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

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768

Ergasilvs

Iúppiter supreme, servas me measque auges opes,

máximas opimitates opiparasque offers mihi,

laudém lucrum, ludum iocum, festivitatem ferias,
770

pompám penum, potationis saturitatem, gaudium,

néc cuiquam homini supplicare nunc certum est mihi;

nam vél prodesse amico possum vel inimicum perdere,

ita híc me amoenitate amoena amoenus oneravit dies.

síne sacris hereditatem sum aptus effertissimam.
775

nunc ád senem cursum capessam hunc Hegionem, cui boni

tantum affero quantum ipsus a dis optat, atque etiam amplius.

nunc cérta res est, eodem pacto ut comici servi solent

coníciam in collum pallium, primo ex med hanc rem ut audiat;

speróque me ob hunc nuntium aetérnum adepturum cibum.
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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.) — 4.1 focus

768 (Enter ERGASILUS¹

ERGASILUS

Supreme Jove! thou dost preserve me, and dost augment my means. Plenty, extreme and sumptuous, dost thou present to me;

celebrity, profit, enjoyment, mirth, festivity, holidays, sights, provisions, carousings, abundance, joyousness. And to no man have I now determined with myself to go a-begging; for I’m able either to profit my friend or to destroy my enemy, to such extent has this delightful day heaped delights upon me in its delightfulness.
770

I have lighted upon a most rich inheritance without incumbrances.² Now will I wend my way to this old gentleman Hegio, to whom I am carrying blessings as great as he himself prays for from the Gods, and even greater. Now, this is my determination, in the same fashion that the slaves of Comedy³ are wont, so will I throw my cloak around my neck, that from me, the first of all, he may learn this matter.
775

And I trust that I, by reason of this news, shall find provision up to the end.
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T. Maccius Plautus Captivi 4.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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