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667 (PHAEDRIA. DORUS. PYTHIAS. DORIAS.)

PHAEDRIA

Exi foras, sceleste: at etiam restitas

Fugitive? prodi, male conciliate.

DORUS

Obsecro.

PHAEDRIA

Oh,

Illud vide, os ut sibi distorsit carnufex.

Quid huc tibi reditio est? vestis quid mutatio?
670

Quid narras? Paulum si cessassem, Pythias,

Domi non offendissem; ita iam ornarat fugam.

PYTHIAS

Habesne hominem amabo?

PHAEDRIA

Quidni habeam?

PYTHIAS

Factum bene!

DORIAS

Istuc pol vero bene.

PYTHIAS

Ubi est?

PHAEDRIA

Rogitas? non vides?

PYTHIAS

Videam? obsecro quem?
675

PHAEDRIA

Hunc scilicet.

PYTHIAS

Quis hic est homo?

PHAEDRIA

Qui ad vos deductus hodie est.

PYTHIAS

Hunc oculis suis

Nostrarum numquam quisquam vidit, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

Non vidit?

PYTHIAS

An tu hunc credidisti esse, obsecro,

Ad nos deductum?

PHAEDRIA

Namque alium habui neminem.

PYTHIAS

Au!

Ne comparandus hic quidem ad illum est: ille erat
680

Honesta facie et liberali.

PHAEDRIA

Ita visus est

Dudum, quia varia veste exornatus fuit:

Nunc eo tibi videtur foedus, quia illam non habet.

PYTHIAS

Tace, obsecro; quasi vero paulum intersiet.

Ad nos deductus hodie est adolescentulus,
685

Quem tu videre vero velles, Phaedria.

Hic est vetus, victus, veternosus senex,

Colore mustelino.

PHAEDRIA

Hem, quae haec est fabula?

Eo redigis me ut quid egerim egomet nesciam.

Eho tu! emine ego te?
690

DORUS

Emisti.

PYTHIAS

Iube, mihi denuo

Respondeat.

PHAEDRIA

Roga.

PYTHIAS

Venistine hodie ad nos? negat.

At ille alter venit, annos natus sedecim,

Quem secum adduxit Parmeno.

PHAEDRIA

Age dum, hoc mihi expedi

Primum: istam quam habes unde habes vestem? taces?

Monstrum hominis! non dicturus es?
695

DORUS

Venit Chaerea.

PHAEDRIA

Fraterne?

DORUS

Ita.

PHAEDRIA

Quando?

DORUS

Hodie.

PHAEDRIA

Quam dudum?

DORUS

Modo.

PHAEDRIA

Quicum?

DORUS

Cum Parmenone.

PHAEDRIA

Norasne eum prius?

DORUS

Non; nec quis esset umquam audieram dicier.

PHAEDRIA

Unde igitur fratrem meum esse scibas?

DORUS

Parmeno

Dicebat eum esse: is dedit mihi hanc vestem.
700

PHAEDRIA

Occidi.

DORUS

Meam ipse induit: post una ambo abierunt foras.

PYTHIAS

Iam satis credis sobriam esse me, et nihil mentitam tibi?

Iam satis certum est virginem vitiatam esse?

PHAEDRIA

Age nunc bellua

Credis huic quod dicit?

PYTHIAS

Quid isti credam? res ipsa indicat.

PHAEDRIA

Concede istuc paululum: audin? etiam nunc paululum: sat est.
705

Dicdum hoc rursum: Chaerea tuam vestem detraxit tibi?

DORUS

Factum.

PHAEDRIA

Et ea est indutus?

DORUS

Factum.

PHAEDRIA

Et pro te huc deductus est?

DORUS

Ita.

PHAEDRIA

Iupiter magne, o scelestum atque audacem hominem!

PYTHIAS

Vae mihi!

Etiam nunc non credis indignis nos esse irrisas modis?

PHAEDRIA

Mirum ni tu credas quod iste dicit: quid agam nescio.
710

Heus, negato rursum. Possumne ego hodie ex te exsculpere

Verum? vidistin fratrem Chaeream?

DORUS

Non.

PHAEDRIA

Non potest sine

Malo fateri, video: sequere hac: modo ait, modo negat.

Ora me.

DORUS

Obsecro te vero, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

I intro nunc iam.

DORUS

Oi, ei.

PHAEDRIA

Alio pacto honeste quo modo hinc abeam nescio.
715

Actum est, siquidem tu me hic etiam, nebulo, ludificabere.

PYTHIAS

Parmenonis tam scio esse hanc technam quam me vivere.

DORIAS

Sic est.

PYTHIAS

Inveniam pol hodie parem ubi referam gratiam.

Sed nunc quid faciendum censes, Dorias?

DORIAS

De istac rogas

Virgine?
720

PYTHIAS

Ita: utrum taceamne an praedicem? Dor. Tu pol, si sapis,

Quod scis nescis, neque de eunucho, neque de vitio virginis:

Hac re et te omni turba evolves, et illi gratum feceris.

Id odio dic, abisse Dorum.

PYTHIAS

Ita faciam.

DORIAS

Sed videon Chremem?

Thais iam aderit.

PYTHIAS

Quid ita?

DORIAS

Quia cum inde abeo, iam tum inceperat

Turba inter eos.
725

PYTHIAS

Aufer aurum hoc: ego scibo ex hoc quid siet.

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

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Eunuchus; or, The Eunuch Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 4.4 focus

667 (Enter PHAEDRIA from the house of LACHES, with DORUS in CHAEREA’s clothes.)

PHAEDRIA

(dragging him out.)

Come out, you villain! What, do you lag behind, you runaway? Out with you, you sorry bargain!

DORUS

(crying out.)

Mercy, I do entreat you!

PHAEDRIA

Oh, do look at that! How the villain distorts his face.

What means your coming back hither? Why this change of dress? What have you to say? If I had delayed a moment, Pythias, I shouldn’t have found him at home: he had just prepared, in this fashion, for flight.
670
(Pointing at his dress.)

PYTHIAS

Have you caught the fellow, pray?

PHAEDRIA

Caught him, why not?

PYTHIAS

O well done!

DORIAS

Upon my faith that really is capital!

PYTHIAS

Where is he?

PHAEDRIA

Do you ask the question? Don’t you see him?

(Pointing to the EUNUCH.)

PYTHIAS

(staring about.)

See whom, pray?
675

PHAEDRIA

This fellow, to be sure (pointing).

PYTHIAS

What person is this?

PHAEDRIA

The same that was brought to your house to-day.

PYTHIAS

Not one of our people has ever beheld this person with her eyes, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

Not beheld him?

PYTHIAS

Prithee, did you fancy that this was he who was brought to our house?

PHAEDRIA

Why, I had no other.

PYTHIAS

O dear!

this one really isn’t to be compared with the other. He was of a handsome and genteel appearance.
680

PHAEDRIA

He seemed so, just then, because he was decked out in party-colored clothes:¹ now he appears ugly, for this reason—because he hasn’t got them on.

PYTHIAS

Prithee, do hold your tongue; as though indeed the difference was so trifling.

A young man was brought to our house to-day, whom, really, Phaedria, you would have liked to look upon. This is a withered, antiquated, lethargic, old fellow, with a speckled complexion.²
685

PHAEDRIA

(starting.)

Hah! What tale is this? You’ll so befool me that I sha’n’t know what I bought.

(To DORUS.) How now, sirrah, did I not buy you?
690

DORUS

You did buy me.

PYTHIAS

Bid him answer me in my turn.

PHAEDRIA

Question him.

PYTHIAS

(to DORUS.)

Did you come here to-day to our house? (DORUS shakes his head.) He says, no. But it was the other one that came, about sixteen years of age; whom Parmeno brought with him.

PHAEDRIA

(to DORUS.)

Well now, in the first place tell me this, where did you get that dress that you have on? What, are you silent?

Monster of a fellow, are you not going to speak?
695
(Shakes him.)

DORUS

Chaerea came.

PHAEDRIA

What, my brother?

DORUS

Yes.

PHAEDRIA

When?

DORUS

To-day.

PHAEDRIA

How long since?

DORUS

Just now.

PHAEDRIA

With whom?

DORUS

With Parmeno.

PHAEDRIA

Did you know him before?

DORUS

No.

PHAEDRIA

How did you know he was my brother?

DORUS

Parmeno

said he was. He gave me these clothes.
700

PHAEDRIA

I’m undone!

DORUS

He himself put on mine; afterward, they both went out together.

PYTHIAS

Now are you quite satisfied that I am sober, and that we have told you no falsehood? Is it now sufficiently evident that the girl has been ravished?

PHAEDRIA

Avaunt, you beast, do you believe what he says?

PYTHIAS

What is there to believe? The thing speaks for itself.

PHAEDRIA

(apart to DORUS.)

Step aside a little this way. Do you hear? (DORUS steps aside.) A little further still. That will do. Now tell me this once more; did Chaerea take your clothes off you?
705

DORUS

He did.

PHAEDRIA

And did he put them on?

DORUS

He did.

PHAEDRIA

And was he brought here instead of you?

DORUS

Yes.

PHAEDRIA

Great Jupiter! O wicked and audacious fellow!

PYTHIAS

Woe unto me! Now at last will you believe that we have been insulted in a disgraceful manner?

PHAEDRIA

It is no wonder that you believe what the fellow says. (Aside.) What I’m to do I know not. (Aside to DORUS.) Hark you, deny it all again. (Aloud.) Can I not this day extract the truth from you? Did you really see my brother Chaerea?
710

DORUS

No.

PHAEDRIA

He can’t be brought to confess without being punished, I see: follow me this way. At one moment he affirms, at another denies. (Aside.) Ask pardon of me.

DORUS

Indeed, I do entreat you, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

(kicking him.)

Be off in-doors.

DORUS

Oh! oh!

PHAEDRIA

(aside.)

How in any other fashion to get decently out of this I don’t know; for really it’s all up with me. (Aloud, with pretended indignation.) Will you be trifling with me even here, you knave?
715
(Follows DORUS into the house.)

PYTHIAS

I’m as certain that this is the contrivance of Parmeno as that I’m alive.

DORIAS

So it is, no doubt.

PYTHIAS

I’faith, I’ll find out a method to-day to be even with him. But now, what do you think ought to be done, Dorias?

DORIAS

Do you mean with regard to this

girl?
720

PYTHIAS

Yes; whether I ought to mention it or be silent?

DORIAS

Upon my word, if you are prudent,³ you won’t know what you do know, either about the Eunuch or the girl’s misfortune. By this method you’ll both rid yourself of all perplexity, and have done a service to her.⁴ Say this only, that Dorus has run away.

PYTHIAS

I’ll do so.

DORIAS

But don’t I see Chremes? Thais will be here just now.

PYTHIAS

Why so?

DORIAS

Because when I came away from there, a quarrel had just commenced between them.

PYTHIAS

Take in these golden trinkets; I shall learn from him what’s the matter.

(DORIAS takes the casket into the house.)

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PHAEDRIA Exi foras, sceleste: at etiam restitas Fugitive? prodi, male conciliate.

DORUS Obsecro.

PHAEDRIA Oh, Illud vide, os ut sibi distorsit carnufex. Quid huc tibi reditio est? vestis quid mutatio? 670 Quid narras? Paulum si cessassem, Pythias, Domi non offendissem; ita iam ornarat fugam.

PYTHIAS Habesne hominem amabo?

PHAEDRIA Quidni habeam?

PYTHIAS Factum bene!

DORIAS Istuc pol vero bene.

PYTHIAS Ubi est?

PHAEDRIA Rogitas? non vides?

PYTHIAS Videam? obsecro quem? 675

PHAEDRIA Hunc scilicet.

PYTHIAS Quis hic est homo?

PHAEDRIA Qui ad vos deductus hodie est.

PYTHIAS Hunc oculis suis Nostrarum numquam quisquam vidit, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA Non vidit?

PYTHIAS An tu hunc credidisti esse, obsecro, Ad nos deductum?

PHAEDRIA Namque alium habui neminem.

PYTHIAS Au! Ne comparandus hic quidem ad illum est: ille erat 680 Honesta facie et liberali.

PHAEDRIA Ita visus est Dudum, quia varia veste exornatus fuit: Nunc eo tibi videtur foedus, quia illam non habet.

PYTHIAS Tace, obsecro; quasi vero paulum intersiet. Ad nos deductus hodie est adolescentulus, 685 Quem tu videre vero velles, Phaedria. Hic est vetus, victus, veternosus senex, Colore mustelino.

PHAEDRIA Hem, quae haec est fabula? Eo redigis me ut quid egerim egomet nesciam. Eho tu! emine ego te? 690

DORUS Emisti.

PYTHIAS Iube, mihi denuo Respondeat.

PHAEDRIA Roga.

PYTHIAS Venistine hodie ad nos? negat. At ille alter venit, annos natus sedecim, Quem secum adduxit Parmeno.

PHAEDRIA Age dum, hoc mihi expedi Primum: istam quam habes unde habes vestem? taces? Monstrum hominis! non dicturus es? 695

DORUS Venit Chaerea.

PHAEDRIA Fraterne?

DORUS Ita.

PHAEDRIA Quando?

DORUS Hodie.

PHAEDRIA Quam dudum?

DORUS Modo.

PHAEDRIA Quicum?

DORUS Cum Parmenone.

PHAEDRIA Norasne eum prius?

DORUS Non; nec quis esset umquam audieram dicier.

PHAEDRIA Unde igitur fratrem meum esse scibas?

DORUS Parmeno Dicebat eum esse: is dedit mihi hanc vestem. 700

PHAEDRIA Occidi.

DORUS Meam ipse induit: post una ambo abierunt foras.

PYTHIAS Iam satis credis sobriam esse me, et nihil mentitam tibi? Iam satis certum est virginem vitiatam esse?

PHAEDRIA Age nunc bellua Credis huic quod dicit?

PYTHIAS Quid isti credam? res ipsa indicat.

PHAEDRIA Concede istuc paululum: audin? etiam nunc paululum: sat est. 705 Dicdum hoc rursum: Chaerea tuam vestem detraxit tibi?

DORUS Factum.

PHAEDRIA Et ea est indutus?

DORUS Factum.

PHAEDRIA Et pro te huc deductus est?

DORUS Ita.

PHAEDRIA Iupiter magne, o scelestum atque audacem hominem!

PYTHIAS Vae mihi! Etiam nunc non credis indignis nos esse irrisas modis?

PHAEDRIA Mirum ni tu credas quod iste dicit: quid agam nescio. 710 Heus, negato rursum. Possumne ego hodie ex te exsculpere Verum? vidistin fratrem Chaeream?

DORUS Non.

PHAEDRIA Non potest sine Malo fateri, video: sequere hac: modo ait, modo negat. Ora me.

DORUS Obsecro te vero, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA I intro nunc iam.

DORUS Oi, ei.

PHAEDRIA Alio pacto honeste quo modo hinc abeam nescio. 715 Actum est, siquidem tu me hic etiam, nebulo, ludificabere.

PYTHIAS Parmenonis tam scio esse hanc technam quam me vivere.

DORIAS Sic est.

PYTHIAS Inveniam pol hodie parem ubi referam gratiam. Sed nunc quid faciendum censes, Dorias?

DORIAS De istac rogas Virgine? 720

PYTHIAS Ita: utrum taceamne an praedicem? Dor. Tu pol, si sapis, Quod scis nescis, neque de eunucho, neque de vitio virginis: Hac re et te omni turba evolves, et illi gratum feceris. Id odio dic, abisse Dorum.

PYTHIAS Ita faciam.

DORIAS Sed videon Chremem? Thais iam aderit.

PYTHIAS Quid ita?

DORIAS Quia cum inde abeo, iam tum inceperat Turba inter eos. 725

PYTHIAS Aufer aurum hoc: ego scibo ex hoc quid siet.

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PHAEDRIA (dragging him out.) Come out, you villain! What, do you lag behind, you runaway? Out with you, you sorry bargain!

DORUS (crying out.) Mercy, I do entreat you!

PYTHIAS Have you caught the fellow, pray?

PHAEDRIA Caught him, why not?

PYTHIAS O well done!

DORIAS Upon my faith that really is capital!

PYTHIAS Where is he?

PHAEDRIA Do you ask the question? Don’t you see him? (Pointing to the EUNUCH.)

PHAEDRIA

Exi foras, sceleste: at etiam restitas

Fugitive? prodi, male conciliate.

DORUS

Obsecro.

PHAEDRIA

Oh,

Illud vide, os ut sibi distorsit carnufex.

Quid huc tibi reditio est? vestis quid mutatio?
670

Quid narras? Paulum si cessassem, Pythias,

Domi non offendissem; ita iam ornarat fugam.

PYTHIAS

Habesne hominem amabo?

PHAEDRIA

Quidni habeam?

PYTHIAS

Factum bene!

DORIAS

Istuc pol vero bene.

PYTHIAS

Ubi est?

PHAEDRIA

Rogitas? non vides?

PYTHIAS

Videam? obsecro quem?
675

PHAEDRIA

Hunc scilicet.

PYTHIAS

Quis hic est homo?

PHAEDRIA

Qui ad vos deductus hodie est.

PYTHIAS

Hunc oculis suis

Nostrarum numquam quisquam vidit, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

Non vidit?

PYTHIAS

An tu hunc credidisti esse, obsecro,

Ad nos deductum?

PHAEDRIA

Namque alium habui neminem.

PYTHIAS

Au!

Ne comparandus hic quidem ad illum est: ille erat
680

Honesta facie et liberali.

PHAEDRIA

Ita visus est

Dudum, quia varia veste exornatus fuit:

Nunc eo tibi videtur foedus, quia illam non habet.

PYTHIAS

Tace, obsecro; quasi vero paulum intersiet.

Ad nos deductus hodie est adolescentulus,
685

Quem tu videre vero velles, Phaedria.

Hic est vetus, victus, veternosus senex,

Colore mustelino.

PHAEDRIA

Hem, quae haec est fabula?

Eo redigis me ut quid egerim egomet nesciam.

Eho tu! emine ego te?
690

DORUS

Emisti.

PYTHIAS

Iube, mihi denuo

Respondeat.

PHAEDRIA

Roga.

PYTHIAS

Venistine hodie ad nos? negat.

At ille alter venit, annos natus sedecim,

Quem secum adduxit Parmeno.

PHAEDRIA

Age dum, hoc mihi expedi

Primum: istam quam habes unde habes vestem? taces?

Monstrum hominis! non dicturus es?
695

DORUS

Venit Chaerea.

PHAEDRIA

Fraterne?

DORUS

Ita.

PHAEDRIA

Quando?

DORUS

Hodie.

PHAEDRIA

Quam dudum?

DORUS

Modo.

PHAEDRIA

Quicum?

DORUS

Cum Parmenone.

PHAEDRIA

Norasne eum prius?

DORUS

Non; nec quis esset umquam audieram dicier.

PHAEDRIA

Unde igitur fratrem meum esse scibas?

DORUS

Parmeno

Dicebat eum esse: is dedit mihi hanc vestem.
700

PHAEDRIA

Occidi.

DORUS

Meam ipse induit: post una ambo abierunt foras.

PYTHIAS

Iam satis credis sobriam esse me, et nihil mentitam tibi?

Iam satis certum est virginem vitiatam esse?

PHAEDRIA

Age nunc bellua

Credis huic quod dicit?

PYTHIAS

Quid isti credam? res ipsa indicat.

PHAEDRIA

Concede istuc paululum: audin? etiam nunc paululum: sat est.
705

Dicdum hoc rursum: Chaerea tuam vestem detraxit tibi?

DORUS

Factum.

PHAEDRIA

Et ea est indutus?

DORUS

Factum.

PHAEDRIA

Et pro te huc deductus est?

DORUS

Ita.

PHAEDRIA

Iupiter magne, o scelestum atque audacem hominem!

PYTHIAS

Vae mihi!

Etiam nunc non credis indignis nos esse irrisas modis?

PHAEDRIA

Mirum ni tu credas quod iste dicit: quid agam nescio.
710

Heus, negato rursum. Possumne ego hodie ex te exsculpere

Verum? vidistin fratrem Chaeream?

DORUS

Non.

PHAEDRIA

Non potest sine

Malo fateri, video: sequere hac: modo ait, modo negat.

Ora me.

DORUS

Obsecro te vero, Phaedria.

PHAEDRIA

I intro nunc iam.

DORUS

Oi, ei.

PHAEDRIA

Alio pacto honeste quo modo hinc abeam nescio.
715

Actum est, siquidem tu me hic etiam, nebulo, ludificabere.

PYTHIAS

Parmenonis tam scio esse hanc technam quam me vivere.

DORIAS

Sic est.

PYTHIAS

Inveniam pol hodie parem ubi referam gratiam.

Sed nunc quid faciendum censes, Dorias?

DORIAS

De istac rogas

Virgine?
720

PYTHIAS

Ita: utrum taceamne an praedicem? Dor. Tu pol, si sapis,

Quod scis nescis, neque de eunucho, neque de vitio virginis:

Hac re et te omni turba evolves, et illi gratum feceris.

Id odio dic, abisse Dorum.

PYTHIAS

Ita faciam.

DORIAS

Sed videon Chremem?

Thais iam aderit.

PYTHIAS

Quid ita?

DORIAS

Quia cum inde abeo, iam tum inceperat

Turba inter eos.
725

PYTHIAS

Aufer aurum hoc: ego scibo ex hoc quid siet.

PHAEDRIA

(dragging him out.)

Come out, you villain! What, do you lag behind, you runaway? Out with you, you sorry bargain!

DORUS

(crying out.)

Mercy, I do entreat you!

PYTHIAS

Have you caught the fellow, pray?

PHAEDRIA

Caught him, why not?

PYTHIAS

O well done!

DORIAS

Upon my faith that really is capital!

PYTHIAS

Where is he?

PHAEDRIA

Do you ask the question? Don’t you see him?

(Pointing to the EUNUCH.)

PYTHIAS

(staring about.)

See whom, pray?
675

PHAEDRIA

This fellow, to be sure (pointing).

PYTHIAS

What person is this?