Millionaire's Dinner Party Chapter 4 Translation Flashcards
Hoc ferculo ablato, Trimalchio surrexit et triclinio discessit. nos, libertatem sine tyranno nacti, coepimus inter nos colloqui.
When this dish had been taken away, Trimalchio got up and left. Having obtained liberty without a tyrant, we began to converse among ourselves.
itaque Dama primus, potione rogata, ‘dies’ inquit ‘nihil est. dum versas te, nox fit. itaque nihil est melius quam de cubiculo recta in triclinium ire.
Therefore Darma first, having asked for a drink said “this day is nothing while you turn around it becomes night. There is nothing better than going straight from the bedroom into the dining room.
et acre frigus habuimus. vix me balneum calfecit. calida tamen potio vestiarius est. plurimum bibi et plane madidus sum. vinum in caput meum abiit”
We had a winter/bitter cold, the bath hardly warmed me up. However, a hot drink is as good as an overcoat, I have drunk loads and I am completely drunk, the wine has gone to my head.”
quibus auditis Seleucus ‘ego’ inquit ‘non cotidie lavor; balneum enim corpus dilacerat, aqua dentes habet. neque lavari potui; ivi enim hodie ad funus.
On hearing which Selecus said “I do not take a bath everyday for the bath tears my body to pieces, the water has teeth. Nor was I able to bathe for I went to a funeral today.
homo bellus, tam bonus Chrysanthus, diem suum obiit. modo, modo me salutavit. videor mihi etiam nunc cum eo loqui.
A nice man, so good of a man Chrysanthus met his end. Just lately he greeted me, I think I can talk to him even now.
heu, eheu! utres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus; muscae tamen aliquam virtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.
Alas, alas! We walk with inflated balloons. we are smaller than flies however flies have some goodness we are of no more value than bubbles.
et quid eum iuvit quod cibo abstinuit? quinque dies aquam in os suum non coniecit, non micam panis. tamen abiit ad plures.
And what helped him was that he abstained from food? For five days he did not throw a drop of water in his mouth, not a crumb of bread. However he went to the dead.
medici eum perdiderunt, immo malum fatum; medicus enim nihil aliud est
quam animi consolatio.
The doctors destroyed him, or rather bad luck. For a physician is nothing other than a comfort for the soul.
tamen bene elatus est. planctus est optime, etiam si maligne ploravit uxor. sed mulieres sunt pessimum genus.
However, he was well buried. He was mourned very well even if his wife didn’t cry much but women are the worst kind,
nemo debet eis bene facere; aeque est ac si bona in puteum conicis.’
no one ought to do them well, it is good just to throw goods into a well.
molestus fuit, et Phileros eo audito proclamavit: ‘vivorum
meminerimus’
It was troublesome and when Phileros heard it he proclaimed “let us remember the living”
ille habet quod sibi debebatur; honeste vixit, honeste obiit. quid habet quod queratur? ab asse crevit et paratus fuit quadrantem de stercore dentibus tollere. itaque crevit tamquam favus. mehercule, reliquit solida centum, et omnia in nummis habuit.’
He got what he was owed; he lived honourably, he died honourable. What has he got to grumble about? He grew from one penny and was prepared to pick up a quarter from the dung with his teeth. And so he grew just like a honeycomb, by Hercules he left a solid hundred and he had everything in cash.
