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T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 4 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 3 (search)
either with due propriety follow your mother as an attendant; nor will I allow it. CHARINUS But why? DEMIPHO Because, with those good looks, it would be scandalous if she were to be following a matron when she's walking through the streets; all people would be staring, gazing, nodding, winking, hissing, twitching, crying out, be annoying, and singing serenades at our door; my door, perhaps, would be filled with the charcoal marksWith the charcoal marks: Colman, who translated this Play in Thornton's edition, has this Note here: "Some consider these words as alluding to defamatory, rather than commendatory verses, alleging that praise was written in chalk, and scandal in coal. 'Ilia prius chartâ, mox hæc carbone.' I have followed the opinion, however, of other Commentators, who suppose that in these cases chalk, or coal, or lighted torches, were used indiscriminately, according to the colour of the ground--as a Poet would write a panegyric in black ink upon white paper, or a lover del