Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. To whom but to yourself?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. What person are you? Or what business have you with me?
SCELEDRUS
  1. O, you ask me who I am, do you?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. Why shouldn’t I ask that which I don’t know?
PALAESTRIO
  1. Who am I, then, if you don’t know him?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. You are an annoyance to me, whoever you are, both you and he.
SCELEDRUS
  1. What? don’t you know us?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. No, neither of you.
SCELEDRUS
  1. I very much fear—
PALAESTRIO
  1. What do you fear?