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Phormio · 161 BC

Act IV, Scene II

by Terence c. 195 – c. 159 BC

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)


GETA, alone.

GETA. The money’s been got for Phædria; it’s all hushed about the lawsuit; due care has been taken that she’s not to leave for the present. What next, then? What’s to be done? You are still sticking in the mud. You are paying by borrowing; the evil that was at hand, has been put off for a day. The toils are increasing upon you, if you don’t look out. Now I’ll away home, and tell Phanium not to be afraid of Nausistrata, or his talking. (Goes into the house of DEMIPHO.)

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Terence. Phormio, Act IV, Scene II. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/terence-phormio-riley/23/.

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Terence. Phormio, Act IV, Scene II. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/terence-phormio-riley/23/.

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