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Andria (Italy) (search for this): act 2, scene 1
f my family, no doubt, to whom, at my departure, I intrusted my son. GETA For some minutes past I've heard you accusing all of us undeservedly; and me the most undeservedly of them all; for what would you have had me do for you in this affair? The laws do not allow a person who is a slave to plead; nor is there any giving evidenceAny giving evidence)--Ver. 293. Slaves were neither allowed to plead for themselves, nor to give evidence. See the Curculio of Plautus, 1. 621, and the Notes to the Andria. on his part. DEMIPHO I grant all that: I admit this too--the young man, unused to courts, was bashful; I allow it: you, too, are a slave: still, if she was ever so near a relative, it was not necessary for him to marry her, but as the law enjoins, you might have given her a portion;Given her a portion)--Ver. 297. By this remark, Donatus observes that Terence artfully prepares us for the imposition of Phormio, who extorts money fiom the old gentleman on this very ground. she could have looke
Athens (Greece) (search for this): act 2, scene 1
tleman on this very ground. she could have looked out for another husband. Why, then, in preference, did he bring a pauper home? GETA No particular reason; but he hadn't the money. DEMIPHO He might have borrowed it from some person or other. GETA From some person or other? Nothing more easily said. DEMIPHO After all, if on no other terms, on interest. GETA Aye, aye, fine talking; as if any one would have trusted him, while you were living.While you were living)--Ver. 302. There was a law at Athens which enacted that persons who lent money to young men in the lifetime of their parents should have no power to recover it. In line 303 of the Pseudolus, Plautus alludes to the Quinavicenarian or Laetorian Law, at Rome, which forbade credit to be given to persons under the age of twenty-five years, and deprived the creditor of all right to recover his money or goods. DEMIPHO No, it shall not be so; it must not be. Ought I to allow her to remain with him as his wife a single day? She merits n
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): act 4, scene 1
Enter DEMIPHO and CHREMES. DEMIPHO Well, have you brought your daughter with you, Chremes, for whom you went to Lemnos? CHREMES No. DEMIPHO Why not? CHREMES When her mother found that I staid here longer than usual, and at the same time the age of the girl did not suit with my delays, they told me that she, with all her family, set out in search of me. DEMIPHO Pray, then, why did you stay there so long, when you had heard of this? CHREMES Why, faith, a malady detained me. DEMIPHO From what cause? Or what was it? CHREMES Do you ask me? Old age itself is a malady. However, I heard that they had arrived safe, from the caps tain who brought them. DEMIPHO Have you heard, Chremes, what has happened to my son in my absence? CHREMES 'Tis that, in fact, that has embarrassed me in my plans. For if I offer my daughter in marriage to any person that's a stranger, it must all be told how and by whom I had her. You I knew to be fully as faithful to me as I am to myself; if a stranger shall think f
Cyrene (Libya) (search for this): act 1, scene 2
in love with her to distraction. She belonged to a most abominable Procurer; and their fathers had taken good care that they should have nothing to give him.. There remained nothing for him then but to feed his eyes, to follow her about, to escort her to the school,To the school: It was the custom for the "lenones," or "procurers," to send their female slaves to music-schools, in order to learn accomplishments. So in the Prologue to the Rudens of Plautus: "This Procurer brought the maiden to Cyrene hither. A-certain Athenian youth, a citizen of this city, beheld her as she was going home from the music-school." and to escort her back again. We, having nothing to do, lent our aid to Phaedria. Near the school at which she was taught, right opposite the place, there was a certain barber's shop: here we were generally in the habit of waiting for her, until she was coming home again. In the mean time, while one day we were sitting there, there came in a young man in tears;Young man in tears
Cilicia (Turkey) (search for this): act 1, scene 2
rustworthiness you have experienced as to money, are you afraid to intrust with words? In what way have I any interest in deceiving you? GETA Well then, listen. DAVUS I give you my best attention. GETA Davus, do you know Chremes, the elder brother of our old gentleman? DAVUS Why should I not? GETA Well, and his son Phaedria? DAVUS As well as your own self. GETA It so happened to both the old gentlemen, just at the same period, that the one had to take a journey to Lemnos, and our old man to Cilicia, to see an old acquaintance; he tempted over the old man by letters, promising him all but mountains of gold. DAVUS To one who had so much property, that he had more than he could use? GETA Do have done; that is his way. DAVUS Oh, as for that, I really ought to have been a man of fortune. GETA When departing hence, both the old gentlemen left ne as a sort of tutor to their sons. DAVUS Ah, Geta, you undertook a hard task there. GETA I came to experience it, I know that. I'm quite sure that
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): act 1, scene 2
simpleton; the man, whose trustworthiness you have experienced as to money, are you afraid to intrust with words? In what way have I any interest in deceiving you? GETA Well then, listen. DAVUS I give you my best attention. GETA Davus, do you know Chremes, the elder brother of our old gentleman? DAVUS Why should I not? GETA Well, and his son Phaedria? DAVUS As well as your own self. GETA It so happened to both the old gentlemen, just at the same period, that the one had to take a journey to Lemnos, and our old man to Cilicia, to see an old acquaintance; he tempted over the old man by letters, promising him all but mountains of gold. DAVUS To one who had so much property, that he had more than he could use? GETA Do have done; that is his way. DAVUS Oh, as for that, I really ought to have been a man of fortune. GETA When departing hence, both the old gentlemen left ne as a sort of tutor to their sons. DAVUS Ah, Geta, you undertook a hard task there. GETA I came to experience it, I know
Athens (Greece) (search for this): act 1, scene 2
excess of beauty in her very charms, these circumstances must have extinguished those charms. The one who had lately fallen in love with the Music-girl said: "She is well enough;" but our youth---- DAVUS I know it already-fell in love with her. GETA Can you imagine to what an extent? Observe the consequence. The day after, he goes straight to the old woman; entreats her to let him have her: she, on the other hand, refuses him, and says that he is not acting properly; that,she is a citizen of Athens, virtuous, and born of honest parents: that if he wishes to make her his wife, he is at liberty to do so according to law; but if otherwise, she gives him a refusal. Our youth was at a loss what to. do. He was both eager to marry her, and he dreaded his absent father. DAVUS Would not his father, if he had returned, have given him leave? GETA He let him marry a girl with no fortune, and of obscure birth! He would never do so. DAVUS What came of it at last? GETA What came of it? There is one
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): act 4, scene 3
umber. against me; I shall give nothing at all; is this dirty fellow to be laughing at me as well? CHREMES Pray do be quiet; I'll give it: do you only bring your son to marry the woman we want him to have. ANTIPHO apart. Ah me! Geta, you have ruined me by your treachery. CHREMES 'Tis on my account she's turned off; it's right that I should bear the loss. GETA " Take care and let me know," said he, "as soon as possible, if they are going to let me have her, that I may get rid of the other, so that I mayn't be in doubt; for the others have agreed to.pay me down the portion directly." CHREMES Let him have her at once; let him give notice to them that he breaks off the match with the other, and let him marry this woman. DEMIPHO Yes, and little joy to him of the bargain! CHREMES Luckily, too, I've now brought home some money with me, the rents which my wife's farms at Lemnos produce. I'll take it out of that, and tell my wife that you had occasion for it. They go into the house of CHREMES.
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): act 5, scene 6
d so began to listen, catching the conversation every word in this fashion shows them. ANTIPHO Well done, Geta. GETA Here I overheard a very pretty piece of business; so much so that I had nearly cried out for joy. ANTIPHO What was it? GETA laughing. What do you think? ANTIPHO I don't know. GETA Why, something most marvelous. Your uncle has been discovered to be the father of your wife, Phanium. ANTIPHO starting. Ha! what's that you say GETA He formerly cohabited secretly with her mother at Lemnos. PHORMIO A dream: how could she be ignorant about her own father? GETA Be sure, Phormio, that there is some reason: but do you suppose that, outside of the door, I was able to understand every thing that passed between them within? ANTIPHO On my faith, I too have heard the same story. GETA Aye, and I'll give you still further reason for believing it: your uncle in the mean time came out from there; not long after he returned again, with your father; each said that he gave you permission to
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): act 5, scene 7
PHORMIO What, I? You fancy, perhaps, just now, that I am the protector of the portionless; for the well portioned,For the well portioned: Though Colman thinks otherwise, it is pretty clear that he alludes to Nausistrata in these words. I'm in the habit of being so as well. CHREMES What's that to us? PHORMIO with a careless air. Nothing at all. I know a certain lady here pointing at CHREMES'S house whose husband had---- CHREMES starting. Ha! DEMIPHO What's the matter? PHORMIO Another wife at Lemnos---- CHREMES aside. I'm ruined! PHORMIO By whom he had a daughter; and her he is secretly bringing up. CHREMES aside. I'm dead and buried! PHORMIO This I shall assuredly now inform her of. Walks toward the house. CHREMES running and catching hold of him. I beg of you, don't do so. PHORMIO with a careless air. Oh, were you the person? DEMIPHO What a jest he's making of us. CHREMES to PHORMIO. We'll let you off. PHORMIO Nonsense. CHREMES What would you have? We'll forgive you the money you've g
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