The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2Bohn, 1852 - Greece |
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ACAN ADEL Agorastocles Alcmena alludes AMPH Amphitryon ASSIST BLEPH brought called Carthaginian Casina casket CHALINUS CHAR CLEOSTRATA coming Courtesan Dæmones daughter Demipho Dinarchus door DORDALUS enquire entreat EPID Epidicus Eutychus faith father fellow GETA give go in-doors Gods goes GRIP Gripus hand haste hither hold your tongue husband Jupiter LABRAX Lemnos look Lycus LYSIMACHUS means MERC Milphio minæ mistress music-girl OLYMPIO Palæstra PERI Periphanes person PHAN PHRON Phronesium Plautus Play PLES pointing Priscian Prithee Procurer SAGARISTIO SCENE II.-Enter SCEP servant Sicyon slave SOPH Sosia speak STALINO STRAT Stratippocles suppose sure Teleboans tell Temple thee there's THEU things to-day Toxilus TRACH TRACHALIO Tranio troth undone Venus wallet What's the matter wife wish woman word wretched young Аст
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Page 305 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
Page 233 - But still consider, the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is, which never entrusts its life to one hole only ; inasmuch as, if one hole is blocked up, it seeks another as a place of refuge.
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Page 7 - Struggle as thou mayst, perverse one, still thou shalt not escape. So ordain it, ye Gods, and let no time the obsidian stone, or, as it is now called, the Icelandic agate, as being used for this purpose. Nero is said to have used emeralds for mirrors. Pliny the Elder says that mirrors were made in the glass-houses of Sidon, which consisted of glass plates, with leaves of metal at the back ; they were probably of an inferior character. Those of copper and tin were made chiefly at Brundisium.
Page 290 - ... in doubt whether Ceyx was sensible of this, or whether, by the motion of the wave, he seemed to raise his countenance ; but really he was sensible of it ; and, at length, through the pity of the Gods above, both were changed into birds. Meeting with the same fate, even then their love remained. Nor, when now birds, is the conjugal tie dissolved : they couple, and they become parents ; and for seven calm days...
Page 104 - Phoebus apply ? and he advised him to grieve with moderation, and accalled from its resemblance in shape to a bubble of water. These were especially worn by the Roman children, suspended from the neck, and were mostly made of thin plates of gold, being of about the size of a walnut. The use of these ornaments was derived from the people of Etruria ; and though originally worn only by the children of the Patricians, they were subsequently used by all of free birth. The children of the Libertini, or...
Page 52 - Procurer he comes; he purchases the damsel for himself at the price of thirty minae, and gives him earnest, and binds the Procurer with an oath. This Procurer, just as befitted him, did not value at one straw his word, or what, on oath, he had said to the young man. He had a guest, a fit match for himself, an old man of Sicily, a rascal from Agrigentum, a traitor to his native...
Page 198 - This is somewhat similar to a passage in Ovid's Art of Love, B. 3, 1. 449, where he speaks of the habit of well-dressed thieves getting into the houses of the courtesans, and the consequences. " Perhaps the best dressed of the number of these may be some thief, and he may be attracted by a desire for your clothes. ' Give me back my property !' full oft do the plundered damsels cry ; ' give me back my property !' the whole Forum resounding with their cries.
Page 165 - ... pallium' as often means a coverlet as a garment. Sometimes they were used as carpets, and sometimes as awnings or curtains. When worn, it was passed over the left shoulder, then drawn behind the back and under the right arm, leaving it bare, and then thrown again over the left shoulder. For a very full account of the ' pallium,