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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, Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 2 (search)
nd if I had come hither to you for any other purpose, you request what is right. CALLICLES If you have anything to say, I am waiting for it. MEGARONIDES Then, first of all, you are badly spoken of in general conversation by the public. Your fellow-citizens are calling you greedy of grovelling gainGreedy of grovelling gain: Plautus makes this into one word 'turpilucricupidum." Probably it was used as a nickname for avaricious persons. It is here attempted to be expressed by an alliteration. Thornton renders it "Gripeall."; and then, again, there are others who nickname you a vultureA vulture: Both on account of the sordid and greedy habits of that bird, and because, as is stated in the next line, it cares not which side supplies its maw when it follows the course of contending armies., and say that you care but little whether you devour enemies or fellow-citizens. Since I have heard these things said against you, I have, to my misery, been sadly agitated. CALLICLES It is, and it is no
T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 4 (search)
alent to "go and be hanged.". STASIMUS Faith, if I should commence to go, you would be forbidding meBe forbidding me: He means, that if he should take his master at his word and go away, he would be the first to stop him.. LESBONICUS Unless you want me, Philto, for anything else, I have given you my answer. PHILTO I trust, Lesbonicus, that you will one day be more obliging to me than I now find you to be. For both to actBoth to act: -2. The exact meaning of these lines is somewhat obscure. Thornton's translation is: Or in word Or deed to play the trifler would ill suit One of my years. unwisely and to talk unwisely, Lesbonicus, are sometimes neither of them profitable. STASIMUS Troth, he says what's true. LESBONICUS I will tear out your eye if you add one word. STASIMUS Troth, but I will talk; for if I may not be allowed to do so as I am, then I will submit to be called the one-eyed manThe one-eyed man: He means that he is determined to speak out at all risks, even if his master sho