Tuesday, September 17, 2024
A Fly on the Wall
Plautus, Casina 443-444 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
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I'll retreat to the wall and imitate a scorpion.Pauli Festus p. 163 Lindsay:
I need to eavesdrop on their talk secretly.
recessim cedam ad parietem, imitabor nepam;
captandust horum clanculum sermo mihi.
Nepa Afrorum lingua sidus, quod cancer appellatur, vel, ut quidam volunt, scorpios. Plautus (Cas. 443): „Dabo me ad parietem, imitabor nepam.“See Erasmus, Adagia iv 1 98 (Imitabor nepam).
