T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.1

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573

Parasitvs

Parasitus ego sum hominis nequam atque improbi,

militis, qui amicam secum avexit ex Samo.

nunc me ire iussit ad eam et percontarier,
575

utrum aurum reddat anne eat secum semul.

tu dudum, puere, cum illac usque isti semul:

quae harum sunt aedes, pulta. adi actutum ad fores.

recede hinc dierecte. ut pulsat propudium!

comesse panem tris pedes latum potes,
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fores pultare nescis. ecquis in aedibust?

heus, ecquis hic est? ecquis hoc aperit ostium?

ecquis éxit?

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

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

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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 4.1 focus

573 (Enter a PARASITE and a BOY.)

PARASITE

Of a debauched and unscrupulous fellow am I the Parasite—a Captain, who has brought his mistress with him from Samos.

Now he has ordered me to go to her, and make enquiry whether she will pay back the gold, or whether she will depart together with him. You, boy, who have for some time been with her, whichever of these is the house, do you knock. Go to the door forthwith. (The BOY goes to knock.) Are you coming back from there, you hangdog¹? How the graceless scoundrel does knock!
575

You can gobble up a loaf three feet wide, and yet you don’t know how to knock at a door. (He calls out and knocks violently.) Is there any one in-doors? Hallo! is there any one here? Does any one open this door? Who’s coming out?
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T. Maccius Plautus Bacchides 4.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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