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Plavtvs, Poenvlvs 1168

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. M. Lindsay
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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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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1918 , pp. 140
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1918

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