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Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure · 1852

Act III, Scene V

by Plautus c. 254 – 184 BC

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)


Enter ANTHRAX, from the house of MEGADORUS.

ANTH. (speaking to some within). Dromo, do you scale the fish. Do you, Machserio, have the conger and the lamprey boned. I'm going to ask the loan of a baking-pan of our neighbour Congrio. You, if you are wise, will have that capon more smoothly picked for me than is a plucked play-actor. But what's this clamour that's arising here hard by? By my faith, the cooks, I do believe, are at their usual pranks. I'll run in-doors, lest there may be any disturbance here for me as well. (Retreats into the house of Megadorus.)

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Plautus. Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure, Act III, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-aulularia-riley/13/.

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Plautus. Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure, Act III, Scene V. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-aulularia-riley/13/.

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