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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 32 0 Browse Search
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio, or The Scheming Parasite (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 26 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 26 0 Browse Search
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Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) 22 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 16 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 1 (search)
here any evil removed from me thus ruined; in such a way has my father detained me these six days running in the country, at his house there; nor has it been allowed me in the meantime to visit my mistress. Isn't this dreadful to relate?At this point editors of the Latin text generally insert several fragments quoted from other sources; this translation does not, but picks up again at line 492. MELAENIS Are you joking for this reason, because you've got another wife engaged, a rich lady of Lemnos? Have her then! We are neither of a family so great as you are, nor is our wealth so substantial as yours; but still I have no fears that any one will impeach our oath; you then, if you shall feel any pain, will know for what reason you do feel pain. ALCESIMARCHUS May the Gods confound me-- MELAENIS Whatever you wish for, I desire it may befall you. ALCESIMARCHUS If ever I'll marry that wife which my father has engaged for me. MELAENIS And me, if ever I give you my daughter for a wife. ALCE
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 3 (search)
ow to the AUDIENCE lend your attention, that I may clearly explain this plot to you. Some time since, at Sicyon,: there was the Festival of Bacchus; a merchant of LemnosMerchant of Lemnos: Demipho. came hither to the games, and he, an ungovernable young man, ravished a maidenA maiden: Phanostrata. in the dark, in the street, at Lemnos: Demipho. came hither to the games, and he, an ungovernable young man, ravished a maidenA maiden: Phanostrata. in the dark, in the street, at the dead of night. He, as he knew that he was deserving of a heavy punishment, at once found shelter with his heels, and made off for Lemnos, where he then lived. She whom he had ravished, the ninth ensuing month completed, brought forth a daughter hereA daughter here: Silenium.. Since she did not know the person guilty of this dLemnos, where he then lived. She whom he had ravished, the ninth ensuing month completed, brought forth a daughter hereA daughter here: Silenium.. Since she did not know the person guilty of this deed, who he was, she made the servantThe servant: Lampadiscus. of her father partaker of her counsels, and gave to that servant the child to be exposed to death. He exposed it; this woman took up the child; that servant, who had exposed it, secretly took note whither or to what house she carried away the child. As you have heard
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT. [Supposed to have been written by Priscian the Grammarian.] (search)
THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT. [Supposed to have been written by Priscian the Grammarian.] A young man of Lemnos ravishes (Comprimit) a woman of Sicyon. He (Is) returns to his country, and becomes father of a daughter by his marriage there. The woman of Sicyon (Sicyonia) also bears a daughter. A servant takes (Tollit) and exposes her, and keeps watch in secret; her (Eam), taken up, a Courtesan presents to another. Coming back afterwards from Lemnos (Lemno), he marries her whom he had ravished; and his daughter born at Lemnos (Lemni) he promises in marriage to a young man captivated by passion (A more) for the one that had been exposed. On making enquiry (RequirLemnos (Lemni) he promises in marriage to a young man captivated by passion (A more) for the one that had been exposed. On making enquiry (Requirens), the servant finds her whom he had exposed; and so (Itaque) legaliy and properly does Alcesimarchus (Alcesimarchus) gain her recognized as a tree woman, whom before he had had as a concubine.
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE SUBJECT. (search)
THE SUBJECT. DEMIPHO, a merchant of Lemnos, having ravished Phanostrata, a young woman of Sicyon, she is brought to bed of a female child. This she gives to her servant Lampadiscus, to be exposed. On this being done, in the sight of Lampadiscus, a Procuress picks up the infant, and afterwards makes a present of it to her friend Melænis, by whom it is brought up, under the name of Silenium. Alcesimarchus, a young man of Sicyon, falls violently in love with her, and takes her under his protection. In the meantime, Demipho, who has married another wife, after her death marries Phanostrata, and comes to live at Sicyon. He and his wife are then anxious, if possible, to regain their lost child. The daughter of Demipho by his first wife is destined by her father to become the wife of Alcesimarchus; on hearing which, Melænis removes her foster-child from his protection. At this conjuncture Lampadiscus finds out the Procuress that had taken up the infant when exposed, and from her discovers t