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216

Cappadox

Migrare certumst iam nunc e fano foras,

quando Aesculapi ita sentio sententiam,

ut qui me nihili faciat nec salvom velit.

valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor;

nam iam quasi zona liene cinctus ambulo,
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geminos in ventre habere videor filios.

nil metuo nisi ne medius disrumpar miser.

Palinvrvs

Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihi

atque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem.

paves, parasitus quia non rediit Caria:
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adferre argentum credo; nam si non ferat,

tormento non retineri potuit ferreo,

quin reciperet se huc esum ad praesepem suam.

Cappadox

Quis hic est qui loquitur?

Palinvrvs

Quoiam vocem ego audio?

Cappadox

Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi?
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Palinvrvs

Quis hic est homo

cum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis?

de forma novi, de colore non queo

novisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox.

congrediar.

Cappadox

Salve, Palinure.

Palinvrvs

O scelerum caput,

salveto. quid agis?
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Cappadox

Vivo.

Palinvrvs

Nempe ut dignus es.

sed quid tibi est?

Cappadox

Lien enecat, renes dolent,

pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur,

radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.

Palinvrvs

Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.

Cappadox

Facile est miserum inridere.
240

Palinvrvs

Quin tu aliquot dies

perdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi,

nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris,

venire poteris intestinis vilius.

Cappadox

Lien díerectust.

Palinvrvs

Ambula, id lieni optumumst.

Cappadox

Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo.
245

potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibi

hac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?

Palinvrvs

Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus.

quin coniectores a me consilium petunt:

quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia.
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Curculio. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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

Translations (1)

Curculio, or The Forgery Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 2.1 focus

216 (Enter CAPPADOX, from the Temple of AESCULAPIUS.)

CAPPADOX

(to himself.)

I am resolved to depart from this Temple out of doors forthwith, since thus I find¹ the determination of Aesculapius, who sets me at nought, and chooses not that I should be healed. My health is declining, my weakness increases.

For now I walk, girded with my spleen as though with a belt; in my stomach do I seem to be holding a twin offspring. I’m afraid of nothing, but that, in my misery, I should burst asunder in the middle.
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(PHAEDROMUS.)

PALINURUS

(speaking to PHAEDROMUS within as he enters.)

If you do right, Phaedromus, you’ll listen to me, and banish this sorrow from your feelings.

You are anxious because your Parasite hasn’t returned from Caria. I think he’ll bring the money; but if he doesn’t bring it, by a chain of iron he couldn’t be withheld from betaking himself to eat at his manger².
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CAPPADOX

(turning round.)

What person is it that speaks?

PALINURUS

(to himself.)

Whose voice is it that I hear?

CAPPADOX

Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus?
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PALINURUS

(aside.)

Who is this fellow with extended paunch, and eyes as green as grass? From his figure I know him; from his complexion I cannot recognize him. O, now I do know him: it’s the Procurer Cappadox. I’ll accost him.

CAPPADOX

Save you, Palinurus.

PALINURUS

O source of villanies, save you; how are you?

CAPPADOX

I’m just alive.

PALINURUS

Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?

CAPPADOX

My spleen is killing me, my reins are in torment, my lungs are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in pain.

PALINURUS

The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.

CAPPADOX

My spleen is expanded.

PALINURUS

Take walking exercise³; that’s the best thing for the spleen.

CAPPADOX

’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted.
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PALINURUS

Well, then, do you hold out⁴ for some days until your intestines become putrid. Now, while the humours are pretty sound, if you do that, you yourself might sell for a worse price than those intestines of yours.

CAPPADOX

Prithee, have done with this, and answer me this which I ask; can you possibly form a conjecture on it, if I relate to you what I dreamt last night in my sleep?
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PALINURUS

Psha, this— (pointing to himself)—this is the sole person that is really skilled in divination; why, the interpreters of dreams ask advice of myself;

the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand.
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Palinvrvs

Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihi

atque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem.

paves, parasitus quia non rediit Caria:
225

adferre argentum credo; nam si non ferat,

tormento non retineri potuit ferreo,

quin reciperet se huc esum ad praesepem suam.

Cappadox

Quis hic est qui loquitur?

Palinvrvs

Quoiam vocem ego audio?

Cappadox

Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi?
230

Palinvrvs

Quis hic est homo

cum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis?

de forma novi, de colore non queo

novisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox.

congrediar.

Cappadox

Salve, Palinure.

Palinvrvs

O scelerum caput,

salveto. quid agis?
235

Cappadox

Vivo.

Palinvrvs

Nempe ut dignus es.

sed quid tibi est?

Cappadox

Lien enecat, renes dolent,

pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur,

radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.

Palinvrvs

Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.

Cappadox

Facile est miserum inridere.
240

Palinvrvs

Quin tu aliquot dies

perdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi,

nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris,

venire poteris intestinis vilius.

Cappadox

Lien díerectust.

Palinvrvs

Ambula, id lieni optumumst.

Cappadox

Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo.
245

potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibi

hac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?

Palinvrvs

Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus.

quin coniectores a me consilium petunt:

quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia.
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CAPPADOX

(turning round.)

What person is it that speaks?

PALINURUS

(to himself.)

Whose voice is it that I hear?

CAPPADOX

Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus?
230

PALINURUS

(aside.)

Who is this fellow with extended paunch, and eyes as green as grass? From his figure I know him; from his complexion I cannot recognize him. O, now I do know him: it’s the Procurer Cappadox. I’ll accost him.

CAPPADOX

Save you, Palinurus.

PALINURUS

O source of villanies, save you; how are you?

CAPPADOX

I’m just alive.

PALINURUS

Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?

CAPPADOX

My spleen is killing me, my reins are in torment, my lungs are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in pain.

PALINURUS

The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.

CAPPADOX

My spleen is expanded.

PALINURUS

Take walking exercise³; that’s the best thing for the spleen.

CAPPADOX

’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted.
240

PALINURUS

Well, then, do you hold out⁴ for some days until your intestines become putrid. Now, while the humours are pretty sound, if you do that, you yourself might sell for a worse price than those intestines of yours.

CAPPADOX

Prithee, have done with this, and answer me this which I ask; can you possibly form a conjecture on it, if I relate to you what I dreamt last night in my sleep?
245

PALINURUS

Psha, this— (pointing to himself)—this is the sole person that is really skilled in divination; why, the interpreters of dreams ask advice of myself;

the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand.
250

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Cappadox Migrare certumst iam nunc e fano foras, quando Aesculapi ita sentio sententiam, ut qui me nihili faciat nec salvom velit. valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor; nam iam quasi zona liene cinctus ambulo, 220 geminos in ventre habere videor filios. nil metuo nisi ne medius disrumpar miser.

Palinvrvs Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihi atque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem. paves, parasitus quia non rediit Caria: 225 adferre argentum credo; nam si non ferat, tormento non retineri potuit ferreo, quin reciperet se huc esum ad praesepem suam.

Cappadox Quis hic est qui loquitur?

Palinvrvs Quoiam vocem ego audio?

Cappadox Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi? 230

Palinvrvs Quis hic est homo cum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis? de forma novi, de colore non queo novisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox. congrediar.

Cappadox Salve, Palinure.

Palinvrvs O scelerum caput, salveto. quid agis? 235

Cappadox Vivo.

Palinvrvs Nempe ut dignus es. sed quid tibi est?

Cappadox Lien enecat, renes dolent, pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur, radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.

Palinvrvs Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.

Cappadox Facile est miserum inridere. 240

Palinvrvs Quin tu aliquot dies perdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi, nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris, venire poteris intestinis vilius.

Cappadox Lien díerectust.

Palinvrvs Ambula, id lieni optumumst.

Cappadox Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo. 245 potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibi hac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?

Palinvrvs Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus. quin coniectores a me consilium petunt: quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia. 250

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CAPPADOX (turning round.) What person is it that speaks?

PALINURUS (to himself.) Whose voice is it that I hear?

CAPPADOX Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus? 230

PALINURUS (aside.) Who is this fellow with extended paunch, and eyes as green as grass? From his figure I know him; from his complexion I cannot recognize him. O, now I do know him: it’s the Procurer Cappadox. I’ll accost him.

CAPPADOX Save you, Palinurus.

PALINURUS O source of villanies, save you; how are you?

CAPPADOX I’m just alive.

PALINURUS Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?

CAPPADOX My spleen is killing me, my reins are in torment, my lungs are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in pain.

PALINURUS The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.

CAPPADOX My spleen is expanded.

PALINURUS Take walking exercise 3 ; that’s the best thing for the spleen.

CAPPADOX ’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted. 240

PALINURUS Well, then, do you hold out 4 for some days until your intestines become putrid. Now, while the humours are pretty sound, if you do that, you yourself might sell for a worse price than those intestines of yours.

CAPPADOX Prithee, have done with this, and answer me this which I ask; can you possibly form a conjecture on it, if I relate to you what I dreamt last night in my sleep? 245

PALINURUS Psha, this— (pointing to himself)—this is the sole person that is really skilled in divination; why, the interpreters of dreams ask advice of myself; the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand. 250

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Palinvrvs

Si recte facias, Phaedrome, auscultes mihi

atque istam exturbes ex animo aegritudinem.

paves, parasitus quia non rediit Caria:
225

adferre argentum credo; nam si non ferat,

tormento non retineri potuit ferreo,

quin reciperet se huc esum ad praesepem suam.

Cappadox

Quis hic est qui loquitur?

Palinvrvs

Quoiam vocem ego audio?

Cappadox

Estne hic Palinurus Phaedromi?
230

Palinvrvs

Quis hic est homo

cum collativo ventre atque oculis herbeis?

de forma novi, de colore non queo

novisse. iam iam novi: leno est Cappadox.

congrediar.

Cappadox

Salve, Palinure.

Palinvrvs

O scelerum caput,

salveto. quid agis?
235

Cappadox

Vivo.

Palinvrvs

Nempe ut dignus es.

sed quid tibi est?

Cappadox

Lien enecat, renes dolent,

pulmones distrahuntur, cruciatur iecur,

radices cordis pereunt, hirae omnes dolent.

Palinvrvs

Tum te igitur morbus agitat hepatiarius.

Cappadox

Facile est miserum inridere.
240

Palinvrvs

Quin tu aliquot dies

perdura, dum intestina exputescunt tibi,

nunc dum salsura sat bonast: si id feceris,

venire poteris intestinis vilius.

Cappadox

Lien díerectust.

Palinvrvs

Ambula, id lieni optumumst.

Cappadox

Aufér istaec, quaeso, atque hoc responde quod rogo.
245

potin cóniecturam facere, si narrem tibi

hac nocte quod ego somniavi dormiens?

Palinvrvs

Vah, solus hic homost qui sciat divinitus.

quin coniectores a me consilium petunt:

quod eis respondi, ea omnes stant sententia.
250

CAPPADOX

(turning round.)

What person is it that speaks?

PALINURUS

(to himself.)

Whose voice is it that I hear?

CAPPADOX

Isn’t this Palinurus, the servant of Phaedromus?
230

PALINURUS

(aside.)

Who is this fellow with extended paunch, and eyes as green as grass? From his figure I know him; from his complexion I cannot recognize him. O, now I do know him: it’s the Procurer Cappadox. I’ll accost him.

CAPPADOX

Save you, Palinurus.

PALINURUS

O source of villanies, save you; how are you?

CAPPADOX

I’m just alive.

PALINURUS

Just as you deserve, I suppose? But what’s the matter with you?

CAPPADOX

My spleen is killing me, my reins are in torment, my lungs are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in pain.

PALINURUS

The liver complaint is afflicting you, then.

CAPPADOX

My spleen is expanded.

PALINURUS

Take walking exercise³; that’s the best thing for the spleen.

CAPPADOX

’Tis an easy matter to laugh at the afflicted.
240

PALINURUS

Well, then, do you hold out⁴ for some days until your intestines become putrid. Now, while the humours are pretty sound, if you do that, you yourself might sell for a worse price than those intestines of yours.

CAPPADOX

Prithee, have done with this, and answer me this which I ask; can you possibly form a conjecture on it, if I relate to you what I dreamt last night in my sleep?
245

PALINURUS

Psha, this— (pointing to himself)—this is the sole person that is really skilled in divination; why, the interpreters of dreams ask advice of myself;

the answer that I have given them, by that opinion they all stand.
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