T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.1

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406

Congrio

†Óptati vires populares, íncolae, accolae, ádvenae omnes,

date viam qua fugere liceat, facite totae plateae pateant.

neque ego umquam nisi hodie ad Bacchas veni in Bacchanal coquinatum,

ita me miserum et meos discipulos fustibus male contuderunt.

totús doleo atque oppidó perii, ita me íste habuit senex gýmnasium;
410

áttat, perii hercle ego miser,

áperit bacchanal, adest,

séquitur. scio quam rem geram: hoc

ipsús magistér me dócuit.

neque lígna ego usquam gentium praebéri vidi púlchrius,

itaque ómnis exegit foras, me atque hos, onustos fustibus.

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.) — 3.1 focus

406 (Enter CONGRIO, in haste, from the house of EUCLIO.)

LYCONIDES

(roaring out.)

Beloved fellow-citizens, fellow-countrymen, inhabitants, neighbours, and all strangers, do make way for me to escape! Make all the streets clear! Never have I at any time, until this day, come to Bacchants¹, in a Bacchanalian den, to cook; so sadly have they mauled wretched me and my scullions with their sticks.

I’m aching all over, and am utterly done for; that old fellow has so made a bruising school² of me; and in such a fashion has he turned us all out of the house, myself and them, laden with sticks. Nowhere, in all the world, have I ever seen wood dealt out more plentifully. Alackaday! by my faith, to my misery, I’m done for; the Bacchanalian den is opening, here he comes. He’s following us. I know the thing I’ll do: that the master himself³ has taught me.
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T. Maccius Plautus Aulularia 3.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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