EBOOK THE CAPTIVA AND THE MOSTELLARIA ***
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THE
CAPTIVI
AND THE
MOSTELLARIA
OF
PLAUTUS
Literally Translated
_with notes_
BY
HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B. A.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
HEGIO, an Aetolian, father of Philopolemus.
PHILOCRATES, an Elean, captive in Aetolia.
TYNDARUS, his servant.
ARISTOPHONTES, an Elean, captive in Aetolia.
PHILOPOLEMUS, an Aetolian, captive in Elis.
ERGASILUS, a Parasite.
STALAGAMUS, the servant of Hegio.
A SLAVE of Hegio.
A LAD, the same.
_Scene_.--A place in Aetolia.
THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT [1].
[Supposed to have been written by Priseian the Grammarian.]
_One_ son of Hegio has been made prisoner (_Captus_) in
battle. A runaway slave has sold the other (_Alium_) when four
years old. The father (_Pater_) traffics in Elean captives, only
(_Tantum_) desirous that he may recover his son, and (_Et_)
among these he buys his son that was formerly lost. He (_Is_), his
clothes and his name changed with his master, causes that (_Ut_) he
is lost _to Hegio_; _and_ he himself is punished. And
(_Et_) he brings back the captive and the runaway together, through
whose information (_Indicio_) he discovers his other.
[Footnote 1: In this Acrostic it will be found that the old form of
"Capteivei" is preserved.]
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