T. Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.8

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Simo

Bene ego illum tetigi, bene autem servos inimicum suom.

nunc mihi certum est alio pacto Pseudolo insidias dare,

quam in aliis comoediis fit, ubi cum stimulis aut flagris
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insidiantur: at ego iam intus promam viginti minas,

quas promisi si effecisset; obviam ei ultro deferam.

nimis illic mortalis doctus, nimis vorsutus, nimis malus;

superavit dolum Troianum átque Vlixem Pseudolus.

nunc ibo intro, argentum promam, Pseudolo insidias dabo.—
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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.)

Translations (1)

Pseudolus, or The Cheat Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 4.8 focus

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SIMO

I’ve touched this fellow handsomely, and cleverly has my servant managed his adversary. Now am I resolved to lie in ambush for Pseudolus

in a different manner to what’s done in other plays, where people lie in wait with goads or whips. Without revenge will I at once pay down the twenty minae which I promised if he should effect it. I’ll carry them to him of my own accord. This creature is very clever, very cunning, very artful. Pseudolus has surpassed the Trojan stratagem ¹ and Ulysses too.
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Now I’ll be off in-doors. I’ll take out the money; I’ll lie in ambush for Pseudolus.
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(Goes into his house.)

T. Maccius Plautus Pseudolus 4.8

ed. Friedrich Leo

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