T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.3

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562

Lysimachvs

Adducam ego illum iam ad te, si convenero.

Demipho

Me dicit.

Lysimachvs

Quid ais, Demipho?

Demipho

Est mulier domi?

Lysimachvs

Quid censes?

Demipho

Quid si visam?

Lysimachvs

Quid properas? mane.

Demipho

Quid faciam?
565

Lysimachvs

Quod opust facto facito ut cogites.

Demipho

Quid cogitem? equidem hercle opus hoc facto existimo,

ut illo íntro eam.

Lysimachvs

Itane vero, vervex? intro eas?

Demipho

Quid aliud faciam?

Lysimachvs

Prius hoc ausculta, atque ades:

prius etiamst, quod te facere ego aequom censeo.

nam nunc si illuc intro ieris, amplecti voles,
570

confabulari atque osculari.

Demipho

Tu quidem

meum animum gestas: scis quid acturus siem.

Lysimachvs

Pervorse facies.

Demipho

Quodne ames—

Lysimachvs

Tanto minus.

ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida,

senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem?
575

utíne adveniens vomitum excutias mulieri?

scio pol te amare, quom istaec praemonstras mihi.

Demipho

Quid si igitur unum faciam hoc? si censes, coquom

aliquem arripiamus, prandium qui percoquat

apud te hic usque ad vesperum.
580

Lysimachvs

Em istuc censeo.

nunc tu sapienter loquere atque amatorie.

Demipho

Quid stamus? quin ergo imus atque obsonium

curamus, pulchre ut simus?

Lysimachvs

Equidem te sequor.

atque hercle invenies tu locum illi, si sapis:

nullum hercle praeter hunc diem illa apud med erit.
585

metuo ego uxórem, cras si rure redierit

ne illam hic offendat.

Demipho

Res parata est, sequere me.—

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Mercator, or The Merchant Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 3.3 focus

562 (Enter LYSIMACHUS, from his house.)

LYSIMACHUS

(to PASICOMPSA, within.)

I’ll bring him to you directly, if I meet him.

DEMIPHO

(behind.)

He’s meaning me.

LYSIMACHUS

(turning about.)

How say you, Demipho?

DEMIPHO

Is the damsel at your house?

LYSIMACHUS

What do you suppose?

DEMIPHO

What if I go see her?

(Moves towards the house.)

LYSIMACHUS

Why making such haste? Stay.

DEMIPHO

What am I to do?
565

LYSIMACHUS

What you ought to do; take care and consider.

DEMIPHO

Consider what? Why troth, for my own part, I think there’s need for my doing this, going in-doors there, I mean.

LYSIMACHUS

What, is it so, you old wether? Would you be going in?

DEMIPHO

What should I do else?

LYSIMACHUS

First listen to this, and attend; there’s something even before this that I think it proper you should do.

For if you now go in-doors to her, you’ll be wishing to embrace her, chatting with her, and kissing her.
570

DEMIPHO

Really you know my feelings; you understand what I would be at.

LYSIMACHUS

You will be doing wrong.

DEMIPHO

What, with that which you love?

LYSIMACHUS

So much the less reason. Would you, full of hungriness, with a foul breath,

a stinking old fellow, be kissing a woman? And wouldn’t you, as you approached, be setting a female vomiting?
575

DEMIPHO

I’ faith, I’m sure that you’re in love, as you point out these things beforehand to me. What then, if I give a dinner? If you approve of this, let’s lay hold of some cook, who may be cooking away a meal¹

here at your house, even until the evening.
580

LYSIMACHUS

Well, I’m of that way of thinking. Now you are talking wisely, and like a lover.

DEMIPHO

Why are we standing here? Why then don’t we be off and procure the provisions, that we may be comfortable?

LYSIMACHUS

For my part, I’ll follow you. And, i’ troth, you’ll be finding out a lodging for her, if you are prudent;

for, i’ faith, she shan’t be at my house a single day beyond the present; I’m afraid of my wife, lest, if she should return from the country to-morrow, she’ll be finding her here.
585
(Exeunt.)

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Lysimachvs Adducam ego illum iam ad te, si convenero.

Demipho Me dicit.

Lysimachvs Quid ais, Demipho?

Demipho Est mulier domi?

Lysimachvs Quid censes?

Demipho Quid si visam?

Lysimachvs Quid properas? mane.

Demipho Quid faciam? 565

Lysimachvs Quod opust facto facito ut cogites.

Demipho Quid cogitem? equidem hercle opus hoc facto existimo, ut illo íntro eam.

Lysimachvs Itane vero, vervex? intro eas?

Demipho Quid aliud faciam?

Lysimachvs Prius hoc ausculta, atque ades: prius etiamst, quod te facere ego aequom censeo. nam nunc si illuc intro ieris, amplecti voles, 570 confabulari atque osculari.

Demipho Tu quidem meum animum gestas: scis quid acturus siem.

Lysimachvs Pervorse facies.

Demipho Quodne ames—

Lysimachvs Tanto minus. ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida, senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem? 575 utíne adveniens vomitum excutias mulieri? scio pol te amare, quom istaec praemonstras mihi.

Demipho Quid si igitur unum faciam hoc? si censes, coquom aliquem arripiamus, prandium qui percoquat apud te hic usque ad vesperum. 580

Lysimachvs Em istuc censeo. nunc tu sapienter loquere atque amatorie.

Demipho Quid stamus? quin ergo imus atque obsonium curamus, pulchre ut simus?

Lysimachvs Equidem te sequor. atque hercle invenies tu locum illi, si sapis: nullum hercle praeter hunc diem illa apud med erit. 585 metuo ego uxórem, cras si rure redierit ne illam hic offendat.

Demipho Res parata est, sequere me.—

Current edition Perseus

LYSIMACHUS (to PASICOMPSA, within.) I’ll bring him to you directly, if I meet him.

DEMIPHO (behind.) He’s meaning me.

LYSIMACHUS (turning about.) How say you, Demipho?

DEMIPHO Is the damsel at your house?

LYSIMACHUS What do you suppose?

DEMIPHO What if I go see her? (Moves towards the house.)

LYSIMACHUS Why making such haste? Stay.

DEMIPHO What am I to do? 565

LYSIMACHUS What you ought to do; take care and consider.

DEMIPHO Consider what? Why troth, for my own part, I think there’s need for my doing this, going in-doors there, I mean.

LYSIMACHUS What, is it so, you old wether? Would you be going in?

DEMIPHO What should I do else?

LYSIMACHUS First listen to this, and attend; there’s something even before this that I think it proper you should do. For if you now go in-doors to her, you’ll be wishing to embrace her, chatting with her, and kissing her. 570

DEMIPHO Really you know my feelings; you understand what I would be at.

LYSIMACHUS You will be doing wrong.

DEMIPHO What, with that which you love?

LYSIMACHUS So much the less reason. Would you, full of hungriness, with a foul breath, a stinking old fellow, be kissing a woman? And wouldn’t you, as you approached, be setting a female vomiting? 575

DEMIPHO I’ faith, I’m sure that you’re in love, as you point out these things beforehand to me. What then, if I give a dinner? If you approve of this, let’s lay hold of some cook, who may be cooking away a meal 1 here at your house, even until the evening. 580

LYSIMACHUS Well, I’m of that way of thinking. Now you are talking wisely, and like a lover.

DEMIPHO Why are we standing here? Why then don’t we be off and procure the provisions, that we may be comfortable?

Stable identifiers

Lysimachvs

Adducam ego illum iam ad te, si convenero.

Demipho

Me dicit.

Lysimachvs

Quid ais, Demipho?

Demipho

Est mulier domi?

Lysimachvs

Quid censes?

Demipho

Quid si visam?

Lysimachvs

Quid properas? mane.

Demipho

Quid faciam?
565

Lysimachvs

Quod opust facto facito ut cogites.

Demipho

Quid cogitem? equidem hercle opus hoc facto existimo,

ut illo íntro eam.

Lysimachvs

Itane vero, vervex? intro eas?

Demipho

Quid aliud faciam?

Lysimachvs

Prius hoc ausculta, atque ades:

prius etiamst, quod te facere ego aequom censeo.

nam nunc si illuc intro ieris, amplecti voles,
570

confabulari atque osculari.

Demipho

Tu quidem

meum animum gestas: scis quid acturus siem.

Lysimachvs

Pervorse facies.

Demipho

Quodne ames—

Lysimachvs

Tanto minus.

ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida,

senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem?
575

utíne adveniens vomitum excutias mulieri?

scio pol te amare, quom istaec praemonstras mihi.

Demipho

Quid si igitur unum faciam hoc? si censes, coquom

aliquem arripiamus, prandium qui percoquat

apud te hic usque ad vesperum.
580

Lysimachvs

Em istuc censeo.

nunc tu sapienter loquere atque amatorie.

Demipho

Quid stamus? quin ergo imus atque obsonium

curamus, pulchre ut simus?

Lysimachvs

Equidem te sequor.

atque hercle invenies tu locum illi, si sapis:

nullum hercle praeter hunc diem illa apud med erit.
585

metuo ego uxórem, cras si rure redierit

ne illam hic offendat.

Demipho

Res parata est, sequere me.—

LYSIMACHUS

(to PASICOMPSA, within.)

I’ll bring him to you directly, if I meet him.

DEMIPHO

(behind.)

He’s meaning me.

LYSIMACHUS

(turning about.)

How say you, Demipho?

DEMIPHO

Is the damsel at your house?

LYSIMACHUS

What do you suppose?

DEMIPHO

What if I go see her?

(Moves towards the house.)

LYSIMACHUS

Why making such haste? Stay.

DEMIPHO

What am I to do?
565

LYSIMACHUS

What you ought to do; take care and consider.

DEMIPHO

Consider what? Why troth, for my own part, I think there’s need for my doing this, going in-doors there, I mean.

LYSIMACHUS

What, is it so, you old wether? Would you be going in?

DEMIPHO

What should I do else?

LYSIMACHUS

First listen to this, and attend; there’s something even before this that I think it proper you should do.

For if you now go in-doors to her, you’ll be wishing to embrace her, chatting with her, and kissing her.
570

DEMIPHO

Really you know my feelings; you understand what I would be at.

LYSIMACHUS

You will be doing wrong.

DEMIPHO

What, with that which you love?

LYSIMACHUS

So much the less reason. Would you, full of hungriness, with a foul breath,

a stinking old fellow, be kissing a woman? And wouldn’t you, as you approached, be setting a female vomiting?
575

DEMIPHO

I’ faith, I’m sure that you’re in love, as you point out these things beforehand to me. What then, if I give a dinner? If you approve of this, let’s lay hold of some cook, who may be cooking away a meal¹

here at your house, even until the evening.
580

LYSIMACHUS

Well, I’m of that way of thinking. Now you are talking wisely, and like a lover.

DEMIPHO

Why are we standing here? Why then don’t we be off and procure the provisions, that we may be comfortable?