T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.7

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363

Pythodicvs

Curate. ego intervisam quid faciant coqui;

quos pol ut ego hodie servem, cura maxuma est.

nisi unum hoc faciam, ut in puteo cenam coquant:
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inde cóctam sursum subducemus corbulis.

si aútem deorsum comedent, si quid coxerint,

superi incenati sunt et cenati inferi.

sed verba hic facio, quasi negoti nil siet,

rapacidarum ubi tantum sit in aedibus.
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Aulularia. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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

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Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.7 focus

363 (Enter PYTHODICUS, from the house of MEGADORUS.)

PYTHODICUS

Mind you your business; I’ll step in and see what the cooks are doing, to observe whom, i’ faith, to-day it is a most laborious task.

Unless I manage this one thing, for them to cook the dinner down in the dungeon¹; thence, when cooked, we might bring it up again in small baskets. But if they should eat below² whatever they should cook, those above would go without their dinner, and those below have dined. But here am I chattering, as though I had no business,
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when there’s such a pack of thieves in the house.
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(Goes into the house.)

T. Maccius Plautus Aulularia 2.7

ed. Friedrich Leo

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