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1120

Giddenes

Quis pultat?
1120

Milphio

Qui te proximust.

Giddenes

Quid vis?

Milphio

Eho,

novistin tu illunc tunicatum hominem qui siet?

Giddenes

Nam quém ego aspicio? pro supreme Iuppiter,

erus meus hic quidem est, mearum alumnarum pater,

Hanno Carthaginiensis.

Milphio

Ecce autem mala.

praestrigiator hic quidem Poenus probust,
1125

perduxit omnis ad suam sententiam.

Giddenes

O mí ere, salve, Hánno, insperatissume

mihi tuisque filiis, salve atque—eho,

mirari noli neque me contemplarier.

cognoscin Giddenenem áncillam tuam?
1130

Hanno

Novi. sed ubi sunt meae gnatae? id scire expeto.

Giddenes

Apud aedem Veneris.

Hanno

Quid ibi faciunt? dic mihi.

Giddenes

Aphrodisia hodie Veneris est festus dies:

oratum ierunt deam, ut sibi esset propitia.

Milphio

Pol satis scio, impetrarunt, quando hic hic adest.
1135

Agorastocles

Eho an huius sunt illae filiae?

Giddenes

Ita ut praedicas.

tua pietas nobis plane aúxilio fuit,

quom huc advenisti hodie in ipso tempore;

namque hodie earum mutarentur nomina

facerentque indignum genere quaestum corpore.
1140

Pver

Auamma illi.

Giddenes

Hauon bane silli in mustine.

Giddenes

Mepstaetemes tas dum et alanna cestimim.

Agorastocles

Quid illí locuti sunt inter se? dic mihi.

Hanno

Matrem hic salutat suam, haec autem hunc filium.

tace atque parce muliebri supellectili.
1145

Agorastocles

Quae east supellex?

Hanno

Clarus clamor.

Agorastocles

Sine modo.

Hanno

Tu abduc hosce intro; et una nutricem simul

iube hanc abire hinc ad te.

Agorastocles

Fac quod imperat.

Milphio

Sed quís illas tibi monstrabit?

Agorastocles

Ego doctissume.

Milphio

Abeo igitur.
1150

Agorastocles

Facias modo quam memores mavelim.

patruo advenienti cena curetur volo.

Milphio

Lachanna vos, quos ego iam detrudam ad molas,

inde pórro ad puteum atque ad robustum codicem.

ego faxo hospitium hoc leniter laudabitis.—

Agorastocles

Audin tu, patrue? dico, ne dictum neges:
1155

tuam míhi maiorem filiam despondeas.

Hanno

Pactam rem habeto.

Agorastocles

Spondesne igitur?

Hanno

Spondeo.

Agorastocles

Mi patrue, salve. nam nunc es plane meus.

nunc demum ego cum illa fabulabor libere.

nunc, patrue, si vis tuas videre filias,
1160

me sequere.

Hanno

Iamdudum equidem cupio, et te sequor.

Agorastocles

Quid si eámus illis obviam?

Hanno

At ne intervias

praeterbitamus metuo. magne Iuppiter,

restitue certas mi ex incertis nunc opes.

Agorastocles

† Ego quidem meos amores mecum confido fore.
1165

sed eccás video ipsas.

Hanno

Haecine meae sunt filiae?

quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae.

Agorastocles

Scin quid est?

tragicae sunt: in calones sustolli solent.

Milphio

Opino hercle hodie, quod ego dixi per iocum,

id eventurum esse et severum et serium,
1170

ut haec ínveniantur hodie esse huius filiae.

Agorastocles

Pol istúc quidem iam certum est. tu istos, Milphio,

abduce intro. nos hasce hic praestolabimur.

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

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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.) — 5.3 focus

1120 (Enter GIDDENEME and a BOY, from the house.)

GIDDENEME

Who is it that knocks?
1120

MILPHIO

One that’s a near acquaintance of yours.

GIDDENEME

What do you want?

MILPHIO

Come now (pointing to HANNO.) do you know that person in the tunic, who it is?

GIDDENEME

Why, whom do I behold? O supreme Jupiter! this sure is my master, the father of my foster-children, Hanno, the Carthaginian!

MILPHIO

Now, do see the cunning hussey this Carthaginian is really a clever juggler; he has brought all over to his own opinion.

GIDDENEME

(running up to HANNO.)

O my master! welcome to you, Hanno! most unhoped for by myself and your daughters, welcome to you! But look you, don’t be wondering, or gazing so intently upon me.

Don’t you know Giddeneme, your female slave?
1130

HANNO

I know her. But where are my daughters? That I’m longing to know.

GIDDENEME

At the Temple of Venus¹.

HANNO

What are they doing there? Tell me.

GIDDENEME

To-day is the Aphrodisia, the festive day of Venus! they have gone there to entreat the Goddess to be propitious to them.

MILPHIO

I’ faith, they’ve fully prevailed, I’m sure, inasmuch as he has arrived here.
1135

AGORASTOCLES

(aside to GIDDENEME.)

How now, are these his daughters?

GIDDENEME

Just as you say. (To HANNO.) Your kindness has clearly come to our rescue, in your having arrived here to-day at the very time; for this day their names were to have been changed²,

and they were to have made a livelihood, disgraceful to their station, by their persons.
1140

A BOY

Haudones illi³.

GIDDENEME

Havon bene si illi, in mustine.

Me ipsi et eneste dum et alamna cestinum⁴.

AGORASTOCLES

What is it they are saying among themselves? Tell me.

MILPHIO

He’s saluting his mother, and she this her son.

HANNO

Hold your peace, and let alone the woman’s gear.
1145

MILPHIO

What gear is that?

HANNO

Loud talking

without limit.

(To MILPHIO.) Do you lead these people in-doors (pointing to his SERVANTS.) and bid this nurse to come away together with you to your house.

AGORASTOCLES

(to MILPHIO.)

Do as he requests.

GIDDENEME

(to HANNO.)

But who’s to point them out to you?

AGORASTOCLES

I will, right skilfully.

GIDDENEME

I’ll go away then.
1150

AGORASTOCLES

I’d only rather that you would do so, than say so.

(She goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

MILPHIO

Upon my faith, I do think that this day the very thing that I said by way of joke

will be coming to pass both soberly and seriously,
1170

that these will be discovered to-day to be his daughters.

AGORASTOCLES

Troth, that very thing is quite certain now. Do you, Milphio, take them (pointing to the SERVANTS) in-doors; we’ll wait here for these damsels.

I wish a dinner to be got ready for my kinsman on his arrival.

MILPHIO

Lachananim⁵ you! (aside to the SERVANTS.) whom I’ll just now be packing off to the mill-stones, and from there after that to the dungeon and the oaken log⁶. I’ll give you reason to praise your treatment here but slightly.

AGORASTOCLES

(to HANNO.)

Do you hear, kinsman? I say, don’t you revoke what has been said; promise me your elder daughter in marriage.
1155

HANNO

Consider the thing as agreed on.

AGORASTOCLES

Do you promise her, then?

HANNO

I do promise her.

AGORASTOCLES

My kinsman, blessings on you! for now you are mine beyond a doubt; now at length shall I converse with her without restraint.

Now, kinsman, if you wish to see your daughters, follow me.
1160

HANNO

Why, really, this long time I’ve been longing for it, and I’ll follow you.

AGORASTOCLES

What if we go and meet them?

HANNO

But I’m afraid lest we should pass them on the road. Great Jupiter, do now reinstate my fortunes for me as being certain instead of uncertain!

AGORASTOCLES

I trust that my charmer will be my own. But look, I catch sight of them.
1165

HANNO

What, are these my daughters? How tall from being such little creatures have they now become!

AGORASTOCLES

Do you know how it is? These are Grecian columns⁷; they are wont to be erect.

(They stand aside.)

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Giddenes Quis pultat? 1120

Milphio Qui te proximust.

Giddenes Quid vis?

Milphio Eho, novistin tu illunc tunicatum hominem qui siet?

Giddenes Nam quém ego aspicio? pro supreme Iuppiter, erus meus hic quidem est, mearum alumnarum pater, Hanno Carthaginiensis.

Milphio Ecce autem mala. praestrigiator hic quidem Poenus probust, 1125 perduxit omnis ad suam sententiam.

Giddenes O mí ere, salve, Hánno, insperatissume mihi tuisque filiis, salve atque—eho, mirari noli neque me contemplarier. cognoscin Giddenenem áncillam tuam? 1130

Hanno Novi. sed ubi sunt meae gnatae? id scire expeto.

Giddenes Apud aedem Veneris.

Hanno Quid ibi faciunt? dic mihi.

Giddenes Aphrodisia hodie Veneris est festus dies: oratum ierunt deam, ut sibi esset propitia.

Milphio Pol satis scio, impetrarunt, quando hic hic adest. 1135

Agorastocles Eho an huius sunt illae filiae?

Giddenes Ita ut praedicas. tua pietas nobis plane aúxilio fuit, quom huc advenisti hodie in ipso tempore; namque hodie earum mutarentur nomina facerentque indignum genere quaestum corpore. 1140

Pver Auamma illi.

Giddenes Hauon bane silli in mustine.

Giddenes Mepstaetemes tas dum et alanna cestimim.

Agorastocles Quid illí locuti sunt inter se? dic mihi.

Hanno Matrem hic salutat suam, haec autem hunc filium. tace atque parce muliebri supellectili. 1145

Agorastocles Quae east supellex?

Hanno Clarus clamor.

Agorastocles Sine modo.

Hanno Tu abduc hosce intro; et una nutricem simul iube hanc abire hinc ad te.

Agorastocles Fac quod imperat.

Milphio Sed quís illas tibi monstrabit?

Agorastocles Ego doctissume.

Milphio Abeo igitur. 1150

Agorastocles Facias modo quam memores mavelim. patruo advenienti cena curetur volo.

Milphio Lachanna vos, quos ego iam detrudam ad molas, inde pórro ad puteum atque ad robustum codicem. ego faxo hospitium hoc leniter laudabitis.—

Agorastocles Audin tu, patrue? dico, ne dictum neges: 1155 tuam míhi maiorem filiam despondeas.

Hanno Pactam rem habeto.

Agorastocles Spondesne igitur?

Hanno Spondeo.

Agorastocles Mi patrue, salve. nam nunc es plane meus. nunc demum ego cum illa fabulabor libere. nunc, patrue, si vis tuas videre filias, 1160 me sequere.

Hanno Iamdudum equidem cupio, et te sequor.

Agorastocles Quid si eámus illis obviam?

Hanno At ne intervias praeterbitamus metuo. magne Iuppiter, restitue certas mi ex incertis nunc opes.

Agorastocles † Ego quidem meos amores mecum confido fore. 1165 sed eccás video ipsas.

Hanno Haecine meae sunt filiae? quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae.

Agorastocles Scin quid est? tragicae sunt: in calones sustolli solent.

Milphio Opino hercle hodie, quod ego dixi per iocum, id eventurum esse et severum et serium, 1170 ut haec ínveniantur hodie esse huius filiae.

Agorastocles Pol istúc quidem iam certum est. tu istos, Milphio, abduce intro. nos hasce hic praestolabimur.

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GIDDENEME Who is it that knocks? 1120

MILPHIO One that’s a near acquaintance of yours.

GIDDENEME What do you want?

MILPHIO Come now (pointing to HANNO.) do you know that person in the tunic, who it is?

GIDDENEME Why, whom do I behold? O supreme Jupiter! this sure is my master, the father of my foster-children, Hanno, the Carthaginian!

MILPHIO Now, do see the cunning hussey this Carthaginian is really a clever juggler; he has brought all over to his own opinion.

GIDDENEME (running up to HANNO.) O my master! welcome to you, Hanno! most unhoped for by myself and your daughters, welcome to you! But look you, don’t be wondering, or gazing so intently upon me. Don’t you know Giddeneme, your female slave? 1130

HANNO I know her. But where are my daughters? That I’m longing to know.

GIDDENEME At the Temple of Venus 1 .

HANNO What are they doing there? Tell me.

GIDDENEME To-day is the Aphrodisia, the festive day of Venus! they have gone there to entreat the Goddess to be propitious to them.

MILPHIO I’ faith, they’ve fully prevailed, I’m sure, inasmuch as he has arrived here. 1135

AGORASTOCLES (aside to GIDDENEME.) How now, are these his daughters?

GIDDENEME Just as you say. (To HANNO.) Your kindness has clearly come to our rescue, in your having arrived here to-day at the very time; for this day their names were to have been changed 2 , and they were to have made a livelihood, disgraceful to their station, by their persons. 1140

A BOY Haudones illi 3 .

GIDDENEME Havon bene si illi, in mustine. Me ipsi et eneste dum et alamna cestinum 4 .

AGORASTOCLES What is it they are saying among themselves? Tell me.

MILPHIO He’s saluting his mother, and she this her son.

HANNO Hold your peace, and let alone the woman’s gear. 1145

MILPHIO What gear is that?

HANNO Loud talking without limit. (To MILPHIO.) Do you lead these people in-doors (pointing to his SERVANTS.) and bid this nurse to come away together with you to your house.

AGORASTOCLES (to MILPHIO.) Do as he requests.

GIDDENEME (to HANNO.) But who’s to point them out to you?

AGORASTOCLES I will, right skilfully.

GIDDENEME I’ll go away then. 1150

AGORASTOCLES I’d only rather that you would do so, than say so. (She goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

MILPHIO Upon my faith, I do think that this day the very thing that I said by way of joke will be coming to pass both soberly and seriously, 1170 that these will be discovered to-day to be his daughters.

AGORASTOCLES Troth, that very thing is quite certain now. Do you, Milphio, take them (pointing to the SERVANTS) in-doors; we’ll wait here for these damsels. I wish a dinner to be got ready for my kinsman on his arrival.

MILPHIO Lachananim 5 you! (aside to the SERVANTS.) whom I’ll just now be packing off to the mill-stones, and from there after that to the dungeon and the oaken log 6 . I’ll give you reason to praise your treatment here but slightly.

AGORASTOCLES (to HANNO.) Do you hear, kinsman? I say, don’t you revoke what has been said; promise me your elder daughter in marriage. 1155

HANNO Consider the thing as agreed on.

AGORASTOCLES Do you promise her, then?

HANNO I do promise her.

AGORASTOCLES My kinsman, blessings on you! for now you are mine beyond a doubt; now at length shall I converse with her without restraint. Now, kinsman, if you wish to see your daughters, follow me. 1160

HANNO Why, really, this long time I’ve been longing for it, and I’ll follow you.

Giddenes

Quis pultat?
1120

Milphio

Qui te proximust.

Giddenes

Quid vis?

Milphio

Eho,

novistin tu illunc tunicatum hominem qui siet?

Giddenes

Nam quém ego aspicio? pro supreme Iuppiter,

erus meus hic quidem est, mearum alumnarum pater,

Hanno Carthaginiensis.

Milphio

Ecce autem mala.

praestrigiator hic quidem Poenus probust,
1125

perduxit omnis ad suam sententiam.

Giddenes

O mí ere, salve, Hánno, insperatissume

mihi tuisque filiis, salve atque—eho,

mirari noli neque me contemplarier.

cognoscin Giddenenem áncillam tuam?
1130

Hanno

Novi. sed ubi sunt meae gnatae? id scire expeto.

Giddenes

Apud aedem Veneris.

Hanno

Quid ibi faciunt? dic mihi.

Giddenes

Aphrodisia hodie Veneris est festus dies:

oratum ierunt deam, ut sibi esset propitia.

Milphio

Pol satis scio, impetrarunt, quando hic hic adest.
1135

Agorastocles

Eho an huius sunt illae filiae?

Giddenes

Ita ut praedicas.

tua pietas nobis plane aúxilio fuit,

quom huc advenisti hodie in ipso tempore;

namque hodie earum mutarentur nomina

facerentque indignum genere quaestum corpore.
1140

Pver

Auamma illi.

Giddenes

Hauon bane silli in mustine.

Giddenes

Mepstaetemes tas dum et alanna cestimim.

Agorastocles

Quid illí locuti sunt inter se? dic mihi.

Hanno

Matrem hic salutat suam, haec autem hunc filium.

tace atque parce muliebri supellectili.
1145

Agorastocles

Quae east supellex?

Hanno

Clarus clamor.

Agorastocles

Sine modo.

Hanno

Tu abduc hosce intro; et una nutricem simul

iube hanc abire hinc ad te.

Agorastocles

Fac quod imperat.

Milphio

Sed quís illas tibi monstrabit?

Agorastocles

Ego doctissume.

Milphio

Abeo igitur.
1150

Agorastocles

Facias modo quam memores mavelim.

patruo advenienti cena curetur volo.

Milphio

Lachanna vos, quos ego iam detrudam ad molas,

inde pórro ad puteum atque ad robustum codicem.

ego faxo hospitium hoc leniter laudabitis.—

Agorastocles

Audin tu, patrue? dico, ne dictum neges:
1155

tuam míhi maiorem filiam despondeas.

Hanno

Pactam rem habeto.

Agorastocles

Spondesne igitur?

Hanno

Spondeo.

Agorastocles

Mi patrue, salve. nam nunc es plane meus.

nunc demum ego cum illa fabulabor libere.

nunc, patrue, si vis tuas videre filias,
1160

me sequere.

Hanno

Iamdudum equidem cupio, et te sequor.

Agorastocles

Quid si eámus illis obviam?

Hanno

At ne intervias

praeterbitamus metuo. magne Iuppiter,

restitue certas mi ex incertis nunc opes.

Agorastocles

† Ego quidem meos amores mecum confido fore.
1165

sed eccás video ipsas.

Hanno

Haecine meae sunt filiae?

quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae.

Agorastocles

Scin quid est?

tragicae sunt: in calones sustolli solent.

Milphio

Opino hercle hodie, quod ego dixi per iocum,

id eventurum esse et severum et serium,
1170

ut haec ínveniantur hodie esse huius filiae.

Agorastocles

Pol istúc quidem iam certum est. tu istos, Milphio,

abduce intro. nos hasce hic praestolabimur.

GIDDENEME

Who is it that knocks?
1120

MILPHIO

One that’s a near acquaintance of yours.

GIDDENEME

What do you want?

MILPHIO

Come now (pointing to HANNO.) do you know that person in the tunic, who it is?

GIDDENEME

Why, whom do I behold? O supreme Jupiter! this sure is my master, the father of my foster-children, Hanno, the Carthaginian!

MILPHIO

Now, do see the cunning hussey this Carthaginian is really a clever juggler; he has brought all over to his own opinion.

GIDDENEME

(running up to HANNO.)

O my master! welcome to you, Hanno! most unhoped for by myself and your daughters, welcome to you! But look you, don’t be wondering, or gazing so intently upon me.

Don’t you know Giddeneme, your female slave?
1130

HANNO

I know her. But where are my daughters? That I’m longing to know.

GIDDENEME

At the Temple of Venus¹.

HANNO

What are they doing there? Tell me.

GIDDENEME

To-day is the Aphrodisia, the festive day of Venus! they have gone there to entreat the Goddess to be propitious to them.

MILPHIO

I’ faith, they’ve fully prevailed, I’m sure, inasmuch as he has arrived here.
1135

AGORASTOCLES

(aside to GIDDENEME.)

How now, are these his daughters?

GIDDENEME

Just as you say. (To HANNO.) Your kindness has clearly come to our rescue, in your having arrived here to-day at the very time; for this day their names were to have been changed²,

and they were to have made a livelihood, disgraceful to their station, by their persons.
1140

A BOY

Haudones illi³.

GIDDENEME

Havon bene si illi, in mustine.

Me ipsi et eneste dum et alamna cestinum⁴.

AGORASTOCLES

What is it they are saying among themselves? Tell me.

MILPHIO

He’s saluting his mother, and she this her son.

HANNO

Hold your peace, and let alone the woman’s gear.
1145

MILPHIO

What gear is that?

HANNO

Loud talking

without limit.

(To MILPHIO.) Do you lead these people in-doors (pointing to his SERVANTS.) and bid this nurse to come away together with you to your house.

AGORASTOCLES

(to MILPHIO.)

Do as he requests.

GIDDENEME

(to HANNO.)

But who’s to point them out to you?

AGORASTOCLES

I will, right skilfully.

GIDDENEME

I’ll go away then.
1150

AGORASTOCLES

I’d only rather that you would do so, than say so.

(She goes into the house of AGORASTOCLES.)

MILPHIO

Upon my faith, I do think that this day the very thing that I said by way of joke

will be coming to pass both soberly and seriously,
1170

that these will be discovered to-day to be his daughters.

AGORASTOCLES

Troth, that very thing is quite certain now. Do you, Milphio, take them (pointing to the SERVANTS) in-doors; we’ll wait here for these damsels.

I wish a dinner to be got ready for my kinsman on his arrival.

MILPHIO

Lachananim⁵ you! (aside to the SERVANTS.) whom I’ll just now be packing off to the mill-stones, and from there after that to the dungeon and the oaken log⁶. I’ll give you reason to praise your treatment here but slightly.

AGORASTOCLES

(to HANNO.)

Do you hear, kinsman? I say, don’t you revoke what has been said; promise me your elder daughter in marriage.
1155

HANNO

Consider the thing as agreed on.

AGORASTOCLES

Do you promise her, then?

HANNO

I do promise her.

AGORASTOCLES

My kinsman, blessings on you! for now you are mine beyond a doubt; now at length shall I converse with her without restraint.

Now, kinsman, if you wish to see your daughters, follow me.
1160

HANNO

Why, really, this long time I’ve been longing for it, and I’ll follow you.

AGORASTOCLES

What if we go and meet them?

HANNO

But I’m afraid lest we should pass them on the road. Great Jupiter, do now reinstate my fortunes for me as being certain instead of uncertain!

AGORASTOCLES

I trust that my charmer will be my own. But look, I catch sight of them.
1165