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Calidorus, the son of Simo, a power individual, is in love with Phoenicium. The hero, Calidorus, does not have the money to save Phoenicium. A cunning slave, Pseudolus, finds out Calidorus's problem and convinces the two to unite. This unification is necessary for the hero Calidorus to be successful.
Calidorus, Simo’s son, and Pseudolus, Simo’s slave, discuss a letter Calidorus has received from his lover, a prostitute owned by Simo’s neighbor, Ballio.Calidorus ruefully explains that Phoenicium has been sold to a Macedonian soldier and that as soon as the soldier’s slave returns with the balance and a matching seal, she will be forced to go to him.
folded tablet which he bathes with his tears (9f.). Calidorus hands the tablet to Pseudolus (20). It is a letter from Phoenicium, Cali dorus' arnica (35), and the information it contains will explain the young man's distress (20f.). Pseudolus reads out the letter: Phoenicium's owner, a leno (51), has arranged to sell her to a
Plautus. Pseudolus. on to Pseudolus, Pseudolus to Calidorus, and Calidorus giving it back to Ballio, as payment for Phoenicium. Ballio would not be completely ruined and, more important, Pseudolus would not have spare money to promise to Simo in exchange for taking part in the drinking bout that ends the play.
Sep 5, 2023 · The opening situation is that Calidorus is upset because he has a letter from his love, a slave woman named Phoenicium, that says that her master is going to sell her and tear her away from Calidorus.
Now that the audience has a good reason to dislike Ballio, Plautus comes up with a very Roman flagitatio (ll. 357–70), in which Calidorus and Pseudolus keep insulting the pimp in order to make him feel guilty or upset and to make him change his mind. Needless to say, the callous pimp takes it all in his stride.
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Acted at the Megalesian games when Marcus Junius, son of Marcus, was city praetor. Plot Summary 1. A soldier pays fifteen minutes cash down, and at the same time affixes his seal to a token, so that the pimp will give Phoenicium to the man who brought its equivalent with the rest of the money. Pseudolus cheats the soldier’s servant out of the ...
