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"Omnia habeo neque quicquam habeo; nil quom est, nil defit tamen"
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Eunuchus
Eunuchus is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's most successful play during his lifetime. Suetonius notes how the play was staged twice in a single day and won Terence 8,000 sesterces. The play is a loose translation of one written by Menander in Greek.
"Omnia habeo neque quicquam habeo; nil quom est, nil defit tamen"
"Saepe ex huius modi re quapiam malo principio magna familiaritas."
"Nullumst iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius."
"Novi ingenium mulierum: nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt ultro."
"Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus."
"Utinam tibi conmitigari videam sandalio caput!"
"Si istuc crederem sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti."
"Di inmortales, homini homo quid praestat! stulto intellegens quid interest!"
"Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudost."
"John Benson Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer (London: Dorrell and Son, 1870)"
"In amore haec omnia insunt vitia: iniuriae, suspiciones, inimicitiae, indutiae, bellum, pax rursum: incerta haec si tu postules ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias."
"Christopher Kelk, "Eunuchus". Poetry in Translation (2023), Online"