Word: tranio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanders heri vidimus et omnes condiscipulos nostros snadere hortarique volumus ut vel hodie vel 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...
Laird McK. Ogle '37 will play the slave hero Tranio, and Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36 will take the part of Theopropides, the old father. Ralph Lazzaro '36 is to appear as both Scapha and Phaniscus in the play...
...party is getting up steam, the father unexpectedly returns. But Tranio, wily house slave, silences the guests within the domicile, persuades its owner that it is haunted, and tells him that in his absence Philolaches has borrowed money to buy the neighbor's residence...