T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.2

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178

Pistoclervs

Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere,

qui abire hinc nullo pacto possim, si velim:

ita me vadatum amore vinctumque adtines.
180

Chrysalvs

Pro di immortales, Pistoclerum conspicor.

o Pistoclere, salve.

Pistoclervs

Salve, Chrysale.

Chrysalvs

Compendi verba multa iam faciam tibi.

venire tu me gaudes: ego credo tibi;

hospitium et cenam pollicere, ut convenit
185

peregre advenienti: ego autem venturum adnuo.

salutem tibi ab sodáli solidam nuntio:

rogabis me úbi sit: vivit.

Pistoclervs

Nempe recté valet?

Chrysalvs

Istuc volebam ego ex te percontarier.

Pistoclervs

Qui scire possum?
190

Chrysalvs

Nullus plus.

Pistoclervs

Quemnam ad modum?

Chrysalvs

Quia si illa inventa est, quam ille amat, recte valet;

si non inventa est, minus valet moribundusque est.

animast amica amanti: sí abest, nullus est;

si adest, res nullast: ipsus est—nequam et miser.

sed tu quid factitasti mandatis super?
195

Pistoclervs

Egon ut, quod ab illoc attigisset nuntius,

non impetratum id advenienti ei redderem?

regiones colere mavellem Acherunticas.

Chrysalvs

Eho, an ínvenisti Bacchidem?
199200

Pistoclervs

Samiam quidem.

Chrysalvs

Vide quaeso, ne quis tractet illam indiligens;

scis tu ut confringi vas cito Samium solet.

Pistoclervs

Iamne ut soles?

Chrysalvs

Dic ubi ea nunc est, obsecro.

Pistoclervs

Hic, exeuntem me unde aspexisti modo.

Chrysalvs

Vt istúc est lepidum: proximae viciniae
205

habitat. ecquidnam meminit Mnesilochi?

Pistoclervs

Rogas?

immo unice unum plurimi pendit.

Chrysalvs

Papae.

Pistoclervs

Immo ut eam credis? misera amans desiderat.

Chrysalvs

Scitum istuc.

Pistoclervs

Immo, Chrysale, em non tantulum

umquam intermittit tempus quin eum nominet.
210

Chrysalvs

Tanto hercle melior.

Pistoclervs

Immo—

Chrysalvs

Immo hercle abiero

potius.

Pistoclervs

Num invitus rem bene gestam audis eri?

Chrysalvs

Non res, sed actor mihi cor odio sauciat.

etiam Epidicum, quam ego fabulam aeque ac me ipsum amo,

nullam aeque invitus specto, sí agit Pellio.
215

sed Bacchis etiam fortis tibi visast?

Pistoclervs

Rogas?

ni nanctus Venerem essem, hanc Iunonem dicerem.

Chrysalvs

Edepol, Mnesiloche, ut hanc rem natam intellego,

quod ames paratumst: quod des inventost opus.

nam istic fortasse auro est opust.
220

Pistoclervs

Phílippeo quidem.

Chrysalvs

Atque eo fortasse iám opust.

Pistoclervs

Immo etiam prius:

nam iam huc adveniet miles.

Chrysalvs

Et miles quidem?

Pistoclervs

Qui de amittenda Bacchide aurum hic exiget.

Chrysalvs

Veniat quando volt, atque ita ne mihi sit morae.

domist: non metuo nec ego quoiquam supplico,
225

dum quidem hoc valebit pectus perfidia meum.

abi intro, ego hic curabo. tu intus dicito

Mnesilochum adesse Bacchidi.

Pistoclervs

Faciam ut iubes.—

Chrysalvs

Negotium hoc ad me adtinet aurarium.

mille et ducentos Philippos áttulimus aureos
230

Epheso, quos hospes debuit nostro seni.

inde ego hodie aliquam machinabor machinam,

unde aurum efficiam amanti erili filio.

sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.2 focus

178 (Enter PISTOCLERUS from the house of BACCHIS.)

PISTOCLERUS

(to the FIRST BACCHIS within.)

’Tis strange that you are so earnestly begging me to return, who am able by no possible means to depart hence, if I were willing,

so bound down¹, and so enchained with love do you hold me.
180

CHRYSALUS

O, ye immortal Gods, I espy Pistoclerus! O, Pistoclerus, hail!

PISTOCLERUS

Hail, Chrysalus, to you!

CHRYSALUS

I will at present compress many speeches for you in a small space. You are glad that I am come; I give you credit for it.

You promise me lodging and an entertainment coming from my journey, as it is befitting, and I agree to come. I bring you the sincere greetings of your friend. Would you ask me where he is? He’s come.
185

PISTOCLERUS

Is he alive and well?

CHRYSALUS

That I was wishful to enquire of yourself.

PISTOCLERUS

How can I know?
190

CHRYSALUS

No one better.

PISTOCLERUS

Why, in what way?

CHRYSALUS

Because if she has been found whom he so loves, he is alive and well. If she is not found, he is not well, and is like to die. His mistress is the very life of a lover. If she is away, he is non-existent; if she is with him, his property is non-existent, and himself worthless and wretched.

But what have you done in respect of his commission?
195

PISTOCLERUS

And ought I not to have his request complied with against his arrival, which his messenger brought to me from him? I’d sooner be dwelling in the realms of Acheron than not.

CHRYSALUS

How now, have you found out this Bacchis?
199200

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, and a Samian one too.

CHRYSALUS

Prithee, do take care that no one handles her carelessly: you know how soon a Samian vessel² is wont to break.

PISTOCLERUS

What now, your old habit?

CHRYSALUS

Prithee, do tell me where she now is.

PISTOCLERUS

Here, where you just now saw me coming out.

CHRYSALUS

How capital that is! She’s living almost next door. Does she at all remember Mnesilochus?
205

PISTOCLERUS

Do you ask me that? Aye, him alone does she esteem at the very highest value.

CHRYSALUS

Indeed!

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, and were you to believe her, distractedly in love—she quite longs for him.

CHRYSALUS

That’s good.

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, Chrysalus; see, now; not even so small

a space of time ever passes by as this³, out that she is uttering his name.
210

CHRYSALUS

I’ faith, so much the better.

(Moving, as if about to go.)

PISTOCLERUS

Yes; but—

(Holds him.)

CHRYSALUS

Yes, faith ⁴, I’d rather be off.

PISTOCLERUS

And do you so unwillingly hear how your master’s interests have prospered?

CHRYSALUS

No, not the subject⁵, but the actor offends my feelings with his tediousness. Even Epidicus, a play that I love quite as much as my own self,

were Pollio to act it⁶, no play would I see so reluctantly. But, does Bacchis seem handsome, as well, to you?
215

PISTOCLERUS

Do you ask the question? Had I not got a Venus, I should pronounce her a Juno.

CHRYSALUS

I’ faith, Mnesilochus, as I find these matters proceeding, there’s something ready for you to love; ’tis needful that you find something to give her.

But, perhaps you have need of gold for that other one?
220

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, some Philippeans.

CHRYSALUS

And you have need of it directly, perhaps?

PISTOCLERUS

Aye, and even sooner than directly. For there’s a Captain coming here just now—

CHRYSALUS

A Captain, indeed!

PISTOCLERUS

Who is demanding some gold here for relinquishing Bacchis.

CHRYSALUS

Let him come when he pleases, and so there be no delay.

The money’s at home; I fear not for myself, nor do I go begging to any man; so long, at least, as this heart of mine shall be armed with its inventiveness. Go in; I’ll manage here. Do you tell them in-doors, that Mnesilochus is coming to Bacchis.
225

PISTOCLERUS

I’ll do as you request.

(Goes into the house of BACCHIS.)

CHRYSALUS

The money business belongs to me.

From Ephesus we have brought twelve hundred golden Philippeans, which our entertainer owed to our old gentleman. Hence, some contrivance⁷ will I this day contrive, to procure gold for this son of my master thus in love. But there’s a noise at our door—who’s coming out of doors, I wonder?
230

(Stands aside.)

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Pistoclervs Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere, qui abire hinc nullo pacto possim, si velim: ita me vadatum amore vinctumque adtines. 180

Chrysalvs Pro di immortales, Pistoclerum conspicor. o Pistoclere, salve.

Pistoclervs Salve, Chrysale.

Chrysalvs Compendi verba multa iam faciam tibi. venire tu me gaudes: ego credo tibi; hospitium et cenam pollicere, ut convenit 185 peregre advenienti: ego autem venturum adnuo. salutem tibi ab sodáli solidam nuntio: rogabis me úbi sit: vivit.

Pistoclervs Nempe recté valet?

Chrysalvs Istuc volebam ego ex te percontarier.

Pistoclervs Qui scire possum? 190

Chrysalvs Nullus plus.

Pistoclervs Quemnam ad modum?

Chrysalvs Quia si illa inventa est, quam ille amat, recte valet; si non inventa est, minus valet moribundusque est. animast amica amanti: sí abest, nullus est; si adest, res nullast: ipsus est—nequam et miser. sed tu quid factitasti mandatis super? 195

Pistoclervs Egon ut, quod ab illoc attigisset nuntius, non impetratum id advenienti ei redderem? regiones colere mavellem Acherunticas.

Chrysalvs Eho, an ínvenisti Bacchidem? 199200

Pistoclervs Samiam quidem.

Chrysalvs Vide quaeso, ne quis tractet illam indiligens; scis tu ut confringi vas cito Samium solet.

Pistoclervs Iamne ut soles?

Chrysalvs Dic ubi ea nunc est, obsecro.

Pistoclervs Hic, exeuntem me unde aspexisti modo.

Chrysalvs Vt istúc est lepidum: proximae viciniae 205 habitat. ecquidnam meminit Mnesilochi?

Pistoclervs Rogas? immo unice unum plurimi pendit.

Chrysalvs Papae.

Pistoclervs Immo ut eam credis? misera amans desiderat.

Chrysalvs Scitum istuc.

Pistoclervs Immo, Chrysale, em non tantulum umquam intermittit tempus quin eum nominet. 210

Chrysalvs Tanto hercle melior.

Pistoclervs Immo—

Chrysalvs Immo hercle abiero potius.

Pistoclervs Num invitus rem bene gestam audis eri?

Chrysalvs Non res, sed actor mihi cor odio sauciat. etiam Epidicum, quam ego fabulam aeque ac me ipsum amo, nullam aeque invitus specto, sí agit Pellio. 215 sed Bacchis etiam fortis tibi visast?

Pistoclervs Rogas? ni nanctus Venerem essem, hanc Iunonem dicerem.

Chrysalvs Edepol, Mnesiloche, ut hanc rem natam intellego, quod ames paratumst: quod des inventost opus. nam istic fortasse auro est opust. 220

Pistoclervs Phílippeo quidem.

Chrysalvs Atque eo fortasse iám opust.

Pistoclervs Immo etiam prius: nam iam huc adveniet miles.

Chrysalvs Et miles quidem?

Pistoclervs Qui de amittenda Bacchide aurum hic exiget.

Chrysalvs Veniat quando volt, atque ita ne mihi sit morae. domist: non metuo nec ego quoiquam supplico, 225 dum quidem hoc valebit pectus perfidia meum. abi intro, ego hic curabo. tu intus dicito Mnesilochum adesse Bacchidi.

Pistoclervs Faciam ut iubes.—

Chrysalvs Negotium hoc ad me adtinet aurarium. mille et ducentos Philippos áttulimus aureos 230 Epheso, quos hospes debuit nostro seni. inde ego hodie aliquam machinabor machinam, unde aurum efficiam amanti erili filio. sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?

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PISTOCLERUS (to the FIRST BACCHIS within.) ’Tis strange that you are so earnestly begging me to return, who am able by no possible means to depart hence, if I were willing, so bound down 1 , and so enchained with love do you hold me. 180

CHRYSALUS O, ye immortal Gods, I espy Pistoclerus! O, Pistoclerus, hail!

PISTOCLERUS Hail, Chrysalus, to you!

PISTOCLERUS Is he alive and well?

CHRYSALUS That I was wishful to enquire of yourself.

PISTOCLERUS How can I know? 190

CHRYSALUS No one better.

PISTOCLERUS Why, in what way?

PISTOCLERUS And ought I not to have his request complied with against his arrival, which his messenger brought to me from him? I’d sooner be dwelling in the realms of Acheron than not.

CHRYSALUS How now, have you found out this Bacchis? 199200

PISTOCLERUS Yes, and a Samian one too.

CHRYSALUS Prithee, do take care that no one handles her carelessly: you know how soon a Samian vessel 2 is wont to break.

PISTOCLERUS What now, your old habit?

CHRYSALUS Prithee, do tell me where she now is.

PISTOCLERUS Here, where you just now saw me coming out.

CHRYSALUS How capital that is! She’s living almost next door. Does she at all remember Mnesilochus? 205

PISTOCLERUS Do you ask me that? Aye, him alone does she esteem at the very highest value.

CHRYSALUS Indeed!

PISTOCLERUS Yes, and were you to believe her, distractedly in love—she quite longs for him.

CHRYSALUS That’s good.

PISTOCLERUS Yes, Chrysalus; see, now; not even so small a space of time ever passes by as this 3 , out that she is uttering his name. 210

CHRYSALUS I’ faith, so much the better. (Moving, as if about to go.)

PISTOCLERUS Yes; but— (Holds him.)

CHRYSALUS Yes, faith 4 , I’d rather be off.

PISTOCLERUS And do you so unwillingly hear how your master’s interests have prospered?

CHRYSALUS No, not the subject 5 , but the actor offends my feelings with his tediousness. Even Epidicus, a play that I love quite as much as my own self, were Pollio to act it 6 , no play would I see so reluctantly. But, does Bacchis seem handsome, as well, to you? 215

PISTOCLERUS Do you ask the question? Had I not got a Venus, I should pronounce her a Juno.

CHRYSALUS I’ faith, Mnesilochus, as I find these matters proceeding, there’s something ready for you to love; ’tis needful that you find something to give her. But, perhaps you have need of gold for that other one? 220

PISTOCLERUS Yes, some Philippeans.

CHRYSALUS And you have need of it directly, perhaps?

PISTOCLERUS Aye, and even sooner than directly. For there’s a Captain coming here just now—

CHRYSALUS A Captain, indeed!

PISTOCLERUS Who is demanding some gold here for relinquishing Bacchis.

PISTOCLERUS I’ll do as you request. (Goes into the house of BACCHIS.)

Stable identifiers

Pistoclervs

Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere,

qui abire hinc nullo pacto possim, si velim:

ita me vadatum amore vinctumque adtines.
180

Chrysalvs

Pro di immortales, Pistoclerum conspicor.

o Pistoclere, salve.

Pistoclervs

Salve, Chrysale.

Chrysalvs

Compendi verba multa iam faciam tibi.

venire tu me gaudes: ego credo tibi;

hospitium et cenam pollicere, ut convenit
185

peregre advenienti: ego autem venturum adnuo.

salutem tibi ab sodáli solidam nuntio:

rogabis me úbi sit: vivit.

Pistoclervs

Nempe recté valet?

Chrysalvs

Istuc volebam ego ex te percontarier.

Pistoclervs

Qui scire possum?
190

Chrysalvs

Nullus plus.

Pistoclervs

Quemnam ad modum?

Chrysalvs

Quia si illa inventa est, quam ille amat, recte valet;

si non inventa est, minus valet moribundusque est.

animast amica amanti: sí abest, nullus est;

si adest, res nullast: ipsus est—nequam et miser.

sed tu quid factitasti mandatis super?
195

Pistoclervs

Egon ut, quod ab illoc attigisset nuntius,

non impetratum id advenienti ei redderem?

regiones colere mavellem Acherunticas.

Chrysalvs

Eho, an ínvenisti Bacchidem?
199200

Pistoclervs

Samiam quidem.

Chrysalvs

Vide quaeso, ne quis tractet illam indiligens;

scis tu ut confringi vas cito Samium solet.

Pistoclervs

Iamne ut soles?

Chrysalvs

Dic ubi ea nunc est, obsecro.

Pistoclervs

Hic, exeuntem me unde aspexisti modo.

Chrysalvs

Vt istúc est lepidum: proximae viciniae
205

habitat. ecquidnam meminit Mnesilochi?

Pistoclervs

Rogas?

immo unice unum plurimi pendit.

Chrysalvs

Papae.

Pistoclervs

Immo ut eam credis? misera amans desiderat.

Chrysalvs

Scitum istuc.

Pistoclervs

Immo, Chrysale, em non tantulum

umquam intermittit tempus quin eum nominet.
210

Chrysalvs

Tanto hercle melior.

Pistoclervs

Immo—

Chrysalvs

Immo hercle abiero

potius.

Pistoclervs

Num invitus rem bene gestam audis eri?

Chrysalvs

Non res, sed actor mihi cor odio sauciat.

etiam Epidicum, quam ego fabulam aeque ac me ipsum amo,

nullam aeque invitus specto, sí agit Pellio.
215

sed Bacchis etiam fortis tibi visast?

Pistoclervs

Rogas?

ni nanctus Venerem essem, hanc Iunonem dicerem.

Chrysalvs

Edepol, Mnesiloche, ut hanc rem natam intellego,

quod ames paratumst: quod des inventost opus.

nam istic fortasse auro est opust.
220

Pistoclervs

Phílippeo quidem.

Chrysalvs

Atque eo fortasse iám opust.

Pistoclervs

Immo etiam prius:

nam iam huc adveniet miles.

Chrysalvs

Et miles quidem?

Pistoclervs

Qui de amittenda Bacchide aurum hic exiget.

Chrysalvs

Veniat quando volt, atque ita ne mihi sit morae.

domist: non metuo nec ego quoiquam supplico,
225

dum quidem hoc valebit pectus perfidia meum.

abi intro, ego hic curabo. tu intus dicito

Mnesilochum adesse Bacchidi.

Pistoclervs

Faciam ut iubes.—

Chrysalvs

Negotium hoc ad me adtinet aurarium.

mille et ducentos Philippos áttulimus aureos
230

Epheso, quos hospes debuit nostro seni.

inde ego hodie aliquam machinabor machinam,

unde aurum efficiam amanti erili filio.

sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?

PISTOCLERUS

(to the FIRST BACCHIS within.)

’Tis strange that you are so earnestly begging me to return, who am able by no possible means to depart hence, if I were willing,

so bound down¹, and so enchained with love do you hold me.
180

CHRYSALUS

O, ye immortal Gods, I espy Pistoclerus! O, Pistoclerus, hail!

PISTOCLERUS

Hail, Chrysalus, to you!

PISTOCLERUS

Is he alive and well?

CHRYSALUS

That I was wishful to enquire of yourself.

PISTOCLERUS

How can I know?
190

CHRYSALUS

No one better.

PISTOCLERUS

Why, in what way?

PISTOCLERUS

And ought I not to have his request complied with against his arrival, which his messenger brought to me from him? I’d sooner be dwelling in the realms of Acheron than not.

CHRYSALUS

How now, have you found out this Bacchis?
199200

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, and a Samian one too.

CHRYSALUS

Prithee, do take care that no one handles her carelessly: you know how soon a Samian vessel² is wont to break.

PISTOCLERUS

What now, your old habit?

CHRYSALUS

Prithee, do tell me where she now is.

PISTOCLERUS

Here, where you just now saw me coming out.

CHRYSALUS

How capital that is! She’s living almost next door. Does she at all remember Mnesilochus?
205

PISTOCLERUS

Do you ask me that? Aye, him alone does she esteem at the very highest value.

CHRYSALUS

Indeed!

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, and were you to believe her, distractedly in love—she quite longs for him.

CHRYSALUS

That’s good.

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, Chrysalus; see, now; not even so small

a space of time ever passes by as this³, out that she is uttering his name.
210

CHRYSALUS

I’ faith, so much the better.

(Moving, as if about to go.)

PISTOCLERUS

Yes; but—

(Holds him.)

CHRYSALUS

Yes, faith ⁴, I’d rather be off.

PISTOCLERUS

And do you so unwillingly hear how your master’s interests have prospered?

CHRYSALUS

No, not the subject⁵, but the actor offends my feelings with his tediousness. Even Epidicus, a play that I love quite as much as my own self,

were Pollio to act it⁶, no play would I see so reluctantly. But, does Bacchis seem handsome, as well, to you?
215

PISTOCLERUS

Do you ask the question? Had I not got a Venus, I should pronounce her a Juno.

CHRYSALUS

I’ faith, Mnesilochus, as I find these matters proceeding, there’s something ready for you to love; ’tis needful that you find something to give her.

But, perhaps you have need of gold for that other one?
220

PISTOCLERUS

Yes, some Philippeans.

CHRYSALUS

And you have need of it directly, perhaps?

PISTOCLERUS

Aye, and even sooner than directly. For there’s a Captain coming here just now—

CHRYSALUS

A Captain, indeed!

PISTOCLERUS

Who is demanding some gold here for relinquishing Bacchis.

PISTOCLERUS

I’ll do as you request.

(Goes into the house of BACCHIS.)