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Full speech
Quid hic stamus tanquàm asini otiosi? num hùc convenimus and abigen das muscas? aut hostis veniat aut nos abeamus: Audivit fortassè furcifer me hic adesse, qui sum in omnibus noctur nis vigiliis truculentissimus contra la thrones istos. Si suspectam habes honesta tem meam, habi tibe rursus nummos tuos, scìas me ex eam stirpe, & iis majori bus prognatum esse, quorum nemo quam repertus fallax est. Et ego to sic Amo vicissim, ut vel mille minas tuas per universum ter rarum orbem nudis pedibus deporta remembering, si juberes. Et addam etiàm to totum esse aureum, intùs & extùs. Ego tibi incre dibilitèr obsequens ero. Profectò carmina vere Auream, & plus quam Ovidiana, si è silice natam fit, tamen haec legendo Tibi in amore obsecundabit. Dato jàm eos mihi: nun quid aliud vis? Quasi istoc opus fit hortatu. Obtundis intelligo satis. Nimis monendo immemorem facis. Scio. Nec puto immortales ullos à me eas rogaturos. Memini, vale. Putasne me abiturum fugam? Fiet per me, quod per to jàm dicitur. Abeo, trado, redeo. Here, nuncium apporto triste, ac dolere to jubeo. Maximè quidèm, aut perbellè simulate. Nummos, quos misisti—. Lydiae tradidi in manus simul universos. Liberam jàm est, & persolvit seni, quod ille cupierat. Said non potest jàm tibi nubere: aegrotat enìm. Aegrotat, inquam, graviter: Concrepuit jàm ostium ab eam; expectate parumper. Eamus, inquam, valete.
Plot summary
Plot — Pedantius
Crobolus and the schoolmaster Pedantius are rivals. for the love of Lydia. Crobolus asks his servant Pogglostus to bilkk money from Pedantius and his friend Dromodotus. After failing with a hard-luck story, Pogglostus robs them at sword-point. Crobolus wins Lydia’s love by entertaining her to dinner. He is slow to pay his landlady for the meal, but assures her he can easily trick the money out of Pedantius. Through the parasite Tyrophagus, he lets Pedantius know that a former pupil, Leonidas, has secured a position at court, and intends to use his influence to get a royal appointment for his old tutor. On the strength of this, Pedantius is persuaded to loan Leonidas money. Tyrophagus is bringing the cash back to Crobolus when he is robbed by Pogglostus, who doesn’t know that he and his master are in league. Pedantius tries to woo Lydia, but has less success, partly because he does it using academic logic and partly because she has already accepted Crobulus. In any event, whoever wins her will need to pay her avaricious master to manumit her. She feigns interest in him after hearing of his supposed successes at court, and he tries to raise the money by offering to sell his books to the audience. The tailor Gilbert pursues him for payment of his bills, but Pedantius only gives him a string of classical authorities and quotations; Gilbert threatens to sue him. Pedantius sends Lydia money and a ring, but the news comes back that she is dead. She has sent him back his ring, and, with her last breath, told him not to grieve for her, and to leave the country. Assured of her love for him, Pedantius complies and goes into exile. With him out of the way, Crobulus is free to marry Lydia, who is not really dead, using the money he has tricked out of the pedant. |