Miles Gloriosus

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, H. T., translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.

  1. Sceledrus, Sceledrus, what one man is there on earth more impudent than yourself? Who more than yourself has been born with the Deities hostile and enraged?
SCELEDRUS
  1. What’s the matter?
PALAESTRIO
  1. Do you want those eyes of yours gouged out, with which you see what never existed?
SCELEDRUS
  1. How, what never existed?
PALAESTRIO
  1. I would not buy your life at the price of a rotten nut.
SCELEDRUS
  1. Why, what’s the matter?
PALAESTRIO
  1. What’s the matter, do you ask?
SCELEDRUS
  1. And why shouldn’t I ask?
PALAESTRIO
  1. Why don’t you beg for that tongue of yours to be cut out, that prates so at random?
SCELEDRUS
  1. Why should I beg for that?