Miles Gloriosus
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, H. T., translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.
- Well, when I’m dressed out, why don’t you tell me what I’m to do then?
- Come here, and, in the name of her mother, bring word to Philocomasium, that, if she would return to Athens, she must go with you to the harbour directly, and that she must order it to be carried down to the ship if she wishes anything to be put on board; that if she doesn’t go, you must weigh anchor, for the wind is favourable.
- I like your plan much: do proceed.
- The Captain will at once advise her to go speedily that she may not delay her mother.
- Every way you are clever.
- I shall tell him that she asks for me as a helper to carry her baggage down to the harbour. I shall go, and, understand you, I shall immediately be off with you straight to Athens.
- And when you have reached there, I’ll never let you be ashore three days before you’re free.
- Be off speedily and equip yourself.
- Is there anything besides?
- Only to remember all this.
- I’m off. Exit.
- And do you to ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA be off hence in-doors this instant, for I’m quite sure that he’ll just now be coming out hence from in-doors.
- With us your command is as good as law.
- Come, then, begone. But see, the door opens opportunely. The women go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.
Enter PYRGOPOLINICES from his house.PYRGOPOLINICES PALAESTRIO PYRGOPOLINICES PALAESTRIO PYRGOPOLINICES PALAESTRIO
- What I wished I have obtained just as I wished, on kind and friendly terms, that she would leave me.
- For what reason am I to say that you have been so long in-doors?
- I never was so sensible that I was beloved by that woman as now.
- Why so?
- How many words she did utter! How the matter was protracted! But in the end I obtained what I wanted, and I granted her what she wanted and what she asked of me. I made a present of you also to her.
- What—me, too? In what way shall I exist without you?