Comedy · 1852

Pseudolus

The Cheat

by Plautus

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)

A comedy of intrigue: the slave Pseudolus promises his young master Calidorus that he will win back the girl Phoenicium, whom the pimp Ballio has sold to a soldier, and he does it by tricking pimp, soldier's messenger and his own master alike. Cicero records that Plautus himself counted it among his best plays.

Contents · 9 parts

• Dramatis Personae12 lines
• The Subject1 paragraph
• The Acrostic Argument1 paragraph
• The Prologue1 paragraph
• Act Iabout 390 lines
• Act IIabout 140 lines
• Act III44 paragraphs
• Act IVabout 270 lines
• Act V53 lines

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