T. Maccius Plautus, Poenulus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 1.3

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410

Agorastocles

quid nunc mi es auctor, Milphio?
410

Milphio

Vt me verberes

atque auctionem facias: nam impunissume

tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedis licet.

Agorastocles

Quid iam?

Milphio

Maiorem partem in ore habitas meo.

Agorastocles

Supersede istis verbis.

Milphio

Quid nunc vis tibi?

Agorastocles

Trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilico
415

dedi dúdum, prius quam me evocavisti foras.

nunc opsecro te, Milphio, hanc per dexteram

perque hanc sororem laevam perque oculos tuos

perque meos amores perque Adelphasium meam

perque tuam libertatem—
420

Milphio

Em nunc nihil opsecras.

Agorastocles

Mi Milphidisce, mea commoditas, mea salus,

fac quod facturum te esse promisti mihi,

ut ego hunc lenonem perdam.

Milphio

Perfacile id quidemst.

i, adduce testis tecum; ego intus interim

iam et ornamentis meis et sycophantiis
425

tuom exornabo vilicum. propera atque abi.

Agorastocles

Fugio.

Milphio

Meum est ístuc magis officium quam tuom.

Agorastocles

Egone egone, si istuc lepide ecfexis—

Milphio

I modo.

Agorastocles

Vt non ego te hodie—

Milphio

Abi modo.

Agorastocles

Emittam manu—

Milphio

I modo.
430

Agorastocles

Non hercle meream.

Milphio

Oh—

Agorastocles

Vah—

Milphio

Abi modo.

Agorastocles

Quantum Acheruntest mortuorum.

Milphio

Etiamne abis?

Agorastocles

Neque quantum aquaist in mari.

Milphio

Abiturun es?

Agorastocles

Neque nubes omnes quantumst.

Milphio

Pergin pergere?

Agorastocles

Neque stellae in caelo.

Milphio

Pergin auris tundere?

Agorastocles

Neque hoc neque illud neque—enim vero serio—
435

neque—hercle vero—quid opust verbis? quippini?

quod uno verbo—dicere hic quidvis licet,

neque—hercle vero serio, scin quomodo?

ita me di amabunt, vin bona dicam fide,

quod hic inter nos liceat? ita me Iuppiter,
440

scin quam videtur? credin quod ego fabuler?

Milphio

Si nequeo facere ut abeas, egomet abiero;

nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipo

opust cóniectore, qui Sphingi interpres fuit.—

Agorastocles

Illic hínc iratus abiit. nunc mihi cautio est,
445

ne meámet culpa meo amori obiexim moram.

ibo atque arcessam testis, quando Amor iubet

me oboedientem ésse servo liberum.—

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 1.3 focus

410 (AGORASTOCLES and MILPHIO.)

AGORASTOCLES

What now do you advise me to do, Milphio?
410

MILPHIO

To give me a beating, and then have an auction¹; for (pointing to the house) really, upon my faith, with utter impunity you might put up this house for sale.

AGORASTOCLES

Why so?

MILPHIO

For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth².

AGORASTOCLES

Do have done with those expressions.

MILPHIO

What now do you wish?

AGORASTOCLES

I just now gave three hundred Philippeans to the bailiff Collybiscus, before you called me out of doors. I now adjure you, Milphio, by this right hand, and by this left hand its sister, and by your eyes, and by my passion, and by my own Adelphasium,
415

and by your liberty³—
420

MILPHIO

Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.

AGORASTOCLES

My dear little Milphio, my kind occasion, my safeguard, do what you promised me you would do, that I may prove the ruin of this Procurer.

MILPHIO

Why, that’s very easy to be done. Be off, bring here with you your witnesses; meanwhile, in-doors I’ll forthwith provide your bailiff with my disguise and stratagems. Make haste and be off.

AGORASTOCLES

I fly.

MILPHIO

That’s more my part⁴ than yours.

AGORASTOCLES

Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly⁵—

MILPHIO

Only do begone.

AGORASTOCLES

Ought I not this very day—

MILPHIO

Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES

To give you freedom

MILPHIO

Only do begone.
430

AGORASTOCLES

By my troth, I should not deserve—

ah!

MILPHIO

Bah!

Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES

As many as are the dead in Acheron—

MILPHIO

Will you, then, move off?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—

MILPHIO

Are you going to move off?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor as many as there are clouds—

MILPHIO

Do you persist in going on this way?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor as there are stars in heaven—

MILPHIO

Do you persist in dinning my ears?

AGORASTOCLES

Neither this thing nor that; nor yet, indeed, seriously speaking—nor, by my faith, indeed. What need is there of words? And why not?—a thing that in one word—here we may say anything we please—and yet, i’ faith, not seriously in reality. D’ye see how ’tis? So may the Gods bless me!—do you wish me to tell you in honest truth?
435

A thing that here we may between ourselves—so help me Jupiter— Do you see how? Look you—do you believe what I tell you?
440

MILPHIO

If I cannot make you go away, I shall go away myself: for really, upon my faith, there’s need of an Oedipus⁶ as a diviner for this speech of yours, him who was the interpreter to the Sphinx.

(He goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

AGORASTOCLES

He has gone off in a passion; now must I beware, lest, through my own fault, I place an impediment in the way of my love. I’ll go and fetch the witnesses, since love commands me, a free man, to be obedient to my own slave.
445
(Exit.)

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Agorastocles quid nunc mi es auctor, Milphio? 410

Milphio Vt me verberes atque auctionem facias: nam impunissume tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedis licet.

Agorastocles Quid iam?

Milphio Maiorem partem in ore habitas meo.

Agorastocles Supersede istis verbis.

Milphio Quid nunc vis tibi?

Agorastocles Trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilico 415 dedi dúdum, prius quam me evocavisti foras. nunc opsecro te, Milphio, hanc per dexteram perque hanc sororem laevam perque oculos tuos perque meos amores perque Adelphasium meam perque tuam libertatem— 420

Milphio Em nunc nihil opsecras.

Agorastocles Mi Milphidisce, mea commoditas, mea salus, fac quod facturum te esse promisti mihi, ut ego hunc lenonem perdam.

Milphio Perfacile id quidemst. i, adduce testis tecum; ego intus interim iam et ornamentis meis et sycophantiis 425 tuom exornabo vilicum. propera atque abi.

Agorastocles Fugio.

Milphio Meum est ístuc magis officium quam tuom.

Agorastocles Egone egone, si istuc lepide ecfexis—

Milphio I modo.

Agorastocles Vt non ego te hodie—

Milphio Abi modo.

Agorastocles Emittam manu—

Milphio I modo. 430

Agorastocles Non hercle meream.

Milphio Oh—

Agorastocles Vah—

Milphio Abi modo.

Agorastocles Quantum Acheruntest mortuorum.

Milphio Etiamne abis?

Agorastocles Neque quantum aquaist in mari.

Milphio Abiturun es?

Agorastocles Neque nubes omnes quantumst.

Milphio Pergin pergere?

Agorastocles Neque stellae in caelo.

Milphio Pergin auris tundere?

Milphio Si nequeo facere ut abeas, egomet abiero; nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipo opust cóniectore, qui Sphingi interpres fuit.—

Agorastocles Illic hínc iratus abiit. nunc mihi cautio est, 445 ne meámet culpa meo amori obiexim moram. ibo atque arcessam testis, quando Amor iubet me oboedientem ésse servo liberum.—

Current edition Perseus

AGORASTOCLES What now do you advise me to do, Milphio? 410

MILPHIO To give me a beating, and then have an auction 1 ; for (pointing to the house) really, upon my faith, with utter impunity you might put up this house for sale.

AGORASTOCLES Why so?

MILPHIO For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth 2 .

AGORASTOCLES Do have done with those expressions.

MILPHIO What now do you wish?

AGORASTOCLES I just now gave three hundred Philippeans to the bailiff Collybiscus, before you called me out of doors. I now adjure you, Milphio, by this right hand, and by this left hand its sister, and by your eyes, and by my passion, and by my own Adelphasium, 415 and by your liberty 3 — 420

MILPHIO Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.

AGORASTOCLES My dear little Milphio, my kind occasion, my safeguard, do what you promised me you would do, that I may prove the ruin of this Procurer.

MILPHIO Why, that’s very easy to be done. Be off, bring here with you your witnesses; meanwhile, in-doors I’ll forthwith provide your bailiff with my disguise and stratagems. Make haste and be off.

AGORASTOCLES I fly.

MILPHIO That’s more my part 4 than yours.

AGORASTOCLES Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly 5 —

MILPHIO Only do begone.

AGORASTOCLES Ought I not this very day—

MILPHIO Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES To give you freedom

MILPHIO Only do begone. 430

AGORASTOCLES By my troth, I should not deserve— ah!

MILPHIO Bah! Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES As many as are the dead in Acheron—

MILPHIO Will you, then, move off?

AGORASTOCLES Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—

MILPHIO Are you going to move off?

AGORASTOCLES Nor as many as there are clouds—

MILPHIO Do you persist in going on this way?

AGORASTOCLES Nor as there are stars in heaven—

MILPHIO Do you persist in dinning my ears?

MILPHIO If I cannot make you go away, I shall go away myself: for really, upon my faith, there’s need of an Oedipus 6 as a diviner for this speech of yours, him who was the interpreter to the Sphinx. (He goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

AGORASTOCLES He has gone off in a passion; now must I beware, lest, through my own fault, I place an impediment in the way of my love. I’ll go and fetch the witnesses, since love commands me, a free man, to be obedient to my own slave. 445 (Exit.)

Stable identifiers

Agorastocles

quid nunc mi es auctor, Milphio?
410

Milphio

Vt me verberes

atque auctionem facias: nam impunissume

tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedis licet.

Agorastocles

Quid iam?

Milphio

Maiorem partem in ore habitas meo.

Agorastocles

Supersede istis verbis.

Milphio

Quid nunc vis tibi?

Agorastocles

Trecentos Philippos Collybisco vilico
415

dedi dúdum, prius quam me evocavisti foras.

nunc opsecro te, Milphio, hanc per dexteram

perque hanc sororem laevam perque oculos tuos

perque meos amores perque Adelphasium meam

perque tuam libertatem—
420

Milphio

Em nunc nihil opsecras.

Agorastocles

Mi Milphidisce, mea commoditas, mea salus,

fac quod facturum te esse promisti mihi,

ut ego hunc lenonem perdam.

Milphio

Perfacile id quidemst.

i, adduce testis tecum; ego intus interim

iam et ornamentis meis et sycophantiis
425

tuom exornabo vilicum. propera atque abi.

Agorastocles

Fugio.

Milphio

Meum est ístuc magis officium quam tuom.

Agorastocles

Egone egone, si istuc lepide ecfexis—

Milphio

I modo.

Agorastocles

Vt non ego te hodie—

Milphio

Abi modo.

Agorastocles

Emittam manu—

Milphio

I modo.
430

Agorastocles

Non hercle meream.

Milphio

Oh—

Agorastocles

Vah—

Milphio

Abi modo.

Agorastocles

Quantum Acheruntest mortuorum.

Milphio

Etiamne abis?

Agorastocles

Neque quantum aquaist in mari.

Milphio

Abiturun es?

Agorastocles

Neque nubes omnes quantumst.

Milphio

Pergin pergere?

Agorastocles

Neque stellae in caelo.

Milphio

Pergin auris tundere?

Milphio

Si nequeo facere ut abeas, egomet abiero;

nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipo

opust cóniectore, qui Sphingi interpres fuit.—

Agorastocles

Illic hínc iratus abiit. nunc mihi cautio est,
445

ne meámet culpa meo amori obiexim moram.

ibo atque arcessam testis, quando Amor iubet

me oboedientem ésse servo liberum.—

AGORASTOCLES

What now do you advise me to do, Milphio?
410

MILPHIO

To give me a beating, and then have an auction¹; for (pointing to the house) really, upon my faith, with utter impunity you might put up this house for sale.

AGORASTOCLES

Why so?

MILPHIO

For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth².

AGORASTOCLES

Do have done with those expressions.

MILPHIO

What now do you wish?

AGORASTOCLES

I just now gave three hundred Philippeans to the bailiff Collybiscus, before you called me out of doors. I now adjure you, Milphio, by this right hand, and by this left hand its sister, and by your eyes, and by my passion, and by my own Adelphasium,
415

and by your liberty³—
420

MILPHIO

Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.

AGORASTOCLES

My dear little Milphio, my kind occasion, my safeguard, do what you promised me you would do, that I may prove the ruin of this Procurer.

MILPHIO

Why, that’s very easy to be done. Be off, bring here with you your witnesses; meanwhile, in-doors I’ll forthwith provide your bailiff with my disguise and stratagems. Make haste and be off.

AGORASTOCLES

I fly.

MILPHIO

That’s more my part⁴ than yours.

AGORASTOCLES

Should I not, should I not, if you effect this adroitly⁵—

MILPHIO

Only do begone.

AGORASTOCLES

Ought I not this very day—

MILPHIO

Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES

To give you freedom

MILPHIO

Only do begone.
430

AGORASTOCLES

By my troth, I should not deserve—

ah!

MILPHIO

Bah!

Only do be off.

AGORASTOCLES

As many as are the dead in Acheron—

MILPHIO

Will you, then, move off?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor yet as many as there are waves in the sea—

MILPHIO

Are you going to move off?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor as many as there are clouds—

MILPHIO

Do you persist in going on this way?

AGORASTOCLES

Nor as there are stars in heaven—

MILPHIO

Do you persist in dinning my ears?

MILPHIO

If I cannot make you go away, I shall go away myself: for really, upon my faith, there’s need of an Oedipus⁶ as a diviner for this speech of yours, him who was the interpreter to the Sphinx.

(He goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

AGORASTOCLES

He has gone off in a passion; now must I beware, lest, through my own fault, I place an impediment in the way of my love. I’ll go and fetch the witnesses, since love commands me, a free man, to be obedient to my own slave.
445
(Exit.)