Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

  1. Yes, you.
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. I, who arrived from Athens yesterday evening at Ephesus, with my lover, a young man of Athens?
SCELEDRUS
  1. Tell me, what business have you here in Ephesus?
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. I had heard that my own twin-sister is here in Ephesus; I came here to look for her.
SCELEDRUS
  1. You’re a good-for-nothing woman.
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. Yes, i’ faith, I am a very foolish one to be parleying with you fellows. I am going.
SCELEDRUS
  1. I won’t let you go. Catches hold of her.
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. Let me go.
SCELEDRUS
  1. You are discovered in the fact. I won’t let you go.
PHILOCOMASIUM
  1. But my hands shall just now sound again against your cheek, if you don’t let me go.