Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Eunuchus, ed. Edward St. John Parry, 4.1

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614 (DORIAS.)

DORIAS

Ita me Di ament, quantum ego illum vidi, nonnihil timeo misera

Ne quam ille hodie insanus turbam faciat, aut vim Thaidi.
615

Nam postquam iste advenit Chremes adolescens, frater virginis,

Militem rogat ut illum admitti iubeat: ille continuo irasci,

Neque negare audere: Thais porro instare ut hominem invitet.

Id faciebat retinendi illius causa, quia illa quae cupiebat

De sorore eius indicare ad eam rem tempus non erat.
620

Invitat tristis; mansit: ibi illa cum illo sermonem occipit.

Miles vero sibi putare adductum ante oculos aemulum:

Voluit facere contra huic aegre. Heus! inquit, puer, Pamphilam

Arcesse, ut delectet hic nos. Illa exclamat, Minime gentium!

In convivium illam? Miles tendere: inde ad iurgium.
625

Interea aurum sibi clam mulier demit; dat mihi ut auferam.

Hoc est signi; ubi primum poterit se illinc subducet, scio.

Eunuchus. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). ed. Edward St. John Parry. London. 1857.

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Eunuchus (Terence. Publii Terentii Comoediae Sex. Parry, Edward St. John, editor. London: Whittaker and Co.; George Bell, 1857.)

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Eunuchus; or, The Eunuch Perseus (Terence. The Comedies of Terence. Riley, Henry Thomas; Colman, George, translators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.) — 4.1 focus

614 (Enter DORIAS, with a casket in her hand.)

DORIAS

(to herself.)

So may the Gods bless me, but from what I have seen, I’m terribly afraid that

this mad fellow will be guilty of some disturbance to-day or of some violence to Thais. For when this young man, the brother of the damsel, arrived, she begged the Captain to order him to be admitted; he immediately began to get into a passion, and yet didn’t dare refuse; Thais still insisted that he would invite the man in. This she did for the sake of detaining him; because there was no opportunity just then of telling him what she wanted to disclose about her sister.
615

He was invited in, and took his seat. Then she entered into discourse with him. But the Captain, fancying it was a rival brought before his very eyes, wanted in his turn to mortify her: Hark you, boy, said he, go fetch Pamphila, that she may amuse us here. She exclaimed, At a banquet! Certainly not. The Captain still persisted to a downright quarrel.

Meanwhile my mistress secretly took off her golden jewels,¹ and gave them to me to take away: this is a sign, I’m sure, that she’ll betake herself from there as soon as she possibly can.

(Goes into the house.)

Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) Eunuchus 4.1

ed. Edward St. John Parry

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