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Captivi: The Captives

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1. 5.3.985

   Why don’t I recollect you?

2. 5.3.985b

   Because it’s the fashion for persons to forget, and not to know him whose favour is esteemed as worth nothing.

3. 5.3.987

   Tell me, was he the person whom you sold to my father, who was given me for my private service?

4. 5.3.988b

   It was his son.

5. 5.3.989

   Is this person now living?

6. 5.3.989b

   I received the money I cared nothing about the rest.

7. 5.3.990

   What do you say?

8. 5.3.990b

   Why, this very Tyndarus is your son, according, indeed, to the proofs that he mentions. For, a boy himself together with me from boyhood was he brought up, virtuously and modestly, even to manhood.

9. 5.3.993

   I am both unhappy and happy, if you are telling the truth. Unhappy for this reason, because, if he is my son, I have badly treated him.

10. 5.3.995

    Alas! why have I done both more and less than was his due. That I have ill treated him I am grieved; would that it only could be undone. But see, he’s coming here, in a guise not according to his deserts.

11. 5.4.998

    I have seen many of the torments which take place at Acheron often represented in paintings; but most certainly there is no Acheron equal

12. 5.4.1000

    to where I have been in the stone-quarries. There, in fine, is the place where real lassitude must be undergone by the body in laboriousness. For when I came there, just as either jackdaws, or ducks, or quails, are given to Patrician children, for them to play with, so in like fashion, when I arrived, a crow was given me with which to amuse myself.

13. 5.4.1005

    But see, my master’s before the door; and lo! my other master has returned from Elis.

14. 5.4.1006b

    Hail to you, my much wished-for son.

15. 5.4.1006c

    Ha! how—my son? Aye, aye, I know why you pretend yourself to be the father, and me to be the son; it is because, just as parents do, you give me the means of seeing the light.

16. 5.4.1009

    Hail to you, Tyndarus.

17. 5.4.1009b

    And to you, for whose sake I am enduring these miseries.

18. 5.4.1010

    But now I’ll make you in freedom come to wealth. For (pointing to HEGIO) this is your father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) that is the slave who stole you away from here when four years old, and sold you to my father for six minae. He gave you, when a little child, to me a little child for my own service. He (pointing to STALAGMUS) has made a confession, for we have brought him back from Elis.

19. 5.4.1015

    How, where’s Hegio’s son?

20. 5.4.1015b

    Look now; indoors is your own brother.

21. 5.4.1016

    How do you say? Have you brought that captive son of his?

22. 5.4.1017

    Why, he’s in-doors, I say.

23. 5.4.1071b

    By my faith, you’ve done both well and happily.

24. 5.4.1018

    Now this is your own father; (pointing to STALAGMUS) this is the thief who stole you when a little child.

25. 5.4.1019

    But now, grown up, I shall give him grown up to the executioner for his thieving.

26. 5.4.1020

    He deserves it.

27. 5.4.1020b

    I’ faith, I’ll deservedly give him the reward that he deserves. (To HEGIO.) But tell me I pray you, are you my father?

28. 5.4.1021b

    I am he, my son.

29. 5.4.1022

    Now, at length, I bring it to my recollection, when I reconsider with myself: troth, I do now at last recall to memory that I had heard, as though through a mist, that my father was called Hegio.

30. 5.4.1025

    I am he.

31. 5.4.1025b

    I pray that your son may be lightened of these fetters, and this slave be loaded with them.

32. 5.4.1026b

    I’m resolved that that shall be the first thing attended to. Let’s go in-doors, that the blacksmith may be sent for, in order that I may remove those fetters from you, and give them to him. (They go into the house.)

33. 5.4.1028b

    To one who has no savings of his own, you’ll be rightly doing so.

34. 5.4.1029

    Spectators, this play is founded on chaste manners.

35. 5.4.1030

    No wenching is there in this, and no intriguing, no exposure of a child, no cheating out of money; and no young man in love here make his mistress free without his father’s knowledge. The Poets find but few Comedies of this kind, where good men might become better. Now, if it pleases you,

36. 5.4.1035

    and if we have pleased you, and have not been tedious, do you give this sign of it: you who wish that chaste manners should have their reward, give us your applause.

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