Titus Maccius Plautus — Amphitryo (1519)

utility your may be
Which shall be most for your common interest,
namely you know to be
(For you yourselves already know it is granted and given
to mercury by the gods it is so that to profit
To me by the other gods, that I should preside over messages and profit,)
your to admit to strive
Adnitier for adniti by paragoge

That you wish me to strive to prove these things,
of gain perpetually may abound
So that profit may always abound for you perpetually,
commodity
In this way you will grant silence to this play,
and so to you spectators and viewers
And so you will all be fair and just arbiters here.
when sent is in the sole [writings] of Nicolas; here and Sosmedes, Nicolas

Now I shall tell you by whose command I come, and why I have come,
I shall tell I shall demonstrate so that you may know
And at the same time I shall utter my own name.
I come by the command of Jupiter; my name is Mercury.
Jupiter called rather
My father sent me hither to you to ask—
it is permitted modestly
(Although, for what had been said by authority,
he knew you of ours would command had acknowledged Scibat for sciebat

He knew you would do it, inasmuch as he understood
to fear Jupiter just
That you revere and fear him, just as it is right to fear Jupiter)
but the way for a manner
Precario admodum, that is, by another's prayers... by a primary [request]... we can precariously... to one asking precariously...

Truly, he ordered me to seek this from you precariously,
Jupiter with placid kind words
With gentle and good words.
Jupiter thundering helping
For indeed he, by whose command I come here, Jupiter,
your whoever fears detriment
Fears the misfortune of any one of you no less than you fear yours.
to Saturn
Born of a human mother and a human father,
it is not right just he fears greatly
It is not right for him to wonder if he is fearful.
mercury also
And I, too, who am the son of Jupiter,
on account of contagion finished I fear The mother of Mercury is said to be Maia, the daughter of the Pleiades

Fear misfortune through the contagion of my mother.
benevolent
Therefore I come for peace, and I bring peace to you;
honesty prayed for
I want a just and easy thing to be asked of you.
because rightly to the spectators true petitioner
For I am given as a just orator by a just one to the just.
because unjust for men to be sought
For it is not fitting for unjust things to be sought from the just by men.