Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. But the left one I mean.
PLEUSICLES
  1. I’ll tell you. On account of the sea, I use this eye less; but if I kept away from the sea[*](From the sea: There is a pun here, which cannot be preserved in the translation. Si abstinuissem a mareIf I kept away from the sea, may also be read, Si abstinuissem amare, If I refrained from loving. The Captain understands him in the former sense, thinking that he means that he has got a disease in his eye, which may be increased by leading a seafaring life.), I should use the one like the other. But they are detaining me too long.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. See, here they are coming out.
Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.
PALAESTRIO
  1. to PHILOCOMASIUM. Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.
PALAESTRIO
  1. See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister pointing to PLEUSICLES.
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. I see him.
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Palaestrio, do you hear?
PALAESTRIO
  1. What is your pleasure?
PYRGOPOLINICES
  1. Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?