The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Titus Maccius Plautus
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and my friends more, _and_ to my own conditions will I bind myself.
HEG. You are surely selling me a bottomless pit [6], _and_ not a landed estate. But if you are coming, _do so_ in time. ERG. Why, for that matter. I'm at leisure even now. HEG. Go then, _and_ hunt for a hare; at present, _in me_ you have but a ferret [7], for my fare is in the way of frequenting a rugged road. ERG. You'll never repulse me by that, Hegio, so don't attempt it. I'll come, in spite of it, with teeth well shod. HEG. Really, my viands are _but_ of a rough sort [8]. ERG. Are you in the habit of eating brambles? HEG. _Mine_ is an earthy dinner. ERG. A pig is an earthy animal. HEG. _Earthy_ from its plenty of vegetables. ERG. Treat your sick people [9] at home _with that fare?_ Do you wish anything else? HEG. Come in good time. ERG. You are putting in mind one who remembers quite well. (_Exit._ HEG. I'll go in-doors, and in the house I'll make the calculation how little money I have at my banker's; afterwards I'll go to my brother's, whither I was saying I would go. (_Goes into his house._) |
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