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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.
Alone on stage, Pseudolus boasts of his ability to carry about schemes. Soon Pseudolus encounters Harpax, the Macedonian soldier’s slave, who is looking for Ballio. Pseudolus pretends to be Ballio’s slave, Surus, and tells Harpax he can leave the money for Phoenicium with him. Harpax refuses, but he does leave a sealed letter from his master.
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. Cite this page as ...
Pseudolus. Pseudolus, whose name means “liar” in Greek, is the slave of Simo. He is also the confidante of Simo’s son, Calidorus. When Calidorus laments that his lover, the prostitute Phoenicium, is going to be sold to a Macedonian soldier, Pseudolus promises Calidorus that he will help him obtain the money to buy her himself.
Pseudolus’s affecting the language of a superior isn’t new: in Scene 1, as he promised Calidorus he’ll obtain the money from Simo, Pseudolus pretended to be a magistrate, stating, “I hereby decree, to all citizens assembled here” (126) that anyone who knows him should “[b]e wary of me today” (202). Pseudolus thus simultaneously draws attention to his inferior status and casts ...
Scenes 1-2: Young Calidorus explains to Pseudolus, his family’s slave, that his girlfriend Phoenicium has been sold to a Macedonian soldier by Ballio, the double-crossing leno (“pimp”) who owns her and had earlier promised to sell her to no one but Calidorus. Pseudolus reads Phoenicium’s wretched love-letter to Calidorus in Song #1.
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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.
