ARGUMENT II

A young Athenian was deeply in love with a free-born courtesan and was loved in return; he went away from home to Naupactus as a legate. A soldier encounters the girl, and carries her off to Ephesus against her will. The slave of the Athenian,
5 in order to announce what had happened to his master, sails;
he is captured, and once captured, he is given to that soldier.
He writes to his master to come to Ephesus. The young man flies there and stays nearby
at the home of a family friend. The slave digs through the middle wall
10 in secret, to serve as a passageway
where the lovers might meet. He feigns that the woman's twin
sister is present. Soon the master of the house
supplies his own client to be solicited by the soldier.
The soldier is caught, he hopes for marriage,
15 he sends away his concubine, and the adulterer is beaten.

2 naupactis domum to Naupactus home cod. : corr Pylades      4 inuitam unwilling Saracenus :
inuitat (-ta B¹) cod.      5 facto fact cod. (corr. B²)      7 Aduerum To the master cod.
(corr. B²)      8 deu. stays/lodges Saracenus, Bothe : reuortitur cod.      11 gemi-
nam twin Scutarius : geminat cod.      mulieris of the woman Camerarius : mulier cod.
12 adesse to be present Pylades : ait esse cod.      14 spernat hopes for cod. (corr. B²)