Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi: Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two; Bacchises, The CaptivesPlautus, Titus Maccius
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Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi: Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two; Bacchises, The Captives
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Latin drama (Comedy); Latin drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English
(_reverently_) Thy will shall be done: and keep thy
word with me, I beg thee. (_after a pause_) I’ll in and
see my wife! No more of old Tiresias!
nunc, spectatores, Iovis summi causa clare plaudite.
(_to the audience_)
Now, spectators, for the sake of Jove almighty, give us some
loud applause.
[EXIT.
[Footnote 2: Corrupt (Leo): _Alcumena_ MSS: _illa_ Bothe.]
[Footnote 4: Leo brackets following v., 14:
_lucrum ut perenne vobis semper suppetat._]
[Footnote 5: Corrupt (Leo): _affero_ MSS:
_fero_ Acidalius, followed by Lindsay and others.]
[Footnote 6: Leo assumes lacuna here.]
[Footnote 7: _architectust_ Pareus: _architectus_ MSS.
Lambinus suggests that the actor who took the part of Jupiter
may have been a builder.]
[Footnote 8: Corrupt (Leo): _illi_ MSS:
_ille illi_ Ussing, followed by Lindsay.]
[Footnote 9: Leo brackets following v., 93:
_praeterea certo prodit in tragoedia._]
[Footnote 10: Leo brackets following v., 173:
_nec aequom anne iniquom imperet cogitabit._]
[Footnote 11: _vicimus vi_ MSS: Leo brackets _vicimus._]
[Footnote 12: Corrupt (Leo): “_Convertitur pro convertit_,”
Nonius 480.]
[Footnote 13: Corrupt (Leo): _neme esse_ MSS:
among the many emendations is _sane_ (Palmer).]
[Footnote 14: Leo brackets following v., 401:
_qui cum Amphitruone hinc una ieram in exercitum._]
[Footnote 15: Leo brackets following v., 489-90:
_et ne in suspicione ponatur stupri_
_et clandestina ut celetur consuetio._]
[Footnote 16: Corrupt (Leo): _si non id ita_ J.]
[Footnote 17: Leo notes slight _lacuna_ here:
_mirum_ MSS: _mirum mirum_ Spengel.]
[Footnote 18: Leo brackets following v., 629-632:
_sed vide ex navi efferantur quae imperavi iam omnia._
Sos.
_Et memor sum et diligens, ut quae imperes comparcant;_
_non ego cum vino simitu ebibi imperium tuom._
Amph.
_Vtinam di faxint, infecta dicta re eveniant tua._]
[Footnote 19: Corrupt (Leo): _quom te gravidam_ MSS:
_quom gravidam_ Pylades.]
[Footnote 20: Leo brackets following v., 685:
_atque me nunc proinde appellas quasi multo post videris?_]
[Footnote 21: _enim verbis probas_ Lachmann:
_probas_ vel _proba’s_ Lindsay: _in verbis probas_ MSS.]
[Footnote 22: Leo notes lacuna here. _Ita ingenium_ MSS:
_Ita ingeni ingenium_ Seyffert, followed by Lindsay.]
[Footnote 23: Corrupt (Leo): _duxero_ MSS: _adsero_ Leo
[Footnote 24: Leo notes lacuna here and suggests
_is a Mercurio impransus_.]
[Footnote 25: Corrupt (Leo): _nam iam_ MSS: _iam_ Gruter.]
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[Transcriber’s Corrections: _Amphitryon_
Personae:
MERCVRIVS DEUS, SOSIA SERVUS...
spelling unchanged, as in _Captivi_
I. 1. l. 314
nam continuas has tris noctes pervigilavi
text reads _contiuas_
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