T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.1

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701

Menaechmvs

Nimis stúlte dudum feci, quom marsuppium

Messenioni cum argento concredidi.

immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum.

Matrona

Provisam quam mox vir meus redeat domum.

sed eccum video. salva sum, pallam refert.
705

Menaechmvs

Demiror ubi nunc ambulet Messenio.

Matrona

Adibo atque hominem accipiam quibus dictis meret.

non te pudet prodire in conspectum meum,

flagitium hominis, cum istoc ornatu?

Menaechmvs

Quid est?

quae te res agitat, mulier?
710

Matrona

Etiamne, impudens,

muttire verbum unum audes aut mecum loqui?

Menaechmvs

Quid tandem admisi in me, ut loqui non audeam?

Matrona

Rogas me? o hominis impudentem audaciam!

Menaechmvs

Non tu scis, mulier, Hecubam quapropter canem

Graii esse praedicabant?
715

Matrona

Non equidem scio.

Menaechmvs

Quia idem faciebat Hecuba quod tu nunc facis:

omnia mala ingerebat, quemquem aspexerat.

itaque adeo iure coepta appellari est canes.

Matrona

Non ego istaec tua flagitia possum perpeti.

nam med aetatem viduam ésse mavelim,
720

quam istaec flagitia tua pati quae tu facis.

Menaechmvs

Quid id ad me, tu te nuptam possis perpeti

an sis abitura a tuo viro? an mos hic ita est,

peregrino ut advenienti narrent fabulas?

Matrona

Quas fabulas? non, inquam, patiar praeterhac,
725

quin vidua vivam quam tuos móres perferam.

Menaechmvs

Mea quidem hercle causa vidua vivito,

vel usque dum regnum optinebit Iuppiter.

Matrona

At mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te,

nunc eandem ante oculos attines: non te pudet?
730

Menaechmvs

Eu hercle, mulier, multum et audax et mala es.

tun tibi hanc surreptam dicere audes, quam mihi

dedit alia mulier ut concinnandam darem?

Matrona

Ne istuc mecastor—iam patrem accersam meum

atque ei narrabo tua flagitia quae facis.
735

ei, † Deceo, quaere meum patrem, tecum simul

ut veniat ad me: ita rem esse dicito.

iam ego aperiam istaec tua flagitia.

Menaechmvs

Sanan es?

quae mea flagitia?

Matrona

Pallam atque aurum meum

domo suppilas tuae uxori et tuae
740

degeris amicae. satin haec recte fabulor?

Menaechmvs

Quaeso hercle, mulier, si scis, monstra quod bibam,

tuam qui possim perpeti petulantiam.

quem tú hominem esse me arbitrere, nescio;

ego te simitu novi cum Porthaone.
745

Matrona

Si me derides, at pol illum non potes,

patrem meum, qui huc advenit. quin respicis?

novistin tu illum?

Menaechmvs

Novi cum Calcha simul:

eodém die illum vidi quo te ante hunc diem.

Matrona

Negas novisse me? negas patrem meum?
750

Menaechmvs

Idem hercle dicam, sí avom vis adducere.

Matrona

Ecastor pariter hoc atque alias res soles.

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

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

Translations (1)

Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 5.1 focus

701 (Enter MENAECHMUS SOSICLES, with the mantle on.)

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

I did very foolishly a while since, in entrusting my purse to Messenio with the money. I suspect he has got himself into some bad house¹ or other. (Enter the WIFE of Menaechmus of Epidamnus, from the house.)

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ll look out to see how soon my husband is going to return home.

But here he is; I see him; I’m all right, he’s bringing back the mantle.
705

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

(to himself.)

I wonder where Messenio can be walking now.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ll go and receive the fellow with such language as he deserves. (Accosting him.) Are you not ashamed to come forward in my presence, you disgraceful man, in that garb?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What’s the matter?

What thing is troubling you, woman?
710

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you dare, you shameless fellow, to utter even a single word, or to speak to me?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Pray, what wrong have I committed, that I shouldn’t dare to speak to you?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you ask me? O dear, the impudent audacity of the fellow!

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Don’t you know, madam, for what reason the Greeks used to say that Hecuba was a bitch²?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I don’t know, indeed.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Because Hecuba used to do the same thing that you are now doing. She used to heap all kinds of imprecations on every one she saw; and, therefore, for that reason she was properly begun to be called a bitch.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I can’t put up with this disgraceful conduct of yours;

for I had rather see my life that of a widow, than endure this vile conduct of yours that you are guilty of.
720

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What is it to me, whether you are able to endure to live in the married state, or whether you will separate from your husband? Is it thus the fashion here to tell these stories to a stranger on his arrival?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

What stories? I say, I’ll not endure it henceforth, but live separate rather than put up with these ways.
725

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Troth, so far indeed as I’m concerned, do live separate, even so long as Jupiter shall hold his sway.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

By heavens, I’ll certainly now send for my father,

and I’ll tell him your disgraceful conduct that you are guilty of. Go, Decio (calling to a SERVANT), seek for my father, that he may come along with you to me; tell him that occasion has arisen for it. I’ll. now disclose to him this disgraceful conduct of yours.
735

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Are you in your senses? What disgraceful conduct of mine?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

When you filch from home my mantle and gold trinkets,

without the knowledge of your wife, and carry them off to your mistress. Don’t I state this correctly?
740

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

O dear! madam, by my faith, you are both very bold and very perverse. Do you dare to say (pointing at the mantle) that this was stolen from you which another woman gave me, for me to get it trimmed?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

A little while since you didn’t deny that you had purloined it from me;

do you now hold up that same before my eyes? Are you not ashamed?
730

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

By my faith, madam, I entreat you, if you know, show me what I’m to drink³, by means of which I may put up with your impertinence. What person you are taking me to be, I don’t know;

I know you just as well as Parthaon⁴.
745

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

If you laugh at me, still, i’ troth, you can’t do so at him; my father, I mean, who’s coming here. Why don’t you look back? Do you know that person?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Just as well as Calchas⁵ do I know him; I have seen him on that same day on which I have seen yourself before this present day.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you deny that you know me? Do you deny that you know my father?
750

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Troth, I shall say the same thing, if you choose to bring your grandfather.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ faith, you do this and other things just in a like fashion.

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Menaechmvs Nimis stúlte dudum feci, quom marsuppium Messenioni cum argento concredidi. immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum.

Matrona Provisam quam mox vir meus redeat domum. sed eccum video. salva sum, pallam refert. 705

Menaechmvs Demiror ubi nunc ambulet Messenio.

Matrona Adibo atque hominem accipiam quibus dictis meret. non te pudet prodire in conspectum meum, flagitium hominis, cum istoc ornatu?

Menaechmvs Quid est? quae te res agitat, mulier? 710

Matrona Etiamne, impudens, muttire verbum unum audes aut mecum loqui?

Menaechmvs Quid tandem admisi in me, ut loqui non audeam?

Matrona Rogas me? o hominis impudentem audaciam!

Menaechmvs Non tu scis, mulier, Hecubam quapropter canem Graii esse praedicabant? 715

Matrona Non equidem scio.

Menaechmvs Quia idem faciebat Hecuba quod tu nunc facis: omnia mala ingerebat, quemquem aspexerat. itaque adeo iure coepta appellari est canes.

Matrona Non ego istaec tua flagitia possum perpeti. nam med aetatem viduam ésse mavelim, 720 quam istaec flagitia tua pati quae tu facis.

Menaechmvs Quid id ad me, tu te nuptam possis perpeti an sis abitura a tuo viro? an mos hic ita est, peregrino ut advenienti narrent fabulas?

Matrona Quas fabulas? non, inquam, patiar praeterhac, 725 quin vidua vivam quam tuos móres perferam.

Menaechmvs Mea quidem hercle causa vidua vivito, vel usque dum regnum optinebit Iuppiter.

Matrona At mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te, nunc eandem ante oculos attines: non te pudet? 730

Menaechmvs Eu hercle, mulier, multum et audax et mala es. tun tibi hanc surreptam dicere audes, quam mihi dedit alia mulier ut concinnandam darem?

Matrona Ne istuc mecastor—iam patrem accersam meum atque ei narrabo tua flagitia quae facis. 735 ei, † Deceo, quaere meum patrem, tecum simul ut veniat ad me: ita rem esse dicito. iam ego aperiam istaec tua flagitia.

Menaechmvs Sanan es? quae mea flagitia?

Matrona Pallam atque aurum meum domo suppilas tuae uxori et tuae 740 degeris amicae. satin haec recte fabulor?

Menaechmvs Quaeso hercle, mulier, si scis, monstra quod bibam, tuam qui possim perpeti petulantiam. quem tú hominem esse me arbitrere, nescio; ego te simitu novi cum Porthaone. 745

Matrona Si me derides, at pol illum non potes, patrem meum, qui huc advenit. quin respicis? novistin tu illum?

Menaechmvs Novi cum Calcha simul: eodém die illum vidi quo te ante hunc diem.

Matrona Negas novisse me? negas patrem meum? 750

Menaechmvs Idem hercle dicam, sí avom vis adducere.

Matrona Ecastor pariter hoc atque alias res soles.

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MENAECHMUS SOSICLES I did very foolishly a while since, in entrusting my purse to Messenio with the money. I suspect he has got himself into some bad house 1 or other. (Enter the WIFE of Menaechmus of Epidamnus, from the house.)

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. I’ll look out to see how soon my husband is going to return home. But here he is; I see him; I’m all right, he’s bringing back the mantle. 705

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES (to himself.) I wonder where Messenio can be walking now.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. I’ll go and receive the fellow with such language as he deserves. (Accosting him.) Are you not ashamed to come forward in my presence, you disgraceful man, in that garb?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES What’s the matter? What thing is troubling you, woman? 710

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. Do you dare, you shameless fellow, to utter even a single word, or to speak to me?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Pray, what wrong have I committed, that I shouldn’t dare to speak to you?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. Do you ask me? O dear, the impudent audacity of the fellow!

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Don’t you know, madam, for what reason the Greeks used to say that Hecuba was a bitch 2 ?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. I don’t know, indeed.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Because Hecuba used to do the same thing that you are now doing. She used to heap all kinds of imprecations on every one she saw; and, therefore, for that reason she was properly begun to be called a bitch.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. I can’t put up with this disgraceful conduct of yours; for I had rather see my life that of a widow, than endure this vile conduct of yours that you are guilty of. 720

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES What is it to me, whether you are able to endure to live in the married state, or whether you will separate from your husband? Is it thus the fashion here to tell these stories to a stranger on his arrival?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. What stories? I say, I’ll not endure it henceforth, but live separate rather than put up with these ways. 725

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Troth, so far indeed as I’m concerned, do live separate, even so long as Jupiter shall hold his sway.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Are you in your senses? What disgraceful conduct of mine?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. When you filch from home my mantle and gold trinkets, without the knowledge of your wife, and carry them off to your mistress. Don’t I state this correctly? 740

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES O dear! madam, by my faith, you are both very bold and very perverse. Do you dare to say (pointing at the mantle) that this was stolen from you which another woman gave me, for me to get it trimmed?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. A little while since you didn’t deny that you had purloined it from me; do you now hold up that same before my eyes? Are you not ashamed? 730

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES By my faith, madam, I entreat you, if you know, show me what I’m to drink 3 , by means of which I may put up with your impertinence. What person you are taking me to be, I don’t know; I know you just as well as Parthaon 4 . 745

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. If you laugh at me, still, i’ troth, you can’t do so at him; my father, I mean, who’s coming here. Why don’t you look back? Do you know that person?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Just as well as Calchas 5 do I know him; I have seen him on that same day on which I have seen yourself before this present day.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. Do you deny that you know me? Do you deny that you know my father? 750

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES Troth, I shall say the same thing, if you choose to bring your grandfather.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus. I’ faith, you do this and other things just in a like fashion.

Stable identifiers

Menaechmvs

Nimis stúlte dudum feci, quom marsuppium

Messenioni cum argento concredidi.

immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum.

Matrona

Provisam quam mox vir meus redeat domum.

sed eccum video. salva sum, pallam refert.
705

Menaechmvs

Demiror ubi nunc ambulet Messenio.

Matrona

Adibo atque hominem accipiam quibus dictis meret.

non te pudet prodire in conspectum meum,

flagitium hominis, cum istoc ornatu?

Menaechmvs

Quid est?

quae te res agitat, mulier?
710

Matrona

Etiamne, impudens,

muttire verbum unum audes aut mecum loqui?

Menaechmvs

Quid tandem admisi in me, ut loqui non audeam?

Matrona

Rogas me? o hominis impudentem audaciam!

Menaechmvs

Non tu scis, mulier, Hecubam quapropter canem

Graii esse praedicabant?
715

Matrona

Non equidem scio.

Menaechmvs

Quia idem faciebat Hecuba quod tu nunc facis:

omnia mala ingerebat, quemquem aspexerat.

itaque adeo iure coepta appellari est canes.

Matrona

Non ego istaec tua flagitia possum perpeti.

nam med aetatem viduam ésse mavelim,
720

quam istaec flagitia tua pati quae tu facis.

Menaechmvs

Quid id ad me, tu te nuptam possis perpeti

an sis abitura a tuo viro? an mos hic ita est,

peregrino ut advenienti narrent fabulas?

Matrona

Quas fabulas? non, inquam, patiar praeterhac,
725

quin vidua vivam quam tuos móres perferam.

Menaechmvs

Mea quidem hercle causa vidua vivito,

vel usque dum regnum optinebit Iuppiter.

Matrona

At mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te,

nunc eandem ante oculos attines: non te pudet?
730

Menaechmvs

Eu hercle, mulier, multum et audax et mala es.

tun tibi hanc surreptam dicere audes, quam mihi

dedit alia mulier ut concinnandam darem?

Matrona

Ne istuc mecastor—iam patrem accersam meum

atque ei narrabo tua flagitia quae facis.
735

ei, † Deceo, quaere meum patrem, tecum simul

ut veniat ad me: ita rem esse dicito.

iam ego aperiam istaec tua flagitia.

Menaechmvs

Sanan es?

quae mea flagitia?

Matrona

Pallam atque aurum meum

domo suppilas tuae uxori et tuae
740

degeris amicae. satin haec recte fabulor?

Menaechmvs

Quaeso hercle, mulier, si scis, monstra quod bibam,

tuam qui possim perpeti petulantiam.

quem tú hominem esse me arbitrere, nescio;

ego te simitu novi cum Porthaone.
745

Matrona

Si me derides, at pol illum non potes,

patrem meum, qui huc advenit. quin respicis?

novistin tu illum?

Menaechmvs

Novi cum Calcha simul:

eodém die illum vidi quo te ante hunc diem.

Matrona

Negas novisse me? negas patrem meum?
750

Menaechmvs

Idem hercle dicam, sí avom vis adducere.

Matrona

Ecastor pariter hoc atque alias res soles.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

I did very foolishly a while since, in entrusting my purse to Messenio with the money. I suspect he has got himself into some bad house¹ or other. (Enter the WIFE of Menaechmus of Epidamnus, from the house.)

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ll look out to see how soon my husband is going to return home.

But here he is; I see him; I’m all right, he’s bringing back the mantle.
705

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

(to himself.)

I wonder where Messenio can be walking now.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ll go and receive the fellow with such language as he deserves. (Accosting him.) Are you not ashamed to come forward in my presence, you disgraceful man, in that garb?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What’s the matter?

What thing is troubling you, woman?
710

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you dare, you shameless fellow, to utter even a single word, or to speak to me?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Pray, what wrong have I committed, that I shouldn’t dare to speak to you?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you ask me? O dear, the impudent audacity of the fellow!

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Don’t you know, madam, for what reason the Greeks used to say that Hecuba was a bitch²?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I don’t know, indeed.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Because Hecuba used to do the same thing that you are now doing. She used to heap all kinds of imprecations on every one she saw; and, therefore, for that reason she was properly begun to be called a bitch.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I can’t put up with this disgraceful conduct of yours;

for I had rather see my life that of a widow, than endure this vile conduct of yours that you are guilty of.
720

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

What is it to me, whether you are able to endure to live in the married state, or whether you will separate from your husband? Is it thus the fashion here to tell these stories to a stranger on his arrival?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

What stories? I say, I’ll not endure it henceforth, but live separate rather than put up with these ways.
725

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Troth, so far indeed as I’m concerned, do live separate, even so long as Jupiter shall hold his sway.

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Are you in your senses? What disgraceful conduct of mine?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

When you filch from home my mantle and gold trinkets,

without the knowledge of your wife, and carry them off to your mistress. Don’t I state this correctly?
740

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

O dear! madam, by my faith, you are both very bold and very perverse. Do you dare to say (pointing at the mantle) that this was stolen from you which another woman gave me, for me to get it trimmed?

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

A little while since you didn’t deny that you had purloined it from me;

do you now hold up that same before my eyes? Are you not ashamed?
730

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

By my faith, madam, I entreat you, if you know, show me what I’m to drink³, by means of which I may put up with your impertinence. What person you are taking me to be, I don’t know;

I know you just as well as Parthaon⁴.
745

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

If you laugh at me, still, i’ troth, you can’t do so at him; my father, I mean, who’s coming here. Why don’t you look back? Do you know that person?

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Just as well as Calchas⁵ do I know him; I have seen him on that same day on which I have seen yourself before this present day.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

Do you deny that you know me? Do you deny that you know my father?
750

MENAECHMUS SOSICLES

Troth, I shall say the same thing, if you choose to bring your grandfather.

THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.

I’ faith, you do this and other things just in a like fashion.