Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. I’m off. Exit.
PALAESTRIO
  1. And do you to ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA be off hence in-doors this instant, for I’m quite sure that he’ll just now be coming out hence from in-doors.
ACROTELEUTIUM
  1. With us your command is as good as law.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Come, then, begone. But see, the door opens opportunely. The women go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.
Enter PYRGOPOLINICES from his house.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. What I wished I have obtained just as I wished, on kind and friendly terms, that she would leave me.
PALAESTRIO
  1. For what reason am I to say that you have been so long in-doors?
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. I never was so sensible that I was beloved by that woman as now.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Why so?
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. How many words she did utter! How the matter was protracted! But in the end I obtained what I wanted, and I granted her what she wanted and what she asked of me. I made a present of you also to her.
PALAESTRIO
  1. What—me, too? In what way shall I exist without you?