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780

Daemones

Vtrum tu, leno, cum malo lubentius
780

quiescis an sic sine malo, si copiast?

Labrax

Ego quae tu loquere flocci non facio, senex.

meas quidem te invito et Venere et summo Iove

de ara capillo iam deripiam.

Daemones

Tange dum.

Labrax

Tangam hercle vero.
785

Daemones

Agedum ergo, accede huc modo.

Labrax

Iube dúm recedere istos ambo illuc modo.

Daemones

Immo ad te accedent.

Labrax

Non hercle equidem censeo.

Daemones

Quid ages, si accedent propius?

Labrax

Ego recessero.

verum, senex, si te umquam in urbe offendero,

numquam hercle quisquam me lenonem dixerit,
790

si te non ludos pessimos dimisero.

Daemones

Facito istuc quod minitare; sed nunc interim,

si illas attigeris, dabitur tibi magnum malum.

Labrax

Quam magnum vero?

Daemones

Quantum lenoni sat est.

Labrax

Minacias ego flocci non faciam tuas,
795

equidem has te invito iam ambas rapiam.

Daemones

Tange dum.

Labrax

Tangam hercle vero.

Daemones

Tanges, at scin quo modo?

i dum, Turbalio, curriculo, adfert o domo

duas clávas.

Labrax

Clavas?

Daemones

Sed probas. propera cito.

ego te hodie faxo recte acceptum, ut dignus es.
800

Labrax

Eheu, scelestus galeam in navi perdidi;

nunc mi opportuna hic esset, salva si foret.

licet saltem istas mi appellare?

Daemones

Non licet.

ehem, optime edepol eccum clavator ádvenit.
804805

Labrax

Illud quidem edepol tinnimentum est auribus.

Daemones

Age accipe illinc alteram clavam, Sparax.

age, alter istinc, alter hinc adsistite.

adsistite ambo. sic. audite nunciam:

si hercle illic illas hodie digito tetigerit
810

invitas, ni istunc istis invitassitis

usque adeo donec qua domum abeat nesciat,

periistis ambo. si appellabit quempiam,

vos respondetote istinc istarum vicem;

sin ipse abire hínc volet, quantum potest
815

extemplo amplectitote crura fustibus.

Labrax

Etiam me abire hinc non sinent?

Daemones

Dixi satis.

et ubi ille servos cúm ero huc advenerit,

qui erum accersivit, itote extemplo domum.

curate haec sultis magna diligentia.—
820

Labrax

Heu hercle, ne istic fana mutantur cito:

iam hoc Herculi est, Veneris fanum quod fuit,

ita duo destituit signa hic cum clavis senex.

non hercle quo hinc nunc gentium aufugiam scio,

ita nunc mi utrumque saevit, et terra et mare.
825

Palaestra.

Lorarius

Quid vis?

Labrax

Apage, controversia est,

haec quidem Palaestra, quae respondit, non mea est.

heus, Ampelisca.

Lorarius alter

Cave sis infortunio.

Labrax

Vltro te. signa ut homines satis recte monent.

sed vobis dico, heús vos, num molestiaest,
830

me adire ad illas propius?

Lorarius

Nil nobis quidem.

Labrax

Numquid molestum mihi erit?

Lorarius

Nil, si caveris.

Labrax

Quid est quod caveam?

Lorarius

Em, a crasso infortunio.

Labrax

Quaeso hercle, abire ut liceat.

Lorarius

Abeas, si velis.

Labrax

Bene hercle factum. habeo vobis gratiam.
835

non accedam potius.

Lorarius

Illic astato ilico.

Labrax

Edepol proveni nequiter multis modis.

certumst hasce hodie usque obsidione vincere.

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

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

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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 3.5 focus

780 (DAEMONES, LABRAX, PALAESTRA, AMPELISCA, and SERVANTS.)

DAEMONES

(to LABRAX, who is struggling with the SERVANTS.)

Which, you Procurer, had you rather do, be quiet with a thrashing, or e’en as it is, without the thrashing, if you had the choice?
780

LABRAX

Old fellow, I don’t care a straw for what you say. My own women, in fact, I shall drag away this instant from the altar by the hair, in spite of yourself, and Venus, and supreme Jove.

DAEMONES

Just touch them.

LABRAX

(going towards them)

I’ troth, I surely will touch them.
785

DAEMONES

Just come then; only approach this way.

LABRAX

Only bid both those fellows, then, to move away from there.

DAEMONES

On the contrary, they shall move towards you.

LABRAX

I’ faith, for my own part, I don’t think so.

DAEMONES

If they do move nearer to you, what will you do?

LABRAX

I’ll retire. But, old fellow, if ever I catch you in the city,

never again, upon my faith, shall any one call me a Procurer, if I don’t give you some most disagreable sport.
790

DAEMONES

Do what you threaten. But now, in the meantime, if you do touch them, a heavy punishment shall be inflicted on you.

LABRAX

How heavy, in fact?

DAEMONES

Just as much as is sufficient for a Procurer.

LABRAX

These threats of yours I don’t value one straw; I certainly shall seize them both this instant without your leave.
795

DAEMONES

Just touch them.

LABRAX

By my troth, I surely will touch them.

DAEMONES

You will touch them, but do you know with what result? Go then, Turbalio, with all haste, and bring hither from out of the house two cudgels.

LABRAX

Cudgels?

DAEMONES

Aye, good ones; make haste speedily. (TURBALIO goes in.)

I’ll let you have a reception this day in proper style, as you are deserving of.
800

LABRAX

(aside.)

Alas! cursedly unfortunate. I lost my headpiece in the ship; it would now have been handy for me, if it had been saved. (To DAEMONES.) May I at least address these women?

DAEMONES

You may not

(TURBALIO enters bringing two cudgels.) Well now, by my faith, look, the cudgel-man is coming very opportunely here.
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LABRAX

(aside.)

By my troth, this surely is a tingling for my ears.

DAEMONES

Come, Sparax, do you take this other cudgel. (Giving him one.) Come, take your stand, one on one side, the other on one other. Take your stations both of you. (They stand with lifted cudgels on each side of he altar.) Just so. Now then attend to me:

if, I’ faith, that fellow there should this day touch these women with his finger against their inclination, if you don’t give him a reception¹ with these cudgels even to that degree that he shan’t know which way he is to get home, you are undone, both of you. If he shall call for any one, do you make answer to this fellow in their stead.
810

But if he himself shall attempt to get away from here, that instant, as hard a you can, lay on to his legs with your sticks.
815

LABRAX

Are they not even to allow me to go away from here?

DAEMONES

I’ve said sufficient. And when that servant comes here with his master, he that has gone to fetch his master, do you at once go home.

Attend to this with great diligence, will you.
820
(DAEMONES goes into his house.)

LABRAX

O rare, by my troth, the Temple here is surely changed all of a sudden; this is now the Temple of Hercules ² which was that of Venus before; in such fashion has the old fellow planted two statues here with clubs. I’ faith, I don’t know now whither in the world I shall fly from here;

so greatly are they both raging now against me, both land and sea. Palaestra!
825

SERVANT

What do you want?

LABRAX

Away with you, there is a misunderstanding between us; that, indeed, is not my Palaestra³ that answers. Harkye, Ampelisca.

SERVANT

Beware of a mishap, will you.

LABRAX

(aside.)

So far as they can, the worthless fellows advise me rightly enough.

(Aloud.) But, harkye, I ask you, whether it is any harm to you for me to come nearer to these women?
830

SERVANT

Why none at all to ourselves.

LABRAX

Will there be any harm to myself?

SERVANT

None at all, if you only take care.

LABRAX

What is it that I’m to take care against?

SERVANT

Why, look you, against a heavy mishap.

LABRAX

Troth now, prithee, do let me approach them.

SERVANT

Approach them, if you like.

LABRAX

I’ faith, obligingly done; I return you thanks, I’ll go nearer to them.
835
(Approaches them.)

SERVANT

Do you stand there on the spot, where you are.

(Drags him to his place, with the cudgel over his head.)

LABRAX

(aside.)

By my faith, I’ve come scurvily off in many ways. Still, I’m resolved to get the better of them this day by constantly besieging them.

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Daemones Vtrum tu, leno, cum malo lubentius 780 quiescis an sic sine malo, si copiast?

Labrax Ego quae tu loquere flocci non facio, senex. meas quidem te invito et Venere et summo Iove de ara capillo iam deripiam.

Daemones Tange dum.

Labrax Tangam hercle vero. 785

Daemones Agedum ergo, accede huc modo.

Labrax Iube dúm recedere istos ambo illuc modo.

Daemones Immo ad te accedent.

Labrax Non hercle equidem censeo.

Daemones Quid ages, si accedent propius?

Labrax Ego recessero. verum, senex, si te umquam in urbe offendero, numquam hercle quisquam me lenonem dixerit, 790 si te non ludos pessimos dimisero.

Daemones Facito istuc quod minitare; sed nunc interim, si illas attigeris, dabitur tibi magnum malum.

Labrax Quam magnum vero?

Daemones Quantum lenoni sat est.

Labrax Minacias ego flocci non faciam tuas, 795 equidem has te invito iam ambas rapiam.

Daemones Tange dum.

Labrax Tangam hercle vero.

Daemones Tanges, at scin quo modo? i dum, Turbalio, curriculo, adfert o domo duas clávas.

Labrax Clavas?

Daemones Sed probas. propera cito. ego te hodie faxo recte acceptum, ut dignus es. 800

Labrax Eheu, scelestus galeam in navi perdidi; nunc mi opportuna hic esset, salva si foret. licet saltem istas mi appellare?

Daemones Non licet. ehem, optime edepol eccum clavator ádvenit. 804805

Labrax Illud quidem edepol tinnimentum est auribus.

Labrax Etiam me abire hinc non sinent?

Daemones Dixi satis. et ubi ille servos cúm ero huc advenerit, qui erum accersivit, itote extemplo domum. curate haec sultis magna diligentia.— 820

Labrax Heu hercle, ne istic fana mutantur cito: iam hoc Herculi est, Veneris fanum quod fuit, ita duo destituit signa hic cum clavis senex. non hercle quo hinc nunc gentium aufugiam scio, ita nunc mi utrumque saevit, et terra et mare. 825 Palaestra.

Lorarius Quid vis?

Labrax Apage, controversia est, haec quidem Palaestra, quae respondit, non mea est. heus, Ampelisca.

Lorarius alter Cave sis infortunio.

Labrax Vltro te. signa ut homines satis recte monent. sed vobis dico, heús vos, num molestiaest, 830 me adire ad illas propius?

Lorarius Nil nobis quidem.

Labrax Numquid molestum mihi erit?

Lorarius Nil, si caveris.

Labrax Quid est quod caveam?

Lorarius Em, a crasso infortunio.

Labrax Quaeso hercle, abire ut liceat.

Lorarius Abeas, si velis.

Labrax Bene hercle factum. habeo vobis gratiam. 835 non accedam potius.

Lorarius Illic astato ilico.

Labrax Edepol proveni nequiter multis modis. certumst hasce hodie usque obsidione vincere.

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DAEMONES (to LABRAX, who is struggling with the SERVANTS.) Which, you Procurer, had you rather do, be quiet with a thrashing, or e’en as it is, without the thrashing, if you had the choice? 780

LABRAX Old fellow, I don’t care a straw for what you say. My own women, in fact, I shall drag away this instant from the altar by the hair, in spite of yourself, and Venus, and supreme Jove.

DAEMONES Just touch them.

LABRAX (going towards them) I’ troth, I surely will touch them. 785

DAEMONES Just come then; only approach this way.

LABRAX Only bid both those fellows, then, to move away from there.

DAEMONES On the contrary, they shall move towards you.

LABRAX I’ faith, for my own part, I don’t think so.

DAEMONES If they do move nearer to you, what will you do?

LABRAX I’ll retire. But, old fellow, if ever I catch you in the city, never again, upon my faith, shall any one call me a Procurer, if I don’t give you some most disagreable sport. 790

DAEMONES Do what you threaten. But now, in the meantime, if you do touch them, a heavy punishment shall be inflicted on you.

LABRAX How heavy, in fact?

DAEMONES Just as much as is sufficient for a Procurer.

LABRAX These threats of yours I don’t value one straw; I certainly shall seize them both this instant without your leave. 795

DAEMONES Just touch them.

LABRAX By my troth, I surely will touch them.

DAEMONES You will touch them, but do you know with what result? Go then, Turbalio, with all haste, and bring hither from out of the house two cudgels.

LABRAX Cudgels?

DAEMONES Aye, good ones; make haste speedily. (TURBALIO goes in.) I’ll let you have a reception this day in proper style, as you are deserving of. 800

LABRAX (aside.) Alas! cursedly unfortunate. I lost my headpiece in the ship; it would now have been handy for me, if it had been saved. (To DAEMONES.) May I at least address these women?

DAEMONES You may not (TURBALIO enters bringing two cudgels.) Well now, by my faith, look, the cudgel-man is coming very opportunely here. 804805

LABRAX (aside.) By my troth, this surely is a tingling for my ears.

LABRAX Are they not even to allow me to go away from here?

DAEMONES I’ve said sufficient. And when that servant comes here with his master, he that has gone to fetch his master, do you at once go home. Attend to this with great diligence, will you. 820 (DAEMONES goes into his house.)

SERVANT What do you want?

LABRAX Away with you, there is a misunderstanding between us; that, indeed, is not my Palaestra 3 that answers. Harkye, Ampelisca.

SERVANT Beware of a mishap, will you.

LABRAX (aside.) So far as they can, the worthless fellows advise me rightly enough. (Aloud.) But, harkye, I ask you, whether it is any harm to you for me to come nearer to these women? 830

SERVANT Why none at all to ourselves.

LABRAX Will there be any harm to myself?

SERVANT None at all, if you only take care.

LABRAX What is it that I’m to take care against?

SERVANT Why, look you, against a heavy mishap.

LABRAX Troth now, prithee, do let me approach them.

SERVANT Approach them, if you like.

LABRAX I’ faith, obligingly done; I return you thanks, I’ll go nearer to them. 835 (Approaches them.)

SERVANT Do you stand there on the spot, where you are. (Drags him to his place, with the cudgel over his head.)

LABRAX (aside.) By my faith, I’ve come scurvily off in many ways. Still, I’m resolved to get the better of them this day by constantly besieging them.

Daemones

Vtrum tu, leno, cum malo lubentius
780

quiescis an sic sine malo, si copiast?

Labrax

Ego quae tu loquere flocci non facio, senex.

meas quidem te invito et Venere et summo Iove

de ara capillo iam deripiam.

Daemones

Tange dum.

Labrax

Tangam hercle vero.
785

Daemones

Agedum ergo, accede huc modo.

Labrax

Iube dúm recedere istos ambo illuc modo.

Daemones

Immo ad te accedent.

Labrax

Non hercle equidem censeo.

Daemones

Quid ages, si accedent propius?

Labrax

Ego recessero.

verum, senex, si te umquam in urbe offendero,

numquam hercle quisquam me lenonem dixerit,
790

si te non ludos pessimos dimisero.

Daemones

Facito istuc quod minitare; sed nunc interim,

si illas attigeris, dabitur tibi magnum malum.

Labrax

Quam magnum vero?

Daemones

Quantum lenoni sat est.

Labrax

Minacias ego flocci non faciam tuas,
795

equidem has te invito iam ambas rapiam.

Daemones

Tange dum.

Labrax

Tangam hercle vero.

Daemones

Tanges, at scin quo modo?

i dum, Turbalio, curriculo, adfert o domo

duas clávas.

Labrax

Clavas?

Daemones

Sed probas. propera cito.

ego te hodie faxo recte acceptum, ut dignus es.
800

Labrax

Eheu, scelestus galeam in navi perdidi;

nunc mi opportuna hic esset, salva si foret.

licet saltem istas mi appellare?

Daemones

Non licet.

ehem, optime edepol eccum clavator ádvenit.
804805

Labrax

Illud quidem edepol tinnimentum est auribus.

Labrax

Etiam me abire hinc non sinent?

Daemones

Dixi satis.

et ubi ille servos cúm ero huc advenerit,

qui erum accersivit, itote extemplo domum.

curate haec sultis magna diligentia.—
820

Labrax

Heu hercle, ne istic fana mutantur cito:

iam hoc Herculi est, Veneris fanum quod fuit,

ita duo destituit signa hic cum clavis senex.

non hercle quo hinc nunc gentium aufugiam scio,

ita nunc mi utrumque saevit, et terra et mare.
825

Palaestra.

Lorarius

Quid vis?

Labrax

Apage, controversia est,

haec quidem Palaestra, quae respondit, non mea est.

heus, Ampelisca.

Lorarius alter

Cave sis infortunio.

Labrax

Vltro te. signa ut homines satis recte monent.

sed vobis dico, heús vos, num molestiaest,
830

me adire ad illas propius?

Lorarius

Nil nobis quidem.

Labrax

Numquid molestum mihi erit?

Lorarius

Nil, si caveris.

Labrax

Quid est quod caveam?

Lorarius

Em, a crasso infortunio.

Labrax

Quaeso hercle, abire ut liceat.

Lorarius

Abeas, si velis.

Labrax

Bene hercle factum. habeo vobis gratiam.
835

non accedam potius.

Lorarius

Illic astato ilico.

Labrax

Edepol proveni nequiter multis modis.

certumst hasce hodie usque obsidione vincere.

DAEMONES

(to LABRAX, who is struggling with the SERVANTS.)

Which, you Procurer, had you rather do, be quiet with a thrashing, or e’en as it is, without the thrashing, if you had the choice?
780

LABRAX

Old fellow, I don’t care a straw for what you say. My own women, in fact, I shall drag away this instant from the altar by the hair, in spite of yourself, and Venus, and supreme Jove.

DAEMONES

Just touch them.

LABRAX

(going towards them)

I’ troth, I surely will touch them.
785

DAEMONES

Just come then; only approach this way.

LABRAX

Only bid both those fellows, then, to move away from there.

DAEMONES

On the contrary, they shall move towards you.

LABRAX

I’ faith, for my own part, I don’t think so.

DAEMONES

If they do move nearer to you, what will you do?

LABRAX

I’ll retire. But, old fellow, if ever I catch you in the city,

never again, upon my faith, shall any one call me a Procurer, if I don’t give you some most disagreable sport.
790

DAEMONES

Do what you threaten. But now, in the meantime, if you do touch them, a heavy punishment shall be inflicted on you.

LABRAX

How heavy, in fact?

DAEMONES

Just as much as is sufficient for a Procurer.

LABRAX

These threats of yours I don’t value one straw; I certainly shall seize them both this instant without your leave.
795

DAEMONES

Just touch them.

LABRAX

By my troth, I surely will touch them.

DAEMONES

You will touch them, but do you know with what result? Go then, Turbalio, with all haste, and bring hither from out of the house two cudgels.

LABRAX

Cudgels?

DAEMONES

Aye, good ones; make haste speedily. (TURBALIO goes in.)

I’ll let you have a reception this day in proper style, as you are deserving of.
800

LABRAX

(aside.)

Alas! cursedly unfortunate. I lost my headpiece in the ship; it would now have been handy for me, if it had been saved. (To DAEMONES.) May I at least address these women?

DAEMONES

You may not

(TURBALIO enters bringing two cudgels.) Well now, by my faith, look, the cudgel-man is coming very opportunely here.
804805

LABRAX

(aside.)

By my troth, this surely is a tingling for my ears.

LABRAX

Are they not even to allow me to go away from here?

DAEMONES

I’ve said sufficient. And when that servant comes here with his master, he that has gone to fetch his master, do you at once go home.

Attend to this with great diligence, will you.
820
(DAEMONES goes into his house.)

SERVANT

What do you want?

LABRAX

Away with you, there is a misunderstanding between us; that, indeed, is not my Palaestra³ that answers. Harkye, Ampelisca.

SERVANT

Beware of a mishap, will you.

LABRAX

(aside.)

So far as they can, the worthless fellows advise me rightly enough.

(Aloud.) But, harkye, I ask you, whether it is any harm to you for me to come nearer to these women?
830

SERVANT

Why none at all to ourselves.

LABRAX

Will there be any harm to myself?

SERVANT

None at all, if you only take care.

LABRAX

What is it that I’m to take care against?

SERVANT

Why, look you, against a heavy mishap.

LABRAX

Troth now, prithee, do let me approach them.

SERVANT

Approach them, if you like.

LABRAX

I’ faith, obligingly done; I return you thanks, I’ll go nearer to them.
835
(Approaches them.)

SERVANT

Do you stand there on the spot, where you are.

(Drags him to his place, with the cudgel over his head.)

LABRAX

(aside.)

By my faith, I’ve come scurvily off in many ways. Still, I’m resolved to get the better of them this day by constantly besieging them.