T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.7

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424

Chalinvs

Si nunc me suspendam, meam operam luserim

et praeter operam restim sumpti fecerim
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et meis inimicis voluptatem creaverim.

quid opus est, qui sic mortuos? equidem tamen

sorti sum victus, Casina nubet vilico.

atque id non tam aegrest iam, vicisse vilicum,

quam id expetivisse opere tam magno senem,
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ne ea mihi daretur atque ut illi nuberet.

ut illé trepidabat, ut festinabat miser;

ut sussultabat, postquam vicit vilicus.

attat, concedam huc, audio aperiri foris,

mei benevolentes atque amici prodeunt.
435

hinc ex insidiis hisce ego insidias dabo.

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

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

Translations (1)

Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 2.7 focus

424 (CHALINUS, alone.)

CHALINUS

(to himself.)

If now I were to hang myself, I should be losing my pains,

and besides my pains, putting myself to the expense of purchasing a rope, and doing a pleasure to my evil-wishers. What need is there for me, who, indeed, am dead even as it is? At the lots I’m beaten; Casina’s to be married to the bailiff. And this now is not so much to be regretted, that the bailiff has got the better,
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as the fact that the old man so vehemently desired that she shouldn’t be given me, and should marry him. How frightened he was, how in his misery he did bustle about, how he did caper about after the bailiff had won. By-the-bye, I’ll step aside here; I hear the door opening.
430
(Sees STALINO and OLYMPIO, coming out.)

My well-wishers and friends¹are coming out. Here in ambush I’ll lay in wait against them.
435
(Goes on one side.)

T. Maccius Plautus Casina 2.7

ed. Friedrich Leo

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