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839

Plesidippvs

Meamne ílle amicam leno vi, violentia

de ara deripere Veneris voluit?
840

Trachalio

Admodum.

Plesidippvs

Quin occidisti extemplo?

Trachalio

Gladius non erat.

Plesidippvs

Caperes aut fustem aut lapidem.

Trachalio

Quid? ego quasi canem

hominem insectarer lapidibus nequissimum?

Labrax

Nunc pol ego perii, Plesidippus eccum adest.

converret iam hic me totum cum pulvisculo.
845

Plesidippvs

Etiamne in ara tunc sedebant mulieres,

quom ad me profectu's profectus es ire?

Trachalio

Ibidem nunc sedent.

Plesidippvs

Quis illás nunc illic servat?

Trachalio

Nescio quis senex,

vicinus Veneris; is dedit operam optumam.

is nunc cum servis servat. ego mandaveram.
850

Plesidippvs

Duc me ad lenonem recta. ubi illic est homo?

Labrax

Salve.

Plesidippvs

Salutem nil moror. opta ocius:

rapi te obtorto collo mavis an trahi?

utrum vis opta, dum licet.

Labrax

Neutrum volo.

Plesidippvs

Abi sáne ad litus curriculo, Trachalio,
855

iube illós in urbem ire obviam ad portum mihi,

quos mecum duxi, hunc qui ad carnificem traderent.

post huc redito atque agitato hic custodiam.

ego hunc scelestum ín ius rapiam éxulem.

age, ambula in ius.
860

Labrax

Quid ego deliqui?

Plesidippvs

Rogas,

quin arrabonem a me accepisti ob mulierem

et eam hinc abduxti?

Labrax

Non avexi.

Plesidippvs

Cur negas?

Labrax

Quia pol provexi: avehere non quivi miser.

equidem tibi me dixeram praesto fore

apud Véneris fanum: numquid muto? sumne ibi?
865

Plesidippvs

In iure causam dicito, hic verbum sat est:

sequere.

Labrax

Obsecro te, subveni mi, Charmides.

rapior optorto collo.

Charmides

Quis me nominat?

Labrax

Viden me ut rapior?

Charmides

Video, atque inspecto lubens.

Labrax

Non subvenire mi audes?
870

Charmides

Quis homo te rapit?

Labrax

Adulescens Plesidippus.

Charmides

Vt nanctu's nanctus es, habe.

bono animo meliust te in nervom conrepere.

tibi optigit quod plurimi exoptant sibi.

Labrax

Quid id est?

Charmides

Vt id quod quaerant inveniant sibi.

Labrax

Sequere, obsecro, me.
875

Charmides

Pariter suades qualis es:

tu in nervom rapere, eo me óbsecras ut te sequar.

etiam retentas?

Labrax

Perii.

Plesidippvs

Verum sit velim.

tu, mea Palaestra et Ampelisca, ibidem ilico

manete, dúm ego huc redeo.

Lorarius

Equidem suadeo,

ut ad nos abeant potius, dum recipis.
880

Plesidippvs

Placet,

bene facitis.

Labrax

Fures mi estis.

Lorarius

Quid, fures? rape.

Labrax

Oro obsecro, Palaestra.

Plesidippvs

Sequere, carnufex.

Labrax

Hospes—

Charmides

Non sum hospes, repudio hospitium tuom.

Labrax

Sicine me spernis?

Charmides

Sic ago: semel bibo.

Labrax

Di te infelicent.—
885

Charmides

Isti capiti dicito.

credo alium in aliam beluam hominem vortier:

illic ín columbum, credo, leno vortitur,

nam in collumbari collus haud multo post erit;

in nervom ille hodie nidamenta congeret.

verum tamen ibo, ei advocatus ut siem,
890

si qui mea opera citius addici potest.—

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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.) — 3.6 focus

839 (Enter PLESIDIPPUS and TRACHALIO, at a distance, on the other side of the stage.)

PLESIDIPPUS

And did the Procurer attempt by force and violence

to drag my mistress away from the altar of Venus?
840

TRACHALIO

Even so.

PLESIDIPPUS

Why didn’t you kill him on the instant?

TRACHALIO

I hadn’t a sword.

PLESIDIPPUS

You should have taken either a stick or a stone.

TRACHALIO

What! ought I to have pelted this most villanous fellow with stones like a dog?

LABRAX

(aside, on seeing them.)

By my troth, but I’m undone now; see, here’s Plesidippus;

he’ll be sweeping me away altogether this moment with the dust.
845

PLESIDIPPUS

Were the damsels sitting on the altar even then when you set out to come to me?

TRACHALIO

Yes, and now they are sitting in the same place.

PLESIDIPPUS

Who is now protecting them there?

TRACHALIO

Some old gentleman, I don’t know who, a neighbour of the Temple of Venus—he gave very kind assistance;

he is now protecting them with his servants—I committed them to his charge.
850

PLESIDIPPUS

Lead me straight to the Procurer. Where is this fellow?

(They go towards LABRAX.)

LABRAX

Health to you.

PLESIDIPPUS

I want none of your healths. Make your choice quickly, whether you lad rather be seized by your throat wrenched¹, or be dragged along; choose whichever you please, while you may.

LABRAX

I wish for neither.

PLESIDIPPUS

Be off then, Trachalio, with all speed to the sea-shore; bid those persons that I brought with me to hand over this rascal to the executioner, to come from the harbour to the city to meet me; afterwards return hither and keep guard here. I’ll now drag this scoundrelly outcast to justice. (Exit TRACHALIO. Pleusicles addresses LABRAX.)
855

Come, proceed to a court of justice.
860

LABRAX

In what have I offended?

PLESIDIPPUS

Do you ask? Didn’t you receive an earnest of me for this woman (pointing to PALAESTRA), and carry her off from here?

LABRAX

I didn’t carry her off.

PLESIDIPPUS

Why do you deny it?

LABRAX

Troth now, because I put her on board ship; carry her off² unfortunately, I couldn’t. For my part, I told you that this day I would make my appearance

at the Temple of Venus; have I swerved at all from that? Am I not there?
865

PLESIDIPPUS

Plead your cause in the court of justice; here a word is enough. Follow me.

(They lay hold of him.)

LABRAX

(calling aloud.)

I entreat you, my dear Charmides, do come to my rescue; I am being seized with my throat wrenched.

(Enter CHARMIDES, from the Temple.)

CHARMIDES

(looking about.)

Who calls my name?

LABRAX

Do you see me how I’m being seized?

CHARMIDES

I see, and view it with pleasure.

LABRAX

Don’t you venture to assist me?
870

CHARMIDES

What person is seizing you?

LABRAX

Young Plesidippus.

CHARMIDES

What you’ve got, put up with; ’twere better for you, with a cheerful spirit, to slink to gaol; that has befallen you which many greatly wish for for themselves.

LABRAX

What’s that?

CHARMIDES

To find for themselves that which they are seeking.

LABRAX

I entreat you, do follow me.
875

CHARMIDES

You try to persuade me, just like what you are: you are being taken off to gaol, for that reason is it you entreat me to follow you?

PLESIDIPPUS

(to LABRAX.)

Do you still resist?

LABRAX

I’m undone.

PLESIDIPPUS

I trust that may prove the truth. You, my dear Palaestra and Ampelisca, do you remain here in the meanwhile, until I return hither.

SERVANT

I would advise them

rather to go to our house, until you return.
880

PLESIDIPPUS

I’m quite agreable; you act obligingly.

(The SERVANTS open the door of the cottage, and PALAESTRA and AMPELISCA go in.)

LABRAX

You are thieves to me.

SERVANT

How, thieves?

PLESIDIPPUS

Lead him along.³

(The SERVANTS seize him.)

LABRAX

(calling out.)

I pray and entreat you, Palaestra.

PLESIDIPPUS

Follow, you hang-dog.

LABRAX

Guest, Charmides!

CHARMIDES

I am no guest of yours; I repudiate your hospitality.

LABRAX

What, do you slight me in this fashion?

CHARMIDES

I do so; I’ve been drinking with you once already⁴.

LABRAX

May the Deities confound you.
885

CHARMIDES

To that person of yours, say that. (PLESIDIPPUS leads LABRAX off, followed by the SERVANTS.) I do believe that men are transformed, each into a different beast. That Procurer, I guess, is transformed into a stock-dove⁵; for, before long, his neck will be in the stocks. He’ll to-day be building his nest in the gaol.

Still, however, I’ll go, that I may be his advocate,—if by my aid he may possibly be sentenced any the sooner.
890

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Plesidippvs Meamne ílle amicam leno vi, violentia de ara deripere Veneris voluit? 840

Trachalio Admodum.

Plesidippvs Quin occidisti extemplo?

Trachalio Gladius non erat.

Plesidippvs Caperes aut fustem aut lapidem.

Trachalio Quid? ego quasi canem hominem insectarer lapidibus nequissimum?

Labrax Nunc pol ego perii, Plesidippus eccum adest. converret iam hic me totum cum pulvisculo. 845

Plesidippvs Etiamne in ara tunc sedebant mulieres, quom ad me profectu's profectus es ire?

Trachalio Ibidem nunc sedent.

Plesidippvs Quis illás nunc illic servat?

Trachalio Nescio quis senex, vicinus Veneris; is dedit operam optumam. is nunc cum servis servat. ego mandaveram. 850

Plesidippvs Duc me ad lenonem recta. ubi illic est homo?

Labrax Salve.

Plesidippvs Salutem nil moror. opta ocius: rapi te obtorto collo mavis an trahi? utrum vis opta, dum licet.

Labrax Neutrum volo.

Plesidippvs Abi sáne ad litus curriculo, Trachalio, 855 iube illós in urbem ire obviam ad portum mihi, quos mecum duxi, hunc qui ad carnificem traderent. post huc redito atque agitato hic custodiam. ego hunc scelestum ín ius rapiam éxulem. age, ambula in ius. 860

Labrax Quid ego deliqui?

Plesidippvs Rogas, quin arrabonem a me accepisti ob mulierem et eam hinc abduxti?

Labrax Non avexi.

Plesidippvs Cur negas?

Labrax Quia pol provexi: avehere non quivi miser. equidem tibi me dixeram praesto fore apud Véneris fanum: numquid muto? sumne ibi? 865

Plesidippvs In iure causam dicito, hic verbum sat est: sequere.

Labrax Obsecro te, subveni mi, Charmides. rapior optorto collo.

Charmides Quis me nominat?

Labrax Viden me ut rapior?

Charmides Video, atque inspecto lubens.

Labrax Non subvenire mi audes? 870

Charmides Quis homo te rapit?

Labrax Adulescens Plesidippus.

Charmides Vt nanctu's nanctus es, habe. bono animo meliust te in nervom conrepere. tibi optigit quod plurimi exoptant sibi.

Labrax Quid id est?

Charmides Vt id quod quaerant inveniant sibi.

Labrax Sequere, obsecro, me. 875

Charmides Pariter suades qualis es: tu in nervom rapere, eo me óbsecras ut te sequar. etiam retentas?

Labrax Perii.

Plesidippvs Verum sit velim. tu, mea Palaestra et Ampelisca, ibidem ilico manete, dúm ego huc redeo.

Lorarius Equidem suadeo, ut ad nos abeant potius, dum recipis. 880

Plesidippvs Placet, bene facitis.

Labrax Fures mi estis.

Lorarius Quid, fures? rape.

Labrax Oro obsecro, Palaestra.

Plesidippvs Sequere, carnufex.

Labrax Hospes—

Charmides Non sum hospes, repudio hospitium tuom.

Labrax Sicine me spernis?

Charmides Sic ago: semel bibo.

Labrax Di te infelicent.— 885

Charmides Isti capiti dicito. credo alium in aliam beluam hominem vortier: illic ín columbum, credo, leno vortitur, nam in collumbari collus haud multo post erit; in nervom ille hodie nidamenta congeret. verum tamen ibo, ei advocatus ut siem, 890 si qui mea opera citius addici potest.—

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PLESIDIPPUS And did the Procurer attempt by force and violence to drag my mistress away from the altar of Venus? 840

TRACHALIO Even so.

PLESIDIPPUS Why didn’t you kill him on the instant?

TRACHALIO I hadn’t a sword.

PLESIDIPPUS You should have taken either a stick or a stone.

TRACHALIO What! ought I to have pelted this most villanous fellow with stones like a dog?

LABRAX (aside, on seeing them.) By my troth, but I’m undone now; see, here’s Plesidippus; he’ll be sweeping me away altogether this moment with the dust. 845

PLESIDIPPUS Were the damsels sitting on the altar even then when you set out to come to me?

TRACHALIO Yes, and now they are sitting in the same place.

PLESIDIPPUS Who is now protecting them there?

TRACHALIO Some old gentleman, I don’t know who, a neighbour of the Temple of Venus—he gave very kind assistance; he is now protecting them with his servants—I committed them to his charge. 850

PLESIDIPPUS Lead me straight to the Procurer. Where is this fellow? (They go towards LABRAX.)

LABRAX Health to you.

PLESIDIPPUS I want none of your healths. Make your choice quickly, whether you lad rather be seized by your throat wrenched 1 , or be dragged along; choose whichever you please, while you may.

LABRAX I wish for neither.

LABRAX In what have I offended?

PLESIDIPPUS Do you ask? Didn’t you receive an earnest of me for this woman (pointing to PALAESTRA), and carry her off from here?

LABRAX I didn’t carry her off.

PLESIDIPPUS Why do you deny it?

LABRAX Troth now, because I put her on board ship; carry her off 2 unfortunately, I couldn’t. For my part, I told you that this day I would make my appearance at the Temple of Venus; have I swerved at all from that? Am I not there? 865

PLESIDIPPUS Plead your cause in the court of justice; here a word is enough. Follow me. (They lay hold of him.)

LABRAX (calling aloud.) I entreat you, my dear Charmides, do come to my rescue; I am being seized with my throat wrenched. (Enter CHARMIDES, from the Temple.)

CHARMIDES (looking about.) Who calls my name?

LABRAX Do you see me how I’m being seized?

CHARMIDES I see, and view it with pleasure.

LABRAX Don’t you venture to assist me? 870

CHARMIDES What person is seizing you?

LABRAX Young Plesidippus.

CHARMIDES What you’ve got, put up with; ’twere better for you, with a cheerful spirit, to slink to gaol; that has befallen you which many greatly wish for for themselves.

Plesidippvs

Meamne ílle amicam leno vi, violentia

de ara deripere Veneris voluit?
840

Trachalio

Admodum.

Plesidippvs

Quin occidisti extemplo?

Trachalio

Gladius non erat.

Plesidippvs

Caperes aut fustem aut lapidem.

Trachalio

Quid? ego quasi canem

hominem insectarer lapidibus nequissimum?

Labrax

Nunc pol ego perii, Plesidippus eccum adest.

converret iam hic me totum cum pulvisculo.
845

Plesidippvs

Etiamne in ara tunc sedebant mulieres,

quom ad me profectu's profectus es ire?

Trachalio

Ibidem nunc sedent.

Plesidippvs

Quis illás nunc illic servat?

Trachalio

Nescio quis senex,

vicinus Veneris; is dedit operam optumam.

is nunc cum servis servat. ego mandaveram.
850

Plesidippvs

Duc me ad lenonem recta. ubi illic est homo?

Labrax

Salve.

Plesidippvs

Salutem nil moror. opta ocius:

rapi te obtorto collo mavis an trahi?

utrum vis opta, dum licet.

Labrax

Neutrum volo.

Plesidippvs

Abi sáne ad litus curriculo, Trachalio,
855

iube illós in urbem ire obviam ad portum mihi,

quos mecum duxi, hunc qui ad carnificem traderent.

post huc redito atque agitato hic custodiam.

ego hunc scelestum ín ius rapiam éxulem.

age, ambula in ius.
860

Labrax

Quid ego deliqui?

Plesidippvs

Rogas,

quin arrabonem a me accepisti ob mulierem

et eam hinc abduxti?

Labrax

Non avexi.

Plesidippvs

Cur negas?

Labrax

Quia pol provexi: avehere non quivi miser.

equidem tibi me dixeram praesto fore

apud Véneris fanum: numquid muto? sumne ibi?
865

Plesidippvs

In iure causam dicito, hic verbum sat est:

sequere.

Labrax

Obsecro te, subveni mi, Charmides.

rapior optorto collo.

Charmides

Quis me nominat?

Labrax

Viden me ut rapior?

Charmides

Video, atque inspecto lubens.

Labrax

Non subvenire mi audes?
870

Charmides

Quis homo te rapit?

Labrax

Adulescens Plesidippus.

Charmides

Vt nanctu's nanctus es, habe.

bono animo meliust te in nervom conrepere.

tibi optigit quod plurimi exoptant sibi.

Labrax

Quid id est?

Charmides

Vt id quod quaerant inveniant sibi.

Labrax

Sequere, obsecro, me.
875

Charmides

Pariter suades qualis es:

tu in nervom rapere, eo me óbsecras ut te sequar.

etiam retentas?

Labrax

Perii.

Plesidippvs

Verum sit velim.

tu, mea Palaestra et Ampelisca, ibidem ilico

manete, dúm ego huc redeo.

Lorarius

Equidem suadeo,

ut ad nos abeant potius, dum recipis.
880

Plesidippvs

Placet,

bene facitis.

Labrax

Fures mi estis.

Lorarius

Quid, fures? rape.

Labrax

Oro obsecro, Palaestra.

Plesidippvs

Sequere, carnufex.

Labrax

Hospes—

Charmides

Non sum hospes, repudio hospitium tuom.

Labrax

Sicine me spernis?

Charmides

Sic ago: semel bibo.

Labrax

Di te infelicent.—
885

Charmides

Isti capiti dicito.

credo alium in aliam beluam hominem vortier:

illic ín columbum, credo, leno vortitur,

nam in collumbari collus haud multo post erit;

in nervom ille hodie nidamenta congeret.

verum tamen ibo, ei advocatus ut siem,
890

si qui mea opera citius addici potest.—

PLESIDIPPUS

And did the Procurer attempt by force and violence

to drag my mistress away from the altar of Venus?
840

TRACHALIO

Even so.

PLESIDIPPUS

Why didn’t you kill him on the instant?

TRACHALIO

I hadn’t a sword.

PLESIDIPPUS

You should have taken either a stick or a stone.

TRACHALIO

What! ought I to have pelted this most villanous fellow with stones like a dog?

LABRAX

(aside, on seeing them.)

By my troth, but I’m undone now; see, here’s Plesidippus;

he’ll be sweeping me away altogether this moment with the dust.
845

PLESIDIPPUS

Were the damsels sitting on the altar even then when you set out to come to me?

TRACHALIO

Yes, and now they are sitting in the same place.

PLESIDIPPUS

Who is now protecting them there?

TRACHALIO

Some old gentleman, I don’t know who, a neighbour of the Temple of Venus—he gave very kind assistance;

he is now protecting them with his servants—I committed them to his charge.
850

PLESIDIPPUS

Lead me straight to the Procurer. Where is this fellow?

(They go towards LABRAX.)

LABRAX

Health to you.

PLESIDIPPUS

I want none of your healths. Make your choice quickly, whether you lad rather be seized by your throat wrenched¹, or be dragged along; choose whichever you please, while you may.

LABRAX

I wish for neither.

LABRAX

In what have I offended?

PLESIDIPPUS

Do you ask? Didn’t you receive an earnest of me for this woman (pointing to PALAESTRA), and carry her off from here?

LABRAX

I didn’t carry her off.

PLESIDIPPUS

Why do you deny it?

LABRAX

Troth now, because I put her on board ship; carry her off² unfortunately, I couldn’t. For my part, I told you that this day I would make my appearance

at the Temple of Venus; have I swerved at all from that? Am I not there?
865

PLESIDIPPUS

Plead your cause in the court of justice; here a word is enough. Follow me.

(They lay hold of him.)

LABRAX

(calling aloud.)

I entreat you, my dear Charmides, do come to my rescue; I am being seized with my throat wrenched.

(Enter CHARMIDES, from the Temple.)

CHARMIDES

(looking about.)

Who calls my name?

LABRAX

Do you see me how I’m being seized?

CHARMIDES

I see, and view it with pleasure.

LABRAX

Don’t you venture to assist me?
870

CHARMIDES

What person is seizing you?

LABRAX

Young Plesidippus.

CHARMIDES

What you’ve got, put up with; ’twere better for you, with a cheerful spirit, to slink to gaol; that has befallen you which many greatly wish for for themselves.

LABRAX

What’s that?

CHARMIDES

To find for themselves that which they are seeking.

LABRAX

I entreat you, do follow me.
875