Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated


Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated
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

Two fellow-servants seek their fellow-servant (Conservam) as a wife; the old man prompts the one (Alium), his son the other. A decision by lot (Sors) favours the old man; but he is deceived by a stratagem; and so (Ita) for him, in place of the damsel, a rascally (Nequam) servant is substituted, who thrashes his master and the bailiff. The young man (Adolescens) marries Casina, when known to be a citizen.