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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 4 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 2 0 Browse Search
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio, or The Scheming Parasite (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 2 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 7 (search)
DES Could I, my mother, tell a falsehood in your presence? PHÆDRA cries out in labour, in EUCLIO'S house. I die, my nurse; my pangs are coming on! I entreat thee for thy protection, Juno LucinaJuno Lucina: Juno Lucina was the Goddess who presided over childbirth. Some suppose that the Goddess Diana was called by that name; but (although Diana was also addressed by parturient females) it is more likely that Juno was addressed under the title. A similar circumstance to this takes place in the Andria and the Adelphi of Terence.! LYCONIDES Ah! my mother, I see a more convincing proof for you; she's crying aloud--she's in the pangs of labour. EUNOMIA Come in-doors here, with me, my son, to my brother, that I may obtain a grant from him of that which you beg of me. LYCONIDES Go; I'll follow you this instant, mother. EUNOMIA goes into the house. But my servant, Strobilus, I wonder where he is, whom I ordered to wait here for me. Now I reflect with myself, if he's lending me his assistance, i
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio, or The Scheming Parasite (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 1 (search)
f my family, no doubt, to whom, at my departure, I intrusted my son. GETA For some minutes past I've heard you accusing all of us undeservedly; and me the most undeservedly of them all; for what would you have had me do for you in this affair? The laws do not allow a person who is a slave to plead; nor is there any giving evidenceAny giving evidence)--Ver. 293. Slaves were neither allowed to plead for themselves, nor to give evidence. See the Curculio of Plautus, 1. 621, and the Notes to the Andria. on his part. DEMIPHO I grant all that: I admit this too--the young man, unused to courts, was bashful; I allow it: you, too, are a slave: still, if she was ever so near a relative, it was not necessary for him to marry her, but as the law enjoins, you might have given her a portion;Given her a portion)--Ver. 297. By this remark, Donatus observes that Terence artfully prepares us for the imposition of Phormio, who extorts money fiom the old gentleman on this very ground. she could have looke
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A discourse of the honourable receiving into England of the first Ambassador from the Emperor of Russia, in the yeere of Christ 1556. and in the third yeere of the raigne of Queen Marie, serving for the third voyage to Moscovie. Registred by Master John Incent Pro tonotarie. (search)
delivered unto him at his first arrivall. 1 First, a chaine of golde of one hundred pound. 2 Item, a large Bason and Ewer, silver and gilt. 3 Item, a paire of pottle pots gilt. 4 Item, a paire of flaggons gilt. The names of all such Russies as were attendant upon the Ambassadour, at and before his departure out of England. Isaak Fwesscheneke. Demetre. Gorbolones. Symonde. Yeroffia. Stephen. Lowca. Andria . Foma. Memorandum, the day and yeere of our Lord above mentioned, in the house of the worshipfull John Dimmocke Citizen and Draper of London, situate within the famous Citie of London in the Realme of England, the above named honourable Osep Gregorywich Napea Ambassadour and Orator above mentioned, personally constituted and present, having declared unto him by the mouth of the right worshipfull master Anthonie Hussie Esquire, the effect of the causes and contents, of, and in
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The names of all such Russies as were attendant upon the Ambassadour, at and before his departure out of England. (search)
The names of all such Russies as were attendant upon the Ambassadour, at and before his departure out of England. Isaak Fwesscheneke. Demetre. Gorbolones. Symonde. Yeroffia. Stephen. Lowca. Andria . Foma.