Handy Phrase

Plautus, Epidicus 63 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):

Can you kindly not annoy me?

potin ut molestus ne sies?

George E. Duckworth ad loc.:

The same phrase (with the addition of mihi after ut when the verse is trochaic) occurs in Cist. 465, Men. 627, Merc. 779, Pers. 287, Truc. 897. The command molestus ne sis is even more common in Plautus; cf. Lodge (Lexicon) under molestus.