Plautus Aulularia 4.3

Henry Thomas Riley (Translator)

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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.) — 4.3 focus

Notes on the current edition

Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure

1. On my left hand: We cannot fail to remember here the exactly similar expression of Gay, in the fable of the Farmer’s Wife and the Raven:
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.
2. Began to jump about: Ars ludicra here means the art of a ’ludius,’ or stage-player, who moves to and fro and gesticulates-hence cor cœpit artem facere ludicram would strictly mean my heart begins to move to and fro like a play-actor.