouble yourself

whether I eat meat raw or cooked, unless you are my tutor⁴.
430

LYCONIDES

I want to know if you will allow or not allow us to cook the dinner here?

EUCLIO

I, too, want to know whether my property will be safe in my house.

LYCONIDES

I only wish to carry the things away safe that I brought here! I don’t care for yours; should I be coveting your things?

EUCLIO

I understand; don’t teach me; I know.

LYCONIDES

What is it, on account of which you now hinder us from cooking the dinner here? What have we done? What have we said to you otherwise than you could wish?
435

EUCLIO

Do you even ask me, you rascally fellow? You who’ve been making a thoroughfare of every corner of my house, and the places under lock and key? If you had stopped by the fireside, where it was your business,

you wouldn’t have had your head broken. It has been done for you deservedly! Therefore that you may now know my determination; if you come nearer to the door here, unless I order you, I’ll make you to be the most wretched of creatures. Do you now know my determination?
440
(He goes into his house.)

LYCONIDES

Where are you going? Come you back again!

So may Laverna⁵ love me well, I’ll expose you at once with loud abuse here before the house, if you don’t order my utensils to be restored to me! What shall I do now? Verily, by my faith, I came here with unlucky auspices; I was hired for a didrachm ⁶; I stand in more need now of a surgeon than of wages.
445

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Evclio Redi. quó fugis nunc? téne, tene. 415

Congrio Quid, stólide, clamas?

Evclio Quia ad trís viros iam ego déferam nomén tuom.

Congrio Quam ob rem?

Evclio Quia cultrum habes.

Congrio Cocum decet.

Evclio Quid comminatu s es comminatu's mihi?

Congrio Istud male factum arbitror, quia nón latus fódi.

Evclio Homo nullust te scelestior qui vivat hodie, neque quoi égo de industria ámplius male plús libens fáxim. 420

Congrio Pol etsí taceas, palam id quidem est: res ipsa testist; ita fustibus sum mollior magis quam úllus cinaédus. sed quid tibi nos tactiost, mendice homo?

Evclio Quae res? etiam rogitas? an quia minus quam aéquom erat feci?

Congrio Sine, at hércle cum magnó malo tuo, si hóc caput séntit. 425

Evclio Pol ego haud scio quid post fuat: tuom núnc caput séntit. sed in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti me absente, nisi ego iusseram? volo scíre.

Congrio Tace érgo. quia venimus coctum ad nuptias.

Evclio Quid tu, malum, cúras, utrum crudum an coctum ego edim, nisi tu mi es tutor? 430

Congrio Volo scire, sínas an non sinas nos coquere hic cenam?

Evclio Volo scire ego item, meae domi mean sálva futura?

Congrio Vtinam mea mihi modo auferam, quae ádtuli, salva: me haud paenitet, tua ne expetam.

Evclio Scio, né doce, novi.

Congrio Quid est quá prohibes nunc gratia nos coquere hic cenam? 435 quid fecimus, quid diximus tibi secus quam velles?

Congrio Quo abis? redi rursum. ita me bene amet Laverna, uti te iam, nisi reddi 445 mihí vasá iubes, pípulo hic differam ante aédis. quíd ego nunc agám? ne ego edepol véni huc auspició malo. nummo sum conductus: plus iam medico mercedest opus.

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EUCLIO (calling out, while CONGRIO and the others are running off) Come back! Where are you running to, now? Hold you! 415

LYCONIDES Why are you crying out, you stupid?

EUCLIO Because this instant I shall give your name to the Triumvirs 1 .

LYCONIDES Why?

EUCLIO Because you’ve got a knife.

LYCONIDES ’Tis the proper thing for a cook.

EUCLIO Why did you threaten me?

LYCONIDES I think that it was badly managed, that I didn’t pierce your side with it.

EUCLIO There’s not a person that’s living this day a greater rascal than you, nor one to whom designedly I would with greater pleasure cause a mischief. 420

LYCONIDES I’ faith, though 2 you should hold your noise, really that’s quite clear; the thing itself is its own witness. As it is, I’m made softer by far with your sticks than any ballet-dancer. But what right have you to touch us, you beggarman? What’s the matter?

EUCLIO Do you even ask me? Is it that I’ve done less than I ought to have done? Only let me— (Is going to strike him.)

LYCONIDES Now, by my faith, at your great peril, if this head should feel it! 425

EUCLIO Troth, I don’t know what may happen 3 hereafter; your head feels it just now! But what business, pray, had you in my house, in my absence, unless I had ordered you? I want to know that.

LYCONIDES Hold your noise, then; because we came to cook for the wedding.

EUCLIO Why the plague do you trouble yourself whether I eat meat raw or cooked, unless you are my tutor 4 . 430

LYCONIDES I want to know if you will allow or not allow us to cook the dinner here?

EUCLIO I, too, want to know whether my property will be safe in my house.

LYCONIDES I only wish to carry the things away safe that I brought here! I don’t care for yours; should I be coveting your things?

EUCLIO I understand; don’t teach me; I know.

LYCONIDES What is it, on account of which you now hinder us from cooking the dinner here? What have we done? What have we said to you otherwise than you could wish? 435

Stable identifiers

Evclio

Redi. quó fugis nunc? téne, tene.
415

Congrio

Quid, stólide, clamas?

Evclio

Quia ad trís viros iam ego déferam nomén tuom.

Congrio

Quam ob rem?

Evclio

Quia cultrum habes.

Congrio

Cocum decet.

Evclio

Quid comminatu s es comminatu's

mihi?

Congrio

Istud male factum arbitror, quia nón latus fódi.

Evclio

Homo nullust te scelestior qui vivat hodie,

neque quoi égo de industria ámplius male plús libens fáxim.
420

Congrio

Pol etsí taceas, palam id quidem est: res ipsa testist;

ita fustibus sum mollior magis quam úllus cinaédus.

sed quid tibi nos tactiost, mendice homo?

Evclio

Quae res?

etiam rogitas? an quia minus quam aéquom erat feci?

Congrio

Sine, at hércle cum magnó malo tuo, si hóc caput séntit.
425

Evclio

Pol ego haud scio quid post fuat: tuom núnc caput séntit.

sed in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti

me absente, nisi ego iusseram? volo scíre.

Congrio

Tace érgo.

quia venimus coctum ad nuptias.

Evclio

Quid tu, malum, cúras,

utrum crudum an coctum ego edim, nisi tu mi es tutor?
430

Congrio

Volo scire, sínas an non sinas nos coquere hic cenam?

Evclio

Volo scire ego item, meae domi mean sálva futura?

Congrio

Vtinam mea mihi modo auferam, quae ádtuli, salva:

me haud paenitet, tua ne expetam.

Evclio

Scio, né doce, novi.

Congrio

Quid est quá prohibes nunc gratia nos coquere hic cenam?
435

quid fecimus, quid diximus tibi secus quam velles?

Congrio

Quo abis? redi rursum.

ita me bene amet Laverna, uti te iam, nisi reddi
445

mihí vasá iubes, pípulo hic differam ante aédis.

quíd ego nunc agám? ne ego edepol véni huc auspició malo.

nummo sum conductus: plus iam medico mercedest opus.

EUCLIO

(calling out, while CONGRIO and the others are running off)

Come back! Where are you running to, now? Hold you!
415

LYCONIDES

Why are you crying out, you stupid?

EUCLIO

Because this instant I shall give your name to the Triumvirs ¹.

LYCONIDES

Why?

EUCLIO

Because you’ve got a knife.

LYCONIDES

’Tis the proper thing for a cook.

EUCLIO

Why did you threaten me?

LYCONIDES

I think that it was badly managed, that I didn’t pierce your side with it.

EUCLIO

There’s not a person that’s living this day a greater rascal than you,

nor one to whom designedly I would with greater pleasure cause a mischief.
420

LYCONIDES

I’ faith, though² you should hold your noise, really that’s quite clear; the thing itself is its own witness. As it is, I’m made softer by far with your sticks than any ballet-dancer. But what right have you to touch us, you beggarman? What’s the matter?

EUCLIO

Do you even ask me? Is it that I’ve done less than I ought to have done? Only let me—

(Is going to strike him.)

LYCONIDES

Now, by my faith, at your great peril, if this head should feel it!
425

EUCLIO

Troth, I don’t know what may happen ³ hereafter; your head feels it just now! But what business, pray, had you in my house, in my absence, unless I had ordered you? I want to know that.

LYCONIDES

Hold your noise, then; because we came to cook for the wedding.

EUCLIO

Why the plague do you trouble yourself

whether I eat meat raw or cooked, unless you are my tutor⁴.
430

LYCONIDES

I want to know if you will allow or not allow us to cook the dinner here?

EUCLIO

I, too, want to know whether my property will be safe in my house.

LYCONIDES

I only wish to carry the things away safe that I brought here! I don’t care for yours; should I be coveting your things?

EUCLIO

I understand; don’t teach me; I know.

LYCONIDES

What is it, on account of which you now hinder us from cooking the dinner here? What have we done? What have we said to you otherwise than you could wish?
435