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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...LE. etiam tii taces? 515 tibi egon rationem reddam? ST. plane periimus, nisi quid ego conminiscor. Philto, te volo. erat usus.--Stasimus means that in other instances when Lesbonicus ought rather to have refrained from saying 'spondeo' (v. 427 sqq.), he was ready enough with it; but now that a useful sponsio presents itself, he hesitates and will not say the word.--An engagement was considered as a verbal contract or stipulatio, in which spondeo was the word used to confirm the transaction. 504. hic is adverb = in hac re. (It is difficult to see why Ritschl should call this 'perquam incommodum' and exchange it for hoc, a mere conjecture; nunc hic is surely no mere tautology: hic corresponds to ubi in the preceding line, and nunc enforces the notion of the present time in opposition to the imperfect dicebat.) 505. quom stands, as it often does in the archaic writers, where later usage would have required quod. 507. haec res 'my fortune' (see above, v. 172).--graviter cecidit 'has collapsed heavily' = periit funditn.i. 508. sub urbe 'before the gates of the town' hence suburbanus, and our own suburb. 509. The mss. read de stultitiis meis (or the sing.), but as in that reading the preposition de would be quite meaningless, I have adoptedBergk's ingenious emendation which has also met with Rilschl's approbation in his second edition. 510. superfit = superest, occurs in Plautus Pseud. 456, Stich. 592. Mil. gl. 356; among later writers Columella has it XII1, 5. 511. certumst 'I am resolved' see n. on v. 270. 513. cave is generally a pyrrhich in Plautus: Introd. to Aul. p. XXVII. 514. etiam tu taces? 'won't you be silent'; etiam is expressive of anger and vexation at Stasimus' presumption in interfering with the whole affair. 515. The same...

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