T. Maccius Plautus Bacchides 2.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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170

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
175

Mnesilochi Pistoclerum, quem ad epistulam

Mnesilochus misit super amica Bacchide.

Bacchides. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.1 focus

170 (Enter CHRYSALUS.)

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
170

Pistoclerus, the friend of Mnesilochus, him to whom Mnesilochus has sent the letter about his mistress, Bacchis.
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