T. Maccius Plautus, Persa, ed. Friedrich Leo, 3.3

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405

Toxilvs

Curate isti intus, iam égo domum me recipiam.
405

Dordalvs

Oh,

Toxile, quid agitur?

Toxilvs

Oh, lutum lenonium,

commixtum caeno sterculinum publicum,

impure, inhoneste, iniure, inlex, labes popli,

pecuniae accípiter avide atque invide,

procax, rapax, trahax—trecentis versibus
410

tuas ímpuritias traloqui nemo potest—

accipin argentum? accipe sis argentum, impudens,

tené sis argentum, etiam tu argentum tenes?

possum te facere ut argentum accipias, lutum?

non mihi censebas copiam argenti fore,
415

qui nisi iurato mihi nil ausu's ausus es credere?

Dordalvs

Sine respirare me, ut tibi respondeam.

vir summe populi, stabulum servitutium,

scortorum liberator, suduculum flagri,

compedium tritor, pistrinorum civitas,
420

perenniserve, lurco, edax, furax, fugax,

cedo sis mi argentum, da mihi argentum, impudens,

possum a te exigere argentum? argentum, inquam, cedo,

quin tu mi argentum reddis? nilne te pudet?

leno te argentum poscit, solida servitus,
425

pro liberanda amica, ut omnes audiant.

Toxilvs

Tace, obsecro hercle. ne tua vox valide valet.

Dordalvs

Referundae ego habeo linguam natam gratiae.

eodém mihi pretio sal praehibetur quo tibi.

nisi me haec defendet, numquam delinget salem.
430

Toxilvs

Iam omitte iratus esse. id tibi suscensui,

quia te negabas credere argentum mihi.

Dordalvs

Mirum quin tibi ego crederém, ut idem mihi

faceres quod partim faciunt argentarii:

ubi quid credideris, citius extemplo a foro
435

fugiunt quam ex porta ludis cum emissust lepus.

Toxilvs

Cape hoc sis.

Dordalvs

Quin das?

Toxilvs

Nummi sescenti hic erunt,

probi, numerati. fac sit mulier libera,

atque huc continuo adduce.

Dordalvs

Iam faxo hic erit.

non hercle, quoi nunc hoc dem spectandum, scio.
440

Toxilvs

Fortasse metuis in manum concredere?

Dordalvs

Mirum quin citius iam a foro argentarii

abeunt, quam in cursu rotula circumvortitur.

Toxilvs

Abi istác travorsis angiportis ad forum;

eadem ístaec facito mulier ad me transeat
445

per hortum.

Dordalvs

Iam hic faxo aderit.

Toxilvs

At ne propalam.

Dordalvs

Sapienter sane.

Toxilvs

Supplicatum cras eat.

Dordalvs

Ita hercle vero.—

Toxilvs

Dum stas, reditum oportuit.

Persa. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1896.

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Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

Persa (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 2. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1896.)

Translations (1)

Persa, or The Persian Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 3.3 focus

405 (Enter TOXILUS, from his MASTER’S house, with a purse in his hand.)

TOXILUS

(speaking at the door to the PERSONS within.)

Take you care of that in-doors; I shall betake myself home just now.
405

DORDALUS

Toxilus, how are you?

TOXILUS

How now!—pimping filth mixed up with mud! How now!—public dung-heap! dirty, dishonest, lawless, enticer, disgrace to the public; you hawk after money, greedy and envious;

you impudent, rapacious, craving fellow (in three hundred lines no person could run through your villanies), will you take the money? (Holding out the purse.) Take the money, will you, shameless fellow. Take hold of the money, will you. Are you going to take the money, then? Can I make you take the money, filth? (Keeps moving it away.)
410

You didn’t suppose that I should have had so much money—you, who didn’t venture to trust me at all except upon oath?
415

DORDALUS

Do let me recover breath, so as to give you an answer. Fellow, dregs of the populace, you stable for she-slaves, you liberator of harlots, you surface for the lash,

you wearer-out of the fetters, you citizen of the treadmill, you slave everlastingly, you gormandizer, glutton, pilferer, runaway, give me the money, will you. Give me the money, impudence. Can I get the money out of you? Give me the money, I say. Why don’t you give me the money? Are you ashamed of nothing?
420

You impersonation of slavery, a Procurer is asking money of you for the liberation of your mistress, so that all may hear it.
425

TOXILUS

Troth now, prithee, do hold your tongue. For sure your voice is in first-rate strength.

DORDALUS

I’ve got a tongue made for returning a compliment. Salt is provided for me at the same price as for yourself.

Unless this tongue protects me, it shall never lick a bit of salt.
430

TOXILUS

I’ll cease to be angry now. It was for this I blamed you, because you refused to trust me for the money.

DORDALUS

’Twas a wonder, indeed, that I didn’t trust you, that you might do the same to me that some of the bankers do¹.

When you’ve entrusted them with anything, they immediately run more quickly away from the Forum than a hare, when, at the games², he’s let out of the entrance of his cage.
435

TOXILUS

(holding out the money.)

Take this, will you.

DORDALUS

Why don’t you give it then?

TOXILUS

(giving it.)

There will be here six hundred didrachms, full weight and counted; cause the damsel to be set at liberty, and bring her out here forthwith.

DORDALUS

I’ll have her here this moment.

I’ faith, I don’t know to whom now to give this money to be tested³.
440

TOXILUS

Perhaps you are afraid to entrust it to any one’s hands?

DORDALUS

Strange if I wasn’t. More quickly, now-a-days, do bankers abscond from the Forum, than a wheel spins round in a race.

TOXILUS

(pointing.)

Do you go that way, through the alleys, the back way to the Forum⁴;

let this damsel pass through the same way to our house, through the garden.
445

DORDALUS

I’ll have her here this moment.

TOXILUS

But not in public view.

DORDALUS

Very discreet.

TOXILUS

To-morrow she must go to return thanks⁵.

DORDALUS

I’ faith, just so indeed.

TOXILUS

While you’ve been loitering, you might have got back.

(Exit DORDALUS; TOXILUS goes into the house.)

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Toxilvs Curate isti intus, iam égo domum me recipiam. 405

Dordalvs Oh, Toxile, quid agitur?

Toxilvs Tace, obsecro hercle. ne tua vox valide valet.

Dordalvs Referundae ego habeo linguam natam gratiae. eodém mihi pretio sal praehibetur quo tibi. nisi me haec defendet, numquam delinget salem. 430

Toxilvs Iam omitte iratus esse. id tibi suscensui, quia te negabas credere argentum mihi.

Dordalvs Mirum quin tibi ego crederém, ut idem mihi faceres quod partim faciunt argentarii: ubi quid credideris, citius extemplo a foro 435 fugiunt quam ex porta ludis cum emissust lepus.

Toxilvs Cape hoc sis.

Dordalvs Quin das?

Toxilvs Nummi sescenti hic erunt, probi, numerati. fac sit mulier libera, atque huc continuo adduce.

Dordalvs Iam faxo hic erit. non hercle, quoi nunc hoc dem spectandum, scio. 440

Toxilvs Fortasse metuis in manum concredere?

Dordalvs Mirum quin citius iam a foro argentarii abeunt, quam in cursu rotula circumvortitur.

Toxilvs Abi istác travorsis angiportis ad forum; eadem ístaec facito mulier ad me transeat 445 per hortum.

Dordalvs Iam hic faxo aderit.

Toxilvs At ne propalam.

Dordalvs Sapienter sane.

Toxilvs Supplicatum cras eat.

Dordalvs Ita hercle vero.—

Toxilvs Dum stas, reditum oportuit.

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TOXILUS (speaking at the door to the PERSONS within.) Take you care of that in-doors; I shall betake myself home just now. 405

DORDALUS Toxilus, how are you?

TOXILUS Troth now, prithee, do hold your tongue. For sure your voice is in first-rate strength.

DORDALUS I’ve got a tongue made for returning a compliment. Salt is provided for me at the same price as for yourself. Unless this tongue protects me, it shall never lick a bit of salt. 430

TOXILUS I’ll cease to be angry now. It was for this I blamed you, because you refused to trust me for the money.

TOXILUS (holding out the money.) Take this, will you.

DORDALUS Why don’t you give it then?

TOXILUS (giving it.) There will be here six hundred didrachms, full weight and counted; cause the damsel to be set at liberty, and bring her out here forthwith.

DORDALUS I’ll have her here this moment. I’ faith, I don’t know to whom now to give this money to be tested 3 . 440

TOXILUS Perhaps you are afraid to entrust it to any one’s hands?

DORDALUS Strange if I wasn’t. More quickly, now-a-days, do bankers abscond from the Forum, than a wheel spins round in a race.

TOXILUS (pointing.) Do you go that way, through the alleys, the back way to the Forum 4 ; let this damsel pass through the same way to our house, through the garden. 445

DORDALUS I’ll have her here this moment.

TOXILUS But not in public view.

DORDALUS Very discreet.

TOXILUS To-morrow she must go to return thanks 5 .

DORDALUS I’ faith, just so indeed.

TOXILUS While you’ve been loitering, you might have got back. (Exit DORDALUS; TOXILUS goes into the house.)

Stable identifiers

Toxilvs

Curate isti intus, iam égo domum me recipiam.
405

Dordalvs

Oh,

Toxile, quid agitur?

Toxilvs

Tace, obsecro hercle. ne tua vox valide valet.

Dordalvs

Referundae ego habeo linguam natam gratiae.

eodém mihi pretio sal praehibetur quo tibi.

nisi me haec defendet, numquam delinget salem.
430

Toxilvs

Iam omitte iratus esse. id tibi suscensui,

quia te negabas credere argentum mihi.

Dordalvs

Mirum quin tibi ego crederém, ut idem mihi

faceres quod partim faciunt argentarii:

ubi quid credideris, citius extemplo a foro
435

fugiunt quam ex porta ludis cum emissust lepus.

Toxilvs

Cape hoc sis.

Dordalvs

Quin das?

Toxilvs

Nummi sescenti hic erunt,

probi, numerati. fac sit mulier libera,

atque huc continuo adduce.

Dordalvs

Iam faxo hic erit.

non hercle, quoi nunc hoc dem spectandum, scio.
440

Toxilvs

Fortasse metuis in manum concredere?

Dordalvs

Mirum quin citius iam a foro argentarii

abeunt, quam in cursu rotula circumvortitur.

Toxilvs

Abi istác travorsis angiportis ad forum;

eadem ístaec facito mulier ad me transeat
445

per hortum.

Dordalvs

Iam hic faxo aderit.

Toxilvs

At ne propalam.

Dordalvs

Sapienter sane.

Toxilvs

Supplicatum cras eat.

Dordalvs

Ita hercle vero.—

Toxilvs

Dum stas, reditum oportuit.

TOXILUS

(speaking at the door to the PERSONS within.)

Take you care of that in-doors; I shall betake myself home just now.
405

DORDALUS

Toxilus, how are you?

TOXILUS

Troth now, prithee, do hold your tongue. For sure your voice is in first-rate strength.

DORDALUS

I’ve got a tongue made for returning a compliment. Salt is provided for me at the same price as for yourself.

Unless this tongue protects me, it shall never lick a bit of salt.
430

TOXILUS

I’ll cease to be angry now. It was for this I blamed you, because you refused to trust me for the money.

TOXILUS

(holding out the money.)

Take this, will you.

DORDALUS

Why don’t you give it then?

TOXILUS

(giving it.)

There will be here six hundred didrachms, full weight and counted; cause the damsel to be set at liberty, and bring her out here forthwith.

DORDALUS

I’ll have her here this moment.

I’ faith, I don’t know to whom now to give this money to be tested³.
440

TOXILUS

Perhaps you are afraid to entrust it to any one’s hands?

DORDALUS

Strange if I wasn’t. More quickly, now-a-days, do bankers abscond from the Forum, than a wheel spins round in a race.

TOXILUS

(pointing.)

Do you go that way, through the alleys, the back way to the Forum⁴;

let this damsel pass through the same way to our house, through the garden.
445

DORDALUS

I’ll have her here this moment.

TOXILUS

But not in public view.

DORDALUS

Very discreet.

TOXILUS

To-morrow she must go to return thanks⁵.

DORDALUS

I’ faith, just so indeed.

TOXILUS

While you’ve been loitering, you might have got back.

(Exit DORDALUS; TOXILUS goes into the house.)