T. Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.5

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Ballio

Hahae, nunc demum mi animus in tuto est loco,

postquam iste hinc abiit atque abduxit mulierem.

iube núnc venire Pseudolum, scelerum caput,

et abdúcere a me mulierem fallaciis.
1055

conceptis hercle verbis, satis certo scio,

ego periurare me mavellem miliens,

quam mi illum verba per deridiculum dare.

nunc deridebo hercle hominem, si convenero;

verum in pistrino credo, ut convenit, fore.
1060

nunc ego Simonem mi obviam veniat velim,

ut mea laetitia laetus promiscam siet.

Pseudolus. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

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

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Pseudolus, or The Cheat Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 4.5 focus

1052 (Enter BALLIO, from his house.)

BALLIO

Ha, ha, ha! (laughing.) Now, at last, my mind is in a state of ease, since that fellow has departed hence, and taken away the woman. I should like Pseudolus now to come, that wicked rascal,

to carry the woman off from me by his stratagems. I know for sure, right well, that I had rather in solemn form perjure myself a thousand times, than that he should cheat me by making a laughing-stock of me. By my troth now, I’ll laugh at the fellow if I meet him.
1055

But I guess that he’ll soon be on the treadmill, just as befits him. Now I wish for Simo that he would come in my way, in order that he might be joyful in common with my joy.
1060

T. Maccius Plautus Pseudolus 4.5

ed. Friedrich Leo

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