Sunday, May 14, 2023
Appeal
Plautus, Casina 915-920 (Pardalisca and Olympio speaking; tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
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PAR. What happened in the end? Explain.From "appello" to "I tried to seduce her" seems a bit of a stretch, although cf. Ulpian, Digest 47.10.15.10 (cited by W.T. MacCary and M.M. Willcock ad loc.):
OL. Then I tried to seduce her. I said, "Casina, please, my little wife, why are you rejecting me, your husband, like this?"
PAR. quid fit denique? edisserta. OL. ibi appello, "Casina," inquam,
"amabo, mea uxorcula, quor virum tuom sic me spernis?
nimis tu quidem hercle immerito
meo mi haec facis."
appellare est blanda oratione alterius pudicitiam adtemptare.
