Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, H. T., translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.

  1. By my troth, wench, you don’t understand how great an honor I am now paying her.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. I know, and I shall tell her so.
PALAESTRIO
  1. To another he could have sold his favours for his weight in gold.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. I’ faith, I believe you in that.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Of those that are parents by him true warriors are born, and his sons live eight hundred years.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. aside to PALAESTRIO. Fie on you for a fibber!
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Why, straight on, from age to age, they live for a thousand years.
PALAESTRIO
  1. I spoke within limits, for the reason that she mightn’t suppose I was telling lies to her.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. aside. I burst, I die! Aloud. How many years will he live himself whose sons live so long?
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Wench, I was born the day after Jupiter was born of Ops.