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 MDCCCXCVIIl. 
 
THE CAPTIVI 
 
 OF 
 
 PLAUTUS. 
 
 ADAPTED FOR REPRESENTATION AT 
 
 ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, RADLEY, 
 
 WITH THE TRANSLATION OF RICHARD WARNER. 
 
 ** Servos fideles liberalitas facit." 
 
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 Crown Yard, Oxford. 
 
 M DCCC XCVIII, 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 This year Radley takes a second step in the creation of its 
 own cycle of Latin comedy. Just as Terence in his day (and no 
 doubt Plautus too) had critics to meet, so Latin comedy here 
 at Radley is not without its detractors. Revolutionary suggestions 
 have been much in the air of late, and all manner of projects for 
 the Radley stage have been advanced, from contemporary drama 
 to translations from the German, or even — prok curia inversique 
 mores I — English renderings of the classics. But the 'Latin Play' 
 still holds the field, though the veteran comedies that have done 
 good service, here as elsewhere, are now given an honorable dis- 
 charge — stipendia emeritae — to make way for new recruits. 
 
 The Captivi, which Radley produces this year, for the first time, 
 is one of the most praised of its author's works. Lessing pro- 
 nounced it "the best comedy ever put on the stage." That is 
 indeed " laudari a laudato viro." But, without making quite so 
 strong a claim, it may be permitted to enlist other critics of the 
 first rank on its side. Mommsen, whose criticism of Roman 
 comedy certainly does not err on the side of mildness, instances 
 the Captivi, along with the Pseudolus and the Bacchides, as " exe- 
 cuted in a masterly manner after its kind;" and Mackail, claiming 
 for Plautus that " at his best he has seldom been improved upon 
 either in the interest of his ^action or in the copiousness and 
 vivacity of his dialogue," gives as examples the Aulularia, Bac- 
 chides, or Rudens, and " most notably the Captivi." Nor has the 
 play lacked that imitation which is the sincerest flattery. The 
 English comedy, " The Case is Altered," which is claimed by some 
 as the work of Ben Jonson, borrows its plot directly from the 
 Captivi, even to the punishment of the lost son by his unsuspecting 
 father. 
 
 In one respect the Captivi is unique. It has often been objected 
 to Latin comedy that its standard of conduct and character is not 
 a high one. The criticism is really beside the point. We do not 
 
IV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1 
 
 go to Comedy for patterns to copy, any more than we read Dickens 
 to imitate Pecksniff or the Shepherd, or Thackeray to mould 
 ourselves on Col. Altaraont or Becky Sharpe. " Comedy," says 
 George Meredith in a brilliant essay, " is the fountain of sound 
 sense; not the less perfectly sound because of the sparkle." We 
 go to Comedy as to a * fountain of sound sense,' playing upon life, 
 and we draw from it draughts of invigorating laughter with which 
 it bubbles over. Our models we draw as a rule from other foun- 
 tains. And yet — interdum tamen et vocem comoedia tollit. Even 
 Comedy has given us stirring examples— Antonio in the Merchant 
 of Venice, the banished Duke in As you Like It, and Tyndarus 
 in the Captivi. When that is so, lucro appone; but it is not always 
 to be expected. The Captivi is exceptional among Latin plays 
 in the seriousness of its tone. It is a 'play with a purpose.' The 
 author claims in his Epilogue that it is a play " to make good men 
 better ''—ubi boni meliores fiant—z. claim which is little likely to be 
 disputed. The affection of the young Elian prisoner and his slave 
 for each other is as an oasis in the arid desert which pictures 
 of classical slavery as a rule present. The devotion of the slave 
 to his master, and the courage and spirit with which he meets the 
 punishment which his devotion brings upon him are finely drawn, 
 and without exaggeration or straining for effect. The boast of 
 Plautus — Htijus modi paiicas poetae reperiunt comoedias — is quite as 
 true of the whole range of comedy as of the narrower one which he 
 had in view. 
 
 The text is that of Mr. Hallidie's edition (1891). The translation 
 s, with occasional alterations, that of Richard Warner, printed 
 by Bonnell Thornton among his own translations of Plautus. 
 
 To Messrs. F. C Gladwin, W. A. F. Jones, and S. R. Gibbs, 
 of Radley, my thanks are due for kind help with the proofs; 
 to Mr. T. R. Bridson of University College, Oxford, for suggestions ; 
 and finally to Mr. Parker and to his staff for their care and prompt- 
 ness in getting this little book through the press. 
 
 L. J. 
 
 Row Head Farm, 
 Wasdale Head, 
 Cumberland, 
 
 Sept, loth, 1898. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The spelling of this text follows the principles laid down in the 
 Introduction to the Aulularia last year. The only change is in 
 the words quoi, quoius, and quor, where the broad sound is now 
 kept. The words are of constant occurrence and will hardly cause 
 any difficulty. The main principle may perhaps be repeated here ; 
 " to present the text in the most readily intelligible form to actors 
 and audience with the least possible sacrifice of what is most 
 characteristic in Plautine Latin." 
 
 It will be convenient to tabulate the chief variations from the 
 spelling of Cicero's time. 
 
 o for u — after u or v 
 
 e.g. tu^s, servc;s, qu<?m, vivtJiit, qut^r. 
 o for e — e.g. advc^rte, woiwi, praevt7rtier. 
 u for i — in superl. termin. e.g. opt«me 
 
 and often e.g. clwens, aest«mo, maritwmi. 
 u for e — in termin. of gerund. 
 
 e.g. fugiwndi, edwndi. 
 qu for c — e.g. ^wom, quor, //«oi, ^«oius. 
 
 The following assimilations are made : — 
 
 1) to r — e.g. surripuit (sub-r-) 
 
 c to f — e.g. e/ferat (ec-f-) 
 
 n to m — e. g. iwmortales (in-m-) 
 
 n to m — before p — cowpedes (con-p-) 
 
 i/;/pingier (in-p-) 
 But d is not assimilated to s — a^siduo 
 
 or c — accurate 
 
 or t — a/ftonsurum 
 n is not assimilated to 1 — cowlecto, co;/laudavit. 
 
 or r — iwridebor, iwrogabo. 
 
 • 
 
 These all follow what was probably the spelling of Cicero. 
 
 The spelling of the ending of the ace. plur.— of the 3rd decl. is either 
 
 -es or -is (Gk. -cts). 
 The symbol I stands for both I and J. 
 U and V are distinguished. 
 
THE PLOT. 
 
 VU 
 
 THE PLOT. 
 
 To Hegio, a well-to-do Aetolian, have been born two sons. The younger, 
 when four years old, has been kidnapped by a runaway slave. Stalagmus, 
 twenty years before the opening of the play, and nothing has since been heard 
 of him. At the time when the action of the play begins, Aetolia is at war 
 with Elis, and the elder son of Hegio, Philopolemus, has been taken prisoner. 
 Hegio is* «speculating' in Elian prisoners, who, according to Greek custom, 
 are sold as slaves, in the hope of getting one of equal rank to exchange for 
 his son. His latest purchase is the two * captives ' from whom the piece takes 
 its title. These are Philocrates and his faithful slave Tyndarus. In order to 
 facilitate the escape of his master, Tyndarus has agreed to change places with 
 him; so that in Act II., when the two 'captives' come on the stage, Tyndarus 
 is dressed as the master and Philocrates as the slave. Hegio questions Philo- 
 crates as to the rank of his supposed master, and later Tyndarus confirms 
 the account which Philocrates has given. The exchange seems to be possible, 
 for Hegio has learnt the name of the purchaser of his captive son,— one 
 Menarchus, a doctor, who is declared by Philocrates to be a dependant of 
 his master's family. Hegio is persuaded to send the supposed slave, Philocrates, 
 to Elis to effect the exchange. Accordingly he is given a passport and sent on 
 his way, while Tyndarus is put upon parole. In Act III. things begin to go 
 wrong. Hegio, going to see his other prisoners, has found one, Aristophontes, 
 who is acquainted with Philocrates, and brings him to his house that the friends 
 may have a talk together. Tyndarus is in despair on recognising Aristophontes, 
 as it is impossible to let him into the secret in time for him to keep up the 
 deception ; and he resorts to the bold expedient of declaring Aristophontes 
 to be a dangerous madman. Hegio is much alarmed, and Aristophontes is so 
 furious at hearing himself described as a madman by a slave that the ruse of 
 Tyndarus is very near being successful. At last, however, Aristophontes grows 
 calmer, and succeeds in quieting the fears of Hegio so far as to persuade him 
 to listen, in spite of warnings from Tyndarus. He insists that he is sane, 
 and that Tyndarus is a slave and not Philocrates, and finally brings conviction 
 to Hegio's mind by a close description of the real Philocrates which tallies 
 exactly with the supposed slave who has been sent to Elis. Hegio is deeply 
 distressed at being cheated of his hopes, and determines to vent his rage on 
 Tyndarus, whom he orders to be marched off in irons forthwith to hard labour 
 in the stone-quarries, threatening him even with torture. Tyndarus makes a 
 spirited defence, putting to Hegio the argumentum ad homitiem, that he would 
 be only too grateful to a slave who did the same for his son. In Act IV., 
 
 I* 
 
 Ergasilus, the hanger-on, who has appeared already in Act I. * cadging * 
 for a dinner on the strength of an acquaintance with Philopolemus, and has 
 extorted an unwilling invitation from Hegio on the ground of the day being 
 his birthday, comes running on wild with excitement. He has been to the 
 harbour on the look out for a better meal than the "rough and ready dinner" 
 (asper victus) offered him by Hegio, and has just seen Philopolemus landing 
 with Philocrates, and the runaway Stalagmus into the bargain. He meets Hegio 
 with the good news, and by way of return is given carte blanche to arrange 
 the dinner. The last act is opened by a slave-boy who gives a vivid description 
 of the confusion and havoc made in Hegio's kitchen by Ergasilus as caterer. Then 
 Hegio enters from the harbour with Philopolemus, Philocrates, and Stalagmus. 
 After a hearty welcome to his son, he thanks Philocrates warmly for keeping 
 faith, and offers to restore the suffering Tyndarus without ransom by way of 
 amende honoj'able for his ill usage. He proceeds to a cross-examination of 
 Stalagmus, which ends in establishing the identity of Tyndarus with Hegio's 
 kidnapped son. Tyndarus now appears in irons, to be bewildered on being 
 greeted by Hegio as his son. Explanations follow, and a smith is sent for 
 to take the irons from Tyndarus and transfer them to the guilty Stalagmus. 
 Thus ' poetic justice ' is satisfied, and all ends happily. 
 
PERSONA E. 
 
 ERGASILUS PARASITUS. 
 HEGIO SENEX. 
 LORARIUS. 
 
 PHILOCRATES CAPTIVOS. 
 TYNDARUS CAPTIVOS. 
 ARISTOPHONTES CAPTIVOS. 
 
 PUER. 
 
 PHILOPOLEMUS ADOLESCENS. 
 
 STALAGMUS SERVOS. 
 
 Personae mutae, 
 
 LORARII. 
 SERVI. 
 
 I 
 
 CHARACTERS. 
 
 ^^GhSlLX}^— a professional ' diner-out.' 
 
 HEGIO— tf« old gentleman of Aetolia, 
 
 FLOGGING-SLAVE. 
 
 PHILOCRATES— a« Elian, taken prisoner by the Aetolians and 
 
 bought by Hegio. 
 TYNDARUS — his slave , but really the kidnapped son of Hegio, 
 ARISTOPHONTES— ««^//^^- Elian prisoner, a friend to Philo- 
 
 crates, 
 SLAVE ^OY— servant to Hegio, 
 PHILOPOLEMUS— ^/^^r son to Hegio, taken prisoner by the 
 
 Elians, 
 STALAGMUS— a runaway slave of Hegio, and kidnapper of his 
 
 younger son. 
 
 The Scene throughout the play is a street in a city of Aetolia, before the 
 house of Hegio. On the spectators' left the street leads to the harbour, on 
 the right through the market-place into the country. 
 
 B 
 
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PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. I. 
 
 ACTUS I. 
 
 SCAENA I. 
 
 ERGASILUS. 
 ERG. luventus nomen fecit Peniculo mihi 
 Ideo quia mensas^quando edo, detergeo • 
 Quasi quom caletur cocleae in occulto latent, 
 Suo sibi suco vivont, ros si non cadit, 
 Item parasiti rebus prolatis latent 
 In occulto miseri, victitant suco suo, 
 Dum ruri rurant homines quos ligurriant. 
 Prolatis rebus parasiti venatici 
 Sumus : quando res redierunt, Molossici 
 Odiossicique et multum Incommodestici. 
 Et hie quidem hercle nisi qui colaphos perpeti 
 Potis parasitus frangique aulas in caput, 
 Vel ire extra portam trigeminam ad saccum licet. 
 Quod mihi ne eveniat non nullum periculum 'st, 
 Postquam meus rex est potitus hostium. 
 Ita nunc belligerant Aetoli cum Aleis. 
 Nam Aetolia haec est ; illic est captus in Alide, 
 Philopolemus, huius Hegionis Alius, 
 Senis qui hie habitat ; quae aedes lamentariae 
 Mihi sunt, quas quotiensquomque conspicio, fleo. 
 Nunc hie occepit quaestum hunc fili gratia 
 Inhonestum, maxume alienum ingenio suo : 
 
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 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Efiter ERGASILUS, seedily dressed and looking hungry and 
 
 dejected. 
 
 ERG. Our young men call me * Dishclout,' — for this reason. 
 Whene'er I dine, I wipe the tables clean. 
 As in hot weather snails hide in their shells 
 And live on their own juice, if no dew falls ; 
 We Parasites, too, in vacation time, 5 
 
 Hide out of sight ; and while into the country 
 Those are retired, on whom we us*d to feed, 
 Poor, we support our natural call of appetite 
 From our own juices — We in the vacation 
 Are thin as hounds ; — but when men come to town, 
 We are as plump as mastiffs, full as troublesome, 10 
 
 And as detested. What is worst of all. 
 Except we patiently endure a drubbing. 
 And let them break their pots upon our heads. 
 We must submit to sit among the beggars 
 Without the city gate. That this will be 
 My lot, there's not a little danger, since 
 
 My patron is a captive with the enemy. 15 
 
 Th' Aetolians and the Elians are at war : 
 We now are in Aetolia. Philopolemus, 
 Old Hegio's son, whose house is here hard by, 
 Is prisoner now in Elis. — Sad indeed 
 
 This house to me ! which, often as I see it, 20 
 
 Brings tears into my eyes. The good old father 
 Upon his son's account, not in compliance 
 With his own inclination, has engaged 
 In an illiberal traffic, and by purchasing 
 
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SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 Homines captives commercatur, si queat 
 Aliquem invenire suom qui mutet filium. 
 Nunc ad eum pergam. sed aperitur ostium, 
 Unde saturitatc saepe ego exivi ebrius. 
 
 ACT. I. 
 
 25 
 
 Of captives, hopes, that in some lucky hour 
 He may find one to barter for his son — 
 
 I'll go to see him. [Moves towards the door of Hegio's house, 
 
 but stops on /tearing it opening. 
 But the door opens, whence 25 
 
 Full oft IVe come, drunk with excess of cheer. 
 
 [ Withdraws to back of stage. 
 
 SCAENA II. 
 HEGIO. LORARIUS. ERGASILUS. 
 
 HEG. Advorte animum sis tu : istos captivos duos 
 Heri quos emi de praeda a quaestoribus, 
 His indito catenas singularias, 
 Istas maiores quibus sunt iuncti demito. 
 Sinito ambulare, si foris si intus volent, 
 Sed uti adserventur magna diligentia. 
 Liber captivos avis ferae consimilis est : 
 Semel fugiundi si data 'st occasio, 
 Satis est — numquam postilla possis prendere. 
 LO. Omnes profecto liberi lubentius 
 
 Sumus quam servimus. 
 HEG. Non videre ita tu quidem. 
 
 LO. Si non est quod dem, mene vis dem ipse in pedes? 
 HEG. Si dederis, erit extemplo mihi quod dem tibi. 
 LO. Avis me ferae consimilem faciam ut praedicas. 
 HEG. Ita ut dicis : nam si faxis, te in caveam dabo. 
 Sed satis verborum 'st ; cura quae iussi atque abi. 
 Ego ibo ad fratrem ad alios captivos meos ; 
 Visam ne nocte hac quippiam turbaverint. 
 Inde me continuo recipiam rursum domura. 
 
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 Scene II. 
 
 Enter HEGIO ^rom the house with his 'flogging-slave: 
 
 HEG. Mind what I say— from those two captives there, 
 
 {Pointing into the house). 
 
 Whom yesterday I purchased from the Quaestors, 
 Take off the heavy chains with which they're bound. 
 And put on lighter ; let them walk about 
 Within doors, or abroad, as likes them best :— 
 Yet watch them well— A free man, made a captive, 
 Is like a bird that's wild : it is enough. 
 If once you give it opportunity 
 To fly away j you'll never catch it after. 
 
 SLAVE. Freedom to slavery we all prefer. 
 
 HEG. You do not think so, or you'd find the means. 
 
 SLAVE. If I have nought to offer else, permit me 
 To give you for it a fair pair of heels. 
 
 HEG. And if you do, I presently shall find 
 What to bestow on you. 
 
 SLAVE. I'ln like the bird 
 
 You talk'd of even now— I'll fly away. 
 
 HEG. Indeed ! Beware the cage then, if you do- 
 No more ; mind what I order'd and be gone. 
 
 [Exit ^flogging-slave ' into the house. 
 
 Now to my brother's, to my other captives 
 I'll see if ought has been amiss among them 
 Last night ; then homeward I'll return forthwith. 45 
 
 [Begins to go. 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
PL\UTI 
 
 ACT. I. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 50 
 
 ERG. Aegre *st mi hunc facere quaestum carcerarium 
 
 Propter sui gnati miseriam miserum senem. 
 
 Sed si uUo pacto ille hue conciliari potest 
 
 Vel carnuficinam hunc facere possum perpeti. 
 HEG. Quis hie loquitur ? 
 ERG. Ego, qui tuo maerore maceror, 
 
 Macesco, consenesco et tabesco miser. 
 
 Ossa atque pelhs sum misera macritudine, 
 
 Neque umquam quicquam me iuvat quod edo — domi ; 
 
 Foris aliquantillum etiam quod gusto id beat. 
 HEG. Ergasile, salve. 
 
 ERG. Di te bene ament, Hegio. 55 
 
 HEG. Ne fle. 
 ERG. Egone ilium non fleam ? egon* non defleam 
 
 Talem adulescentem ? 
 HEG. Semper sensi filio 
 
 Meo te esse amicum et ilium intellexi tibi. 
 ERG. Tum denique homines nostra intellegimus bona, 
 
 Quom, quae in potestate habuimus, ea amisimus : 60 
 
 Ego postquam gnatus tuos potitus 't hostium 
 
 Expertus quanti fuerit nunc desidero. 
 HEG. Alienus quom eius incommodum tam aegre feras, 
 
 Quid me patrem par facere 'st quoi ille 'st unicus ? 
 ERG. Alienus ego ? alienus illi ? ah, Hegio, 65 
 
 Numquam istuc dixis neque animum induxis tuom ; 
 
 Tibi ille unicus 't, mi etiam unico magis unicus. 
 HEG. Laudo malum quom amici tuom ducis malum. 
 
 Nunc habe bonum animum. 
 ERG. Eheu! 
 
 HEG. Huic illud dolet, 
 
 Quia nunc remissus est edundi exercitus. 70 
 
 ERG. {wishing to attract Hegio' s notice) It grieves mc much, that 
 this unhappy man 
 
 Should act so meanly as to trade in slaves, 
 
 On the account of his unhappy son ; 
 
 But if by this, or any means like this. 
 
 He can redeem him, let him deal in men's flesh, 
 
 I can endure it. 
 HEG. Who is it that speaks there ? 
 
 ERG. Tis I, Sir— I, that pine at your distress, 50 
 
 Grow thin with it, wax old, and waste away ; 
 
 Nay, I'm so lean withal, that I am nothing 
 
 But skin and bone — whate'er I eat at home 
 
 Does me no good ; but be it e'er so little 
 
 I taste abroad, that relishes, that cheers me. 
 HEG. Ergasilus ! Good day. 
 
 ERG. Heav'ns bless you, Hegio ! {weeps) 55 
 
 HEG. Nay, do not weep. 
 ERG. Must I not weep for him ? 
 
 For such a youth not weep ? 
 HEG. My son and you 
 
 I know were ever friends. 
 ERG. 'Tis then at length 
 
 Men come to know their good, when they have lost it ; — 60 
 
 I, since the foe has made your son a captive, 
 
 Find his true value, and now feel his want. 
 HEG. If you who stand in no relation to him, 
 
 So ill can bear his sufferings, what should I, 
 
 Who am his father, — he my darling child ? 
 ERG. I stand in no relation to him ?— he 
 
 In none to me ? Ah, Hegio, say not that,— 65 
 
 And do not think so — if he is to you 
 
 A darling child, to me he's more than darling. 
 HEG. I cannot but commend you, that you hold 
 
 Your friend's mishap your own. — Be comforted. 
 
 ERG. Ah me ! 
 
 HEG. {half aside) 'Tis this afflicts him, that the army, 
 
 Rais'd to make entertainments, is disbanded. 70 
 
PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. I. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 Nullumne interea nactu's, qui posset tibi 
 
 Remissum quern dixi imperare exercitum ? 
 ERG. Quid credis ? fugitant omnes hanc provinciam 
 HEG. Non pol mirandum 'st fugitare hanc provinciam. 
 
 Multis et multigeneribus opus est tibi 75 
 
 Militibus : primum dum opus est Pistorensibus, 
 
 Opus Paniceis est, opus Placentinis quoque, 
 
 Opus Turdetanis, opus est Ficedulensibus, 
 
 lam maritumi omnes milites opus sunt tibi. 
 ERG. Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent ! 80 
 
 Hie qualis imperator nunc privatus est. 
 HEG. Habe modo bonum animum. nam ilium confido domum 
 
 In his diebus me reconciliassere. 
 
 Nam eccum hie captivom adulescentem Aleum 
 
 Prognatum genere summo et summis divitiis ; 85 
 
 Hoc ilium me mutare confido pote. 
 ERG. Ita di deaeque faxint ! Sed num quo foras 
 
 Vocatu's hodie ad cenam ? 
 HEG. Nusquam, quod sciam. 
 
 Sed quid tu id quaeris ? 
 ERG. Quia mi 'st natalis dies ; 
 
 Propterea a te vocari ad te ad cenam volo. 90 
 
 HEG. Facete dictum ; sed si pauxillo potes 
 
 Contentus esse. 
 ERG. Ne perpauxillo modo ; 
 
 Nam istoc me adsiduo victu delecto domi. 
 
 Age sis, roga emptum, nisi qui meliorem adferet 
 
 Quae mi atque amicis placeat condicio magis. 95 
 
 Quasi fundum vendam, meis me addicam legibus. 
 HEG. Profundum vendis tu quidem, baud fundum mihi. 
 
 Sed si venturu's, temperi. 
 ERG. Em, vel iam otium 'st 
 
 HEG. I modo, venare leporem ; nunc ictim tenes. 
 
 Nam meus scruposam victus commetat viam. 100 
 
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 (To Ergasilus) Could you get no one all this while, again 
 
 To put you in commission ? 
 ERG. Would you think it ? 
 
 They all decline the office. 
 HEG. And no wonder 
 
 That they avoid it. You will stand in need 
 
 Of many soldiers, and of various kinds : — 
 
 Bakerians, Pastry-cookians, Poultererians, 
 
 Besides whole companies of Fishmongerians. 
 ERG. How greatest geniusses oft lie conceal'd ! 80 
 
 what a general, now a private soldier ! 
 
 HEG. Have a good heart— I trust, within these few days 
 My son will be at home again : for lo ! 
 Among my captives I've an Elian youth 
 Of noble family and ample state — 85 
 
 1 trust, I shall exchange him for my son. 
 
 ERG. Heav'ns grant it may be so ! But are you ask'd 
 
 Abroad to dinner ? 
 HEG. Nowhere, that I know of — 
 
 But why that question ? 
 ERG. As it is my birthday, 
 
 I'd like to— be asked here to dine with you. 90 
 
 HEG. 'Tis neatly put; if you can be content 
 
 With little. 
 ERG. Oh, Sir ! very, very little — 
 
 I love it — 'tis my constant fare at home. 
 
 {Loud) Come, make a bid for me j I'm going cheap, — 
 
 Unless I get a better offer made. 95 
 
 I'll knock the bargain down on my own terms, 
 
 For sale an eligible freehold farm ! 
 HEG. Nay, not a farm — a deep ravine or gorge. 
 
 But if you come, come early. 
 ERG. Nay, even now 
 
 I am at leisure. 
 HEG. Go and hunt a hare ; — 
 
 You've only caught a weasel, and that feeds 100 
 
 On stony fare. 
 
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 ACT. I. 
 
 ERG. Numquam istoc vinces me, Hegio ; ne postulcs. 
 
 Cum calceatis dentibus veniam tamen. 
 HEG. Asper meus victus sane *st. 
 £RQ, Sentisne essita« ? 
 
 HEG. Terrestris cena *st— 
 
 ERG. Sus terrestris bestia 'st. 
 
 HEG. Multis holeribus. 
 
 ERG. Curato aegrotos domi. 
 
 Numquid vis? 
 HEG. Venias temperi. 
 
 ERG. Memorem mones. 
 
 HEG. Ibo intro atque intus subducam ratiunculam, 
 
 Quantillum argenti mi apud trapezitam siet. 
 
 Ad fratrem, quo ire dixeram, mox ivero. 
 
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 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 II 
 
 ERG. Don't think to get the better 
 
 Of me by that; — I'll come with teeth well shod. 
 HEG. To say the truth, my viands are full rough. 
 ERG. You don't champ brambles? 
 
 HEG. No, but food of earth— 
 
 ERG. A sow grows fat by rooting up the earth. 
 HEG. Plenty of vegetables. 
 ERG. Why, that's food 
 
 For invalids {turning to go). Well, at your service. Sir. 105 
 
 HEG. You'll come in time. 
 ERG. You need not put in mind, 
 
 Whose memory never fails him. \^Exit Ergasilus, 
 
 HEG. (ruefully) I will in, 
 
 Count up the cost and see if there's enough 
 
 Still at my bankers to provide this feast. \Exit into house. 
 
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 ACT. II. 
 
 ACTUS II. 
 
 SCAENA I. 
 LORARII. CAPTIVI (PHILOCRATES. TYNDARUS). 
 LO. Si di immortales id voluere, vos banc aerumnam exsequi, no 
 Decet id pati animo aequo ; si id facietis, levior labos erit. 
 
 Domi fuistis, credo, liberi ; 
 Nunc servitus si evenit, ei vos morigerari mos bonus 't ; 
 Earn queit erili imperio, ingeniis vostris lenem reddere. 
 Indigna digna habenda sunt, erus quae facit. 
 Qj^ Oh Oh Oh! IIS 
 
 LO. Eiulatione baud opus est multa ; oculis multam iram editis. 
 
 In re mala animo si bono utare, adiuvat. 
 TYND. At nos pudet quia cum catenis sumus. 
 
 LO. 
 
 Nostrum erum, si vos eximat vinculis 
 
 Aut solutos sinat quos argento emerit. 
 TYND. Quid a nobis metuit ? Scimus nos 
 
 Nostrum officium quod est, si solutos sinat. 
 LO. At fugam fingitis ; sentio quam rem agitis. 
 TYND. Nos fugiamus? quo fugiamus? 
 LQ In patriam. 
 
 TYND. Apage, baud nos id dcceat 
 
 Fugitivo8 imitari. 
 
 At pigeat postea 
 
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 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 IIO 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Ertfer from HEGIO'S hoiise the FLOGGING-SLAVE with other 
 slaves leading on PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS, the 'cap- 
 tives: PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS have exchanged 
 clothes; so that PHILOCRATES is dressed as a slave, and 
 TYNDARUS as a gentleman. Some house-slaves appear at the 
 
 door of the house, 
 SLAVE. If the immortal Gods have so decreed, 
 That this affliction you should undergo, 
 
 It is your duty patiently to bear it ; 
 
 Which if you do, the trouble will be lighter. 
 
 When at your home, you I presume were free : 
 
 But since captivity is now your lot. 
 
 Submission would become you, and to make 
 
 Your master's rule a mild and gentle one 
 
 By your good dispositions.— Should a master 
 
 Commit unworthy actions, yet his slaves 
 
 Must think them worthy ones. 
 PHIL, and TYND. Alas! Alas! 
 
 SLAVE. Why these sad cries ; your looks show indignation. 
 
 Our best support and succour in distress 
 
 Is fortitude of mind. 
 TYND. But oh ! it shames us, 
 
 That we are thus in chains. 
 SLAVE. Yet might it grieve 
 
 Our master more, were he to loose your chains. 
 
 And let you be at large, when he has bought you. 120 
 
 TYND. What can he fear from us ?— We know our duty, 
 
 Were we at large. 
 SLAVE. You meditate escape : 
 
 I know what you'd be at — 
 TYND. ^^ ^^" away ! 
 
 Ah ! whither should we run ? 
 SLAVE. '^^ y^"^ ^^" country. 
 
 TYND. Prithee no more : it would ill become us 
 
 To imitate the part of fugitives. 
 
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 LO. 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 Immo edepol, si erit occasio, baud dehortor. 125 
 TYND. Unum exorare vos sinite nos. 
 LO. Quidnam id est ? 
 
 TYND. Ut sine hisce arbitris atque vobis nobis 
 
 Detis locum loquendi. 
 LO. Fiat. Abscedite hinc ; nos concedamus hue. 
 
 Sed brevem orationem incipisse. 130 
 
 TYND. Em, istuc mihi certum erat ; concede hue. 
 LO. Abite ab istis. 
 TYND. Obnoxii ambo 
 
 Vobis sumus propter banc rem quom, quae volumus nos, 
 
 Copiae istae adfatim facitis nos compotes. 
 PHIL. Secede hue nunciam, si videtur, procul, 135 
 
 Ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari queant, 
 
 Neu permanet palam haec nostra fallacia. 
 
 Nam doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas, 
 
 Sed malum maxumum, si id palam provenit. 
 
 Nam si erus mi es tu atque ego me tuom esse servom adsimulo 140 
 
 Tamen viso opus 't, cauto 'st opus, ut hoc sobrie sineque arbitris 
 
 Adcurate agatur, docte et diligenter. 
 
 Tanta incepta res est : baud somniculose hoc 
 
 Agundum 'st. 
 TYND. Ero ut me voles esse. 
 
 PHIL. Spero. 
 
 TYND. Nam tu nunc vides pro tuo caro capite 145 
 
 Carum ofTerre me meum caput vilitati. 
 PHIL. Scio. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 15 
 
 SLAVE. Yet, by my troth ! were there an opportunity, 
 
 I would not be the man that should dissuade you. 1 2 5 
 
 TYND. Permit us then to ask one favour of you. 
 SLAVE. What is it ? 
 
 TYND. That you'd give us opportunity 
 
 To talk together, that nor you yourselves, 
 Nor any of these others over-hear us {pointing to house-slaves), 
 SLAVE. Agreed, {to the house-slaves) Move further off— (/^ the 
 
 other ^flogging-slaves ') We'll too retire. 
 But let your talk be short. U® 
 
 TYND. 'Twas my intention 
 
 It should be so. {to Philocrates) Now come with me apart. 
 SLAVE. Go farther from them. 
 TYND. Wc on this account 
 
 Are both your debtors, since you freely grant 
 Our wish. {The ^flogging-slaves" withdraw to back of stage, 
 
 PHIL, {to Tyndarus, leading him to the other side of the stage). 
 
 Now, please, withdraw with me, here, well i35 
 
 Aside, that these may not be witnesses 
 Of what we have to say, and that our plot 
 Be not discoverU For, not planned with art, 
 Deceit is no deceit, but if discovered, 
 It brings the greatest ill to the contrivers. 
 If you, my Tyndarus, are to pass for me. 
 
 And I for you— my master you, and I 140 
 
 Your servant, — we have need of foresight, caution. 
 Wisdom and secrecy — and we must act 
 With prudence, care and diligence. It is 
 A business of great moment, and we must not 
 Sleep, or be idle in the execution. 
 TYND. I'll be what you would have me. 
 PHIL. So I trust. 
 
 TYND. Now for your precious life you see me stake 145 
 
 My own, that's no less dear to me. 
 PHIL. I l^now it. 
 
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 ACT. II. 
 
 TYND. At memento scire, quando id quod voles habebis. 
 
 Nam fere morem hunc homines habent : quod sibi 
 
 Volunt, dum id impetrant, 
 Sunt boni ; sed id ubi iam penes sese habent, 150 
 
 Ex bonis pessumi et fraudulentissumi 
 Fiunt. Nunc ut mihi te volo esse autumo. 
 Quod tibi suadeo, suadeam meo patri. 
 
 PHIL. Pol ego, si te audeam, meum patrem nominem ; 
 
 Nam secundum patrem tu es pater proxumus. 155 
 
 TYND. Audio. 
 
 PHIL. Et propterea saepius ted ut memineris moneo : 
 
 Non ego erus tibi sed servos sum. Nunc obsecro te hoc unum : 
 Quoniam nobis di immortales animum ostenderunt suom, 
 Utqui erum me tibi fuisse atque esse conservom velint, 
 Quom antehac pro iure imperitabam meo, nunc te oro per 
 precem: i5o 
 
 Per fortunam incertam et per mei te erga bonitatem patris, 
 Perque conservitium commune quod hostica evenit manu, 
 Ne me secus honore honestes quam quom servibas mihi, 
 Atque ut, qui fueris et qui nunc sis, meminisse ut memineris. 
 
 TYND. Scio equidem me te esse nunc et te esse me. 
 
 PHIL. Em, istuc si potes 165 
 
 Memoriter meminisse, inest spes nobis in hac astutia. 
 
 SCAENA II. 
 
 HEGIO. PHILOCRATES. TYNDARUS. 
 HEG. Iam ego revortar intro, si ex his quae volo exquisivero. 
 Ubi sunt isti quos ante aedis iussi hue produci foras ? 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 17 
 
 TYND. But when you shall have gained the point you aim at, 
 
 Forget not then ! — It is too oft the way 
 
 With most men ; — when they're suing for a favour. 
 
 While their obtaining it is yet in doubt, 
 
 They are most courteous ; but when once theyVe got it 150 
 
 They change their manners, and from just, become 
 
 Dishonest and deceitful. — I now say 
 
 How I would have you treat me ; what I urge 
 
 On you, I'd urge on my own father too. 
 PHIL. Yes, if I durst, I'd indeed call you father; 
 
 For next my father you are nearest to me. 155 
 
 TYND. I understand. 
 PHIL. Then what I oft have urgM, 
 
 Remember — I no longer am your master. 
 
 But now your servant. This I beg then of you — 
 
 Since the immortal Gods will have it so. 
 
 That I, from being once your master, now 
 
 Should be your fellow slave, I do intreat 
 
 By prayer a favour which I could command 160 
 
 Once as my right. — By our uncertain state. 
 
 By all my father's kindness shewn unto you. 
 
 By our joint fellowship in slavery, 
 
 Th' event of war, bear me the same regard 
 
 As once I bore you, when I was your master 
 
 And you my slave ; forget not to remember, 
 What once you have been, and who now you are. 
 TYND. I know — I now am You, and you are I. 165 
 
 PHIL. Forget not — and there's hope our scheme will prosper. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Enter HEGIO from his houses speaking to slave within. 
 HEG. When I'm informed of what I want to know, 
 
 I shall come in again. {Looking round, and addressing the 
 
 ^flogging-slave ') 
 Where are those captives 
 I order'd to be brought before the house ? 
 
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 ACT. II. 
 
 PHIL. Edepol tibi ne in quaestione essemus cautum intellego ; 
 
 Ita vinclis custodiisque circummoeniti sumus. 170 
 
 HEG. Qui cavet ne decipiatur, vix cavet quom etiam cavet ; 
 
 Etiam quom cavisse ratus est, saepe is cautor captus est. 
 
 An vero non iusta causa 'st, ut vos servem sedulo, 
 
 Quos tarn grandi sim mercatus praesenti pecunia ? 
 PHIL. Neque pol tibi nos, quia nos servas, aequom 'st vitio 
 
 vortere 
 
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 Neque te nobis, si abeamus hinc, si fuat occasio. 
 HEG. Ut vos hie, itidem illic apud vos meus servatur filius. 
 
 PHIL. Captus est? 
 HEG. 
 
 Ita. 
 
 PHIL. 
 
 Non igitur nos soli ignavi fuimus. 
 
 HEG. Secede hue ; nam sunt, quae ex te solo scitari volo, 
 
 Quarum rerum te falsilocum mihi esse nolo. 
 PHIL. 
 
 Non ero, 
 
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 Quod sciam ; si quid nescibo, id nescium tradam tibi. 
 TYND. Nunc senex est in tostrina; nunc iam cultros adtinet. 
 
 Ne id quidem involucri inicere voluit, vestem ut ne inquinet. 
 
 Sed utrum strictimne adtonsurum dicam esse an per pectinem, 
 
 Nescio; verum si frugi 'st, usque admutilabit probe. 185 
 
 HEG. Quid tu ? servosne esse an liber mavelis, memora mihi. 
 
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 CAPTIVI. 
 
 19 
 
 PHIL, {advancing) Chain'd as we are, and wall'd in by our 
 keepers, 
 
 You have provided that we shall not fail 
 
 To answer to your call. 170 
 
 HEG. The greatest care 
 
 Is scarce enough to guard against deceit ; 
 
 And the most cautious, even when he thinks 
 
 He's most upon his guard, is often trick 'd. 
 
 But have I not just cause to watch you well. 
 
 Whom I have purchas'd with so large a sum ? 
 PHIL. 'Twould not be right in us to blame you for it ; 
 
 Nor, should occasion offer to escape, 
 
 Would it be right in you to censure us, 175 
 
 If we made use of it. 
 HEG. As you are here, 
 
 So in your country is my son confined. 
 PHIL. What ! is your son a captive ? 
 HEG. Yes, he is. 
 
 PHIL. We were not, then, it seems, the only cowards. 
 HEG. (taking Philocrates aside) Come nearer this way — something 
 I would know 
 
 In private of you, — and in which affair 
 
 You must adhere to truth. 
 PHIL. In what I know 180 
 
 I'll do it, Sir ; and should you ask me ought 
 
 I do not know, I'll own my ignorance. 
 TYND. {patching them — aside) Now is the old man in the 
 barber's shop, 
 
 Philocrates holds in his hand the razor, 
 
 Nor has he put a cloth on, to prevent 
 
 Fouling his clothes ; but whether he's about 
 
 To shave him close, or trim him through a comb, 
 
 I know not : if he rightly play his part, 
 
 He'll take off skin and all. 185 
 
 HEG. Which would you choose ? 
 
 To be a slave, or have your freedom ? tell me, 
 
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 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 PHIL. Proxumum quod sit bono, quodque a malo longissume, 
 Id volo ; quamquam non multum fuit molesta servitus 
 Nee mihi secus erat quam si essem familiaris filius. 
 
 TYND. Eugepae ! Thalem talento non emam Milesium ; 190 
 
 Nam ad sapientiam huius nimiam nimius nugator fuit. 
 Ut facete orationem ad servitutem contulit ! 
 
 HEG. Quo de genere gnatus 't illic Philocrates? 
 
 PHIL. Polyplusio, 
 
 Quod genus illi 'st unum pollens atque honoratissumum. 
 
 HEG. Quid ipsus hie? quo honore 'st illie? 
 
 PHIL. Summo atque ab summis viris. 195 
 
 HEG. Quid divitiae ? suntne opimae ? 
 
 PHIL. Unde exeoquat sebum senex. 
 
 HEG. Quid pater ? vivitne ? 
 
 PHIL. Vivom quom inde abimus liquimus ; 
 
 Nunc vivatne neene, id Oreum scire oportet scilicet. 
 
 TYND. Salva res est ; philosophatur quoque iam, non mendax 
 
 modo 'st. 
 
 HEG. Quid erat ei nomen ? 
 
 PHIL. Thesaurochrysonicochrysides. 200 
 
 HEG. Videlicet propter divitias inditum id nomen quasi *st ? 
 
 PHIL. Immo edepol propter avaritiam ipsius atque audaciam. 
 Nam ille quidem Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine. 
 
 HEG. Quid tu ais ? tenaxne pater est eius ? 
 
 PHIL. Immo edepol pertinax. 
 
 Quin etiam ut magis noscas, genio suo ubi quando sacruficat, 205 
 Ad rem divinam quibus opus est Samiis vasis utitur — 
 Ne ipse Genius surripiat ; proinde aliis ut credat vide. 
 
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 PHIL. That I prefer, which nearest is to good, 
 
 And farthest off from evil— though, I own. 
 
 My servitude was little grievous to me ; — 
 
 They treated me the same as their own child. 
 TYND. (aside) Well said ! I would not give a talent now 
 
 To purchase even Thales the Milesian ; 
 
 Match'd with this man a very fool in wisdom — 
 
 How cleverly does he adapt his phrase 
 
 To suit a slave's condition. 
 HEG. Of what family 
 
 Is this Philocrates ? 
 PHIL. The Polyplusian : — 
 
 A potent house and of the highest rank. 
 HEG. How ranked he in his country then himself? 
 PHIL. The noblest ranked him one among themselves. 
 HEG. What is his substance ? 
 PHIL. So rick, the old man 
 
 Melts tallow from it ! 
 HEG. His father's living then ? 
 
 PHIL. We left him so, when we departed thence ? 
 
 But whether he is now alive or no, 
 
 You must ask further of the nether regions. 
 TYND. (aside) So — all is right— he's not content with lying, 
 
 But plays philosopher. 
 HEG. What is his name? 
 
 PHIL. Thesaurochrysonicochrysides. 
 HEG. A name bestowed upon him for his wealth ! 
 PHIL. Nay, rather for his avarice and extortion ; 
 
 His real name was Theodoromedes. 
 HEG. How say you ? Is his father covetous ? 
 PHIL. Much so. — To let you more into his character, 
 
 In sacrificing to his household Genius 
 
 He uses nothing but vile Samian vessels. 
 
 For fear the Gods should steal them : — mark by this 
 
 What trust he puts in others. 
 
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 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 HEG. Sequere hac me igitur. eadera ego ex hoc quae volo 
 exquaesivero. — 
 
 Philocrates, hie fecit, hominem frugi ut facere oportuit. 
 
 Nam ego ex hoc, quo genere gnatus sis, scio ; hie fassus *t 
 mihi. 2 ID 
 
 Haec tu eadem si confiteri vis, tua ex re feceris, 
 
 Quae tamen scis scire me ex hoc. 
 TYND. Fecit officium hie suom, 
 
 Quom tibi *st confessus verum, quamquam volui sedulo 
 
 Meam nobilitatem occultare et genus et divitias meas. 
 
 Hegio, hoc te monitum, nisi forte ipse non vis, voluerim. 215 
 
 HEG. Loquere audacter. 
 
 TYND. Tam ego fui ante liber quam gnatus tuos ; 
 
 Tam mihi quam illi libertatem hostilis eripuit manus ; 
 
 Tam ille apud nos servit quam ego nunc hie apud te servio. 
 
 Est profecto deus qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt ; 
 
 Is, uti tu me hie habueris, proinde ilium illic curaverit : 220 
 
 Bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti par erit 
 
 Quam tu filium tuom tam pater me meus desiderat. 
 
 HEG. Memini ego istuc : sed faterin' eadem quae hie fassus 't 
 mihi? 
 
 TYND. Ego patri meo esse fateor summas divitias domi 
 
 Meque summo genere gnatum; sed te obtestor, Hegio, 225 
 
 Ne tuom animum avariorem faxint divitiae meae, 
 
 Ne patri tam etsi unicus sum decere videatur magis 
 
 Me saturum servire apud te sumptu et vestitu tuo 
 
 Potius quam illi, ubi minume honestum 'st, mendicantem vivere. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 HEG. Come you this way, — 
 
 {Aside) What further information I require 
 
 ril learn from him. 
 
 {Crossing to lyndarus and addressing him as Philocrates^ 
 
 Philocrates, your servant 
 
 Has acted as behoves an honest fellow. 
 
 I've learn'd of him your family, — he has own'd it : — 
 
 Do you the same ; 'twill turn to your advantage, — 
 
 If you confess what, be assur'd, I know 
 
 From him already. 
 TYND. Sir, he did his duty, 
 
 When he confess'd the truth to you, although 
 
 I would have fain conceal'd from you my rank, 
 
 My family, and my means. But with your leave, 
 
 There's something, Hegio, I'd remind you of. 
 HEG. Speak on, and boldly. 
 TYND. I ere this was free 
 
 As your own son. Him has the power of war 
 
 Depriv'd of liberty, as it has me. 
 
 He in my country is a slave, — as now 
 
 I am a slave in this. There is indeed 
 
 A God, that hears and sees whate'er we do. 
 
 As you respect me, so will He respect 
 
 Your lost son. To the well-deserving, good 
 
 Will happen, to the ill-deserving, ill. 
 
 Think, that my father feels the want of me, 
 
 And with a pang as sharp as you feel now. 
 HEG. I know it. Say, will you subscribe the account 
 
 Your servant gave ? 
 TYND. My father's rich, I own, 
 
 My family is noble, but, I pray you, 225 
 
 Let not the thought of these my riches bend 
 
 Your mind to sordid avarice, lest my father, 
 
 Though I'm his only child, should deem it fitter 
 
 I were your slave, cloth'd, pamper'd at your cost. 
 
 Than beg my bread in my own country, where 
 
 It were a foul disgrace. 
 
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 ACT. II. 
 
 HEG. Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini exis- 
 tumo ; 230 
 
 Scio ego, multos iam lucrum lutulentos homines reddidit. 
 
 Est etiam ubi profecto damnum praestet facere quam lucrum. 
 
 Odi ego aurum ; multa multis saepe suasit perperam. 
 
 Nunc hoc animum advorte, ut ea quae sentio pariter scias. 
 
 Filius meus illic apud vos servit captus Alide ; 235 
 
 Eum si reddis mihi, praeterea unum nummum ne duis, 
 
 Et te et hunc amittam hinc ; alio pacto abire non potes. 
 TYND. Optumum atque aequissumum oras optumusque homi- 
 num es homo. 
 
 Sed is privatam servitutem servit illi an publicam ? 
 HEG. Privatam medici Menarchi. 
 PHIL. Pol is quidem huius est cluens ; 240 
 
 Tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi quam imber est quando pluit. 
 HEG. Fac is homo ut redimatur. 
 
 TYND. Faciam, sed ted oro, Hegio — 
 
 HEG. Quid vis? dum ab re ne quid ores, faciam. 
 TYND. Ausculta, tum scies. 
 
 Ego me amitti, donicum ille hue redierit, non postulo ; 
 
 Vcrum, te quaeso, aestumatum hunc mihi des, quern mittam 
 ad patrcm, 245 
 
 Ut is homo redimatur illi. 
 HEG. Immo alium potius misero 
 
 Hinc, ubi erunt indutiae, illuc, tuom qui conveniat patrem, 
 
 Qui tua quae tu iusseris mandata ita ut velis perferat. 
 TYND. At nihil est ignotum ad ilium mittere j operam luseris. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 HEG. I do not hold 
 
 That every kind of gain is good for man ; 
 For many men by gain, I know full well, 
 Have been befoul'd in mire ; and there are times 
 When loss should be preferr'd to gain. I hate it, 
 'Tis my aversion : money ! many a man 
 Has it enticed oft-times to wrong. But now 
 Attend to me, that you may know my mind. 
 My son's a captive and a slave in Elis : 
 If you restore him to me, I require 
 No other recompense — I'll send you back, 
 You and your servant ; on no other terms 
 Can you go hence. 
 
 TYND. You ask what's right and just. 
 
 Thou best of men ! But is your son a servant 
 Or of the pubHc, or some private person ? 
 
 HEG. A private — of Menarchus a physician. 
 
 PHIL. O 'tis his father's client; and success 
 Pours down upon you, like an hasty shower. 
 
 HEG. Find means then to redeem my son. 
 
 TYND. I will- 
 
 But I must ask you — 
 
 HEG. Ask me what you please, 
 
 I'll do't, — if to that purpose. 
 
 TYND. Hear, and judge. 
 
 I do not ask you, till your son's return, 
 To give me back my freedom ; but I pray you, 
 Give me my slave, a price set on his head. 
 That I may send him forthwith to my father, 
 To work your son's redemption. 
 
 HEG. I'd dispatch 
 
 Some other rather, when there is a truce. 
 Your father to confer with, who may bear 
 Any commands you shall entrust him with. 
 
 TYND. 'Twould be in vain to send a stranger to him : 
 You'd lose your labour: send my servant — he'll 
 
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 26 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 4 
 
 Hunc mitte, hie rem omnem tran$actam reddet, si illuc ve- 
 
 nerit 
 
 250 
 
 Neque queniquam fideliorem neque quoi plus credat potes 
 
 Mittere ad eum neque qui magis sit servos ex sententia, 
 
 Neque adeo quoi tuom concredas filium hodie audacius. 
 
 Ne vereare ; meo periculo huius ego experiar fidern 
 
 Fretus ingenio eius, quod me esse scit erga se benevolum. 255 
 HEG. Mittam equidem istunc aestumatum tua fide si vis. 
 TYND. Volo. 
 
 Quam citissume potest, tam hoc cedcre ad factum volo. 
 HEG. Num quae causa 'st quin, si ille hue non redeat, viginti 
 minas 
 
 Mihi des pro illo ? 
 TYND. Optuina immo. 
 
 HEG. Solvite istum nunciam, 
 
 Atque utrumque. 
 TYND. Di tibi omnes omnia optata offerant, 260 
 
 Quom me tanto honore honestas quomque ex vinclis eximis. 
 
 Hoc quidem baud molestum 'st, lam quod collus collari caret. 
 HEG. Quod bonis benefit beneficium gratia ea gravida 'st bonis. 
 
 Nunc tu ilium si illo's missurus, dice monstra praecipe, 
 
 Quae ad patrem vis nuntiari. vin' vocem hue ad te. 
 TYND. Voca. 265 
 
 HEG. Quae res bene vortat mihi meoque filio 
 
 Vobisque, volt te novos erus operam dare 
 
 Tuo veteri domino, quod is velit, fideliter. 
 
 Nam ego te aestumatum huie dedi viginti minis ; 
 
 Hie autem te ait mittere hinc velle ad patrem, 270 
 
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 250 
 
 Complete the whole, as soon as he arrives. 
 
 A man more faithftil you can never send. 
 
 Nor one my father sooner would rely on, 
 
 More to his mind, nor to whose care and confidence 
 
 He'd sooner trust your son. Then never fear : 
 
 At my own peril will I prove his faith. 
 
 Relying on his nature, since he knows 
 
 I've borne me with benevolence towards him. 255 
 
 HEG. Well, I'll dispatch him, if you will, — your word 
 
 Pawn'd for his valuation. 
 TYND. Pray then do. 
 
 And let him be dismiss'd without delay. 
 HEG. Can you shew reason, if he don't return. 
 
 Why you should not pay twenty Minae for him ? 
 TYND. No surely ; I agree. 
 HEG. (/^ f/ie slaves) Take off his chains, — 
 
 And take them off from both. {The slaves take off the chains.) 
 
 TYND. May all the Gods 260 
 
 Grant all your wishes ! since that you have deign'd 
 
 To treat me with such favour, and releas'd me 
 
 From my vile bonds : — I scarce can think it irksome 
 
 To have my neck free from this galling collar. 
 HEG. The favours we confer on honest souls 
 
 Teem with returns of service to the giver ; 
 
 But now, if you'd dispatch him hence, acquaint him, 
 
 Give him your orders, and forthwith instruct him 
 
 What you would have him say unto your father. 
 
 Shall I then call him to you ? 
 TYND. Do, Sir, call him. 265 
 
 HEG. {crossing to Phil) Heav'ns grant that this affair may turn 
 out happily 
 
 To me, and to my son, and to you both ! 
 
 Tis your new master's order, that you serve 
 
 Your old one faithfully : I have giv'n you to him 
 
 Rated at twenty Minae ; he desires 
 
 To send you back to Elis to his father, 270 
 
28 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 I 
 
 Meum ut illic redimat filium, mutatio 
 
 Inter me atque ilium ut nostris fiat filiis. 
 PHIL. Utroque vorsum rectum 'st ingenium meum, 
 
 Ad te atque ad ilium ; pro rota me uti licet. 
 
 Vel ego hue vel illuc vortar quo imperabitis. 275 
 
 HEG. Tute tibi tuopte ingenio prodes plurumum, 
 
 Quom scrvitutem ita fers, ut ferri decet. 
 
 Sequerc. em tibi hominem. 
 TYND. Gratiam habeo tibi, 
 
 Nunc ita convenit inter me atque hunc, Tyndare, 
 
 Ut te aestumatum in Alidem mittam ad patrem ; 280 
 
 Si non rebitas hue, ut viginti minas 
 
 Dem pro te. 
 PHIL. Recte convenisse sentio ; 
 
 Nam pater exspectat aut me aut aliquem nuntium. 
 
 Qui hinc ad se veniat. 
 TYND. Ergo animum advortas volo, 
 
 Quae nuntiare hinc te volo in patriam ad patrem. 285 
 
 PHIL. Philocrates, ut adhuc locorum feci, faciam sedulo 
 
 Ut potissumum, quod in rem recte conducat tuam, 
 
 Id petam idque persequar corde et animo atque viribus. 
 TYND. Facis ita ut te facere oportet ; nunc animum advortas volo. 
 
 Omnium primum salutem dicito matri et patri 290 
 
 Et cognatis et si quem alium benevolentem videris ; 
 
 Me hie valere et servitutem servire huic homini optumo, 
 
 Qui me Honore honestiorem semper fecit et facit. 
 PHIL. Istuc ne praecipias ; facile memoria meraini tamen. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 29 
 
 280 
 
 Thence to redeem my child, that so there may be 
 
 Mutual exchange betwixt us of our sons. 
 PHIL. I'm of a pliant nature, and will bend 
 
 To either. You may use me like a wheel ; — 
 
 This way or that way will I turn and twirl, 
 
 As you shall please to order. 275 
 
 HEG. It is much 
 
 To your advantage truly, that you own 
 
 This easy nature, which enables you 
 
 To bear your state of slavery as you ought. 
 
 Follow me this way. (to Tynd.) Here now is the man. 
 TYND. I thank you. Sir. {to Phil.) Now, Tyndarus, we two 
 
 Have just agreed betwixt us, he and I, 
 
 To send you unto Elis to my father ; 
 
 And, if that you return not, I have bargained 
 
 To forfeit for your trespass twenty Minae. 
 PHIL. Rightly agreed :— for the old gentleman 
 
 Expects me, or some other messenger, 
 
 To come to him from hence. 
 TYND. Then mind me now, 
 
 What I would have you say unto my father. 285 
 
 PHIL. O master, as Fve hitherto behav'd. 
 
 My best endeavours I'll exert ; what most 
 
 Will turn to your advantage I'll pursue 
 
 With all my heart, my soul, with all my power. 
 TYND. You act as it behoves you. Now attend. 
 
 First, to my dearest mother and my father 290 
 
 Bear my respects, and next to my relations ; 
 
 Then to whatever other friend you see. 
 
 Inform them of my health ; and tell them likewise. 
 
 That I am slave here to this best of men, 
 
 Who ever has shown honour to me, more 
 
 Than ev'n to Honour's self. 
 PHIL. Don't instruct me; 
 
 This I shall think of readily. 
 
30 
 
 SCEN£ II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 3' 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. II. 
 
 TYND. Nam equidem nisi quod custodem habeo liberum me 
 
 295 
 
 esse arbitror. 
 Dicito patri quo pacto mihi cum hoc convenerit 
 De huius filio — 
 
 PHIL. Quae memini mora mera 'st monerier. 
 
 TYND. Ut eum redimat et remittat nostrum hue amborum vicem — 
 
 PHIL. Meminero. 
 
 HEG. At quam primum pote ; istuc in rem utrique 'st maxume. 
 
 PHIL. Non tuom tu magis videre quam ille suom gnatum 
 cupit. 300 
 
 HEG. Meus mihi, suos quoique 'st carus. 
 
 PHIL. Nuni quid aliud vis patri 
 
 Nuntiari ? 
 
 TYND. Me hie valere et — tute audacter dicito, 
 
 Tyndare — inter nos fuisse ingenio baud discordabili, 
 Neque te commeruisse culpam neque te advorsatum mihi 
 Beneque ero gessisse morem in tantis aerumnis tamen, 305 
 
 Neque med umquam deseruisse te neque factis neque fide 
 Rebus in dubiis, egenis. haec pater quando sciet, 
 Tyndare, ut fueris animatus erga suom gnatum atque se, 
 Numquam erit tam avarus, quin te gratus emittat manu ; 
 Et mea opera, si hinc rebito, faciam ut faciat facilius. 310 
 
 Nam tua opera^ et comitate et virtute et sapientia 
 Fccisti ut redire liceat ad parentis dcnuo. 
 
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 TYND. For indeed, 
 
 Save that I have a guard plac'd over me, 
 
 I should conceive I had my liberty. 
 
 Acquaint my father with th' agreement made 
 Twixt me and Hegio, touching Hegio's son. 
 PHIL. This is mere hindrance, to recount and dwell on 
 
 What I already am so well appriz*d of. 
 TYND. Tis to redeem the youth, and send him hither 
 
 Exchang'd for you and me — 
 PHIL. I shall remember — 
 
 HEG. And soon too as he can, for both our sakes. 
 PHIL. You long not more to see your son return'd 
 
 Than he does his. 
 HEG. My son to me is dear ; 
 
 Dear is his own to every one. 
 PHIL, (to Tynd.) Ought else 
 
 To bear unto your father ? 
 TYND. Say, Fm well ; 
 
 And tell him, boldly tell him, that our souls 
 
 Were link'd in perfect harmony together ; 
 
 That nothing you have ever done amiss. 
 
 Nor have I ever been your enemy ; 
 
 That in our sore affliction you maintained 
 
 Your duty to your master, nor once swerv'd 
 
 From your fideUty, in no one deed 
 
 Deserted me in time of my distress. 
 
 When that my father is inform'd of this. 
 
 And learns how well your heart has been inclined 
 
 Both to his son and to himself, he*ll never 
 
 Prove such a niggard, but in gratitude 
 
 He will reward you with your liberty ; 
 
 And I, if I return, with all my power 
 
 Will urge him the more readily to do it. 
 
 For by your aid, your courtesy, your courage. 
 
 Wisdom and prudence, you have been the means 
 
 How I may be restored to home and parents. 
 
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 300 
 
 305 
 
 310 
 
$2 PLAUTI ACT. II. 
 
 PHIL. Feci ego ista ut commemoras et te meminisse id gratum 
 'st mihi. 
 Sed raerito tibi ea evenerunt a me ; nam nunc, Philocrates, 
 Si ego item memorem quae me erga multa fecisti bene, 315 
 
 Nox diem adimat ; nam si servos mi esses, nihilo setius 
 Mi obsequiosus semper, ere, fuisti. 
 HEG. Di vostram fidem, 
 
 Hominum ingenium liberale ! ut lacrumas excutiunt mihi ! 
 Videas corde amare inter se ; quibus et quantis laudibus 
 Suom erum servos conlaudavit. 
 TYND. Pol istic me baud centensumam 320 
 
 Partem laudat quam ipse meritus *t ut laudetur laudibus. 
 HEG. Ergo quom optume fecisti, nunc adest occasio 
 Benefacta cumulare, ut erga hunc rem geras fideliter. 
 PHIL. Magis non factum possum velle quam opera experiar 
 persequi. 
 Id ut scias, lovem supremum testem laudo, Hegio, 325 
 
 Me infidelem non futurum Philocrati — 
 
 ^^^* Probus es homo. 
 
 PHIL. Nee me secus umquam ei facturum quicquam quam 
 memet mihi. 
 
 TYND. Istaec dicta te expedire et operis et factis volo ; 
 Ne tu me ignores, quom extemplo meo e conspectu abscesseris, 
 Quom me servom in servitute pro te hie reliqueris, 330 
 
 Haec per dexteram tuam te dextera retinens manu 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 33 
 
 mm^ 
 
 I 
 
 PHIL. True, I have acted as you say, and much 
 It pleases me you bear it in remembrance. 
 What I have done was due to your desert : 
 For were I in my count to tell the sum 
 Of all your friendly offices towards me, 
 Night would bear off the day, ere I had done. 
 You were obliging, as attentive to me, 
 As though you were my servant. 
 
 HE(;. O ye Gods ! 
 
 Behold the honest nature of these men ! 
 They draw tears from me. Mark how cordially 
 They love each other ! and what praise the servant 
 Heaps on his master ! 
 
 TYND. He deserves from me 
 
 An hundred times more praise than he was pleased 
 To lavish on me. 
 
 HEG. {to Phil) Then, since hitherto 
 YouVe acted worthily, occasion now 
 Presents itself to add to your good deeds. 
 That you may prove your faithfulness towards him 
 In this affair. 
 
 PHIL. My wish to compass it 
 
 Cannot exceed th' endeavours I will use 
 To get it perfected. And to convince you. 
 Here do I call high Jove to witness, Hegio, 
 I will not prove unfaithful to Philocrates. 
 
 HEG. Thou art an honest fellow. 
 
 PHIL, Nor will I 
 
 Act otherwise to him, than I myself 
 Would act to me. 
 
 TYND, Would you might make your words 
 
 True by your actions ! 
 
 When once out of sight, 
 As shortly you will be, deny not then 
 All knowledge of me : when you shall have left me 
 Here as a pawn in slavery for you. 
 
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 320 
 
 325 
 
 330 
 
34 PLAUTI ACT. II. 
 
 Obsecro, infidelior mi ne fuas quam ego sum tibi. 
 
 Hoc age tu ; tu mihi erus nunc es, tu patronus, tu pater ; 
 
 Tibi commendo spes opesque meas. 
 PHIL. Mandavisti satis. 
 
 Satin* habes, mandata quae sunt, facta si refero ? 
 TYND. Satis. 335 
 
 PHIL. Et tua et tua hue ornatus reveniam ex sententia. 
 
 Numquid aliud ? 
 TYND. Ut quam primum possis redeas. 
 
 PHIL. Res monet. 
 
 HEG. Sequere me, viaticum ut dem a trapezita tibi ; 
 
 Eadem opera a praetore sumam syngraphum. 
 TYND. Quem syngraphum? 
 
 HEG. Quem hie ferat secum ad legionem, hinc ire huic ut liceat 
 domum. 340 
 
 Tu intro abi. 
 TYND. Bene ambulato. 
 
 PHIL. Bene vale. 
 
 HEG. Edepol rem meam 
 
 Constabilivi quom illos emi de praeda a quaestoribus : 
 
 Expedivi ex servitute filium, si dis placet 
 
 At etiam dubitavi hosce homines emerem an non emerem diu ! 
 
 Servate istum sultis intus, servi, ne quoquam pedem 345 
 
 Efferat sine custodela ; iam ego adparebo domi. 
 
 Ad fratrem modo captivos alios inviso meos ; 
 
 Eadem percontabor ecquis hunc adulescentem noverit. 
 
 Sequere tu, te ut amittam ^ ei rei primum praevorti volo. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 35 
 
 By your right hand, which here I hold in mine, 
 
 I pray you, be not you less true to me 
 
 Than I am unto you. About it then ; 
 
 Be careful of this business — you are now 
 
 My master, you my patron, you my father : 
 
 To you I trust my hopes, my all. 
 PHIL. Enough. 
 
 If I accomplish all that you command, 
 
 Will that content you ? 
 TYND. I shall be content. 335 
 
 PHIL. I will return furnish'd to both your wishes — 
 
 {to Tynd.) Would you ought else? 
 TYND. Back with what speed you may. 
 
 PHIL. Of that the business of itself reminds me. 
 HEG. (to Phil.) Follow me now — I'll give you from my banker 
 
 What you may want to answer your expenses 
 
 Upon your voyage, and at the same time take 
 
 A passport from the Praetor. 
 TYND. Why a passport ? 
 
 HEG. Which he may carry with him to the army, 
 
 That he may have permission without let 340 
 
 To return home to Elis. (to Phil.) Go you in. 
 TYND. Now speed you well, my Tyndarus ! 
 PHIL. Adieu ! 
 
 \Exit Tynd, into house, 
 HEG. (aside) IVe compassed my design by purchasing 
 
 These captives of the Quaestors from the spoil ; — 
 
 So please the Gods ! I've free'd my son from bondage. 
 
 (calling to the slaves) Within, ho ! Keep a strict watch o'er this 
 captive : 345 
 
 Let him not budge a foot without a guard — 
 
 I soon shall be at home. Now to my brother's ; 
 
 I'll go and visit there my other captives, 
 
 At the same time enquire, if any know 
 
 This youth here, (to Phil.) Do you follow, that I may 
 
 Dispatch you straight ;— for that's my first concern, 
 
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36 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 ACTUS III. 
 
 SCAENA I. 
 
 ERGASILUS. 
 ERG. Miser homo *st, qui ipsus sibi quod edit quaerit et id aegre 
 
 invenit. 350 
 
 Sed ille 'st miserior, qui et aegre quaerit et nihil invenit. 
 Ille miserrumus % qui quom se rupit, quod edit non habet. 
 Nam hercle ego huic diei si liceat oculos effodiam lubens ; 
 Ita malignitate oneravit omnis mortalis mihi. 
 Neque ieiuniosiorem nee magis effertum fame 355 
 
 Vidi nee quoi minus procedat quidquid facere occeperit. 
 Nam ego ut dudum hinc abii, accessi ad adulescentis in foro ; 
 'Salvete/ inquam, *quo imus una ad prandium?' atque illi 
 
 tacent. 
 
 * Quis ait " hoc,'* aut quis profitetur ? ' inquam ; quasi muti silent, 
 Neque me rident. 'ubi cenamus?' inquam; atque illi — 
 abnuont. 360 
 
 Dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus, 
 Quibus solebam menstrualis epulas ante adipiscier ; 
 Nemo ridet. scivi extemplo rem de compecto geri. 
 Nunc barbarica lege certum 'st ius meum omne persequi ; 
 Qui consilium iniere, quo nos victu et vita prohibeant, 365 
 
 Is diem dicam, inrogabo multam, ut mihi cenas decem 
 Meo arbitratu dent quom cara annona sit ; sic egero ! 
 Nunc ibo ad portum hinc ; est illic mi una spes cenatica ; 
 Si ea decolabit, redibo hue ad senem ad cenam asperam. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 37 
 
 ACT III. 
 Scene I. 
 
 EfUer ERGASILUS, more dejected than ever. 
 
 ERG. It's a sad case for a poor wretch to prowl 
 
 In quest of a meal's meat, and at the last 350 
 
 With much ado to find one; sadder is it, 
 
 With much ado to hunt upon the trail, 
 
 And at the last find nothing ; but most sad, 
 
 To have a keen and craving appetite. 
 
 Without a morsel to appease it's longing. 
 
 A plague upon this day ! I'd dig it's eyes out. 
 
 Had I the pow'r, it has so fiU'd mankind 
 
 With enmity towards me. Never sure 
 
 Was there a wretch so starv'd, so cram'd with hunger, 355 
 
 Or one whose projects have so little prosper'd. 
 
 For when I went from hence a while ago, 
 
 I met some of these young men at the Forum. 
 
 * Good day,' said I ! * Where shall we lunch together ? ' 
 No answer. * What ! will no one speak ? ' says I, 
 
 * None promise me a luncheon ? ' Silent all. 
 As they were dumb. Nay, not a single smile. 
 
 * Where shall we dine then ? ' Still no invitation. 360 
 One of my best jests, such as heretofore 
 
 Have got me dinners for a month, I then 
 
 Repeat them. Not a soul vouchsafed to smile. 
 
 I then found out 'twas a concerted matter. 
 
 I am determin'd that the law shall right me 
 
 Against all those who join in combination 
 
 To have me starv'd. I will appoint a day 365 
 
 For them to give their answer. I will have 
 
 Large satisfaction. Dear as are provisions. 
 
 They shall be fined at least ten entertainments. 
 
 Now to the port, where I have yet one hope 
 
 Of feasting : if that fail me, I'll return 
 
 To this old Hegio, and his rough supper. {Exit Ergasilus. 
 
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 PLAUtl 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 370 
 
 SCAENA II. 
 
 HEGIO. (ARISTOPHONTES.) 
 HEG. Hinc abii ad praetorem ; ibi vix requievi, 
 Rogo syngraphum ; datur mi ilico ; 
 Dedi Tyndaro ; ille abiit domum. 
 Inde ilico revortor 
 Domum, postquam id actum 'st. 
 Eg protinus ad fratrem, mei ubi sunt alii captivi ; 
 Rogo, Philocratem ex Alide acquis hominum norit ; tandem hie 
 Exclamat eum sibi esse sodalem ; dico eum esse apud me ; 
 Hie extemplo orat obsecratque eum ut liceat videre ; 
 lussi ilico hunc exsolvi. nunc tu sequere me, 
 Ut quod me oravisti impetres, eum hominem uti convenias. 380 
 
 375 
 
 SCAENA III. 
 
 TYNDARUS. 
 TYND. Nunc illud est quom me fuisse quam esse nimio mavelim ; 
 Nunc spes opes auxiliaque a me segregant spernuntque se. 
 Hie ille 'st dies quom nulla vitae meae salus sperabilis 't, 
 Neque iam Salus servare, si volt, me potest, nee copia 'st, 
 
 Nisi si aliquam corde machinor astutiam. 385 
 
 Quam, malum? quid machiner? quid comminiscar? maxumas 
 Nugas ! ineptias incipisso. haereo. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 CAi>TIVI. 
 
 3^ 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Enter HEGIO and ARISTOPHONTES. 
 
 HEG. From here I went to see the Praetor ; there 370 
 
 Scarce rested me ; I ask'd a passport of him : 
 'Twas granted ; and I gave it straight to Tyndarus, 
 Who is set off : from thence I hurried home : 
 Then to my brother's, to my other captives. 375 
 
 I ask'd, if any one among them knew 
 Philocrates of Elis, when this man {pointing to Arist.) 
 Cried out, he was his friend and intimate. 
 On telling him he now was at my house, 
 He begg'd me I would give him leave to see him : 
 On which I order'd off his chains that instant. 
 (To Arist.) Follow me now, that you may have your wish. 
 And meet the person you desire to see. [Exeunt into house, 380 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Enter TYNDARUS, running from the house, 
 
 TYND. Would I were dead now rather than alive, 
 As things turn out ! Hope has deserted me, 
 No succour will come near me. See the day. 
 In which there is no chance to save my life ! 
 Destruction's unavoidable, — no hope 
 That can dispel the terror I am put in. 
 Salvation could not save me, if she would ; 
 Nor can I 'scape, except that I contrive 
 Some cunning trick, some artifice, {meditating,) 385 
 
 A plague on't ! 
 What can I think of? what devise? my thoughts 
 Are foolish, and my wit quite at a stand. [Retires to back of stage. 
 
46 
 
 PLAUTl 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CAPTIVl. 
 
 41 
 
 SCAENA IV. 
 
 HEGIO. ARISTOPHONTES. TYNDARUS. LORARII. 
 HEG. Quo ilium nunc hominem proripuisse foras se dicam ex 
 aedibus? 
 
 TYND. Nunc enimvero occidi ; eunt ad te hostes, Tyndare. ei 
 mihi, 
 
 Occisa 'st haec res, nisi reperio atrocem mi aliquam 
 astutiam. ^^^ 
 
 HEG. Sequere : em tibi hominem, adi atque adloquere. 
 '^^^* Quis homo 'st me hominum miserior ? 
 
 ARIST. Quid istuc est quod meos te dicam fugitare oculos, 
 Tyndare, 
 Proque ignoto me aspernari, quasi me numquam noveris ? 
 Equidem tam sum servos quam tu, etsi ego domi liber fui, 
 Tu usque a puero servitutem servivisti in Alide. 
 HEG. Edepol minume miror, si te fugitat aut oculos tuos 
 
 Aut si te odit, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate. 
 TYND. Hegio, hie homo rabiosus habitus est in Alide ; 
 Ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris immittas tuas. 
 Nam istic hastis insectatus est domi matrem et p^trem, 
 Et illic isti qui insputatur morbus interdum venit. 
 Proin tu ab istoc procul recedas. 
 ^^G- Ultro istum a me. 
 
 ^^^^'T- Ain', verbero ? 
 
 Me rabiosum atque insectatum esse hastis meum memoras 
 patrem. 
 
 395 
 
 400 
 
 I 
 
 .i 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 HEGIO returns from the house with ARISTOPHONTES, 
 
 and Slaves, 
 
 HEG. (looking round) Where can he now have stole him out of 
 
 doors ? 
 TYND. (aside) 'Tis over with me ! Tyndarus, your foes 
 
 Are making their advances straight towards you. 
 
 Our state is desperate, if I don't devise 
 
 Some cunning trick. jgo 
 
 HEG. (to Arist.) Follow me. Here he is ; 
 
 Approach, and speak to him. 
 TYND. (aside) Can there exist 
 
 A greater wretch than I am ? [Turns away from Arist. as he 
 
 [advances. 
 ARIST. Why is this, 
 
 That you avoid my eyes, and slight me, Tyndarus, 
 
 As though I were a stranger, and you ne'er 
 
 Had known me. It is true, I am a slave 
 
 As you are : though in Elis I was free ; 
 
 You from your youth have ever been a slave. 30c 
 
 HEG. In troth I am not in the least amazed 
 
 That he should shun you, and avoid your sight, 
 
 Or hold you in despite and detestation, 
 
 When for Philocrates you call him Tyndarus. 
 TYND. (catching hold of Hegio as if in terror) Hegio, this fellow 
 was at Elis deem'd 
 
 A madman : give no ear to what he says. 
 
 Tis there notorious, that he sought to kill 
 
 His father and his mother, and has often 400 
 
 Fits of the falling sickness come upon him. 
 
 Which makes him foam at mouth. Pray get you from him. 
 HEG. (alarmedy speaking to the Slaves) Hear — bear him further off. 
 ARIST. (angrily) , How say you, rascal ! 
 
 That I am mad ? and that I sought to kill 
 
 My father and my mother ? and have often 
 
42 
 
 l>LAttTl 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 Et cum morbum mi esse, ulqui me opus sit insputarier? 
 HEG. Ne verere, multos iste morbus homines macerat, 405 
 
 Quibus insputari saluti fuit atque is profuit. 
 ARIST. Quid tu autem ? etiam huic credis ? 
 HYX}, Quid ego credam huic ? 
 
 ARIST. Insanum esse me. 
 
 TYND. Viden* tu hunc, quam inimico voltu intuitur? concedi 
 optumum 'st, 
 
 Hegio ; fit quod ego dixi — gliscit rabies ; cave tibi. 
 HEG. Credidi esse insanum extemplo, ubi te appellavit Tyn- 
 darum. 4 10 
 
 TYND. Quin suom ipse interdum ignorat nomen neque scit qui 
 
 siet. 
 HEG. At etiam te suom sodalem esse aibat. 
 TYND. Haud vidi magis ; 
 
 Et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestes et Lycurgus postea 
 
 Una opera mihi sunt sodales qua iste. 
 ARIST. At etiam, furcifer, 
 
 Male loqui mi audes ? non ego te novi ? 
 HEG. Pol planum id quidem *st, 415 
 
 Non novisse, qui istum appelles Tyndarum pro Philocrate. 
 
 Quem vides eum ignoras ; ilium nominas quem non vides. 
 ARIST. Immo iste eum sese ait, qui non est, esse et, qui vero 'st, 
 
 negat. 
 TYND. Tu enim repertu*s, Philocratem qui superes veriverbio. 
 ARIST. Pol, ego ut rem video, tu inventu's, vera vani- 
 tudine 4^0 
 
 Qui convincas. sed quaeso hercle agedum aspice ad me. 
 
 TYND. ^"^• 
 
 ARIST. ^'^^ n^o^o, 
 
 Ten' negas tu Tyndarum esse ? 
 TYND. Nego inquam. 
 
 SCEl^E iV. 
 
 CaptiVi. 
 
 4^ 
 
 Fits of the falling sickness come upon me, 
 Which makes me foam at mouth ? 
 HEG. (drying to soothe him) Be not disma/d. 
 
 Many have laboured under this disease. 
 And spitting has restor'd them to their health. 
 ARIST. And will you credit him ? 
 
 HEG. I credit him ! in what ? 
 ARIST. That I am mad. 
 
 TYND. See how he eyes you with a furious aspect ! 
 Twere best retire. Tis, Hegio, as I said : 
 His frenzy grows upon him, — have a care. 
 HEG. True, when he call'd you Tyndarus, I thought. 
 
 That he indeed was mad. 
 TYND. Nay, but sometimes 
 
 He knows not his own name, nor who he is. 
 HEG. He said you were his friend. 
 TYND. I never saw him. 
 
 Alcmaeon, and Orestes, and Lycurgus, 
 Are just as much my friends as he is, Hegio. 
 ARIST. How, rascal ! do you dare bespeak me ill ? 
 
 Do I not know you ? 
 HEG. By my troth 'tis plain 
 
 You know him not, when for Philocrates 
 You call him Tyndarus : you are a stranger 
 To him you see, and name him who you see not. 
 ARIST. 'Tis he pretends himself the man he is not, 
 
 Denies himself to be the man he is. 
 TYND. O to be sure, you'll get the better of me 
 
 In reputation for veracity ! 
 ARIST. You, as it seems, my truth will overpower 
 
 With falsehood. Prithee look me in the face. 
 TYND. Well. 
 
 ARIST. Speak. Do you deny that you are Tyndarus ? 
 TYND. I tell you, I deny it. 
 
 405 
 
 410 
 
 415 
 
 420 
 
44 PLAUTI ACT. in. 
 
 ARIST. Tun* te Philocratem 
 
 Esse ais ? 
 TYND. Aio ego inquam. 
 
 ARIST. Tune huic credis ? 
 
 HEG. Plus quidem quam tibi ; 
 
 Nam ille quidem, quem tu hunc memoras esse, hodie hinc abiit 
 Alidem 
 
 Ad patrem huius. 
 ARIST. Quem patrem, qui servos est ? 
 
 TYND. Et tu quidem 425 
 
 Servos es, liber fuisti ; et ego me confido fore, 
 
 Si huius hue reconciliasso in libertatem filium. 
 ARIST. Quid ais, furcifer? tun' te esse gnatum memoras liberum? 
 TYND. Non equidem me Liberum, sed Philocratem esse aio. 
 ARIST. Quid est ? 
 
 Ut scelestus, Hegio, nunc iste te ludos facit. 430 
 
 Nam is est servos ipse, neque praeter se umquam ei servos fuit. 
 TYND. Quia tute ipse eges in patria nee tibi, qui vivas, domi *st, 
 
 Omnis inveniri similis tibi vis. non mirum facis ; 
 
 Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis. 
 ARIST. Enim iam nequeo contineri. 
 TYND. Heus, audin' quid ait ? quin fugis? 435 
 
 lam illic hie nos insectabit lapidibus, nisi illunc iubes 
 
 Comprehendi. 
 ARIST. Crucior. 
 
 TYND. Ardent oculi ; fune opus, Hegio. 
 
 Viden* tu illi maculari corpus totum maculis luridis ? 
 
 Atra bilis agitat horainem. 
 ARIST. At pol te, si hie sapiat senex, 
 
 Atra pix agitet apud carnuficem tuoque capiti inluceat. 440 
 
 TYND. Iam deliramenta loquitur ; larvae stimulant virum. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CAPTIVI 
 
 45 
 
 Will you say 
 
 ARIST. 
 
 You are Philocrates ? 
 TYND. I say, I am. 
 
 ARIST. {to Hegio) And you, do you believe him ? 
 HEG. More indeed, 
 
 Than you : why that same man, you say he is, 
 
 Set out this day for Elis to his father. 
 ARIST. What father? He's a slave. 
 TYND. And so are you, 425 
 
 Once free as I was, as I trust I shall be. 
 
 When I have gain'd this old man's son his liberty. 
 ARIST. How, rascal ! dare you say you're born a freeman ? 
 TYND. Not Freeman, but I say, I am Philocrates. 
 ARIST. See, Hegio, how the rogue makes sport with you ! 430 
 
 For he's a slave, and never own'd a slave 
 
 Besides himself. 
 TYND. So then, because you liv'd 
 
 A beggar in your country without means 
 
 For your support, you would have ev'ry one 
 
 Plac'd on the selfsame footing with yourself. 
 
 No wonder : 'tis the nature of the poor 
 
 To hate and envy men of property. 
 ARIST. I can't contain myself. 
 TYND. Ha ! do you hear him ? 435 
 
 Will you not fly ? He'll pelt us now with stones, 
 
 Unless you have him seiz'd. 
 ARIST. Tm vexed to death. 
 
 TYND. Look, how his eyes strike fire ! A cord, a cord, 
 
 Good Hegio. Don't you see his body's charged 
 
 With livid spots all over? The black bile 
 
 Disorders him, poor fellow ! 
 ARIST. The black pitch 
 
 Disorder you beneath the hangman's hand, 
 
 And (if this old man would but serve you right,) 
 
 Illuminate your head ! 44° 
 
 TYND. How wild he talks ! 
 
 He is possessed by evil spirits. 
 
46 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 i 
 
 HEG. Quid ais? quid si hunc comprehendi iusserim ? 
 
 TYND. Sapias magis. 
 
 ARIST. Crucior lapidem non habere me, ut illi mastigiae 
 
 Cerebrum excutiam, qui me insanum verbis concinnat suis. 
 TYND. Audin' lapidem quaeritare ? 
 ARIST. Solus te solum volo, 445 
 
 Hegio. 
 HEG. Istinc loquere, si quid vis ; procul tamen audiam. 
 
 TYND. Namque edepol si adbites propius, os denasabit tibi 
 
 Mordicus. 
 ARIST. Neque pol me insanum, Hegio, esse creduis 
 
 Neque fuisse umquam neque esse morbum quem istic autumat. 
 
 Verum si quid metuis a me, iube me vinciri ; volo, 450 
 
 Dum istic itidem vinciatur. 
 
 TYND. Immo enim vero, Hegio, 
 
 Istic qui volt vinciatur. 
 ARIST. Tace modo ; ego te, Philocrates 
 
 False, faciam ut verus hodie reperiare Tyndarus. 
 
 Quid mi abnutas ? 
 TYND. Tibi ego abnuto ? 
 
 ARIST. Quid agat, si absis longius ? 
 
 HEG. Quid ais ? quid si adeam hunc insanum ? 
 TYND. Nugas! ludificabitur, 455 
 
 Garriet quoi neque pes umquam neque caput compareat. 
 
 Omamenta absunt : Aiacem, hunc quom vides, ipsum vides. 
 HEG. Nihili facio, tamen adibo. 
 TYND. Nunc ego omnino occidi ; 
 
 Nunc ego inter sacrum saxumque sto nee quid faciam scio. 
 
 u*^ 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 47 
 
 '^\, 
 
 Suppose 
 
 445 
 
 HEG. 
 
 I order he be seized. 
 TYND. Twere the best way. 
 
 ARIST. It vexes me I cannot find a stone 
 
 To dash the villain's brains out, who insists 
 
 That I am mad. 
 TYND. There— do you hear him, Sir? 
 
 He*s looking for a stone. 
 ARIST. Shall I beg, Hegio, 
 
 A word with you alone ? 
 HEG. Speak where you are, 
 
 What would you ? I can hear you at a distance. 
 TYND. If you permit him to approach you nearer, 
 
 He'll bite your nose off. 
 ARIST. Hegio, do not you 
 
 Believe that I am mad, or ever was ; 
 
 Nor have I the disorder he pretends. 
 
 If any outrage you do fear from me, 
 
 Command me to be bound : 'tis my desire, 
 
 So at the same time he be bound with me. 
 TYND. Let him be bound, that chooses it. 
 ARIST. No more : 
 
 I warrant I shall make yon, false Philocrates, 
 
 To be found out the real Tyndarus. [^Tyndarus vtakes sign to ArisL 
 
 Why do you nod at me ? 
 TYND. I nod at you ? 
 
 ARIST. {to Hegio) What would he do, if you were further off? 
 HEG. {to Tynd.) How say you? What if I approach this mad- 
 man? 455 
 TYND. Nonsense ! Why he will mock at you and jabber 
 
 Stuff without head or tail. He only wants 
 
 The make-up, else he is a perfect Ajax. 
 HEG. No matter — I'll go to him. (crosses to Arist.) 
 TYND. (aside) I'm undone. 
 
 Now do I stand upon a precipice, 
 
 Nor know I what to do. 
 
 450 
 
48 PLAUTI ACT. III. 
 
 HEG. Do tibi operam, Aristophontes, si quid est quod me 
 velis. 460 
 
 ARIST. Ex me audibis vera quae nunc falsa opinare, Hegio. 
 Sed hoc primum me expurigare tibi volo, me insaniam 
 Neque tenere neque mi esse ullum morbum, — nisi quod servio. 
 At ita me rex deorum atque hominum faxit patriae compotem, 
 Ut istic Philocrates non magis est quam aut ego aut tu. 
 
 HEG. Eho, die mihi, 465 
 
 Quis illic igitur est ? 
 
 ARIST. Quern dudum dixi a principio tibi ; 
 
 Hoc si secus reperies, nullam causam dico, quin mihi 
 Et parentum et libertatis apud te deliquio siet. 
 
 HEG. Quidtuais? 
 
 TYND. Me tuom esse servom et te meum erum. 
 
 HEG. Haud istuc rogo. 
 
 Fuistin* liber ? 
 
 TYND. Fui. 
 
 ARIST. Enim vero non fuit ; nugas agit. 470 
 
 TYND. Meam rem non cures, si recte facias; num ego euro tuam? 
 
 HEG. Fuitne huic pater Thesaurochrysonicochrysides ? 
 
 ARIST. Non fuit, neque ego istuc nomen umquam audivi ante 
 hunc diem. 
 Philocrati Theodoromedes fuit pater. 
 
 TYND. Pereo probe. 
 
 Quin quiescis? i dierectum, cor meum, ac suspende te; 475 
 
 Tu subsultas, ego miser vix adsto prae formidine. 
 
 SCENE lY. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 49 
 
 HEG. Aristophontes, 
 
 If you would ought with me, I lend attention. 460 
 
 ARIST. Sir, you shall hear the real truth from me, 
 
 Which now you deem a falsehood. But I first 
 
 Would clear me to you from this charge of madness. 
 
 Believe me, Hegio, Vm not mad, nor have I 
 
 Any complaint but this, — that I*m a slave. 
 
 O never may the king of gods and men 
 
 My native country suffer me to see. 
 
 If this is any more Philocrates 
 
 Than you or I. 
 HEG. Tell me, who is he then ? 465 
 
 ARIST. The same I said he was from the beginning. 
 
 If you shall find it other, I can shew 
 
 No cause, no reason, why I should not suffer 
 
 A lack of liberty, your slave for ever. 
 HEG. {to Tynd.) And what do you say? 
 TYND. That I am your slave, 
 
 And you my master. 
 HEG. I don't ask you that. 
 
 Were you a free man ? 
 TYND. Yes, I was. 
 
 ARIST. Indeed 
 
 He never was : he trifles with you, Hegio. 470 
 
 TYND. If your behaviour was as would become you, 
 
 You would not interfere in my concerns. 
 
 Do I in yours ? 
 HEG. (to Arist.) Say, was his father's name 
 
 Thesaurochrysonicochrysides ? 
 ARIST. Twas not, nor did I ever hear the name 
 
 Before to-day : Philocrates' father 
 
 Was call'd Theodoromedes. 
 TYND. I'm ruin'd ! 
 
 Be still my heart ! prithee go hang yourself — 475 
 
 Still, still will you be throbbing. Woe is me ! 
 I scarce can stand upon my legs for fear. 
 
so PLAUTI ACT. III. 
 
 HEG. Satin* istuc mihi exquisitum *st, fuisse hunc servom in Alide 
 
 Neqne esse hunc Philocratem ? 
 ARIST. Tarn satis, quam numquam hoc invenies secus. 
 
 HEG. Turn igitur ego deruncinatus, deartuatus sum miser 
 
 Huius scelesti techinis, qui me ut lubitum 'st ductavit dolis. 480 
 
 Sed vide sis. 
 
 ARIST. Quin exploratum dice et provisum hoc tibi. 
 
 HEG. Certon* ? 
 
 ARIST. Quin nihil, inquam, invenies magis hoc certo certius ; 
 
 Philocrates iam inde usque amicus fuit mihi a puero puer. 
 Sed ubi is nunc est ? 
 
 HEG. Ubi ego minume atque ipsus se volt maxume. 
 
 Sed qua facie 'st tuos sodalis Philocrates ? 
 ARIST. Dicam tibi : 485 
 
 Macilento ore, naso acuto, corpore albo, oculis nigris, 
 
 Subrufus aliquantum, crispus, cincinnatus. 
 HEG. Convenit. 
 
 TYND. Ut quidem hercle in medium ego hodie pessume pro- 
 cesserim. 
 
 Vae illis virgis miseris, quae hodie in tergo morientur meo. 
 HEG. Verba mihi data esse video. 
 TYND. Quid cessatis, compedes, 490 
 
 Currere ad me meaque amplecti crura, ut vos custodiam ? 
 HEG. Satine me illi hodie scelesti capti ceperunt dolo ? 
 
 Illic servom se adsimulabat, hie sese autem liberum. 
 
 Nuculeum amisi, retinui pigneri putamina ; 
 
 Ita mi stolido sursum vorsum os sublevere offuciis. 495 
 
 Hie quidem me numquam inridebit. Colaphe, Cordalio, Corax, 
 
 Ite istinc, efferte lora. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 5» 
 
 HEG. Can I be sure this fellow was a slave 
 
 In Elis, and is not Philocrates ? 
 ARIST. So certain that you'll never find it other. 
 HEG. Ah me ! I am disjointed, sawn asunder, 
 
 By the intrigues of this vile rascal, who 
 
 Has led me by the nose just at his pleasure. 480 
 
 But have a care you err not. 
 ARIST. What I say 
 
 Is as a thing assured, a truth establish 'd. 
 HEG. And is it certain ? 
 ARIST. Yes, so very certain, 
 
 That you can never find a thing that's more so. 
 
 I and Philocrates have been friends from boys. 
 
 But where is he now ? 
 HEG. Where I least could wish him. 
 
 And where he wishes most himself to be. 
 
 What sort of person was Philocrates ? 485 
 
 ARIST. His hair inclin'd to red, frizzled and curl'd, 
 
 A lenten jaw, sharp nose, a fair complexion. 
 
 And black eyes. 
 HEG. The description's very like him. 
 
 TYND. Now by my troth it was a sore mischance. 
 
 My coming here : — woe to the hapless twigs 
 
 Will die upon my back. 
 HEG. I plainly see 
 
 I have been cheated. 
 TYND. Why do ye delay ? 490 
 
 Haste, haste, ye chains, come and embrace my legs, 
 
 That I may have you in my custody. 
 HEG. These villainous captives, how they have deceiv'd me I 
 
 He, that is gone off, feign'd himself a slave, 
 
 And this a free man. I have lost the kernel, 
 
 And for security the shell is left me. 
 
 Fool that I am ! they have impos'd upon me 495 
 
 In ev'ry shape. But he shall never more 
 
 Make me his sport, (calling into house) Ho, Colapho, Cordalio, 
 
 Corax, come forth and bring out with you thongs. 
 
52 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. III. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 53 
 
 SCAENA V. 
 HEGIO. LORARII. TYNDARUS. ARISTOPHONTES. 
 
 LOR. Num lignatum mittimur? 
 
 HEG. Inicite huic manicas maxumas mastigiae. 
 TYND. Quid hoc est negoti ? quid ego deliqui ? 
 HEG. Rogas, 
 
 Sator sartorque scelerum et messor maxume ? 500 
 
 TYND. Non occatorem dicere audebas prius ? 
 
 Nam semper occant prius quam sariunt rustici. 
 HEG. At ut mihi contra confidenter adstitit 1 
 TYND. Decet innocentem servom atque innoxium 
 
 Confidentem esse suom apud erum potissumum. 505 
 
 HEG. Adstringite isti, sultis, vehementer manus. 
 TYND. Tuos sum ; tu has quidem vel praecidi iube. 
 
 Sed quid negoti 'st, quam ob rem suscenses mihi ? 
 HEG. Quia me meamque rem, quod in te uno fuit, 
 
 Tuis scelestis falsidicis fallaciis cto 
 
 Delaceravisti deartuavistique opes, 
 
 Confecisti omnis res ac rationes meas ; 
 
 Ita mi exemisti Philocratem fallaciis. 
 
 Ilium esse servom credidi, te liberum ; 
 
 Ita vosmet aiebatis itaque nomina rjc 
 
 Inter vos permutastis. 
 TYND. Fateor omnia 
 
 Facta esse ita ut tu dicis, et fallaciis 
 
 Abiisse eum abs te mea opera atque astutia ; 
 
 An, obsecro hercle te, id nunc suscenses mihi ? 
 HEG. At cum cruciatu maxumo id factum *st tuo. 520 
 
 500 
 
 Scene V. 
 
 Enter SLAVES with thongs, 
 
 SLAVE. What, is he sending us to bind up faggots ? 
 HEG. This instant manacle that rascal there. 
 
 i^The Slaves begin to bind Tynd,) 
 TYND. Ah ! why is this ? in what have I offended ? 
 HEG. What, do you ask ? you that have been the sower. 
 
 The weeder, and the reaper of these villainies. 
 TYND. Why, first of all, did you not call me harrower ? 
 
 Husbandmen always harrow first the ground, 
 
 Before they weed it. 
 HEG. See, with what assurance 
 
 He stands before me ! 
 TYND. It becomes a slave. 
 
 That's innocent, unconscious of a crime. 
 
 To bear him with such confidence, especially 
 
 Before his master. 
 HEG. See you bind his hands, 
 
 And hard too. 
 
 TYND. I am yours, my hands are yours ; {holding out his hands) 
 
 If 'tis your pleasure, bid them be cut off. 
 
 But what's the matter ? why thus angry with me ? 
 HEG. Because that by your knavish lying schemes 
 
 You have destroy'd, as far as in your power, 
 
 Me and my hopes, distracted my affairs. 
 
 And by your tricks have robb'd me of Philocrates. 
 
 I thought he was a slave, and you a free man, 
 
 For so you said you were, and for that purpose 
 
 You chang'd your names. 
 
 "^^N^- I own that I have acted 
 
 E'en as you say,— that he has found the means 
 
 For his escaping, and through my assistance. 
 
 Is it for this then you are angry with me ? 
 HEG. What you have done you'll find will cost you dear. 520 
 
 505 
 
 510 
 
 515 
 
 i.i^iJi-r . 
 

 54 
 
 I>LAUtl 
 
 Act. III. 
 
 TYND. Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi aestumo. 
 Si ego hie peribo, ast ille ut dixit non redit, 
 At erit mi hoc factum mortuo memorabile 
 Me meum erum captum ex servitute atque hostibus 
 Reducem fecisse liberum in patriam ad patrem, 
 Meumque potius me caput periculo 
 Praeoptavisse, quam is periret, ponere. 
 
 HEG. Facito ergo ut Acherunti clueas gloria. 
 
 TYND. Qui per virtutem perit, perit at non interit. 
 
 HEG. Quando ego te exemplis pessumis cruciavero 
 Atque ob sutelas tuas te Morti misero, 
 Vel te interiisse vel periisse praedicent ; 
 Dum pereas, nihil interdico aiant vivere. 
 
 TYND. Pol si istuc faxis, baud sine poena feceris, 
 Si ille hue rebitet, sicut eonfido adfore. 
 
 ARIST. Pro di immortales, nunc ego teneo, nunc scio 
 Quid sit hoc negoti ; mens sodalis Philocrates 
 In libertate *st ad patrem in patria. bene *st, 
 Nee quisquam homo 'st mihi aeque melius quoi velim. 
 Sed hoc mihi aegre *st me huic dedisse operam malam, 
 Qui nunc propter me meaque verba vinctus est. 
 
 HEG. Votuin' te quicquam mi hodie falsum proloqui ? 
 
 TYND. Votuisti. 
 
 HEG. Quor es ausus mentiri mihi ? 
 
 TYND. Quia vera obessent illi quoi operam dabam ; 
 Nunc falsa prosunt. 
 
 HEG. At tibi oberunt. 
 
 TYND. Optume'st; 
 
 At erum servavi, quem servatum gaudeo, 
 Quoi me custodem addiderat erus maior meus. 
 Sed malene id factum arbitrare ? 
 
 525 
 
 530 
 
 535 
 
 540 
 
 545 
 
 SCENE v. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 55 
 
 TYND. Death I esteem a trifle, when not merited 
 
 By evil actions. If I perish here, 
 
 And he return not, as he gave his word, 
 
 This act will be remembered to my honour, 
 
 After Fm dead ; — that I contrived to free 
 
 My master, when a captive, from his state 
 
 Of slavery and oppression with the foe ; 
 
 Restored him to his country and his father, 
 
 Preferring rather to expose my life 
 
 To danger for him, than that he should suffer. 
 HEG. Enjoy that fame then in the other world. 
 TYND. He dies to live, who dies in Virtue's cause. 
 HEG. When I have put you to severest torture, 
 
 And for your tricks have ta'en away your life, 
 
 Let them extol you, that you are no more, 
 
 Let them extol you, that youVe lost your life, 
 
 Nay, let them say, that you are still alive, 
 
 It matters not to me, so you but die. 
 TYND. Do, put your threats in force, you'll suffer for it, 
 
 If he return here, as I trust he will. 
 ARIST. {aside) O ye immortal gods ! I know it now, 
 
 I understand it all. My friend Philocrates 
 
 Enjoys his liberty, is with his father 
 
 At large in his own country. That is well. 
 
 There's not a man whom I wish better to. 
 
 But O ! it grieves me I have done for him 
 
 So ill an office, who alas ! is chain'd 
 
 On my account for what I hap'd to say. 
 HEG. Did I not charge you not to tell me false ? 
 TYND. You did. 
 
 KEG. Then wherefore have you dar'd to do it ? 
 
 TYND. Truth would have done him hurt I wish'd to serve : 
 
 Falsehood has done him good. 
 KEG- But hurt to you. 
 
 TYND. 'Tis best. I've served my master, and I joy in't : 
 
 My good old master gave him to my care. 
 
 And do you think this wrongly done in me ? 
 
 525 
 
 530 
 
 535 
 
 540 
 
 545 
 
550 
 
 555 
 
 ^5 PLAUTI ACT. 111. 
 
 HEG. Pessume. 
 
 TYND. At ego aio recte, qui abs te seorsum sentio. 
 
 Nam cogitato, si quis hoc gnato tuo 
 
 Tuos servos faxit, qualem haberes gratiam ? 
 
 Emitteresne necne eum servom manu ? 
 
 Essetne apud te is servos acceptissumus ? 
 
 Responde. 
 HEG. Opinor. 
 
 TYND. Quor ergo iratus mihi's ? 
 
 HEG. Quia illi fuisti quam mihi fidelior. 
 TYND. Quid tu ? una nocte postulavisti et die 
 
 Recens captum hominem, nuperum et novicium 
 
 Te perdocere, ut melius consulerem tibi 
 
 Quam illi quicum una a puero aetatem exegeram ? 
 HEG. Ergo ab eo petito istam gratiam. ducite, 
 
 Ubi ponderosas, crassas capiat compedis. 
 
 Inde ibis porro in latomias lapidarias ; 
 
 Ibi quom alii octonos lapides efFodiunt, nisi 
 
 Cottidiano sesquiopus confeceris, 
 
 Sescentoplago nomen indetur tibi. 
 ARIST. Per deos atque homines ego te obtestor, Hegio, 
 
 Ne tu istunc hominem perduis. 
 HEG. Curabitur ; 
 
 Nam noctu nervo vinctus custodibitur, 
 Interdius sub terra lapides eximet. 
 Diu ego hunc cruciabo, non uno absolvam die. 
 ARIST. Certumne 'st tibi istuc ? 
 HEG. Non moriri certius. 
 
 Abducite istum actutum ad Hippolytum fabrum, 
 
 560 
 
 565 
 
 570 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 57 
 
 555 
 
 HEG. Most wrongly. 
 
 TYND. I, who can't but differ from you, 
 
 Say rightly. Only think, if any slave 
 
 Of yours had done the same thing for your son, 550 
 
 How, how would you have thank'd him ! would you not 
 Have giv'n him freedom ? would you not have held him 
 Jn your esteem high above all his fellows? 
 I prithee answer me. 
 HEG. I think I should. 
 
 TYND. Why are you angry then with me ? 
 HEG. Because 
 
 You were to him more faithful than to me. 
 TYND. What ! could you have expected, that a man, 
 Newly a captive, and just made your slave, 
 Should in one night and day be taught by you 
 More to consult your interest than the good 
 Of one whom he had Iiv*d with from a boy ? 
 HEG. Seek your reward then of that one. 
 
 {To the Slaves) Go bear him, 560 
 
 Where he may put on large and ponderous chains. 
 (To Tynd.) To the stone-quarries after shalt thou go : 
 There, in the time that others dig out eight, 
 If ev'ry day thou dost not dig twelve stones, 
 Thou shalt be dubb'd with stripes Sexcentoplagus. 565 
 
 ARIST. (coming forward) By Gods and men I do conjure you, 
 Hegio, 
 O let him not be lost. 
 HEG. I'll look to that. 
 
 At night he shall be guarded, bound with thongs, 
 And in the day shall labour in the quarries. 
 I'll keep him in continual exercise. 
 
 Nor shall he know the respite of one day. 570 
 
 ARIST. Is that your resolution ? 
 HEG. , Sure as death. 
 
 ( To the Slaves) Bear him directly to Hippolytus 
 The smith, and bid him clap upon his legs 
 
s« 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. 111. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CAPTIVt. 
 
 lubete huic crassas compedis impingier ; 
 Inde extra portam ad meum libertum Cordalum 
 In lapicidinas facite deductus siet, 
 Atque hunc me velle dicite ita curarier, 
 Ne qui deterius huic sit — quam quoi pessume 'st. 
 TYND. Quor ego te invito me esse salvom postulem ? 
 
 Periclum vitae meae tuo stat periculo. 
 
 Post mortem in morte nihil est, quod metuam, maU. 
 
 Et si pervivo usque ad summam aetatem, tamen 
 
 Breve spatium 'st perferundi quae minitas mihi. 
 
 Vale atque salve, etsi aliter ut dicam meres. 
 
 Tu, Aristophontes, de me ut meruisti, ita vale ; 
 
 Nam mihi propter te hoc obtigit. 
 HEG. Abducite. 
 
 TYND. At unum hoc quaeso, si hue rebitet Philocrates, 
 
 Ut mi eius facias conveniundi copiam. 
 HEG. Periistis, nisi hunc iam e conspectu abducitis. 
 TYND. Vis haec quidem hercle 'st et trahi et trudi simul. 
 HEG. Illic est abductus recta in phylacam, ut dignus est 
 
 Satis sum semel deceptus ; speravi miser 
 
 Ex servitute me exemisse filium — 
 
 Ea spes elapsa 'st. perdidi unum filium, 
 
 Puerum quadrimum quem mihi servos surpuit, 
 
 Neque eum servom umquam repperi neque filium ; 
 
 Maior potitus hostium 'st. quod hoc est scelus ? 
 
 Quasi in orbitatera liberos produxerim. 
 
 Sequere hac ; redducam te ubi fuisti. neminis 
 
 Misereri certum 'st, quia mei miseret neminem. 
 ARIST. Exauspicavi ex vinclis ; nunc intellego 
 
 Redauspicandum esse in catenas denuo. 
 
 575 
 
 580 
 
 585 
 
 590 
 
 595 
 
 600 
 
 50 
 
 Huge massy irons ; then without the gate 
 Go, carry him to Cordalus my f reed-man. 
 That he may make him labour in the quarries ; 
 And tell him, 'tis my pleasure he be used 
 No better than the vilest slave I have. 
 
 575 
 
 580 
 
 585 
 
 TYND. Against your will why should I wish to live ? 
 My loss of life will be a loss of you. 
 There is no evil I need dread in death, 
 When death is over. Were I to survive 
 To th' utmost age of man, my space of time 
 To bear the hardships, which you threat me with, 
 Would yet be short. Then fare you well, be happy. 
 Though you deserve another language from me. 
 And you, Aristophontes, take from me 
 As good a farewell as you've merited : 
 For you have been the cause of this. 
 
 ?™ f L • ^ (f^ ^^ ^/^^^J) Hence with him. ,0. 
 
 TYND. {as he ts dragged away) One thing I yet request, that if 
 Philocrates ^ 
 
 Come back again, I may have leave to see him. 
 HEG. {to the Slaves) Bear him this instant from my sieht ve slavAc 
 
 Or you yourselves shall suffer. ^ « ^, ye slaves, 
 
 TYND. &'m' '"^''''^ 'ff ^^o^-^h' 
 
 Is downright violence, to be dragg'd and driven 
 
 HEG. So-he is carried off to liLlr W^" ''"^"^ "^ ^"^' 
 I have been once impos'd on full enough. 
 Ah me ! I hop'd to have redeem'd my son 
 From slavery. That hope is vanish'd quite ! 
 One son I lost at four years old ; a slave 
 Then stole him from me ; nor have I once heard 
 From that time of the slave or of my son. 
 
 My eldest is a captive with the foe. ^^^ 
 
 Ha ! how is this ? as though I had begot 
 My children only to be childless, {to Arist.) Follow me 
 And 1 11 conduct you to your former station. 
 I am resolv'd to no one will I shew 
 Pity henceforth, since no one pities me. 
 
 ^^rJ: ^!^^ ^" '^^ ^'"^'' ^""^^^ ^^^"^ ^^^ins I came, 600 
 
 With an ill omen I to chains return. 
 
 {Exeunt Hegio and Arist. 
 
 
6o 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. IV. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 6i 
 
 ACTUS IV. 
 
 SCAENA I. 
 HEGIO. ERGASILUS. 
 HEG. Quanto in pectore banc rem meo niagis voluto, 
 
 Tanto mi aegritudo auctior est in animo. 
 
 Ad ilium modum sublitum os esse hodie mi ! 
 
 Neque id perspicere quivi. 605 
 
 Quod quom scibitur, tum per urbem inridebor. 
 
 Quom extemplo ad forum advenero, omnes loquentur 
 
 * Hie ille *st senex doctus, quoi verba data sunt/ — 
 Sed Ergasilus estne hie procul quem video? 
 Conlecto quidem 'st pallio ; quidnam acturus 't ? 610 
 
 ERG. Move abs te moram atque, Ergasile, age banc rem. 
 
 Eminor interminor, ne quis mi obstiterit obviam, 
 
 Nisi qui satis diu vixisse sese homo arbitrabitur ; 
 
 Nam qui obstiterit, ore sistet 
 HEG. Hie homo pugilatum incipit. 
 
 ERG. Facere certum 'st. proinde ita omnes itinera insistant 
 sua, 615 
 
 Ne quis in banc plateam negoti conferat quicquam sui ; 
 
 Nam meus est ballista pugnus, cubitus ca'tapulta *st mihi, 
 
 Umerus aries ; tum genu ut quemque icero, ad terram dabo. 
 
 Dentilegos omnis mortalis faciam, quemque offendero. 
 HEG. Quae illaec eminatio 'st nam ? nequeo mirari satis. 620 
 ERG. Faciam ut buius diei locique meique semper meminerit, 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Enter HEGIO. 
 
 HEG. The more I think on this affair, the more 
 
 Is my uneasiness of mind increased. 
 
 That they should gull me in this sort \ and I 
 
 Never perceive it ! When this once is known, 605 
 
 I shall be made the jest of the whole town ; 
 
 And soon as e'er I come into the Forum, 
 
 ' That's the old fellow there,' they all will cry, 
 
 * Who has been trick'd.' {sees Ergasilus earning up the street.) 
 
 But is not this Ergasilus 
 
 I see at distance ? Sure it is, — his cloak 
 
 Thrown o'er his shoulder. What is he about? 610 
 
 {Enter Ergasilus running.) 
 ERG. Haste, baste, Ergasilus, look to thy business. 
 
 {shouting) Hence, have a care,— I warn you, and forewarn you, 
 
 Let no man stop me in my way, unless 
 
 He thinks that be has had enough of life ; 
 
 Whoever stops me, he shall kiss the ground. 
 HEG. {aside) He puts himself in posture as for boxing. 
 ERG. I'll do't, by heav'ns I'll do't. Let ev'ry one 
 
 Pursue his own track, nor by any business 615 
 
 Clog up the street. My fist is a Balista, 
 
 My arm a Catapulta, and my shoulder 
 
 A Battering-ram. On whomsoever once 
 
 I dart my knee, I'll give him to the ground. 
 
 Whatever mortal I shall light upon, 
 
 I'll knock his teeth out, and employ the wretch 
 
 To pick them up again. 
 HEG. {aside) What mighty menaces ! 
 
 They quite astonish me. ' 620 
 
 ERG. If any dare 
 
 Oppose my course, I'll make him to remember 
 
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 11 
 
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 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. IV. 
 
 li i 
 
 Qui mi in cursu obstiterit ; faxo vitae is obstiterit suae. 
 HEG. Quid hie homo tantum incipissit facere cum tantis minis ? 
 ERG. Prius edico, ne quis propter culpam capiatur suam : 
 
 Continete vos domi, prohibete a vobis vim meam. 625 
 
 HEG. Mira edepol sunt, ni hie in ventrem sumpsit eonfidentiam. 
 
 Vae misero illi quoius cibo iste factus 't imperiosior. 
 ERG. Sed ego eesso hune Hegionem onerare laetitia senem ? 
 
 Qui homine hominum adaeque nemo vivit fortunatior. 
 HEG. Quae illaee est laetitia, quam illie laetus largitur mihi ? 630 
 ERG. Heus ubi estis ? eequis hie est ? eequis hoe aperit ostium ? 
 HEG. Hie homo ad cenam reeipit se ad me. 
 ERG. Aperite hasee ambas foris, 
 
 Prius quam pultando assulatim foribus exitium adfero. 
 HEG. Perlubet hune hominem eonloqui. Ergasile ! 
 ERG. Ergasilum qui voeat ? 635 
 
 HEG. Respiee. 
 ERG. Fortuna quod tibi nee facit nee faeiet, hoe me iubes ; 
 
 Sed qui est ? 
 HEG. Ad portum neseio quem nactus es, ubi cenes ; 
 
 Eo fastidis. respiee ad me. Hegio sum. 
 ERG. O mihi 
 
 Quantum *st hominum homo optume optumorum, in tempore 
 advenis. 
 
 Cedo manum. 
 HEG. Manum ? 
 
 ERG. Manum, inquam, cedo tuam actutum. 
 
 HEG. Tene. 640 
 
 ERG. Gaude. 
 HEG. Quid ego gaudeam ? 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVr. 
 
 63 
 
 The day, the place for evermore, and me : 
 
 Who stops me, puts a stop to his existence. 
 HEG. (aside) What would the man be at with all his swaggering? 
 ERG. I give you notice, caution you beforehand, 
 
 That it may be your own fault, if you're caught. 
 
 Keep home then, guard you from assault. 625 
 
 HEG. {aside) Twere strange this, 
 
 Had not his belly got him this assurance. 
 
 I pity the poor wretch, whose cheer has swol'n him 
 
 To all this insolence. 
 ERG. But why do I 
 
 Delay to load old Hegio here with transport ? 
 
 Who is in troth the happiest man alive. 
 HEG. {aside) What transport is it, that himself, it seems, 
 
 Is in a transport to impart to me ? 630 
 
 ERG. {knocking at the door of Hegio' s house) Ho there ! where are 
 
 ye ? some one, ope the door. 
 HEG. {aside) He's come to sup with me. 
 ERG. Ope both the doors. 
 
 Ere piecemeal I demolish them with knocking. 
 HEG. {aside) I have a mind to speak to him. {aloud) Ergasilus ! 
 ERG. Who calls Ergasilus? 635 
 
 HEG. Turn your head — look on me. 
 
 ERG. Look on you ? That which Fortune never does. 
 
 Nor ever will. Who is it ? 
 HEG. You have found 
 
 Some friend or other at the port to sup with. 
 
 And so you scorn me. Look ! I'm Hegio. 
 ERG. {turning round) Best of best men, most opportunely met. 
 
 Give me thy hand. 
 HEG. My hand ? 
 
 ERG. 
 
 Give it this instant. i 
 
 HEG. There it is. 
 
 ERG. (seizing it eagerly) 
 HEG. Joyous ! for what ? 
 
 Thy hand, I say. 
 
 {holding out his hand,) 
 Be joyous ! 
 
 640 
 
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 ii 
 
 II 
 
 64 PLAUTI ACT. IV. 
 
 ^^G- Quia ego impero ; age gaude modo. 
 
 HEG. Pol maestissumi maerores mi antevortunt gaudiis. 
 ERG. lam ego ex corpora exigam omnis maculas maerorum tibi. 
 Gaude audacter. 
 
 HEG. 
 
 Gaudeo, etsi nil scio quod gaudeam. 
 
 ERG. Bene facis ; iube — 
 
 HEG. 
 
 ERG. 
 
 HEG. Ignem ingentem ? 
 
 Quid iubeam? 
 
 Ignem ingentem fieri. 645 
 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 
 Ita dico, magnus ut sit. 
 
 Quid ? me, volturi, 
 Tuan* causa aedis incensurum censes ? 
 
 ERG. Noli irascier. 
 
 luben' an non iubes astitui aulas, patinas elui, 
 Laridum ac pemas foveri foculis ferventibus, 
 Alium piscis praestinatum abire ? 
 
 HEG- Hie vigilans somniat. 650 
 
 ERG. Alium porcinam atque agninam et pullos gallinaceos ? 
 HEG. Scis bene esse, si sit unde. 
 
 ERG- Pectinem atque ophthalmiam, 
 
 Horaeum scombrum et trugonum et cetum et mollem caseum ? 
 
 HEG. Nominandi istorum tibi erit magis quam edundi copia 
 Hie apud me, Ergasile. 
 
 ERG. Mean* me causa hoc censes dicere? 655 
 
 HEG. Nee nihil hodie nee multo plus tu hie edes, ne frustra sis; 
 Proin tu tui cottidiani victi veutrem ad me adferas. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 «5 
 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 
 ERG. Because it is my order. 
 
 (shaking his hand hard) Come, come, be joyous ! 
 HEG. Joy alas ! with me 
 
 By sorrow is prevented. 
 
 ERG. Do not grieve : 
 
 I'll wipe away this instant ev'ry stain 
 
 Of sorrow from your soul. 
 
 {shaking his hand very hard) Take heart, be joyous ! 
 HEG. Well, though I know no reason to rejoice. 
 That's bravely done. Now order — 
 
 Order what ? 
 A monstrous fire. 64 e 
 
 A monstrous fire ? 
 
 I say it : 
 An huge one let it be. 
 
 HEG. Why how now, Vulture ? 
 
 Think you that I will fire my house to please you ? 
 ERG. Nay, prithee don't be angry. Will you order, 
 
 Or will you not, the pots to be put on ? 
 
 The dishes to be wash'd ? the bacon too 
 
 And hams to be set on the stoves and warmed ? 
 
 Won't you send some one to buy fish ? 
 HEG. He dreams 
 
 With his eyes open ! 5^© 
 
 ERG. Bid another go 
 
 For pork, lamb, pullets ? 
 HEG. Yes, you understand 
 
 Good living, had you wherewithal to get it. 
 ERG. For oysters, lampreys, salmon, cod, ft-esh tunny, 
 
 Ripe cheese ? 
 HEG. You'll find it easier to talk 
 
 Of all those dainties, than with me to eat them. 
 ERG. Think you I speak this on my own account? 655 
 
 HEG. You will have little, don't deceive yourself, — 
 Just more than nothing. Prithee bring with you 
 A stomach suited to such common fare. 
 As you may meet with ev'ry day—no nice one. 
 
66 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. IV. 
 
 ERG. Quin ita faciam, ut tute cupias facere sumptum, etsi ego 
 
 votem. 
 HEG. Egone ? 
 ERG. Tu ne. 
 
 HEG. Turn tu mi igitur erus es. 
 
 £j^Q Immo benevolens. 
 
 Vin* te faciam fortunatum ? 
 HEG. Malim quam miserum quidem. 660 
 
 ERG. Cedo manum. 
 
 HEG. Em manum. 
 
 E]^Q Di te omnes adiuvant. 
 
 jj£Q Nil sentio. 
 
 ERG. Non enim es in senticeto ; eo non sentis. sed iube 
 
 Vasa tibi pura adparari ad rem divinam cito 
 
 Atque agnum adferri propere unum pinguem. 
 
 HEG. Q^or? 
 
 £j^Q Ut sacrufices. 
 
 HEG. Quoi deorum ? 
 
 ERG. Mihi hercle; nam ego nunc tibi sum summus luppiter, 665 
 
 Idem ego sum Salus, Fortuna, Lux, Laetitia, Gaudium ; 
 
 Proin tu divom hunc saturitate facias tranquillum tibi. 
 
 HEG. luppiter te dique perdant. 
 
 £RQ^ Te hercle—mi aequom 'st gratias 
 
 Agere ob nuntium ; tantum ego nunc porto a portu tibi boni. 
 
 Nunc tu mihi places. 
 HEG. Abi, stultus ; sero post tempus venis. 670 
 
 ERG. Igitur olim si advenissem, magis tu tum istuc diceres. 
 Nunc banc laetitiam accipe a me, quam fero ; nam filium 
 Tuom modo in portu Philopolemum vivom salvom et sospitem 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 67 
 
 ERG. But let me tell you, I shall be the author 
 
 Of your providing a most sumptuous treat, 
 
 E'en though I should forbid it. 
 HEG. '^ I ? 
 
 ERG. Yes, you. 
 
 HEG. Hey ! your are then my master. 
 
 ERG. I'm your friend. — 
 
 Say, shall I make thee happy ? 
 HEG. Certainly 
 
 I'd rather so, than you should make me wretched. 
 ERG. Give me thy hand. 
 HEG. (g-iving his hand) There, there's my hand. 
 
 ^^^- The Gods, 
 
 The Gods are all your friends. 
 
 HEG. I feel it not. 
 
 ERG. You are not in a thornbush, else you'd feel 
 
 But let your sacred vessels be prepar'd. 
 
 And bid them bring forthwith a fatted lamb. 
 HEG. For what ? 
 ERG. To make a sacrifice. 
 
 ^^^- To whom? 
 
 Which of the Gods ? 
 
 ^RG- To Me — for I am now 
 
 Thy Jupiter supreme, I thy Salvation, 
 
 Thy Life, thy Fortune, thy Delight, thy Joy. 
 
 To make this God propitious, cram him well. 
 HEG. May Jupiter and all the Gods confound you. 
 ERG. And you, may— rather thank me for the news 
 
 I bring you from the Port, such gladsome news. 
 
 Your supper likes me now. 
 
 ^^^- Be gone, you fool, 
 
 You're come too late. 
 
 ^^^' Your words had been more true 
 
 Had I come sooner. Now receive from me 
 The transport that I bring you. At the Port 
 Just now I saw your son, your Philopolemus, 
 
 F a 
 
 660 
 
 665 
 
 670 
 
68 
 
 PLAUTI 
 
 ACT. TV. 
 
 SCENE t. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 69 
 
 Vidi in publica celoce, ibidemque ilium adulescentulum 
 
 Aleum una et tuom Stalagmum servom, qui aufugit domo, 675 
 
 Qui tibi surripuit quadrimum puerum filiolum tuom. 
 
 HEG. Abi in malam rem, ludis me. 
 
 £j^Q^ Ita me amabit sancta Saturitas, 
 
 Hegio, itaque suo me semper condecoret cognomine, 
 
 Ut ego vidi. 
 HEG. Meumne gnatum ? 
 
 £RQ Tuom gnatum et genium meum. 
 
 HEG. Et captivom ilium Alidensem ? 
 
 j^^Q Ma t6v 'AttoXXw. 
 
 jj£Q Et servolum 680 
 
 Meum Stalagmum, meum qui gnatum surripuit ? 
 
 p-nQ Nal Tav Kopav. 
 
 HEG. lam diu— 
 
 ERG. Nai rhv IIpatWoTi^v. 
 
 HEG. vcnit ? 
 
 p-n Q Nai rav 2iyviav, 
 
 HEG. Certon' ? 
 
 ERG. Nat rav ^pov(TivS>pa. 
 
 HEG. Vide sis— 
 
 HEG. Quid tu per barbaricas urbes iuras ? 
 
 ERG. Quia ^"^"^ ^^^^ asperae 
 
 Sunt, ut tuom victum autumabas esse. 
 HEG. Vae aetati tuae ! 685 
 
 ERG. Quippe quando mihi nil credis, quod ego dico sedulo. 
 HEG. Die, bonan' fide tu mi istaec verba dixisti ? 
 
 ERG. ^on^- 
 
 HEG. Di immortales, iterum gnatus videor, si vera autumas. 
 
 Alive and hearty, — in the packet boat 
 
 I saw him ; with him too that other spark, 
 
 Your captive, he of Elis, and besides, 
 
 Your slave Stalagmus, he that ran away. 
 
 And stole your little boy at four years old. 
 HEG. Away, you mock me. 
 ERG. Holy Gluttony 
 
 So help me, as I wish for evermore 
 
 By her high title to be dignified, 
 
 I saw — 
 HEG. My son ? 
 
 ERG. Your son, my Genius. 
 
 HEG. With him 
 
 The captive youth of Elis ? 
 ERG. By Apollo. 
 
 HEG. Stalagmus too, who stole my child — 
 ERG. By Cora ! 
 
 HEG. Long ago — 
 ERG. By Praeneste. 
 
 HEG. Come ? 
 
 ERG. By Signia. 
 
 HEG. Art sure ? 
 ERG. By Phrysinone. 
 
 HEG. Have a care, 
 
 You do not tell a falsehood. 
 ERG. By Alatrium. 
 
 HEG. Why do you swear thus by these foreign towns 
 
 With uncouth names ? 
 ERG. Because they are as rough 
 
 As is the supper which you said you'd give me. 
 HEG. A plague confound you ! 
 ERG. Why ? because you won*t 
 
 Believe me, though I speak in sober sadness. 
 HEG. And may I then rely on what you've said ? 
 ERG. You may rely. 
 HEG. O ye immortal Gods ! 
 
 If he speak truth, I shall seem born again. 
 
 675 
 
 680 
 
 685 
 

 7^ l>LAUtl ACT. IV. 
 
 ERG. Ain* tu? dubium habebis etiam, sancte quom ego iurem 
 tibi? 
 
 Postremo, Hegio, si parva iuri iurando 'st fides, 690 
 
 Vise ad portum. 
 
 ^^^- Facere certum 'st ; tu intus cura quod opus est. 
 
 Sume, posce, prome quidvis ; te facio cellarium. 
 ERG. Nam hercle nisi mantiscinatus probe ero, fusti pectito. 
 HEG. Aeternum tibi dapinabo victum, si vera autumas. 
 ERG. Undeid? 
 
 A me meoque gnato. 
 
 Sponden* tu istud ? 
 
 Spondeo. 695 
 ERG. At ego tuom tibi advenisse filium respondeo. 
 HEG. Cura quam optume potest. 
 
 ERC 
 
 Bene ambula et redambula. 
 
 Illic hinc abiit; mihi rem summam credidit— cibariam. 
 Di immortales, iam ut ego collos praetruncabo tegoribus ! 
 Quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido, 700 
 
 Quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas, 
 Quanta laniis lassitudo, quanta porcinariis ! 
 
 Nam si alia memorem, quae ad ventris victum conducunt, 
 mora 'st. 
 
 Nunc ibo, ut pro praefectura mea ius dicam larido 
 
 Et, quae pendent indemnatae, pernis auxilium ut feram. 
 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 
 705 
 
 -■•w. 
 
 SCENE t. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 7^ 
 
 690 
 
 ERG. And can you doubt me, when I swore so solemnly? 
 
 If you have little faith then in my oaths, 
 
 Go to the port yourself. 
 jjj^Q And so I will. 
 
 Take thou the necessary care within : 
 
 Use, and demand, broach any cask you like, 
 
 I make you cellarer. 
 £j^Q^ And if you find me 
 
 Not a true prophet, curry me with your cudgel. 
 HEG. If your intelligence should turn out true, 
 
 I will insure you everlasting eating. 
 
 ERG. From whence ? 
 
 From me and from my son. 
 
 You promise ? 
 
 I do. ^95 
 
 And I, too, that your son is come. 
 
 You'll manage for the best. 
 
 All good attend you. 
 
 [Exit Hegio. 
 
 He's gone, and has intrusted to my care 
 The high and grand concern of catering. 
 Immortal Gods ! how I shall cut and quarter ! 
 How I shall chop the crags from off the chines ! 
 What devastation will befal the hams ! 
 What a consumption rage among the bacon ! 
 What massacre of fat sows' paps ! of brawn 
 What havock will arise ! Then what fatigue 
 Awaits the butchers ! what the hog-killers ! 
 But to say more of what concerns good eating 
 Is loss of time, and hindrance. I will now 
 Go enter on my government, and sit 
 In judgment o'er the bacon, set at Uberty 
 Hams that have hung untried and uncondemn'd. 
 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 HEG. 
 ERG. 
 
 700 
 
 705 
 \Exit, 
 
N 
 
 " 
 
 "! 
 
 ^a l»LAUTI ACT. V. 
 
 ACTUS V. 
 
 SCAENA I. 
 
 PUER. 
 PUER. Diespiter te dique, Ergasile, perdant et ventrem tuom. 
 Quasi lupus esuriens metui ne vel in me faceret impetum ; 
 Nimisque hercle ego ilium male formidabam; ita frendebat 
 
 dentibus. 
 Adveniens totum deturbavit cum carne carnarium, 710 
 
 Arripuit gladium, praetruncavit tribus tegoribus glandia, 
 Aulas calicesque omnis confregit, nisi quae modiales erant ; 
 Cocum percontabatur, possentne seriae fervescere ; 
 Cellas refregit omnis intus reclusitque armarium. 715 
 
 Adservate istunc sultis, servi ; ego ibo, ut conveniam senem. 
 Dicam ut sibi penum aliud ornet, siquidem sese uti volet : 
 Nam, hie quidem ut adornat, aut ei iam nihil est aut iam nihil 
 
 erit. 
 
 SCAENA II. 
 
 HEGIO. PHILOPOLEMUS. PHILOCRATES. 
 
 STALAGMUS. 
 
 SCENE n. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 HEG. lovi disque ago gratias merito magnas, 
 Quom te redducem tuo patri reddiderunt 
 Quomque ex miseriis plurumis me exemerunt, 
 Quas, dum te carendum hie fuit, sustentabam, 
 Quomque hune eonspieor in potestate nostra 
 Quomque haec re reperta *st fides firma nobis. 
 
 720 
 
 73 
 
 715 
 
 ACT V. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Enter from HEGIO'S house a SLAVE BOY. 
 SLAVE BOY. May Jove and all the Gods, Ergasilus, 
 Confound thee and thy belly. Why I feared 
 He would have seiz'd me, like an hungry wolf: 
 I was indeed in a most piteous fright, 
 He made sueh horrid grinding with his teeth. 
 Soon as he eame, he knocked down the whole larder, 710 
 
 With all the meat in't : then he snatched a knife, 
 And stuck three pigs directly in the throat ; 
 Broke all the pots and cups that were not measure, 
 And ask'd the cook, whether the salting-pans 
 With their contents might not be clapp'd upon 
 The fire together all at once : he has broke 
 The cellar door down, laid the store-room open. 
 Secure him, I beseech you, fellow-servants : 
 I'll to my master, tell him he must order 
 Some more provisions, if he means to have 
 Any himself: for, as this fellow manages, 
 There's nothing left, or nothing will be shortly. 
 
 Scene IL 
 
 Enter HEGIO and PHILOPOLEMUS, followed by 
 PHILOCRATES and STALAGMUS. 
 HEG. O my dear boy ! To Jove and to the Gods, 
 In duty bound, I pay my utmost thanks : 
 
 That they have thus restored you to your father; 720 
 
 That they have freed me from the load of sorrow 
 I've labour'd under, since depriv'd of you ; 
 That I behold yon villain {pointing to Stalagnius) in my power; 
 And that this youth (pointing to Phitocrates) has kept his word 
 with me. 
 
 {Exit. 
 
PLAUTI ^^*^- ^* 
 
 74 
 
 PHILOP. Satis iam dolui ex animo et cura, satis me lacrumis 
 
 725 
 maceravi, 
 
 Satis iam audivi tuas aerumnas, ad portum mihi quas memorasti : 
 
 Hoc agamus. 
 PHILOC. Quid nunc, quoniam tecum servavi fidem 
 
 Tibique hunc reducem in libertatem feci ? 
 _.^^ Fecisti ut tibi, 
 
 Philocrates, numquam referre gratiam possim satis, 
 
 Proinde ut tu promeritu's de me et filio meo. 
 PHILOP Immopotes, 730 
 
 Pater, et petere id a te ego potero et di eam potestatem dabunt, 
 
 Ut beneficium bene merenti nostro merito muneres. 
 HEG. Quid opus 't verbis ? lingua nulla 'st qua negem quidquid 
 
 roges. 
 PHILOC. Postulo abs te ut mi ilium reddas servom, quern hic 
 
 reliqueram 
 Pignus pro me, qui mihi melior quam sibi semper fuit, 735 
 
 Pro benefactis eius uti ei pretium possim reddere- 
 HEG. Quod bene fecisti, referetur gratia id quod postulas. 
 Et id et aliud quod me orabis impetrabis ; atque te 
 Nolim suscensere quod ego iratus ei feci male- 
 
 PHILOC. Quid fecisti? 
 
 ^^Q In lapicidinas compeditum condidi, 740 
 
 Ubi rescivi mihi data esse verba. 
 
 PHILOC. V^^ "^^'^'^ "^^' • 
 
 Propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo. 
 
 HEG. At ob eam rem mihi libellam pro eo argenti ne duis ; 
 Gratiis a me, ut sit liber, ducito. 
 
 PHILOC. Edepol, Hegio, 
 
 Facis benigne. sed quaeso hominem ut iubeas arcessi. 
 
 HEG. ^^^^*- ''' 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 CAPTIVl. 
 
 75 
 
 PHILOP. No more, enough already I've experienc'd 
 Of heart-felt anguish, and disquietude 
 And tears enough have worn me,— I have heard 
 Enough too of your troubles, which just now 
 You told me at the Port. Then now to business. 
 
 PHILOC. Well, Sir, what recompense may I expect 
 For keeping of my word, and bringing back 
 Your son in liberty ? 
 
 ^EG- YouVe done, Philocrates, 
 
 What I can never thank you for enough. 
 So much you merit from my son and me. 
 PHILOP. Nay, but you can, my father, and I shall 
 Prevail with you ; the Gods too will enable you 
 Amply to pay a kindness back to one 
 Who has deserv'd so well of us. 
 ^^G. No more : — 
 
 {fo Philoc) IVe no tongue to deny whate'er you ask. 
 PHILOC. I ask of you that slave I left behind 
 An hostage for me (one, who ever has 
 Prefer'd my interest to his own), that so 
 I may reward him for his services. 
 HEG. Your services I'll thankfully repay. 
 That which you ask, and that and any thing 
 Which you require you may at once command. 
 Don't be offended that your slave has felt 
 The marks of my displeasure. 
 PHILOC. How displeasure ? 
 
 HEG. Finding myself impos'd upon, in chains 
 I had him laid, and sent him to the quarries. 
 PHILOC. Ah me ! it grieves me that this best of fellows 
 
 Should undergo these hardships for my sake. 
 HEG. I will have nothing therefore for his ransom : 
 
 Freed, without cost, so take him. 
 PHILOC. Kindly done. 
 
 But let him, pray, be sent for straight. 
 ^^^- He shall. 
 
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76 PLAUTI 
 
 Ubi estis vos ? ite actutum, Tyndarum hue arcessite. — 
 Vos ite intro : interibi ego ex hac statua verberea volo 
 Erogitare, meo minore quid sit factum filio. 
 Vos lavate interibi. 
 
 PHILOP. Sequere hac, Philocrates mie intro. 
 
 PHILOC. 
 
 ACT. V. 
 
 Sequor. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 77 
 
 (Calls Slaves within the house) Where are you? Go, bring Tyn- 
 
 darus here directly. 
 (To Philop. and Fhiloc.) Do you go in. Meantime will I examine 
 This whipping-post (pointing to Stal.) to learn what he has done 
 With my poor younger son. You'll bath the while. 
 PHILOP. Philocrates, you'll follow. 
 PHILOC. I attend you. 
 
 [Exeufit Philop. and Philoc. into house. 
 
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 SCAENA III. 
 
 HEGIO. STALAGMUS. 
 
 HEG. Age tu illuc procede, bone vir, lepidum mancupium 
 
 meum. 750 
 
 STAL. Quid me oportet facere, ubi tu talis vir falsum autumas ? 
 
 Fui ego bellus, lepidus ; bonus vir numquam neque frugi bonae 
 
 Neque ero umquam ; ne spem ponas me bonae frugi fore. 
 HEG. Propemodum ubi loci fortunae tuae sint facile intellegis ; 
 
 Recte et vera loquere; sed neque vere neque tu recte adhuc 755 
 
 Fecisti umquam. 
 STAL. Quod ego fatear credin' pudeat quom autumes? 
 
 HEG. At ego faciam ut pudeat ; nam in ruborem te totum dabo. 
 STAL. Eia, credo ego imperito plagas minitaris mihi ; 
 
 Tandem istaec aufer, die quid fers, ut feras hinc quod petis. 
 
 HEG. Satis facundu*s; sed iam fieri dicta compendi volo. 760 
 Hoc agamus. iam animum advorte ac mihi quae dicam edissere. 
 Si ens verax, ex tuis rebus feceris meliusculas. 
 
 STAL. Nugac istaec sunt; non me censes scire quiil dignus siem? 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 HEGIO and STALAGMUS. 
 
 HEG. My honest lad ! come hither ; my fine slave ! 750 
 
 STAL. What d'ye expect from me, when such a man 
 
 As you tells lies ? Yes, smart and fine ; — but good 
 
 Or honest I ne*er was, nor ever shall be ; 
 
 Hope not to make me so. 
 HEG. You see at once 
 
 Your situation : speak out honestly 
 
 And speak the truth, although you ne'er did either 755 
 
 In all your life before. 
 STAL. And do you think 
 
 I blush to own it, when yourself afiirm it ? 
 HEG. But I shall make you blush j nay, I will make you 
 
 Redden all over. 
 STAL. So ! you threaten me 
 
 As though I were not used to stripes. Away then — 
 
 Say what's your pleasure ? Tis but ask and have. 
 HEG. Fine talk ! but please economise your words. 760 
 
 To business — now attend and answer me 
 
 What I shall ask you. If you speak the truth 
 
 You'll better your condition. 
 STAL. That's a joke ! 
 
 Can you imagine that I do not know 
 
 What I deserve ? 
 
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 78 PLAUTI ACT. V. 
 
 HEG. At ea subterfugere potis es— pauca, si non omnia. 
 STAL. Pauca effugiam, scio : nam multa evenient et merito 
 meo, y6^ 
 
 Quia efFugi et tibi surripui filium et eum vendidi. 
 HEG. Quoi homini ? 
 
 STAL. Theodoromedi in Alide Polyplusio 
 
 Sex minis. 
 
 HEG. Pro di immortales ! is quidem huius est pater 
 
 Philocratis. 
 
 STAL. Quin melius novi quam te et vidi saepius. 
 
 HEG. Serva, luppiter supreme, et me et meum gnatum mihi. 770 
 Philocrates, per tuom te genium obsecro, exi ; te volo. 
 
 SCAENA IV. 
 
 PHILOCRATES. HEGIO. STALAGMUS. 
 PHIL. Hegio, adsum ; si quid me vis, impera. 
 MEG. Hie gnatum meum 
 
 Tuo patri ait se vendidisse sex minis in Alide. 
 PHIL. Quam diu id factum 'st ? 
 
 STAL. Hie annus incipit vieensumus. 
 
 PHIL. Falsa memorat. 
 
 STAL. Aut ego aut tu; nam tibi quadrimulum 775 
 
 Tuos pater peeuliarem parvolo puero dedit. 
 PHIL. Quid erat ei nomen ? si vera dieis, memora dum mihi. 
 STAL. Paegnium voeitatus 't ; post vos indidistis Tyndaro. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 765 
 
 770 
 
 HEG. But yet you may avoid 
 
 A part, if not the whole. 
 STAL. A trifling part : 
 
 Much is my due ; because I ran away, 
 
 And stole your son, then sold him. 
 f^EQ^ Sold ! to whom ? 
 
 STAL. Theodoromedes the Polyplusian 
 
 Of Elis, for six minae. 
 HEG. O ye Gods ! 
 
 He is the father of this same Philocrates. 
 STAL. I know him better than I know yourself, 
 
 And I have seen him oft'ner. 
 HEG. Jove supreme 
 
 Preserve me and my son ! {calling into house) Ho there ! Philo 
 crates 
 
 I beg you, as you love me, to come forth : 
 
 I want a word with you. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Enter PHILOCRATES. 
 
 PHIL. Sir, here I am : 
 
 Command me what you will : say, what's your pleasure ? 
 
 HEG. This fellow {pointing to Stal.) tells me that he sold my son 
 At Elis to your father for six minae. 
 
 PHIL, {to Stal.) How long was this ago ? 
 
 STAL. Near twenty years. 775 
 
 PHIL, {to Hegio) He says what is not true. 
 
 STAL. ^^ y^^ ^^ ^ ^^' 
 
 Your father gave you, when a child, a slave 
 Of four years old for your own use and service. 
 PHIL, {to Stal.) What was his name? If what you say is true, 
 
 Tell me his name. 
 STAL. His name was Paegnium, 
 
 But afterwards you call'd him Tyndarus. 
 
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 ACT. V. 
 
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 PHIL. Quor ego te non novi ? 
 
 STAL. Quia mos est oblivisci hominibus 
 
 Neque novisse, quoius nihili sit faciunda gratia. 780 
 
 PHIL. Die mihi, isne istic fuit quern vendidisti meo patri, 
 
 Qui mihi peculiaris datus est ? 
 STAL. Huius filius 
 
 HEG. Vivitne is homo ? 
 
 STAL. Argentum accepi, nil curavi ceterum. 
 
 HEG. Quid tu ais ? 
 
 ^HIL. Quin istic ipsus 't Tyndarus tuos filius, 
 
 Ut quidem hie argumenta loquitur; nam is mecum a puero 
 puer yg^ 
 
 Bene pudiceque educatus 't usque ad adulescentiam. 
 HEG. Et miser sum et fortunatus, si vos vera dicitis. 
 Eo miser sum quia male illi feci, si gnatus 't meus. 
 Eheu, quom ego plus minusque feci quam me aequom fuit. 
 Quod male feci, crucior; modo si infectum fieri possiet ! 790 
 
 Sed eccum incedit hue ornatus haud ex suis virtutibus. 
 
 SCAENA V. 
 TYNDARUS. HEGIO. PHILOCRATES. STALAGMUS. 
 TYND. Vidi ego multa saepe picta quae Acherunti fierent 
 Cruciamenta ; verum enim vero nulla adaeque 'st Acheruns 
 Atque ubi ego fui, in lapicidinis ; illic ibi demum 'st locus, 
 Ubi labore lassitudo 'st exigunda ex corpore. 795 
 
 Nam ubi illo adveni, quasi patriciis pueris aut monerulae 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 PHIL. How came I not to recollect you ? 
 STAL. 'Tis 
 
 The usual way with folks not to remember 
 
 Or know the man, whose favour is worth nothing. 
 PHIL. Tell me, — that slave, you sold unto my father, 
 
 And gave to me for my own service, was he 
 
 The one ? 
 STAL. Yes, 'twas his son {pointing to Hegio.) 
 
 HEG. And is the man 
 
 Alive ? 
 STAL. I had the money paid for him, 
 
 I car'd for nothing more. 
 HEG. (Jo Philoc.) And what say you ? 
 
 PHIL. That he, this very Tyndarus, is your son. 
 
 The proofs shew. He was brought up from a boy 
 
 With me a boy in modesty and virtue 
 
 Even to manhood. 
 HEG. If ye speak the truth 
 
 I am indeed both happy and unhappy. 
 
 I am unhappy, if he is my son. 
 
 That I have us'd severity towards him. 
 
 Ah me ! I've treated him with less affection 
 
 And with more cruelty than it behoved me. 
 
 It grieves me I have wrought him so much harm : 
 
 Would it had ne'er been done ! But see, he comes. 
 
 Accoutred little suiting to his virtues. 
 
 Scene V. 
 
 Enter TYNDARUS. 
 
 TYND. I've often seen the torments of the darnn'd 
 In pictures represented : but no Hell 
 Can equal that, where I was, in the Quarries. 
 That is a place where ev'ry limb with toil 
 And labour must be wearied. Soon as I 
 
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 ACT. V. 
 
 Aut anites aut coturnices dantur, quicum lusitent, 
 
 Itidem mi haec advenienti upupa, qui me delectem, data 'st. 
 
 Sed ems eccum ante ostium 'st ; erus alter eccum ex Alide 
 
 Rediit. 
 HEG. O salve, exoptate gnate mi. 
 
 TYND. Hem, quid * gnate mi ? ' 800 
 
 Attat scio quor te patrem adsimules esse et me filium ; 
 
 Quia mi, item ut parentes, lucis das tuendi copiam. 
 PHIL. Salve, Tyndare. 
 
 TYND. Et tu, quoius causa banc aerumnam exigo. 
 
 PHIL. At nunc liber in divitias faxo venies ; nam tibi 
 
 Pater hie est : hie servos, qui te huic hinc quadrimum surpuit, 805 
 
 Vendidit patri meo te sex minis : is te mihi 
 
 Parvolum peculiarem parvolo puero dedit. 
 
 Illic indicium fecit ; nam hunc ex Alide hue redduximus. 
 
 Quin huius filium intus eccum, fratrem germanum tuom. 
 TYND. Quid tu ais? adduxtin* ilium huius captivom filium ? 8to 
 PHIL. Quin, inquam, intus hie est. 
 
 TYND. Fecisti edepol et recte et bene. 
 
 PHIL. Nunc tibi pater hie est. hie fur est tuos qui parvom hinc 
 
 te abstulit. 
 TYND. At ego hunc grandis grandem natu ob furtum ad carnu- 
 
 ficem dabo. 
 PHIL. Meritus est erga te. 
 TYND. Ergo edepol merit^m mercedem dabo. 
 
 Sed die, oro, pater meus tun' es. 
 HEG. Ego sum, gnate mi. 815 
 
 SCENE v. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
 ^3 
 
 800 
 
 805 
 
 Arriv'd there, as your brats of quality 
 
 Have daws, or ducks, or quails to play with, me 
 
 They gave, t' amuse myself withal, a Crow, {turns and sees Hegio 
 
 and Philoc.) 
 
 But see, my master's here before his door ! 
 
 My other master too, return'd from Elis ! 
 HEG. Welcome, my long-lost son ! 
 TYND. {astonished ) Ha ! what ? your son ! 
 
 Yes, yes, I understand you, why you call 
 
 Yourself my father, me your son : you've done. 
 
 As parents do, caus'd me to see the light. 
 PHIL. Welcome, dear Tyndarus ! 
 TYND. And you too, though 
 
 On your account I undergo this trouble. 
 PHIL. But through my means you'll now arrive at wealth 
 
 And liberty. This is your father {pointing to Hegio.) 
 
 This {pointing to Stat. ) 
 The slave, that stole you hence at four years old, 
 And sold you to my father for six minae, 
 Who gave you to me, then a little boy 
 Like to yourself, for my own use and service. 
 He has confess'd the whole : we've brought him back 
 From Elis hither; and the old man's son. 
 
 Your brother, is within. gj^ 
 
 TYND. What's that? Have you 
 
 Then brought him home ? 
 
 ■^^^L- I tell you, he's within. 
 
 TYND. 'Twas rightly done in you. 
 
 PHIL, {pointing to Hegio) This is your father. 
 
 And that {pointing to Stat.) the thief, who stole you when a boy. 
 TYND. And for that theft, now I'm a man as he is, 
 
 I'll give him to the hangman. 
 ^^IL. He's deserved it. 
 
 TYND. And I'll reward him after his deserts. 815 
 
 {to Hegio) But tell me, pray, are you indeed my father? 
 HEG. I am, my son. 
 
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 ^LAUTI 
 
 ACT. V. 
 
 TYND. Nunc edepol demum in memoriam regredior audisse mc 
 
 Quasi per nebulam — Hegionem meum patrem vocarier. 
 HEG. Is ego sum. 
 PHIL. Compedibus quaeso ut tibi sit levior fUius 
 
 Atque hie gravior servos. 
 HEG. Certum *st principio id praevortier. 
 
 Eamus iutro, ut arcessatur faber, ut istas compedis 820 
 
 Tibi adimam, huic dem. 
 STAL. Quoi peculi nihil est, recte feceris 
 
 TYND. Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabula 'st ; 
 
 Qui pudicitiae esse voltis praemium, plausum date. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CAPTIVI. 
 
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 TYND. At length I recollect, 
 
 And have a dark remembrance, that I've heard 
 My father's name was Hegio. 
 
 HEG. I am he. 
 
 PHIL. O let your son be lighten'd of those chains, 
 And that slave loaded with them. 
 
 HEG. *'ris my purpose ; 
 
 I'll do it the first thing. Then let us in, 
 And straight send for the smith to take the chains 
 From off my son, and give them to that rascal. 
 
 STAL. 'Tis right to give them me, for I have nothing. 
 
 TYND. Kind friends, the moral of our play is good ; 
 All who like good rewarded, clap your hands. 
 
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INDEX TO ARCHAIC FORMS OF WORDS IN 
 
 THE CAPTIVI. 
 
 1. 3 quom = quum ; cf. 1. 6o, &c. 
 4 vivont = vivunt; cf. 1. 140, ser- 
 vom. 
 
 20 quotiensquomque = quotiens- 
 
 cumque. 
 
 21 fili s= filii. 
 
 22 maxume = maxime ; cf. I. 151, 
 
 pessumi 
 24 suom = suum ; cf. 1. 61, tuos. 
 27 advorte «* adverte. 
 
 sis = si vis ; cf. 1. 94, &c. 
 34 fugiundi «= fugiendi ; cf. 1. 70, 
 
 edundi. 
 47 gnati =« nati ; cf. 1. 61, &c. 
 64 quoi = cui. 
 79 maritumi = maritimi. 
 84 eccum = ecce eum. 
 89 mi = mihi. 
 98 temperi = tempori (tempore) ; 
 
 cf. 1. 106. 
 Ill labos = labor. 
 114 queit = quit. 
 134 istae = istius. 
 
 156 ted = te (with the old abl. 
 termin. but here ace. ) ; cf. 
 11. 242, 306. 
 163 servibas = servicbas; cf. 1. 412, 
 
 aibat. 
 170 circummoeniti = circummuniti. 
 176 fuat = old subj. of (fui) ; cf. Gk. 
 4>uft>. Used as = sit ; cf. 1. 332, 
 fuas. 
 
 181 nescibo = old fut. of nescio ; cf. 
 
 1. 461, audibis; 1. 568, cus- 
 todibitur ; 1. 606, scibitur. 
 
 182 tostrina = tonstrina. 
 
 1. 186 mavelis = malis — uncontracted 
 
 cf. 1. 381. 
 195 ipsus = ipse ; cf. 1. 350, Sec. 
 205 sacruficat = sacrificat. 
 208 excjuaesivero = exquisivcro. 
 223 faterin' = fateris-ne? 
 229 illi = illic ; cf. 1. 239. 
 240 cluens = cliens ; cf. 1. 318, la< 
 
 crumas. 
 244 donicum = donee. 
 262 collus =» collum ; cf. I. 699, 
 
 collos. 
 
 264 dice = die. 
 
 265 vin' = vis-ne? cf. I. 403, ain' = 
 
 ais-ne ? 
 267 volt = vult ; cf. 1. 384. 
 297 monerier = moneri ; cf. 1. 362, 
 
 adipiscier ; 1. 404, insputarier ; 
 
 1. 573, impingier; 1. 576, cu- 
 
 rarier ; I.647, irascier ; 1. 817, 
 
 vocarier ; 1. 819, praevortier. 
 299 utrique = utriusque ; cf. 1. 134, 
 
 istae. 
 301 quoique = cuique. 
 345 sultis = si vultis ; cf. 1. 506, &c. ; 
 
 cf. 1. 27, sis. 
 360 abnuont = abnuunt ; cf. 1. 4, 
 
 vivont. 
 399 istic = iste ; cf. 1. 449, &c. 
 406 is = eis. 
 462 expurigare = expurgare. 
 
 493 illic = ille ; cf. istic. 
 
 494 pigneri = pignori; cf. 1. 98, 
 
 temperi. 
 521 aestumo »= aestimo ; cf. 1. 205, 
 sacruficat. 
 
 INDEX {continued). 
 
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 1. 542 votuin* = vetui-nc - so next line, 
 
 votuisti. 
 543 quor = cur ; cf. 11. 554, 578, &c.; 
 
 cf. quom = quum (cum). 
 571 moriri = mori. 
 594 surpuit = surripuit, cf. 1. 805. 
 
 1. 59S neminis = in classical Lat. nul- 
 lius. 
 619 quemque = quemcunque. 
 627 quoius = cujus ; cf. 11. 780, 803- 
 707 Diespiter = Jupiter. 
 714 cocum = coquum. 
 
 ARCHAIC FORMS, Showing the S of the Old Future 
 (and I St Aorist) Stem, corresponding to the Greek o". 
 
 1. 41 faxis — fut. indie. 
 66 dixis — fut. subj. 
 ,, induxis ,, 
 83 reconciliassere — fut. infin. 
 87 faxint — fut. subj. ; so 1. 226, 
 
 faxint ; 1. 464, faxit; I. 551, 
 faxit. 
 
 1. 427 reconciliasso — fut. indie. 
 622 faxo — fut. indie. ; so 1. 804, 
 faxo ; 1. 534, faxis. 
 
 FORMS Showing the Characteristic I of the 
 
 Old Optative. 
 
 1. 236 duis — from do, used as subj. ; 
 cf. 1. 448, creduis ; 1. 567, 
 perduis ; 1. 743, duis. 
 
 1. 411 siet — from sum, used as subj. ; 
 cf. 11.468, 575; 1.763, siet; 
 1. 790, possiet. 
 
 WORDS BORROWED FROM GREEK. 
 
 1. 108 trapezitam = rpaire^rriv. 
 124 apage = iwayc. 
 190 eugepae = fZyt iro7. 
 258 minas = nvas. 
 339 syngraphum = a{rfypa4>ov. 
 413 Alcumeus = *h\Kfx4oiv. 
 443 mastigiae = fAaanyitf. 
 480 techinis = Tfxvats. 
 562 latomias = Karofitas. 
 
 1- 59° phylacam = ^vXaicffv. 
 649 pernas = irtpvas. 
 
 652 ophthalmiam = 6<p0a\ix(av. 
 
 653 horaeum = wpaTov. 
 
 ,, scombrum — aKdfifipoif. 
 ,, trugonum = rpvydva, 
 ,, cetum = KTJTos, 
 778 Paegnium = iratyviov. 
 
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