T. Maccius Plautus, Curculio, ed. Friedrich Leo, 1.1

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Palinvrvs

Quo ted hoc noctis dicam proficisci foras
1

Cum istoc ornatu cumque hac pompa, Phaedrome?

Phaedromvs

Quo Venus Cupidoque imperat, suadet Amor:

si media nox est sive est prima vespera,

si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies,
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tamen est eundum quo imperant ingratiis.

Palinvrvs

At tandem, tandem—

Phaedromvs

Tandem es odiosus mihi.

Palinvrvs

Istuc quidem nec bellum est nec memorabile:

tute tibi puer es, lautus luces cereum.

Phaedromvs

Egon apicularum congestum opera non feram,
10

ex dulci oriundum melculo dulci meo?

Palinvrvs

Nam quo te dicam ego ire?

Phaedromvs

Si tu me roges,

dicam ut scias.

Palinvrvs

Si rogitem, quid respondeas?

Phaedromvs

Hoc Aesculapi fanum est.

Palinvrvs

Plus iam anno scio.

Phaedromvs

Huic proxumum illud ostiumst oculissimum.
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salve, valuistin?

Palinvrvs

Ostium occlusissimum,

caruitne febris te herí vel nudiustertius

et heri cenavistine?

Phaedromvs

Deridesne me?

Palinvrvs

Quid tu ergo, insane, rogitas valeatne ostium?

Phaedromvs

Bellissimum hercle vidi et taciturnissimum,
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numquam ullum verbum muttit: cum aperitur tacet,

cum ílla noctu clanculum ad me exit, tacet.

Palinvrvs

Numquid tu quod te aut genere indignum sit tuo

facis aut inceptas facinus facere, Phaedrome?

num tu pudicae cuipiam insidias locas
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aut quam pudicam ésse oportet?

Phaedromvs

Nemini,

nec me ille sirit Iuppiter.

Palinvrvs

Ego item volo.

ita tuom conferto amare semper, si sapis,

ne id quod ames populus si sciat, tibi sit probro.

semper curato ne sis intestabilis.
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Phaedromvs

Quid istúc est verbi?

Palinvrvs

Caute ut incedas via:

quod amas amato testibus praesentibus.

Phaedromvs

Quin leno hic habitat.

Palinvrvs

Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat,

quin quod palam est venale, si argentum est, emas.

nemo ire quemquam publica prohibet via;
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dum ne per fundum saeptum facias semitam,

dum ted abstineas nupta, vidua, virgine,

iuventúte et pueris liberis, ama quid lubet.

Phaedromvs

Lenonis hae sunt aedes.

Palinvrvs

Male istis evenat.

Phaedromvs

Qui?
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Palinvrvs

Quia scelestam servitutem serviunt.

Phaedromvs

Obloquere.

Palinvrvs

Fiat maxume.

Phaedromvs

Etiam taces?

Palinvrvs

Nempe obloqui me iusseras.

Phaedromvs

At nunc veto.

sed ita uti occepi dicere: ei ancillula est.

Palinvrvs

Nempe huic lenoni qui hic habitat?

Phaedromvs

Recte tenes.

Palinvrvs

Minus fórmidabo, ne excidat.
45

Phaedromvs

Odiosus es.

eam vólt meretricem facere. éa me deperit,

ego autem cum illa facere nolo mutuom.

Palinvrvs

Quid ita?

Phaedromvs

Quia proprium facio: amo pariter simul.

Palinvrvs

Malus clándestinus est amor, damnumst merum.

Phaedromvs

Est hercle ita ut tu dicis.
50

Palinvrvs

Iamne ea fert iugum?

Phaedromvs

Tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi

si est osculando quippiam impudicior.

Palinvrvs

Semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxima;

fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest.

qui é nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem:
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qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.

Phaedromvs

At illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris.

Palinvrvs

Credam, pudor si cuiquam lenoni siet.

Phaedromvs

Immo ut illam censes? ut quaeque illi occasiost,

subripere se ad me; ubi savium oppegit, fugit.
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id eo fit, quia hic leno, hic qui aegrotus incubat

in Aesculapi fano, is me excruciat.

Palinvrvs

Quid est?

Phaedromvs

Alias me poscit pro illa triginta minas,

alias talentum magnum; neque quicquam queo

aequi bonique ab eo impetrare.
65

Palinvrvs

Iniuriu's iniurius es,

qui quod lenoni nulli est id ab eo petas.

Phaedromvs

Nunc hinc parasitum in Cariam misi meum

petitum argentum a meo sodali mutuom.

quod si non affert, quo me vortam nescio.

Palinvrvs

Si deos salutas, dextrovorsum censeo.
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Phaedromvs

Nunc ara Veneris haec est ante horunc fores;

me inferre Veneri vovi ieientaculum.

Palinvrvs

Quid? tu te pones Veneri ieientaculo?

Phaedromvs

Me, te atque hosce omnis.

Palinvrvs

Tum tu Venerem vomere vis.

Phaedromvs

Cedo, puere, sinum.
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Palinvrvs

Quid facturu's facturus es?

Phaedromvs

Iam scies.

anus hic solet cubitare custos ianitrix,

nomen Leaenae est, multibiba atque merobiba.

Palinvrvs

Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi vinum Chium

solet ésse.

Phaedromvs

Quid opust verbis? vinosissima est;

eaque extemplo ubi ego vino has conspersi fores,
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de odore adesse me scit, aperit ilico.

Palinvrvs

Eine hic cum vino sinus fertur?

Phaedromvs

Nisi nevis.

Palinvrvs

Nolo hercle, nam istunc qui fert afflictum velim;

ego nobis afferri cénsui.

Phaedromvs

Quin tu taces?

si quid super illi fuerit, id nobis sat est.
85

Palinvrvs

Quisnam istic fluviust, quem non recipiat mare?

Phaedromvs

Sequere hac, Palinure, me ad fores, fi mi obsequens.

Palinvrvs

Ita faciam.

Phaedromvs

Agite bibite, festivae fores;

potate, fite mihi volentes propitiae.

Palinvrvs

Voltisne olivas aut pulpamentum aut capparim?
90

Phaedromvs

Exsuscitate vostram huc custodem mihi.

Palinvrvs

Profundis vinum: quae te res agitant?

Phaedromvs

Sine.

viden út aperiuntur aedes festivissumae?

num muttit cardo? est lepidus.

Palinvrvs

Quin das savium?

Phaedromvs

Tace, occultemus lumen et vocem.
95

Palinvrvs

Licet.

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

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Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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

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Curculio, or The Forgery Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 1.1 focus

1 (Before daybreak.) Enter at one side of the stage PHAEDROMUS, with a lighted torch, and followed by SLAVES with wine and provisions for an entertainment, and PALINURUS on the opposite side.)

PALINURUS

Whither away must I say that you are going out of doors at this time o’ night, Phaedromus, with that dress and with this train¹?
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PHAEDROMUS

Whither Venus and Cupid summon me, and Love persuades me; whether ’tis the midnight or whether the earliest twilight,

if the day is fixed² for pleading your cause with your antagonist, still must you go where they command you, whether you will or no.
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PALINURUS

But pray, pray—

PHAEDROMUS

Pray — you are annoying to me.

PALINURUS

Really that is neither pretty nor befitting you to say. You are your own servant³; in your fine garb you are showing the light with your waxen torch⁴.

PHAEDROMUS

And ought I not to carry that which is gathered by the labour of the little bees—which has its birth in sweets—to my own sweet one, my little honey?
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PALINURUS

But whither must I say that you are going?

PHAEDROMUS

If you ask me that, I’ll tell, so that you may know.

PALINURUS

If I make the enquiry, what would you answer me?

PHAEDROMUS

This is the Temple (pointing to it) of Aesculapius.

PALINURUS

That I have known for more than a twelvemonth past.

PHAEDROMUS

Close to it is that door, dear as my very eyes. (Points to the door of CAPPADOX.) Hail to you! door, dear as my very eyes; have you been quite well of late?
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PALINURUS

Did a fever leave you⁵ but yesterday, or the day before, and did you take your dinner yesterday?

PHAEDROMUS

Are you laughing at me?

PALINURUS

Why then, madman, are you enquiring whether the door is well or not?

PHAEDROMUS

I’ faith, I’ve known it as a door most comely and most discreet: never one word does it whisper; when it is opened, it is silent; and when, by night, she secretly comes out to me, it holds its peace.
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PALINURUS

And are you not, Phaedromus, doing, or contemplating the doing of, some deed which is unworthy of yourself or of your family?

Are you not laying a snare for some modest fair one, or for one that should be modest?
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PHAEDROMUS

For no one; and may Jupiter not permit me to do so.

PALINURUS

I wish the same. Ever, if you are wise, so bestow your love, that if the public should know the object which you love, it may be no disgrace to you.

Ever do you take care that you be not disgraced⁶.
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PHAEDROMUS

What means that expression?

PALINURUS

For you to proceed with caution on your path; the object that you love, love in the presence of witnesses.

PHAEDROMUS

Why, ’tis a Procurer that lives here.

(He points.)

PALINURUS

No one drives you away from there, nor yet forbids you, if you have the money, to buy what’s openly on sale.

No one forbids any person from going along the public road, so long as he doesn’t make a path through the field that’s fenced around; so long as you keep yourself away from the wife, the widow, the maiden, youthful age, and free-born children, love what you please.
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PHAEDROMUS

This is the house of a Procurer.

PALINURUS

A curse befall it.

PHAEDROMUS

Why so?
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PALINURUS

Because it serves in an infamous service.

PHAEDROMUS

You speak out.

PALINURUS

Be it so, most especially.

PHAEDROMUS

Once more, will you hold your tongue?

PALINURUS

You bade me speak out⁷, I thought.

PHAEDROMUS

Then, now I forbid you. But, as I had begun to say, he has a young female slave—

PALINURUS

This Procurer, you mean, who’s living here?

PHAEDROMUS

You have hold of it exactly.

PALINURUS

The less shall I be in dread of its falling.
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PHAEDROMUS

You are impertinent. He wishes to make her a courtesan, while she is desperately in love with me; whereas I don’t wish to have her upon loan.

PALINURUS

Why so?

PHAEDROMUS

Because I’m for having her as my own; I love her equally as well.

PALINURUS

Clandestine courtship is bad; ’tis utter ruin.

PHAEDROMUS

I’ troth, ’tis so as you say.
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PALINURUS

Has she as yet submitted to the yoke of Venus?

PHAEDROMUS

For me she is as chaste as though she were my own sister, unless, indeed, she is any the more unchaste for some kissing.

PALINURUS

Always, do you understand, flame follows very close on smoke; with smoke, nothing can be burnt, with flame, it can.

He who wishes to eat the kernel⁸ of the nut, first breaks the nut; he who wishes to seduce, opens the dance⁹ with kisses.
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PHAEDROMUS

But she is chaste, and never yet has bestowed her favours upon man.

PALINURUS

That I could believe¹⁰, if any Procurer had any shame.

PHAEDROMUS

Well, but what think you of her? When she has any opportunity,

she steals away to me; when she has given me a kiss, she’s off again. This happens by reason of this, because this Procurer is lying a-bed ill in the Temple¹¹ of Aesculapius; that fellow is my torturer.
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PALINURUS

How so?

PHAEDROMUS

At one time he asks me for thirty minae for her, at another for a great talent; and from him I cannot obtain any fair and just dealing.

PALINURUS

You are too exacting, in requiring that of him which no Procurer possesses.

PHAEDROMUS

Now, I’ve sent my Parasite hence to Caria ¹², to ask for money on loan from my friend; if he doesn’t bring me this, which way to turn myself I know not.

PALINURUS

If you salute the Deities, towards the right¹³ I think; now this is this altar of Venus before their door.
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PHAEDROMUS

I have already vowed to bring me¹⁴ an early breakfast for my Venus¹⁵.

PALINURUS

What? Will you then be giving up yourself as a breakfast to Venus?

PHAEDROMUS

Myself, and you, and all of these.

(Pointing to the SLAVES.)

PALINURUS

Then you would have Venus to be sick outright.

PHAEDROMUS

(to an ATTENDANT.)

Here, boy, give me the bowl.
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PALINURUS

What are you going to do?

PHAEDROMUS

You’ll know directly. An old hag is in the habit of sleeping here, as the keeper of the door; the name of the Procuress is Much-bibber and Neat-bibber.

PALINURUS

Just as you would speak of a flagon, in which Chian wine¹⁶ is wont to be.

PHAEDROMUS

What need is there of words? She is a most vinous soul;

and the very moment that I’ve sprinkled this door with the wine, she knows by the smell that I’m here, and opens it forthwith.
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PALINURUS

Is it for her the bowl is brought with the wine?

PHAEDROMUS

Unless you object.

PALINURUS

I’ faith, I do object; for I’d rather have it broken about him who has brought it. I fancied it was brought for ourselves.

PHAEDROMUS

Why don’t you hold your tongue?

If any’s left after her, it will be enough for ourselves.
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PALINURUS

What river is it, pray, that the sea does not receive?

PHAEDROMUS

Follow me this way, Palinurus, to the door; do you be obedient to me.

PALINURUS

I’ll do so.

(They advance to the door of the PROCURER’S house.)

PHAEDROMUS

(sprinkling the door with wine.)

Come, drink, you joyous door, quaff on, readily prove propitious unto me.

PALINURUS

(in an afected tone.)

Door, would you like some olives or a tit-bit, or some capers?
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PHAEDROMUS

Arouse and send out here to me your portress.

PALINURUS

You’re spilling the wine; what matter is it that possesses you? (Takes hold of his arm.)

PHAEDROMUS

Let me alone. Don’t you see? This most joyous door is opening; does the hinge make a bit of creaking? ’Tis a charming one.

PALINURUS

Why don’t you then give it a kiss?

PHAEDROMUS

Hold your tongue; let’s keep back the light and our noise.
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PALINURUS

Be it so.

(They stand apart, leaving the bowl near the door.)

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Palinvrvs Quo ted hoc noctis dicam proficisci foras 1 Cum istoc ornatu cumque hac pompa, Phaedrome?

Phaedromvs Quo Venus Cupidoque imperat, suadet Amor: si media nox est sive est prima vespera, si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies, 5 tamen est eundum quo imperant ingratiis.

Palinvrvs At tandem, tandem—

Phaedromvs Tandem es odiosus mihi.

Palinvrvs Istuc quidem nec bellum est nec memorabile: tute tibi puer es, lautus luces cereum.

Phaedromvs Egon apicularum congestum opera non feram, 10 ex dulci oriundum melculo dulci meo?

Palinvrvs Nam quo te dicam ego ire?

Phaedromvs Si tu me roges, dicam ut scias.

Palinvrvs Si rogitem, quid respondeas?

Phaedromvs Hoc Aesculapi fanum est.

Palinvrvs Plus iam anno scio.

Phaedromvs Huic proxumum illud ostiumst oculissimum. 15 salve, valuistin?

Palinvrvs Ostium occlusissimum, caruitne febris te herí vel nudiustertius et heri cenavistine?

Phaedromvs Deridesne me?

Palinvrvs Quid tu ergo, insane, rogitas valeatne ostium?

Phaedromvs Bellissimum hercle vidi et taciturnissimum, 20 numquam ullum verbum muttit: cum aperitur tacet, cum ílla noctu clanculum ad me exit, tacet.

Palinvrvs Numquid tu quod te aut genere indignum sit tuo facis aut inceptas facinus facere, Phaedrome? num tu pudicae cuipiam insidias locas 25 aut quam pudicam ésse oportet?

Phaedromvs Nemini, nec me ille sirit Iuppiter.

Palinvrvs Ego item volo. ita tuom conferto amare semper, si sapis, ne id quod ames populus si sciat, tibi sit probro. semper curato ne sis intestabilis. 30

Phaedromvs Quid istúc est verbi?

Palinvrvs Caute ut incedas via: quod amas amato testibus praesentibus.

Phaedromvs Quin leno hic habitat.

Palinvrvs Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat, quin quod palam est venale, si argentum est, emas. nemo ire quemquam publica prohibet via; 35 dum ne per fundum saeptum facias semitam, dum ted abstineas nupta, vidua, virgine, iuventúte et pueris liberis, ama quid lubet.

Phaedromvs Lenonis hae sunt aedes.

Palinvrvs Male istis evenat.

Phaedromvs Qui? 40

Palinvrvs Quia scelestam servitutem serviunt.

Phaedromvs Obloquere.

Palinvrvs Fiat maxume.

Phaedromvs Etiam taces?

Palinvrvs Nempe obloqui me iusseras.

Phaedromvs At nunc veto. sed ita uti occepi dicere: ei ancillula est.

Palinvrvs Nempe huic lenoni qui hic habitat?

Phaedromvs Recte tenes.

Palinvrvs Minus fórmidabo, ne excidat. 45

Phaedromvs Odiosus es. eam vólt meretricem facere. éa me deperit, ego autem cum illa facere nolo mutuom.

Palinvrvs Quid ita?

Phaedromvs Quia proprium facio: amo pariter simul.

Palinvrvs Malus clándestinus est amor, damnumst merum.

Phaedromvs Est hercle ita ut tu dicis. 50

Palinvrvs Iamne ea fert iugum?

Phaedromvs Tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi si est osculando quippiam impudicior.

Palinvrvs Semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxima; fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest. qui é nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem: 55 qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.

Phaedromvs At illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris.

Palinvrvs Credam, pudor si cuiquam lenoni siet.

Phaedromvs Immo ut illam censes? ut quaeque illi occasiost, subripere se ad me; ubi savium oppegit, fugit. 60 id eo fit, quia hic leno, hic qui aegrotus incubat in Aesculapi fano, is me excruciat.

Palinvrvs Quid est?

Phaedromvs Alias me poscit pro illa triginta minas, alias talentum magnum; neque quicquam queo aequi bonique ab eo impetrare. 65

Palinvrvs Iniuriu's iniurius es, qui quod lenoni nulli est id ab eo petas.

Phaedromvs Nunc hinc parasitum in Cariam misi meum petitum argentum a meo sodali mutuom. quod si non affert, quo me vortam nescio.

Palinvrvs Si deos salutas, dextrovorsum censeo. 70

Phaedromvs Nunc ara Veneris haec est ante horunc fores; me inferre Veneri vovi ieientaculum.

Palinvrvs Quid? tu te pones Veneri ieientaculo?

Phaedromvs Me, te atque hosce omnis.

Palinvrvs Tum tu Venerem vomere vis.

Phaedromvs Cedo, puere, sinum. 75

Palinvrvs Quid facturu's facturus es?

Phaedromvs Iam scies. anus hic solet cubitare custos ianitrix, nomen Leaenae est, multibiba atque merobiba.

Palinvrvs Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi vinum Chium solet ésse.

Phaedromvs Quid opust verbis? vinosissima est; eaque extemplo ubi ego vino has conspersi fores, 80 de odore adesse me scit, aperit ilico.

Palinvrvs Eine hic cum vino sinus fertur?

Phaedromvs Nisi nevis.

Palinvrvs Nolo hercle, nam istunc qui fert afflictum velim; ego nobis afferri cénsui.

Phaedromvs Quin tu taces? si quid super illi fuerit, id nobis sat est. 85

Palinvrvs Quisnam istic fluviust, quem non recipiat mare?

Phaedromvs Sequere hac, Palinure, me ad fores, fi mi obsequens.

Palinvrvs Ita faciam.

Phaedromvs Agite bibite, festivae fores; potate, fite mihi volentes propitiae.

Palinvrvs Voltisne olivas aut pulpamentum aut capparim? 90

Phaedromvs Exsuscitate vostram huc custodem mihi.

Palinvrvs Profundis vinum: quae te res agitant?

Phaedromvs Sine. viden út aperiuntur aedes festivissumae? num muttit cardo? est lepidus.

Palinvrvs Quin das savium?

Phaedromvs Tace, occultemus lumen et vocem. 95

Palinvrvs Licet.

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PALINURUS Whither away must I say that you are going out of doors at this time o’ night, Phaedromus, with that dress and with this train 1 ? 1

PHAEDROMUS Whither Venus and Cupid summon me, and Love persuades me; whether ’tis the midnight or whether the earliest twilight, if the day is fixed 2 for pleading your cause with your antagonist, still must you go where they command you, whether you will or no. 5

Palinvrvs

Quo ted hoc noctis dicam proficisci foras
1

Cum istoc ornatu cumque hac pompa, Phaedrome?

Phaedromvs

Quo Venus Cupidoque imperat, suadet Amor:

si media nox est sive est prima vespera,

si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies,
5

tamen est eundum quo imperant ingratiis.

Palinvrvs

At tandem, tandem—

Phaedromvs

Tandem es odiosus mihi.

Palinvrvs

Istuc quidem nec bellum est nec memorabile:

tute tibi puer es, lautus luces cereum.

Phaedromvs

Egon apicularum congestum opera non feram,
10

ex dulci oriundum melculo dulci meo?

Palinvrvs

Nam quo te dicam ego ire?

Phaedromvs

Si tu me roges,

dicam ut scias.

Palinvrvs

Si rogitem, quid respondeas?

Phaedromvs

Hoc Aesculapi fanum est.

Palinvrvs

Plus iam anno scio.

Phaedromvs

Huic proxumum illud ostiumst oculissimum.
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salve, valuistin?

Palinvrvs

Ostium occlusissimum,

caruitne febris te herí vel nudiustertius

et heri cenavistine?

Phaedromvs

Deridesne me?

Palinvrvs

Quid tu ergo, insane, rogitas valeatne ostium?

Phaedromvs

Bellissimum hercle vidi et taciturnissimum,
20

numquam ullum verbum muttit: cum aperitur tacet,

cum ílla noctu clanculum ad me exit, tacet.

Palinvrvs

Numquid tu quod te aut genere indignum sit tuo

facis aut inceptas facinus facere, Phaedrome?

num tu pudicae cuipiam insidias locas
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aut quam pudicam ésse oportet?

Phaedromvs

Nemini,

nec me ille sirit Iuppiter.

Palinvrvs

Ego item volo.

ita tuom conferto amare semper, si sapis,

ne id quod ames populus si sciat, tibi sit probro.

semper curato ne sis intestabilis.
30

Phaedromvs

Quid istúc est verbi?

Palinvrvs

Caute ut incedas via:

quod amas amato testibus praesentibus.

Phaedromvs

Quin leno hic habitat.

Palinvrvs

Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat,

quin quod palam est venale, si argentum est, emas.

nemo ire quemquam publica prohibet via;
35

dum ne per fundum saeptum facias semitam,

dum ted abstineas nupta, vidua, virgine,

iuventúte et pueris liberis, ama quid lubet.

Phaedromvs

Lenonis hae sunt aedes.

Palinvrvs

Male istis evenat.

Phaedromvs

Qui?
40

Palinvrvs

Quia scelestam servitutem serviunt.

Phaedromvs

Obloquere.

Palinvrvs

Fiat maxume.

Phaedromvs

Etiam taces?

Palinvrvs

Nempe obloqui me iusseras.

Phaedromvs

At nunc veto.

sed ita uti occepi dicere: ei ancillula est.

Palinvrvs

Nempe huic lenoni qui hic habitat?

Phaedromvs

Recte tenes.

Palinvrvs

Minus fórmidabo, ne excidat.
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Phaedromvs

Odiosus es.

eam vólt meretricem facere. éa me deperit,

ego autem cum illa facere nolo mutuom.

Palinvrvs

Quid ita?

Phaedromvs

Quia proprium facio: amo pariter simul.

Palinvrvs

Malus clándestinus est amor, damnumst merum.

Phaedromvs

Est hercle ita ut tu dicis.
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Palinvrvs

Iamne ea fert iugum?

Phaedromvs

Tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi

si est osculando quippiam impudicior.

Palinvrvs

Semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxima;

fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest.

qui é nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem:
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qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.

Phaedromvs

At illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris.

Palinvrvs

Credam, pudor si cuiquam lenoni siet.

Phaedromvs

Immo ut illam censes? ut quaeque illi occasiost,

subripere se ad me; ubi savium oppegit, fugit.
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id eo fit, quia hic leno, hic qui aegrotus incubat

in Aesculapi fano, is me excruciat.

Palinvrvs

Quid est?

Phaedromvs

Alias me poscit pro illa triginta minas,

alias talentum magnum; neque quicquam queo

aequi bonique ab eo impetrare.
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Palinvrvs

Iniuriu's iniurius es,

qui quod lenoni nulli est id ab eo petas.

Phaedromvs

Nunc hinc parasitum in Cariam misi meum

petitum argentum a meo sodali mutuom.

quod si non affert, quo me vortam nescio.

Palinvrvs

Si deos salutas, dextrovorsum censeo.
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Phaedromvs

Nunc ara Veneris haec est ante horunc fores;

me inferre Veneri vovi ieientaculum.

Palinvrvs

Quid? tu te pones Veneri ieientaculo?

Phaedromvs

Me, te atque hosce omnis.

Palinvrvs

Tum tu Venerem vomere vis.

Phaedromvs

Cedo, puere, sinum.
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Palinvrvs

Quid facturu's facturus es?

Phaedromvs

Iam scies.

anus hic solet cubitare custos ianitrix,

nomen Leaenae est, multibiba atque merobiba.

Palinvrvs

Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi vinum Chium

solet ésse.

Phaedromvs

Quid opust verbis? vinosissima est;

eaque extemplo ubi ego vino has conspersi fores,
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de odore adesse me scit, aperit ilico.

Palinvrvs

Eine hic cum vino sinus fertur?

Phaedromvs

Nisi nevis.

Palinvrvs

Nolo hercle, nam istunc qui fert afflictum velim;

ego nobis afferri cénsui.

Phaedromvs

Quin tu taces?

si quid super illi fuerit, id nobis sat est.
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Palinvrvs

Quisnam istic fluviust, quem non recipiat mare?

Phaedromvs

Sequere hac, Palinure, me ad fores, fi mi obsequens.

Palinvrvs

Ita faciam.

Phaedromvs

Agite bibite, festivae fores;

potate, fite mihi volentes propitiae.

Palinvrvs

Voltisne olivas aut pulpamentum aut capparim?
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Phaedromvs

Exsuscitate vostram huc custodem mihi.

Palinvrvs

Profundis vinum: quae te res agitant?

Phaedromvs

Sine.

viden út aperiuntur aedes festivissumae?

num muttit cardo? est lepidus.

Palinvrvs

Quin das savium?

Phaedromvs

Tace, occultemus lumen et vocem.
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Palinvrvs

Licet.

PALINURUS

Whither away must I say that you are going out of doors at this time o’ night, Phaedromus, with that dress and with this train¹?
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PHAEDROMUS

Whither Venus and Cupid summon me, and Love persuades me; whether ’tis the midnight or whether the earliest twilight,

if the day is fixed² for pleading your cause with your antagonist, still must you go where they command you, whether you will or no.
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PALINURUS

But pray, pray—

PHAEDROMUS

Pray — you are annoying to me.

PALINURUS

Really that is neither pretty nor befitting you to say. You are your own servant³; in your fine garb you are showing the light with your waxen torch⁴.