LYS perii hercle ego miser!There is no critical apparatus for this line in de Melo's edition. The supplement is due to Friedrich Leo, ed., Plauti Comoediae, vol. I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1895), p. 254.
PAR dig<nus es>.
LYS Poor me, I'm dead!
PAR (aside) Serves you right.
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An Unattributed Supplement
Plautus, Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses. Edited and Translated by Wolfgang de Melo (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011 = Loeb Classical Library, 61), pp. 84-85 (Casina 683; Lysidamus and Pardalisca speaking):