Comedy · 161 BC
Phormio
The Scheming Parasite
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
Terence's most celebrated comedy of intrigue: a parasite weds a penniless girl to a young Athenian by a trick at law, and two old brothers are caught out by a secret that Phormio holds, in Riley's literal prose.
Contents · 33 parts
- Argument (Periocha) of Sulpicius Apollinaris1 paragraph
- Dramatis Personae11 lines
- Prologue1 paragraph
- Act I, Scene I2 paragraphs
- Act I, Scene II54 paragraphs
- Act I, Scene III8 paragraphs
- Act I, Scene IV51 lines
- Act I, Scene V10 lines
- Act I, Scene VI53 paragraphs
- Act I, Scene VII2 paragraphs
- Act II, Scene I27 paragraphs
- Act II, Scene II76 lines
- Act II, Scene III17 lines
- Act II, Scene IV25 lines
- Act II, Scene V63 lines
- Act II, Scene VI42 lines
- Act III, Scene I12 paragraphs
- Act III, Scene II2 paragraphs
- Act III, Scene III50 lines
- Act III, Scene IV17 paragraphs
- Act III, Scene V14 paragraphs
- Act III, Scene VI43 lines
- Act IV, Scene I12 lines
- Act IV, Scene II2 paragraphs
- Act IV, Scene III17 lines
- Act IV, Scene IV41 lines
- Act IV, Scene V9 lines
- Act IV, Scene VI2 paragraphs
- Act IV, Scene VII10 paragraphs
- Act IV, Scene VIII44 lines
- Act IV, Scene IX2 paragraphs
- Act V, Scene I73 lines
- Act V, Scene II99 lines