- Source
- Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi006.humanitext-lat2:861-941
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
Olympio reveals how he was violently beaten by the "bride" (Chalinus in disguise) in the bridal chamber and barely escaped. Subsequently, his master Lysidamus enters, having suffered a similar fate, and laments his utter ruin and disgrace.
poéta, atque ut haéc est fabré facta ab nóbis.
[No] poet [ever made], and how craftily this has been fashioned by us.
Optúnso ore núnc pervelím progredíri
I would very much like the old man to come forward now
seném, quo senéx nequiór nullus vívit.1
with a battered face, than whom no more worthless old man lives.
ne illum quidem
Nor indeed do I think
néquiorem árbitror ésse, qui locum
that man is any less worthless, who provides
praébet illí té nunc praesidem
him a place. I want you now, Pardalisca, to be
volo híc, Pardalísca, esse, qui hínc exeat
our guard here, so that whoever comes out from here,
eum ut lúdibrio hábeas.
you may make a mockery of him.
Libens fecero et solens.
I will do so gladly and habitually.
spectato: hinc omnia, intus quid agant
Watch! From here we can see all that they do inside.
pone me, amabo.
Stand behind me, please.
Et ibi audacius licet
And there you may more boldly
quaé velis líbere próloqui.
speak out freely what you wish.
Tace,
Be silent,
vostrá foris crépuit.
your door creaked.
Neque quó fugiam neque ubí lateam neque hoc dédecus quo modo célem
Neither where to flee, nor where to hide, nor how to conceal this disgrace
scio, tántum erus atque ego flágitio superávimus nuptiis nóstris,
do I know, so greatly have my master and I surpassed in infamy by our wedding,
ita núnc pudeo atque ita núnc paveo atque ita inrídiculo sumus ámbo.
so ashamed am I now, and so terrified now, and so much of a laughing-stock are we both.
sed ego ínsipiens nova núnc facio: pudet quém prius non puditum úmquamst.2
But I, foolishly, am doing something new now: he is ashamed who was never ashamed before.
operám date, dum mea fácta itero: est operaé pretium auribus áccipere,
Pay attention while I repeat my deeds: it is worth the effort to receive them with your ears,
ita rídicula auditu, íteratu ea súnt quae ego intus túrbavi.
so ridiculous to hear and to repeat are those things which I threw into confusion inside.
ubi intro hánc novam nuptam déduxi, rectá via in conclave ábduxi.
When I led this new bride inside, I led her by the straight way into the chamber.
sed ténebrae ibi erant tamquam ín puteo; dum sénex abest decumbe ínquam.
But there was darkness there like in a well; while the old man is away, “Lie down,” I say.
cónloco fúlcio móllio blándior,
I place her, support her, soften her, coax her,
út prior quám senex núptias pérpetrem.
so that I may consummate the marriage before the old man.
tárdus esse ílico coépi, quoniam
At once I began to be slow, because
respecto identidem, ne senex
I kept looking back again and again, lest the old man [should come].
inlecebram stupri principio eam savium posco,
To start the enticement of passion, I demand a kiss from her;
réppulit míhi manum, néque enim dare sibi sávium me sivit.
she pushed my hand back, and indeed did not allow me to give her a kiss.
enim iám magis adproperó, magis iam libet ín Casinam inruere
But now I hurry more, now it pleases me more to rush upon Casina;
cupio íllam operam seni súrripere, forem óbdo, ne senex me ópprimeret.
I desire to steal that opportunity from the old man; I bolt the door, lest the old man catch me by surprise.
Ágedum, tuadi hunc.
Come on, go to him.
Ópsecro, ubi túa nova núptast?
Please, where is your new bride?
Perii hércle ego, manifésta res.
By Hercules, I am ruined! The matter is manifest.
Omnem órdine rem
All the matter in order...
fatéri ergo aequom est. quíd intus agitur? quíd agit Casina?
Therefore it is right to confess. What is being done inside? What is Casina doing?
satin mórigera est?
Is she compliant enough?
Pudet dícere.
I am ashamed to say.
Memora órdine, ut occéperas.
Tell it in order, as you had begun.
Pudet hércle.
By Hercules, I am ashamed.
Age audacter
Come, boldly...
postquám decubuisti, índe volo memoráre quid est factum
After you lay down, I want you to tell from there what was done.
flagitium est.
It is a disgrace.
Cavebunt qui audierint. faciant
Those who hear will be careful. Let them do...
hoc magnus est.
This is a big thing.
Perdis. quin tu pergis?
You are ruining me. Why don’t you go on?
Vbi
When...
us suptus porro
[fragmentary]
Quid?
What?
Babae.
My word!
Quid?
What?
Papae.
Wow!
est?
is it?
Oh, erat maximum.
Oh, it was huge.
ferrum ne haberet metui: id quaerere occepi
I feared lest she had a weapon; I began to search for it.
dum gladium quaero, ne habeat, arripio capulum.
While I search for a sword, lest she have one, I grab the hilt.
séd cum cogitó, non habuit gládium, nam esset frígidus.
But when I think about it, she didn’t have a sword, for it would have been cold.
Éloquere.
Speak out.
At pudét.
But I am ashamed.
Num radix fúit,
Was it a radish?
Non fuít.
It was not.
Num cucumis?
Was it a cucumber?
Profecto hercle non fuit quicquam holerum,3
By Hercules, it was certainly nothing of vegetables,
nisí, quidquid erat, cálamitas profécto attigerat númquam.
except that, whatever it was, disaster had certainly never touched it.
íta, quidquid erat, grande erat.
Indeed, whatever it was, it was huge.
Quíd fit denique? edisserta.
What happens finally? Tell in detail.
Vbi appello Casinam, †inquit
[fragmentary] When I address Casina, I say:
“amábo, mea uxórcula, cur vírum tuom sic me spérnis?
”Please, my little wife, why do you thus reject your husband, me?
nimis tú quidem hercle immérito
By Hercules, you do these things to me very undeservedly
meó mi haec facís, quia mihí te expetívi.”
on my part, because I desired you for myself.”
ílla haud verbum fácit et saepit véste id qui estis múlieres.
She says not a word and covers it with her dress, as you women do.
úbi illum saltum vídeo opsaeptum, rógo ut alteró sinat ire.
When I see that pass blocked, I ask her to let me go by another way.
volo, ut obvertam, cubitis im
I want to turn her, but with her elbows she...
ullum muttit e
[fragmentary] she utters not a word...
surgo, ut in eam in
I rise, so that upon her I...
atque illam in
and her...
Perlepide narrat
She tells it very delightfully!
Savium
A kiss...
itá quasi saetis lábra mihi compúngit barba,
her beard pricks my lips just as if with bristles,
contínuo in genua ut ástiti, pectús mihi pedibus pércutit.
and immediately as I stood on my knees, she kicks my chest with her feet.
decído de lecto praécipes: subsílit, optundit ós mihi.
I fall headlong from the bed; she leaps up, batters my face.
indé foras tacitus prófugiens exeo hóc ornatu quó vides,
Thence, quietly fleeing outdoors, I go out in this attire in which you see me,
ut sénex hoc eodem póculo, quo egó bibi, biberet.
so that the old man might drink from this same cup from which I drank.
Óptume est.
That is excellent.
séd ubi est palliolúm tuom?
But where is your little cloak?
Hic íntus relíqui.
I left it inside here.
Quid núnc? satin lepide adita est vobís manus?
What now? Hasn’t a hand been laid on you quite wittily?
Mérito.
Deservedly so.
séd concrepuerúnt fores. num illa mé nunc séquitur?
But the doors creaked. Is she following me now?
Máxumo ego ardeo flágitio néc quid agam meis rébus scio,
I burn with the greatest disgrace, and I do not know what to do in my situation,
néc meam ut uxorem áspiciam cóntra oculis, ita dísperii;
nor how to look my wife in the face; I am so completely ruined;
ómnia palam súnt probra,
all my shameful deeds are out in the open,
ómnibus modis óccidi miser.
in every way I have perished, wretched me.
ita mánufesto faucíbus teneor
so manifestly am I caught by the throat.
- 863quo senex nequior nullus vivit
The ablative relative pronoun quo refers to the preceding senem and functions as an ablative of comparison with the comparative adjective nequior, meaning "than whom no more worthless old man lives."
- 878pudet quem prius non puditum umquamst
A syntax involving the impersonal verb pudet (to feel shame). The relative pronoun quem functions as the accusative subject of an implied antecedent (him/one). puditum [est] is the impersonal passive perfect form of pudet, creating a double impersonal construction meaning "he is ashamed who was never ashamed before."
- 912quicquam holerum
The genitive holerum (of vegetables) is a partitive genitive qualifying the indefinite pronoun quicquam (anything), meaning "anything of vegetables" or "any kind of vegetable."