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Plavtvs, Poenvlvs 1168
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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How any editor of Plautus can become one of the slash-cut-and-carve critics I cannot understand. The fair garden-beds of Plautus are scored all over with the hoof-prints of the reckless emender. Take this line of the Poenulus for example. Hanno gets a sight of his two long-lost daughters and is surprised to find how they have grown:
Haecine meae sunt filiae?
Quantae e quantillis iam sunt factae!
His would-be son-in-law, not a very refined youth, says with a smile:
Scin quid est?
Thraecae sunt: in celonem sustolli solent.
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