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(Enter LABRAX, at a distance.)
LABRAX
(to himself.)
What other mortal being is there living this day more wretched than myself, whom before the commissioned judges
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Plesidippus has just now cast? Palaestra has just been taken from me by award. I’m ruined outright. But I do believe that Procurers were procreated for mere sport;
so much do all persons make sport if any misfortune befalls a Procurer. Now I’ll go look here, in the Temple of Venus, for that other female, that her at least I may take away, the only portion of my property that remains.
1285
(He retires a little distance.)
What other mortal being is there living this day more wretched than myself, whom before the commissioned judges
1
Plesidippus has just now cast? Palaestra has just been taken from me by award. I’m ruined outright. But I do believe that Procurers were procreated for mere sport;
so much do all persons make sport if any misfortune befalls a Procurer. Now I’ll go look here, in the Temple of Venus, for that other female, that her at least I may take away, the only portion of my property that remains.
1285
Rudens. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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