![]() ![]() ![]() If anyone should ask you for water-say that ‘it’s run off’. If I should find it burning, I’ll extinguish you. So that there won’t be a chance that anyone will ask. Lest someone ask you for a light-put out our fire, Take care not to allow a single stranger in. Greek historian Polybius (31.27.11): "Their punctiliousness about expenditures is as intense as their compulsion to turn every second of time into profit")Īulularia 90-100 (Euclio’s instructions to Staphyla) ![]() rare Plautine play about character (monomaniacal psychology of Euclio the miser), or is Euclio merely a caricature?.prologue by Lar familiaris (god of the Roman household, i.e., an omniscient deity not in the play proper).late play in Plautus’ career: Congrio the Cook’s claim about Bacchants at 408-9 Megadorus’ misogynistic tirade against women’s expenditures at 508ff.Rudens) is Euclio "reintegrated" into society? Menander’s Dyskolos, “The Grouch”) misanthropes a preoccupation of Greek New Comedy (theme of civilization vs. ![]()
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