T. Maccius Plautus, Captivi, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.2

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498

Hegio

Quid est suávius, quam bene rém gerere,

bonó publicó, sic ut égo feci herí,

cum emi hósce homines: ubi quísque vident,
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eúnt obviam gratulánturque eám rem.

íta me miserum restitando

retinendoque lassum reddiderunt:

vix éx gratulándo misér iam eminebam.

tandem ábii ad praetórem; ibí vix requiévi:
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rogo sýngraphum, datur mi ílico; dedi Týndaro: ille abiít domum.

inde ílico praevórtor domúm, postquam id áctum est;

eo prótinus ad fratrém, mei ubi súnt alii captívi.

rogo, Philocratem ex Alide ecquis hominum

noverit: tandem hic exclamat, eum sibi esse sodalem;
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dico eum esse apud me; hic extemplo orat obsecratque,

eum sibi ut liceat videre:

iussi ílico hunc exsolvi. nunc tu sequere me,

ut quód me oravisti ímpetres, eum hóminem uti convénias.—
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Captivi. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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

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Captivi: The Captives Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 3.2 focus

498 (Enter HEGIO and ARISTOPHONTES.)

HEGIO
(to himself.)

What is there more delightful than to manage one’s own interests well for the public good¹, 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 survived² 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.)

T. Maccius Plautus Captivi 3.2

ed. Friedrich Leo

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