Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 547 pages of information about Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 547 pages of information about Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi.

  II. 1. l. 141
    nec tibi advorsari certum est
      text reads ned tibi

  II. 3. l. 270
    Eucl. Vascula intus...
      Eucl. Hurry up with the dishes...
    speaker not named (continues from previous scene)

III. 6. l. 537
Eucl. Nimium lubenter...
Eucl. Gratified, highly gratified... 
Latin scene break adjusted to agree with English ]

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BACCHIDES

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PERSONAE

    DRAMATIS PERSONAE

PISTOCLERVS ADVLESCENS
BACCHIS — SOROR MERETRIX
BACCHIS — SOROR MERETRIX
LYDVS PAEDAGOGVS
CHRYSALVS SERVVS
NICOBVLVS SENEX
MNESILOCHVS ADVLESCENS
PHILOXENVS SENEX
PARASITVS
PVER
ARTAMO LORARIVS
CLEOMACHVS MILES

    PISTOCLERUS, son of Philoxenus.
    BACCHIS OF ATHENS, courtesan.
    BACCHIS OF SAMOS, her sister, courtesan.
    LYDUS, slave of Philoxenus and tutor of Pistoclerus.
    CHRYSALUS, slave of Nicobulus and Mnesilochus.
    NICOBULUS, an old gentleman of Athens.
    MNESILOCHUS, his son.
    PHILOXENUS, an old gentleman of Athens.
    A PARASITE, a retainer of the Captain’s.
    A PAGE in the service of the Captain.
    ARTAMO, Nicobulus’s slave overseer.
    CLEOMACHUS, a Captain.

    Scene:—­Athens.  A street with the houses of Bacchis and
    Nicobulus side by side.

    The first part of the play is lost, save for a few
    fragments, together with the last part of THE POT OF GOLD: 
    Leo’s summary of it follows:

Pistoclerus has received a letter from his friend Mnesilochus at Ephesus asking for help in his love affair.  He has been captivated by a girl there named Bacchis, who has been hired for a year by a certain Captain Cleomachus and taken by him to Athens.  Mnesilochus wishes his friend to find Bacchis and obtain her release from the Captain.  A servant of Bacchis of Athens has gone down to the harbour and comes back to her mistress with the report that her sister Bacchis has arrived.  In charge of a slave of the Captain’s this sister appears.  The sisters meet with Pistoclerus, who is in search of his friend’s sweetheart, and determine to make him useful.

FRAGMENTA

  FRAGMENTS

  quibus ingenium in animo utibilest,
        modicum et sine vernilitate I (IV G)

      Those with a mental make-up of the right sort, modest and
      civil.

  vincla, virgae, molae:  saevitudo mala fit peior II (V)

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