e. Now I can't decide whether
to leave or stay, advance or retreat. By Jove, I don't know
what to do!

IV. 10

Scene 10.

_Eucl._

Quis homo hic loquitur?

(_hearing sound of voice only_) Who's that talking here?

_Lyc._

Ego sum miser.

(_stepping forward_) I'm the poor wretch, sir.

_Eucl._

Immo ego sum, et misere perditus,
cui tanta mala maestitudoque optigit.

No, no, I'm the poor wretch, a poor ruined wretch, with all
this trouble and tribulation.

_Lyc._

Animo bono es.

Keep your courage up, sir.

_Eucl._

Quo, obsecro, pacto esse possum?

For heaven's sake how can I?

_Lyc._

Quia istuc facinus, quod tuom
sollicitat animum, id ego feci et fateor.

Well, sir, that outrage that distresses you--(_hesitantly_)
I'm to blame, and I confess it, sir.

_Eucl._

Quid ego ex te audio?

Hey? What's that?

_Lyc._

Id quod verumst.

The truth.

_Eucl._

Quid ego de te commerui, adulescens, mali.
quam ob rem ita faceres meque meosque perditum ires liberos?

How have I ever harmed you, young man, for you to act like
this and try to ruin me and my children?

_Lyc._

Deus impulsor mihi fuit, is me ad illam inlexit.

It was some demon got hold of me, sir, and led me on.

_Eucl._

Quo modo?

How is this?

_Lyc._

Fateor peccavisse et me culpam commeritum scio;
id adeo te oratum advenio ut animo aequo ignoscas mihi.

I admit I've done wrong, sir; I deserve your reproaches,
and I know it; more than that, I've come to beg you to be
patient and forgive me.

_Eucl._

Cur id ausu's facere, ut id quod non tuom esset tangeres? 740

How did you dare do it, dare touch what didn't belong to you?

_Lyc._

Quid vis fieri? factum est illud: fieri infectum non potest.
deos credo voluisse; nam ni vellent, nori fieret, scio.

(_penitently_) Well, well, sir,--it's done, and it can't
be undone. I think it must have been fated; otherwise it
wouldn't have happened, I'm sure of that.

_Eucl._

At ego deos credo voluisse ut apud me te in nervo enicem.

Yes, and I think it must have been fated that I'm to shackle
you at my house and murder you!

_Lyc._

Ne istuc dixis.

Don't say that, sir.

_Eucl._

Quid tibi ergo meam me invito tactiost?

Then why did you