T. Maccius Plautus, Captivi, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.3

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901

Ergasilvs

illic hinc abiit, mihi rem summam credidit cibariam.

di immortales, iam ut ego collos praetruncabo tegoribus,

quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido,

quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas,

quanta laniis lassitudo, quanta porcinariis.
905

nam si alia memorem, quae ad ventris victum conducunt, morast.

nunc ibo, ut pro praefectura mea ius dicam larido,

et quae pendent indemnatae pernae, eis auxilium ut feram.—

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.) — 4.3 focus

901 (ERGASILUS, alone)

ERGASILUS

He has gone away from here, and has entrusted to me the most important concern of catering. Immortal Gods how I shall now be slicing necks off of sides; how vast a downfall will befall the gammon¹; how vast a belabouring the bacon! How great a using-up of udders, how vast a bewailing for the brawn!

How great a bestirring for the butchers, how great a preparation for the porksellers! But if I were to enumerate the rest of the things which minister to the supply of the stomach, ‘twould be sheer delay. Now will I go off to my government, to give laws to the bacon, and, those gammons that are hanging uncondemned,² to give aid to them.
905
(Goes into the house.)

T. Maccius Plautus Captivi 4.3

ed. Friedrich Leo

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