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Corinth (Greece) (search for this): act 4, scene 1
gained a lossHas gained a loss: He alludes to Clitipho, who, by the discovery of his sister, would not come in for such a large share of his father's property, and would consequently, as Syrus observes, gain a loss. in consequence. SOSTRATA Not at all; but there was here an elderly woman of Corinth, of no indifferent character; to her I gave it to be exposed. CHREMES O Jupiter! that there should be such extreme folly in a person's mind. SOSTRATA Alas! what have I done ? CHREMES
Caria (Turkey) (search for this): act 3, scene 3
the thousand drachmae. SYRUS Dear me, is it to be doubted ? I think so. CHREMES What then do you intend doing? SYRUS What, I? I shall go to Menedemus; I'll tell him she is a captive from Caria, rich, and of noble family; if he redeems her, there will be a considerable profit in this transaction. CHREMES You are in an error. SYRUS Why so ? CHREMES I'll now an
Corinth (Greece) (search for this): act 3, scene 3
. is it, Syrus? SYRUS This Courtesan is a very bad woman. CHREMES So she seems. SYRUS Aye, if you did but know. O shocking! just see what she is hatching. There was a certain old woman here from Corinth,--this Bacchis lent her a thousand silver drachmae. CHREMES What then? SYRUS She is now dead: she has left a daughter, a young girl. She has been left with this Bacchis as a pledge for that sum.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): act 2, scene 2
CLITIPHO She'll be here presently. CLINIA When will that presently be? CLITIPHO You don't consider that it is a great way fiom here.Great way from here: That is, from the place where they are, in the country, to Athens. Besides, you know the ways of women, while they are bestirring themselves, and while they are making preparations a whole year passes by. CLINIA O Clitipho, I'm afraid---- CLITIPHO Take courage. Look, here comes Dromo, together with Syrus: they are
Asia (search for this): act 1, scene 2
CLITIPHO Do you know that he has a son? CHREMES I have heard that he has; in Asia. CLITIPHO He is not in Asia, father; he is at :our house. CHREAsia, father; he is at :our house. CHREMES What is it you say? CLITIPHO Upon his arrival, after he had just landed from the ship, I immediately brought him to dine with us; for from our very childhood upward I have always been on intimate terms with him.. CHREMES You announce
Covent Garden (United Kingdom) (search for this): act 1, scene 1
hich could strike any but people of the greatest humanity--nay, people elegant and skillful in observation upon it. It is possible that he may have laid his hand on his heart, and with a winning insinuation in his countenance, expressed to his neighbor that he was a man who made his case his own; yet I will engage, a player in Covent Garden might hit such an attitude a thousand times before he would have been regarded." and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. Suppose that I wish either to advise you in this matter, or to be informed myself: if what you do is right, that I may do the same; if it is not, then that I may dissuade you.
Attica (Greece) (search for this): act 1, scene 1
BacchusFestival of Bacchus," "Dionysia": It is generally supposed that there were four Festivals called the Dionysia, during the year, at Athens. The first was the Rural, or Lesser Dionysia, kat) agrou\s, a vintage festival, which was celebrated in the "Demi" or boroughs of Attica, in honor of Bacchus, in the month Poseidon. This was the most ancient of the Festivals, and was held with the greatest merriment and freedom; the slaves then enjoyed the same amount of liberty as they did at the Saturnalia at Rome. The second Festival, which was called the Lenaea, from lhno\s, a wi
Sicily (Italy) (search for this): act 1, scene 1
Bacchus. The fourth Attic festival of Dionysius was celebrated in the month Elaphebolion, and was called the Dionysia e)n a)/stei, *astika\, or *megala\, the "City" or "great" festival. It was celebrated with great magnificence, processions and dramatic representations forming part of the ceremonial. From Greece, by way of Sicily, the Bacchanalia, or festivals of Bacchus, were introduced into Rome, where they became the scenes of and pretext for every kind of vice and debauchery, until at length they were put down in the year n.c. 187, with a strong hand, by the Consuls Spurius Posthumius Albinus and Q. Marcius Philippus; from which period the words "bacchor"
Athens (Greece) (search for this): act 1, scene 1
Oh that the Gods would grant it! CHREMES They will do so. Now, if it is convenient to you--the festival of BacchusFestival of Bacchus," "Dionysia": It is generally supposed that there were four Festivals called the Dionysia, during the year, at Athens. The first was the Rural, or Lesser Dionysia, kat) agrou\s, a vintage festival, which was celebrated in the "Demi" or boroughs of Attica, in honor of Bacchus, in the month Poseidon. This was the most ancient of the Festivals, and was held with the greatest merriment and freedom; the slaves then
Corinth (Greece) (search for this): act 1, scene 1
young man,--alas! why did I say--" I have?"--rather I should say, "I had" one, Chremes:--whether I have him now, or not, is uncertain. CHREMES Why so? MENEDEMUS You shall know:--There is a poor old woman here, a stranger from Corinth:--her daughter, a young woman, he fell in love with, insomuch that he almost regarded her as his wife; all this took place unknown to me. When I discovered the matter, I began to reprove him, not with gentleness, nor in the way suited to the love-sick mind of a youth, but with violence, and after the usual method of fathers. I was daily reproaching him,
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