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Pseudolus doesn't have the money they require to buy her, but thinks he can improvise a plan to get it and to save Phoenicium. At this time, Calidorus tells Pseudolus to be quiet, saying he hears the pimp Ballio, Phoenicium's master, leaving his house.
Calidorus laments that he has no money to buy Phoenicium himself. Pseudolus, urging Calidorus to calm down, assures Calidorus that he will help him. Ballio emerges from his house to go the market to buy food for his birthday party, whipping, threatening, and insulting his servants and prostitutes.
Sep 5, 2023 · Then, Pseudolus gets a slave named Simia to deliver the sealed letter to Ballio along with money he got through a bet, convincing the slave-owner to give Phoenicium to Pseudolus.
While Calidorus is unable, or unwilling, to obtain the money needed to rescue Phoenicium, Pseudolus is confident, claiming that while he has “absolutely no idea where” (106) he’ll get the money, he knows he will, either ”[b]y some honest means, or perhaps in [his] usual way” (105).
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. Select Bibliography Editions and Commentaries.
Simo and Pseudolus agree that if Pseudolus succeeds in these tasks by midnight, Simo will give him the money for Phoenicium. If he fails, Simo can send him to the mill to perform hard labor. Callipho says that if Simo refuses to pay the promised money, he will give it to Pseudolus himself.
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The great achievement of Pseudolus in this scene is that he manages to connect the two tasks: he persuades Simo to promise him twenty minas if he can get Phoenicium away from Ballio. Callipho is asked to stay in town as a witness and to make sure that Simo will pay in the end if Pseudolus can keep his promise to abduct Phoenicium from Ballio.
