Plautus, Bacchides, Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), 2.1

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CHRYSALUS

All hail, land of my master! which I joyfully behold after the two years that I have been absent hence at Ephesus. I salute thee, neighbour Apollo¹, who dost have thy shrine close by our house, and to thee do I make my prayer, that thou wilt not let me meet our old gentleman, Nicobulus, before I have seen
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Pistoclerus, the friend of Mnesilochus, him to whom Mnesilochus has sent the letter about his mistress, Bacchis.
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Bacchides. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.

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

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Bacchides Perseus (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.) — 2.1 focus

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Chrysalvs

Erilis patria, salve, quam ego biennio,
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postquam hinc in Ephesum abii, conspicio lubens.

saluto te, vicine Apollo, qui aedibus

propinquos nostris accolis, veneroque te,

ne Nicobulum me sinas nostrum senem

prius cónvenire quam sodalem viderim
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Mnesilochi Pistoclerum, quem ad epistulam

Mnesilochus misit super amica Bacchide.

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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters

1. Neighbour Apollo: He is supposed to refer to Apollo Prostitorus, whose statue was placed in the vestibule of the houses, and to whom the Athenians paid veneration as the tutelar God of their habitations.

Plautus Bacchides 2.1

Henry Thomas Riley (Translator)

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