Plaute citations

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
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La Comédie des ânes (Asinaria)

Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.
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Le Soldat fanfaron (Miles gloriosus)

O Libane, ut miser est homo, qui amat.
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Léonidas à Libanus (Liban).
La Comédie des ânes (Asinaria)

Sperat quidem animus : quo eveniat, diis in manu est.
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Les Bacchis (Bacchis)

Qui e nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem.
qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.
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Charançon (Curculio)

Bonus animus in mala re dimidiumst mali.
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L'Imposteur (Pseudolus)

Perii, interii, occidi.
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L'avare Euclion venant de découvrir que son or a disparu.
La Comédie de la Marmite (Aulularia)

Male partum male disperit.
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Le Carthaginois (Poenulum)

Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.
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La Comédie du fantôme (Mostellaria)

In scirpo nodum quaeris
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Proverbe signifiant "se créer des difficultés inutilement".
Les Ménechmes (Menaechmi)

Vincite virtute vera.
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Casina ou Les Tireurs de sort

Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus.
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La Comédie de la corbeille (Cistellaria)

Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviust
fieri doctos.
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Le Perse (Persa)

Non temere est quod corvos cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manu
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Affirmation superstitieuse de l'avare Euclion.
La Comédie de la Marmite (Aulularia)

Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.
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La Comédie du fantôme (Mostellaria)

Virtus praemium 'st optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parenteis, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
virtus omnia in sese habet ; omnia adsunt bona, quem penes est virtus.
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Amphitryon

Miles Gloriosus

Miles Gloriosus
Variante: Je veux que tu en aies toi-même la preuve par expérience, sans la chercher ailleurs. Quand on n'aime pas pour son propre compte, on voit d'un oeil chagrin l'humeur des amants. Il y a encore en moi quelque ardeur amoureuse, mon corps a toujours de la sève; et mes sens ne sont pas éteints pour les agréments et les plaisirs de la vie. Je suis un rieur de bon goût, un convive agréable; dans un dîner, je ne coupe jamais la parole à personne; j'ai le bon esprit de ne pas me rendre importun aux convives; je sais prendre part à la conversation avec mesure, et me taire à propos, quand c'est à d'autres à parler; je ne suis point cracheur ni pituiteux, et point roupieux le moins du monde; enfin, je suis d'Éphèse, et non pas d'Apulie (53), je ne suis pas un « petit coeur ».

Miles Gloriosus

Miles Gloriosus

Mercator, Act IV, scene 7, line 40
Mercator (The Merchant)

Epidicus, Act I, sc. 2, line 9.
Epidicus
Contexte: The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Alternate translation: And so he thinks to ‘tice me like a dog, by holding bread in one hand, and a stone, ready to knock my brains out, in the other.
Aulularia, Act II, sc. 2, line 18
Cf. Jesus, [Matthew, 7:9, KJV]: "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)

Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
Variant translation: There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Captivi (The Prisoners)

Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 111; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alternate translation : This is not the best thing possible, nor what I consider proper ; but it is better than the worst. (translator A. H. Evans)
Trinummus (The Three Coins)

Asinaria, Act III, scene 3, line 54 (line 644 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do. (translator Henry Thomas Riley, 1912)
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

Captivi, Act II, scene 1, line 8
Variant translation: The best assistance in distress is fortitude of soul. (translator unknown)
Captivi (The Prisoners)

Bacchides Act I, scene 2, line 36.
Variant translation: The mind is hopeful : success is in God’s hands. (translator unknown)
Bacchides (The Bacchises)

Persa, Act IV, scene 7, line 19
Variant translation: A sentence is enough for a sensible man. (translator unknown)
More commonly found as Verbum sapienti (same meaning) and abbreviated to verb. sap. ; proverbially, “A word to the wise is sufficient”
Persa (The Persian)

Act III, sc. 2, line 104; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)

Menæchmi, Act II, sc. 1, line 22; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). A proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficulties where there really were none. It occurs in Terence, the "Andria", act v. sc. 4, 38; also in Ennius, "Saturæ", 46.
Menaechmi (The Brothers Menaechmus)

Trinummus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)

Aulularia, Act II, sc. 2, line 10
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)

Pseudolus, Act I, scene 5, line 37
Pseudolus

Aulularia, Act iv, sc. 3, 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Referenced in "That raven on yon left-hand oak/(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)/Bodes me no good", John Gay, 'Fables, Part I, The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)

Curculio, Act I, scene 1, line 55
Curculio (The Weevil)

Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 26
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)

Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

Act III, scene i, line 13.
Variant translation: Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. (translator unknown)
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)

Asinaria, Act II, scene 2.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

Truculentus, Act II, scene ii
Truculentus

Act III, sc. 2, line 112; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)

Source: Asinaria (The One With the Asses), Act I, scene 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=fo0QAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Quasi+piscis+itidem+est+amator+lenae+nequam+est+nisi+recens%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage

Variant translation: According as men thrive, their friends are true; if fortune fails, friends likewise disappear. Prosperity finds friends. (translator unknown)
Stichus (The Parasite Rebuffed)

Rudens, Act II, scene 3, line 69
Rudens (The Rope)

Amphitryon, Act II, scene 2, line 16.
Variant translation: Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.
Amphitryon

Bacchides Act IV, scene 7, line 18.
Variant translation: He whom the gods love dies young. (translator unknown)
Derived from Menander's The Double Deceiver; but only the Plautine version was known until the rediscovery of Menander in the 20th century; sometimes translated as "favor" instead of "love".
Bacchides (The Bacchises)

Rudens, Act II, sc. v, line 71.
Variant translation: Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Rudens (The Rope)

Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)