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653

Lampadio

Nullam ego me vidisse credo magis anum excruciabilem

quam illaec est, quae dudum fassa est mihi quaene infitias eat.

sed eccam eram video. sed quíd hoc est, haec quod cistella hic iacet
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cum crepundiis? nec quemquam conspicor alium in via.

faciundum est puerile officium: conquiniscam ad cistulam.

Phanostrata

Quid agis, Lampadio?

Lampadio

Haec cistella numnam hinc ab nobis domo est?

nam hinc ab ostio iacentem sustuli.

Phanostrata

Quid nuntias

super anu?
660

Lampadio

Scelestiorem in terra nullam esse alteram.

omnia infitiatur ea quae dudum confessa est mihi.

nam hercle ego quam illam anum inridere me ut sinam, satiust mihi

quovis exitio interire.

Phanostrata

Di, obsecro vostram fidem.

Lampadio

Quid deos obsecras?

Phanostrata

Servate nos.

Lampadio

Quid est?

Phanostrata

Crepundia

haec sunt, quibuscum tu extulisti nostram filiolam ad necem.
665

Lampadio

Sanane es?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt profecto.

Lampadio

Pergin?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt.

Lampadio

Si mihi

alia mulier istoc pacto dicat, dicam esse ebriam.

Phanostrata

Non ecastor falsa memoro.

Lampadio

Nam, obsecro, unde haec gentium?

aut quis deus obiecit hanc ante ostium nostrum, quasi

dedita opera, in tempore ipso?
670

Phanostrata

Spes mihi sancta subveni.

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

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

Translations (1)

Cistellaria, or The Casket Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 4.1 focus

653 (Enter LAMPADISCUS.)

LAMPADISCUS

I do believe I never saw a more tormenting old nag than this is. What she just now confessed to me, is she to be denying it?

But look, I see my mistress. Why (seeing the casket on the ground), how’s this, that this casket is lying here with these trinkets, and that I see no other person in the street? I must act the child’s part¹; I’ll stoop to pick up the casket.
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(Picks it up.)

PHANOSTRATA

(from her house.)

What are you about, Lampadio?

LAMPADISCUS
(giving the casket to PHANOSTRATA.)

Is this casket from out of our house here, I wonder. For I picked it up, lying here near the door.

PHANOSTRATA

What news do you bring about the old woman?

LAMPADISCUS

That there’s not one other on earth more wicked. She denies all those things which she just now confessed to me. But, i’ faith, for me to allow that old jade to be laughing at me, it’s preferable for me to die by any kind of death.

PHANOSTRATA

Ye Gods, I do adjure you by our trust in you!

(Opening the casket.)

LAMPADISCUS

Why do you call upon the Gods?

PHANOSTRATA

Save us!

LAMPADISCUS

What’s the matter?

PHANOSTRATA

These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little daughter to death.

LAMPADISCUS

Are you in your senses?

PHANOSTRATA

These certainly are.

LAMPADISCUS

Do you persist?

PHANOSTRATA

These are they.

LAMPADISCUS

If any other woman were to speak to me after that fashion, I should say she was drunk.

PHANOSTRATA

By heaven! I’m talking no nonsense.

But prithee, whence in the world did these come, or what Deity placed this before our door? As though

for a given purpose, at the very instant
670

sacred Hope comes to my aid?

T. Maccius Plautus Cistellaria 4.1

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Phanostrata

Quid agis, Lampadio?

Lampadio

Haec cistella numnam hinc ab nobis domo est?

nam hinc ab ostio iacentem sustuli.

Phanostrata

Quid nuntias

super anu?
660

Lampadio

Scelestiorem in terra nullam esse alteram.

omnia infitiatur ea quae dudum confessa est mihi.

nam hercle ego quam illam anum inridere me ut sinam, satiust mihi

quovis exitio interire.

Phanostrata

Di, obsecro vostram fidem.

Lampadio

Quid deos obsecras?

Phanostrata

Servate nos.

Lampadio

Quid est?

Phanostrata

Crepundia

haec sunt, quibuscum tu extulisti nostram filiolam ad necem.
665

Lampadio

Sanane es?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt profecto.

Lampadio

Pergin?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt.

Lampadio

Si mihi

alia mulier istoc pacto dicat, dicam esse ebriam.

Phanostrata

Non ecastor falsa memoro.

Lampadio

Nam, obsecro, unde haec gentium?

aut quis deus obiecit hanc ante ostium nostrum, quasi

dedita opera, in tempore ipso?
670

Phanostrata

Spes mihi sancta subveni.

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PHANOSTRATA

(from her house.)

What are you about, Lampadio?

LAMPADISCUS
(giving the casket to PHANOSTRATA.)

Is this casket from out of our house here, I wonder. For I picked it up, lying here near the door.

PHANOSTRATA

What news do you bring about the old woman?

LAMPADISCUS

That there’s not one other on earth more wicked. She denies all those things which she just now confessed to me. But, i’ faith, for me to allow that old jade to be laughing at me, it’s preferable for me to die by any kind of death.

PHANOSTRATA

Ye Gods, I do adjure you by our trust in you!

(Opening the casket.)

LAMPADISCUS

Why do you call upon the Gods?

PHANOSTRATA

Save us!

LAMPADISCUS

What’s the matter?

PHANOSTRATA

These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little daughter to death.

LAMPADISCUS

Are you in your senses?

PHANOSTRATA

These certainly are.

LAMPADISCUS

Do you persist?

PHANOSTRATA

These are they.

LAMPADISCUS

If any other woman were to speak to me after that fashion, I should say she was drunk.

PHANOSTRATA

By heaven! I’m talking no nonsense.

But prithee, whence in the world did these come, or what Deity placed this before our door? As though

for a given purpose, at the very instant
670

sacred Hope comes to my aid?

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Phanostrata Quid agis, Lampadio?

Lampadio Haec cistella numnam hinc ab nobis domo est? nam hinc ab ostio iacentem sustuli.

Phanostrata Quid nuntias super anu? 660

Lampadio Scelestiorem in terra nullam esse alteram. omnia infitiatur ea quae dudum confessa est mihi. nam hercle ego quam illam anum inridere me ut sinam, satiust mihi quovis exitio interire.

Phanostrata Di, obsecro vostram fidem.

Lampadio Quid deos obsecras?

Phanostrata Servate nos.

Lampadio Quid est?

Phanostrata Crepundia haec sunt, quibuscum tu extulisti nostram filiolam ad necem. 665

Lampadio Sanane es?

Phanostrata Haec sunt profecto.

Lampadio Pergin?

Phanostrata Haec sunt.

Lampadio Si mihi alia mulier istoc pacto dicat, dicam esse ebriam.

Phanostrata Non ecastor falsa memoro.

Lampadio Nam, obsecro, unde haec gentium? aut quis deus obiecit hanc ante ostium nostrum, quasi dedita opera, in tempore ipso? 670

Phanostrata Spes mihi sancta subveni.

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PHANOSTRATA (from her house.) What are you about, Lampadio?

LAMPADISCUS (giving the casket to PHANOSTRATA.) Is this casket from out of our house here, I wonder. For I picked it up, lying here near the door.

PHANOSTRATA What news do you bring about the old woman?

LAMPADISCUS That there’s not one other on earth more wicked. She denies all those things which she just now confessed to me. But, i’ faith, for me to allow that old jade to be laughing at me, it’s preferable for me to die by any kind of death.

PHANOSTRATA Ye Gods, I do adjure you by our trust in you! (Opening the casket.)

LAMPADISCUS Why do you call upon the Gods?

PHANOSTRATA Save us!

LAMPADISCUS What’s the matter?

PHANOSTRATA These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little daughter to death.

LAMPADISCUS Are you in your senses?

PHANOSTRATA These certainly are.

LAMPADISCUS Do you persist?

PHANOSTRATA These are they.

LAMPADISCUS If any other woman were to speak to me after that fashion, I should say she was drunk.

PHANOSTRATA By heaven! I’m talking no nonsense. But prithee, whence in the world did these come, or what Deity placed this before our door? As though for a given purpose, at the very instant 670 sacred Hope comes to my aid?

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Phanostrata

Quid agis, Lampadio?

Lampadio

Haec cistella numnam hinc ab nobis domo est?

nam hinc ab ostio iacentem sustuli.

Phanostrata

Quid nuntias

super anu?
660

Lampadio

Scelestiorem in terra nullam esse alteram.

omnia infitiatur ea quae dudum confessa est mihi.

nam hercle ego quam illam anum inridere me ut sinam, satiust mihi

quovis exitio interire.

Phanostrata

Di, obsecro vostram fidem.

Lampadio

Quid deos obsecras?

Phanostrata

Servate nos.

Lampadio

Quid est?

Phanostrata

Crepundia

haec sunt, quibuscum tu extulisti nostram filiolam ad necem.
665

Lampadio

Sanane es?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt profecto.

Lampadio

Pergin?

Phanostrata

Haec sunt.

Lampadio

Si mihi

alia mulier istoc pacto dicat, dicam esse ebriam.

Phanostrata

Non ecastor falsa memoro.

Lampadio

Nam, obsecro, unde haec gentium?

aut quis deus obiecit hanc ante ostium nostrum, quasi

dedita opera, in tempore ipso?
670

Phanostrata

Spes mihi sancta subveni.

PHANOSTRATA

(from her house.)

What are you about, Lampadio?

LAMPADISCUS
(giving the casket to PHANOSTRATA.)

Is this casket from out of our house here, I wonder. For I picked it up, lying here near the door.

PHANOSTRATA

What news do you bring about the old woman?

LAMPADISCUS

That there’s not one other on earth more wicked. She denies all those things which she just now confessed to me. But, i’ faith, for me to allow that old jade to be laughing at me, it’s preferable for me to die by any kind of death.

PHANOSTRATA

Ye Gods, I do adjure you by our trust in you!

(Opening the casket.)

LAMPADISCUS

Why do you call upon the Gods?

PHANOSTRATA

Save us!

LAMPADISCUS

What’s the matter?

PHANOSTRATA

These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little daughter to death.

LAMPADISCUS

Are you in your senses?

PHANOSTRATA

These certainly are.

LAMPADISCUS

Do you persist?

PHANOSTRATA

These are they.

LAMPADISCUS

If any other woman were to speak to me after that fashion, I should say she was drunk.

PHANOSTRATA

By heaven! I’m talking no nonsense.

But prithee, whence in the world did these come, or what Deity placed this before our door? As though

for a given purpose, at the very instant
670

sacred Hope comes to my aid?