Word: domum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love songs sung by Damon and Alphesiboeus. The poetic basis is found in the second love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne home"). This refrain is very effectively entoned by three trumpets behind the scenes...
...cras videant. Argumentum tamen huius fabulae vix necesse est nobis eloqui quippe quae simillima sit paene omnibus Plauti comediis; Philolaches enim, adulescens Athenaeus, absente patre amantem suam manumittit atque grandem impendit pecuniam. Pater Theopropides revenit. Tranio, servus et omnium actorum maxime alacer, hunc ludificatur, Philolachi succurrit. Terribilem larvam dicit domum Theopropides nune habitare. Mox tamen pater cognescit quid sit verum, nee minus filio dat veniam. Itaque, cum aulaeum tollitur, nemo histrionum non est felix et contentus...