Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. We are done for.
PALAESTRIO
  1. What’s the matter?
PERIPLECOMENUS
  1. The thing’s discovered.
PALAESTRIO
  1. What thing’s discovered?
PERIPLECOMENUS
  1. Some one just now of your household was looking in from the tiles through our skylight at Philocomasium and my guest as they were toying together.
PALAESTRIO
  1. What person saw it?
PERIPLECOMENUS
  1. Your fellow-servant.
PALAESTRIO
  1. Which person was it?
PERIPLECOMENUS
  1. I don’t know; he took himself off so suddenly—in an instant.
PALAESTRIO
  1. I suspect I’m ruined.