Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer


Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer
By T. Maccius Plautus
Translated by: Henry Thomas Riley
London G. Bell and Sons 1912



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Introduction
   THE SUBJECT
   THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT. 1


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Introduction

 

Scene argument

THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT. 1


THE ASS-DEALER.

son in love (Amanti), the old man, who lives under (Sub) his wife's control, wishes to help him with money; therefore (Itaque), some money that has been brought in payment for the asses for Saurea he orders to be paid (Nulerari) to his servant Leonida. This is carried to (Ad) his mistress, and the son yields her favours to his father. His rival (Rivinus) is furious an account of the woman thus taken from him: he (Is) tells all the matter, through the Parasite, to the wife. The wife rushes (Adcurrit) to the place, and drags her husband from the den.