T. Maccius Plautus, Epidicus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.1

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166

Apoecides

Plérique homines, quós cum nil refért pudet,

úbi pudendum est íbi eos deserit pudor,

quom úsus est ut pudeat.

ís adeo tu és. quid est quód pudendúm siet,

génere natám bono paúperem domum
170

dúcere te uxorem?

praesértim eam, qua ex tibi cómmemores hanc quaé domist

fíliam prognatam.

Periphanes

Révereor filium.

Apoecides

At pól ego te crédidi

úxorem, quam tu éxtulistí, pudore éxsequi,

cúius quotiéns sepulcrúm vides, sácruficas
175

ílico Orco hóstiis, néque adeo iniúria,

quiá licitumst eam tíbi vivendo vincere.

Periphanes

Oh,

Hércules égo fui, dum ílla mecúm fuit;

neque séxta aerumna acérbior Herculí, quam illa mihi obiéctast.

Apoecides

Pulcra édepol dos pecuniast.
180

Periphanes

Quae quidem pol non maritast.

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

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

Translations (1)

Epidicus, or The Fortunate Discovery Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 2.1 focus

166 (Enter APAECIDES and PERIPHANES, from the house of the former.)

APAECIDES

Mostly all men¹ are ashamed when they have no occasion to be; when they ought to be ashamed, then does shame forsake them, when there’s a necessity for their being ashamed. That man, in fact, are you. What is there to be ashamed of

in your bringing home a wife, poor, but born of good family? Especially her, whose daughter you say this girl is, who is at your house?
170

PERIPHIANES

I have some regard for my son².

APAECIDES

But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for;

whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her.
175

PERIPHIANES

Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour³ was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.

T. Maccius Plautus Epidicus 2.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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Periphanes

Révereor filium.

Apoecides

At pól ego te crédidi

úxorem, quam tu éxtulistí, pudore éxsequi,

cúius quotiéns sepulcrúm vides, sácruficas
175

ílico Orco hóstiis, néque adeo iniúria,

quiá licitumst eam tíbi vivendo vincere.

Periphanes

Oh,

Hércules égo fui, dum ílla mecúm fuit;

neque séxta aerumna acérbior Herculí, quam illa mihi obiéctast.

Apoecides

Pulcra édepol dos pecuniast.
180

Periphanes

Quae quidem pol non maritast.

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PERIPHIANES

I have some regard for my son².

APAECIDES

But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for;

whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her.
175

PERIPHIANES

Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour³ was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.

APAECIDES

I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry.
180

PERIPHIANES

Troth, so it is, which isn’t encumbered with a wife.

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Periphanes Révereor filium.

Apoecides At pól ego te crédidi úxorem, quam tu éxtulistí, pudore éxsequi, cúius quotiéns sepulcrúm vides, sácruficas 175 ílico Orco hóstiis, néque adeo iniúria, quiá licitumst eam tíbi vivendo vincere.

Periphanes Oh, Hércules égo fui, dum ílla mecúm fuit; neque séxta aerumna acérbior Herculí, quam illa mihi obiéctast.

Apoecides Pulcra édepol dos pecuniast. 180

Periphanes Quae quidem pol non maritast.

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PERIPHIANES I have some regard for my son 2 .

APAECIDES But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for; whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her. 175

PERIPHIANES Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour 3 was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.

APAECIDES I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry. 180

PERIPHIANES Troth, so it is, which isn’t encumbered with a wife.

Stable identifiers

Periphanes

Révereor filium.

Apoecides

At pól ego te crédidi

úxorem, quam tu éxtulistí, pudore éxsequi,

cúius quotiéns sepulcrúm vides, sácruficas
175

ílico Orco hóstiis, néque adeo iniúria,

quiá licitumst eam tíbi vivendo vincere.

Periphanes

Oh,

Hércules égo fui, dum ílla mecúm fuit;

neque séxta aerumna acérbior Herculí, quam illa mihi obiéctast.

Apoecides

Pulcra édepol dos pecuniast.
180

Periphanes

Quae quidem pol non maritast.

PERIPHIANES

I have some regard for my son².

APAECIDES

But, i’ faith, the wife whom you buried I thought you had felt some respect for;

whose tomb as oft as you see, you straightway sacrifice victims to Orcus; and not without reason, in fact, since you’ve been allowed to get the better of her by surviving her.
175

PERIPHIANES

Ah me! I was a Hercules while she was with me; and, upon my faith, the sixth labour³ was not more difficult to Hercules than the one that fell to my lot.

APAECIDES

I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry.
180

PERIPHIANES

Troth, so it is, which isn’t encumbered with a wife.