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Pella (Greece) (search for this): act 2, scene 2
y with myself you may learn this. LIBANUS I'm silent, then. LEONIDA You oblige me. Don't you remember that our chamberlain sold some Arcadian asses to a dealer of PellaDealer of Pella: Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great? LIBANUS I remember iPella: Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great? LIBANUS I remember it; after that, what then? LEONIDA Well, he has sent some money here then to be paid to Saurea, for the asses; a young man has just now come who has brought this money. LIBANUS Where is this person? LEONIDA You think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him. LIBANUS Aye, to be sure. But, however, you are speaking, Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great? LIBANUS I remember it; after that, what then? LEONIDA Well, he has sent some money here then to be paid to Saurea, for the asses; a young man has just now come who has brought this money. LIBANUS Where is this person? LEONIDA You think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him. LIBANUS Aye, to be sure. But, however, you are speaking, I suppose, of those asses, aged and lame, whose hoofs were quite worn away to their very thighs? LEONIDA Those same ones, that carried the elm twigs hither from the country, for your use. LIBANUS I understand you; and the same ones carried you from here, bound, into the countryBound, into the country: Namely, to the "ergastulum,"
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): act 2, scene 2
um, the young one is here in-doors. LEONIDA That's enough for me then. LIBANUS Is it then that you've become a rich man? LEONIDA Leave off your raillery. LIBANUS I'll have done; for my ears are in expectation of what you are bringing me. LEONIDA Give your attention, that equally with myself you may learn this. LIBANUS I'm silent, then. LEONIDA You oblige me. Don't you remember that our chamberlain sold some Arcadian asses to a dealer of PellaDealer of Pella: Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great? LIBANUS I remember it; after that, what then? LEONIDA Well, he has sent some money here then to be paid to Saurea, for the asses; a young man has just now come who has brought this money. LIBANUS Where is this person? LEONIDA You think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him. LIBANUS Aye, to be sure. But, however, you are speaking, I suppose, of those asses, aged and lame, whose hoofs
Venus (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): act 2, scene 2
Enter LEONIDA, running. LEONIDA to himself. Where now shall I find Libanus, or my master's son, that I may make them more mirthful than is Mirth herselfMirth herself: "Lubentia," or "Venus lubentina," was the Goddess of pleasure, mirth, and delight.? Great booty and a triumph do I bring them on my arrival. Inasmuch as together with me they drink, together with me they are wont to wench, why, this booty that I've got, together with them will I share it. LIBANUS apart. This fellow has been robbing a house, if he has been acting after his usual manner. Woe to the person that has so carelessly kept the door! LEONIDA to himself. I could be ready to be a slave for an age, if I could only meet with Libanus. LIBANUS apart. I' faith, with my assistance, indeed, you shall never be free a bit the sooner. LEONIDA to himself. I'd give two hundred teeming lashesTeeming lashes: "Plagas prægnantes." Literally, "pregnant stripes"--"blows that generate other blows." on my back as well. LIBANUS apar
Arcadian (Michigan, United States) (search for this): act 2, scene 2
till you die. LEONIDA Where's our master, pray? LIBANUS The old one is at the Forum, the young one is here in-doors. LEONIDA That's enough for me then. LIBANUS Is it then that you've become a rich man? LEONIDA Leave off your raillery. LIBANUS I'll have done; for my ears are in expectation of what you are bringing me. LEONIDA Give your attention, that equally with myself you may learn this. LIBANUS I'm silent, then. LEONIDA You oblige me. Don't you remember that our chamberlain sold some Arcadian asses to a dealer of PellaDealer of Pella: Pella was a wealthy city of Macedonia, famed for the opulence of its merchants. It was the birthplace of Alexander the Great? LIBANUS I remember it; after that, what then? LEONIDA Well, he has sent some money here then to be paid to Saurea, for the asses; a young man has just now come who has brought this money. LIBANUS Where is this person? LEONIDA You think he ought to be devoured this instant, if you could see him. LIBANUS Aye, to be sure. But,