#mostellaria

[sappho-offical]

So one of the funniest things I learned today was that there's this really old text written by a dude named Plautus called Mostellaria, which translates to "The Haunted House". Its basically this Roman kid throwing parties and spending his dad's money while he's away, and when his dad comes home early, in order to stop him from finding out, the kid just lies to his dad and says it's haunted and too dangerous for him to go inside

AND THE DAD JUST GOES

"Oh...Okay then!"

Like, I'm dying, what??? 🤣

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[Plautus' Mostellaria trans. Erich Segal]

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Lines that are probably not intended to sound romantic; and yet-

[Plautus' Mostellaria trans. Erich Segal]

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Would Cassius (JC I.2: Brutus, you need a mirror) care to comment on this?

[Erich Segal's notes to his translation of Plautus' Mostellaria]

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Sexy.

[moonlady101]

Once more, translating Plautus is quite the experience, here are a few insults that I learned today:

urbanus scurra (urban idler)

rusticus (redneck)

hara suis (pig coop)

hircus (brute)

and my absolute favourites:

caeno κοπρὼν commixte (dog-goat mixture)

oboluisti alium (garlic eater)

[kxowledge]

Now that I'm become worthless, to that, indeed, have I hastened through the bent of my inclinations

T. Maccius Plautus, Mostellaria, or The Haunted House

[studio-polimaterico-blu]

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