T. Maccius Plautus, Stichus, ed. Friedrich Leo, 5.1

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641

Stichvs

More hoc fit, atque stulte mea sententia:

si quem hominem exspectant, eum solent provisere;

qui hercle illa causa ócius nihilo venit.

idem ego nunc facio, qui proviso Sagarinum,

qui nihilo citius veniet tamen hac gratia.
645

iam hercle ego decumbam solus, si ille huc non venit.

cadum modo hinc a me huc cum vino transferam,

postidea accumbam. quasi nix tabescit dies.—

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

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

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Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.) — 5.1 focus

641 (Enter STICHUS, and provisions, a table, and couches on the stage.)

STICHUS

Foolishly and unwisely is it done in my opinion, if people are in the habit, if they are expecting a person; of looking out for him; faith, ne doesn’t on that account come a bit the faster. I’m now doing that same thing, in looking out for Sagarinus;

who, still, for that reason won’t come a jot the faster. Troth, I shall just now be taking my place alone, if he doesn’t come here. I’ll now fetch that cask of wine hither from home, and then I’ll take my place. The day, like snow, is melting away apace.
645
(Goes into the house of EPIGNOMUS.)

T. Maccius Plautus Stichus 5.1

ed. Friedrich Leo

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