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Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian (470b-504)

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So, as I began to tell you, you sorry pimp, about that Pentethronic battle[*], in which, with my own hands, in one day, I slew sixty thousand flying men.
LYCUS
Heyday! Flying men?
ANTHEMONIDES
Certainly I do affirm it.
LYCUS
Prithee, are there anywhere men that fly?
ANTHEMONIDES
There were; but I slew them.
LYCUS
How could you?
ANTHEMONIDES
I’ll tell you. I gave birdlime and slings to my troops; beneath it they laid leaves of coltsfoot[*].
LYCUS
For what purpose?
ANTHEMONIDES
That the birdlime mightn’t adhere to the slings.
LYCUS
Proceed. (Aside.) I faith, you do lie most egregiously. (Aloud.) What after that?
ANTHEMONIDES
They placed pretty large pellets of birdlime in their slings: with which I ordered them to be taken aim at as they flew. Why many words? Each one did they hit with the birdlime—
they fell to the ground as thick as pears. As each one dropped, I straightway pierced him through the brain with his own feathers, just like a turtle-dove.
LYCUS
By my troth, if ever this did take place, then may Jupiter make me to be ever sacrificing, and never propitiating him.
ANTHEMONIDES
And don’t you.believe me in this?
LYCUS
I do believe, in the same degree that it is proper that I should be believed. Come, let’s go in-doors, until the entrails are brought home.
ANTHEMONIDES
I wish to relate to you a single battle more.
LYCUS
I don’t care about it.
ANTHEMONIDES
Do listen.
LYCUS
Upon my faith, no.
ANTHEMONIDES
Why then I’ll break your head this instant, if you don’t listen,
or else be off to utter perdition!
LYCUS
I’d sooner go to utter perdition!
ANTHEMONIDES
Are you determined then?
LYCUS
Determined.
ANTHEMONIDES
In that case, do you, then, upon this lucky day, the Aphrodisia, make over to me the younger one of your courtesans.
LYCUS
The sacred ceremony has by its omens been to me today of such a nature—I put off all serious matters from today until another day.
I am resolved to make it really a holiday.
Now let’s go hence in-doors. Follow me this way.
ANTHEMONIDES
I follow. For this day, then, I’m out on hire to you.
(They go into the house of LYCUS.)
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(Enter AGORASTOCLES, and several ASSISTANTS walking behind him.)
AGORASTOCLES
So may the Deities love me, there’s nothing more annoying than a tardy friend,

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