Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. Was it so?
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. It was so, on my word.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Bid her go home; I’ll be there just now.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. Take care, and don’t keep her in expectation; don’t torment her feelings.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Not I, indeed. Do you go then.
MILPHIDIPPA
  1. We are going. ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. But what do I see?
PALAESTRIO
  1. What do you see?
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. See there, some one is coming, I know not who, but in a sailor’s dress.
PALAESTRIO
  1. He is surely wanting us, now; really, it is the shipmaster.