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Asinaria

Plautus Original title Asinaria (Latin)

Asinaria, which has been translated as The One with the Asses, is a comic play written in Latin by the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus and is known as one of the great works of ancient Roman comedy. It is famous for containing the lines "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit," which has been translated as "A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like." and "Facias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades," which has been translated as "Practice yourself what you preach."


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“Practice yourself what you preach.”
[F]acias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.

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)

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“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”

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

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“The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.”

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

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“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”
Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.

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

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“Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

Asinaria, Act II, scene 4 (line 495 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.
Often quoted as "Homo homini lupus" [A man is a wolf to another man].
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

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“I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!”

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

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