T. Maccius Plautus, Epidicus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.3

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306

Epidicvs

nullum esse opinor ego agrum in agro Attico

aeque feracem quám hic est noster Periphanes:

quin ex occluso atque obsignato armario

decutio argenti tantum quantum mihi lubet.

quod pol ego metuo si senex resciverit,
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ne ulmos parasitos faciat, quae usque attondeant.

sed me una turbat res ratioque, Apoecidi

quam ostendam fidicinam aliquam conducticiam.

atque id quoque habeo: mane me iussit senex

conducere aliquam fidicinam sibi huc domum,
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quae, dum rem dinam faceret, cantaret sibi;

ea conducetur atque ei praemonstrabitur

quo pacto fiat subdola adversus senem.

ibo intro, argentum accipiam ab damnoso sene.—

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.) — 2.3 focus

306 (EPIDICUS, alone.)

EPIDICUS

(to himself.)

I do think that in the Attic land there is no spot of land so fertile as is this Periphanes of ours; why, from the locked and sealed-up money-chest I summon forth silver just as much as I please.

But this, i’ troth, I am afraid of, that if the old man should come to know it, he’ll be making parasites of elm-twigs¹, to be shaving me quite clean. But one matter and consideration disturbs me—what music-girl, one that goes out on hire, I’m to show to Apaecides. (He muses.) And that as well I’ve got: this morning the old gentleman bade me
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bring for him on hire some music-girl to his house here, to sing for him while he was performing a sacrifice². She shall be hired, and be instructed beforehand in what way she’s to prove herself cunning towards the old man. I’ll away in-doors; I’ll get the money out of the swindled old fellow.
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(He goes into the house of PERIPHANES.)

T. Maccius Plautus Epidicus 2.3

ed. Friedrich Leo

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