T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.4

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963

Chalinvs

Úbi tu es, qui cólere mores Mássilienses póstulas?

nunc tu si vis subigitare me, probast occasio.

redi sis in cubiculum; periisti hercle. age, accede huc modo.
965

nunc ego tecum aequom arbitrum extra considium captavero.

Lysidamvs

Perii, fusti defloccabit iam illic homo lumbos meos.

hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst obviam.

Cleostrata

Iubeo te salvere, amator.

Lysidamvs

Ecce autem uxor obviamst:

nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sum nec quo fugiam scio.
970

hac lupi, hac canes: lupina scaeva fusti rem gerit;

hercle opinor permutabo ego illuc nunc verbum vetus:

hac ibo, caninam scaevam spero meliorem fore.

Myrrhina

Quid agis, dismarite?

Cleostrata

Mi vir, unde hoc ornatu advenis?

quid fecisti scipione aut quod habuisti pallium?
975

Myrrhina

In adulterio, dum moechissat Casinam, credo perdidit.

Lysidamvs

Occidi.

Chalinvs

Etiamne imus cubitum? Casina sum.

Lysidamvs

I in malam crucem.

Chalinvs

Non amas me?

Cleostrata

Quin responde, tuo quid factum est pallio?

Lysidamvs

Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Cleostrata

Bacchae?

Lysidamvs

Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Myrrhina

Nugatur sciens,

nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt.
980

Lysidamvs

Oblitus fui,

sed tamén Bacchae—

Cleostrata

Quid, Bacchae?

Lysidamvs

Sin id fieri non potest—

Cleostrata

Times ecastor.

Lysidamvs

Egone?

Cleostrata

Mentire hercle. nam palles male.

ṇ quid me ṿẹ ụṣ am me rog̣ạs?

ṃạḷẹ ṛ mihi

g̣̣ṛatulor.
985

q̣ụ ṣẹṇex

ḥọ ọṇ ụ

ụṇc̣ cạsiṇụst | — |

quị ḥịc̣ lem frus ṛạm ḍịs
989990

(Olympio)

qui étiam me miserum famosum fecit flagitiis suis.

Lysidamvs

Non taces?

Olympio

Non herle vero taceo. nam tu maxumo

me opsecravisti opere, Casinam ut poscerem uxorem mihi

túi amoris causa.
994995

Lysidamvs

Ego istuc feci?

Olympio

Immo Hector Ilius

te quidem oppresset.

Lysidamvs

Feci égo istaec dicta quae vos dicitis?

Cleostrata

Rogitas etiam?

Lysidamvs

Si quidem hercle feci, feci nequiter.

Cleostrata

Redi modo huc intro: monebo, si qui meministi minus.

Lysidamvs

Hercle, opinor, potius vobis credam quod vos dicitis.

sed, uxor, da viro tuo hanc veniam. Myrrhina, ora Cleostratam;
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si umquam posthac aut amasso Casinam aut occepso modo,

ne ut eam amasso, sí ego umquam adeo posthac tale admisero

nulla causast, quin pendentem me, uxor, virgis verberes.

Myrrhina

Censeo ecastor veniam hanc dandam.

Cleostrata

Faciam ut iubes.

propter eam rem hanc tibi nunc veniam minus gravate prospero,
1005

hanc ex longa longiorem ne faciamus fabulam.

Lysidamvs

Non irata es?

Cleostrata

Non sum irata.

Lysidamvs

Tuaen fidei credo?

Cleostrata

Meae.

Lysidamvs

Lepidiorem uxorem nemo quisquam quam ego habeo hanc habet.

Cleostrata

Age tu, redde huic scipionem et pallium.

Chalinvs

Tene, si lubet.

mihi quidem edepol insignite factast magna iniuria:
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duobus nupsi, neuter fecit quod novae nuptae solet.

Spectatores, quod futurumst intus, id memorabimus.

haec Casina huius reperietur filia esse ex proxumo

eaque nubet Euthynico nostro erili filio.

nunc vos aequomst manibus meritis meritam mercedem dare:
1015

qui faxit, clam uxorem ducet semper scortum quod volet;

verum qui non manibus clare, quantum poterit, plauserit,

ei pro scorto supponetur hircus unctus nautea.

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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.) — 5.4 focus

963 (Enter CHALINUS, from the house of ALCESIMUS, dressed in woman’s clothes.)

CHALINUS

Where are you, you who imitate the morals of the Massilians¹? Now, if you wish to be taking liberties with me, is a good opportunity

[ at your risk. By my troth, you are undone. Come, only step this way. Now I fancy that when a witness out of I’ll find thus out of the street I order a murmur I
965

STALINO

Now am I in extreme danger, between the stone and the sacrifice, nor know I which way to fly The wolf-dogs it was
970

CHALINUS

I’ faith, I do think old there now like new.]

STALINO

(turning about.)

I’ll go this way. I trust that the omen of a bitch’s barking will prove the better².

CLEOSTRATA

What are you doing, my husband, my good man? Whence come you in this guise?

What have you done with your walking-stick, or how disposed of the cloak you had?
975

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

While he was playing his loving pranks with Casina, he lost it, I fancy.

STALINO

(aside.)

Utterly undone!

CHALINUS

(coming up to STALINO.)

Shall we go to bed again? I am Casina.

STALINO

Away with you to utter perdition!

CHALINUS

Don’t you love me?

CLEOSTRATA

Nay, but answer me; what has become of your cloak?

STALINO

(running about, exclaiming.)

[Upon my faith, wife, the Bacchantes!

Bacchantes³!

Bacchantes!

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

He’s making pretence on purpose

for, upon my word, no Bacchantes are exhibiting at the present time.
980

STALINO

I forgot that. But still, the Bacchantes!—

CLEOSTRATA

How, the Bacchantes?

Why, that cannot be.

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

By my troth, you are in a fright.

STALINO

What I?

CLEOSTRATA

(to the SERVANT.)

I’ faith, do tell no lies, for it’s quite clear. ]

OLYMPIO

[ who even made a notorius man of me with his flagrant acts.]⁴

STALINO

Won’t you hold your tongue?

OLYMPIO

I’ troth, I certainly shall not hold my tongue; for with the greatest earnestness you begged me to ask for Casina as my wife.

STALINO

That I did

on account of my love for you.
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CLEOSTRATA

I’ faith, of her rather. (Turning to CHALINUS.)

He’d have been making an attack upon you, in fact.

STALINO

I been doing these things that you mention?

CLEOSTRATA

And do you ask me that?

STALINO

If indeed I have done so, I’ve been doing wrong.

CLEOSTRATA

Just come back in-doors here; I’ll remind you, if you have forgotten anything.

STALINO

Troth, I think, I’ll believe you in preference as to what you say.

But, wife, do grant pardon to your husband for this; Myrrhina, do entreat Cleostrata! If ever, from this time forward, I love Casina, or even think of it, should I love her, I say, should I ever hereafter, in fact, be guilty of such a thing, there’s no reason, wife, why you shouldn’t lash me with twigs as I hang up by the arms.
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MYRRHINA

On my word, I do think that forgiveness may be granted for this.

CLEOSTRATA

(to MYRRHINA.)

I’ll do as you request me.

(To STALINO.)

On this account with the less difficulty do I now grant you this pardon, that, from being a long one, we mayn’t be making this Play still longer.
1005

STALINO

You are not angry?

CLEOSTRATA

I am not angry.

STALINO

Am I to trust your word?

CLEOSTRATA

You may my word.

STALINO

No person ever did have a more amiable wife than I’ve got.

CHALINUS

Keep to her, then.

CLEOSTRATA

(to CHALINUS.)

Come you, give him back his walking-stick and cloak.⁵

CHALINUS

(taking them from behind him, where he had held them.)

Take them, if you wish.

Upon my faith, a great injustice has really been most egregiously done me; I’ve been married to two husbands; neither has behaved to me as to a new-made bride.
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The PLAYERS.

Spectators, what’s to be done within, we’ll tell you here. This Casina will be discovered to be the daughter of this person next door⁶, and she’ll be married to Euthynicus, our master’s son.

Now it’s only fair that with your deserving hands you should give us deserved applause. He who does so, may he always keep his mistress without the knowledge of his wife. But he who doesn’t with his hands clap as loud as he can, in place of a mistress, may a he-goat, soused in bilge-water, be palmed off upon him⁷.
1015

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Chalinvs Úbi tu es, qui cólere mores Mássilienses póstulas? nunc tu si vis subigitare me, probast occasio. redi sis in cubiculum; periisti hercle. age, accede huc modo. 965 nunc ego tecum aequom arbitrum extra considium captavero.

Lysidamvs Perii, fusti defloccabit iam illic homo lumbos meos. hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst obviam.

Cleostrata Iubeo te salvere, amator.

Lysidamvs Ecce autem uxor obviamst: nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sum nec quo fugiam scio. 970 hac lupi, hac canes: lupina scaeva fusti rem gerit; hercle opinor permutabo ego illuc nunc verbum vetus: hac ibo, caninam scaevam spero meliorem fore.

Myrrhina Quid agis, dismarite?

Cleostrata Mi vir, unde hoc ornatu advenis? quid fecisti scipione aut quod habuisti pallium? 975

Myrrhina In adulterio, dum moechissat Casinam, credo perdidit.

Lysidamvs Occidi.

Chalinvs Etiamne imus cubitum? Casina sum.

Lysidamvs I in malam crucem.

Chalinvs Non amas me?

Cleostrata Quin responde, tuo quid factum est pallio?

Lysidamvs Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Cleostrata Bacchae?

Lysidamvs Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Myrrhina Nugatur sciens, nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt. 980

Lysidamvs Oblitus fui, sed tamén Bacchae—

Cleostrata Quid, Bacchae?

Lysidamvs Sin id fieri non potest—

Cleostrata Times ecastor.

Lysidamvs Egone?

Cleostrata Mentire hercle. nam palles male. ṇ quid me ṿẹ ụṣ am me rog̣ạs? ṃạḷẹ ṛ mihi g̣̣ṛatulor. 985 q̣ụ ṣẹṇex ḥọ ọṇ ụ ụṇc̣ cạsiṇụst | — | quị ḥịc̣ lem frus ṛạm ḍịs 989990

(Olympio) qui étiam me miserum famosum fecit flagitiis suis.

Lysidamvs Non taces?

Olympio Non herle vero taceo. nam tu maxumo me opsecravisti opere, Casinam ut poscerem uxorem mihi túi amoris causa. 994995

Lysidamvs Ego istuc feci?

Olympio Immo Hector Ilius te quidem oppresset.

Lysidamvs Feci égo istaec dicta quae vos dicitis?

Cleostrata Rogitas etiam?

Lysidamvs Si quidem hercle feci, feci nequiter.

Cleostrata Redi modo huc intro: monebo, si qui meministi minus.

Myrrhina Censeo ecastor veniam hanc dandam.

Cleostrata Faciam ut iubes. propter eam rem hanc tibi nunc veniam minus gravate prospero, 1005 hanc ex longa longiorem ne faciamus fabulam.

Lysidamvs Non irata es?

Cleostrata Non sum irata.

Lysidamvs Tuaen fidei credo?

Cleostrata Meae.

Lysidamvs Lepidiorem uxorem nemo quisquam quam ego habeo hanc habet.

Cleostrata Age tu, redde huic scipionem et pallium.

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STALINO Now am I in extreme danger, between the stone and the sacrifice, nor know I which way to fly The wolf-dogs it was 970

CHALINUS I’ faith, I do think old there now like new.]

STALINO (turning about.) I’ll go this way. I trust that the omen of a bitch’s barking will prove the better 2 .

CLEOSTRATA What are you doing, my husband, my good man? Whence come you in this guise? What have you done with your walking-stick, or how disposed of the cloak you had? 975

TWO MAID-SERVANTS While he was playing his loving pranks with Casina, he lost it, I fancy.

STALINO (aside.) Utterly undone!

CHALINUS (coming up to STALINO.) Shall we go to bed again? I am Casina.

STALINO Away with you to utter perdition!

CHALINUS Don’t you love me?

CLEOSTRATA Nay, but answer me; what has become of your cloak?

STALINO (running about, exclaiming.) [Upon my faith, wife, the Bacchantes! Bacchantes 3 ! Bacchantes!

TWO MAID-SERVANTS He’s making pretence on purpose for, upon my word, no Bacchantes are exhibiting at the present time. 980

STALINO I forgot that. But still, the Bacchantes!—

CLEOSTRATA How, the Bacchantes? Why, that cannot be.

TWO MAID-SERVANTS By my troth, you are in a fright.

STALINO What I?

CLEOSTRATA (to the SERVANT.) I’ faith, do tell no lies, for it’s quite clear. ]

OLYMPIO [ who even made a notorius man of me with his flagrant acts.] 4

STALINO Won’t you hold your tongue?

OLYMPIO I’ troth, I certainly shall not hold my tongue; for with the greatest earnestness you begged me to ask for Casina as my wife.

STALINO That I did on account of my love for you. 994995

CLEOSTRATA I’ faith, of her rather. (Turning to CHALINUS.) He’d have been making an attack upon you, in fact.

STALINO I been doing these things that you mention?

CLEOSTRATA And do you ask me that?

STALINO If indeed I have done so, I’ve been doing wrong.

CLEOSTRATA Just come back in-doors here; I’ll remind you, if you have forgotten anything.

MYRRHINA On my word, I do think that forgiveness may be granted for this.

CLEOSTRATA (to MYRRHINA.) I’ll do as you request me. (To STALINO.) On this account with the less difficulty do I now grant you this pardon, that, from being a long one, we mayn’t be making this Play still longer. 1005

STALINO You are not angry?

CLEOSTRATA I am not angry.

STALINO Am I to trust your word?

CLEOSTRATA You may my word.

STALINO No person ever did have a more amiable wife than I’ve got.

CHALINUS Keep to her, then.

CLEOSTRATA (to CHALINUS.) Come you, give him back his walking-stick and cloak. 5

CHALINUS (taking them from behind him, where he had held them.) Take them, if you wish. Upon my faith, a great injustice has really been most egregiously done me; I’ve been married to two husbands; neither has behaved to me as to a new-made bride. 1010

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Chalinvs

Úbi tu es, qui cólere mores Mássilienses póstulas?

nunc tu si vis subigitare me, probast occasio.

redi sis in cubiculum; periisti hercle. age, accede huc modo.
965

nunc ego tecum aequom arbitrum extra considium captavero.

Lysidamvs

Perii, fusti defloccabit iam illic homo lumbos meos.

hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst obviam.

Cleostrata

Iubeo te salvere, amator.

Lysidamvs

Ecce autem uxor obviamst:

nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sum nec quo fugiam scio.
970

hac lupi, hac canes: lupina scaeva fusti rem gerit;

hercle opinor permutabo ego illuc nunc verbum vetus:

hac ibo, caninam scaevam spero meliorem fore.

Myrrhina

Quid agis, dismarite?

Cleostrata

Mi vir, unde hoc ornatu advenis?

quid fecisti scipione aut quod habuisti pallium?
975

Myrrhina

In adulterio, dum moechissat Casinam, credo perdidit.

Lysidamvs

Occidi.

Chalinvs

Etiamne imus cubitum? Casina sum.

Lysidamvs

I in malam crucem.

Chalinvs

Non amas me?

Cleostrata

Quin responde, tuo quid factum est pallio?

Lysidamvs

Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Cleostrata

Bacchae?

Lysidamvs

Bacchae hercle, uxor—

Myrrhina

Nugatur sciens,

nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt.
980

Lysidamvs

Oblitus fui,

sed tamén Bacchae—

Cleostrata

Quid, Bacchae?

Lysidamvs

Sin id fieri non potest—

Cleostrata

Times ecastor.

Lysidamvs

Egone?

Cleostrata

Mentire hercle. nam palles male.

ṇ quid me ṿẹ ụṣ am me rog̣ạs?

ṃạḷẹ ṛ mihi

g̣̣ṛatulor.
985

q̣ụ ṣẹṇex

ḥọ ọṇ ụ

ụṇc̣ cạsiṇụst | — |

quị ḥịc̣ lem frus ṛạm ḍịs
989990

(Olympio)

qui étiam me miserum famosum fecit flagitiis suis.

Lysidamvs

Non taces?

Olympio

Non herle vero taceo. nam tu maxumo

me opsecravisti opere, Casinam ut poscerem uxorem mihi

túi amoris causa.
994995

Lysidamvs

Ego istuc feci?

Olympio

Immo Hector Ilius

te quidem oppresset.

Lysidamvs

Feci égo istaec dicta quae vos dicitis?

Cleostrata

Rogitas etiam?

Lysidamvs

Si quidem hercle feci, feci nequiter.

Cleostrata

Redi modo huc intro: monebo, si qui meministi minus.

Myrrhina

Censeo ecastor veniam hanc dandam.

Cleostrata

Faciam ut iubes.

propter eam rem hanc tibi nunc veniam minus gravate prospero,
1005

hanc ex longa longiorem ne faciamus fabulam.

Lysidamvs

Non irata es?

Cleostrata

Non sum irata.

Lysidamvs

Tuaen fidei credo?

Cleostrata

Meae.

Lysidamvs

Lepidiorem uxorem nemo quisquam quam ego habeo hanc habet.

Cleostrata

Age tu, redde huic scipionem et pallium.

STALINO

Now am I in extreme danger, between the stone and the sacrifice, nor know I which way to fly The wolf-dogs it was
970

CHALINUS

I’ faith, I do think old there now like new.]

STALINO

(turning about.)

I’ll go this way. I trust that the omen of a bitch’s barking will prove the better².

CLEOSTRATA

What are you doing, my husband, my good man? Whence come you in this guise?

What have you done with your walking-stick, or how disposed of the cloak you had?
975

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

While he was playing his loving pranks with Casina, he lost it, I fancy.

STALINO

(aside.)

Utterly undone!

CHALINUS

(coming up to STALINO.)

Shall we go to bed again? I am Casina.

STALINO

Away with you to utter perdition!

CHALINUS

Don’t you love me?

CLEOSTRATA

Nay, but answer me; what has become of your cloak?

STALINO

(running about, exclaiming.)

[Upon my faith, wife, the Bacchantes!

Bacchantes³!

Bacchantes!

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

He’s making pretence on purpose

for, upon my word, no Bacchantes are exhibiting at the present time.
980

STALINO

I forgot that. But still, the Bacchantes!—

CLEOSTRATA

How, the Bacchantes?

Why, that cannot be.

TWO MAID-SERVANTS

By my troth, you are in a fright.

STALINO

What I?

CLEOSTRATA

(to the SERVANT.)

I’ faith, do tell no lies, for it’s quite clear. ]

OLYMPIO

[ who even made a notorius man of me with his flagrant acts.]⁴

STALINO

Won’t you hold your tongue?

OLYMPIO

I’ troth, I certainly shall not hold my tongue; for with the greatest earnestness you begged me to ask for Casina as my wife.

STALINO

That I did

on account of my love for you.
994995

CLEOSTRATA

I’ faith, of her rather. (Turning to CHALINUS.)

He’d have been making an attack upon you, in fact.

STALINO

I been doing these things that you mention?

CLEOSTRATA

And do you ask me that?

STALINO

If indeed I have done so, I’ve been doing wrong.

CLEOSTRATA

Just come back in-doors here; I’ll remind you, if you have forgotten anything.

MYRRHINA

On my word, I do think that forgiveness may be granted for this.

CLEOSTRATA

(to MYRRHINA.)

I’ll do as you request me.

(To STALINO.)

On this account with the less difficulty do I now grant you this pardon, that, from being a long one, we mayn’t be making this Play still longer.
1005

STALINO

You are not angry?

CLEOSTRATA

I am not angry.

STALINO

Am I to trust your word?

CLEOSTRATA

You may my word.

STALINO

No person ever did have a more amiable wife than I’ve got.

CHALINUS

Keep to her, then.

CLEOSTRATA

(to CHALINUS.)

Come you, give him back his walking-stick and cloak.⁵

CHALINUS

(taking them from behind him, where he had held them.)

Take them, if you wish.

Upon my faith, a great injustice has really been most egregiously done me; I’ve been married to two husbands; neither has behaved to me as to a new-made bride.
1010