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Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lycurgus, Speeches | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 3, scene 1 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 1 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 3 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 1 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE SUBJECT. (search)
THE SUBJECT.
THIS Play (which is thought by some not to have been the composition of Plautus) describes the follies of a vicious old man and his son. Two years before the period when the Play opens, Charinus has been sent by his father Demipho to traffic at Rhodes. Returning thence, he brings with him a young woman, named Pasicompsa, who is in reality his mistress, but whom he pretends to have purchased for the purpose of her being an attendant upon his mother. Demipho, in the absence of his son, goes down to the ship, and seeing the young woman there, falls desperately in love with her. He then pretends to Charinus that she is too handsome to be brought into the house as a servant, and that she must be sold again. Insisting upon this, he persuades his friend, Lysimachus, to purchase her for him in his own name, and to take her to his own house. This being done, and the damsel brought to the house, the wife of Lysimachus unexpectedly returns home from the country, and finds her there