tque hunc suspicabar propter crimen, Chrysale,
mi male consuluisse: ob eam rem omne aurum, iratus reddidi
meo patri.

(_awkwardly_) I heard a charge made, Chrysalus, and
suspected Bacchis and Pistoclerus here of plotting against
me: so I got angry and handed all the money over to my
father.

_Chrys._

Quid, ubi reddebas aurum, dixisti patri?

What did you tell your father when you handed it over?

_Mnes._

Me id aurum accepisse extemplo ab hospite Archidemide.

That I had received it on demand from his friend
Archidemides.

_Chrys._

Em,
istoc dicto dedisti hodie in cruciatum Chrysalum;
nam ubi me aspiciet, ad carnuficem rapiet continuo senex.

(_grimly_) Aha! And gave Chrysalus over to torment by the
statement; for when he sets eyes on me the old man will
promptly hale me off to the public torturer.

_Mnes._

Ego patrem exoravi.

(_hurriedly_ I persuaded him.

_Chrys._

Nempe ergo hoc ut faceret quod loquor?

(_dryly_) Indeed? To do what I'm saying, I take it?

_Mnes._

Immo tibi ne noceat neu quid ob eam rem suscenseat; 690
atque aegre impetravi. nunc hoc tibi curandumst, Chrysale.

No, no, not to harm you, or be at all angry with you for
what you did; and a hard time I had getting it out of him,
too. (_pauses, then in flattering manner_) Here's what
you must see to now, Chrysalus.

_Chrys._

Quid vis curem?

(_sourly_) What do you want me to see to?

_Mnes._

Ut ad senem etiam alteram facias viam.
compara, fabricare finge quod lubet, conglutina,
ut senem hodie doctum docte fallas aurumque auferas.

To making another march still against the old man. Use your
ideas, your devices, your craft, any way you please, stick
together some clever scheme to fool the clever old fellow
to-day and get away with the gold.

_Chrys._

Vix videtur fieri posse.

It hardly looks possible to me.

_Mnes._

Perge, ac facile ecfeceris.

You go ahead, and you'll carry it through easily.

_Chrys._

Quam, malum, facile, quem mendaci prendit manufesto modo?
quem si orem ut mihi nil credat, id non ausit credere.

Easily, eh, curse it? A man that has caught me in a
barefaced lie? A man that, if I should beg him not to
believe me in a thing, wouldn't dare to believe even that!

_Mnes._