T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.1

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774

Demipho

Quíd hoc negoti est, quód omnes homines fabulantur per vias

mihi esse filiam inventam? et Lampadionem me in foro
775

quaesivisse aiunt.

Lampadio

Ere, unde is?

Demipho

Ex senatu.

Lampadio

Gaudeo

tibi mea opera liberorum esse amplius.

Demipho

Enim non placet.

nil moror aliena mi opera fieri pluris liberos.

sed quid istúc est?

Lampadio

Propera ire intro húc ad adfinem tuom,

filiam tuam iám cognosces intus. íbidem uxor tua est.
780

abi cito.

Demipho

Praevorti hoc certumst rebus aliis omnibus.—

Caterva

Ne exspectetis, spectatores, dum illi huc ad vos exeant:

nemo exibit, omnes intus conficient negotium.

ubi id erit factum, ornamenta ponent; postidea loci

qui deliquit vapulabit, qui non deliquit bibet.
785

nunc quod ad vos, spectatores, relicuom relinquitur,

more maiorum date plausum postrema in comoedia.

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.)

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Cistellaria, or The Casket Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 5.1 focus

774 (Enter DEMIPHO.)

DEMIPHO

What affair is this, that all persons are talking about in the street—that my daughter has been found? They say, too, that Lampadio¹ has been seeking me in the Forum.

(Enter LAMPADISCUS.)

LAMPADISCUS

Master, whence come you?

DEMIPHO

From the Senate.

LAMPADISCUS

I rejoice that through my means there is an addition to your children.

DEMIPHO

But it don’t please me; I don’t want that I should be having more children by means of another person. But what is the meaning of this?

LAMPADISCUS
(pointing to the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

Make haste, and go in-doors here to the house of your neighbour; you’ll at once recognize your daughter. Your wife’s in-doors there as well. Go quickly.

DEMIPHO

I’m resolved that this shall, before all other matters, be attended to.

(They go into the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

The Company of COMEDIANS

Don’t you wait, Spectators, till they come out to you; no one will come out; they’ll all finish the business indoors; when that shall be done, they’ll lay aside their dress; then, after that,

he that has done amiss will get a beating²; he that has not done amiss will get some drink. Now as to what’s left, Spectators, for you to do, after the manner of your ancestors, give your applause at the conclusion of the Play.
785

T. Maccius Plautus Cistellaria 5.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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Demipho

Quíd hoc negoti est, quód omnes homines fabulantur per vias

mihi esse filiam inventam? et Lampadionem me in foro
775

quaesivisse aiunt.

Lampadio

Ere, unde is?

Demipho

Ex senatu.

Lampadio

Gaudeo

tibi mea opera liberorum esse amplius.

Demipho

Enim non placet.

nil moror aliena mi opera fieri pluris liberos.

sed quid istúc est?

Lampadio

Propera ire intro húc ad adfinem tuom,

filiam tuam iám cognosces intus. íbidem uxor tua est.
780

abi cito.

Demipho

Praevorti hoc certumst rebus aliis omnibus.—

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DEMIPHO

What affair is this, that all persons are talking about in the street—that my daughter has been found? They say, too, that Lampadio¹ has been seeking me in the Forum.

(Enter LAMPADISCUS.)

LAMPADISCUS

Master, whence come you?

DEMIPHO

From the Senate.

LAMPADISCUS

I rejoice that through my means there is an addition to your children.

DEMIPHO

But it don’t please me; I don’t want that I should be having more children by means of another person. But what is the meaning of this?

LAMPADISCUS
(pointing to the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

Make haste, and go in-doors here to the house of your neighbour; you’ll at once recognize your daughter. Your wife’s in-doors there as well. Go quickly.

DEMIPHO

I’m resolved that this shall, before all other matters, be attended to.

(They go into the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

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Demipho Quíd hoc negoti est, quód omnes homines fabulantur per vias mihi esse filiam inventam? et Lampadionem me in foro 775 quaesivisse aiunt.

Lampadio Ere, unde is?

Demipho Ex senatu.

Lampadio Gaudeo tibi mea opera liberorum esse amplius.

Demipho Enim non placet. nil moror aliena mi opera fieri pluris liberos. sed quid istúc est?

Lampadio Propera ire intro húc ad adfinem tuom, filiam tuam iám cognosces intus. íbidem uxor tua est. 780 abi cito.

Demipho Praevorti hoc certumst rebus aliis omnibus.—

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DEMIPHO What affair is this, that all persons are talking about in the street—that my daughter has been found? They say, too, that Lampadio 1 has been seeking me in the Forum. (Enter LAMPADISCUS.)

LAMPADISCUS Master, whence come you?

DEMIPHO From the Senate.

LAMPADISCUS I rejoice that through my means there is an addition to your children.

DEMIPHO But it don’t please me; I don’t want that I should be having more children by means of another person. But what is the meaning of this?

LAMPADISCUS (pointing to the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.) Make haste, and go in-doors here to the house of your neighbour; you’ll at once recognize your daughter. Your wife’s in-doors there as well. Go quickly.

DEMIPHO I’m resolved that this shall, before all other matters, be attended to. (They go into the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

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Demipho

Quíd hoc negoti est, quód omnes homines fabulantur per vias

mihi esse filiam inventam? et Lampadionem me in foro
775

quaesivisse aiunt.

Lampadio

Ere, unde is?

Demipho

Ex senatu.

Lampadio

Gaudeo

tibi mea opera liberorum esse amplius.

Demipho

Enim non placet.

nil moror aliena mi opera fieri pluris liberos.

sed quid istúc est?

Lampadio

Propera ire intro húc ad adfinem tuom,

filiam tuam iám cognosces intus. íbidem uxor tua est.
780

abi cito.

Demipho

Praevorti hoc certumst rebus aliis omnibus.—

DEMIPHO

What affair is this, that all persons are talking about in the street—that my daughter has been found? They say, too, that Lampadio¹ has been seeking me in the Forum.

(Enter LAMPADISCUS.)

LAMPADISCUS

Master, whence come you?

DEMIPHO

From the Senate.

LAMPADISCUS

I rejoice that through my means there is an addition to your children.

DEMIPHO

But it don’t please me; I don’t want that I should be having more children by means of another person. But what is the meaning of this?

LAMPADISCUS
(pointing to the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)

Make haste, and go in-doors here to the house of your neighbour; you’ll at once recognize your daughter. Your wife’s in-doors there as well. Go quickly.

DEMIPHO

I’m resolved that this shall, before all other matters, be attended to.

(They go into the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)