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679 (CLINIA. SYRUS.)

CLINIA

Nulla mihi res posthac potest iam intervenire tanta

Quae mihi aegritudinem afferat: tanta haec laetitia oborta est.
680

Dedo patri me nunc iam ut frugalior sim quam vult.

SYRUS

Nihil me fefellit: cognita est, quantum audio huius verba.

Istuc tibi ex sententia tua obtigisse laetor.

CLINIA

O mi Syre, audistine obsecro?

SYRUS

Quidni, qui usque una adfuerim?

CLINIA

Cuiquam aeque audisti commodius quicquam evenisse?
685

SYRUS

Nulli.

CLINIA

Atque ita me Di ament ut ego nunc non tam meapte causa

Laetor quam illius quam ego scio esse honore quovis dignam.

SYRUS

Ita credo: sed nunc, Clinia, age, da te mihi vicissim:

Nam amici quoque res est videnda in tuto ut collocetur;

Ne quid de amica nunc senex.
690

CLINIA

O Iupiter!

SYRUS

Quiesce.

CLINIA

Antiphila mea nubet mihi.

SYRUS

Sicine mihi interloquere?

CLINIA

Quid faciam, Syre mi? gaudeo: fer me.

SYRUS

Fero hercle vero.

CLINIA

Deorum vitam apti sumus.

SYRUS

Frustra operam, opinor, sumo.

CLINIA

Loquere; audio.

SYRUS

At iam hoc non ages.

CLINIA

Agam.

SYRUS

Videndum est, inquam,

Amici quoque res, Clinia, tui in tuto ut collocetur:
695

Nam si nunc a nobis abis, et Bacchidem hic relinquis,

Noster resciscet ilico esse amicam hanc Clitiphonis:

Si abduxeris, celabitur itidem ut celata adhuc est.

CLINIA

At enim istoc nihil est magis, Syre, meis nuptiis adversum:

Nam quo ore appellabo patrem? Tenes quid dicam?
700

SYRUS

Quidni?

CLINIA

Quid dicam? quam causam afferam?

SYRUS

Quin nolo mentiare.

Aperte ita ut res sese habet narrato.

CLINIA

Quid ais?

SYRUS

Iubeo;

Illam te amare et velle uxorem: hanc esse Clitiphonis.

CLINIA

Bonam atque iustam rem oppido imperas, et factu facilem;

Et scilicet iam me hoc voles patrem exorare ut celet
705

Senem vestrum.

SYRUS

Immo, ut recta via rem narret ordine omnem.

CLINIA

Hem,

Satin sanus es, aut sobrius? tu quidem illum plane prodis.

Nam qui ille poterit esse in tuto? dic mihi.

SYRUS

Huic equidem consilio palmam do: hic me magnifice effero,

Qui vim tantam in me et potestatem habeam tantae astutiae,
710

Vera dicendo ut eos ambos fallam; ut quum narret senex

Vester nostro istam esse amicam gnati, non credat tamen.

CLINIA

At enim spem istoc pacto rursum nuptiarum omnem eripis:

Nam, dum amicam hanc meam esse credet, non committet filiam.

Tu fortasse quid me fiat parvi pendis dum illi consulas.
715

SYRUS

Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id assimularier?

Unus est dies, dum argentum eripio: pax: nihil amplius.

CLINIA

Tantum sat habes? quid tum, quaeso, si hoc pater resciverit?

SYRUS

Quid si redeo ad illos qui aiunt, Quid si nunc coelum ruat?

CLINIA

Metuo quid agam.
720

SYRUS

Metuis? quasi non ea potestas sit tua,

Quo velis in tempore ut te exsolvas, rem facias palam.

CLINIA

Age, age, traducatur Bacchis.

SYRUS

Optime ipsa exit foras.

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

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Heautontimorumenos; or, The Self-Tormenter Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 4.3 focus

679 (Enter CLINIA at the other side of the stage.)

CLINIA

(to himself.)

Nothing can possibly henceforth befall me of such consequence

as to cause me uneasiness; so extreme is this joy that has surprised me. Now then I shall give myself up entirely to my father, to be more frugal than even he could wish.
680

SYRUS

(apart.)

I wasn’t mistaken; she has been discovered, so far as I understand from these words of his. (Acvancing.) I am rejoiced that this matter has turned out for you so much to your wish.

CLINIA

O my dear Syrus, have you heard of it, pray?

SYRUS

How shouldn’t I, when I was present all the while ?

CLINIA

Did you ever hear of any thing falling out so fortunately for any one?
685

SYRUS

Never.

CLINIA

And, so may the Gods prosper me, I do not now rejoice so much on my own account as hers, whom I know to be deserving of any honor.

SYRUS

I believe it: but now, Clinia, come, attend to me in my turn. For your friend’s business as well,—it must be seen to—that it is placed in a state of security,

lest the old gentleman should now come to know any thing about his mistress.
690

CLINIA

O Jupiter!

SYRUS

Do be quiet.

CLINIA

My Antiphila will be mine.

SYRUS

Do you still interrupt me thus?

CLINIA

What can I do? My dear Syrus, I’m transported with joy! Do bear with me.

SYRUS

I’ faith, I really do bear with you.

CLINIA

We are blest with the life of the Gods.

SYRUS

I’m taking pains to no purpose, I doubt.

CLINIA

Speak; I hear you.

SYRUS

But still you’ll not mind it.

CLINIA

I will.

SYRUS

This must be seen to, I say,

that your friend’s business as well is placed in a state of security. For if you now go away from us, and leave Bacchis here, our old man will immediately come to know that she is Clitipho’s mistress; if you take her away with you, it will be concealed just as much as it has been hitherto concealed.
695

CLINIA

But still, Syrus, nothing can make more against my marriage than this;

for with what face am I to address my father about it? You understand what I mean?
700

SYRUS

Why not ?

CLINIA

What can I say? What excuse can I make?

SYRUS

Nay, I don’t want you to dissemble; tell him the whole case just as it really is.

CLINIA

What is it you say ?

SYRUS

I bid you do this; tell him that you are in love with her, and want her for a wife: that this Bacchis is Clitipho’s mistress.

CLINIA

You require a thing that is fair and reasonable, and easy to be done.

And I suppose, then, you would have me request my father to keep it a secret from your old man.
705

SYRUS

On the contrary; to tell him directly the matter just as it is.

CLINIA

What? Are you quite in your senses or sober? Why, you were for ruining him outright. For how could he be in a state of security ? Tell me that.

SYRUS

For my part, I yield the palm to this device. Here I do pride myself exultingly, in having in myself such exquisite resources, and power of address so great, as to deceive them both by telling the truth: so that when your old man tells ours that she is his son’s mistress, he’ll still not believe him.

CLINIA

But yet, by these means you again cut off all hopes of my marriage; for as long as Chremes believes that she is my mistress, he’ll not give me his daughter.

Perhaps you care little what becomes of me, so long as you provide for him.
715

SYRUS

What the plague, do you suppose I want this pretense to be kept up for an age ? ’Tis but for a single day, only till I have secured the money: you be quiet; I ask no more.

CLINIA

Is that sufficient? If his father should come to know of it, pray, what then?

SYRUS

What if I have recourse to those who say, What now if the sky were to fall?¹

CLINIA

I’m afraid to go about it.
720

SYRUS

You, afraid! As if it was not in your power to clear yourself at any time you like, and discover the whole matter.

CLINIA

Well, well; let Bacchis be brought over to our house.

SYRUS

Capital! she is coming out of doors.

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CLINIA Nulla mihi res posthac potest iam intervenire tanta Quae mihi aegritudinem afferat: tanta haec laetitia oborta est. 680 Dedo patri me nunc iam ut frugalior sim quam vult.

SYRUS Nihil me fefellit: cognita est, quantum audio huius verba. Istuc tibi ex sententia tua obtigisse laetor.

CLINIA O mi Syre, audistine obsecro?

SYRUS Quidni, qui usque una adfuerim?

CLINIA Cuiquam aeque audisti commodius quicquam evenisse? 685

SYRUS Nulli.

CLINIA Atque ita me Di ament ut ego nunc non tam meapte causa Laetor quam illius quam ego scio esse honore quovis dignam.

SYRUS Ita credo: sed nunc, Clinia, age, da te mihi vicissim: Nam amici quoque res est videnda in tuto ut collocetur; Ne quid de amica nunc senex. 690

CLINIA O Iupiter!

SYRUS Quiesce.

CLINIA Antiphila mea nubet mihi.

SYRUS Sicine mihi interloquere?

CLINIA Quid faciam, Syre mi? gaudeo: fer me.

SYRUS Fero hercle vero.

CLINIA Deorum vitam apti sumus.

SYRUS Frustra operam, opinor, sumo.

CLINIA Loquere; audio.

SYRUS At iam hoc non ages.

CLINIA Agam.

SYRUS Videndum est, inquam, Amici quoque res, Clinia, tui in tuto ut collocetur: 695 Nam si nunc a nobis abis, et Bacchidem hic relinquis, Noster resciscet ilico esse amicam hanc Clitiphonis: Si abduxeris, celabitur itidem ut celata adhuc est.

CLINIA At enim istoc nihil est magis, Syre, meis nuptiis adversum: Nam quo ore appellabo patrem? Tenes quid dicam? 700

SYRUS Quidni?

CLINIA Quid dicam? quam causam afferam?

SYRUS Quin nolo mentiare. Aperte ita ut res sese habet narrato.

CLINIA Quid ais?

SYRUS Iubeo; Illam te amare et velle uxorem: hanc esse Clitiphonis.

CLINIA Bonam atque iustam rem oppido imperas, et factu facilem; Et scilicet iam me hoc voles patrem exorare ut celet 705 Senem vestrum.

SYRUS Immo, ut recta via rem narret ordine omnem.

CLINIA Hem, Satin sanus es, aut sobrius? tu quidem illum plane prodis. Nam qui ille poterit esse in tuto? dic mihi.

SYRUS Huic equidem consilio palmam do: hic me magnifice effero, Qui vim tantam in me et potestatem habeam tantae astutiae, 710 Vera dicendo ut eos ambos fallam; ut quum narret senex Vester nostro istam esse amicam gnati, non credat tamen.

CLINIA At enim spem istoc pacto rursum nuptiarum omnem eripis: Nam, dum amicam hanc meam esse credet, non committet filiam. Tu fortasse quid me fiat parvi pendis dum illi consulas. 715

SYRUS Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id assimularier? Unus est dies, dum argentum eripio: pax: nihil amplius.

CLINIA Tantum sat habes? quid tum, quaeso, si hoc pater resciverit?

SYRUS Quid si redeo ad illos qui aiunt, Quid si nunc coelum ruat?

CLINIA Metuo quid agam. 720

SYRUS Metuis? quasi non ea potestas sit tua, Quo velis in tempore ut te exsolvas, rem facias palam.

CLINIA Age, age, traducatur Bacchis.

SYRUS Optime ipsa exit foras.

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CLINIA (to himself.) Nothing can possibly henceforth befall me of such consequence as to cause me uneasiness; so extreme is this joy that has surprised me. Now then I shall give myself up entirely to my father, to be more frugal than even he could wish. 680

SYRUS (apart.) I wasn’t mistaken; she has been discovered, so far as I understand from these words of his. (Acvancing.) I am rejoiced that this matter has turned out for you so much to your wish.

CLINIA O my dear Syrus, have you heard of it, pray?

SYRUS How shouldn’t I, when I was present all the while ?

CLINIA Did you ever hear of any thing falling out so fortunately for any one? 685

SYRUS Never.

CLINIA And, so may the Gods prosper me, I do not now rejoice so much on my own account as hers, whom I know to be deserving of any honor.

SYRUS I believe it: but now, Clinia, come, attend to me in my turn. For your friend’s business as well,—it must be seen to—that it is placed in a state of security, lest the old gentleman should now come to know any thing about his mistress. 690

CLINIA O Jupiter!

SYRUS Do be quiet.

CLINIA My Antiphila will be mine.

SYRUS Do you still interrupt me thus?

CLINIA What can I do? My dear Syrus, I’m transported with joy! Do bear with me.

SYRUS I’ faith, I really do bear with you.

CLINIA We are blest with the life of the Gods.

SYRUS I’m taking pains to no purpose, I doubt.

CLINIA Speak; I hear you.

SYRUS But still you’ll not mind it.

CLINIA I will.

CLINIA But still, Syrus, nothing can make more against my marriage than this; for with what face am I to address my father about it? You understand what I mean? 700

SYRUS Why not ?

CLINIA What can I say? What excuse can I make?

SYRUS Nay, I don’t want you to dissemble; tell him the whole case just as it really is.

CLINIA What is it you say ?

SYRUS I bid you do this; tell him that you are in love with her, and want her for a wife: that this Bacchis is Clitipho’s mistress.

CLINIA You require a thing that is fair and reasonable, and easy to be done. And I suppose, then, you would have me request my father to keep it a secret from your old man. 705

SYRUS On the contrary; to tell him directly the matter just as it is.

CLINIA What? Are you quite in your senses or sober? Why, you were for ruining him outright. For how could he be in a state of security ? Tell me that.

CLINIA But yet, by these means you again cut off all hopes of my marriage; for as long as Chremes believes that she is my mistress, he’ll not give me his daughter. Perhaps you care little what becomes of me, so long as you provide for him. 715

SYRUS What the plague, do you suppose I want this pretense to be kept up for an age ? ’Tis but for a single day, only till I have secured the money: you be quiet; I ask no more.

CLINIA Is that sufficient? If his father should come to know of it, pray, what then?

SYRUS What if I have recourse to those who say, What now if the sky were to fall? 1

CLINIA I’m afraid to go about it. 720

SYRUS You, afraid! As if it was not in your power to clear yourself at any time you like, and discover the whole matter.

CLINIA Well, well; let Bacchis be brought over to our house.

SYRUS Capital! she is coming out of doors.

Stable identifiers

CLINIA

Nulla mihi res posthac potest iam intervenire tanta

Quae mihi aegritudinem afferat: tanta haec laetitia oborta est.
680

Dedo patri me nunc iam ut frugalior sim quam vult.

SYRUS

Nihil me fefellit: cognita est, quantum audio huius verba.

Istuc tibi ex sententia tua obtigisse laetor.

CLINIA

O mi Syre, audistine obsecro?

SYRUS

Quidni, qui usque una adfuerim?

CLINIA

Cuiquam aeque audisti commodius quicquam evenisse?
685

SYRUS

Nulli.

CLINIA

Atque ita me Di ament ut ego nunc non tam meapte causa

Laetor quam illius quam ego scio esse honore quovis dignam.

SYRUS

Ita credo: sed nunc, Clinia, age, da te mihi vicissim:

Nam amici quoque res est videnda in tuto ut collocetur;

Ne quid de amica nunc senex.
690

CLINIA

O Iupiter!

SYRUS

Quiesce.

CLINIA

Antiphila mea nubet mihi.

SYRUS

Sicine mihi interloquere?

CLINIA

Quid faciam, Syre mi? gaudeo: fer me.

SYRUS

Fero hercle vero.

CLINIA

Deorum vitam apti sumus.

SYRUS

Frustra operam, opinor, sumo.

CLINIA

Loquere; audio.

SYRUS

At iam hoc non ages.

CLINIA

Agam.

SYRUS

Videndum est, inquam,

Amici quoque res, Clinia, tui in tuto ut collocetur:
695

Nam si nunc a nobis abis, et Bacchidem hic relinquis,

Noster resciscet ilico esse amicam hanc Clitiphonis:

Si abduxeris, celabitur itidem ut celata adhuc est.

CLINIA

At enim istoc nihil est magis, Syre, meis nuptiis adversum:

Nam quo ore appellabo patrem? Tenes quid dicam?
700

SYRUS

Quidni?

CLINIA

Quid dicam? quam causam afferam?

SYRUS

Quin nolo mentiare.

Aperte ita ut res sese habet narrato.

CLINIA

Quid ais?

SYRUS

Iubeo;

Illam te amare et velle uxorem: hanc esse Clitiphonis.

CLINIA

Bonam atque iustam rem oppido imperas, et factu facilem;

Et scilicet iam me hoc voles patrem exorare ut celet
705

Senem vestrum.

SYRUS

Immo, ut recta via rem narret ordine omnem.

CLINIA

Hem,

Satin sanus es, aut sobrius? tu quidem illum plane prodis.

Nam qui ille poterit esse in tuto? dic mihi.

SYRUS

Huic equidem consilio palmam do: hic me magnifice effero,

Qui vim tantam in me et potestatem habeam tantae astutiae,
710

Vera dicendo ut eos ambos fallam; ut quum narret senex

Vester nostro istam esse amicam gnati, non credat tamen.

CLINIA

At enim spem istoc pacto rursum nuptiarum omnem eripis:

Nam, dum amicam hanc meam esse credet, non committet filiam.

Tu fortasse quid me fiat parvi pendis dum illi consulas.
715

SYRUS

Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id assimularier?

Unus est dies, dum argentum eripio: pax: nihil amplius.

CLINIA

Tantum sat habes? quid tum, quaeso, si hoc pater resciverit?

SYRUS

Quid si redeo ad illos qui aiunt, Quid si nunc coelum ruat?

CLINIA

Metuo quid agam.
720

SYRUS

Metuis? quasi non ea potestas sit tua,

Quo velis in tempore ut te exsolvas, rem facias palam.

CLINIA

Age, age, traducatur Bacchis.

SYRUS

Optime ipsa exit foras.

CLINIA

(to himself.)

Nothing can possibly henceforth befall me of such consequence

as to cause me uneasiness; so extreme is this joy that has surprised me. Now then I shall give myself up entirely to my father, to be more frugal than even he could wish.
680

SYRUS

(apart.)

I wasn’t mistaken; she has been discovered, so far as I understand from these words of his. (Acvancing.) I am rejoiced that this matter has turned out for you so much to your wish.

CLINIA

O my dear Syrus, have you heard of it, pray?

SYRUS

How shouldn’t I, when I was present all the while ?

CLINIA

Did you ever hear of any thing falling out so fortunately for any one?
685

SYRUS

Never.

CLINIA

And, so may the Gods prosper me, I do not now rejoice so much on my own account as hers, whom I know to be deserving of any honor.

SYRUS

I believe it: but now, Clinia, come, attend to me in my turn. For your friend’s business as well,—it must be seen to—that it is placed in a state of security,

lest the old gentleman should now come to know any thing about his mistress.
690

CLINIA

O Jupiter!

SYRUS

Do be quiet.

CLINIA

My Antiphila will be mine.

SYRUS

Do you still interrupt me thus?

CLINIA

What can I do? My dear Syrus, I’m transported with joy! Do bear with me.

SYRUS

I’ faith, I really do bear with you.

CLINIA

We are blest with the life of the Gods.

SYRUS

I’m taking pains to no purpose, I doubt.

CLINIA

Speak; I hear you.

SYRUS

But still you’ll not mind it.

CLINIA

I will.

CLINIA

But still, Syrus, nothing can make more against my marriage than this;

for with what face am I to address my father about it? You understand what I mean?
700

SYRUS

Why not ?

CLINIA

What can I say? What excuse can I make?

SYRUS

Nay, I don’t want you to dissemble; tell him the whole case just as it really is.

CLINIA

What is it you say ?

SYRUS

I bid you do this; tell him that you are in love with her, and want her for a wife: that this Bacchis is Clitipho’s mistress.

CLINIA

You require a thing that is fair and reasonable, and easy to be done.

And I suppose, then, you would have me request my father to keep it a secret from your old man.
705

SYRUS

On the contrary; to tell him directly the matter just as it is.

CLINIA

What? Are you quite in your senses or sober? Why, you were for ruining him outright. For how could he be in a state of security ? Tell me that.

CLINIA

But yet, by these means you again cut off all hopes of my marriage; for as long as Chremes believes that she is my mistress, he’ll not give me his daughter.

Perhaps you care little what becomes of me, so long as you provide for him.
715

SYRUS

What the plague, do you suppose I want this pretense to be kept up for an age ? ’Tis but for a single day, only till I have secured the money: you be quiet; I ask no more.

CLINIA

Is that sufficient? If his father should come to know of it, pray, what then?

SYRUS

What if I have recourse to those who say, What now if the sky were to fall?¹

CLINIA

I’m afraid to go about it.
720

SYRUS

You, afraid! As if it was not in your power to clear yourself at any time you like, and discover the whole matter.

CLINIA

Well, well; let Bacchis be brought over to our house.

SYRUS

Capital! she is coming out of doors.