Epidicus, or The Fortunate Discovert


Epidicus, or The Fortunate Discovert
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 2 [1]

THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT.1

An old gentleman, thinking her his daughter, purchases (Emit) a music-girl, by the advice (Persuasu) of his servant, who, a second time (Iterum), substitutes for him, in place of his son's mistress, another one hired; he gives (Dat) to his master's son the money; with it the young man, not knowing it (Imprudens), purchases his sister. Soon afterwards, by the aid of a woman whom he has seduced, and of a Captain, the old man understands (Cognoscit) that he has been imposed upon, as (Ut) the one is in search of his mistress, the other of her daughter. But (Sed) on finding his daughter, he gives his servant his liberty.