Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. Faith, I see no one, only him whom we want to meet.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Just as I want you.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. How do you do, our master-plotter?
PALAESTRIO
  1. I, the master-plotter? Nonsense.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. How so?
PALAESTRIO
  1. Because, in comparison with yourself, I am not worthy to fix a beam in a wall.
ACROTELEUTIUM
  1. Aye, indeed so.
PALAESTRIO
  1. She’s a very fluent and a very clever hand at mischief. How charmingly she did polish off the Captain.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. But still, not enough.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Be of good courage all the business is now prospering under our hands. Only do you, as you have begun, still give a helping hand; for the Captain himself has gone in-doors, to entreat his mistress to leave his house, with her mother and sister, for Athens.