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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Minor Works (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Curculio, or The Forgery (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Eunuchus (ed. Edward St. John Parry, Edward St. John Parry, M.A.). You can also browse the collection for Caria (Turkey) or search for Caria (Turkey) in all documents.
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P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Eunuchus (ed. Edward St. John Parry, Edward St. John Parry, M.A.), act introduction, INTRODUCTION. (search)
INTRODUCTION.
PAMPHILA and Chremes were the children of an Athenian
citizen. Pamphila, while an infant, was carried off from her home at
Sunium by robbers, and by them sold to a merchant of Rhodes. He
presented her to a courtesan of that place, who had her brought up
with her own daughter Thais as her younger sister. When Thais grew up
she removed to Athens with a lover of hers, who at his death left her
all his property. She then kept company with a soldier named Thraso,
who went to Caria after living with her a short time.
Meanwhile her mother had died, and her uncle wishing to realize
money by Pamphila, who was beautiful and accomplished, sold her to
Thraso, who happened to be at Rhodes on his return to Athens, and
carried her with him intending to make a present of her to
Thais. During his absence, however, Thais had found a new lover, one
Phaedria, son of Laches. This Thraso discovers on his return, and in
order to secure his footing with her, makes his present conditional
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