Mostellaria 3:2:1-2 Nec quod una esca me iuverit magis

[cinefactus]

Melius armo hoc mihi non fuit domi,
Nec quod una esca me iuverit magis

I can't figure out what function the quod performs. Nec una esca me iuverit magis seems to make better sense.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[Pacifica]

Looking at the context in the next line (prandium uxor mihi perbonum dedit) I believe una esca is in the ablative of comparison, whith quod being "[anything] that".

Armo should be anno.

 

[Pacifica]

Though I suppose it could also be "neither [has it been the case] that one meal has done me more good", with una esca in the nominative. If I knew the meter, I could tell you, but I don't.

 

[Pacifica]

Armo should be anno.

Well, anno is what most versions out there on the net have. Armo could still make sense, though. Maybe the reading is uncertain.

 

[cinefactus]

Well, anno is what most versions out there on the net have. Armo could still make sense, though. Maybe the reading is uncertain.

Thanks.

I think the copy and paste from the pdf didn't work properly. It is anno

 

[cinefactus]

Though I suppose it could also be "neither [has it been the case] that one meal has done me more good", with una esca in the nominative. If I knew the meter, I could tell you, but I don't.

I must admit the comic metres are too much for me
If it is this, how does the quod work? Is there something omitted?

 

[Pacifica]

If that is the correct interpretation, quod here means literally "(the fact) that" (here only a potential/non-existent fact). Nothing has been omitted, but you'd need extra words in English.

My first interpretation still feels slightly more likely, but I can't be 100% sure.

 

[Pacifica]

So, I've done some search and found a source according to which these lines are in cretic dimeter with the addition of some thingummy at the end of lines (but we don't care about that since una esca isn't at the end of the line). A cretic foot is long-short-long so, if the source is correct, una esca is nominative and my second interpretation is the good one.

Nec quod u/n(a) es-ca me

 

[cinefactus]

That is what the translation on Perseus has, although I don't always agree with it!