Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure · 1852
Act I, Scene II
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)
STAPHYLA, alone.
STAPH. By heavens, I cannot now conceive what misfortune, or what insanity, I am to say has befallen my master; in such a way does he often, ten times in one day, in this fashion push wretched me out of the house. I' faith, I know not what craziness does possess this man; whole nights is he on the watch; then, too, all the day long does he sit for whole days together at home like a lame cobbler. Nor can I imagine now by what means to conceal the disgrace of my master's daughter, whose lying-in approaches near; and there isn't anything better for me, as I fancy, than to make one long capital letter of myself, when I've tied up my neck in a halter.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Plautus. Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure, Act I, Scene II. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-aulularia-riley/4/.
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Plautus. Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure, Act I, Scene II. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-aulularia-riley/4/.