T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.1

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Piscatores

Omníbus modis qui paúperes sunt hómines miseri vívont,
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praesertim quibus nec quaestus est, nec didicere artem ullam:

necessitate quidquid est domi id sat est habendum.

nos iam de ornatu propemodum ut locupletes simus scitis:

hisce hami atque haec harundines sunt nobis quaestu et cultu.

ex urbe ad mare huc prodimus pabulatum:
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pro exercitu gymnastico et palaestrico hoc habemus;

echinos, lopadas, ostreas, balanos captamus, conchas,

marinam urticam, musculos, plagusias striatas;

post id piscatum hamatilem et saxatilem aggredimur.

cibum captamus e mari: si eventus non evenit
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neque quicquam captumst piscium, salsi lautique pure

domum redimus clanculum, dormimus incenati.

atque ut nunc valide fluctuat mare, nulla nobis spes est:

nisi quid conclarum capsimus, incenati sumus profecto.

nunc Venerem hanc veneremur bonam, ut nos lepide adiuerit hodie.
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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.)

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.) — 2.1 focus

290 (Ente some FISHERMEN, with lines and nets.)

A FISHERMAN

Persons who are poor live wretchedly in every way, especially those who have no calling and have learned no art. Of necessity must that be deemed enough, whatever they have at home. From our garb, then, you pretty well understand how wealthy we are. These hooks and these rods here are as good to us as a calling and as our clothing.
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Each day from the city do we come out hither to the sea to seek for forage. Instead of exertion in the wrestling-school and the place for exercise, we have this: sea-urchins, rock-mussels, oysters, limpets¹, cockles, sea-nettles, sea-mussels and spotted crabs², we catch. After that, we commence our fishing with the hook and among the rocks,
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and thus we take our food from out of the sea. If success does not befall us, and not any fish is taken, soaked in salt water³ and thoroughly drenched, we quietly betake ourselves home, and without dinner go to sleep. And since the sea is now in waves so boisterous, no hopes have we; unless we take some cockles, without a doubt we’ve had our dinners.
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Now let’s adore good Venus here, that she may kindly befriend us to-day.
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(They advance towards the door of the Temple.)

T. Maccius Plautus Rudens 2.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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