Alc.

  Quaeso advenienti morbo medicari iube VIII (XII)
  tu certe aut larvatus aut cerritus es.

      For mercy’s sake have this disease treated at the outset;
      you surely are bewitched or crazed.

Alc.

  Nisi hoc ita factum est, proinde ut factum esse autumo, IX (XIII)
  non causam dico quin vero insimules probri.

      If this did not take place just as I state, you have every
      right to accuse me of unchastity.

Amph.

  Cuius? quae me absente corpus volgavit suom.  X (XVI)

      Whose?  A woman that prostituted herself in my absence!

Amph.

  Quid minitabas te facturum, si istas pepulissem fores?  XI (V)

      What were you threatening to do, if I pounded on that door?

Amph.

  Ibi scrobes ecfodito tu plus sexagenos in die.  XII (VI)

      There dig more than sixty ditches a day.

Amph.

  Noli pessimo precari XIII (XVII)

      Don’t intercede for an utter rascal.

Bleph.

  animam comprime XIV (XVIII)

      ——­save your breath.

Iup.
    Jup.

  Manifestum hunc optorto collo teneo furem flagiti XV (IX)

      I have him by the scruff of the neck, an outrageous thief
      caught in the act.

Amph.

  Immo ego hunc, Thebani cives, qui domi uxorem meam XVI (X)
  impudicitia impedivit, teneo, thensaurum stupri

      No, no, Theban citizens, I have him, the monster of lust who
      has brought disgrace on my wife at home.

Amph.

  Nilne te pudet, sceleste, populi in conspectum ingredi?  XVII (VIII)

      Aren’t you at all ashamed, you villain, to come out into
      public sight?

Amph.

  clandestino.  XVIII (XIX)

      ——­clandestinely.

Amph. sive Iup.
    Amph. or Jup.

  Qui nequeas nostrorum uter sit Amphitruo decernere.  XIX (XIV)

      You who are unable to decide which of us is Amphitryon.

IV. 3.

    Scene 3.

Bleph.

  Vos inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est;
  neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo.

      (disgustedly) You must untangle your own selves:  I’m
      going:  I have an engagement. (aside) Never did I see such
      marvels anywhere, I do believe. (turns to go)

Amph.