Section 37

Question 1

Redeo nunc ad te, Caeli, vicissim ac mihi auctoritatem patriam severitatemque suscipio.

Answer 1

I turn now to you in due turn, Caelius, and I take up for myself the authority and harshness of a father.

Question 2

Sed dubito quem patrem potissimum sumam, Caecilianumne aliquem vehementem atque durum:

Answer 2

But I am in doubt as to which father in particular I will take up, some bad-tempered and stern Caecilius type/ (father typical comedies of Caecilius):

Question 3

‘Nunc enim demum mi animus ardet, nunc meum cor cumulatur ira’ aut illum: ‘O infelix, o sceleste’

Answer 3

‘For now at last my mind blazes , now my heart is filled with anger’, or that well-known one: ‘o wretched man, o wicked man’

Question 4

Ferrei sunt isti patres, ‘egon quid dicam? egone quid velim? quae tu omnia tuis foedis factis facis ut nequiquam velim,’

Answer 4

Such fathers are made of iron, ‘What am I to say? What am I to wish for? By your dirty deeds you make me wish in vain for all these things,’

Question 5

vix ferendi. diceret talis pater: ‘Cur te istam vicinitatem meretriciam contulisti? Cur illecebris cognitis non refugisti?’

Answer 5

[These fathers] are scarcely to be borne: such a father might have said: ‘Why did you take yourself to the vicinity of that prostitute? Why did you not recoil when you recognised her enticements?’

Question 6

‘Cur alienam ullam mulierem nosti? dide ac disice;’ per me licebit. si egebis, tibi dolebit.

Answer 6

‘Why did you become acquainted with another man’s woman? Scatter and squander [your money];’ you will be allowed, as far as I am concerned. If you will be in need, it will pain you [not me].

Question 7

‘mihi sat est qui aetatis quod relicuom est oblectem meae.’

Answer 7

‘It is enough for me that I enjoy what is left of my life.’