s (D), 11th century.
Leidensis Vossianus (V), 12th century.
Ambrosianus (E), 12th century.
Londinensis (J), 12th century.

P = the supposed archetype of BCDVEJ.

SOME ANNOTATED EDITIONS OF PLAYS IN THE FIRST VOLUME

_Amphitruo_, A. Palmer 1890.
_Asinaria_, Gray; Cambridge, University Press, 1894.
_Aulularia_, Wagner; London, George Bell & Sons, 1878.
_Captivi_, Brix; 6th edition, revised by Niemeyer; Leipzig,
Teubner, 1910.
_Captivi_, Sonnenschein; London, W. Swan Sonnenschein &
Allen, 1880.
_Captivi_, W.M. Lindsay 1900.

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AMPHITRUO

AMPHITRYON

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ARGVMENTVM I[1]

ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY (I)

[Footnote 1: None of the Arguments prefixed to the plays is by Plautus.
Their date is disputed, the acrostics having been written during the
first century B.C., perhaps, the non acrostics later.]

In faciem versus Amphitruonis Iuppiter,
dum bellum gereret cum Telobois hostibus,
Alcmenam uxorem cepit usurariam.
Mercurius formam Sosiae servi gerit
absentis: his Alcmena decipitur dolis.
postquam rediere veri Amphitruo et Sosia,
uterque deluduntur in mirum modum.
hinc iurgium, tumultus uxori et viro,
donec cum tonitru voce missa ex aethere
adulterum se Iuppiter confessus est. 10

While Amphitryon was engaged in a war with his foes, the
Teloboians, Jupiter assumed his appearance and took the loan
of his wife, Alcmena. Mercury takes the form of an absent
slave, Sosia, and Alcmena is deceived by the two impostors.
After the real Amphitryon and Sosia return they both are
deluded in extraordinary fashion. This leads to an
altercation and quarrel between wife and husband, until
there comes from the heavens, with a peal of thunder,
the voice of Jupiter, who owns that he has been the
guilty lover.

ARGVMENTVM II

ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY (II)

*A*more captus Alcumenas Iuppiter
*M*utavit sese in formam eius coniugis,
*P*ro patria Amphitruo dum decernit cum hostibus.
*H*abitu Mercurius ei subservit Sosiae.
*I*s advenientis servum ac dominum frustra habet.
*T*urbas uxori ciet Amphitruo, atque invicem
*R*aptant pro moechis. Blepharo captus arbiter
*V*ter sit non quit Amphitruo decernere.