st, illaec aetas si quid illorum facit,
quam si non faciat. feci ego istaec itidem in adulescentia. 410

Gently, gently, Lydus! "Ire restrained is wisdom gained."
It's less surprising to have a youngster up to something of
that kind than not. I've done the same sort of thing myself
in my younger days.

_Lydus_

Ei mihi, ei mihi, istaec illum perdidit assentatio
nam absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum
nunc propter te tuamque pravos factus est fiduciam
Pistoclerus.

Oh-h-h dear, oh dear! It is that very tolerance that has
been his undoing. Why, but for you, I should have made a
good moral man of him: as it is, you and your support have
made a debauchee of Pistoclerus.

_Mnes._

Di immortales, meum sodalem hic nominat.
quid hoc negoti est, Pistoclerum Lydus quod erum tam ciet?

(_aside_) Good God! My chum's name! What does this mean--
Lydus running down his master Pistoclerus so?

_Phil._

Paulisper, Lyde est libido homini suo animo obsequi;
iam aderit tempus, cum sese etiam ipse oderit. morem geras;
dum caveatur, praeter aequom ne quid delinquat, sine.

A man's eager to have his fling for a little while, Lydus;
the time will soon come when he'll actually loathe himself
for it. Give him rein; so long as he's careful not to go too
far in his indiscretions, why, let him be.

_Lydus_

Non sino, neque equidem illum me vivo corrumpi sinam.
sed tu, qui pro tam corrupto dicis causam filio, 420
eademne erat haec disciplina tibi, cum tu adulescens eras?
nego tibi hoc annis viginti fuisse primis copiae,
digitum longe a paedagogo pedem ut efferres aedibus.

I will not let him be, no, nor let him be corrupted and live
to see it, never! But you--with your pleas for a son so
corrupted--was your own training of this same sort when you
were a young man? I say no, I say you never had a chance
during the first twenty years of your life to stir a single
finger's breadth from the house without your tutor.

ante solem exorientem nisi in palaestram veneras,
gymnasi praefecto haud mediocris poenas penderes.
id quom optigerat, hoc etiam ad malum accersebatur malum:
et discipulus et magister perhibebantur improbi.
ibi cursu luctando hasta disco pugilatu pila
saliendo sese exercebant magis quam scorto aut saviis:
ibi sua