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Pseudolus is a bit anxious about Simia succeeding in duping Ballio. Simia is confident to the point of arrogance and is annoyed by Pseudolus' anxieties. Pseudolus takes Simia to meet Ballio and the scene switches between their interaction and Pseudolus' commentary as he watches the events unfold. The plan threatens to come unraveled when Ballio ...
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.
Alone, Pseudolus says he has never seen “a worse human being, / A more deviously wicked fellow than this Simia!” (1017-18). He says Simia is “so awfully damn good he scares me!” (1019). He worries that Simia will turn his “wily weapons against [him]” (1021), that Simia will disappear or “join the enemy” (1027), that Simo will ...
Pseudolus cheats the soldier’s servant out of the token 5 when he arrives, claiming to be Ballio’s Syrus, and in this way he brings help to his master’s son; for the pimp hands the woman over to Simia, whom Pseudolus palms off on him. The real Harpax comes; the matter comes out into the open, and the old man pays the money he had agreed on.
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Feb 11, 2009 · She does not, however, expressly say what she thinks the name says. Actually Pseudolus only performs the role she mentions in so far as Simia may be seen as an extension of him, but I am here interested in the power of the name, rather than Barton's particular argument.
