T. Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.4

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Calidorvs

Dulcia atque amara apud te sum elocutus omnia:

scis amorem, scis laborem, scis egestatem meam.
695

Charinvs

Commemini omnia: id tu modo, me quid vis facere, fac sciam.

Calidorvs

Quom haec tibi alia sum elocutus, vix rem scis de symbolo.

Charinvs

Omnia, inquam. tu modo quid me facere vis fac ut sciam.

Calidorvs

Pseudolus mi ita imperavit, ut aliquem hominem strenuom

benevolentem adducerem ad se.

Charinvs

Servas imperium probe;

nám et amicum et benevolentem ducis. sed istic Pseudolus

novos mihist.
700

Calidorvs

Nimium est mortalis graphicus, †heuretes mihi est.

is mihi haec sese ecfecturum dixit quae dixi tibi.

Psevdolvs

Magnufice hominem compellabo.

Calidorvs

Quoia vox resonat?

Psevdolvs

Io,

io te te, turanne, te te égo, qui imperitas Pseudolo,

quaero, quoi ter trina tríplicia, tríbus modis tria gaudia,

artibus tribus trís demeritas dem laetitias, de tribus
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fraude partas per malitiam et per dolum et fallaciam;

in libello hoc obsignato ad te attuli pauxillulo.

Calidorvs

Illic homost.

Charinvs

Vt paratragoedat carnufex.

Psevdolvs

Confer gradum

contra pariter, porge audacter ad salutem bracchium.

Calidorvs

Dic utrum Spemne an Salutem te salutem, Pseudole?

Psevdolvs

Immo utrumque.
710

Charinvs

Vtrumque, salve. sed quid actumst?

Psevdolvs

Quid times?

Calidorvs

Attuli hunc.

Psevdolvs

Quid, attulisti?

Calidorvs

Adduxi volui dicere.

Psevdolvs

Quis istic est?

Calidorvs

Charinus.

Psevdolvs

Euge. iam χάριν τούτῳ ποιοῦ.

Charinvs

Quin tu si quid opust, mi audacter imperas?

Psevdolvs

Tam gratiast.

bene sit tibi, Charine. nolo tibi molestos esse nos.

Charinvs

Vos molestos mihi? molestumst mi id quidem.
715

Psevdolvs

Tum igitur mane.

Calidorvs

Quid istuc est?

Psevdolvs

Epistulam modo hanc íntercepi et sumbolum.

Calidorvs

Sumbolum? quem sumbolum?

Psevdolvs

Qui a milite allatust modo.

eius servos qui hunc ferebat cum quinque argenti minis,

tuam qui amicam hinc arcessebat, éi os sublevi modo.

Calidorvs

Quo modo?
720

Psevdolvs

Horum causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula:

hi sciunt, qui hic adfuerunt; vobis post narravero.

Calidorvs

Quid nunc agimus?

Psevdolvs

Liberam hodie tuam amicam amplexabere.

Calidorvs

Egone?

Psevdolvs

Tu istic ipsus, inquam, si quidem hoc vivet caput;

si modo mihi hominem invenietis propere.

Charinvs

Qua facie?

Psevdolvs

Malum,

callidum, doctum, qui quando principium prehenderit,
725

porro sua virtute teneat quid se facere oporteat;

atque qui hic non visitatus saepe sit.

Charinvs

Si servos est,

numquid refert?

Psevdolvs

Immo multo mavolo quam liberum.

Charinvs

Posse opinor me dare hominem tibi malum et doctum domo,

qui a patre advenit Carysto nec dum exiit ex aedibus
730

quoquam neque Athenas advenit umquam ante hesternum diem.

Psevdolvs

Bene iuvas. sed quinque inventis opus est argenti minis

mutuis, quas hodie reddam: nam huius mihi debet pater.

Charinvs

Ego dabo, ne quaere aliunde.

Psevdolvs

O hominem opportunum mihi.

etiam opust chlamyde et machaera et petaso.
735

Charinvs

Possum a me dare.

Psevdolvs

Di immortales, non Charinus míhi hic quidem, sed Copiast.

sed istic servos, ex Carysto qui hic adest, ecquid sapit?

Charinvs

Hircum ab alis.

Psevdolvs

Manuleatam tunicam habere hominem addecet.

ecquid is homo habet aceti in pectore?

Charinvs

Atque acidissumi.

Psevdolvs

Quid, si opus sít ut dulce promat indidem, ecquid habet?
740

Charinvs

Rogas?

murrinam, passum, defrutum, mellam, mel quoivismodi;

quin in corde instruere quondam coepit pantopolium.

Psevdolvs

Eugepae, lepide, Charine, meo me ludo lamberas.

sed quid nomen esse dicam ego isti servo?

Charinvs

Simiae.

Psevdolvs

Scitne in re advorsa vorsari?
745

Charinvs

Turbo non aeque citust.

Psevdolvs

Ecquid argutust?

Charinvs

Malorum facinorum saepissime.

Psevdolvs

Quid cum manifesto tenetur?

Charinvs

Anguillast, elabitur.

Psevdolvs

Ecquid is homo scitust?

Charinvs

Plebi scitum non est scitius.

Psevdolvs

Probus homo est, ut praedicare te audio.

Charinvs

Immo si scias,

ubi te aspexerit, narrabit ultro quid sese velis.
750

sed quid es acturus?

Psevdolvs

Dicam. úbi hominem exornavero,

subditivom fieri ego illum militis servom volo;

sumbolum hunc ferat lenoni cum quinque argenti minis,

mulierem ab lenone abducat: em tibi omnem fabulam.

ceterum quo quicque pacto faciat, ipsi dixero.
755

Calidorvs

Quid nunc igitur stamus?

Psevdolvs

Hominem cum ornamentis omnibus

exornatum adducite ad me iam ad trapezitam Aeschinum.

sed properate.

Calidorvs

Prius illi erimus quam tu.—

Psevdolvs

Abite ergo ocius.

quidquid incerti mi in animo prius aut ambiguom fuit,

nunc liquet, nunc defaecatumst cor mihi; nunc perviumst:
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omnes ordine sub signis ducam legiones meas,

avi sinistra, auspicio liquido atque ex mea sententia;

confidentia est inimicos meos me posse perdere.

nunc ibo ad forum atque onerabo meis praeceptis Simiam,

quid agat, ne quid titubet, docte ut hanc ferat fallaciam.
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iam égo hoc ipsum oppidum expugnatum faxo erit lenonium.

Pseudolus. 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

Pseudolus (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 2. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1896.)

Translations (1)

Pseudolus, or The Cheat Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.4 focus

694 (Enter CALIDORUS and CHARINUS.)

CALIDORUS

The sweets and the bitters, all have I disclosed to you. You know my love, you know my difficulty, you know my poverty.

CHARINUS

I well remember all; do you only let me know what you want me to do.

CALIDORUS

Pseudolus has directed me thus, that I should bring to him some bold and zealous person.

CHARINUS

You observe your directions well; for you bring him one both friendly and zealous. But this Pseudolus

is a stranger to me.
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CALIDORUS

He is a very clever fellow—he is my contriver. He said that he would effect those things for me that I have told you of.

PSEUDOLUS

(apart.)

I’ll address this person in a very lofty strain.

CALIDORUS

Whose voice is it that’s heard here?

PSEUDOLUS

Oh! thee, sovereign lord, thee, oh! thee do I address who dost rule over Pseudolus: thee do I seek, to impart to thee delights thrice three, threefold, acquired by three contrivances,

obtained over three persons through craftiness and through subtlety, which in this very little sealed packet I have brought unto you ¹.
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(Holds up the letter.)

CALIDORUS

That’s the fellow;

how the hang-dog does bluster just like a tragedian.

PSEUDOLUS

Advance a step on thy side towards me. Boldly stretch forth thine arm for greeting.

CALIDORUS

(taking his hand.)

Tell me, Pseudolus, whether, as Hope or as Safety, must I greet you?

PSEUDOLUS

Why both.
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CALIDORUS

As both I greet you. But what has been done?

Why are you silent?

I have carried this person here.

(Pointing to CHARINUS.)

PSEUDOLUS

How? Carried him here?

CALIDORUS

Brought, I meant to say.

PSEUDOLUS

Who’s this person?

CALIDORUS

Charinus.

PSEUDOLUS

Well done; I return him thanks ² then.

CHARINUS

Will you then boldly enjoin me what it is necessary to do?

PSEUDOLUS

My thanks, so far. May it be well with you, Charinus; I don’t like that we should be troublesome to you.

CHARINUS

You, troublesome to me? Now, really, that’s troublesome.
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PSEUDOLUS

Well, then, wait a moment.

(Takes the letter out from under his dress.)

CALIDORUS

What’s that?

PSEUDOLUS

This letter have I just now intercepted, and the token.

CALIDORUS

Token? What token?

PSEUDOLUS

The one that was brought just now from the Captain. His servant, who was bringing it, with five mineae of silver, who came to fetch your mistress hence, him I have just now bamboozled.

CALIDORUS

How so?
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PSEUDOLUS

For the sake of these Spectators the play is being performed; they know, who were present here; you I’ll tell at another time.

CALIDORUS

What are we to do then?

PSEUDOLUS

You shall this day embrace your mistress at liberty.

CALIDORUS

What, I?

PSEUDOLUS

You yourself.

CALIDORUS

I?

PSEUDOLUS

Your own self, I say, if indeed this head shall exist so long; if you’ll only quickly find me out a man.

CHARINUS

Of what description?

PSEUDOLUS

A cunning,

crafty and clever one, who, when he has once taken hold of the beginning, may by his own ingenuity still hold fast upon what it behoves him to do; one, too, who has not often been seen here.
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CHARINUS

If he is a slave, does that matter at all?

PSEUDOLUS

Why, I’d much rather have him than a free man.

CHARINUS

I think that I’m able to procure for you a cunning and clever fellow,

that has lately come to my father from Carystus ³, and hasn’t as yet gone anywhere out the house, and who never visited Athens before yesterday.
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PSEUDOLUS

You assist in right earnest. But I have need to borrow five minae of silver, which I shall repay this day, for his father (pointing to CALIDORUS) owes it me.

CHARINUS

I’ll lend it; don’t seek it anywhere else.

PSEUDOLUS

O, how convenient a person for me.

I have need of a scarf as well, a sword, and a broad-brimmed hat.
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CHARINUS

I can provide them from my house.

PSEUDOLUS

Immortal Gods! surely this is not Charinus for me, but Abundance. But this servant, who is come here from Carystus, is there anything in him?

CHARINUS

Plenty of the stinking goat ⁴ in him.

PSEUDOLUS

It befits the fellow, then, to have a tunic with long sleeves ⁵ Has the chap anything sharp ⁶ in his breast?

CHARINUS

Aye, of the very sharpest.

PSEUDOLUS

But if it is necessary for him to draw forth what is sweet from the same place, has he aught of that?
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CHARINUS

Do you ask that He has wine of myrrh, sweet raisin wine, spice wine ⁷ honey wine, sweets of every sort. Why, he once began to set up a hot liquor-shop in his breast.

PSEUDOLUS

Bravissimo! Why, Charinus, you beat me cleverly ⁸ at my own game. But what am I to say is the name of this servant?

CHARINUS

Simmia.

PSEUDOLUS

In a difficulty, does he understand how to twirl about?
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CHARINUS

A whirlwind ⁹ is not so ready as he.

PSEUDOLUS

Is he shrewd at all?

CHARINUS

In mischievous tricks ¹⁰ very often.

PSEUDOLUS

How, when he’s caught in the fact?

CHARINUS

He’s a very eel; he slips out.

PSEUDOLUS

Is this fellow an experienced one?

CHARINUS

A public ordinance ¹¹ is not more experienced.

PSEUDOLUS

He is a suitable person, according to what I hear you say.

CHARINUS

Aye, and from this you may know it.

When he looks at you he’ll tell, of his own accord, what it is you want with him. But what are you about to do?
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PSEUDOLUS

I’ll tell you. When I’ve dressed up my man, I intend to make him become the pretended servant of the Captain; let him take this token to the procurer, with five minae of silver. There’s the whole plot for you.

As for the rest, in what way he is to do each thing, I’ll instruct himself.
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CALIDORUS

Why, therefore, do we stand here then?

PSEUDOLUS

Bring the fellow to me just now, dressed out with all his accoutrements, to Aeschinus, the banker’s. But make all haste.

CALIDORUS

We’ll be there before you.

PSEUDOLUS

Get you gone there quickly. (CALIDORUS and CHARINUS go into SIMO’S house.) Whatever before was uncertain or doubtful in my mind,

is now clear-now fined to the dregs; my heart has now an open path. All my legions will I lead forth under their standards with happy omen ¹² with favorable auspices, and to my heart’s content. I have a certainty that I can rout my enemies. Now will I go to the Forum, and load Simmia with my instructions
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what he is to do, that he may not be tripping at all, and that he may cleverly lay the train for this plot. Soon now shall I cause the town of this procurer to be carried by storm.
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(Exit.)

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Calidorvs Dulcia atque amara apud te sum elocutus omnia: scis amorem, scis laborem, scis egestatem meam. 695

Charinvs Commemini omnia: id tu modo, me quid vis facere, fac sciam.

Calidorvs Quom haec tibi alia sum elocutus, vix rem scis de symbolo.

Charinvs Omnia, inquam. tu modo quid me facere vis fac ut sciam.

Calidorvs Pseudolus mi ita imperavit, ut aliquem hominem strenuom benevolentem adducerem ad se.

Charinvs Servas imperium probe; nám et amicum et benevolentem ducis. sed istic Pseudolus novos mihist. 700

Calidorvs Nimium est mortalis graphicus, †heuretes mihi est. is mihi haec sese ecfecturum dixit quae dixi tibi.

Psevdolvs Magnufice hominem compellabo.

Calidorvs Quoia vox resonat?

Psevdolvs Io, io te te, turanne, te te égo, qui imperitas Pseudolo, quaero, quoi ter trina tríplicia, tríbus modis tria gaudia, artibus tribus trís demeritas dem laetitias, de tribus 705 fraude partas per malitiam et per dolum et fallaciam; in libello hoc obsignato ad te attuli pauxillulo.

Calidorvs Illic homost.

Charinvs Vt paratragoedat carnufex.

Psevdolvs Confer gradum contra pariter, porge audacter ad salutem bracchium.

Calidorvs Dic utrum Spemne an Salutem te salutem, Pseudole?

Psevdolvs Immo utrumque. 710

Charinvs Vtrumque, salve. sed quid actumst?

Psevdolvs Quid times?

Calidorvs Attuli hunc.

Psevdolvs Quid, attulisti?

Calidorvs Adduxi volui dicere.

Psevdolvs Quis istic est?

Calidorvs Charinus.

Psevdolvs Euge. iam χάριν τούτῳ ποιοῦ.

Charinvs Quin tu si quid opust, mi audacter imperas?

Psevdolvs Tam gratiast. bene sit tibi, Charine. nolo tibi molestos esse nos.

Charinvs Vos molestos mihi? molestumst mi id quidem. 715

Psevdolvs Tum igitur mane.

Calidorvs Quid istuc est?

Psevdolvs Epistulam modo hanc íntercepi et sumbolum.

Calidorvs Sumbolum? quem sumbolum?

Psevdolvs Qui a milite allatust modo. eius servos qui hunc ferebat cum quinque argenti minis, tuam qui amicam hinc arcessebat, éi os sublevi modo.

Calidorvs Quo modo? 720

Psevdolvs Horum causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula: hi sciunt, qui hic adfuerunt; vobis post narravero.

Calidorvs Quid nunc agimus?

Psevdolvs Liberam hodie tuam amicam amplexabere.

Calidorvs Egone?

Psevdolvs Tu istic ipsus, inquam, si quidem hoc vivet caput; si modo mihi hominem invenietis propere.

Charinvs Qua facie?

Psevdolvs Malum, callidum, doctum, qui quando principium prehenderit, 725 porro sua virtute teneat quid se facere oporteat; atque qui hic non visitatus saepe sit.

Charinvs Si servos est, numquid refert?

Psevdolvs Immo multo mavolo quam liberum.

Charinvs Posse opinor me dare hominem tibi malum et doctum domo, qui a patre advenit Carysto nec dum exiit ex aedibus 730 quoquam neque Athenas advenit umquam ante hesternum diem.

Psevdolvs Bene iuvas. sed quinque inventis opus est argenti minis mutuis, quas hodie reddam: nam huius mihi debet pater.

Charinvs Ego dabo, ne quaere aliunde.

Psevdolvs O hominem opportunum mihi. etiam opust chlamyde et machaera et petaso. 735

Charinvs Possum a me dare.

Psevdolvs Di immortales, non Charinus míhi hic quidem, sed Copiast. sed istic servos, ex Carysto qui hic adest, ecquid sapit?

Charinvs Hircum ab alis.

Psevdolvs Manuleatam tunicam habere hominem addecet. ecquid is homo habet aceti in pectore?

Charinvs Atque acidissumi.

Psevdolvs Quid, si opus sít ut dulce promat indidem, ecquid habet? 740

Charinvs Rogas? murrinam, passum, defrutum, mellam, mel quoivismodi; quin in corde instruere quondam coepit pantopolium.

Psevdolvs Eugepae, lepide, Charine, meo me ludo lamberas. sed quid nomen esse dicam ego isti servo?

Charinvs Simiae.

Psevdolvs Scitne in re advorsa vorsari? 745

Charinvs Turbo non aeque citust.

Psevdolvs Ecquid argutust?

Charinvs Malorum facinorum saepissime.

Psevdolvs Quid cum manifesto tenetur?

Charinvs Anguillast, elabitur.

Psevdolvs Ecquid is homo scitust?

Charinvs Plebi scitum non est scitius.

Psevdolvs Probus homo est, ut praedicare te audio.

Charinvs Immo si scias, ubi te aspexerit, narrabit ultro quid sese velis. 750 sed quid es acturus?

Psevdolvs Dicam. úbi hominem exornavero, subditivom fieri ego illum militis servom volo; sumbolum hunc ferat lenoni cum quinque argenti minis, mulierem ab lenone abducat: em tibi omnem fabulam. ceterum quo quicque pacto faciat, ipsi dixero. 755

Calidorvs Quid nunc igitur stamus?

Psevdolvs Hominem cum ornamentis omnibus exornatum adducite ad me iam ad trapezitam Aeschinum. sed properate.

Calidorvs Prius illi erimus quam tu.—

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CALIDORUS The sweets and the bitters, all have I disclosed to you. You know my love, you know my difficulty, you know my poverty.

CHARINUS I well remember all; do you only let me know what you want me to do.

CALIDORUS Pseudolus has directed me thus, that I should bring to him some bold and zealous person.

CHARINUS You observe your directions well; for you bring him one both friendly and zealous. But this Pseudolus is a stranger to me. 700

CALIDORUS He is a very clever fellow—he is my contriver. He said that he would effect those things for me that I have told you of.

PSEUDOLUS (apart.) I’ll address this person in a very lofty strain.

CALIDORUS Whose voice is it that’s heard here?

CALIDORUS That’s the fellow; how the hang-dog does bluster just like a tragedian.

PSEUDOLUS Advance a step on thy side towards me. Boldly stretch forth thine arm for greeting.

Calidorvs

Dulcia atque amara apud te sum elocutus omnia:

scis amorem, scis laborem, scis egestatem meam.
695

Charinvs

Commemini omnia: id tu modo, me quid vis facere, fac sciam.

Calidorvs

Quom haec tibi alia sum elocutus, vix rem scis de symbolo.

Charinvs

Omnia, inquam. tu modo quid me facere vis fac ut sciam.

Calidorvs

Pseudolus mi ita imperavit, ut aliquem hominem strenuom

benevolentem adducerem ad se.

Charinvs

Servas imperium probe;

nám et amicum et benevolentem ducis. sed istic Pseudolus

novos mihist.
700

Calidorvs

Nimium est mortalis graphicus, †heuretes mihi est.

is mihi haec sese ecfecturum dixit quae dixi tibi.

Psevdolvs

Magnufice hominem compellabo.

Calidorvs

Quoia vox resonat?

Calidorvs

Illic homost.

Charinvs

Vt paratragoedat carnufex.

Psevdolvs

Confer gradum

contra pariter, porge audacter ad salutem bracchium.

Calidorvs

Dic utrum Spemne an Salutem te salutem, Pseudole?

Psevdolvs

Immo utrumque.
710

Charinvs

Vtrumque, salve. sed quid actumst?

Psevdolvs

Quid times?

Calidorvs

Attuli hunc.

Psevdolvs

Quid, attulisti?

Calidorvs

Adduxi volui dicere.

Psevdolvs

Quis istic est?

Calidorvs

Charinus.

Psevdolvs

Euge. iam χάριν τούτῳ ποιοῦ.

Charinvs

Quin tu si quid opust, mi audacter imperas?

Psevdolvs

Tam gratiast.

bene sit tibi, Charine. nolo tibi molestos esse nos.

Charinvs

Vos molestos mihi? molestumst mi id quidem.
715

Psevdolvs

Tum igitur mane.

Calidorvs

Quid istuc est?

Psevdolvs

Epistulam modo hanc íntercepi et sumbolum.

Calidorvs

Sumbolum? quem sumbolum?

Psevdolvs

Qui a milite allatust modo.

eius servos qui hunc ferebat cum quinque argenti minis,

tuam qui amicam hinc arcessebat, éi os sublevi modo.

Calidorvs

Quo modo?
720

Psevdolvs

Horum causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula:

hi sciunt, qui hic adfuerunt; vobis post narravero.

Calidorvs

Quid nunc agimus?

Psevdolvs

Liberam hodie tuam amicam amplexabere.

Calidorvs

Egone?

Psevdolvs

Tu istic ipsus, inquam, si quidem hoc vivet caput;

si modo mihi hominem invenietis propere.

Charinvs

Qua facie?

Psevdolvs

Malum,

callidum, doctum, qui quando principium prehenderit,
725

porro sua virtute teneat quid se facere oporteat;

atque qui hic non visitatus saepe sit.

Charinvs

Si servos est,

numquid refert?

Psevdolvs

Immo multo mavolo quam liberum.

Charinvs

Posse opinor me dare hominem tibi malum et doctum domo,

qui a patre advenit Carysto nec dum exiit ex aedibus
730

quoquam neque Athenas advenit umquam ante hesternum diem.

Psevdolvs

Bene iuvas. sed quinque inventis opus est argenti minis

mutuis, quas hodie reddam: nam huius mihi debet pater.

Charinvs

Ego dabo, ne quaere aliunde.

Psevdolvs

O hominem opportunum mihi.

etiam opust chlamyde et machaera et petaso.
735

Charinvs

Possum a me dare.

Psevdolvs

Di immortales, non Charinus míhi hic quidem, sed Copiast.

sed istic servos, ex Carysto qui hic adest, ecquid sapit?

Charinvs

Hircum ab alis.

Psevdolvs

Manuleatam tunicam habere hominem addecet.

ecquid is homo habet aceti in pectore?

Charinvs

Atque acidissumi.

Psevdolvs

Quid, si opus sít ut dulce promat indidem, ecquid habet?
740

Charinvs

Rogas?

murrinam, passum, defrutum, mellam, mel quoivismodi;

quin in corde instruere quondam coepit pantopolium.

Psevdolvs

Eugepae, lepide, Charine, meo me ludo lamberas.

sed quid nomen esse dicam ego isti servo?

Charinvs

Simiae.

Psevdolvs

Scitne in re advorsa vorsari?
745

Charinvs

Turbo non aeque citust.

Psevdolvs

Ecquid argutust?

Charinvs

Malorum facinorum saepissime.

Psevdolvs

Quid cum manifesto tenetur?

Charinvs

Anguillast, elabitur.

Psevdolvs

Ecquid is homo scitust?

Charinvs

Plebi scitum non est scitius.

Psevdolvs

Probus homo est, ut praedicare te audio.

Charinvs

Immo si scias,

ubi te aspexerit, narrabit ultro quid sese velis.
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sed quid es acturus?

Psevdolvs

Dicam. úbi hominem exornavero,

subditivom fieri ego illum militis servom volo;

sumbolum hunc ferat lenoni cum quinque argenti minis,

mulierem ab lenone abducat: em tibi omnem fabulam.

ceterum quo quicque pacto faciat, ipsi dixero.
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Calidorvs

Quid nunc igitur stamus?

Psevdolvs

Hominem cum ornamentis omnibus

exornatum adducite ad me iam ad trapezitam Aeschinum.

sed properate.

Calidorvs

Prius illi erimus quam tu.—

CALIDORUS

The sweets and the bitters, all have I disclosed to you. You know my love, you know my difficulty, you know my poverty.

CHARINUS

I well remember all; do you only let me know what you want me to do.

CALIDORUS

Pseudolus has directed me thus, that I should bring to him some bold and zealous person.

CHARINUS

You observe your directions well; for you bring him one both friendly and zealous. But this Pseudolus

is a stranger to me.
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CALIDORUS

He is a very clever fellow—he is my contriver. He said that he would effect those things for me that I have told you of.

PSEUDOLUS

(apart.)

I’ll address this person in a very lofty strain.

CALIDORUS

Whose voice is it that’s heard here?

CALIDORUS

That’s the fellow;

how the hang-dog does bluster just like a tragedian.

PSEUDOLUS

Advance a step on thy side towards me. Boldly stretch forth thine arm for greeting.

CALIDORUS

(taking his hand.)

Tell me, Pseudolus, whether, as Hope or as Safety, must I greet you?

PSEUDOLUS

Why both.
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CALIDORUS

As both I greet you. But what has been done?

Why are you silent?

I have carried this person here.

(Pointing to CHARINUS.)

PSEUDOLUS

How? Carried him here?