Menaechmi · 1852
Act V, Scene I (second Act V heading)
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)
Enter the Old Man, very slowly.
Old Man. My bones ache with sitting, my eyes with watching, while waiting for the Doctor, till he returned from his business. At last the troublesome fellow has with difficulty got away from his patients. He says that he has set a broken leg for Aesculapius, and an arm for Apollo. I'm now thinking whether I'm to say that I'm bringing a doctor or a carpenter. But, see, here he comes.--Do get on with your ant's pace.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Plautus. Menaechmi, Act V, Scene I (second Act V heading). Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-menaechmi-riley/20/.
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Plautus. Menaechmi, Act V, Scene I (second Act V heading). Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/plautus-menaechmi-riley/20/.