Saturday, October 26, 2024
A Jolly Life
Plautus, Mostellaria 22-24 (tr. Paul Nixon):
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Get fuddled day and night, live like Greeks,Id. 36:
buy girls and set 'em free, feed
parasites, go in for fancy catering!
dies noctesque bibite, pergraecamini,
amicas emite, liberate: pascite
parasitos: opsonate pollucibiliter.
I choose to drink my wine, to have my love affairs, to bring home girls.Id. 64-65:
lubet potare, amare, scorta ducere.
Drink, live like Greeks,Edward A. Sonnenschein on lines 22-24:
eat, gorge yourselves, kill the fatted calf!
bibite, pergraecamini,
este, effercite vos, saginam caedite.
