T. Maccius Plautus, Asinaria, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.2

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810

Diabolvs

Sequere hac. egone haec patiar aut taceam? emori
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me malim, quam haec non eius uxori indicem.

ain tu? ápud amicam munus adulescentuli

fungare, uxori excuses te et dicas senem?

praeripias scortum amanti atque argentum obicias

lenae? suppiles clam domi uxorem tuam?
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suspendam potius me, quam tu haec tacita auferas.

iam quidem hercle ad illam hinc ibo, quam tu propediem,

nisi quídem illa ante occupassit te, effliges scio,

luxuriae sumptus suppeditare ut possies.

Parasitvs

Ego sic faciundum censeo: me honestiust,
820

quam te palam hanc rem facere, ne illa existimet

amoris causa percitum id fecisse te

magis quám sua caúsa.

Diabolvs

At pol qui dixti rectius.

tu ergo fac ut illi turbas lites concias;

cum suo sibí gnato unam ad amicam de die
825

potare, illam expilare narra.

Parasitvs

Ne mone,

ego istud curabo.—

Diabolvs

At ego te opperiar domi.—

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

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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.) — 4.2 focus

810 (Enter DIABOLUS and the PARASITE.¹

DIABOLUS

Follow this way. Am I to put up with this, or shall I hold my tongue? I would rather die than not discover this to his wife. And say you so, old man? With a mistress would you be acting the part of a youngster? Would you be excusing yourself to your wife, and calling yourself an aged man? Would you be taking the mistress from her lover? And would you be presenting the money
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to the procuress, and be secretly pilfering it from your wife at home? You should hang me, rather than you should carry off these matters undiscovered. On my honor, I’ll really go this instant hence to her whom I’m sure that you’ll very soon be destroying, in order that you may be able to supply your extravagance, unless, indeed, she shall first prevent you.
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A PARASITE

I’m of opinion that thus you must act. ’Tis more becoming that I should disclose this matter, rather than yourself, lest she may think that you, excited by reason of love, rather than for her own sake, have acted thus.
820

DIABOLUS

Why, faith, you say what’s right. Do you then contrive to raise a storm and strife against him,

that he, together with his own son, is carousing with one mistress the livelong day, and that he’s secretly pilfering from her.
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T. Maccius Plautus Asinaria 4.2

ed. Friedrich Leo

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Parasitvs

Ego sic faciundum censeo: me honestiust,
820

quam te palam hanc rem facere, ne illa existimet

amoris causa percitum id fecisse te

magis quám sua caúsa.

Diabolvs

At pol qui dixti rectius.

tu ergo fac ut illi turbas lites concias;

cum suo sibí gnato unam ad amicam de die
825

potare, illam expilare narra.

Parasitvs

Ne mone,

ego istud curabo.—

Diabolvs

At ego te opperiar domi.—

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A PARASITE

I’m of opinion that thus you must act. ’Tis more becoming that I should disclose this matter, rather than yourself, lest she may think that you, excited by reason of love, rather than for her own sake, have acted thus.
820

DIABOLUS

Why, faith, you say what’s right. Do you then contrive to raise a storm and strife against him,

that he, together with his own son, is carousing with one mistress the livelong day, and that he’s secretly pilfering from her.
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A PARASITE

Don’t suggest to me. I’ll take care of that.

DIABOLUS

But I’ll wait for you at home.

(Exit DIABOLUS; the PARASITE goes into the house of DEMAENETUS.)

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Parasitvs Ego sic faciundum censeo: me honestiust, 820 quam te palam hanc rem facere, ne illa existimet amoris causa percitum id fecisse te magis quám sua caúsa.

Diabolvs At pol qui dixti rectius. tu ergo fac ut illi turbas lites concias; cum suo sibí gnato unam ad amicam de die 825 potare, illam expilare narra.

Parasitvs Ne mone, ego istud curabo.—

Diabolvs At ego te opperiar domi.—

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A PARASITE I’m of opinion that thus you must act. ’Tis more becoming that I should disclose this matter, rather than yourself, lest she may think that you, excited by reason of love, rather than for her own sake, have acted thus. 820

DIABOLUS Why, faith, you say what’s right. Do you then contrive to raise a storm and strife against him, that he, together with his own son, is carousing with one mistress the livelong day, and that he’s secretly pilfering from her. 825

A PARASITE Don’t suggest to me. I’ll take care of that.

DIABOLUS But I’ll wait for you at home. (Exit DIABOLUS; the PARASITE goes into the house of DEMAENETUS.)

Stable identifiers

Parasitvs

Ego sic faciundum censeo: me honestiust,
820

quam te palam hanc rem facere, ne illa existimet

amoris causa percitum id fecisse te

magis quám sua caúsa.

Diabolvs

At pol qui dixti rectius.

tu ergo fac ut illi turbas lites concias;

cum suo sibí gnato unam ad amicam de die
825

potare, illam expilare narra.

Parasitvs

Ne mone,

ego istud curabo.—

Diabolvs

At ego te opperiar domi.—

A PARASITE

I’m of opinion that thus you must act. ’Tis more becoming that I should disclose this matter, rather than yourself, lest she may think that you, excited by reason of love, rather than for her own sake, have acted thus.
820

DIABOLUS

Why, faith, you say what’s right. Do you then contrive to raise a storm and strife against him,

that he, together with his own son, is carousing with one mistress the livelong day, and that he’s secretly pilfering from her.
825

A PARASITE

Don’t suggest to me. I’ll take care of that.

DIABOLUS

But I’ll wait for you at home.

(Exit DIABOLUS; the PARASITE goes into the house of DEMAENETUS.)