Ergasilus

Some authorities think that the parasite (Ergasilus) is an addition to the original play, which may have belonged to the New Comedy.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

You will have more of an opportunity to mention those viands, Ergasilus, than to masticate them here at my house.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

The parasite is "featured" too, when Ergasilus bewails the decline of his profession [142], or Peniculus and Gelasimus indulge in haunting threnody on their perpetual lack of food [143].

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

_Cap. _ 909 ff. the _canticum_ of the _puer_ becomes more than a mere stopgap, if he acts out vividly the violence of Ergasilus; and in _Bac.

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

May Jupiter and the Deities confound you, Ergasilus, and your stomach, and all Parasites, and _every one_ who henceforth shall give a dinner to Parasites.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

You will have more opportunity, Ergasilus, here at my house, of talking about these things than of eating them.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

Ergasilus plays upon the resemblance of the verb "sentio" to "sentis" and

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

Ergasilus having seen Stalagmus in the packet-boat with this collar on, declares that Stalagmus is a Sicilian no longer, for be has turned Boian, having

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

Throw aside from you all tardiness, Ergasilus, and speed on this business.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

But is this Ergasilus, that I see coming at a distance?

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847