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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 |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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 |
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Phormio (ed. Edward St. John Parry, Edward St. John Parry, M.A.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 1 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 3 (search)
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