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T. Maccius Plautus, Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 3, scene 2 (search)
e on the couch; you know that I'm a man for the lower seats. EPIGNOMUS But these are deputies of a people, tip-top men they come here as public ambassadors from AmbraciaFrom Ambracia: Ambracia was a city of Epirus, on the Western coast of Greece.. GELASIMUS Let then the deputies of a people, your tip-top men, recline at the tip-Ambracia: Ambracia was a city of Epirus, on the Western coast of Greece.. GELASIMUS Let then the deputies of a people, your tip-top men, recline at the tip-top place; I, the lowest, in the lowest quarter. EPIGNOMUS It isn't proper for you to be entertained among deputies. GELASIMUS I 'faith, and I--I'm a deputy, tooI'm a deputy, too: He puns on the word "orator," which signifies "a pleader" or "orator," as well as an "ambassador" or "deputy." He says that he is a pleader too (for tAmbracia was a city of Epirus, on the Western coast of Greece.. GELASIMUS Let then the deputies of a people, your tip-top men, recline at the tip-top place; I, the lowest, in the lowest quarter. EPIGNOMUS It isn't proper for you to be entertained among deputies. GELASIMUS I 'faith, and I--I'm a deputy, tooI'm a deputy, too: He puns on the word "orator," which signifies "a pleader" or "orator," as well as an "ambassador" or "deputy." He says that he is a pleader too (for the cause of his own stomach), but all to no purpose., but little it does avail me. EPIGNOMUS I intend that to-morrow we shall dine upon the scraps. Sincerely, farewell. Goes into his house. GELASIMUS By my troth, 'tis clear that I'm undone, and by no fault of my ownsBy no fault of my own: "Nihil obnoxie," "by reason of no fault