T. Maccius Plautus, Asinaria, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.3

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381

Mercator

Vt démonstratae súnt mihi, hasce aédis esse opórtet,

Demaenetus ubi dicitur habitare. i, puere, pulta

atque atriensem Sauream, si est intus, evocato huc.

Libanvs

Quis nostras sic frangit fores? ohe, inquam, si quid audis.

Mercator

Nemo etiam tetigit. sanun es?
385

Libanvs

At censebam attigisse

propterea, huc quia habebas iter. nolo ego fores conservas

meas á te verberarier. sane ego sum amicus nostris.

Mercator

Pol haud periclum est, cardines ne foribus effringantur,

si istoc exemplo omnibus qui quaerunt respondebis.

Libanvs

Ita haec morata est ianua: extemplo ianitorem
390

clamat, procul si quem videt ire ad se calcitronem.

sed quid venis? quid quaeritas?

Mercator

Demaenetum volebam.

Libanvs

Si sit domi, dicam tibi.

Mercator

Quid eius atriensis?

Libanvs

Nihilo mage intus est.

Mercator

Vbi est?

Libanvs

Ad tonsorem ire dixit.

Mercator

Conveni. sed post non redit?
395

Libanvs

Non edepol. quid volebas?

Mercator

Argenti viginti minas, si adesset, accepisset.

Libanvs

Qui pro istuc?

Mercator

Asinos vendidit Pellaeo mercatori

mercatu.

Libanvs

Scio. tu id nunc refers? iam hic credo eum adfuturum.

Mercator

Qua facie voster Saurea est? si is est, iam scire potero.

Libanvs

Macilentis malis, rufulus aliquantum, ventriosus,
400

truculentis oculis, commoda statura, tristi fronte.

Mercator

Non potuit pictor rectius describere eius formam.

Libanvs

Atque hercle ipsum adeo contuor, quassanti capite incedit.

quisque obviam huic occesserit irato, vapulabit.

Mercator

Siquidem hércle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus incedit,
405

si med iratus tetigerit, iratus vapulabit.

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.3 focus

381 (Enter the ASS-DEALER, with a BOY.)

THE ASS-DEALER

(to himself.)

According as it was pointed out to me, this must be the house where Demaenetus is said to live. (To the BOY.) Go, boy, and knock, and call Saurea the chamberlain out here, if he’s in-doors.

(The BOY goes to knock.)

LIBANUS

Who’s breaking in our door in this fashion? Enough there, I say, if you hear me at all.

THE ASS-DEALER

No one has touched it as yet: are you out of your senses?
385

LIBANUS

Why I thought that you had touched it, because you were steering your course in that direction. I don’t want the door, my fellow-slave¹, to be thumped by you; I really am attached to our house.

THE ASS-DEALER

I’ faith, there’s no fear of the hinges being broken off the doors, if you answer all who make enquiries in this fashion.

LIBANUS

This door is of this habit; it cries out at once for tho porter, if it sees any door-kicker at a distance coming towards it. But what are you come for? What are you enquiring about?
390

THE ASS-DEALER

I wanted Demaenetus.

LIBANUS

If he were at home, I would tell you so.

THE ASS-DEALER

Well, his chamberlain then?

LIBANUS

No more is ne at home.

THE ASS-DEALER

Where is he?

LIBANUS

He said he was going to the barber’s.

THE ASS-DEALER

Hasn’t he returned, since he went there?
395

LIBANUS

I’ faith, he hasn’t. What did you want?

THE ASS-DEALER

He was to have received twenty mine of silver, if he had been in.

LIBANUS

What was it for?

THE ASS-DEALER

He sold some asses at market to a dealer from Pella .

LIBANUS

I understand; you are bringing it now. I think that he’ll be here just now.

THE ASS-DEALER

Of what appearance is your chamberlain Saurea? If it’s he, I shall be able to know at once.

LIBANUS

Lantern-jawed, with reddish hair, a little pot-bellied, with glaring eyes, middling stature, sour aspect.
400

THE ASS-DEALER

A painter couldn’t have more correctly described his appearance— And, i’ faith, I see the very man; he’s coming this way, wagging his head.

LIBANUS

Whoever gets in his way when he’s in a passion, he’ll be for striking him.

THE ASS-DEALER

By my faith, if, indeed, he were coming filled with the threats and the courage of the grandson ofAeacus², if he were to touch me in his wrath, in his wrath he would be getting a thrashing.
405

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Mercator Vt démonstratae súnt mihi, hasce aédis esse opórtet, Demaenetus ubi dicitur habitare. i, puere, pulta atque atriensem Sauream, si est intus, evocato huc.

Libanvs Quis nostras sic frangit fores? ohe, inquam, si quid audis.

Mercator Nemo etiam tetigit. sanun es? 385

Libanvs At censebam attigisse propterea, huc quia habebas iter. nolo ego fores conservas meas á te verberarier. sane ego sum amicus nostris.

Mercator Pol haud periclum est, cardines ne foribus effringantur, si istoc exemplo omnibus qui quaerunt respondebis.

Libanvs Ita haec morata est ianua: extemplo ianitorem 390 clamat, procul si quem videt ire ad se calcitronem. sed quid venis? quid quaeritas?

Mercator Demaenetum volebam.

Libanvs Si sit domi, dicam tibi.

Mercator Quid eius atriensis?

Libanvs Nihilo mage intus est.

Mercator Vbi est?

Libanvs Ad tonsorem ire dixit.

Mercator Conveni. sed post non redit? 395

Libanvs Non edepol. quid volebas?

Mercator Argenti viginti minas, si adesset, accepisset.

Libanvs Qui pro istuc?

Mercator Asinos vendidit Pellaeo mercatori mercatu.

Libanvs Scio. tu id nunc refers? iam hic credo eum adfuturum.

Mercator Qua facie voster Saurea est? si is est, iam scire potero.

Libanvs Macilentis malis, rufulus aliquantum, ventriosus, 400 truculentis oculis, commoda statura, tristi fronte.

Mercator Non potuit pictor rectius describere eius formam.

Libanvs Atque hercle ipsum adeo contuor, quassanti capite incedit. quisque obviam huic occesserit irato, vapulabit.

Mercator Siquidem hércle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus incedit, 405 si med iratus tetigerit, iratus vapulabit.

Current edition Perseus

THE ASS-DEALER (to himself.) According as it was pointed out to me, this must be the house where Demaenetus is said to live. (To the BOY.) Go, boy, and knock, and call Saurea the chamberlain out here, if he’s in-doors. (The BOY goes to knock.)

LIBANUS Who’s breaking in our door in this fashion? Enough there, I say, if you hear me at all.

THE ASS-DEALER No one has touched it as yet: are you out of your senses? 385

LIBANUS Why I thought that you had touched it, because you were steering your course in that direction. I don’t want the door, my fellow-slave 1 , to be thumped by you; I really am attached to our house.

THE ASS-DEALER I’ faith, there’s no fear of the hinges being broken off the doors, if you answer all who make enquiries in this fashion.

LIBANUS This door is of this habit; it cries out at once for tho porter, if it sees any door-kicker at a distance coming towards it. But what are you come for? What are you enquiring about? 390

THE ASS-DEALER I wanted Demaenetus.

LIBANUS If he were at home, I would tell you so.

THE ASS-DEALER Well, his chamberlain then?

LIBANUS No more is ne at home.

THE ASS-DEALER Where is he?

LIBANUS He said he was going to the barber’s.

THE ASS-DEALER Hasn’t he returned, since he went there? 395

LIBANUS I’ faith, he hasn’t. What did you want?

THE ASS-DEALER He was to have received twenty mine of silver, if he had been in.

LIBANUS What was it for?

THE ASS-DEALER He sold some asses at market to a dealer from Pella .

LIBANUS I understand; you are bringing it now. I think that he’ll be here just now.

THE ASS-DEALER Of what appearance is your chamberlain Saurea? If it’s he, I shall be able to know at once.

LIBANUS Lantern-jawed, with reddish hair, a little pot-bellied, with glaring eyes, middling stature, sour aspect. 400

THE ASS-DEALER A painter couldn’t have more correctly described his appearance— And, i’ faith, I see the very man; he’s coming this way, wagging his head.

LIBANUS Whoever gets in his way when he’s in a passion, he’ll be for striking him.

THE ASS-DEALER By my faith, if, indeed, he were coming filled with the threats and the courage of the grandson ofAeacus 2 , if he were to touch me in his wrath, in his wrath he would be getting a thrashing. 405

Stable identifiers

Mercator

Vt démonstratae súnt mihi, hasce aédis esse opórtet,

Demaenetus ubi dicitur habitare. i, puere, pulta

atque atriensem Sauream, si est intus, evocato huc.

Libanvs

Quis nostras sic frangit fores? ohe, inquam, si quid audis.

Mercator

Nemo etiam tetigit. sanun es?
385

Libanvs

At censebam attigisse

propterea, huc quia habebas iter. nolo ego fores conservas

meas á te verberarier. sane ego sum amicus nostris.

Mercator

Pol haud periclum est, cardines ne foribus effringantur,

si istoc exemplo omnibus qui quaerunt respondebis.

Libanvs

Ita haec morata est ianua: extemplo ianitorem
390

clamat, procul si quem videt ire ad se calcitronem.

sed quid venis? quid quaeritas?

Mercator

Demaenetum volebam.

Libanvs

Si sit domi, dicam tibi.

Mercator

Quid eius atriensis?

Libanvs

Nihilo mage intus est.

Mercator

Vbi est?

Libanvs

Ad tonsorem ire dixit.

Mercator

Conveni. sed post non redit?
395

Libanvs

Non edepol. quid volebas?

Mercator

Argenti viginti minas, si adesset, accepisset.

Libanvs

Qui pro istuc?

Mercator

Asinos vendidit Pellaeo mercatori

mercatu.

Libanvs

Scio. tu id nunc refers? iam hic credo eum adfuturum.

Mercator

Qua facie voster Saurea est? si is est, iam scire potero.

Libanvs

Macilentis malis, rufulus aliquantum, ventriosus,
400

truculentis oculis, commoda statura, tristi fronte.

Mercator

Non potuit pictor rectius describere eius formam.

Libanvs

Atque hercle ipsum adeo contuor, quassanti capite incedit.

quisque obviam huic occesserit irato, vapulabit.

Mercator

Siquidem hércle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus incedit,
405

si med iratus tetigerit, iratus vapulabit.

THE ASS-DEALER

(to himself.)

According as it was pointed out to me, this must be the house where Demaenetus is said to live. (To the BOY.) Go, boy, and knock, and call Saurea the chamberlain out here, if he’s in-doors.

(The BOY goes to knock.)

LIBANUS

Who’s breaking in our door in this fashion? Enough there, I say, if you hear me at all.

THE ASS-DEALER

No one has touched it as yet: are you out of your senses?
385

LIBANUS

Why I thought that you had touched it, because you were steering your course in that direction. I don’t want the door, my fellow-slave¹, to be thumped by you; I really am attached to our house.

THE ASS-DEALER

I’ faith, there’s no fear of the hinges being broken off the doors, if you answer all who make enquiries in this fashion.

LIBANUS

This door is of this habit; it cries out at once for tho porter, if it sees any door-kicker at a distance coming towards it. But what are you come for? What are you enquiring about?
390

THE ASS-DEALER

I wanted Demaenetus.

LIBANUS

If he were at home, I would tell you so.

THE ASS-DEALER

Well, his chamberlain then?

LIBANUS

No more is ne at home.

THE ASS-DEALER

Where is he?

LIBANUS

He said he was going to the barber’s.

THE ASS-DEALER

Hasn’t he returned, since he went there?
395

LIBANUS

I’ faith, he hasn’t. What did you want?

THE ASS-DEALER

He was to have received twenty mine of silver, if he had been in.

LIBANUS

What was it for?

THE ASS-DEALER

He sold some asses at market to a dealer from Pella .

LIBANUS

I understand; you are bringing it now. I think that he’ll be here just now.

THE ASS-DEALER

Of what appearance is your chamberlain Saurea? If it’s he, I shall be able to know at once.

LIBANUS

Lantern-jawed, with reddish hair, a little pot-bellied, with glaring eyes, middling stature, sour aspect.
400

THE ASS-DEALER

A painter couldn’t have more correctly described his appearance— And, i’ faith, I see the very man; he’s coming this way, wagging his head.

LIBANUS

Whoever gets in his way when he’s in a passion, he’ll be for striking him.

THE ASS-DEALER

By my faith, if, indeed, he were coming filled with the threats and the courage of the grandson ofAeacus², if he were to touch me in his wrath, in his wrath he would be getting a thrashing.
405