Adelphi · 160 BC
Act IV, Scene III
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
SYRUS alone.
SYR. Go, by all means. I’ll work you to day, you skeleton, as you deserve. Æschinus loiters intolerably; the breakfast’s spoiling; and as for Ctesipho, he’s head and ears in love. I shall now think of myself, for I’ll be off at once, and pick out the very nicest bit, and, leisurely sipping my cups, I’ll lengthen out the day. (Goes into the house.)
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act IV, Scene III. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/20/.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act IV, Scene III. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/20/.