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(PHAEDRIA. DORIO. ANTIPHO. GETA.)

PHAEDRIA

Dorio, audi,
485

Obsecro.

DORIO

Non audio.

PHAEDRIA

Parumper.

DORIO

Quin omitte me.

PHAEDRIA

Audi quod dicam.

DORIO

At enim taedet iam audire eadem millies.

PHAEDRIA

At nunc dicam quod libenter audias.

DORIO

Loquere, audio.

PHAEDRIA

Nequeo te exorare ut maneas triduum hoc? Quo nunc abis?

DORIO

Mirabar si tu mihi quicquam afferres novi.
490

ANTIPHO

Hei, metuo lenonem ne quid—suo suat capiti.

GETA

Idem ego metuo.

PHAEDRIA

Non mihi credis?

DORIO

Hariolare.

PHAEDRIA

Sin fidem do.

DORIO

Fabulae.

PHAEDRIA

Foeneratum istuc beneficium tibi pulchre dices.

DORIO

Logi.

PHAEDRIA

Crede mihi, gaudebis facto: verum hercle hoc est.

DORIO

Somnia.

PHAEDRIA

Experire; non est longum.
495

DORIO

Cantilenam eandem canis.

PHAEDRIA

Tu mihi cognatus, tu parens, tu amicus, tu—

DORIO

Garri modo.

PHAEDRIA

Adeone ingenio esse duro te atque inexorabili

Ut neque misericordia neque precibus molliri queas?

DORIO

Adeon te esse incogitantem atque impudentem, Phaedria,

Ut phaleratis dictis ducas me, et meam ductes gratiis?
500

ANTIPHO

Miseritum est.

PHAEDRIA

Hei veris vincor.

GETA

Quam uterque est similis sui.

PHAEDRIA

Neque, Antipho alia quum occupatus esset sollicitudine,

Tum hoc esse mihi obiectum malum!

ANTIPHO

Ah, quid istuc autem est, Phaedria?

PHAEDRIA

O fortunatissime Antipho.

ANTIPHO

Egone?

PHAEDRIA

Cui quod amas domi est;

Nec cum huiusmodi unquam usus venit ut conflictares malo.
505

ANTIPHO

Mihin domi est? immo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum.

Nam neque quomodo a me amittam invenio; neque uti retineam scio.

DORIO

Ipsum istuc mihi in hoc est.

ANTIPHO

Heia, ne parum leno sies.

Numquid hic confecit?

PHAEDRIA

Hicine? quod homo inhumanissimus:

Pamphilam meam vendidit.
510

GETA

Quid? vendidit?

ANTIPHO

Aine vendidit?

PHAEDRIA

Vendidit.

DORIO

Quam indignum facinus, ancillam aere emtam suo!

PHAEDRIA

Nequeo exorare ut me maneat, et cum illo ut mutet fidem,

Triduum hoc, dum id quod est promissum ab amicis argentum aufero.

Si tum non dedero, unam praeterea horam ne oppertus sies.

DORIO

Obtundis.
515

ANTIPHO

Haud longum est id quod orat, Dorio: exoret sine:

Idem hoc tibi quod bene promeritus fueris conduplicaverit.

DORIO

Verba istaec sunt.

ANTIPHO

Pamphilamne hac urbe privari sines?

Tum praeterea horunc amorem distrahi poterin pati?

DORIO

Neque ego, neque tu.

GETA

Di tibi omnes id quod es dignus duint.

DORIO

Ego te complures adversum ingenium meum menses tuli
520

Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem, flentem: nunc contra omnia haec,

Repperi qui det neque lacrimet; da locum melioribus.

ANTIPHO

Certe hercle, ego si satis commemini, tibi quidem est olim dies

Quam ad dares huic praestituta.

PHAEDRIA

Factum.

DORIO

Num ego istuc nego?

ANTIPHO

Iam ea praeteriit?
525

DORIO

Non; verum haec ei antecessit.

ANTIPHO

Non pudet

Vanitatis?

DORIO

Minime, dum ob rem.

GETA

Sterquilinium.

PHAEDRIA

Dorio,

Itane tandem facere oportet?

DORIO

Sic sum: si placeo, utere.

ANTIPHO

Sicine hunc decipis?

DORIO

Immo enimvero, Antipho, hic me decipit:

Nam hic me huiusmodi esse scibat; ego hunc esse aliter credidi.

Iste me fefellit; ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui.
530

Sed utut haec sunt, tamen hoc faciam: cras mane argentum mihi

Miles dare se dixit: si mihi prior tu attuleris, Phaedria,

Mea lege utar, ut potior sit qui prior ad dandum est. Vale.

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

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Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 3.2 focus

485 (Enter from DORIO’S house, DORIO, followed by PHAEDRIA.)

PHAEDRIA

Prithee, hear me, Dorio.
485

DORIO

I’ll not hear you.

PHAEDRIA

Only a moment.

DORIO

Let me alone.

PHAEDRIA

Do hear what I have to say.

DORIO

Why really I am tired of hearing the same thing a thousand times over.

PHAEDRIA

But now, I have something to tell you that you’ll hear with pleasure.

DORIO

Speak then; I’m listening.

PHAEDRIA

Can I not prevail on you to wait for only three days? Whither are you going now?

DORIO

I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer.
490

ANTIPHO

(apart, to GETA.)

I’m afraid for this Procurer, lest—

GETA

(apart, to ANTIPHO.)

Something may befall his own safety.¹

PHAEDRIA

You don’t believe me?

DORIO

You guess right.

PHAEDRIA

But if I pledge my word.

DORIO

Nonsense!

PHAEDRIA

You will have reason to say that this kindness was well laid out by you on interest.

DORIO

Stuff!

PHAEDRIA

Believe me, you will be glad you did so; upon my faith, it is the truth.

DORIO

Mere dreams!

PHAEDRIA

Do but try; the time is not long.
495

DORIO

The same story over again.

PHAEDRIA

You will be my kinsman, my father, my friend; you—

DORIO

Now, do prate on.

PHAEDRIA

For you to be of a disposition so harsh and inexorable, that neither by pity nor by entreaties can you be softened!

DORIO

For you to be of a disposition so unreasonable and so unconscionable, Phaedria,

that you can be talking me over with fine words,² and be for amusing yourself with what’s my property for nothing!
500

ANTIPHO

(apart, to GETA.)

I am sorry for him.

PHAEDRIA

(aside.)

Alas! I feel it to be too true.

GETA

(apart, to ANTIPHO.)

How well each keeps up to his character!

PHAEDRIA

(to himself.)

And would that this misfortune had not befallen me at a time when Antipho was occupied with other cares as well.

ANTIPHO

(coming forward.)

Ah Phaedria, why, what is the matter?

PHAEDRIA

O most fortunate Antipho!

ANTIPHO

What, I?

PHAEDRIA

To have in your possession the object of your love,

and have no occasion to encounter such a nuisance as this.
505

ANTIPHO

What I, in my possession? Why yes, as the saying is, I’ve got a wolf by the ears;³ for I neither know how to get rid of her, nor yet how to keep her.

DORIO

That’s just my case with regard to him (pointing to PHAEDRIA).

ANTIPHO

(to DORIO.)

Aye, aye, don’t you show too little of the Procurer. (To PHAEDRIA.) What has he been doing?

PHAEDRIA

What, he? Acting the part of a most inhuman fellow;

been and sold my Pamphila.
510

GETA

What! Sold her?

ANTIPHO

Sold her, say you?

PHAEDRIA

Sold her.

DORIO

(ironically.)

What a shocking crime—a wench bought with one’s own money!

PHAEDRIA

I can not prevail upon him to wait for me the next three days, and so far break off the bargain with the person, while I get the money from my friends, which has been promised me; if I don’t give it him then, let him not wait a single hour longer.

DORIO

Very good.
515

ANTIPHO

It’s not a long time that he asks, Dorio; do let him prevail upon you; he’ll pay you two-fold for having acted to him thus obligingly.

DORIO

Mere words!

ANTIPHO

Will you allow Pamphila to be carried away from this place? And then, besides, can you possibly allow their love to be severed asunder?

DORIO

Neither I nor you cause that.

GETA

May all the Gods grant you what you are deserving of!

DORIO

I have borne with you for several months quite against my inclination; promising and whimpering, and yet bringing nothing; now, on the other hand, I have found one to pay, and not be sniveling; give place to your betters.
520

ANTIPHO

I’ faith, there surely was a day named, if I remember right, for you to pay him.

PHAEDRIA

It is the fact.

DORIO

Do I deny it?

ANTIPHO

Is that day past, then?
525

DORIO

No; but this one has come before it.

ANTIPHO

Are you not ashamed of your perfidy?

DORIO

Not at all, so long as it is for my interest.

GETA

Dunghill!

PHAEDRIA

Dorio, is it right, pray, for you to act thus?

DORIO

It is my way; if I suit you, make use of me.

ANTIPHO

Do you try to trifle with him (pointing to PHAEDRIA) in this manner?

DORIO

Why really, on the contrary, Antipho, it’s he trifling with me, for he knew me to be a person of this sort; I supposed him to be quite a different man;

he has deceived me; I’m not a bit different to him from what I was before. But however that may be, I’ll yet do this; the captain has said, that to-morrow morning he will pay me the money; if you bring it me before that, Phaedria, I’ll follow my rule, that he is the first served who is the first to pay. Farewell! (Goes into his house.)
530

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PHAEDRIA Dorio, audi, 485 Obsecro.

DORIO Non audio.

PHAEDRIA Parumper.

DORIO Quin omitte me.

PHAEDRIA Audi quod dicam.

DORIO At enim taedet iam audire eadem millies.

PHAEDRIA At nunc dicam quod libenter audias.

DORIO Loquere, audio.

PHAEDRIA Nequeo te exorare ut maneas triduum hoc? Quo nunc abis?

DORIO Mirabar si tu mihi quicquam afferres novi. 490

ANTIPHO Hei, metuo lenonem ne quid—suo suat capiti.

GETA Idem ego metuo.

PHAEDRIA Non mihi credis?

DORIO Hariolare.

PHAEDRIA Sin fidem do.

DORIO Fabulae.

PHAEDRIA Foeneratum istuc beneficium tibi pulchre dices.

DORIO Logi.

PHAEDRIA Crede mihi, gaudebis facto: verum hercle hoc est.

DORIO Somnia.

PHAEDRIA Experire; non est longum. 495

DORIO Cantilenam eandem canis.

PHAEDRIA Tu mihi cognatus, tu parens, tu amicus, tu—

DORIO Garri modo.

PHAEDRIA Adeone ingenio esse duro te atque inexorabili Ut neque misericordia neque precibus molliri queas?

DORIO Adeon te esse incogitantem atque impudentem, Phaedria, Ut phaleratis dictis ducas me, et meam ductes gratiis? 500

ANTIPHO Miseritum est.

PHAEDRIA Hei veris vincor.

GETA Quam uterque est similis sui.

PHAEDRIA Neque, Antipho alia quum occupatus esset sollicitudine, Tum hoc esse mihi obiectum malum!

ANTIPHO Ah, quid istuc autem est, Phaedria?

PHAEDRIA O fortunatissime Antipho.

ANTIPHO Egone?

PHAEDRIA Cui quod amas domi est; Nec cum huiusmodi unquam usus venit ut conflictares malo. 505

ANTIPHO Mihin domi est? immo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum. Nam neque quomodo a me amittam invenio; neque uti retineam scio.

DORIO Ipsum istuc mihi in hoc est.

ANTIPHO Heia, ne parum leno sies. Numquid hic confecit?

PHAEDRIA Hicine? quod homo inhumanissimus: Pamphilam meam vendidit. 510

GETA Quid? vendidit?

ANTIPHO Aine vendidit?

PHAEDRIA Vendidit.

DORIO Quam indignum facinus, ancillam aere emtam suo!

PHAEDRIA Nequeo exorare ut me maneat, et cum illo ut mutet fidem, Triduum hoc, dum id quod est promissum ab amicis argentum aufero. Si tum non dedero, unam praeterea horam ne oppertus sies.

DORIO Obtundis. 515

ANTIPHO Haud longum est id quod orat, Dorio: exoret sine: Idem hoc tibi quod bene promeritus fueris conduplicaverit.

DORIO Verba istaec sunt.

ANTIPHO Pamphilamne hac urbe privari sines? Tum praeterea horunc amorem distrahi poterin pati?

DORIO Neque ego, neque tu.

GETA Di tibi omnes id quod es dignus duint.

DORIO Ego te complures adversum ingenium meum menses tuli 520 Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem, flentem: nunc contra omnia haec, Repperi qui det neque lacrimet; da locum melioribus.

ANTIPHO Certe hercle, ego si satis commemini, tibi quidem est olim dies Quam ad dares huic praestituta.

PHAEDRIA Factum.

DORIO Num ego istuc nego?

ANTIPHO Iam ea praeteriit? 525

DORIO Non; verum haec ei antecessit.

ANTIPHO Non pudet Vanitatis?

DORIO Minime, dum ob rem.

GETA Sterquilinium.

PHAEDRIA Dorio, Itane tandem facere oportet?

DORIO Sic sum: si placeo, utere.

ANTIPHO Sicine hunc decipis?

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PHAEDRIA Prithee, hear me, Dorio. 485

DORIO I’ll not hear you.

PHAEDRIA Only a moment.

DORIO Let me alone.

PHAEDRIA Do hear what I have to say.

DORIO Why really I am tired of hearing the same thing a thousand times over.

PHAEDRIA But now, I have something to tell you that you’ll hear with pleasure.

DORIO Speak then; I’m listening.

PHAEDRIA Can I not prevail on you to wait for only three days? Whither are you going now?

DORIO I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer. 490

ANTIPHO (apart, to GETA.) I’m afraid for this Procurer, lest—

GETA (apart, to ANTIPHO.) Something may befall his own safety. 1

PHAEDRIA You don’t believe me?

DORIO You guess right.

PHAEDRIA But if I pledge my word.

DORIO Nonsense!

PHAEDRIA

Dorio, audi,
485

Obsecro.

DORIO

Non audio.

PHAEDRIA

Parumper.

DORIO

Quin omitte me.

PHAEDRIA

Audi quod dicam.

DORIO

At enim taedet iam audire eadem millies.

PHAEDRIA

At nunc dicam quod libenter audias.

DORIO

Loquere, audio.

PHAEDRIA

Nequeo te exorare ut maneas triduum hoc? Quo nunc abis?

DORIO

Mirabar si tu mihi quicquam afferres novi.
490

ANTIPHO

Hei, metuo lenonem ne quid—suo suat capiti.

GETA

Idem ego metuo.

PHAEDRIA

Non mihi credis?

DORIO

Hariolare.

PHAEDRIA

Sin fidem do.

DORIO

Fabulae.

PHAEDRIA

Foeneratum istuc beneficium tibi pulchre dices.

DORIO

Logi.

PHAEDRIA

Crede mihi, gaudebis facto: verum hercle hoc est.

DORIO

Somnia.

PHAEDRIA

Experire; non est longum.
495

DORIO

Cantilenam eandem canis.

PHAEDRIA

Tu mihi cognatus, tu parens, tu amicus, tu—

DORIO

Garri modo.

PHAEDRIA

Adeone ingenio esse duro te atque inexorabili

Ut neque misericordia neque precibus molliri queas?

DORIO

Adeon te esse incogitantem atque impudentem, Phaedria,

Ut phaleratis dictis ducas me, et meam ductes gratiis?
500

ANTIPHO

Miseritum est.

PHAEDRIA

Hei veris vincor.

GETA

Quam uterque est similis sui.

PHAEDRIA

Neque, Antipho alia quum occupatus esset sollicitudine,

Tum hoc esse mihi obiectum malum!

ANTIPHO

Ah, quid istuc autem est, Phaedria?

PHAEDRIA

O fortunatissime Antipho.

ANTIPHO

Egone?

PHAEDRIA

Cui quod amas domi est;

Nec cum huiusmodi unquam usus venit ut conflictares malo.
505

ANTIPHO

Mihin domi est? immo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum.

Nam neque quomodo a me amittam invenio; neque uti retineam scio.

DORIO

Ipsum istuc mihi in hoc est.

ANTIPHO

Heia, ne parum leno sies.

Numquid hic confecit?

PHAEDRIA

Hicine? quod homo inhumanissimus:

Pamphilam meam vendidit.
510

GETA

Quid? vendidit?

ANTIPHO

Aine vendidit?

PHAEDRIA

Vendidit.

DORIO

Quam indignum facinus, ancillam aere emtam suo!

PHAEDRIA

Nequeo exorare ut me maneat, et cum illo ut mutet fidem,

Triduum hoc, dum id quod est promissum ab amicis argentum aufero.

Si tum non dedero, unam praeterea horam ne oppertus sies.

DORIO

Obtundis.
515

ANTIPHO

Haud longum est id quod orat, Dorio: exoret sine:

Idem hoc tibi quod bene promeritus fueris conduplicaverit.

DORIO

Verba istaec sunt.

ANTIPHO

Pamphilamne hac urbe privari sines?

Tum praeterea horunc amorem distrahi poterin pati?

DORIO

Neque ego, neque tu.

GETA

Di tibi omnes id quod es dignus duint.

DORIO

Ego te complures adversum ingenium meum menses tuli
520

Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem, flentem: nunc contra omnia haec,

Repperi qui det neque lacrimet; da locum melioribus.

ANTIPHO

Certe hercle, ego si satis commemini, tibi quidem est olim dies

Quam ad dares huic praestituta.

PHAEDRIA

Factum.

DORIO

Num ego istuc nego?

ANTIPHO

Iam ea praeteriit?
525

DORIO

Non; verum haec ei antecessit.

ANTIPHO

Non pudet

Vanitatis?

DORIO

Minime, dum ob rem.

GETA

Sterquilinium.

PHAEDRIA

Dorio,

Itane tandem facere oportet?

DORIO

Sic sum: si placeo, utere.

ANTIPHO

Sicine hunc decipis?

PHAEDRIA

Prithee, hear me, Dorio.
485

DORIO

I’ll not hear you.

PHAEDRIA

Only a moment.

DORIO

Let me alone.

PHAEDRIA

Do hear what I have to say.

DORIO

Why really I am tired of hearing the same thing a thousand times over.

PHAEDRIA

But now, I have something to tell you that you’ll hear with pleasure.

DORIO

Speak then; I’m listening.

PHAEDRIA

Can I not prevail on you to wait for only three days? Whither are you going now?

DORIO

I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer.
490

ANTIPHO

(apart, to GETA.)

I’m afraid for this Procurer, lest—

GETA

(apart, to ANTIPHO.)

Something may befall his own safety.¹

PHAEDRIA

You don’t believe me?

DORIO

You guess right.

PHAEDRIA

But if I pledge my word.

DORIO

Nonsense!

PHAEDRIA

You will have reason to say that this kindness was well laid out by you on interest.

DORIO

Stuff!

PHAEDRIA

Believe me, you will be glad you did so; upon my faith, it is the truth.