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THE HECYRA.

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ARGUMENT.

PAMPHILUS, son of Laches and Sostrata, committed violence on Philumena, daughter of Phidippus and Myrrhina, having accidentally met her at night;—he afterwards married her, not knowing her to be the same. Bacchis, a courtezan, had hitherto engaged his love; con

sequently he payed little attention to Philumena. Shortly after his marriage, having occasion to go abroad, he left Philumena at home, but, on returning, as it happened, he surprized her on the point of her delivery; on account of which she was residing with her mother, in order to keep the nature of her illness concealed. Pamphilus, thence irritated, and meditating a divorce,-against the will of his parents, who are ignorant of the cause,-learns the fact that he himself was the sole cause of his present jealousy, by finding with Bacchis a ring which he had taken from the finger of Philumena on the night on which he had first met her.

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SULPICIUS APOLLINARIS.

UXOREM duxit Pamphilus Philumenam,
Cui quondam ignorans virgini vitium obtulit:
Ejusque, per vim quem detraxit, annulum

Dederat amicæ Bacchidi meretriculæ ;

5 Dein profectus in Imbrum est: nuptam haud attigit. Hanc mater utero gravidam, ne id sciat socrus, Ut ægram ad sese transfert. revenit Pamphilus : Deprehendit partum: celat: uxorem tamen Recipere non vult. pater incusat Bacchidis 10 Amorem. dum se purgat Bacchis, annulum Mater vitiatæ forte agnoscit Myrrhina.

Uxorem recipit Pamphilus cum filio.

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