This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...fleas: you are a pest, a plague, a general nuisance, of no good to anybody, and no decent person dares stand beside you in the forum. If anyone does, he is censured, eyed, condemned; he is on the road to ruin, they say, even though he has done nothing. Lyco (chuckling) Gad! You have a pretty acquaintance with pimps, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...fleas: you are a pest, a plague, a general nuisance, of no good to anybody, and no decent person dares stand beside you in the forum. If anyone does, he is censured, eyed, condemned; he is on the road to ruin, they say, even though he has done nothing. Lyco (chuckling) Gad! You have a pretty acquaintance with pimps, in my opinion, One-eye. Cure. (turning on him with asperity) And by heaven, I put you people in the same class and category; you match them perfectly. They, at least, do business in private, you in the open forum. You mangle men with usury, they with vile solicitation and dens of vice. The people have passed bills without number against you, and once they pass them, you smash them; you always find some loophole. To you laws are like boiling water that soon grows cold. Lyco (aside, wryly) I wish I'd kept my mouth shut. Ca. (judicially, with a sour grin at Lyco) There is much hard thinking behind those hard words. Cure. Hard words are hard if spoken to those that do not deserve them, but if they do deserve them, soft--at least in my opinion. None of your surety for me, or any other pimp's either, (about to go) Anything else, Lyco? Lyco (eagerly) Good-bye, good-bye! Cure. Good-bye. (turns away, Planesium lingering tearJully) Ca. (to Curculio) Here, you! I say! R 2 Cure. Eloquere, quid vis? Ca. Quaeso, ut hanc cures, ut bene sit isti. bene ego istam eduxi meae domi et pudice. Cure. Si huius miseret, ecquid das qui bene sit? Ca. Malum. Cure. Opust hoc qui te procures. Ca. Quid stulta ploras? ne time, bene hercle vendidi ego te. 520 fac sis bonae frugi sies, sequere istum bella belle. Lyco Summane, numquid nunciam me vis? Cure. Vale atque salve, nam et operam et pecuniam benigne praebuisti. Lyco Salutem multam dicito patrono. Cure. Nuntiabo. Lyco Numq...
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