Cistellaria, or The Casket


Cistellaria, or The Casket
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

A young man of Lemnos ravishes (Comprimit) a woman of Sicyon. He (Is) returns to his country, and becomes father of a daughter by his marriage there. The woman of Sicyon (Sicyonia) also bears a daughter. A servant takes (Tollit) and exposes her, and keeps watch in secret; her (Eam), taken up, a Courtesan presents to another. Coming back afterwards from Lemnos (Lemno), he marries her whom he had ravished; and his daughter born at Lemnos (Lemni) he promises in marriage to a young man captivated by passion (A more) for the one that had been exposed. On making enquiry (Requirens), the servant finds her whom he had exposed; and so (Itaque) legaliy and properly does Alcesimarchus (Alcesimarchus) gain her recognized as a tree woman, whom before he had had as a concubine.