Plautus, Aulularia, Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), 2.6

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350 (Enter STAPHYLA.)

STAPHYLA

What do you want?

STROBILUS

For you to take in these cooks, and this music-girl, and these provisions for the wedding. Megadorus bade me take these things to Euclio.

STAPHYLA

Are you about to make this wedding, Strobilus, in honor of Ceres¹?

STROBILUS

Why?
355

STAPHYLA

Because I don’t see any wine brought.

STROBILUS

Why, that will be brought just now, when he himself comes back from the market.

STAPHYLA

There’s no firewood here in our house.

LYCONIDES

There are the beams.

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, there are.

LYCONIDES

There is wood, then; don’t you be seeking it out of doors.

STAPHYLA

What, you unpurified fellow², although your business is with the fire,

for the sake of a dinner, or of your own hire, do you request us to set our house on fire?
360

LYCONIDES

I don’t ask you.

STROBILUS

Take them in-doors.

STAPHYLA

Follow me.

(They follow her in-doors, and STROBILUS goes with the others into the house of MEGADORUS.)

Aulularia. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.

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Current edition Perseus

Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (English) (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.)

Editions (1)

Aulularia Perseus (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.) — 2.6 focus

350

Pythodicvs

Heus, Staphyla, prodi atque ostium aperi.
350

Staphyla

Qui vocat?

Pythodicvs

Pythodicus.

Staphyla

Quid vis?

Pythodicvs

Hos ut accipias coquos

tibicinamque obsoniumque in nuptias.

Megadorus iussit Euclioni haec mittere.

Staphyla

Cererin, Pythodice, has sunt facturi nuptias?

Pythodicvs

Qui?
355

Staphyla

Quia temeti nihil allatum intellego.

Pythodicvs

At iam afferetur, si a foro ipsus redierit.

Staphyla

Ligna hic apud nos nulla sunt.

Congrio

Sunt asseres?

Staphyla

Sunt pol.

Congrio

Sunt igitur ligna, ne quaeras foris.

Staphyla

Quid, impurate? quamquam Volcano studes,

cenaene causa aut tuae mercedis gratia
360

nos nostras aedis postulas comburere?

Congrio

Haud postulo.

Pythodicvs

Duc istos intro.

Staphyla

Sequimini.—

Notes on the current edition

Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure

1. In honor of Ceres: The old woman probably alludes to the Thesmophoria, where abstinence from wine was especially practised, and which were celebrated in a state of fasting and purification. Her question here tends to confirm the suspicion that she was more fond of the merum than the mixtum, reference to which has already been made

2. You unpurified fellow: Impurate. You that are unpurified, in spite of your everlastingly stewing over the fire. She alludes, figuratively, to the process of smelting and purifying metals by the action of fire.

Plautus Aulularia 2.6

Henry Thomas Riley (Translator)

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STAPHYLA

What do you want?

STROBILUS

For you to take in these cooks, and this music-girl, and these provisions for the wedding. Megadorus bade me take these things to Euclio.

STAPHYLA

Are you about to make this wedding, Strobilus, in honor of Ceres¹?

STROBILUS

Why?
355

STAPHYLA

Because I don’t see any wine brought.

STROBILUS

Why, that will be brought just now, when he himself comes back from the market.

STAPHYLA

There’s no firewood here in our house.

LYCONIDES

There are the beams.

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, there are.

LYCONIDES

There is wood, then; don’t you be seeking it out of doors.

STAPHYLA

What, you unpurified fellow², although your business is with the fire,

for the sake of a dinner, or of your own hire, do you request us to set our house on fire?
360

LYCONIDES

I don’t ask you.

STROBILUS

Take them in-doors.

STAPHYLA

Follow me.

(They follow her in-doors, and STROBILUS goes with the others into the house of MEGADORUS.)

Current edition Perseus

Pythodicvs

Heus, Staphyla, prodi atque ostium aperi.
350

Staphyla

Qui vocat?

Pythodicvs

Pythodicus.

Staphyla

Quid vis?

Pythodicvs

Hos ut accipias coquos

tibicinamque obsoniumque in nuptias.

Megadorus iussit Euclioni haec mittere.

Staphyla

Cererin, Pythodice, has sunt facturi nuptias?

Pythodicvs

Qui?
355

Staphyla

Quia temeti nihil allatum intellego.

Pythodicvs

At iam afferetur, si a foro ipsus redierit.

Staphyla

Ligna hic apud nos nulla sunt.

Congrio

Sunt asseres?

Staphyla

Sunt pol.

Congrio

Sunt igitur ligna, ne quaeras foris.

Staphyla

Quid, impurate? quamquam Volcano studes,

cenaene causa aut tuae mercedis gratia
360

nos nostras aedis postulas comburere?

Congrio

Haud postulo.

Pythodicvs

Duc istos intro.

Staphyla

Sequimini.—

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

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STAPHYLA What do you want?

STROBILUS For you to take in these cooks, and this music-girl, and these provisions for the wedding. Megadorus bade me take these things to Euclio.

STAPHYLA Are you about to make this wedding, Strobilus, in honor of Ceres 1 ?

STROBILUS Why? 355

STAPHYLA Because I don’t see any wine brought.

STROBILUS Why, that will be brought just now, when he himself comes back from the market.

STAPHYLA There’s no firewood here in our house.

LYCONIDES There are the beams.

STAPHYLA I’ faith, there are.

LYCONIDES There is wood, then; don’t you be seeking it out of doors.

STAPHYLA What, you unpurified fellow 2 , although your business is with the fire, for the sake of a dinner, or of your own hire, do you request us to set our house on fire? 360

LYCONIDES I don’t ask you.

STROBILUS Take them in-doors.

STAPHYLA Follow me. (They follow her in-doors, and STROBILUS goes with the others into the house of MEGADORUS.)

Current edition Perseus

Pythodicvs Heus, Staphyla, prodi atque ostium aperi. 350

Staphyla Qui vocat?

Pythodicvs Pythodicus.

Staphyla Quid vis?

Pythodicvs Hos ut accipias coquos tibicinamque obsoniumque in nuptias. Megadorus iussit Euclioni haec mittere.

Staphyla Cererin, Pythodice, has sunt facturi nuptias?

Pythodicvs Qui? 355

Staphyla Quia temeti nihil allatum intellego.

Pythodicvs At iam afferetur, si a foro ipsus redierit.

Staphyla Ligna hic apud nos nulla sunt.

Congrio Sunt asseres?

Staphyla Sunt pol.

Congrio Sunt igitur ligna, ne quaeras foris.

Staphyla Quid, impurate? quamquam Volcano studes, cenaene causa aut tuae mercedis gratia 360 nos nostras aedis postulas comburere?

Congrio Haud postulo.

Pythodicvs Duc istos intro.

Staphyla Sequimini.—

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

STAPHYLA

What do you want?

STROBILUS

For you to take in these cooks, and this music-girl, and these provisions for the wedding. Megadorus bade me take these things to Euclio.

STAPHYLA

Are you about to make this wedding, Strobilus, in honor of Ceres¹?

STROBILUS

Why?
355

STAPHYLA

Because I don’t see any wine brought.

STROBILUS

Why, that will be brought just now, when he himself comes back from the market.

STAPHYLA

There’s no firewood here in our house.

LYCONIDES

There are the beams.

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, there are.

LYCONIDES

There is wood, then; don’t you be seeking it out of doors.

STAPHYLA

What, you unpurified fellow², although your business is with the fire,

for the sake of a dinner, or of your own hire, do you request us to set our house on fire?
360

LYCONIDES

I don’t ask you.

STROBILUS

Take them in-doors.

STAPHYLA

Follow me.

(They follow her in-doors, and STROBILUS goes with the others into the house of MEGADORUS.)

Pythodicvs

Heus, Staphyla, prodi atque ostium aperi.
350

Staphyla

Qui vocat?

Pythodicvs

Pythodicus.

Staphyla

Quid vis?

Pythodicvs

Hos ut accipias coquos

tibicinamque obsoniumque in nuptias.

Megadorus iussit Euclioni haec mittere.

Staphyla

Cererin, Pythodice, has sunt facturi nuptias?

Pythodicvs

Qui?
355

Staphyla

Quia temeti nihil allatum intellego.

Pythodicvs

At iam afferetur, si a foro ipsus redierit.

Staphyla

Ligna hic apud nos nulla sunt.

Congrio

Sunt asseres?

Staphyla

Sunt pol.

Congrio

Sunt igitur ligna, ne quaeras foris.

Staphyla

Quid, impurate? quamquam Volcano studes,

cenaene causa aut tuae mercedis gratia
360

nos nostras aedis postulas comburere?

Congrio

Haud postulo.

Pythodicvs

Duc istos intro.

Staphyla

Sequimini.—