![]() Euclio is persuaded to marry his daughter to his rich neighbor, an elderly bachelor named Megadorus, who happens to be the uncle of Lyconides. Phaedria is never seen on stage, though at a key point in the play the audience hears her painful cries in labor. Unknown to Euclio, Phaedria is pregnant by a young man named. Euclio is then shown almost maniacally guarding his gold from real and imagined threats. Plot Summary Lars Familiaris, the household deity of, an old man with a marriageable daughter, begins the play with a prologue about how he allowed Euclio to discover a pot of gold buried in his house. ![]() Story), and the comedy comes from what the characters do, not what happens in the plot of the story (Aristophanic). ![]()
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