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T. Maccius Plautus, Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 1 (search)

is she to utter a word of abuse to any one; if she does so speak, let this be her fine, to go for twenty days without wine." DIABOLUS You have written it nicely; a clever agreement. A PARASITE "Then, if she bids her maid-servant carry chaplets, garlands, or unguents, to Venus or to Cupid, your servant is to watch whether she gives them to Venus or to a man. If perchance she should say she wishes to keep herself in purityKeep herself in purity: He probably alludes to the festival of Isis or Ceres, on which occasion it was usual for the female votaries rigidly to separate themselves from the society of men. The translation of the next line is somewhat modified., let her account for as many nights as she has kept herself in purity. These are no trifles; for they are no funeral dirgeNo funeral dirge: "Mortualia" were the songs which hired female mourners sang at funerals; and which, as being especially worthless, were pre-eminently called "nugæ," or "trifles."." DIABOLUS The conditions

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