Comedy · 1852

Captivi

The Captives

by Plautus

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)

A comedy of two captives who swap names and clothes, so that a slave may send his master home, while the old man who owns them does not know that the slave is his own lost son.

Contents · 22 parts

• Dramatis Personae10 lines
• The Acrostic Argument1 paragraph
• The Prologue2 paragraphs
• Act I, Scene I3 paragraphs
• Act I, Scene II41 lines
• Act II, Scene I24 paragraphs
• Act II, Scene II50 paragraphs
• Act II, Scene III33 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene I2 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene II2 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene III2 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene IV85 lines
• Act III, Scene V36 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene VI3 paragraphs
• Act IV, Scene I2 paragraphs
• Act IV, Scene II90 lines
• Act IV, Scene III2 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene I2 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene II16 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene III17 lines
• Act V, Scene IV15 lines
• Act V, Scene V19 paragraphs

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