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904 (CRITO. CHREMES. SIMO. PAMPHILUS.)

CRITO

Mitte orare: una harum quaevis causa me ut faciam monet;

Vel tu, vel quod verum est, vel quod ipsi cupio Glycerio.
905

CHREMES

Andrium ego Critonem video? certe is est.

CRITO

Salvus sis, Chreme.

CHREMES

Quid tu Athenas insolens?

CRITO

Evenit: sed hicine est Simo?

CHREMES

Hic.

SIMO

Men quaeris? eho tu Glycerium hinc civem esse ais?

CRITO

Tu negas?

SIMO

Itane huc paratus advenis?

CRITO

Qua de re?

SIMO

Rogas?

Tune impune haec facias? tune hic homines adolescentulos
910

Imperitos rerum, eductos libere, in fraudem illicis?

Sollicitando et pollicitando eorum animos lactas—?

CRITO

Sanusne es?

SIMO

Ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?

PAMPHILUS

Perii! metuo ut substet hospes.

CHREMES

Si Simo hunc noris satis,

Non ita arbitrere: bonus est hic vir.
915

SIMO

Hic vir sit bonus?

Itane attemperate venit hodie in ipsis nuptiis,

Ut veniret antehac nunquam? est vero huic credendum Chreme?

PAMPHILUS

Ni metuam patrem, habeo pro illa re illum quod moneam probe.

SIMO

Sycophanta.

CRITO

Hem!

CHREMES

Sic Crito est hic: mitte.

CRITO

Videat qui siet.

Si mihi pergit quae volt dicere, ea quae non volt audiet.
920

Ego istaec moveo, aut curo? non tu tuum malum aequo animo feres?

Nam ego quae dico vera an falsa audieris iam sciri potest.

Atticus quidam olim navi fracta apud Andrum eiectus est,

Et istaec una parva virgo: tum ille egens forte applicat

Primum ad Chrysidis patrem se.
925

SIMO

Fabulam inceptat.

CHREMES

Sine.

CRITO

Itane vero obturbat?

CHREMES

Perge.

CRITO

Tum is mihi cognatus fuit

Qui eum recepit. Ibi ego audivi ex illo sese esse Atticum.

Is ibi mortuus est.

CHREMES

Eius nomen?

CRITO

Nomen tam cito?

PAMPHILUS

Phania.

CHREMES

Hem, perii.

CRITO

Verum hercle opinor fuisse Phaniam: hoc certo scio

Rhamnusium se aiebat esse.
930

CHREMES

O Iupiter!

CRITO

Eadem haec Chreme

Multi alii in Andro tum audivere.

CHREMES

Utinam id sit quod spero. Eho, dic mihi,

Quid eam tum? suamne esse aibat?

CRITO

Non.

CHREMES

Cuiam igitur?

CRITO

Fratris filiam.

CHREMES

Certe mea est.

CRITO

Quid ais?

SIMO

Quid tu ais?

PAMPHILUS

Arrige aures Pamphile.

SIMO

Qui credis?

CHREMES

Phania ille frater meus fuit.

SIMO

Noram et scio.

CHREMES

Is hinc bellum fugiens, meque in Asiam persequens, proficiscitur.
935

Tum illam relinquere hic est veritus; postilla nunc primum audio

Quid illo sit factum.

PAMPHILUS

Vix sum apud me, ita animus commotus est metu,

Spe, gaudio, mirando hoc tanto tam repentino bono.

SIMO

Nae istam multimodis tuam inveniri gaudeo.

PAMPHILUS

Credo pater.

CHREMES

At mihi unus scrupulus etiam restat qui me male habet.
940

PAMPHILUS

Dignus es

Cum tua religione odium: nodum in scirpo quaeris.

CRITO

Quid istuc est?

CHREMES

Nomen non convenit.

CRITO

Fuit hercle huic aliud parvae.

CHREMES

Quid Crito?

Numquid meministi?

CRITO

Id quaero.

PAMPHILUS

Egone huius memoriam patiar meae

Voluptati obstare, cum egomet possim in hac re medicari mihi?

Non patiar. Heus Chreme quod quaeris, Pasibula est.
945

CRITO

Ipsa est.

CHREMES

Ea est.

PAMPHILUS

Ex ipsa millies audivi.

SIMO

Omnes nos gaudere hoc Chreme

Te credo credere.

CHREMES

Ita me Di ament, credo.

PAMPHILUS

Quid restat, pater?

SIMO

Iam dudum res reduxit me ipsa in gratiam.

PAMPHILUS

O lepidum patrem!

De uxore, ita ut possedi, nihil mutat Chremes.

CHREMES

Causa optima est,

Nisi quid pater ait aliud.
950

PAMPHILUS

Nempe.

SIMO

Id scilicet.

CHREMES

Dos Pamphile est

Decem talenta.

PAMPHILUS

Accipio.

CHREMES

Propero ad filiam. Eho mecum Crito:

Nam illam me credo haud nosse.

SIMO

Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?

PAMPHILUS

Recte admones. Davo ego istuc dedam iam negoti.

SIMO

Non potest.

PAMPHILUS

Qui non potest?

SIMO

Quia habet aliud magis ex sese et maius.

PAMPHILUS

Quidnam?

SIMO

Vinctus est.

PAMPHILUS

Pater non recte vinctus est.
955

SIMO

Haud ita iussi.

PAMPHILUS

Iube solvi obsecro.

SIMO

Age fiat.

PAMPHILUS

At matura.

SIMO

Eo intro.

PAMPHILUS

O faustum et felicem hunc diem!

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.) — 5.4 focus

904 (Re-enter PAMPHILUS with CRITO.)

CRITO

(to PAMPHILUS, as he is coming out.)

Forbear entreating. Of these, any one reason prompts me to do it,

either your own sake, or the fact that it is the truth, or that I wish well for Glycerium herself.
905

CHREMES

(starting.)

Do I see Crito of Andros ? Surely it is he.

CRITO

Greetings to you, Chremes.

CHREMES

How is it that, so contrary to your usage, you are at Athens ?

CRITO

So it has happened. But is this Simo?

CHREMES

It is he.

CRITO

Simo, were you asking for me?¹

SIMO

How now, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place?

CRITO

Do you deny it?

SIMO

(ironically.)

Have you come here so well prepared?

CRITO

For what purpose?

SIMO

Do you ask? Are you to be acting this way with impunity? Are you to be luring young men into snares here, inexperienced in affairs, and liberally brought up, by tempting them, and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises?

CRITO

Are you in your senses?

SIMO

And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage?

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

I’m undone! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this.

CHREMES

If, Simo, you knew this person well,

you would not think thus; he is a worthy man.
915

SIMO

He, a worthy man! To come so opportunely to-day just at the very nuptials, and yet never to have come before? (Ironically.) Of course, we must believe him, Chremes.

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

If I didn’t dread my father, I have something, which, in this conjuncture, I could opportunely suggest to him ²

SIMO

(sneeringly, to CHREMES.)

A sharper! ³

CRITO

(starting.)

Hah!

CHREMES

It is his way, Crito; do excuse it.

CRITO

Let him take heed how he behaves.

If he persists in saying to me what he likes, he’ll be hearing things that he don’t like. Am I meddling with these matters or interesting myself? Can you not endure your troubles with a patient mind? For as to what I say, whether it is true or false what I have heard, can soon be known. A certain man of Attica , a long time ago, ⁴ his ship being wrecked, was cast ashore at Andros , and this woman together with him, who was then a little girl; he, in his destitution, by chance first made application
920

to the father of Chrysis—
925

SIMO

(ironically.)

He’s beginning his tale.

CHREM.

Let him alone.

CRITO

Really, is he to be interrupting me in this way?

CHREMES

Do you proceed.

CRITO

He who received him was a relation of mine. There I heard from him that he was a native of Attica . He died there.

CHREMES

His name?

CRITO

The name, in such a hurry!

PAMPHILUS

Phania.

CHREMES

(starting.)

Hah! I shall die!

CRITO

I’faith, I really think it was Phania; this I know for certain,

he said that he was a citizen of Rhamnus. ⁵
930

CHREMES

O Jupiter!

CRITO

Many other persons in Andros have heard the same, Chremes.

CHREMES

(aside.)

I trust it may turn out as I hope. (To CRITO.) Come now, tell me, what did he then say about her? Did he say she was his own daughter?

CRITO

No.

CHREMES

Whose then?

CRITO

His brother’s daughter.

CHREMES

She certainly is mine.

CRITO

What do you say?

SIMO

What is this that you say?

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

Prick up your ears, Pamphilus.

SIMO

Why do you suppose so?

CHREMES

That Phania was my brother.

SIMO

I knew him, and I am aware of it.

CHREMES

He, flying from the wars, and following me to Asia , set out from here. At the same time he was afraid to leave her here behind; since then, this is the first time I have heard what became of him.
935

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

I am scarcely myself, so much has my mind been agitated by fear, hope, joy, and surprise at this so great, so unexpected blessing.

SIMO

Really, I am glad for many reasons that she has been discovered to be a citizen.

PAMPHILUS

I believe it, father.

CHREMES

But there yet remains one difficulty ⁶ with me, which keeps me in suspense.
940

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

You deserve to be —, with your scruples, you plague. You are seeking a knot in a bulrush. ⁷

CRITO

(to CHREMES.)

What is that?

CHREMES

The names don’t agree.

CRITO

Troth, she had another when little.

CHREMES

What was it, Crito? Can you remember it?

CRITO

I’m trying to recollect it.

PAMPHILUS

(aside.)

Am I to suffer his memory to stand in the way of my happiness, when I myself can provide my own remedy in this matter? I will not suffer it. (Aloud.) Hark you, Chremes, that which you are trying to recollect is Pasibula.

CHREMES

The very same.

CRITO

That’s it.

PAMPHILUS

I’ve heard it from herself a thousand times.

SIMO

I suppose, Chremes, that you believe that we all rejoice at this discovery.

CHREMES

So may the Gods bless me, I do believe it.

PAMPHILUS

What remains to be done, father?

SIMO

The event itself has quite brought me to reconcilement.

PAMPHILUS

O kind father! With regard to her as a wife, since I have taken possession of her, Chremes will not offer any opposition.

CHREMES

The plea is a very good one, unless perchance your father says any thing to the contrary.

PAMPHILUS

Of course, I agree.

SIMO

Then be it so. ⁸

CHREMES

Her portion, Pamphilus, is ten talents.

PAMPHILUS

I alm satisfied.

CHREMES

I’ll hasten to my daughter. Come now, (beckoning.) along with me, Crito; for I suppose that she will not know me.

(They go into GLYCERIUM’s house.)

SIMO

(To PAMPHILUS.)

Why don’t you order her to be sent for hither, to our house?

PAMPHILUS

Well thought of; I’ll at once give charge of that to Davus.

SIMO

He can’t do it.

PAMPHILUS

How so?

SIMO

Because he has another matter that more nearly concerns himself, and of more importance.

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CRITO Mitte orare: una harum quaevis causa me ut faciam monet; Vel tu, vel quod verum est, vel quod ipsi cupio Glycerio. 905

CHREMES Andrium ego Critonem video? certe is est.

CRITO Salvus sis, Chreme.

CHREMES Quid tu Athenas insolens?

CRITO Evenit: sed hicine est Simo?

CHREMES Hic.

SIMO Men quaeris? eho tu Glycerium hinc civem esse ais?

CRITO Tu negas?

SIMO Itane huc paratus advenis?

CRITO Qua de re?

SIMO Rogas? Tune impune haec facias? tune hic homines adolescentulos 910 Imperitos rerum, eductos libere, in fraudem illicis? Sollicitando et pollicitando eorum animos lactas—?

CRITO Sanusne es?

SIMO Ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?

PAMPHILUS Perii! metuo ut substet hospes.

CHREMES Si Simo hunc noris satis, Non ita arbitrere: bonus est hic vir. 915

SIMO Hic vir sit bonus? Itane attemperate venit hodie in ipsis nuptiis, Ut veniret antehac nunquam? est vero huic credendum Chreme?

PAMPHILUS Ni metuam patrem, habeo pro illa re illum quod moneam probe.

SIMO Sycophanta.

CRITO Hem!

CHREMES Sic Crito est hic: mitte.

SIMO Fabulam inceptat.

CHREMES Sine.

CRITO Itane vero obturbat?

CHREMES Perge.

CRITO Tum is mihi cognatus fuit Qui eum recepit. Ibi ego audivi ex illo sese esse Atticum. Is ibi mortuus est.

CHREMES Eius nomen?

CRITO Nomen tam cito?

PAMPHILUS Phania.

CHREMES Hem, perii.

CRITO Verum hercle opinor fuisse Phaniam: hoc certo scio Rhamnusium se aiebat esse. 930

CHREMES O Iupiter!

CRITO Eadem haec Chreme Multi alii in Andro tum audivere.

CHREMES Utinam id sit quod spero. Eho, dic mihi, Quid eam tum? suamne esse aibat?

CRITO Non.

CHREMES Cuiam igitur?

CRITO Fratris filiam.

CHREMES Certe mea est.

CRITO Quid ais?

SIMO Quid tu ais?

PAMPHILUS Arrige aures Pamphile.

SIMO Qui credis?

CHREMES Phania ille frater meus fuit.

SIMO Noram et scio.

CHREMES Is hinc bellum fugiens, meque in Asiam persequens, proficiscitur. 935 Tum illam relinquere hic est veritus; postilla nunc primum audio Quid illo sit factum.

PAMPHILUS Vix sum apud me, ita animus commotus est metu, Spe, gaudio, mirando hoc tanto tam repentino bono.

SIMO Nae istam multimodis tuam inveniri gaudeo.

PAMPHILUS Credo pater.

CHREMES At mihi unus scrupulus etiam restat qui me male habet. 940

PAMPHILUS Dignus es Cum tua religione odium: nodum in scirpo quaeris.

CRITO Quid istuc est?

CHREMES Nomen non convenit.

CRITO Fuit hercle huic aliud parvae.

CHREMES Quid Crito? Numquid meministi?

CRITO Id quaero.

PAMPHILUS Egone huius memoriam patiar meae Voluptati obstare, cum egomet possim in hac re medicari mihi? Non patiar. Heus Chreme quod quaeris, Pasibula est. 945

CRITO Ipsa est.

CHREMES Ea est.

PAMPHILUS Ex ipsa millies audivi.

SIMO Omnes nos gaudere hoc Chreme Te credo credere.

CHREMES Ita me Di ament, credo.

PAMPHILUS Quid restat, pater?

SIMO Iam dudum res reduxit me ipsa in gratiam.

PAMPHILUS O lepidum patrem! De uxore, ita ut possedi, nihil mutat Chremes.

CHREMES Causa optima est, Nisi quid pater ait aliud. 950

PAMPHILUS Nempe.

SIMO Id scilicet.

CHREMES Dos Pamphile est Decem talenta.

PAMPHILUS Accipio.

CHREMES Propero ad filiam. Eho mecum Crito: Nam illam me credo haud nosse.

SIMO Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?

PAMPHILUS Recte admones. Davo ego istuc dedam iam negoti.

SIMO Non potest.

PAMPHILUS Qui non potest?

SIMO Quia habet aliud magis ex sese et maius.

PAMPHILUS Quidnam?

SIMO Vinctus est.

PAMPHILUS Pater non recte vinctus est. 955

SIMO Haud ita iussi.

CRITO

Mitte orare: una harum quaevis causa me ut faciam monet;

Vel tu, vel quod verum est, vel quod ipsi cupio Glycerio.
905

CHREMES

Andrium ego Critonem video? certe is est.

CRITO

Salvus sis, Chreme.

CHREMES

Quid tu Athenas insolens?

CRITO

Evenit: sed hicine est Simo?

CHREMES

Hic.

SIMO

Men quaeris? eho tu Glycerium hinc civem esse ais?

CRITO

Tu negas?

SIMO

Itane huc paratus advenis?

CRITO

Qua de re?

SIMO

Rogas?

Tune impune haec facias? tune hic homines adolescentulos
910

Imperitos rerum, eductos libere, in fraudem illicis?

Sollicitando et pollicitando eorum animos lactas—?

CRITO

Sanusne es?

SIMO

Ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?

PAMPHILUS

Perii! metuo ut substet hospes.

CHREMES

Si Simo hunc noris satis,

Non ita arbitrere: bonus est hic vir.
915

SIMO

Hic vir sit bonus?

Itane attemperate venit hodie in ipsis nuptiis,

Ut veniret antehac nunquam? est vero huic credendum Chreme?

PAMPHILUS

Ni metuam patrem, habeo pro illa re illum quod moneam probe.

SIMO

Sycophanta.

CRITO

Hem!

CHREMES

Sic Crito est hic: mitte.

SIMO

Fabulam inceptat.

CHREMES

Sine.

CRITO

Itane vero obturbat?

CHREMES

Perge.

CRITO

Tum is mihi cognatus fuit

Qui eum recepit. Ibi ego audivi ex illo sese esse Atticum.

Is ibi mortuus est.

CHREMES

Eius nomen?

CRITO

Nomen tam cito?

PAMPHILUS

Phania.

CHREMES

Hem, perii.

CRITO

Verum hercle opinor fuisse Phaniam: hoc certo scio

Rhamnusium se aiebat esse.
930

CHREMES

O Iupiter!

CRITO

Eadem haec Chreme

Multi alii in Andro tum audivere.

CHREMES

Utinam id sit quod spero. Eho, dic mihi,

Quid eam tum? suamne esse aibat?

CRITO

Non.

CHREMES

Cuiam igitur?

CRITO

Fratris filiam.

CHREMES

Certe mea est.

CRITO

Quid ais?

SIMO

Quid tu ais?

PAMPHILUS

Arrige aures Pamphile.

SIMO

Qui credis?

CHREMES

Phania ille frater meus fuit.

SIMO

Noram et scio.

CHREMES

Is hinc bellum fugiens, meque in Asiam persequens, proficiscitur.
935

Tum illam relinquere hic est veritus; postilla nunc primum audio

Quid illo sit factum.

PAMPHILUS

Vix sum apud me, ita animus commotus est metu,

Spe, gaudio, mirando hoc tanto tam repentino bono.

SIMO

Nae istam multimodis tuam inveniri gaudeo.

PAMPHILUS

Credo pater.

CHREMES

At mihi unus scrupulus etiam restat qui me male habet.
940

PAMPHILUS

Dignus es

Cum tua religione odium: nodum in scirpo quaeris.

CRITO

Quid istuc est?

CHREMES

Nomen non convenit.

CRITO

Fuit hercle huic aliud parvae.

CHREMES

Quid Crito?

Numquid meministi?

CRITO

Id quaero.

PAMPHILUS

Egone huius memoriam patiar meae

Voluptati obstare, cum egomet possim in hac re medicari mihi?

Non patiar. Heus Chreme quod quaeris, Pasibula est.
945

CRITO

Ipsa est.

CHREMES

Ea est.

PAMPHILUS

Ex ipsa millies audivi.

SIMO

Omnes nos gaudere hoc Chreme

Te credo credere.

CHREMES

Ita me Di ament, credo.

PAMPHILUS

Quid restat, pater?

SIMO

Iam dudum res reduxit me ipsa in gratiam.

PAMPHILUS

O lepidum patrem!

De uxore, ita ut possedi, nihil mutat Chremes.

CHREMES

Causa optima est,

Nisi quid pater ait aliud.
950

PAMPHILUS

Nempe.

SIMO

Id scilicet.

CHREMES

Dos Pamphile est

Decem talenta.

PAMPHILUS

Accipio.

CHREMES

Propero ad filiam. Eho mecum Crito:

Nam illam me credo haud nosse.

SIMO

Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?

PAMPHILUS

Recte admones. Davo ego istuc dedam iam negoti.

SIMO

Non potest.

PAMPHILUS

Qui non potest?

SIMO

Quia habet aliud magis ex sese et maius.

PAMPHILUS

Quidnam?

SIMO

Vinctus est.

PAMPHILUS

Pater non recte vinctus est.
955

SIMO

Haud ita iussi.

PAMPHILUS

Iube solvi obsecro.

SIMO

Age fiat.