Adelphi · 160 BC
Act IV, Scene X
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
DEMEA alone.
DEM. O Jupiter! here’s a life! here are manners! here’s madness! A wife to be coming without a fortune! A music-wench in the house! A house full of wastefulness! A young man ruined by extravagance! An old man in his dotage! --Should Salvation herself desire it, she certainly could not save this family. (Exit.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act IV, Scene X. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/27/.
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Terence. Adelphi, Act IV, Scene X. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/terence-adelphi-riley/27/.