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1357

Gripvs

Séquere hac.

Daemones

Vbi istic lenost?

Gripvs

Heus tu. ém tibi, hic habet vidulum.

Daemones

Habeo et fateor esse apud me, et, si tuos est, habeas tibi.

omnia, ut quídquid infuit, ita salva sistentur tibi.

tene, si tuost.
1360

Labrax

O di immortales, meus est. salve, vidule.

Daemones

Tuosne est?

Labrax

Rogitas? si quidem hercle Iovis fuit, meus est tamen.

Daemones

Omnia insunt salva; una istinc cistella excepta est modo

cum crepundiis, quibuscum hódie filiam inveni meam.

Labrax

Quam?

Daemones

Tua quae fuit Palaestra, ea filia inventast mea.

Labrax

Bene mehercle factum est. cum istaec res tibi ex sententia
1365

pulchre evenit, gaudeo.

Daemones

Istuc facile non credo tibi.

Labrax

Immo hercle, ut scias gaudere me, mihi triobolum

ob eam ne duis, condono te.

Daemones

Benigne edepol facis.

Labrax

Immo tu quidem hercle vero.

Gripvs

Heus tu, iám habes vidulum.

Labrax

Habeo.
1370

Gripvs

Propera.

Labrax

Quid properabo?

Gripvs

Reddere argentum mihi.

Labrax

Neque edepol tibi do, neque quicquam debeo.

Gripvs

Quae haec factio est?

non debes?

Labrax

Non hercle vero.

Gripvs

Non tu iuratus mihi es?

Labrax

Iuratus sum, et nunc iurabo, si quid vóluptati est mihi:

ius iurandum rei servandae, non perdendae conditum est.

Gripvs

Cedo sis mihi talentum magnum argenti, periurissime.
1375

Daemones

Gripe, quod tu istum talentum poscis?

Gripvs

Iuratust mihi

dare.

Labrax

Libet iurare. tun meo póntifex peiurio es?

Daemones

Qua pro re argentum promisit hic tibi?

Gripvs

Si vidulum

hunc redegissem in potestatem eius, iuratust dare

mihi talentum magnum argenti.
1380

Labrax

Cedo quicum habeam iudicem,

ni dolo malo instipulatus sis nive etiamdum haud siem

quinque et viginti annos natus.

Gripvs

Habe cum hóc.

Labrax

Aliost opus.

Daemones

Iám ab isto auferre haud potis sim, si istunc condemnavero.

promisistin huic argentum?

Labrax

Fateor.

Daemones

Quod servo meo

promisisti, meum esse oportet, ne tu, leno, postules
1385

te hic fide lenonia uti: non potes.

Gripvs

Iam te ratu's ratus es

nactum hominem quem defraudares? dandum huc argentum est probum:

id ego continuo huic dabo adeo, mé ut hic emittat manu.

Daemones

Quando ergo erga te benignus ego fui atque opera mea

haec tibi sunt servata—
1390

Gripvs

Immo hercle mea, ne tu dicas tua.

Daemones

(Si sapies, tacebis) tum te mihi benigne itidem addecet

bene merenti bene referre gratiam.

Labrax

Nempe pró meo

iure oras?

Daemones

Mirum quin tuom ius meo periclo aps te expetam.

Gripvs

Salvos sum, leno labascit, libertas portenditur.

Daemones

Vidulum istunc ille invenit, illud mancipium meum est;
1395

ego tibi hunc porro servavi cum magna pecunia.

Labrax

Gratiam habeo, et de talento nulla causa est quin feras,

quod isti sum iuratus.

Gripvs

Heus tu, mihi dato ergo, si sapis.

Daemones

Tacen an non?

Gripvs

Tu meam rem simulas agere, tibi mu .

non hercle istoc me intervortes, si aliam praedam perdidi.
1400

Daemones

Vapulabis, verbum si addis istúc unum.

Gripvs

Vel hercle énica,

non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi talento comprimor.

Labrax

Tibi operam hic quidem dát. tace.

Daemones

Concede hoc tu, leno.

Labrax

Licet.

Gripvs

Palam age, nolo ego murmurillum neque susurrum fieri.

Daemones

Dic mihi, quanti íllam emisti tuam alteram mulierculam,
1405

Ampeliscam?

Labrax

Mille nummum denumeravi.

Daemones

Vin tibi

condicionem luculentam ferre me?

Labrax

Sane volo.

Daemones

Dividuom talentum faciam.

Labrax

Bene facis.

Daemones

Pro illa altera,

libera ut sit, dimidium tibi sume, dimidium huc cedo.

Labrax

Maxime.
1410

Daemones

Pro illo dimidio égo Gripum emittam manu,

quem propter tu vidulum et ego gnatam inveni.

Labrax

Bene facis,

gratiam habeo magnam.

Gripvs

Quam mox mi argentum ergo redditur?

Daemones

Res soluta est, Gripe. ego habeo.

Gripvs

Át ego me hercle mavolo.

Daemones

Nihil hercle hic tibi est, né tu speres. iuris iurandi volo

gratiam facias.
1415

Gripvs

Perii hercle. nisi me suspendo, occidi.

numquam hercle iterum defraudabis me quidem post hunc diem.

Daemones

Hic hodie cenato, leno.

Labrax

Fiat, condicio placet.

Daemones

Sequimini intro. spectatores, vos quoque ad cenam vocem,

ni daturus nil sim neque sit quicquam pollucti domi,

nive adeo vocatos credam vos esse ad cenam foras.
1420

verum si voletis plausum fabulae huic clarum dare,

comissatum omnes venitote ad me ad annos sedecim.

vos hic hodie cenatote ambó.

Labrax

Fiat.

Daemones

Plausum date.

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.) — 5.3 focus

1357 (Enter GRIPUS, followed by DAEMONES, with the wallet.)

GRIPUS

Follow this way.

Where is this Procurer?

Hark you (to LABRAX), see now; this person (pointing at DAEMONES) has got your wallet.

DAEMONES

I have got it, and I confess that it is in my possession; and if it’s yours, you may have it. Everything, just as each particular was in it, shall in like manner be given safe to you.

(Holding it out.) Take it, if it’s yours.
1360

LABRAX

Immortal Gods, it is mine. (Takes it.) Welcome, dear wallet.

DAEMONES

Is it yours?

LABRAX

Do you ask the question? If indeed, I’ faith, it were in Jove’s possession, still it is my own.

DAEMONES

Everything in it is safe; there has only been one casket taken out of it, with some trinkets, by means of which this day I have found my daughter.

LABRAX

What person?

DAEMONES

Palaestra, who was your property, she has been discovered to be my own daughter.

LABRAX

By my troth, it has happily turned out so; since this matter has happened so fortunately for you according to your wishes, I’m rejoiced.
1365

DAEMONES

In that I don’t readily believe you.

LABRAX

Aye, by my faith, that you may be sure that I’m rejoiced, you shan’t give me three obols for her; I excuse you.

DAEMONES

I’ faith, you are acting kindly.

LABRAX

No, troth; it’s really yourself, indeed, that’s doing so.

(Going off with the wallet.)

GRIPUS

Hark you, you’ve got the wallet now.

LABRAX

I have got it.
1370

GRIPUS

Make haste.

LABRAX

Make haste about what?

GRIPUS

To pay me the money.

LABRAX

By my troth, I’ll neither give you anything nor do I owe you anything.

GRIPUS

What mode of proceeding is this? Don’t you owe it me?

LABRAX

Troth, not I indeed.

GRIPUS

Didn’t you promise it me upon your oath?

LABRAX

I did take an oath, and now I’ll take an oath, if it is in any way my own pleasure; oaths were invented for preserving property, not for losing it.

GRIPUS

Give me, will you, a great talent of silver, you most perjured fellow.
1375

DAEMONES

Gripus, what talent is it you are asking him for?

GRIPUS

He promised it me on oath.

LABRAX

I chose to swear; (turning to DAEMONES) are you the priest¹ as to my perjury?

DAEMONES

(to GRIPUS.)

For what reason did he promise you the money?

GRIPUS

If I restored this wallet into his hands, he swore that he would give

me a great talent of silver.
1380

LABRAX

Find me a person with whom I may go to the judge, to decide whether you did not make the bargain with wicked fraudulence, and whether I am yet five-and-twenty years old².

GRIPUS

(pointing to DAEMONES.)

Go to the judge with him.

LABRAX

No; I must have some other person.

DAEMONES

(to LABRAX.)

Then I shan’t allow you to take it away from him, unless I shall have found him guilty. Did you promise him the money?

LABRAX

I confess it.

DAEMONES

What you promised my slave

must needs be my own. Don’t you be supposing, Procurer, that you are to be using your pimping honesty here. That can’t be.
1385

GRIPUS

(to LABRAX.)

Did you fancy now that you had got hold of a person whom you might cheat? It must be paid down here (holding his hand), good silver coin; I shall, at once, pay it to him (pointing to DAEMONES), so that he may give me my liberty.

DAEMONES

Inasmuch, therefore, as I have acted courteously towards you, and by my means these things (pointing to the wallet) have been saved for you—

GRIPUS

I’ faith, by my means, rather; don’t say by yours.

DAEMONES

(to GRIPUS.)

If you are prudent you’ll hold your tongue. (To LABRAX.) Then it befits you in a like courteous manner kindly to return the obligation to myself, who so well merit the same.

LABRAX

You are pleading, of course, for my right?

DAEMONES

(ironically.)

It would be a wonder if I didn’t, at a loss to myself, ask you to forego your right.

GRIPUS

(aside.)

I’m all right; the Procurer’s giving way; my freedom is at hand.

DAEMONES

(pointing to GRIPUS.)

He found this wallet; he is my slave. I therefore have preserved this for you, together with a large sum of money.
1395

LABRAX

I return you thanks, and with regard to the talent that I promised on oath to him, there’s no reason that you shouldn’t receive it.

GRIPUS

Hark you, give it me then, if you are wise.

DAEMONES

(to GRIPUS.)

Will you hold your tongue, or not?

GRIPUS

You pretend to be acting on my side: I tell you

by my troth, you shan’t do me out of that, if I did lose the other booty³.
1400

DAEMONES

You shall have a beating if you add a single word.

GRIPUS

Troth now, do you kill me even; I’ll never be silent on any terms, unless my mouth is shut with the talent.

LABRAX

For yourself, in fact, is he using his exertions; do hold your tongue.

DAEMONES

Step this way, Procurer.

LABRAX

Very well.

(They walk on one side.)

GRIPUS

Proceed openly; I don’t want any whisperings or mumblings to be going on.

DAEMONES

Tell me, at what price did you buy that other young woman, Ampelisca?
1405

LABRAX

I paid down a thousand didrachms.

DAEMONES

Should you like me to make you a handsome offer?

LABRAX

I should like it much.

DAEMONES

I’ll divide the talent.

LABRAX

You act fairly.

DAEMONES

For that other woman Ampelisca, that she may be free, take you one half, and give the other half to him.

LABRAX

By all means.
1410

DAEMONES

For that half I’ll give his freedom to Gripus, by means of whom you found your wallet, and I my daughter.

LABRAX

You act fairly; I return you many thanks.

(They return to GRIPUS.)

GRIPUS

How soon then is the money to be returned to me?

DAEMONES

The money’s paid, Gripus; I’ve got it.

GRIPUS

You, faith; but I had rather it were myself.

DAEMONES

I’ faith, there’s nothing for you here, so don’t you be expecting it. I wish you to release him from his oath.

GRIPUS

(aside.)

Troth, I’m undone; if I don’t hang myself⁴, I’m utterly done for. (Aloud.) I’ faith, after this day you certainly shall never be cheating me again.

DAEMONES

Dine here to-day, Procurer.

LABRAX

Be it so; the proposal is to my taste.

DAEMONES

Do you both follow me in-doors. (He comes forward and addresses the AUDIENCE.) Spectators, I would invite you to dinner as well, were it not that I’m going to give nothing, and that there is no good cheer at all at home;

and if, too, I didn’t believe that you are invited to dinner elsewhere. But if you shall be willing to give hearty applause to this Play, do you all come to make merry at my house some sixteen years hence. Do you (to LABRAX and GRIPUS) both dine here with me to-day.
1420

GRIPUS

Be it so.

An ACTOR
(To the AUDIENCE)

Now give us your applause.⁵

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Gripvs Séquere hac.

Daemones Vbi istic lenost?

Gripvs Heus tu. ém tibi, hic habet vidulum.

Daemones Habeo et fateor esse apud me, et, si tuos est, habeas tibi. omnia, ut quídquid infuit, ita salva sistentur tibi. tene, si tuost. 1360

Labrax O di immortales, meus est. salve, vidule.

Daemones Tuosne est?

Labrax Rogitas? si quidem hercle Iovis fuit, meus est tamen.

Daemones Omnia insunt salva; una istinc cistella excepta est modo cum crepundiis, quibuscum hódie filiam inveni meam.

Labrax Quam?

Daemones Tua quae fuit Palaestra, ea filia inventast mea.

Labrax Bene mehercle factum est. cum istaec res tibi ex sententia 1365 pulchre evenit, gaudeo.

Daemones Istuc facile non credo tibi.

Labrax Immo hercle, ut scias gaudere me, mihi triobolum ob eam ne duis, condono te.

Daemones Benigne edepol facis.

Labrax Immo tu quidem hercle vero.

Gripvs Heus tu, iám habes vidulum.

Labrax Habeo. 1370

Gripvs Propera.

Labrax Quid properabo?

Gripvs Reddere argentum mihi.

Labrax Neque edepol tibi do, neque quicquam debeo.

Gripvs Quae haec factio est? non debes?

Labrax Non hercle vero.

Gripvs Non tu iuratus mihi es?

Labrax Iuratus sum, et nunc iurabo, si quid vóluptati est mihi: ius iurandum rei servandae, non perdendae conditum est.

Gripvs Cedo sis mihi talentum magnum argenti, periurissime. 1375

Daemones Gripe, quod tu istum talentum poscis?

Gripvs Iuratust mihi dare.

Labrax Libet iurare. tun meo póntifex peiurio es?

Daemones Qua pro re argentum promisit hic tibi?

Gripvs Si vidulum hunc redegissem in potestatem eius, iuratust dare mihi talentum magnum argenti. 1380

Labrax Cedo quicum habeam iudicem, ni dolo malo instipulatus sis nive etiamdum haud siem quinque et viginti annos natus.

Gripvs Habe cum hóc.

Labrax Aliost opus.

Daemones Iám ab isto auferre haud potis sim, si istunc condemnavero. promisistin huic argentum?

Labrax Fateor.

Daemones Quod servo meo promisisti, meum esse oportet, ne tu, leno, postules 1385 te hic fide lenonia uti: non potes.

Gripvs Iam te ratu's ratus es nactum hominem quem defraudares? dandum huc argentum est probum: id ego continuo huic dabo adeo, mé ut hic emittat manu.

Daemones Quando ergo erga te benignus ego fui atque opera mea haec tibi sunt servata— 1390

Gripvs Immo hercle mea, ne tu dicas tua.

Daemones (Si sapies, tacebis) tum te mihi benigne itidem addecet bene merenti bene referre gratiam.

Labrax Nempe pró meo iure oras?

Daemones Mirum quin tuom ius meo periclo aps te expetam.

Gripvs Salvos sum, leno labascit, libertas portenditur.

Daemones Vidulum istunc ille invenit, illud mancipium meum est; 1395 ego tibi hunc porro servavi cum magna pecunia.

Labrax Gratiam habeo, et de talento nulla causa est quin feras, quod isti sum iuratus.

Gripvs Heus tu, mihi dato ergo, si sapis.

Daemones Tacen an non?

Gripvs Tu meam rem simulas agere, tibi mu . non hercle istoc me intervortes, si aliam praedam perdidi. 1400

Daemones Vapulabis, verbum si addis istúc unum.

Gripvs Vel hercle énica, non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi talento comprimor.

Labrax Tibi operam hic quidem dát. tace.

Daemones Concede hoc tu, leno.

Labrax Licet.

Gripvs Palam age, nolo ego murmurillum neque susurrum fieri.

Daemones Dic mihi, quanti íllam emisti tuam alteram mulierculam, 1405 Ampeliscam?

Labrax Mille nummum denumeravi.

Daemones Vin tibi condicionem luculentam ferre me?

Labrax Sane volo.

Daemones Dividuom talentum faciam.

Labrax Bene facis.

Daemones Pro illa altera, libera ut sit, dimidium tibi sume, dimidium huc cedo.

Labrax Maxime. 1410

Daemones Pro illo dimidio égo Gripum emittam manu, quem propter tu vidulum et ego gnatam inveni.

Labrax Bene facis, gratiam habeo magnam.

Gripvs Quam mox mi argentum ergo redditur?

Daemones Res soluta est, Gripe. ego habeo.

Gripvs Át ego me hercle mavolo.

Daemones Nihil hercle hic tibi est, né tu speres. iuris iurandi volo gratiam facias. 1415

Gripvs Perii hercle. nisi me suspendo, occidi. numquam hercle iterum defraudabis me quidem post hunc diem.

Daemones Hic hodie cenato, leno.

Labrax Fiat, condicio placet.

Labrax Fiat.

Daemones Plausum date.

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GRIPUS Follow this way. Where is this Procurer? Hark you (to LABRAX), see now; this person (pointing at DAEMONES) has got your wallet.

DAEMONES I have got it, and I confess that it is in my possession; and if it’s yours, you may have it. Everything, just as each particular was in it, shall in like manner be given safe to you. (Holding it out.) Take it, if it’s yours. 1360

LABRAX Immortal Gods, it is mine. (Takes it.) Welcome, dear wallet.

Gripvs

Séquere hac.

Daemones

Vbi istic lenost?

Gripvs

Heus tu. ém tibi, hic habet vidulum.

Daemones

Habeo et fateor esse apud me, et, si tuos est, habeas tibi.

omnia, ut quídquid infuit, ita salva sistentur tibi.

tene, si tuost.
1360

Labrax

O di immortales, meus est. salve, vidule.

Daemones

Tuosne est?

Labrax

Rogitas? si quidem hercle Iovis fuit, meus est tamen.

Daemones

Omnia insunt salva; una istinc cistella excepta est modo

cum crepundiis, quibuscum hódie filiam inveni meam.

Labrax

Quam?

Daemones

Tua quae fuit Palaestra, ea filia inventast mea.

Labrax

Bene mehercle factum est. cum istaec res tibi ex sententia
1365

pulchre evenit, gaudeo.

Daemones

Istuc facile non credo tibi.

Labrax

Immo hercle, ut scias gaudere me, mihi triobolum

ob eam ne duis, condono te.

Daemones

Benigne edepol facis.

Labrax

Immo tu quidem hercle vero.

Gripvs

Heus tu, iám habes vidulum.

Labrax

Habeo.
1370

Gripvs

Propera.

Labrax

Quid properabo?

Gripvs

Reddere argentum mihi.

Labrax

Neque edepol tibi do, neque quicquam debeo.

Gripvs

Quae haec factio est?

non debes?

Labrax

Non hercle vero.

Gripvs

Non tu iuratus mihi es?

Labrax

Iuratus sum, et nunc iurabo, si quid vóluptati est mihi:

ius iurandum rei servandae, non perdendae conditum est.

Gripvs

Cedo sis mihi talentum magnum argenti, periurissime.
1375

Daemones

Gripe, quod tu istum talentum poscis?

Gripvs

Iuratust mihi

dare.

Labrax

Libet iurare. tun meo póntifex peiurio es?

Daemones

Qua pro re argentum promisit hic tibi?

Gripvs

Si vidulum

hunc redegissem in potestatem eius, iuratust dare

mihi talentum magnum argenti.
1380

Labrax

Cedo quicum habeam iudicem,

ni dolo malo instipulatus sis nive etiamdum haud siem

quinque et viginti annos natus.

Gripvs

Habe cum hóc.

Labrax

Aliost opus.

Daemones

Iám ab isto auferre haud potis sim, si istunc condemnavero.

promisistin huic argentum?

Labrax

Fateor.

Daemones

Quod servo meo

promisisti, meum esse oportet, ne tu, leno, postules
1385

te hic fide lenonia uti: non potes.

Gripvs

Iam te ratu's ratus es

nactum hominem quem defraudares? dandum huc argentum est probum:

id ego continuo huic dabo adeo, mé ut hic emittat manu.

Daemones

Quando ergo erga te benignus ego fui atque opera mea

haec tibi sunt servata—
1390

Gripvs

Immo hercle mea, ne tu dicas tua.

Daemones

(Si sapies, tacebis) tum te mihi benigne itidem addecet

bene merenti bene referre gratiam.

Labrax

Nempe pró meo

iure oras?

Daemones

Mirum quin tuom ius meo periclo aps te expetam.

Gripvs

Salvos sum, leno labascit, libertas portenditur.

Daemones

Vidulum istunc ille invenit, illud mancipium meum est;
1395

ego tibi hunc porro servavi cum magna pecunia.

Labrax

Gratiam habeo, et de talento nulla causa est quin feras,

quod isti sum iuratus.

Gripvs

Heus tu, mihi dato ergo, si sapis.

Daemones

Tacen an non?

Gripvs

Tu meam rem simulas agere, tibi mu .

non hercle istoc me intervortes, si aliam praedam perdidi.
1400

Daemones

Vapulabis, verbum si addis istúc unum.

Gripvs

Vel hercle énica,

non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi talento comprimor.

Labrax

Tibi operam hic quidem dát. tace.

Daemones

Concede hoc tu, leno.

Labrax

Licet.

Gripvs

Palam age, nolo ego murmurillum neque susurrum fieri.

Daemones

Dic mihi, quanti íllam emisti tuam alteram mulierculam,
1405

Ampeliscam?

Labrax

Mille nummum denumeravi.

Daemones

Vin tibi

condicionem luculentam ferre me?

Labrax

Sane volo.

Daemones

Dividuom talentum faciam.

Labrax

Bene facis.

Daemones

Pro illa altera,

libera ut sit, dimidium tibi sume, dimidium huc cedo.

Labrax

Maxime.
1410

Daemones

Pro illo dimidio égo Gripum emittam manu,

quem propter tu vidulum et ego gnatam inveni.

Labrax

Bene facis,

gratiam habeo magnam.

Gripvs

Quam mox mi argentum ergo redditur?

Daemones

Res soluta est, Gripe. ego habeo.

Gripvs

Át ego me hercle mavolo.

Daemones

Nihil hercle hic tibi est, né tu speres. iuris iurandi volo

gratiam facias.
1415

Gripvs

Perii hercle. nisi me suspendo, occidi.

numquam hercle iterum defraudabis me quidem post hunc diem.

Daemones

Hic hodie cenato, leno.

Labrax

Fiat, condicio placet.

Labrax

Fiat.

Daemones

Plausum date.

GRIPUS

Follow this way.

Where is this Procurer?

Hark you (to LABRAX), see now; this person (pointing at DAEMONES) has got your wallet.

DAEMONES

I have got it, and I confess that it is in my possession; and if it’s yours, you may have it. Everything, just as each particular was in it, shall in like manner be given safe to you.

(Holding it out.) Take it, if it’s yours.
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LABRAX

Immortal Gods, it is mine. (Takes it.) Welcome, dear wallet.

DAEMONES

Is it yours?

LABRAX

Do you ask the question? If indeed, I’ faith, it were in Jove’s possession, still it is my own.

DAEMONES

Everything in it is safe; there has only been one casket taken out of it, with some trinkets, by means of which this day I have found my daughter.