T. Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.2

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Simo

Vóx viri péssumi me éxciet foras.
1285

séd quid hoc? quó modo? quíd video ego?

Psevdolvs

Cúm corona ébrium Pseúdolum tuom.

Simo

Líbere hercle hóc quidem. séd vide statum.

núm mea grátia pértimescít magis?

cógito, saéviter blanditerne ádloquar.
1290

sed me hóc votat vim fácere nunc

quód fero, sí qua in hoc spés sitast mihi.

Psevdolvs

Vír malus viro óptumo obviam it.

Simo

Dí te ament, Pseúdole. fú i in malám crucem.

Psevdolvs

Cur égo adflictor?
1295

Simo

Quid tú, malum, in os igitúr mi ebrius inrúctas?

Psevdolvs

Mólliter síc tene mé, cave né cadam:

non vídes me ut madide mádeam?

Simo

Quae ístaec audáciast, té sic intérdius

cúm corolla ébrium incédere?

Psevdolvs

Lubet.

Simo

Quíd, lubet? pérgin ructáre in os mihi?
1300

Psevdolvs

Suávis ructús mihi est. síc sine, Simo.

Simo

Credo équidem potesse té, scelus,

Mássici móntis ubérrumos quáttuor

frúctus ebíbere in hora úna.

Psevdolvs

Hiberna áddito.

Simo

Hau mále mones, sed díc tamen,
1305

únde onustám celocem ágere te praédicem?

Psevdolvs

Cúm tuo fílio pérpotaví modo.

séd, Simo, ut probe táctus Ballio est!

quaé tibi díxi, ut effécta reddidi!

Simo

Péssumu ’ s es homo.
1310

Psevdolvs

Mulier haec facit.

cúm tuo fílio líbera accubat.

Simo

ómnia, ut quícque egisti, órdine scio.

Psevdolvs

Quíd ergo dubitas dáre mi argentum?

Simo

Iús petis, fateór. tene.

Psevdolvs

át negabás daturum ésse te mihi.

onera húnc hominem atque me cónsequere hac.
1315

Simo

Egone ístum onerém?

Psevdolvs

Onerábis, scio.

Simo

Quid ego huíc homini faciám? satin ultro et argéntum aufert et me ínridet?

Psevdolvs

Vae víctis.

Simo

Vorte ergo úmerum.

Psevdolvs

Em.

Simo

Hóc ego numquam rátus sum

fore me, út tibi fierem súpplex.

heu heú heu.
1320

Psevdolvs

Desine.

Simo

Dóleo.

Psevdolvs

Ni doléres tu, ego dolérem.

Simo

Quid? hoc aúferen, Pseudole mi, aps tuo ero?

Psevdolvs

Lubentíssimo corde atque ánimo.

Simo

Non aúdes, quaeso, aliquám partem mihi grátiam facere hinc árgenti?

Psevdolvs

Non: mé dices avidum ésse hominem nam hinc númquam eris nummo dívitior;

neque té mei tergi mísereret, si hoc nón hodie ecfecíssem.

Simo

Erit úbi te ulciscar, sí vivo.
1325

Psevdolvs

Quid mínitare? habeo térgum.

Simo

Age sáne igitur.

Psevdolvs

Redi.

Simo

Quíd redeam?

Psevdolvs

Redi módo: non eris decéptus.

Simo

Redeó.

Psevdolvs

Simul mecum i pótatum.

Simo

Egone éam?

Psevdolvs

Fac quod te iúbeo:

si is, aút dimidium aut plús etiam faxo hínc feres.

Simo

Eo, duc mé quo vis.

Psevdolvs

Quid núnc? numquid íratus és aut mihi aút filió propter hás res, Simó?

Simo

Nil profécto.

Psevdolvs

I hac.

Ballio

Té sequor. quín vocas spéctatorés simul?
1330

Psevdolvs

Hércle me isti haú solent

vocáre, neque ergo ego ístos;

vérum si vóltis adplaúdere atque ádprobare

húnc gregem et fábulam,

in crástinum vos vocábo.
1335

Pseudolus. 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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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.) — 5.2 focus

1285 (Enter SIMO¹, from his house.)

SIMO

The voice of a rascally fellow is calling me out of doors. (He stares at PSEUDOLUS.) But what’s this? How’s this? What is it I see in this guise?
1285

PSEUDOLUS

(staggering towards him.)

Your own Pseudolus, drunk, with a chaplet on ².

SIMO

(to himself.)

By my troth, this is free and easy indeed. But see his attitude; is he on my account a bit the more afraid?

I’m thinking whether I shall address him harshly or kindly. But this (pointing to a purse in his hand) that I’m carrying forbids me to use rough measures towards him just now; if there’s any hope for me, centred in this.
1290

PSEUDOLUS

(staggering up to SIMO.)

A worthless fellow is coming to meet the best of men.

SIMO

May the Gods bless you, Pseudolus. (PSEUDOLUS eructates.) Foh! go to utter perdition.

(Pushes him away.)

PSEUDOLUS

But why should I have that mischance befal me?
1295

SIMO

Why, the plague, in your drunkenness, are you eructating in my face?

PSEUDOLUS

Hold me up, steadily; take care that I don’t fall. Don’t you see me, how drenched and soaking I am?

SIMO

What impudence is this, for you to be going about this way in broad daylight, drunk, with a chaplet on?

PSEUDOLUS

Such is my pleasure. (Eructates again.)

SIMO

Why your pleasure? Do you persist in eructating in my very face?
1300

PSEUDOLUS

An eructation is comforting to me; do indulge me in it; do but stand off.

SIMO

For my part I really do believe, you villain, that you are able in a single hour to drink up four right plentiful vintages of the Massic hills ³.

PSEUDOLUS

A winter hour ⁴, add.

SIMO

You don’t remind me amiss. But tell me, however, whence I am to say that you are bringing your deeply-laden bark?
1305

PSEUDOLUS

I’ve just been having a thorough bout with your son.

That damsel is the cause of this; along with your son she is carousing, a free woman.

SIMO

You are a most worthless fellow.
1310

PSEUDOLUS

But, Simo, wasn’t Ballio nicely diddled? How well I carried what I told you into effect.

SIMO

I know everything in its order, just as you managed each particular.

PSEUDOLUS

Why, then, do you hesitate to pay me the money?

SIMO

You ask what’s just, I confess; take it.

(Gives him the money.)

PSEUDOLUS

But you declared that you wouldn’t give it me; and still do you give it.

SIMO

Are you laughing at me?

What? Are you going to take this from your master, Pseudolus?

PSEUDOLUS

With most willing heart and soul.

SIMO

Prithee, can’t you venture to make me an abatement of some portion of this money?

PSEUDOLUS

No: you shall say that I really am a greedy fellow; for you shall never be richer by a single coin of this money.

SIMO

Well,

I really didn’t suppose that it would ever come to pass with me that I should be begging of you.

PSEUDOLUS

Load your shoulder with it, and follow me this way.
1315
(Pointing.)

SIMO

I—load myself with that?

PSEUDOLUS

You will load yourself, I’m sure.

SIMO

What am I to do to this fellow? Doesn’t he, contrary to my expectation, take my money, and then laugh at me?

PSEUDOLUS

Woe to the conquered ⁵:

turn your back, then.

(Turns him round.)

SIMO

Oh! oh!
1320

desist. Let me alone—

I’m in pain.

PSEUDOLUS

Were you not in pain, I should be in pain;

and no compassion would you have had for my back, if I hadn’t this day managed this.

SIMO

There will be an opportunity for me to be revenged on you, if I live.
1325

PSEUDOLUS

Why do you threaten? I’ve got a back of my own.

SIMO

Very well, then. (Moves as if going.)

PSEUDOLUS

Come you back then.

SIMO

Why come back?

PSEUDOLUS

Only come you back; you shall not be deceived.

SIMO

(turns round.)

I am come back.

PSEUDOLUS

Come and have a drink with me.

SIMO

What—I, come?

PSEUDOLUS

Do as I ask you. If you do come, I’ll let you take half of this, or even more.

(Points to the purse in his hand.)

SIMO

I’ll come; take me where you like, Pseudolus.

PSEUDOLUS

How now then? Are you at all angry with me or with your son, Simo, on account of these matters?

SIMO

Certainly, not at all.

PSEUDOLUS

(going.)

Step this way now.

SIMO

I follow you. But why don’t you invite the Spectators as well?
1330

PSEUDOLUS

(turning round.)

I’ faith, they are not in the habit of inviting me; and, therefore, I don’t invite them. But if you (addressing the AUDIENCE) are willing to applaud and approve of this company of players, and this Comedy,

I invite you for to-morrow ⁶.
1335

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Simo Vóx viri péssumi me éxciet foras. 1285 séd quid hoc? quó modo? quíd video ego?

Psevdolvs Cúm corona ébrium Pseúdolum tuom.

Simo Líbere hercle hóc quidem. séd vide statum. núm mea grátia pértimescít magis? cógito, saéviter blanditerne ádloquar. 1290 sed me hóc votat vim fácere nunc quód fero, sí qua in hoc spés sitast mihi.

Psevdolvs Vír malus viro óptumo obviam it.

Simo Dí te ament, Pseúdole. fú i in malám crucem.

Psevdolvs Cur égo adflictor? 1295

Simo Quid tú, malum, in os igitúr mi ebrius inrúctas?

Psevdolvs Mólliter síc tene mé, cave né cadam: non vídes me ut madide mádeam?

Simo Quae ístaec audáciast, té sic intérdius cúm corolla ébrium incédere?

Psevdolvs Lubet.

Simo Quíd, lubet? pérgin ructáre in os mihi? 1300

Psevdolvs Suávis ructús mihi est. síc sine, Simo.

Simo Credo équidem potesse té, scelus, Mássici móntis ubérrumos quáttuor frúctus ebíbere in hora úna.

Psevdolvs Hiberna áddito.

Simo Hau mále mones, sed díc tamen, 1305 únde onustám celocem ágere te praédicem?

Psevdolvs Cúm tuo fílio pérpotaví modo. séd, Simo, ut probe táctus Ballio est! quaé tibi díxi, ut effécta reddidi!

Simo Péssumu ’ s es homo. 1310

Psevdolvs Mulier haec facit. cúm tuo fílio líbera accubat.

Simo ómnia, ut quícque egisti, órdine scio.

Psevdolvs Quíd ergo dubitas dáre mi argentum?

Simo Iús petis, fateór. tene.

Psevdolvs át negabás daturum ésse te mihi. onera húnc hominem atque me cónsequere hac. 1315

Simo Egone ístum onerém?

Psevdolvs Onerábis, scio.

Simo Quid ego huíc homini faciám? satin ultro et argéntum aufert et me ínridet?

Psevdolvs Vae víctis.

Simo Vorte ergo úmerum.

Psevdolvs Em.

Simo Hóc ego numquam rátus sum fore me, út tibi fierem súpplex. heu heú heu. 1320

Psevdolvs Desine.

Simo Dóleo.

Psevdolvs Ni doléres tu, ego dolérem.

Simo Quid? hoc aúferen, Pseudole mi, aps tuo ero?

Psevdolvs Lubentíssimo corde atque ánimo.

Simo Non aúdes, quaeso, aliquám partem mihi grátiam facere hinc árgenti?

Psevdolvs Non: mé dices avidum ésse hominem nam hinc númquam eris nummo dívitior; neque té mei tergi mísereret, si hoc nón hodie ecfecíssem.

Simo Erit úbi te ulciscar, sí vivo. 1325

Psevdolvs Quid mínitare? habeo térgum.

Simo Age sáne igitur.

Psevdolvs Redi.

Simo Quíd redeam?

Psevdolvs Redi módo: non eris decéptus.

Simo Redeó.

Psevdolvs Simul mecum i pótatum.

Simo Egone éam?

Psevdolvs Fac quod te iúbeo: si is, aút dimidium aut plús etiam faxo hínc feres.

Simo Eo, duc mé quo vis.

Psevdolvs Quid núnc? numquid íratus és aut mihi aút filió propter hás res, Simó?

Simo Nil profécto.

Psevdolvs I hac.

Ballio Té sequor. quín vocas spéctatorés simul? 1330

Psevdolvs Hércle me isti haú solent vocáre, neque ergo ego ístos; vérum si vóltis adplaúdere atque ádprobare húnc gregem et fábulam, in crástinum vos vocábo. 1335

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SIMO The voice of a rascally fellow is calling me out of doors. (He stares at PSEUDOLUS.) But what’s this? How’s this? What is it I see in this guise? 1285

PSEUDOLUS (staggering towards him.) Your own Pseudolus, drunk, with a chaplet on 2 .

PSEUDOLUS (staggering up to SIMO.) A worthless fellow is coming to meet the best of men.

SIMO May the Gods bless you, Pseudolus. (PSEUDOLUS eructates.) Foh! go to utter perdition. (Pushes him away.)

PSEUDOLUS But why should I have that mischance befal me? 1295

SIMO Why, the plague, in your drunkenness, are you eructating in my face?

PSEUDOLUS Hold me up, steadily; take care that I don’t fall. Don’t you see me, how drenched and soaking I am?

SIMO What impudence is this, for you to be going about this way in broad daylight, drunk, with a chaplet on?

PSEUDOLUS Such is my pleasure. (Eructates again.)

SIMO Why your pleasure? Do you persist in eructating in my very face? 1300

PSEUDOLUS An eructation is comforting to me; do indulge me in it; do but stand off.

SIMO For my part I really do believe, you villain, that you are able in a single hour to drink up four right plentiful vintages of the Massic hills 3 .

PSEUDOLUS A winter hour 4 , add.

SIMO You don’t remind me amiss. But tell me, however, whence I am to say that you are bringing your deeply-laden bark? 1305

PSEUDOLUS I’ve just been having a thorough bout with your son. That damsel is the cause of this; along with your son she is carousing, a free woman.

SIMO You are a most worthless fellow. 1310

PSEUDOLUS But, Simo, wasn’t Ballio nicely diddled? How well I carried what I told you into effect.

SIMO I know everything in its order, just as you managed each particular.

PSEUDOLUS Why, then, do you hesitate to pay me the money?

SIMO You ask what’s just, I confess; take it. (Gives him the money.)

PSEUDOLUS But you declared that you wouldn’t give it me; and still do you give it.

SIMO Are you laughing at me? What? Are you going to take this from your master, Pseudolus?

PSEUDOLUS With most willing heart and soul.

SIMO Prithee, can’t you venture to make me an abatement of some portion of this money?

PSEUDOLUS No: you shall say that I really am a greedy fellow; for you shall never be richer by a single coin of this money.

Simo

Vóx viri péssumi me éxciet foras.
1285

séd quid hoc? quó modo? quíd video ego?

Psevdolvs

Cúm corona ébrium Pseúdolum tuom.

Simo

Líbere hercle hóc quidem. séd vide statum.

núm mea grátia pértimescít magis?

cógito, saéviter blanditerne ádloquar.
1290

sed me hóc votat vim fácere nunc

quód fero, sí qua in hoc spés sitast mihi.

Psevdolvs

Vír malus viro óptumo obviam it.

Simo

Dí te ament, Pseúdole. fú i in malám crucem.

Psevdolvs

Cur égo adflictor?
1295

Simo

Quid tú, malum, in os igitúr mi ebrius inrúctas?

Psevdolvs

Mólliter síc tene mé, cave né cadam:

non vídes me ut madide mádeam?

Simo

Quae ístaec audáciast, té sic intérdius

cúm corolla ébrium incédere?

Psevdolvs

Lubet.

Simo

Quíd, lubet? pérgin ructáre in os mihi?
1300

Psevdolvs

Suávis ructús mihi est. síc sine, Simo.

Simo

Credo équidem potesse té, scelus,

Mássici móntis ubérrumos quáttuor

frúctus ebíbere in hora úna.

Psevdolvs

Hiberna áddito.

Simo

Hau mále mones, sed díc tamen,
1305

únde onustám celocem ágere te praédicem?

Psevdolvs

Cúm tuo fílio pérpotaví modo.

séd, Simo, ut probe táctus Ballio est!

quaé tibi díxi, ut effécta reddidi!

Simo

Péssumu ’ s es homo.
1310

Psevdolvs

Mulier haec facit.

cúm tuo fílio líbera accubat.

Simo

ómnia, ut quícque egisti, órdine scio.

Psevdolvs

Quíd ergo dubitas dáre mi argentum?

Simo

Iús petis, fateór. tene.

Psevdolvs

át negabás daturum ésse te mihi.

onera húnc hominem atque me cónsequere hac.
1315

Simo

Egone ístum onerém?

Psevdolvs

Onerábis, scio.

Simo

Quid ego huíc homini faciám? satin ultro et argéntum aufert et me ínridet?

Psevdolvs

Vae víctis.

Simo

Vorte ergo úmerum.

Psevdolvs

Em.

Simo

Hóc ego numquam rátus sum

fore me, út tibi fierem súpplex.

heu heú heu.
1320

Psevdolvs

Desine.

Simo

Dóleo.

Psevdolvs

Ni doléres tu, ego dolérem.

Simo

Quid? hoc aúferen, Pseudole mi, aps tuo ero?

Psevdolvs

Lubentíssimo corde atque ánimo.

Simo

Non aúdes, quaeso, aliquám partem mihi grátiam facere hinc árgenti?

Psevdolvs

Non: mé dices avidum ésse hominem nam hinc númquam eris nummo dívitior;

neque té mei tergi mísereret, si hoc nón hodie ecfecíssem.

Simo

Erit úbi te ulciscar, sí vivo.
1325

Psevdolvs

Quid mínitare? habeo térgum.

Simo

Age sáne igitur.

Psevdolvs

Redi.

Simo

Quíd redeam?

Psevdolvs

Redi módo: non eris decéptus.

Simo

Redeó.

Psevdolvs

Simul mecum i pótatum.

Simo

Egone éam?

Psevdolvs

Fac quod te iúbeo:

si is, aút dimidium aut plús etiam faxo hínc feres.

Simo

Eo, duc mé quo vis.

Psevdolvs

Quid núnc? numquid íratus és aut mihi aút filió propter hás res, Simó?

Simo

Nil profécto.

Psevdolvs

I hac.

Ballio

Té sequor. quín vocas spéctatorés simul?
1330

Psevdolvs

Hércle me isti haú solent

vocáre, neque ergo ego ístos;

vérum si vóltis adplaúdere atque ádprobare

húnc gregem et fábulam,

in crástinum vos vocábo.
1335

SIMO

The voice of a rascally fellow is calling me out of doors. (He stares at PSEUDOLUS.) But what’s this? How’s this? What is it I see in this guise?
1285

PSEUDOLUS

(staggering towards him.)

Your own Pseudolus, drunk, with a chaplet on ².

PSEUDOLUS

(staggering up to SIMO.)

A worthless fellow is coming to meet the best of men.

SIMO

May the Gods bless you, Pseudolus. (PSEUDOLUS eructates.) Foh! go to utter perdition.

(Pushes him away.)

PSEUDOLUS

But why should I have that mischance befal me?
1295

SIMO

Why, the plague, in your drunkenness, are you eructating in my face?

PSEUDOLUS

Hold me up, steadily; take care that I don’t fall. Don’t you see me, how drenched and soaking I am?

SIMO

What impudence is this, for you to be going about this way in broad daylight, drunk, with a chaplet on?

PSEUDOLUS

Such is my pleasure. (Eructates again.)

SIMO

Why your pleasure? Do you persist in eructating in my very face?
1300

PSEUDOLUS

An eructation is comforting to me; do indulge me in it; do but stand off.

SIMO

For my part I really do believe, you villain, that you are able in a single hour to drink up four right plentiful vintages of the Massic hills ³.

PSEUDOLUS

A winter hour ⁴, add.

SIMO

You don’t remind me amiss. But tell me, however, whence I am to say that you are bringing your deeply-laden bark?
1305

PSEUDOLUS

I’ve just been having a thorough bout with your son.

That damsel is the cause of this; along with your son she is carousing, a free woman.

SIMO

You are a most worthless fellow.
1310

PSEUDOLUS

But, Simo, wasn’t Ballio nicely diddled? How well I carried what I told you into effect.

SIMO

I know everything in its order, just as you managed each particular.

PSEUDOLUS

Why, then, do you hesitate to pay me the money?

SIMO

You ask what’s just, I confess; take it.

(Gives him the money.)

PSEUDOLUS

But you declared that you wouldn’t give it me; and still do you give it.

SIMO

Are you laughing at me?

What? Are you going to take this from your master, Pseudolus?

PSEUDOLUS

With most willing heart and soul.

SIMO

Prithee, can’t you venture to make me an abatement of some portion of this money?

PSEUDOLUS

No: you shall say that I really am a greedy fellow; for you shall never be richer by a single coin of this money.

SIMO

Well,

I really didn’t suppose that it would ever come to pass with me that I should be begging of you.

PSEUDOLUS

Load your shoulder with it, and follow me this way.
1315
(Pointing.)

SIMO

I—load myself with that?