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T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 3, scene 6 (search)
ervedly. MEGADORUS What's the matter? EUCLIO Do you ask me what's the matter? You who have filled every corner in my house, for wretched me, with thieves? You who have introduced into my dwelling five hundred cooks, with six hands a-piece, of the race of GeryonOf the race of Geryon: Geryon was a King of Spain, slain by Hercures. He was fabled to have had three heads and three bodies, consequently six hands., whom were Argus to watch, who was eyes all over, that Juno once set as a spy upon Jupiter, he never could watch them; a music-girl besides, who could alone drink up for me the Corinthian fountain of PireneFountain of Pirene: Pirene, the daughter of Acheloüs, on Conchreas her son by Neptune being slain by Diana, pined away, and was changed into a fountain, which was in the Arx Corinthiacus, or Citadel of Corinth, and retained her name., if it were flowing with wine? And then as to provisions---- MEGADORUS Troth, there's enough for a procurerFor a procurer: Who might be presumed
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 4 (search)
ur own pleasure, and yet you've found nothing of yours in my possession. EUCLIO starting. Stop, stop; who was that? Who was the otherWho was the other: This suspicion in Euclio is very natural; and he asks the question very artfully, for the purpose of catching a confession from him by inadvertence. that was within here, together with yourself? Troth, I'm undone; he's now rummaging about within. If I let this one go, he'll escape. At last, I've now searched this one all over; he has got nothing. Be off where you please; Jupiter and the Gods confound you! STROBILUS He returns his thanks not amissThanks not amiss: He says this sarcastically. If he gets such thanks when he has not stolen the treasure, what would he have got supposing that he had?. EUCLIO I'll go in here now, and I'll at once throttle this accomplice of yours. Will you not fly hence from my sight? Will you away from here, or no? STROBILUS I'm off. EUCLIO Take you care, please, how I see you. (He goes into the Temple.)
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 10 (search)
"writ," or "process," by which in action was commenced. against you, unless you make restitution. LYCONIDES Make restitution of what to you? EUCLIO What you've stolen of mine. LYCONIDES I, stolen of yours? Whence, or what is it? EUCLIO So shall Jupiter love you, how ignorant you are about it! LYCONIDES Unless, indeed, you tell me what you are enquiring for. EUCLIO The pot of gold, I say, I'm asking back of you, which you confessed to me that you had taken away. LYCONIDES By my faith, I've neitow who has taken it away, will you discover it to me? LYCONIDES I will do so. EUCLIO Nor accept of a share from him, whoever he is, for yourself, nor harbour the thief? LYCONIDES Even so. EUCLIO What if you deceive me? LYCONIDES Then may great Jupiter do unto me what he pleases. EUCLIO I'm satisfied. Come, then, say what you wish. LYCONIDES If you know me but imperfectly, of what family I'm born: Megadorus here is my uncle; Antimachus was my father; my name is Lyconides; Eunomia is my mother.
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 5, scene 2 (search)
bind me as much as you please. LYCONIDES I will hear you; but hasten the matter very quickly. STROBILUS If you order me to be tortured to death, see what you obtain; in the first place, you have the death of your slave. Then, what you wish for you cannot get. But if you had only allured me by the reward of dear liberty, you would already have obtained your wish. Nature produces all men free, and by nature all desire freedom. Slavery is worse than every evil, than every calamity; and he whom Jupiter hates, him he first makes a slave. LYCONIDES You speak not unwisely STROBILUS Now then hear the rest. Our age has produced masters too grasping, whom I'm in the habit of calling Harpagos, Harpies, and Tantali, poor amid great wealth, and thirsty in the midst of the waters of Ocean; no riches are enough for them, not those of Midas, not of Crœsus; not all the wealth of the Persians can satisfy their Tartarean maw. Masters use their slaves rigorously, and slaves now obey their masters but ta
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 5, scene 3 (search)
o Lyconides, Lyconides makes me a free man, and orders me to be my own master. To LYCONIDES. Do you not promise me so? LYCONIDES I do promise so. STROBILUS Have you heard now what he has said? MEGADORUS We have heard. STROBILUS Swear, then, by Jupiter. LYCONIDES Alas! to what I am reduced by the misfortunes of others! You are too insulting; still, I'll do what he bids me. STROBILUS Hark you, our generation hasn't much confidence in people: the documents are signed; the twelve witnesses are pr registrar writes down the time and the place; and still, the pleader is found to deny that it has been done. LYE. But release me speedily, please. STROBILUS Here, take this stone. Giving him a stone. LYCONIDES If I knowingly deceive you, so may Jupiter reject from me his blessings, the city and citadel safe, as I do this stone. (He throws it. Have I now satisfied you? STROBILUS I am satisfied; and I'm going to bring the gold. LYCONIDES Go with the speed of Pegasus, and return devouring the roa
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 5, scene 5 (search)
LYCONIDES going to the door of EUCLIO'S house. Ho, Eucho, Euclio! MEGADORUS Euclio, Euclio! EUCLIO opening his window. What' the matter? LYCONIDES Come down to us, for the Gods will you to be saved; we've got the pot. EUCLIO Have you got it, or are you trifling with me? LYCONIDES We've got it, I say. Now, if you can, fly down hither. EUCLIO having come out of the house to them. O great Jupiter! O household Divinity and Queen Juno! and Alcides, my treasurer! that at length you do show pity upon a wretched old man. Taking the pot in his arms. O my pot! O how aged I, your friend, do clasp you with joyful arms, and receive you with kisses; with a thousand embraces even I cannot be satisfied. O my hope! my heart! that dissipates my grief. LYCONIDES aside, to MEGADORUS. I always thought that to be in want of gold was the worst thing for both boys and men, and all old people. Indigence compels boys to be guilty of misdeeds, men to thieve, and old men themselves to become beggars. But 'tis
T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 5 (search)
polite.. STALINO What does she say? What's she talking to you about? OLYMPIO She's begging and entreating of me that I won't be taking Casina as my wife. STALINO What did you say after that? OLYMPIO Why, I declared that I wouldn't give way to Jupiter himself, if he were to entreat me. STALINO May the Gods preserve you for me! OLYMPIO She's now all in a ferment; she's swelling so against me. STALINO By my troth, I could like her to burst in the middle. OLYMPIO I' faith, I fancy she will, if indeed you manage cleverly. But your amorousness, i' faith, is a cause of trouble to me; your wife is at enmity with me, your son at enmity, my fellow-servants at enmity. STALINO What matters that to you? So long as pointing to himself this Jupiter only is propitious to you, do you take care and esteem the lesser Gods at a straw's value. OLYMPIO That's great nonsense; as if you didn't know how suddenly your human Jupiters take to dying. So after all, if you, my Jupiter, are dead and gone, when
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 1 (search)
thinking about something else; i' faith, I don't at present catch these words of yours with my ears. ALCESIMARCHUS Not hear? Why, what are you doing? MELAENIS Then do you give heed at once, that you may know what you are doing. ALCESIMARCHUS Then, so may the Gods and Goddesses of above and below, and of middle rankOf middle rank: "Medioxumi." By these are meant the Demigods., and so may Juno the queen and the daughterAnd the daughter: In his confusion he calls Juno, the sister and wife of Jupiter, his daughter. of supreme Jove, and so may Saturn his uncle---- MELAENIS I' troth, his father---- ALCESIMARCHUS And so may Ops the opulent, his grandam---- MELAENIS Indeed, his mother, rather. ALCESIMARCHUS Juno his daughter, and Saturn his uncle, supreme Jove--You are maddening me; it's through you I make these mistakes. MELAENIS Go on saying so. ALCESIMARCHUS Is it that I'm to knowThat I'm to know: According to the suggestion of Rost, the reading "sciam," "I may know," has been preferre
T. Maccius Plautus, Curculio, or The Forgery (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 1 (search)
nquiring whether the door is well or not? PHÆD. I' faith, I've known it as a door most comely and most discreet: never one word does it whisper; when it is opened, it is silent; and when, by night, she secretly comes out to me, it holds its peace. PALINURUS And are you not, Phædromus, doing, or contemplating the doing of, some deed which is unworthy of yourself or of your family? Are you not laying a snare for some modest fair one, or for one that should be modest? PHÆD. For no one; and may Jupiter not permit me to do so. PALINURUS I wish the same. Ever, if you are wise, so bestow your love, that if the public should know the object which you love, it may be no disgrace to you. Ever do you take care that you be not disgracedBe not disgraced: "Intestabilis." One who is, infamous, and whose evidence cannot be taken as a witness in the courts of law. Lambinus suggests that here, as in other instances where the word is used by Plautus, an indelicate pun is intended.. PHÆD. What means th
T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 3 (search)
to call Agathocles by the additional names of Plintias (and not Pintia) from plinto\s, "pottery," as he had exercised the trade of a potter, and of "Liparo," from the Greek luphro/s, "savage," by reason of the cruelty of which he was guilty in the latter part of his life. This notion seems, however, to be more fanciful than well-founded., the third Liparo, who at his death left the kingdom to Hiero--which Hiero is now king? MENAECHMUS SOSICLES You say, madam, what is not untrue. MESSENIO By Jupiter, hasn't this woman come from there, who knows you so readily? MENAECHMUS SOSICLES apart. Troth, I think she must not be denied. MESSENIO apart. Don't you do it. You are undone, if you enter inside her threshold. MENAECHMUS SOSICLES apart. But you only hold your tongue The matter goes on well. I shall assent to the woman, whatever she shall say, if I can get some entertainment. Just now, madam speaking to her in a low voice, I contradicted you not undesignedly; I was afraid of that fellow
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