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(Enter HEGIO and ARISTOPHONTES.)
HEGIO
(to himself.)
What is there more delightful than to manage one’s own interests well for the public good
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, just as I did yesterday,
when I purchased these men. Every person, as they see me, comes to meet me, and congratulates me on this matter. By thus stopping and detaining unlucky me, they’ve made me quite tired. With much ado have I survived
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from being congratulated, to my misfortune.
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At last, to the Praetor did I get. There, scarcely did I rest myself. I asked for a passport; it was given me: at once I delivered it to Tyndarus. He started for home. Thence, straightway, after that was done, I passed by my house; and I went at once to my brother’s, where my other captives are. I asked about Philocrates from Elis, whether any one of them all knew the person.
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This man
(pointing to ARISTOPHONTES) called out that he had been his intimate friend; I told him that he was at my house. At once he besought and entreated me that I would permit him to see him. Forthwith I ordered him to be released from chains. Thence have I come.
(To ARISTOPHONTES.) Now, do you follow me,
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that you may obtain what you have besought of me, the opportunity of meeting with this person.
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(They go into the house.)
What is there more delightful than to manage one’s own interests well for the public good
1
, just as I did yesterday,
when I purchased these men. Every person, as they see me, comes to meet me, and congratulates me on this matter. By thus stopping and detaining unlucky me, they’ve made me quite tired. With much ado have I survived
2
from being congratulated, to my misfortune.
500
At last, to the Praetor did I get. There, scarcely did I rest myself. I asked for a passport; it was given me: at once I delivered it to Tyndarus. He started for home. Thence, straightway, after that was done, I passed by my house; and I went at once to my brother’s, where my other captives are. I asked about Philocrates from Elis, whether any one of them all knew the person.
505
This man
(pointing to ARISTOPHONTES) called out that he had been his intimate friend; I told him that he was at my house. At once he besought and entreated me that I would permit him to see him. Forthwith I ordered him to be released from chains. Thence have I come.
(To ARISTOPHONTES.) Now, do you follow me,
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that you may obtain what you have besought of me, the opportunity of meeting with this person.
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Captivi. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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