T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, ed. Friedrich Leo, 4.5

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1191

Daemones

Pro di immortales, quis me est fortunatior,

qui ex improviso filiam inveni meam?

satin si cui homini dei esse bene factum volunt,

aliquo illud pacto optingit optatum piis?

ego hodie neque speravi neque illud credidi:
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is improviso filiam inveni tamen;

et eam de genere summo adulescenti dabo

ingenuo, Atheniensi et cognato meo.

ego eum adeo arcessi huc ad me quam primum volo,

iussique exire huc servom éius, ut ad forum
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iret; nondum egressum esse eum, id miror tamen.

accedam, opinor, ad fores. quid conspicor?

uxor complexa collo retinet filiam.

nimis paéne inepta atque odiosa eius amatiost.

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.) — 4.5 focus

1191 (Enter DAEMONES, from his cottage.)

DAEMONES

(to himself.)

O ye immortal Gods, what person is there more fortunate than I, who unexpectedly have discovered my daughter? Isn’t it the fact, that if the Gods will a blessing to befall any person, that longed-for pleasure by some means or other, falls to the lot¹ of the virtuous?

I this day, a thing that I never hoped for nor yet believed, have unexpectedly discovered my daughter, and I shall bestow her upon a respectable young man of noble family, an Athenian, and my kinsman. For that reason I wish him to be fetched hither to me as soon as possible,
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and I’ve requested my servant to come out here, that he may go to the Forum. Still, I’m surprised at it that he isn’t yet come out. I think I’ll go to the door. (Opens the door, and looks in.) What do I behold? Embracing her, my wife is clasping my daughter around her neck. Her caressing is really almost too foolish and sickening.
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T. Maccius Plautus Rudens 4.5

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