T. Maccius Plautus, Epidicus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.1

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320

Stratippocles

Expectando éxedor míser atque exénteror,
320

quó modo mi Épidici blánda dicta évenant.

nímis diu máceror: sítne quid nécne sit,

scíre cupió.

Chaeribvlvs

Per illám tibi cópiam

copíam parare aliám licet: scivi équidem in principio ilico

nullám tibi esse ín illo copiam.
325

Stratippocles

Interii hércle ego.

Chaeribvlvs

Ábsurde facis qui ángas te animi; si hércle ego illum semel préndero,

númquam inridére nos íllum inultúm sinam servom hominem.

Chaeribvlvs

Quíd illum facere vís, qui, tibi quoi dívitiae domi máxumae sunt,

is númmum nullum habés neque sodáli tuo in te cópiast.
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Chaeribvlvs

Si hercle hábeam, polliceár lubens, verum áliquid aliqua aliquó modo

alicúnde ab alíqui aliqua tíbi spes est fore méliorem fortúnam.

Stratippocles

Vaé tibi, muricide homo.

Chaeribvlvs

Qui tibi lubet mihi male loqui?

Stratippocles

Quippe tú mi aliquíd aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis

quod nusquamst neque ego id inmitto in aures meas
335

nec míhi plus adiuménti †ades, quam ille quí numquam etiam nátust.

Epidicus. 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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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.) — 3.1 focus

320 (Enter STRATIPPOCLES and CHAERIBULUS, from the house of the latter.)

STRATIPPOCLES

I’m distractedly in suspense and worn to the heart with waiting how the fair promises of Epidicus will turn out for me. I’ve been tormented too long. Whether there is to be anything, or whether there is not, I wish to know.
320

CHAERIBULUS

For all these resources you may still seek some other resources for yourself. For my part, I knew at the first, or the instant, that there was no help for you in him¹.

STRATIPPOCLES

Upon my faith, I’m ruined!

CHAERIBULUS

You act absurdly in tormenting yourself in mind. By my troth, if I should catch him, I would never allow that slave of a fellow to be laughing at us with impunity.

STRATIPPOCLES

What can you expect him to do, you, who have such great wealth at home, and have not a coin of it, as you say, and have in yourself no resources for your friend?

CHAERIBULUS

I’ faith, if I had had it, I should have proffered it with pleasure; but something in some manner², in some way, in some direction, from some person, some hope I have for you, that there’ll be some good fortune for you to share with me.

STRATIPPOCLES

Woe to you, you sneaking fellow³.

CHAERIBULUS

Why does it please you to abuse me?

STRATIPPOCLES

Why, because you are prating to me about something in some manner, from somewhere or other, from some persons,

that nowhere exists, and I won’t admit it to my ears. Of no more assistance are you unto me than he who never yet has been born.
335
(They stand near the door of the house of CHAERIBULUS.)

T. Maccius Plautus Epidicus 3.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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Stratippocles

Expectando éxedor míser atque exénteror,
320

quó modo mi Épidici blánda dicta évenant.

nímis diu máceror: sítne quid nécne sit,

scíre cupió.

Chaeribvlvs

Per illám tibi cópiam

copíam parare aliám licet: scivi équidem in principio ilico

nullám tibi esse ín illo copiam.
325

Stratippocles

Interii hércle ego.

Chaeribvlvs

Ábsurde facis qui ángas te animi; si hércle ego illum semel préndero,

númquam inridére nos íllum inultúm sinam servom hominem.

Chaeribvlvs

Quíd illum facere vís, qui, tibi quoi dívitiae domi máxumae sunt,

is númmum nullum habés neque sodáli tuo in te cópiast.
329330

Chaeribvlvs

Si hercle hábeam, polliceár lubens, verum áliquid aliqua aliquó modo

alicúnde ab alíqui aliqua tíbi spes est fore méliorem fortúnam.

Stratippocles

Vaé tibi, muricide homo.

Chaeribvlvs

Qui tibi lubet mihi male loqui?

Stratippocles

Quippe tú mi aliquíd aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis

quod nusquamst neque ego id inmitto in aures meas
335

nec míhi plus adiuménti †ades, quam ille quí numquam etiam nátust.

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STRATIPPOCLES

I’m distractedly in suspense and worn to the heart with waiting how the fair promises of Epidicus will turn out for me. I’ve been tormented too long. Whether there is to be anything, or whether there is not, I wish to know.
320

CHAERIBULUS

For all these resources you may still seek some other resources for yourself. For my part, I knew at the first, or the instant, that there was no help for you in him¹.

STRATIPPOCLES

Upon my faith, I’m ruined!

CHAERIBULUS

You act absurdly in tormenting yourself in mind. By my troth, if I should catch him, I would never allow that slave of a fellow to be laughing at us with impunity.

STRATIPPOCLES

What can you expect him to do, you, who have such great wealth at home, and have not a coin of it, as you say, and have in yourself no resources for your friend?

CHAERIBULUS

I’ faith, if I had had it, I should have proffered it with pleasure; but something in some manner², in some way, in some direction, from some person, some hope I have for you, that there’ll be some good fortune for you to share with me.

STRATIPPOCLES

Woe to you, you sneaking fellow³.

CHAERIBULUS

Why does it please you to abuse me?

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Stratippocles Expectando éxedor míser atque exénteror, 320 quó modo mi Épidici blánda dicta évenant. nímis diu máceror: sítne quid nécne sit, scíre cupió.

Chaeribvlvs Per illám tibi cópiam copíam parare aliám licet: scivi équidem in principio ilico nullám tibi esse ín illo copiam. 325

Stratippocles Interii hércle ego.

Chaeribvlvs Ábsurde facis qui ángas te animi; si hércle ego illum semel préndero, númquam inridére nos íllum inultúm sinam servom hominem.

Chaeribvlvs Quíd illum facere vís, qui, tibi quoi dívitiae domi máxumae sunt, is númmum nullum habés neque sodáli tuo in te cópiast. 329330

Chaeribvlvs Si hercle hábeam, polliceár lubens, verum áliquid aliqua aliquó modo alicúnde ab alíqui aliqua tíbi spes est fore méliorem fortúnam.

Stratippocles Vaé tibi, muricide homo.

Chaeribvlvs Qui tibi lubet mihi male loqui?

Stratippocles Quippe tú mi aliquíd aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis quod nusquamst neque ego id inmitto in aures meas 335 nec míhi plus adiuménti †ades, quam ille quí numquam etiam nátust.

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STRATIPPOCLES I’m distractedly in suspense and worn to the heart with waiting how the fair promises of Epidicus will turn out for me. I’ve been tormented too long. Whether there is to be anything, or whether there is not, I wish to know. 320

CHAERIBULUS For all these resources you may still seek some other resources for yourself. For my part, I knew at the first, or the instant, that there was no help for you in him 1 .

STRATIPPOCLES Upon my faith, I’m ruined!

CHAERIBULUS You act absurdly in tormenting yourself in mind. By my troth, if I should catch him, I would never allow that slave of a fellow to be laughing at us with impunity.

STRATIPPOCLES What can you expect him to do, you, who have such great wealth at home, and have not a coin of it, as you say, and have in yourself no resources for your friend?

CHAERIBULUS I’ faith, if I had had it, I should have proffered it with pleasure; but something in some manner 2 , in some way, in some direction, from some person, some hope I have for you, that there’ll be some good fortune for you to share with me.

STRATIPPOCLES Woe to you, you sneaking fellow 3 .

CHAERIBULUS Why does it please you to abuse me?

Stable identifiers

Stratippocles

Expectando éxedor míser atque exénteror,
320

quó modo mi Épidici blánda dicta évenant.

nímis diu máceror: sítne quid nécne sit,

scíre cupió.

Chaeribvlvs

Per illám tibi cópiam

copíam parare aliám licet: scivi équidem in principio ilico

nullám tibi esse ín illo copiam.
325

Stratippocles

Interii hércle ego.

Chaeribvlvs

Ábsurde facis qui ángas te animi; si hércle ego illum semel préndero,

númquam inridére nos íllum inultúm sinam servom hominem.

Chaeribvlvs

Quíd illum facere vís, qui, tibi quoi dívitiae domi máxumae sunt,

is númmum nullum habés neque sodáli tuo in te cópiast.
329330

Chaeribvlvs

Si hercle hábeam, polliceár lubens, verum áliquid aliqua aliquó modo

alicúnde ab alíqui aliqua tíbi spes est fore méliorem fortúnam.

Stratippocles

Vaé tibi, muricide homo.

Chaeribvlvs

Qui tibi lubet mihi male loqui?

Stratippocles

Quippe tú mi aliquíd aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis

quod nusquamst neque ego id inmitto in aures meas
335

nec míhi plus adiuménti †ades, quam ille quí numquam etiam nátust.

STRATIPPOCLES

I’m distractedly in suspense and worn to the heart with waiting how the fair promises of Epidicus will turn out for me. I’ve been tormented too long. Whether there is to be anything, or whether there is not, I wish to know.
320

CHAERIBULUS

For all these resources you may still seek some other resources for yourself. For my part, I knew at the first, or the instant, that there was no help for you in him¹.

STRATIPPOCLES

Upon my faith, I’m ruined!

CHAERIBULUS

You act absurdly in tormenting yourself in mind. By my troth, if I should catch him, I would never allow that slave of a fellow to be laughing at us with impunity.

STRATIPPOCLES

What can you expect him to do, you, who have such great wealth at home, and have not a coin of it, as you say, and have in yourself no resources for your friend?

CHAERIBULUS

I’ faith, if I had had it, I should have proffered it with pleasure; but something in some manner², in some way, in some direction, from some person, some hope I have for you, that there’ll be some good fortune for you to share with me.

STRATIPPOCLES

Woe to you, you sneaking fellow³.

CHAERIBULUS

Why does it please you to abuse me?