,
ut ipsus in gremio osculantem mulierem teneat sedens?
nullo pacto res mandata potest agi, nisi identidem
manus ferat ei ad papillas, labra a labris nusquam auferat? 480

(_sharply_) Does executing this commission for his friend,
and doing it zealously, call for his sitting down and
holding the girl in his lap while she kisses him? Is there
no way of his carrying out this commission save by his
embracing her time and again in unseemly fashion and never
taking his lips an inch from hers?

nam alia memorare quae illum facere vidi dispudet:
cum manum sub vestimenta ad corpus tetulit Bacchidi
me praesente, neque pudere quicquam. quid verbis opust?
mini discipulus, tibi sodalis periit, huic filius;
nam ego illum periisse dico quoi quidem periit pudor.[17] (485)

Why, I feel ashamed to mention other things I saw him do,
dreadful, dreadful things, in my presence--and never a trace
of shame about him. Why say more? My pupil, your chum, this
father's son, has perished; for perished I say he has, when
his sense of shame has perished.[17]

_Mnes._

Perdidisti me, sodalis. egone ut illam mulierem (489)
capitis non perdam? perire me malis malim modis. 490
satin ut quem tu habeas fidelem tibi aut cui credas nescias?

You've wrecked my life, (_with special acrimony_) chum! Oh,
won't I wreck that woman's! I'd rather die a dog's death
than not get even with her! Can it really be you don't know
whom to think loyal to you, whom to trust?

_Lydus_

Viden ut aegre patitur gnatum esse corruptum tuom,
suom sodalem, ut ipsus sese cruciat aegritudine?

(_to Philoxenus_) Do you see how he suffers at your son, his
chum, being corrupted; how his very soul is tormented?

_Phil._

Mnesiloche, hoc tecum oro, ut illius animum atque ingenium regas;
serva tibi sodalem et mihi filium.

Mnesilochus, try to control the lad's impulses and
disposition, I beg you. Save your chum for yourself and
my son for me.

_Mnes._

Factum volo.

(_vehemently_) I wish I might!

_Lydus_

Melius esset, me quoque una si cum illo relinqueres.

(_to Philoxenus_) It would be better for you to leave me
with him, too.

_Phil._

Adfatim est.

No, no, he'll manage.

_Lydus_

Mnesiloche, cura, ei, concastiga hominem probe,