T. Maccius Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.3

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(Blepharo)

Vós inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est;
1035

neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo.

Amphitrvo

Blepharo, quaeso ut advocatus mi adsis neve abeas.

Blepharo

Vale.

quid opust me advocato, quí utri sim advocatus nescio?—

Ivppiter

Intro ego hinc eo. Alcumena parturit.—

Amphitrvo

Perii miser.

quid ego faciam, quem advocati iam atque amici deserunt?
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numquam edepol me inultus istic ludificabit, quisquis est;

nam iam ad regem recta me ducam resque ut facta est eloquar.†

ego pol illum ulciscar hodie Thessalum veneficum,

qui pervorse perturbavit familiae mentem meae.

sed ubi illest? intro edepol abiit, credo ad uxorem meam.
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qui me Thebis alter vivit miserior? quid nunc agam,

quem omnes mortales ignorant et ludificant ut lubet.

certumst, intro rumpam in aedis: ubi quemque hominem aspexero,

si ancillam seu servom sive uxorem sive adulterum

seu patrem sive ávom videbo, óbtruncabo in aedibus.
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neque me Iuppiter neque di omnes id prohibebunt, si volent,

quin sic faciam ut constitui. pergam in aedis nunciam.

Amphitruo. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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Amphitruo (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.)

Translations (1)

Amphitryon, or Jupiter in Disguise Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 4.3 focus

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BLEPHARO

Do you settle these matters between yourselves; I’m off, for I have business; and I do not think that I have ever anywhere beheld such extraordinary wonders.
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AMPHITRYON

Blepharo, I pray that you’ll stay as my advocate, and not go away.

BLEPHARO

Farewell. What need is there of me for an advocate, who don’t know which of the two to side with?

JUPITER

I’m going hence in-doors: Alcmena is in labour.

(Exit BLEPHARO, and JUPITER goes into AMPHITRYON’S house.)

AMPHITRYON

(aloud to himself.)

I’m undone, wretch that I am;

for what am I to do, when my advocates and friends are now forsaking me? Never, by heavens, shall he deride me unrevenged, whoever he is. Now will I betake myself straight to the king, and tell him of the matter as it has happened. By my faith, I will this day take vengeance on this Thessalian sorcerer, who has wrongfully distracted the minds of my household.
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But where is he? (Looking around.) By my troth, he’s off into the house, to my wife, I suppose. What other person lives in Thebes more wretched than myself? What now shall I do? I, whom all men deny and deride just as they please. I am resolved; I’ll burst into the house; there, whatever person I perceive, whether maid-servant or man-servant, whether wife or whether paramour,
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whether father or whether grandfather, I’ll behead that person in the house; neither Jupiter nor all the Deities shall hinder me from this, even if they would, but that I’ll do just as I have resolved.
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(As he advances to the door, it thunders, and he falls in a swoon upon the ground.)

T. Maccius Plautus Amphitruo 4.3

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(Blepharo)

Vós inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est;
1035

neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo.

Amphitrvo

Blepharo, quaeso ut advocatus mi adsis neve abeas.

Blepharo

Vale.

quid opust me advocato, quí utri sim advocatus nescio?—

Ivppiter

Intro ego hinc eo. Alcumena parturit.—

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BLEPHARO

Do you settle these matters between yourselves; I’m off, for I have business; and I do not think that I have ever anywhere beheld such extraordinary wonders.
1035

AMPHITRYON

Blepharo, I pray that you’ll stay as my advocate, and not go away.

BLEPHARO

Farewell. What need is there of me for an advocate, who don’t know which of the two to side with?

JUPITER

I’m going hence in-doors: Alcmena is in labour.

(Exit BLEPHARO, and JUPITER goes into AMPHITRYON’S house.)

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(Blepharo) Vós inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est; 1035 neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo.

Amphitrvo Blepharo, quaeso ut advocatus mi adsis neve abeas.

Blepharo Vale. quid opust me advocato, quí utri sim advocatus nescio?—

Ivppiter Intro ego hinc eo. Alcumena parturit.—

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BLEPHARO Do you settle these matters between yourselves; I’m off, for I have business; and I do not think that I have ever anywhere beheld such extraordinary wonders. 1035

AMPHITRYON Blepharo, I pray that you’ll stay as my advocate, and not go away.

BLEPHARO Farewell. What need is there of me for an advocate, who don’t know which of the two to side with?

JUPITER I’m going hence in-doors: Alcmena is in labour. (Exit BLEPHARO, and JUPITER goes into AMPHITRYON’S house.)

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(Blepharo)

Vós inter vos partite; ego abeo, mihi negotium est;
1035

neque ego umquam usquam tanta mira me vidisse censeo.

Amphitrvo

Blepharo, quaeso ut advocatus mi adsis neve abeas.

Blepharo

Vale.

quid opust me advocato, quí utri sim advocatus nescio?—

Ivppiter

Intro ego hinc eo. Alcumena parturit.—

BLEPHARO

Do you settle these matters between yourselves; I’m off, for I have business; and I do not think that I have ever anywhere beheld such extraordinary wonders.
1035

AMPHITRYON

Blepharo, I pray that you’ll stay as my advocate, and not go away.

BLEPHARO

Farewell. What need is there of me for an advocate, who don’t know which of the two to side with?

JUPITER

I’m going hence in-doors: Alcmena is in labour.

(Exit BLEPHARO, and JUPITER goes into AMPHITRYON’S house.)