Ubi is obiit mortem qui mihi id aurum credidit, coepi observare, ecqui maiorem filus mihi honorem haberet quam eius habuisset pater. atque ille vero minus minusque impendio curare minusque me impertire honoribus. item a me contra factum est, nam item obiit diem. 20 is ex se hunc reliquit qui hic nunc habitat filium pariter moratum ut pater avosque huius fuit.

After the death of him who had committed the gold to my keeping, I began to observe whether the son would hold me in greater honour than his father had.  As a matter of fact, his neglect grew and grew apace, and he showed me less honour.  I did the same by him:  so he also died.  He left a son who occupies this house at present, a man of the same mould as his sire and grandsire.

huic filia una est. ea mihi cottidie aut ture aut vino aut aliqui semper supplicat, dat mihi coronas. eius honoris gratia feci, thensaurum ut hic reperiret Euclio, quo illam facilius nuptum, si vellet, daret nam eam compressit de summo adulescens loco. is scit adulescens quae sit quam compresserit, illa illum nescit, neque compressam autem pater. 30

He has one daughter.  She prays to me constantly, with daily gifts of incense, or wine, or something; she gives me garlands.  Out of regard for her I caused Euclio to discover the treasure here in order that he might the more easily find her a husband, if he wished.  For she has been ravished by a young gentleman of very high rank.  He knows who it is that he has wronged; who he is she does not know, and as for her father, he is ignorant of the whole affair.

Eam ego hodie faciam ut hic senex de proxumo sibi uxorem poscat. id ea faciam gratia, quo ille eam facilius ducat qui compresserat. et hic qui poscet eam sibi uxorem senex, is adulescentis illius est avonculus, qui illam stupravit noctu, Cereris vigiliis.

I shall make the old gentleman who lives next door here (pointing) ask for her hand to-day.  My reason for so doing is that the man who wronged her may marry her the more easily.  And the old gentleman who is to ask for her hand is the uncle of the young gentleman who violated her by night at the festival of Ceres.

  sed hic senex iam clamat intus ut solet.
  anum foras extrudit, ne sit conscia.
  credo aurum inspicere volt, ne subreptum siet.

(an uproar in Euclio’s house) But there is old Euclio clamouring within as usual, and turning his ancient servant out of doors lest she learn his secret.  I suppose he wishes to look at his gold and see that it is not stolen. [EXIT.

ACTVS I

    ACT I

Eucl.

  Exi, inquam. age exi. exeundum hercle tibi hinc est foras, 40
  circumspectatrix cum oculis emissicus.