自虐者 — Terence
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : The Comedies of Terence Author : Terence Translator : George Colman Release date : September 21, 2007 [eBook #22695] Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22695 Credits : Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF The Riley portion has been released as a separate e-text . This e-text includes readings from the 1768 second edition of Colman, shown along the right side of the screen. In general, only differences in wording are included; variations in spelling and punctuation were disregarded, and stage directions are omitted unless significant. It is not known whether the Harper’s text was based on the first edition of Colman or some later edition. Where the Harper text was clearly in error, the 1768 reading was substituted in the main text. Errors are marked with mouse-hover popups: — Shared errors . — Errors in the Harper text , corrected from the 1768 edition. In some plays, quotation marks were also supplied from the 1768 edition. —Errors in the 1768 edition. Page numbers in the left margin are from the 1896 Harper text, which is generally identical to the original 1859 printing and may have been set from the same plates. Page numbers in the right margin are from the 1768 Colman edition. All illustrations are from the 1768 Colman edition. THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE. LITERALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE, WITH NOTES. By HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE BLANK VERSE TRANSLATION OF GEORGE COLMAN. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1896. HARPER’S NEW CLASSICAL LIBRARY. COMPRISING LITERAL TRANSLATIONS OF CÆSAR. VIRGIL. SALLUST. HORACE. TERENCE. TACITUS. 2 Vols. LIVY. 2 Vols. CICERO’S ORATIONS. CICERO’S OFFICES, LÆLIUS, CATO MAJOR, PARADOXES, SCIPIO’S DREAM, LETTER TO QUINTUS. CICERO ON ORATORY AND ORATORS. CICERO’S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS, THE NATURE OF THE GODS, AND THE COMMONWEALTH. JUVENAL. XENOPHON. HOMER’S ILIAD. HOMER’S ODYSSEY. HERODOTUS. DEMOSTHENES. 2 Vols. THUCYDIDES. ÆSCHYLUS. SOPHOCLES. EURIPIDES. 2 Vols. PLATO (SELECT DIALOGUES). 12mo, Cloth, $1.00 per Volume. Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or they will be sent by Harper & Brothers to any address on receipt of price as quoted. If ordered sent by mail, 10 per cent. should be added to the price to cover cost of postage. CONTENTS. COMEDIES OF TERENCE: IN VERSE. The Andrian 367 The Eunuch 408 The Self-Tormentor 451 The Brothers 494 The Step-Mother 535 Phormio 568 THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE. TRANSLATED INTO FAMILIAR BLANK VERSE, BY GEORGE COLMAN. Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim: Scilicet uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis. Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorant Virtus Scipiadæ et mitis sapientia Læli, Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec Decoqueretur olus, soliti. Horace. THE ANDRIAN. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Prologue. Simo. Pamphilus. Chremes. Charinus. Crito. Sosia. Davus. Byrrhia. Dromo. Servants, etc. Glycerium. Mysis. Lesbia. Archyllis. Scene, Athens. PROLOGUE. The Bard, when first he gave his mind to write, Thought it his only business, that his Plays Should please the people: but it now falls out, He finds, much otherwise, and wastes, perforce, His time in writing Prologues; not to tell The argument, but to refute the slanders Broach’d by the malice of an older Bard. And mark what vices he is charg’d withal! Menander wrote the Andrian and Perinthian: Know one, and you know both; in argument Less diff’rent than in sentiment and style. What suited with the Andrian he confesses From the Perinthian he transferr’d, and us’d For his: and this it is these sland’rers blame, Proving by deep and learned disputation, That Fables should not be confounded thus. That Fables should not be contaminated. Troth! all the knowledge is they nothing know: Who, blaming; him, blame Nævius, Plautus, Ennius, Whose great example is his precedent; Whose negligence he’d wish to emulate Rather than their dark diligence. Henceforth, Let them, I give them warning, be at peace, And cease to rail, lest they be made to know Their own misdeeds. Be favorable! sit With equal mind, and hear our play; that hence Ye may conclude, what hope to entertain, The comedies he may hereafter write Shall merit approbation or contempt. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. Simo , Sosia , and Servants with Provisions. Simo. Carry those things in: go! ( Ex. Servants . Sosia, come here; A word with you! Sosia. I understand: that these Be ta’en due care of. Simo. Quite another thing. Sosia. What can my art do more for you? Simo. This business Needs not that art; but those good qualities, Which I have ever known abide in you, Fidelity and secrecy. Sosia. I wait Your pleasure. Simo. Since I bought you, from a boy How just and mild a servitude you’ve pass’d With me, you’re conscious: from a purchas’d slave I made you free, because you serv’d me freely: The greatest recompense I could bestow. Sosia. I do remember. Simo. Nor do I repent. Sosia. If I have ever done, or now do aught That’s pleasing to you, Simo, I am glad, And thankful that you hold my service good And yet this troubles me: for this detail, Forcing your kindness on my memory, Seems to reproach me of ingratitude. Oh tell me then at once, what would you? Sir! Simo. I will; and this I must advise you first; The nuptial you suppose preparing now, Is all unreal. Sosia. Why pretend it then? Simo. You shall hear all from first to last: and thus The conduct of my son, my own intent, And what part you’re to act, you’ll know at once. For my son, Sosia, now to manhood grown, Had freer sco