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Captivi, by Plautus Titus Maccius

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Title: Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi
Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two
Bacchises, The Captives

Author: Plautus Titus Maccius

Editor: Paul Nixon

Translator: Paul Nixon

Release Date: August 20, 2005 [EBook #16564]

Language: English/latin

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Note:
Greek words have been transliterated and placed between +marks+.

Footnotes are collected at the end of each play. Where a footnote refers
to an omitted passage, the verses before and after the omission have been
numbered in parentheses:
(182)
(184)
All other line numbers are from the original text.]

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P L A U T U S

With an English Translation by

PAUL NIXON
Dean of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Maine

In Five Volumes

I

AMPHITRYON
THE COMEDY OF ASSES
THE POT OF GOLD
THE TWO BACCHISES
THE CAPTIVES

Cambridge, Massachusetts
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

London
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD

_First printed_ 1916

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CONTENTS

Greek Originals of the Plays........vii
Introduction.........................ix
Bibliography.......................xvii
I. Amphitruo, or Amphitryon..............1
II. Asinaria, or the Comedy of Asses....123
III. Aulularia, or the Pot of Gold.......231
IV. Bacchides, or the Two Bacchises.....325
V. Captivi, or the Captives............459
Index...............................569

[Transcriber's Note:
The Index of Proper Names is not included in this e-text.]

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THE GREEK ORIGINALS OF THE PLAYS IN THIS VOLUME

In this and each succeedin