P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Andria: The Fair Andrian, TLN line 941

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¹ with me, which keeps me in suspense.

PAMPHILUS
aside. You deserve to be ----, with your scruples, you plague. You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.

1 One difficulty: “"Scrupus,"” or "scrupulus," was properly a stone or small piece of gravel which, getting into the shoe, hurt the foot; hence the word figuratively came to mean a "scruple," "difficulty," or "doubt." We have a similar expression: "to be graveled."

The Comedies of Terence. Henry Thomas Riley. Ney York. Harper and Brothers. 1874.

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