T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.3

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937

Lysidamvs

Máxumo ego ardeo flágitio néc quid agam meis rébus scio,

néc meam ut uxorem áspiciam cóntra oculis, ita dísperii;

ómnia palam súnt probra,

ómnibus modis óccidi miser.
940

ita mánufesto faucíbus teneor

nec quibus modis purgem scio me meae uxori.

atque expálliatus súm miser,

clandestinae núptiae.

censeo
945

mihi optumum est.

intro ad uxorem meam

súfferamque eí meum térgum ob iniúriam.

séd ecquis est quí homo munús velit fúngier

pró me? quid núnc agam néscio, nisi ut ímprobos
950

famulos imiter ac domo fugiam.

nam salus nulla est scapulis, si domum redeo.

nugas istic dicere licet. vapulo hercle ego invitus tamen

etsi malum merui.

hac dabo protinam me et fugiam.
955

Chalinvs

Heus, sta ílico, amátor.

Lysidamvs

Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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.) — 5.3 focus

937 (Enter STALINO, in haste, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)

STALINO

(aloud to himself.)

I’m branded with the greatest disgrace, nor what, under my circumstances to do, do I know. Nor yet how to look my wife in the face; so utterly undone am I! All my misdeeds are discovered.

In every way, to my confusion, I am ruined! So clearly am I hooked fast by the jaws! nor know I in what way to clear myself before my wife; wretch that I am, to have been stripped of my cloak! These clandestine nuptials are all discovered.
940

I judge it best for me She taught my wife the way But who is there, what person would be ready to undertake this office
945

for me? What now to do I know not, except to imitate worthless slaves, and fly from the house; for there’s no safety for my shoulder-blades if I return home. I may tell lies there; i’ faith, I shall get a basting, though much against my will, although I have earned my punishment.
950

I’ll at once betake myself in this direction in flight.
955
(He begins to run.)

T. Maccius Plautus Casina 5.3

ed. Friedrich Leo

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Chalinvs

Heus, sta ílico, amátor.

Lysidamvs

Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.

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OLYMPIO

(coming forward with the others.)

Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!

STALINO

(to himself.)

I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.

(Runs on.]

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Chalinvs Heus, sta ílico, amátor.

Lysidamvs Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.

Current edition Perseus

OLYMPIO (coming forward with the others.) Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!

STALINO (to himself.) I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear. (Runs on.]

Stable identifiers

Chalinvs

Heus, sta ílico, amátor.

Lysidamvs

Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.

OLYMPIO

(coming forward with the others.)

Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!

STALINO

(to himself.)

I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.

(Runs on.]