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Epilogue of the ‘Captives’
By Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.)
Translation of William Cranston Lawton
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No love-making is there in it, nor a love intrigue at all.
No false fathering of children, nor embezzlement of money.
Rarely do the poets fashion such a comedy as this,
Where the good are rendered better….