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259

Ptolemocratia

Qui súnt qui a patróna precés mea expetéssunt?

nam vóx me precántum huc forás excitávit.
260

bonam átque obsequéntem deam átque haud gravátam

patrónam exsequontur benígnamque múltum.

Palaestra

Iubémus te sálvere, máter.

Ptolemocratia

Salvéte,

puéllae. sed únde

vos íre cum uvida veste dicam, óbsecro, tam maéstiter vestítas?
265

Palaestra

Ílico hinc ímus, haud lóngule ex hóc loco;

vérum longe hínc abest únde advectae húc sumus.

Ptolemocratia

Némpe equo lígneo pér vias caérulas

éstis vectae?

Palaestra

Ádmodum.

Ptolemocratia

Ergo aéquius vós erat

cándidatás venire hóstiatásque. ad hoc
270

fánum ad istúnc modum nón venirí solet.

Palaestra

Quaéne eiectae é mari símus ambae, óbsecro,

únde nos hóstias agere voluisti huc?

núnc tibi ampléctimur génua egentés opum,

quae ín locis nésciis néscia spé sumus,
275

út tuo récipias técto servésque nos

míseriarúmque te ambárum uti mísereat,

quibús nec locúst ullus néc spes parata,

neque hóc ampliús, quam quod vidés, nobis quícquamst.

Ptolemocratia

Manús mihi date, éxurgite á genibus ámbae.
280

miséricordiór nulla me ést feminárum.

sed haéc pauperés res sunt inopesque, puellae:

egomét meam vix vitám colo; Venerí cibo meo sérvio.

Ampelisca

Venerís fanum, obsecro, hóc est?

Ptolemocratia

Fateór. ego huius fáni sacérdos clueo.
285

verúm, quidquid ést, comitér fiet á me,

quo núnc copia valebit.

ite hác mecum.

Palaestra

Amíce benígneque honórem,

matér, nostrum habés.—

Ptolemocratia

Oportet.—

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 1.5 focus

259 (Enter PTOLEMOCRATIA, the Priestess, from the Temple of Venus.)

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Who are these, that in their prayers are soliciting aid from my Patroness?

For the voice of suppliants has brought me hither out of doors. They pay suit to a kind and compliant Goddess and a Patroness that makes no difficulties, and one who is very benevolent.
260

PALAESTRA

Mother, we bid you hail.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Maidens, hail to you. But, prithee, whence

am I to say that you are hither come with your wet garments, thus wofully arrayed?
265

PALAESTRA

Just now, we came from a place there (pointing towards the shore), not a great way from this spot; but it is a great way off from here, whence we have been brought hither.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Have you been borne, do you mean, by a ship, the wooden steed¹, over the azure paths?

PALAESTRA

Even so.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Then it were more fitting that you should have come

arrayed in white and provided with victims; it isn’t the practice for people to come to this Temple in that fashion.
270
(Pointing at their dresses.)

PALAESTRA

Prithee, whence would you have us, who have been both cast away at sea, to be bringing victims hither? Now, in want of assistance, do we embrace your knees,

we who are of hopes undefined in places unknown, that you may receive us under your roof and shelter us, and that you will pity the miseries of us both, who have neither any place of refuge nor hope at hand, nor have anything whatever of our own beyond that which you see.
275

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Give me your hands, arise, both of you, from off your knees; no one among women is more compassionate than I. (They arise from the ground.) But, maidens, my circumstances are poor and limited; with difficulty I support my own existence; Venus I serve for my maintenance.
280

AMPELISCA

Prithee, is this a Temple of Venus?

PTOLEMOCRATIA

I will admit it; I am styled the Priestess of this Temple. But whatever it is, it shall be done by me with a hearty welcome, so far as my means shall suffice. Come with me this way.
285

T. Maccius Plautus Rudens 1.5

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Ptolemocratia

Qui súnt qui a patróna precés mea expetéssunt?

nam vóx me precántum huc forás excitávit.
260

bonam átque obsequéntem deam átque haud gravátam

patrónam exsequontur benígnamque múltum.

Palaestra

Iubémus te sálvere, máter.

Ptolemocratia

Salvéte,

puéllae. sed únde

vos íre cum uvida veste dicam, óbsecro, tam maéstiter vestítas?
265

Palaestra

Ílico hinc ímus, haud lóngule ex hóc loco;

vérum longe hínc abest únde advectae húc sumus.

Ptolemocratia

Némpe equo lígneo pér vias caérulas

éstis vectae?

Palaestra

Ádmodum.

Ptolemocratia

Ergo aéquius vós erat

cándidatás venire hóstiatásque. ad hoc
270

fánum ad istúnc modum nón venirí solet.

Ptolemocratia

Manús mihi date, éxurgite á genibus ámbae.
280

miséricordiór nulla me ést feminárum.

sed haéc pauperés res sunt inopesque, puellae:

egomét meam vix vitám colo; Venerí cibo meo sérvio.

Ampelisca

Venerís fanum, obsecro, hóc est?

Ptolemocratia

Fateór. ego huius fáni sacérdos clueo.
285

verúm, quidquid ést, comitér fiet á me,

quo núnc copia valebit.

ite hác mecum.

Palaestra

Amíce benígneque honórem,

matér, nostrum habés.—

Ptolemocratia

Oportet.—

Current edition Perseus

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Who are these, that in their prayers are soliciting aid from my Patroness?

For the voice of suppliants has brought me hither out of doors. They pay suit to a kind and compliant Goddess and a Patroness that makes no difficulties, and one who is very benevolent.
260

PALAESTRA

Mother, we bid you hail.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Maidens, hail to you. But, prithee, whence

am I to say that you are hither come with your wet garments, thus wofully arrayed?
265

PALAESTRA

Just now, we came from a place there (pointing towards the shore), not a great way from this spot; but it is a great way off from here, whence we have been brought hither.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Have you been borne, do you mean, by a ship, the wooden steed¹, over the azure paths?

PALAESTRA

Even so.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Then it were more fitting that you should have come

arrayed in white and provided with victims; it isn’t the practice for people to come to this Temple in that fashion.
270
(Pointing at their dresses.)

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Give me your hands, arise, both of you, from off your knees; no one among women is more compassionate than I. (They arise from the ground.) But, maidens, my circumstances are poor and limited; with difficulty I support my own existence; Venus I serve for my maintenance.
280

AMPELISCA

Prithee, is this a Temple of Venus?

PTOLEMOCRATIA

I will admit it; I am styled the Priestess of this Temple. But whatever it is, it shall be done by me with a hearty welcome, so far as my means shall suffice. Come with me this way.
285

PALAESTRA

Kindly and attentively, mother, do you show your attentions to us.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

So I ought to do.

(They go into the Temple.)

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Ptolemocratia Qui súnt qui a patróna precés mea expetéssunt? nam vóx me precántum huc forás excitávit. 260 bonam átque obsequéntem deam átque haud gravátam patrónam exsequontur benígnamque múltum.

Palaestra Iubémus te sálvere, máter.

Ptolemocratia Salvéte, puéllae. sed únde vos íre cum uvida veste dicam, óbsecro, tam maéstiter vestítas? 265

Palaestra Ílico hinc ímus, haud lóngule ex hóc loco; vérum longe hínc abest únde advectae húc sumus.

Ptolemocratia Némpe equo lígneo pér vias caérulas éstis vectae?

Palaestra Ádmodum.

Ptolemocratia Ergo aéquius vós erat cándidatás venire hóstiatásque. ad hoc 270 fánum ad istúnc modum nón venirí solet.

Ptolemocratia Manús mihi date, éxurgite á genibus ámbae. 280 miséricordiór nulla me ést feminárum. sed haéc pauperés res sunt inopesque, puellae: egomét meam vix vitám colo; Venerí cibo meo sérvio.

Ampelisca Venerís fanum, obsecro, hóc est?

Ptolemocratia Fateór. ego huius fáni sacérdos clueo. 285 verúm, quidquid ést, comitér fiet á me, quo núnc copia valebit. ite hác mecum.

Palaestra Amíce benígneque honórem, matér, nostrum habés.—

Ptolemocratia Oportet.—

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PTOLEMOCRATIA Who are these, that in their prayers are soliciting aid from my Patroness? For the voice of suppliants has brought me hither out of doors. They pay suit to a kind and compliant Goddess and a Patroness that makes no difficulties, and one who is very benevolent. 260

PALAESTRA Mother, we bid you hail.

PTOLEMOCRATIA Maidens, hail to you. But, prithee, whence am I to say that you are hither come with your wet garments, thus wofully arrayed? 265

PALAESTRA Just now, we came from a place there (pointing towards the shore), not a great way from this spot; but it is a great way off from here, whence we have been brought hither.

PTOLEMOCRATIA Have you been borne, do you mean, by a ship, the wooden steed 1 , over the azure paths?

PALAESTRA Even so.

PTOLEMOCRATIA Then it were more fitting that you should have come arrayed in white and provided with victims; it isn’t the practice for people to come to this Temple in that fashion. 270 (Pointing at their dresses.)

PTOLEMOCRATIA Give me your hands, arise, both of you, from off your knees; no one among women is more compassionate than I. (They arise from the ground.) But, maidens, my circumstances are poor and limited; with difficulty I support my own existence; Venus I serve for my maintenance. 280

AMPELISCA Prithee, is this a Temple of Venus?

PTOLEMOCRATIA I will admit it; I am styled the Priestess of this Temple. But whatever it is, it shall be done by me with a hearty welcome, so far as my means shall suffice. Come with me this way. 285

PALAESTRA Kindly and attentively, mother, do you show your attentions to us.

PTOLEMOCRATIA So I ought to do. (They go into the Temple.)

Stable identifiers

Ptolemocratia

Qui súnt qui a patróna precés mea expetéssunt?

nam vóx me precántum huc forás excitávit.
260

bonam átque obsequéntem deam átque haud gravátam

patrónam exsequontur benígnamque múltum.

Palaestra

Iubémus te sálvere, máter.

Ptolemocratia

Salvéte,

puéllae. sed únde

vos íre cum uvida veste dicam, óbsecro, tam maéstiter vestítas?
265

Palaestra

Ílico hinc ímus, haud lóngule ex hóc loco;

vérum longe hínc abest únde advectae húc sumus.

Ptolemocratia

Némpe equo lígneo pér vias caérulas

éstis vectae?

Palaestra

Ádmodum.

Ptolemocratia

Ergo aéquius vós erat

cándidatás venire hóstiatásque. ad hoc
270

fánum ad istúnc modum nón venirí solet.

Ptolemocratia

Manús mihi date, éxurgite á genibus ámbae.
280

miséricordiór nulla me ést feminárum.

sed haéc pauperés res sunt inopesque, puellae:

egomét meam vix vitám colo; Venerí cibo meo sérvio.

Ampelisca

Venerís fanum, obsecro, hóc est?

Ptolemocratia

Fateór. ego huius fáni sacérdos clueo.
285

verúm, quidquid ést, comitér fiet á me,

quo núnc copia valebit.

ite hác mecum.

Palaestra

Amíce benígneque honórem,

matér, nostrum habés.—

Ptolemocratia

Oportet.—

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Who are these, that in their prayers are soliciting aid from my Patroness?

For the voice of suppliants has brought me hither out of doors. They pay suit to a kind and compliant Goddess and a Patroness that makes no difficulties, and one who is very benevolent.
260

PALAESTRA

Mother, we bid you hail.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Maidens, hail to you. But, prithee, whence

am I to say that you are hither come with your wet garments, thus wofully arrayed?
265

PALAESTRA

Just now, we came from a place there (pointing towards the shore), not a great way from this spot; but it is a great way off from here, whence we have been brought hither.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Have you been borne, do you mean, by a ship, the wooden steed¹, over the azure paths?

PALAESTRA

Even so.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Then it were more fitting that you should have come

arrayed in white and provided with victims; it isn’t the practice for people to come to this Temple in that fashion.
270
(Pointing at their dresses.)

PTOLEMOCRATIA

Give me your hands, arise, both of you, from off your knees; no one among women is more compassionate than I. (They arise from the ground.) But, maidens, my circumstances are poor and limited; with difficulty I support my own existence; Venus I serve for my maintenance.
280

AMPELISCA

Prithee, is this a Temple of Venus?

PTOLEMOCRATIA

I will admit it; I am styled the Priestess of this Temple. But whatever it is, it shall be done by me with a hearty welcome, so far as my means shall suffice. Come with me this way.
285

PALAESTRA

Kindly and attentively, mother, do you show your attentions to us.

PTOLEMOCRATIA

So I ought to do.

(They go into the Temple.)