Miles Gloriosus
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, H. T., translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.
- Do you say, then that the lady of your master is there in that house?
- I assert, as well, that I saw here here in this house (points to the house of PERIPLECOMENUS), toying with a strange man.
- don’t you know that there is no communication between our house here and that one?
- I know it.
- Neither by the terrace[*](By the terrace: Solariumwas either a balcony or terrace before a house, or on the top of it, which was exposed to the sun. People walked there in the cool of the evening. It was from a solarium that David first saw Bathsheba.), nor by the garden, only through the skylight?
- I know it.
- What then, if she is now at home? If I shall make her, so as you may see her,come out hence from our house, are you not deserving of many a lashing?
- I am so deserving.
- Watch that door, then, that she may not privily betake herself out thence without your knowledge and pass here into our house.
- ’Tis my intention to do so.