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Phormio

Colman, George (1732-1794)
  
PHORMIO.
  
[note]
  
[dedication]
  
[castlist]
  
[section]
  
PROLOGUE.

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ACT I.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
 6. 
SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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ACT II.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
 6. 
SCENE VI.
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ACT III.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
 6. 
SCENE VI.
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ACT IV.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.

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SCENE II.

GETA
alone.
The money's got for Phædria: all is hush'd:
And Phanium is not to depart as yet.
What more then? where will all this end at last?
—Alas, you're sticking in the same mire still:
You've only chang'd hands, Geta. The disaster,
That hung but now directly over you,
Delay perhaps will bring more heavy on you.
You're quite beset, unless you look about.
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—Now then I'll home; to lesson Phanium,
That she mayn't stand in fear of Phormio,
Nor dread this conf'rence with Nausistrata.

[Exit.
 

Versurâ solvere, to change one creditor for another. Donatus.

Plagæ crescunt. Plagæ is generally understood here to signify blows: but as Geta is full of metaphors in this speech, I am apt to think the words mean “the snares increase,” which agrees better with the following clause, nisi prospicis, and is a sense in which the plural of plaga is often used.

Ejus orationem. Ejus here is not to be understood of Phormio, but Nausistrata: and perhaps Terence wrote hujus. Dacier.

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