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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Epilogue of the ‘Captives’

By Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.)

Translation of William Cranston Lawton

THIS our comedy, spectators, is for honest morals made.

No love-making is there in it, nor a love intrigue at all.

No false fathering of children, nor embezzlement of money.

Rarely do the poets fashion such a comedy as this,

Where the good are rendered better….