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![]() ![]() Now I must hit upon a lovely spot to transfer this. silva, "forest") his extreme isolation from society Euclio’s transfer of treasure from temple of Roman goddess Fides ("Trust") to grove of Silvanus (cf.Euclio’s social relationships (e.g., with Megadorus the ox and the ass, 229ff.)?.Euclio’s daughter Phaedria (heard off-stage at 691-2 Lyconides)?.If but a smoky wisp blows from his twiggy fire.Īnd at night he ties a bag around his mouth … He calls upon gods and men to witness that he’s bankrupt, totally wiped out, ![]() … Should Lady Luck herself appear-don’t let her in!Īulularia 300-303 ( How cheap is Euclio? Plautus being Plautus. Tell them that thieves have come and robbed it all from us. That neighbors always come around and ask to use. Īnd knives or axes, mortar, pestle, all the stuff If anyone should ask you for water-say that ‘it’s run off’. If I should find it burning, I’ll extinguish you. So that there won’t be a chance that anyone will ask. Lest someone ask you for a light-put out our fire, Take care not to allow a single stranger in. Greek historian Polybius (31.27.11): "Their punctiliousness about expenditures is as intense as their compulsion to turn every second of time into profit")Īulularia 90-100 (Euclio’s instructions to Staphyla) rare Plautine play about character (monomaniacal psychology of Euclio the miser), or is Euclio merely a caricature?.prologue by Lar familiaris (god of the Roman household, i.e., an omniscient deity not in the play proper).late play in Plautus’ career: Congrio the Cook’s claim about Bacchants at 408-9 Megadorus’ misogynistic tirade against women’s expenditures at 508ff.Rudens) is Euclio "reintegrated" into society? Menander’s Dyskolos, “The Grouch”) misanthropes a preoccupation of Greek New Comedy (theme of civilization vs. ![]()
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