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1024 (CLITIPHO. SOSTRATA. CHREMES.)

CLITIPHO

Si unquam ullum fuit tempus, mater, quum ego voluptati tibi

Fuerim, dictus filius tuus tua voluntate, obsecro,
1025

Eius ut memineris, atque inopis nunc te miserescat mei:

Quod peto, et volo, parentes meos ut commonstres mihi.

SOSTRATA

Obsecro, mi gnate, ne istuc in animum inducas tuum,

Alienum esse te.

CLITIPHO

Sum.

SOSTRATA

Miseram me! hocine quaesisti, obsecro?

Ita mihi atque huic sis superstes ut ex me atque ex hoc natus es.
1030

Et cave posthac, si me amas, unquam istuc verbum ex te audiam.

CHREMES

At ego, si me metuis, mores cave in te esse istos sentiam.

CLITIPHO

Quos?

CHREMES

Si scire vis, ego dicam: gerro, iners, fraus, heluo,

Ganeo, damnosus: crede, et nostrum te esse credito.

CLITIPHO

Non sunt haec parentis dicta.
1035

CHREMES

Non si ex capite sis meo

Natus, item ut aiunt Minervam esse ex Iove, ea causa magis

Patiar, Clitipho, flagitiis tuis me infamem fieri.

SOSTRATA

Di istaec prohibeant.

CHREMES

Deos nescio: ego quod potero sedulo.

Quaeris id quod habes, parentes: quod abest non quaeris, patri

Quomodo obsequare, et ut serves quod labore invenerit.
1040

Non mihi per fallacias adducere ante oculos—? Pudet

Dicere hac praesente verbum turpe: at te id nullo modo

Puduit facere.

CLITIPHO

Eheu, quam ego nunc totus displiceo mihi,

Quam pudet! neque quod principium inveniam ad placandum scio.

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

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Heautontimorumenos (Terence. Publii Terentii Comoediae Sex. Parry, Edward St. John, editor. London: Whittaker and Co.; George Bell, 1857.)

Translations (1)

Heautontimorumenos; or, The Self-Tormenter Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 5.4 focus

1024 (Enter CLITIPHO from the house of CHREMES.)

CLITIPHO

If there ever was any time, mother, when I caused you pleasure,

being called your son by your own desire, I beseech: you to remember it, and now to take compassion on me in my distress. A thing I beg and request—do discover to me my parents.
1025

SOSTRATA

I conjure you, my son, not to entertain that notion in your mind, that you are another person’s child.

CLITIPHO

I am.

SOSTRATA

Wretch that I am! (Turning to CHREMES.) Was it this that you wanted, pray?

(To CLITIPHO.) So may you be the survivor of me and of him, you are my son and his; and henceforth, if you love me,take care that I never hear that speech from you again.
1030

CHREMES

But I say, if you fear me, take care how I find these propensities existing in you.

CLITIPHO

What propensities?

CHREMES

If you wish to know, I’ll tell you; being a trifler, an idler, a cheat, a glutton, a debauchee, a spendthrift—Believe me, and believe that you are our son.

CLITIPHO

This is not the language of a parent.
1035

CHREMES

If you had been born from my head, Clitipho, just as they say Minerva was from Jove’s, none the more on that account would I suffer myself to be disgraced by your profligacy.¹

SOSTRATA

May the Gods forbid it.

CHREMES

I don’t know as to the Gods;² so far as I shall be enabled, I will carefully prevent it. You are seeking that which you possess—parents; that which you are in want of you don’t seek—

in what way to pay obedience to a father, and to preserve what he acquired by his industry. That you by trickery should bring before my eyes—I am ashamed to mention the unseemly word in her presence (pointing to SOSTRATA), but you were not in any degree ashamed to act thus.
1040

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CLITIPHO

Si unquam ullum fuit tempus, mater, quum ego voluptati tibi

Fuerim, dictus filius tuus tua voluntate, obsecro,
1025

Eius ut memineris, atque inopis nunc te miserescat mei:

Quod peto, et volo, parentes meos ut commonstres mihi.

SOSTRATA

Obsecro, mi gnate, ne istuc in animum inducas tuum,

Alienum esse te.

CLITIPHO

Sum.

SOSTRATA

Miseram me! hocine quaesisti, obsecro?

Ita mihi atque huic sis superstes ut ex me atque ex hoc natus es.
1030

Et cave posthac, si me amas, unquam istuc verbum ex te audiam.

CHREMES

At ego, si me metuis, mores cave in te esse istos sentiam.

CLITIPHO

Quos?

CHREMES

Si scire vis, ego dicam: gerro, iners, fraus, heluo,

Ganeo, damnosus: crede, et nostrum te esse credito.

CLITIPHO

Non sunt haec parentis dicta.
1035

CHREMES

Non si ex capite sis meo

Natus, item ut aiunt Minervam esse ex Iove, ea causa magis

Patiar, Clitipho, flagitiis tuis me infamem fieri.

SOSTRATA

Di istaec prohibeant.

CHREMES

Deos nescio: ego quod potero sedulo.

Quaeris id quod habes, parentes: quod abest non quaeris, patri

Quomodo obsequare, et ut serves quod labore invenerit.
1040

Non mihi per fallacias adducere ante oculos—? Pudet

Dicere hac praesente verbum turpe: at te id nullo modo

Puduit facere.

CLITIPHO

Eheu, quam ego nunc totus displiceo mihi,

Quam pudet! neque quod principium inveniam ad placandum scio.

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CLITIPHO

If there ever was any time, mother, when I caused you pleasure,

being called your son by your own desire, I beseech: you to remember it, and now to take compassion on me in my distress. A thing I beg and request—do discover to me my parents.
1025

SOSTRATA

I conjure you, my son, not to entertain that notion in your mind, that you are another person’s child.

CLITIPHO

I am.

SOSTRATA

Wretch that I am! (Turning to CHREMES.) Was it this that you wanted, pray?

(To CLITIPHO.) So may you be the survivor of me and of him, you are my son and his; and henceforth, if you love me,take care that I never hear that speech from you again.
1030

CHREMES

But I say, if you fear me, take care how I find these propensities existing in you.

CLITIPHO

What propensities?

CHREMES

If you wish to know, I’ll tell you; being a trifler, an idler, a cheat, a glutton, a debauchee, a spendthrift—Believe me, and believe that you are our son.

CLITIPHO

This is not the language of a parent.
1035

CHREMES

If you had been born from my head, Clitipho, just as they say Minerva was from Jove’s, none the more on that account would I suffer myself to be disgraced by your profligacy.¹

SOSTRATA

May the Gods forbid it.

CLITIPHO

(aside.)

Alas! how thoroughly displeased I now am with myself! How much ashamed! nor do I know how to make a beginning to pacify him.

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CLITIPHO Si unquam ullum fuit tempus, mater, quum ego voluptati tibi Fuerim, dictus filius tuus tua voluntate, obsecro, 1025 Eius ut memineris, atque inopis nunc te miserescat mei: Quod peto, et volo, parentes meos ut commonstres mihi.

SOSTRATA Obsecro, mi gnate, ne istuc in animum inducas tuum, Alienum esse te.

CLITIPHO Sum.

SOSTRATA Miseram me! hocine quaesisti, obsecro? Ita mihi atque huic sis superstes ut ex me atque ex hoc natus es. 1030 Et cave posthac, si me amas, unquam istuc verbum ex te audiam.

CHREMES At ego, si me metuis, mores cave in te esse istos sentiam.

CLITIPHO Quos?

CHREMES Si scire vis, ego dicam: gerro, iners, fraus, heluo, Ganeo, damnosus: crede, et nostrum te esse credito.

CLITIPHO Non sunt haec parentis dicta. 1035

CHREMES Non si ex capite sis meo Natus, item ut aiunt Minervam esse ex Iove, ea causa magis Patiar, Clitipho, flagitiis tuis me infamem fieri.

SOSTRATA Di istaec prohibeant.

CHREMES Deos nescio: ego quod potero sedulo. Quaeris id quod habes, parentes: quod abest non quaeris, patri Quomodo obsequare, et ut serves quod labore invenerit. 1040 Non mihi per fallacias adducere ante oculos—? Pudet Dicere hac praesente verbum turpe: at te id nullo modo Puduit facere.

CLITIPHO Eheu, quam ego nunc totus displiceo mihi, Quam pudet! neque quod principium inveniam ad placandum scio.

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CLITIPHO If there ever was any time, mother, when I caused you pleasure, being called your son by your own desire, I beseech: you to remember it, and now to take compassion on me in my distress. A thing I beg and request—do discover to me my parents. 1025

SOSTRATA I conjure you, my son, not to entertain that notion in your mind, that you are another person’s child.

CLITIPHO I am.

SOSTRATA Wretch that I am! (Turning to CHREMES.) Was it this that you wanted, pray? (To CLITIPHO.) So may you be the survivor of me and of him, you are my son and his; and henceforth, if you love me,take care that I never hear that speech from you again. 1030

CHREMES But I say, if you fear me, take care how I find these propensities existing in you.

CLITIPHO What propensities?

CHREMES If you wish to know, I’ll tell you; being a trifler, an idler, a cheat, a glutton, a debauchee, a spendthrift—Believe me, and believe that you are our son.

CLITIPHO This is not the language of a parent. 1035

CHREMES If you had been born from my head, Clitipho, just as they say Minerva was from Jove’s, none the more on that account would I suffer myself to be disgraced by your profligacy. 1

SOSTRATA May the Gods forbid it.

CLITIPHO (aside.) Alas! how thoroughly displeased I now am with myself! How much ashamed! nor do I know how to make a beginning to pacify him.

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CLITIPHO

Si unquam ullum fuit tempus, mater, quum ego voluptati tibi

Fuerim, dictus filius tuus tua voluntate, obsecro,
1025

Eius ut memineris, atque inopis nunc te miserescat mei:

Quod peto, et volo, parentes meos ut commonstres mihi.

SOSTRATA

Obsecro, mi gnate, ne istuc in animum inducas tuum,

Alienum esse te.

CLITIPHO

Sum.

SOSTRATA

Miseram me! hocine quaesisti, obsecro?

Ita mihi atque huic sis superstes ut ex me atque ex hoc natus es.
1030

Et cave posthac, si me amas, unquam istuc verbum ex te audiam.

CHREMES

At ego, si me metuis, mores cave in te esse istos sentiam.

CLITIPHO

Quos?

CHREMES

Si scire vis, ego dicam: gerro, iners, fraus, heluo,

Ganeo, damnosus: crede, et nostrum te esse credito.

CLITIPHO

Non sunt haec parentis dicta.
1035

CHREMES

Non si ex capite sis meo

Natus, item ut aiunt Minervam esse ex Iove, ea causa magis

Patiar, Clitipho, flagitiis tuis me infamem fieri.

SOSTRATA

Di istaec prohibeant.

CHREMES

Deos nescio: ego quod potero sedulo.

Quaeris id quod habes, parentes: quod abest non quaeris, patri

Quomodo obsequare, et ut serves quod labore invenerit.
1040

Non mihi per fallacias adducere ante oculos—? Pudet

Dicere hac praesente verbum turpe: at te id nullo modo

Puduit facere.

CLITIPHO

Eheu, quam ego nunc totus displiceo mihi,

Quam pudet! neque quod principium inveniam ad placandum scio.

CLITIPHO

If there ever was any time, mother, when I caused you pleasure,

being called your son by your own desire, I beseech: you to remember it, and now to take compassion on me in my distress. A thing I beg and request—do discover to me my parents.
1025

SOSTRATA

I conjure you, my son, not to entertain that notion in your mind, that you are another person’s child.

CLITIPHO

I am.

SOSTRATA

Wretch that I am! (Turning to CHREMES.) Was it this that you wanted, pray?

(To CLITIPHO.) So may you be the survivor of me and of him, you are my son and his; and henceforth, if you love me,take care that I never hear that speech from you again.
1030

CHREMES

But I say, if you fear me, take care how I find these propensities existing in you.

CLITIPHO

What propensities?

CHREMES

If you wish to know, I’ll tell you; being a trifler, an idler, a cheat, a glutton, a debauchee, a spendthrift—Believe me, and believe that you are our son.

CLITIPHO

This is not the language of a parent.
1035

CHREMES

If you had been born from my head, Clitipho, just as they say Minerva was from Jove’s, none the more on that account would I suffer myself to be disgraced by your profligacy.¹

SOSTRATA

May the Gods forbid it.

CLITIPHO

(aside.)

Alas! how thoroughly displeased I now am with myself! How much ashamed! nor do I know how to make a beginning to pacify him.