Illic homo aedis compilavit, more si fecit suo.
  vae illi, qui tam indiligenter observavit ianuam.

      (aside) The fellow’s been robbing a house if he’s acted
      naturally.  Lord help the poor devil that minded the door so
      carelessly!

Leon.

  Aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut conveniam modo.

      I’d be willing to slave it all my life, only let me meet
      Libanus.

Lib.

  Mea quidem hercle opera liber numquam fies ocius.

      (aside) By Jove, you’ll never be free a minute sooner for
      any help you get from me.

Leon.

  Etiam de tergo ducentas plagas praegnatis dabo.

      I’ll even give two hundred swollen welts from off my back to
      see him.

Lib.

  Largitur peculium, omnem in tergo thensaurum gerit.

      (aside) He’s generous with what he has:  carries all his
      coffers on his back.

Leon.

Nam si huic sese occasioni tempus supterduxerit, numquam edepol quadrigis albis indipiscet postea; erum in obsidione linquet, inimicum animos auxerit. 280 sed si mecum occasionem opprimere hanc, quae obvenit, studet, maximas opimitates, gaudio exfertissimas suis eris ille una mecum pariet, gnatoque et patri, adeo ut aetatem ambo ambobus nobis sint obnoxii, nostro devincti beneficio.

For if this chance is let slide, he’ll never catch it again, by Jove, not with a chariot and four, white[D] horses.  He’ll be leaving his master under siege and increasing the courage of his enemies.  But if he’s ready to take part with me and pounce on this opportunity that’s turned up, he’ll be my partner in hatching the biggest, joy-stuffedest jubilee that ever was for his masters, son and father both, yes, and put the pair of ’em under obligations to the pair of us for life, too, chained tight by our services.

        [Footnote D:  White horses were supposed to be the fastest.]

Lib.

  Vinctos nescio quos ait;
  non placet:  metuo, in commune ne quam fraudem frausus sit.

      (aside) Chained, he says:  some one or other chained! 
      I don’t like it.  I’m afraid he’s been trumping up some
      trumpery that’ll involve the both of us.

Leon.

  Perii ego oppido, nisi Libanum invenio iam, ubiubi est gentium.

      (quivering with excitement) I’m absolutely done for, if I
      don’t find Libanus at once, wherever he is.

Lib.

  Illic homo socium ad malam rem quaerit quem adiungat sibi.
  non placet:  pro monstro extemplo est, quando qui sudat tremit.

      That chap’s after a mate to yoke with in a race for a
      thrashing.  I don’t like it! it means something bad soon,
      when a man in a sweat shivers.