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625 (CHARINUS. PAMPHILUS. DAVUS.)

CHARINUS

Hocine est credibile aut memorabile
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Tanta vecordia innata cuiquam ut siet

Ut malis gaudeant atque ex incommodis

Alterius sua ut comparent commoda? ah

Idne est verum? immo id est genus hominum pessimum in

Denegando modo quis pudor paululum adest:
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Post ubi tempus promissa iam perfici,

Tum coacti necessario se aperiunt,

Et timent: et tamen res premit denegare:

Ibi tum eorum impudentissima oratio est,

Quis tu es? quis mihi es? cur meam tibi? Heus,
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Proximus sum egomet mihi. Attamen Ubi fides,

Si roges, nihil pudet; hic ubi opus est

Non verentur: illic ubi nihil opus est ibi verentur.

Sed quid agam? adeamne ad eum, et cum eo iniuriam hanc expostulem?

Ingeram mala multa? Atque aliquis dicat, Nihil promoveris.
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Multum: molestus certe ei fuero: atque animo morem gessero.

PAMPHILUS

Charine et me et te imprudens, nisi quid Di respiciunt, perdidi.

CHARINUS

Itane imprudens? tandem inventa est causa: solvisti fidem.

PAMPHILUS

Quid tandem?

CHARINUS

Etiam nunc me ducere istis dictis postulas?

PAMPHILUS

Quid istuc est?
645

CHARINUS

Postquam me amare dixi complacita est tibi.

Heu me miserum qui tuum animum ex animo spectavi meo.

PAMPHILUS

Falsus es.

CHARINUS

Nonne tibi satis esse hoc visum solidum est gaudium,

Nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres.

Habeas.

PAMPHILUS

Habeam? ah nescis quantis in malis verser miser;

Quantasque hic suis consiliis mihi confecit sollicitudines
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Meus carnufex.

CHARINUS

Quid istuc tam mirum est de te si exemplum capit?

PAMPHILUS

Haud istuc dicas si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum.

CHARINUS

Scio: cum patre altercasti dudum: et is nunc propterea tibi

Succenset: nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres.

PAMPHILUS

Immo etiam, quo tu minus scis aerumnas meas,
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Hae nuptiae non apparabantur mihi:

Nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare.

CHARINUS

Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.

PAMPHILUS

Mane:

Nondum scis.

CHARINUS

Scio equidem illam ducturum esse te.

PAMPHILUS

Cur me enicas? Hoc audi. Numquam destitit
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Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri;

Suadere, orare, usque adeo donec perpulit.

CHARINUS

Quis homo istuc?

PAMPHILUS

Davus.—

CHARINUS

Davus?

PAMPHILUS

interturbat.

CHARINUS

Quamobrem?

PAMPHILUS

Nescio:

Nisi mihi deos satis scio fuisse iratos qui eis auscultaverim.

CHARINUS

Factum hoc est Dave?
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DAVUS

Factum.

CHARINUS

Hem, quid ais scelus?

At tibi Di dignum factis exitium duint.

Eho, dic mihi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias

Inimici vellent quod nisi hoc consilium darent?

DAVUS

Deceptus sum at non defatigatus.

CHARINUS

Scio.

DAVUS

Hac non successit, alia aggrediemur via.
670

Nisi id putas, quia primo processit parum,

Non posse iam ad salutem converti hoc malum.

PAMPHILUS

Immo etiam: nam satis credo si advigilaveris

Ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias.

DAVUS

Ego Pamphile hoc tibi pro servitio debeo,
675

Conari manibus pedibus noctesque et dies;

Capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi:

Tuum est si quid praeter spem evenit mihi ignoscere.

Parum succedit quod ago: at facio sedulo.

Vel melius tute reperi, me missum face.
680

PAMPHILUS

Cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum.

DAVUS

Faciam.

PAMPHILUS

At iam hoc opus est.

DAVUS

Hem! sed, mane. Concrepuit a Glycerio ostium.

PAMPHILUS

Nihil ad te.

DAVUS

Quaero.

PAMPHILUS

Hem, nuncin demum?

DAVUS

At iam hoc tibi inventum dabo.

Andria. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). ed. Edward St. John Parry. London. 1857.

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Andria; or, The Fair Andrian Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 4.1 focus

625 (Enter CHARINUS, wringing his hands.)

CHARINUS

(to himself.)

Is this to be believed or spoken of; that malice so great could be inborn in any one as to exult at misfortunes, and to derive advantage from the distresses of another! Oh, is this true? Assuredly, that is the most dangerous class of men,
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in whom there is only a slight degree of hesitation at refusing; afterward, when the time arrives for fulfilling their promises, then, obliged, of necessity they discover themselves. They are afraid, and yet the circumstances ¹ compel them to refuse. Then, in that case, their very insolent remark is,
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Who are you? What are you to me? What should I give up to you what’s my own? Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.² But if you inquire where is honor, they are not ashamed. ³ Here, where there is occasion, they are not afraid; there, where there is no occasion, they are afraid. But what am I to do? Ought I not to go to him, and reason with him upon this outrage,
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and heap many an invective upon him? Yet some one may say, you will avail nothing. Nothing? At least I shall have vexed him, and have given vent to my own feelings.
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(Enter PAMPHILUS and DAVUS.)

PAMPHILUS

Charinus, unintentionally I have ruined both myself and you, unless the Gods in some way befriend us.

CHARINUS

Unintentionally, is it! An excuse has been discovered at last. You have broken your word.

PAMPHILUS

How so, pray?

CHARINUS

Do you expect to deceive me a second time by these speeches?

PAMPHILUS

What does this mean?
645

CHARINUS

Since I told you that I loved her, she has become quite pleasing to you. Ah wretched me! to have judged of your disposition from my own.

PAMPHILUS

You are mistaken.

CHARINUS

Did this pleasure appear to you not to be quite complete, unless you tantalized me in my passion, and lured me on by groundless hopes?—You may take her.

PAMPHILUS

I, take her? Alas! you know not in what perplexities, to my sorrow, I am involved,

and what vast anxieties this executioner of mine (pointing to DAVUS.) has contrived for me by his devices.
650

CHARINUS

What is it so wonderful, if he takes example from yourself?

PAMPHILUS

You would not say that if you understood either myself or my affection.

CHARINUS

I’m quite aware (ironically.); you have just now had a dispute with your father, and he is now angry with you in consequence, and has not been able to-day to prevail upon you to marry her.

PAMPHILUS

No, not at all,—as you are not acquainted with my sorrows, these nuptials were not in preparation for me; and no one was thinking at present of giving me a wife.
655

CHARINUS

I am aware; you have been influenced by your own inclination.

PAMPHILUS

Hold; you do not yet know all.

CHARINUS

For my part, I certainly do know that you are about to marry her.

PAMPHILUS

Why are you torturing me to death? Listen to this. He (pointing to DAVUS.) never ceased to urge me to tell my father that I would marry her; to advise and persuade me, even until he compelled me.
660

CHARINUS

Who was this person?

PAMPHILUS

Davus.

CHARINUS

Davus!

For what reason?

PAMPHILUS

I don’t know; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods, for me to have listened to him.

CHARINUS

Is this the fact, Davus?
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DAVUS

It is the fact.

CHARINUS

(starting.)

Ha! What do you say, you villain? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds. Come now, tell me, if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage, what advice but this could they have given?

DAVUS

I have been deceived, but I don’t despair.

CHARINUS

(ironically.)

I’m sure of that.

DAVUS

This way it has not succeeded; we’ll try another. Unless, perhaps, you think that because it failed at first, this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck.
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PAMPHILUS

Certainly not; for I quite believe that if you set about it, you will be making two marriages for me out of one.

DAVUS

I owe you this, Pamphilus, in respect of my servitude, to strive with hands and feet, night and day; to submit to hazard of my life, to serve you. It is your part, if any thing has fallen out contrary to expectation, to forgive me. What I was contriving has not succeeded; still, I am using all endeavors;
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or, do you yourself devise something better, and dismiss me.
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PAMPHILUS Charine et me et te imprudens, nisi quid Di respiciunt, perdidi.

CHARINUS Itane imprudens? tandem inventa est causa: solvisti fidem.

PAMPHILUS Quid tandem?

CHARINUS Etiam nunc me ducere istis dictis postulas?

PAMPHILUS Quid istuc est? 645

CHARINUS Postquam me amare dixi complacita est tibi. Heu me miserum qui tuum animum ex animo spectavi meo.

PAMPHILUS Falsus es.

CHARINUS Nonne tibi satis esse hoc visum solidum est gaudium, Nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres. Habeas.

PAMPHILUS Habeam? ah nescis quantis in malis verser miser; Quantasque hic suis consiliis mihi confecit sollicitudines 650 Meus carnufex.

CHARINUS Quid istuc tam mirum est de te si exemplum capit?

PAMPHILUS Haud istuc dicas si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum.

CHARINUS Scio: cum patre altercasti dudum: et is nunc propterea tibi Succenset: nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres.

PAMPHILUS Immo etiam, quo tu minus scis aerumnas meas, 655 Hae nuptiae non apparabantur mihi: Nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare.

CHARINUS Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.

PAMPHILUS Mane: Nondum scis.

CHARINUS Scio equidem illam ducturum esse te.

PAMPHILUS Cur me enicas? Hoc audi. Numquam destitit 660 Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri; Suadere, orare, usque adeo donec perpulit.

CHARINUS Quis homo istuc?

PAMPHILUS Davus.—

CHARINUS Davus?

PAMPHILUS interturbat.

CHARINUS Quamobrem?

PAMPHILUS Nescio: Nisi mihi deos satis scio fuisse iratos qui eis auscultaverim.

CHARINUS Factum hoc est Dave? 665

DAVUS Factum.

CHARINUS Hem, quid ais scelus? At tibi Di dignum factis exitium duint. Eho, dic mihi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias Inimici vellent quod nisi hoc consilium darent?

DAVUS Deceptus sum at non defatigatus.

CHARINUS Scio.

DAVUS Hac non successit, alia aggrediemur via. 670 Nisi id putas, quia primo processit parum, Non posse iam ad salutem converti hoc malum.

PAMPHILUS Immo etiam: nam satis credo si advigilaveris Ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias.

DAVUS Ego Pamphile hoc tibi pro servitio debeo, 675 Conari manibus pedibus noctesque et dies; Capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi: Tuum est si quid praeter spem evenit mihi ignoscere. Parum succedit quod ago: at facio sedulo. Vel melius tute reperi, me missum face. 680

PAMPHILUS Cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum.

DAVUS Faciam.

PAMPHILUS At iam hoc opus est.

DAVUS Hem! sed, mane. Concrepuit a Glycerio ostium.

PAMPHILUS Nihil ad te.

DAVUS Quaero.

PAMPHILUS Hem, nuncin demum?

DAVUS At iam hoc tibi inventum dabo.

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PAMPHILUS Charinus, unintentionally I have ruined both myself and you, unless the Gods in some way befriend us.

CHARINUS Unintentionally, is it! An excuse has been discovered at last. You have broken your word.

PAMPHILUS How so, pray?

CHARINUS Do you expect to deceive me a second time by these speeches?

PAMPHILUS What does this mean? 645

CHARINUS Since I told you that I loved her, she has become quite pleasing to you. Ah wretched me! to have judged of your disposition from my own.

PAMPHILUS You are mistaken.

CHARINUS Did this pleasure appear to you not to be quite complete, unless you tantalized me in my passion, and lured me on by groundless hopes?—You may take her.

PAMPHILUS I, take her? Alas! you know not in what perplexities, to my sorrow, I am involved, and what vast anxieties this executioner of mine (pointing to DAVUS.) has contrived for me by his devices. 650

CHARINUS What is it so wonderful, if he takes example from yourself?

PAMPHILUS You would not say that if you understood either myself or my affection.

CHARINUS I’m quite aware (ironically.); you have just now had a dispute with your father, and he is now angry with you in consequence, and has not been able to-day to prevail upon you to marry her.

PAMPHILUS No, not at all,—as you are not acquainted with my sorrows, these nuptials were not in preparation for me; and no one was thinking at present of giving me a wife. 655

CHARINUS I am aware; you have been influenced by your own inclination.

PAMPHILUS Hold; you do not yet know all.

CHARINUS For my part, I certainly do know that you are about to marry her.

PAMPHILUS Why are you torturing me to death? Listen to this. He (pointing to DAVUS.) never ceased to urge me to tell my father that I would marry her; to advise and persuade me, even until he compelled me. 660

CHARINUS Who was this person?

PAMPHILUS Davus.

CHARINUS Davus! For what reason?

PAMPHILUS I don’t know; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods, for me to have listened to him.

CHARINUS Is this the fact, Davus? 665

DAVUS It is the fact.

CHARINUS (starting.) Ha! What do you say, you villain? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds. Come now, tell me, if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage, what advice but this could they have given?

DAVUS I have been deceived, but I don’t despair.

CHARINUS (ironically.) I’m sure of that.

DAVUS This way it has not succeeded; we’ll try another. Unless, perhaps, you think that because it failed at first, this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck. 670

PAMPHILUS Certainly not; for I quite believe that if you set about it, you will be making two marriages for me out of one.

PAMPHILUS I wish to; restore me to the position in which you found me.

DAVUS I’ll do so.

PAMPHILUS But it must be done directly.

DAVUS But the door of Glycerium’s house here makes a noise. 4

PAMPHILUS That’s nothing to you.

DAVUS (assuming an attitude of meditation.) I’m in search of—

PAMPHILUS (ironically.) Dear me, what, now at last?

DAVUS Presently I’ll give you what I’ve hit upon.

Stable identifiers

PAMPHILUS

Charine et me et te imprudens, nisi quid Di respiciunt, perdidi.

CHARINUS

Itane imprudens? tandem inventa est causa: solvisti fidem.

PAMPHILUS

Quid tandem?

CHARINUS

Etiam nunc me ducere istis dictis postulas?

PAMPHILUS

Quid istuc est?
645

CHARINUS

Postquam me amare dixi complacita est tibi.

Heu me miserum qui tuum animum ex animo spectavi meo.

PAMPHILUS

Falsus es.

CHARINUS

Nonne tibi satis esse hoc visum solidum est gaudium,

Nisi me lactasses amantem et falsa spe produceres.

Habeas.

PAMPHILUS

Habeam? ah nescis quantis in malis verser miser;

Quantasque hic suis consiliis mihi confecit sollicitudines
650

Meus carnufex.

CHARINUS

Quid istuc tam mirum est de te si exemplum capit?

PAMPHILUS

Haud istuc dicas si cognoris vel me vel amorem meum.

CHARINUS

Scio: cum patre altercasti dudum: et is nunc propterea tibi

Succenset: nec te quivit hodie cogere illam ut duceres.

PAMPHILUS

Immo etiam, quo tu minus scis aerumnas meas,
655

Hae nuptiae non apparabantur mihi:

Nec postulabat nunc quisquam uxorem dare.

CHARINUS

Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.

PAMPHILUS

Mane:

Nondum scis.

CHARINUS

Scio equidem illam ducturum esse te.

PAMPHILUS

Cur me enicas? Hoc audi. Numquam destitit
660

Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri;

Suadere, orare, usque adeo donec perpulit.

CHARINUS

Quis homo istuc?

PAMPHILUS

Davus.—

CHARINUS

Davus?

PAMPHILUS

interturbat.

CHARINUS

Quamobrem?

PAMPHILUS

Nescio:

Nisi mihi deos satis scio fuisse iratos qui eis auscultaverim.

CHARINUS

Factum hoc est Dave?
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DAVUS

Factum.

CHARINUS

Hem, quid ais scelus?

At tibi Di dignum factis exitium duint.

Eho, dic mihi, si omnes hunc coniectum in nuptias

Inimici vellent quod nisi hoc consilium darent?

DAVUS

Deceptus sum at non defatigatus.

CHARINUS

Scio.

DAVUS

Hac non successit, alia aggrediemur via.
670

Nisi id putas, quia primo processit parum,

Non posse iam ad salutem converti hoc malum.

PAMPHILUS

Immo etiam: nam satis credo si advigilaveris

Ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias.

DAVUS

Ego Pamphile hoc tibi pro servitio debeo,
675

Conari manibus pedibus noctesque et dies;

Capitis periclum adire, dum prosim tibi:

Tuum est si quid praeter spem evenit mihi ignoscere.

Parum succedit quod ago: at facio sedulo.

Vel melius tute reperi, me missum face.
680

PAMPHILUS

Cupio: restitue in quem me accepisti locum.

DAVUS

Faciam.

PAMPHILUS

At iam hoc opus est.

DAVUS

Hem! sed, mane. Concrepuit a Glycerio ostium.

PAMPHILUS

Nihil ad te.

DAVUS

Quaero.

PAMPHILUS

Hem, nuncin demum?

DAVUS

At iam hoc tibi inventum dabo.

PAMPHILUS

Charinus, unintentionally I have ruined both myself and you, unless the Gods in some way befriend us.

CHARINUS

Unintentionally, is it! An excuse has been discovered at last. You have broken your word.

PAMPHILUS

How so, pray?

CHARINUS

Do you expect to deceive me a second time by these speeches?

PAMPHILUS

What does this mean?
645

CHARINUS

Since I told you that I loved her, she has become quite pleasing to you. Ah wretched me! to have judged of your disposition from my own.

PAMPHILUS

You are mistaken.

CHARINUS

Did this pleasure appear to you not to be quite complete, unless you tantalized me in my passion, and lured me on by groundless hopes?—You may take her.

PAMPHILUS

I, take her? Alas! you know not in what perplexities, to my sorrow, I am involved,

and what vast anxieties this executioner of mine (pointing to DAVUS.) has contrived for me by his devices.
650

CHARINUS

What is it so wonderful, if he takes example from yourself?

PAMPHILUS

You would not say that if you understood either myself or my affection.

CHARINUS

I’m quite aware (ironically.); you have just now had a dispute with your father, and he is now angry with you in consequence, and has not been able to-day to prevail upon you to marry her.

PAMPHILUS

No, not at all,—as you are not acquainted with my sorrows, these nuptials were not in preparation for me; and no one was thinking at present of giving me a wife.
655

CHARINUS

I am aware; you have been influenced by your own inclination.

PAMPHILUS

Hold; you do not yet know all.

CHARINUS

For my part, I certainly do know that you are about to marry her.

PAMPHILUS

Why are you torturing me to death? Listen to this. He (pointing to DAVUS.) never ceased to urge me to tell my father that I would marry her; to advise and persuade me, even until he compelled me.
660

CHARINUS

Who was this person?

PAMPHILUS

Davus.

CHARINUS

Davus!

For what reason?

PAMPHILUS

I don’t know; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods, for me to have listened to him.

CHARINUS

Is this the fact, Davus?
665

DAVUS

It is the fact.

CHARINUS

(starting.)

Ha! What do you say, you villain? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds. Come now, tell me, if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage, what advice but this could they have given?

DAVUS

I have been deceived, but I don’t despair.

CHARINUS

(ironically.)

I’m sure of that.

DAVUS

This way it has not succeeded; we’ll try another. Unless, perhaps, you think that because it failed at first, this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck.
670

PAMPHILUS

Certainly not; for I quite believe that if you set about it, you will be making two marriages for me out of one.

PAMPHILUS

I wish to; restore me to the position in which you found me.

DAVUS

I’ll do so.

PAMPHILUS

But it must be done directly.

DAVUS

But the door of Glycerium’s house here makes a noise. ⁴

PAMPHILUS

That’s nothing to you.

DAVUS

(assuming an attitude of meditation.)

I’m in search of—

PAMPHILUS

(ironically.)

Dear me, what, now at last?

DAVUS

Presently I’ll give you what I’ve hit upon.