Plautus, Mercator, Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), 4.2

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692 (Enter LYSIMACHUS.)

LYSIMACHUS

(to himself.)

Is this too little of a misfortune that Demipho’s in love, that he must be extravagant as well? If he had been inviting ten men of highest rank to dinner,

he has provided too much. But the cooks he directed in such a way just as at sea the time-keeper¹ is wont to direct the rowers. I hired a Cook myself, but I’m surprised that he hasn’t come as I directed him. But who’s this, I wonder, that’s coming out of my house? The door’s opening.
695
(He stands aside.)

Mercator. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.

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Current edition Perseus

Mercator, or The Merchant (English) (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.)

Editions (1)

Mercator Perseus (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.) — 4.2 focus

692

Lysimachvs

Parumne ést malai rei, quod amat Demipho,

ni sumptuosus insuper etiam siet?

decem sí vocasset summos ad cenam viros,

nimium obsonavit. sed coquos, quasi in mari
695

solét hortator remiges hortarier,

ita hortabatur. egomet conduxi coquom.

sed eum demiror non venire, ut iusseram.

sed quinam hinc a nobis exit? aperitur foris.

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Mercator, or The Merchant

1. The time-keeper: The time was given to the rowers by the pausarius, who is here called hortator. The directions he gave were called celeusma, from the Greek κελεύω, to order. Lysimachus probably means that Demipho has hired whole ranks of them

Plautus Mercator 4.2

Henry Thomas Riley (Translator)

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