T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, ed. Friedrich Leo, 1.2

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Line

← Previous Next →

Evclio

Nunc defaecato demum animo egredior domo,

postquam perspexi salva esse intus omnia.
80

redi núnciam intro atque intus serva.

Staphyla

Quippini?

ego intus servem? an ne quis aedes auferat?

nam hic apud nos nihil est aliud quaesti furibus,

ita inaniis sunt oppletae atque araneis.

Evclio

Mirum quin tua me causa faciat Iuppiter
85

Philippum regem aut Dareum, trivenefica.

araneas mihi ego illas servari volo.

pauper sum; fateor, patior; quod di dant fero.

abi intro, occlude ianuam. iam ego hic ero.

cave quémquam alienum in aedis intro miseris.
90

quod quispiam ignem quaerat, extingui volo,

ne causae quid sit quod te quisquam quaeritet.

nam si ignis vivet, tu extinguere extempulo.

tum aquam aufugisse dicito, si quis petet.

cultrum, securim, pistillum, mortarium,
95

quae utenda vasa semper vicini rogant,

fures venisse atque abstulisse dicito.

profecto in aedis meas me absente neminem

volo intro mitti. atque etiam hoc praedico tibi,

si Bona Fortuna veniat, ne intro miseris.
100

Staphyla

Pol ea ipsa credo ne intro mittatur cavet,

nam ad aedis nostras numquam adit, quamquam prope est.

Evclio

Tace atque abi intro.

Staphyla

Taceo atque abeo.—

Evclio

Occlude sis

fores ambobus pessulis. iam ego hic ero.

discrucior animi, quía ab domo abeundum est mihi.
105

nimis hercle invitus abeo. sed quid agam scio.

nam noster nostrae qui est magister curiae

dividere argenti dixit nummos in viros;

id si relinquo ac non peto, omnes ilico

me suspicentur, credo, habere aurum domi.
110

nam non est veri simile, hominem pauperem

pauxillum parvi facere quin nummum petat.

nam nunc cum celo sedulo omnis, ne sciant,

omnes videntur scire et me benignius

omnes salutant quam salutabant prius;
115

adeunt, consistunt, copulantur dexteras,

rogitant me ut valeam, quid agam, quid rerum geram.

nunc quo profectus sum ibo; postidea domum

me rursum quantum potero tantum recipiam.

Aulularia. 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

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

Translations (1)

Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 1.2 focus

79 (Enter EUCLIO, from his house.)

EUCLIO

(to himself.)

Now, with my mind at ease, at length I go out of my house,

after I’ve seen that everything is safe in-doors. Now do you return at once into the house (to STAPHYLA), and keep watch in-doors.
80

STAPHYLA

Keep watch in-doors upon nothing at all, forsooth! or is it, that no one may carry the house away. For here in our house there’s nothing else for thieves to gain, so filled is it with emptiness ¹ and cobwebs.

EUCLIO

’Tis a wonder that, for your sake, Jupiter doesn’t now make me a King Philip, or a Darius², you hag of hags. I choose those cobwebs to be watched for me. I am poor, I confess it—I put up with it. What the Gods send, I endure. Go in-doors, shut to the door, I shall be there directly.
85

Take you care not to let any strange person into the house.
90

STAPHYLA

What if any person asks for fire?

EUCLIO

I wish it to be put out,³ that there may be no cause for any one asking it of you. But if the fire shall be kept in, you yourself shall be forthwith extinguished. Then do you say that the water has run out⁴, if any one asks for it.

STAPHYLA

The knife, the hatchet, the pestle and mortar, utensils that neighbours are always asking the loan of—
95

EUCLIO

Say that thieves have come and carried them off. In fact, in my absence, I wish no one to be admitted into my house; and this, too, do I tell you beforehand,

if Good Luck should come, don’t you admit her.
100

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, she takes good care, I think, not to be admitted; for though close at hand⁵, she has never come to our house.

EUCLIO

Hold your tongue, and go in-doors.

STAPHYLA

I’ll hold my tongue, and be off.

EUCLIO

Shut the door, please, with both bolts. I shall be there directly.

(STAPHYLA goes into the house.)

I’m tormented in my mind, because I must go away from my house I’ faith, I go but very unwillingly; but I know full well what I’m about; for the person that is our master of our ward⁶ has given notice that he will distribute a didrachm of silver to each man; if I relinquish that, and don’t ask for it, at once I fancy that all
105

will be suspecting that I’ve got gold at home; for it isn’t very likely that a poor man would despise ever such a trifle, so as not to ask for his piece of money. For as it is, while I am carefully concealing it from all, lest they should know, all seem to know it,
110

and all salute me more civilly than they formerly used to salute me; they come up to me, they stop, they shake hands ⁷; they ask me how I am, what I’m doing, what business I’m about. Now I’ll go there whither I had set out ⁸; afterwards, I’ll betake myself back again home as fast as ever I can.
115

T. Maccius Plautus Aulularia 1.2

ed. Friedrich Leo

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Evclio

Nunc defaecato demum animo egredior domo,

postquam perspexi salva esse intus omnia.
80

redi núnciam intro atque intus serva.

Staphyla

Quippini?

ego intus servem? an ne quis aedes auferat?

nam hic apud nos nihil est aliud quaesti furibus,

ita inaniis sunt oppletae atque araneis.

Staphyla

Pol ea ipsa credo ne intro mittatur cavet,

nam ad aedis nostras numquam adit, quamquam prope est.

Evclio

Tace atque abi intro.

Staphyla

Taceo atque abeo.—

Current edition Perseus

EUCLIO

(to himself.)

Now, with my mind at ease, at length I go out of my house,

after I’ve seen that everything is safe in-doors. Now do you return at once into the house (to STAPHYLA), and keep watch in-doors.
80

STAPHYLA

Keep watch in-doors upon nothing at all, forsooth! or is it, that no one may carry the house away. For here in our house there’s nothing else for thieves to gain, so filled is it with emptiness ¹ and cobwebs.

STAPHYLA

What if any person asks for fire?

EUCLIO

I wish it to be put out,³ that there may be no cause for any one asking it of you. But if the fire shall be kept in, you yourself shall be forthwith extinguished. Then do you say that the water has run out⁴, if any one asks for it.

STAPHYLA

The knife, the hatchet, the pestle and mortar, utensils that neighbours are always asking the loan of—
95

EUCLIO

Say that thieves have come and carried them off. In fact, in my absence, I wish no one to be admitted into my house; and this, too, do I tell you beforehand,

if Good Luck should come, don’t you admit her.
100

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, she takes good care, I think, not to be admitted; for though close at hand⁵, she has never come to our house.

EUCLIO

Hold your tongue, and go in-doors.

STAPHYLA

I’ll hold my tongue, and be off.

Stable identifiers

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Evclio Nunc defaecato demum animo egredior domo, postquam perspexi salva esse intus omnia. 80 redi núnciam intro atque intus serva.

Staphyla Quippini? ego intus servem? an ne quis aedes auferat? nam hic apud nos nihil est aliud quaesti furibus, ita inaniis sunt oppletae atque araneis.

Staphyla Pol ea ipsa credo ne intro mittatur cavet, nam ad aedis nostras numquam adit, quamquam prope est.

Evclio Tace atque abi intro.

Staphyla Taceo atque abeo.—

Current edition Perseus

EUCLIO (to himself.) Now, with my mind at ease, at length I go out of my house, after I’ve seen that everything is safe in-doors. Now do you return at once into the house (to STAPHYLA), and keep watch in-doors. 80

STAPHYLA Keep watch in-doors upon nothing at all, forsooth! or is it, that no one may carry the house away. For here in our house there’s nothing else for thieves to gain, so filled is it with emptiness 1 and cobwebs.

STAPHYLA What if any person asks for fire?

EUCLIO I wish it to be put out, 3 that there may be no cause for any one asking it of you. But if the fire shall be kept in, you yourself shall be forthwith extinguished. Then do you say that the water has run out 4 , if any one asks for it.

STAPHYLA The knife, the hatchet, the pestle and mortar, utensils that neighbours are always asking the loan of— 95

EUCLIO Say that thieves have come and carried them off. In fact, in my absence, I wish no one to be admitted into my house; and this, too, do I tell you beforehand, if Good Luck should come, don’t you admit her. 100

STAPHYLA I’ faith, she takes good care, I think, not to be admitted; for though close at hand 5 , she has never come to our house.

EUCLIO Hold your tongue, and go in-doors.

STAPHYLA I’ll hold my tongue, and be off.

Stable identifiers

Evclio

Nunc defaecato demum animo egredior domo,

postquam perspexi salva esse intus omnia.
80

redi núnciam intro atque intus serva.

Staphyla

Quippini?

ego intus servem? an ne quis aedes auferat?

nam hic apud nos nihil est aliud quaesti furibus,

ita inaniis sunt oppletae atque araneis.

Staphyla

Pol ea ipsa credo ne intro mittatur cavet,

nam ad aedis nostras numquam adit, quamquam prope est.

Evclio

Tace atque abi intro.

Staphyla

Taceo atque abeo.—

EUCLIO

(to himself.)

Now, with my mind at ease, at length I go out of my house,

after I’ve seen that everything is safe in-doors. Now do you return at once into the house (to STAPHYLA), and keep watch in-doors.
80

STAPHYLA

Keep watch in-doors upon nothing at all, forsooth! or is it, that no one may carry the house away. For here in our house there’s nothing else for thieves to gain, so filled is it with emptiness ¹ and cobwebs.

STAPHYLA

What if any person asks for fire?

EUCLIO

I wish it to be put out,³ that there may be no cause for any one asking it of you. But if the fire shall be kept in, you yourself shall be forthwith extinguished. Then do you say that the water has run out⁴, if any one asks for it.

STAPHYLA

The knife, the hatchet, the pestle and mortar, utensils that neighbours are always asking the loan of—
95

EUCLIO

Say that thieves have come and carried them off. In fact, in my absence, I wish no one to be admitted into my house; and this, too, do I tell you beforehand,

if Good Luck should come, don’t you admit her.
100

STAPHYLA

I’ faith, she takes good care, I think, not to be admitted; for though close at hand⁵, she has never come to our house.

EUCLIO

Hold your tongue, and go in-doors.

STAPHYLA

I’ll hold my tongue, and be off.