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(Enter MILPHIO.)
MILPHIO
I’m awaiting in what way my plot is to proceed. I’m bent upon ruining this Procurer, since he torments my afflicted master; but he in his turn beats me,
and strikes me with his fist
and heels.
It’s a misery to be in the service of one who is in love, especially one who is debarred from
the object which he woos. Heyday! I see Syncerastus, the Procurer’s servant, betaking himself from the Temple. I’ll listen to what he has to say.
820
(He stands aside.)
I’m awaiting in what way my plot is to proceed. I’m bent upon ruining this Procurer, since he torments my afflicted master; but he in his turn beats me,
and strikes me with his fist
and heels.
It’s a misery to be in the service of one who is in love, especially one who is debarred from
the object which he woos. Heyday! I see Syncerastus, the Procurer’s servant, betaking himself from the Temple. I’ll listen to what he has to say.
820
Poenulus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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