des Plautus,
    Leipzig, 1880; Plautinische Studien, Berlin, 1886. 
  Sellar, Roman Poets of the Republic, Oxford, third edition,
    1889, pp. 153-203. 
  Skutsch, Forschungen zur lateinischen Grammatik und Metrik,
    Leipzig, 1892. 
  Leo, Plautinische Forschungen, Berlin, 1895; second
    edition, 1912; Die plautinischen Cantica und die
    hellenistische Lyrik, Berlin, 1897. 
  Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus, Oxford, 1907.

PRINCIPAL MANUSCRIPTS

  Ambrosianus palimpsestus (A), 4th century. 
  Palatinus Vaticanus (B), 10th century. 
  Palatinus Heidelbergensis (C), 11th century. 
  Vaticanus Ursinianus (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