- plot
revolves around a
literal pot of gold
which the
miserly protagonist,
Euclio,
guards zealously. The play's
ending does not survive,
though there are...
-
never remembered to
honor the Lar; nor has the grandson,
Euclio, a
frightful miser.
Euclio's daughter is
ready to marry,
pregnant by an elderly, wealthy...
- Megadorus:
Neste ien.
Neste dum et
Euclio: Al. Anec este mem Megadorus: Let us
drink wine; let us
drink the
blood of the vine.
Euclio: No, I will
drink water! —Punic...
- feast; he
instructs one of the cooks, Congrio, to go to
Euclio's house and
start work. When
Euclio returns he is alarmed,
thinking his gold is
being stolen...
-
Euclio reveals a pot of gold long-hidden
beneath his
household hearth,
denied to
Euclio's father because of his
stinginess towards his Lar.
Euclio's own...
-
provided inspiration for the
Latin dramas of Plautus. The
character of
Euclio in his
Aulularia was to be
particularly influential, as was the complicating...
- 2004 Clio (Clio) Linnaeus, 1767 ·
alternate representation † Clio (Nudiclio) Korobkov, 1966
Euclio Bonnevie, 1913 ·
unaccepted Proclio Huben****, 1951...
-
Harpagon draws from the
Latin play
Aulularia by
Plautus in
which the
miser Euclio incessantly changes the
hiding place of his pot of gold out of fear of having...
- his house. Querolus’
father Euclio,
dying abroad, had
confided the
location of the
treasure to Mandrogerus.
After Euclio’s death Mandrogerus was supposed...
- bread, roosters, lambs, and wine.
Later in the same play, the
protagonist Euclio remarks on the
ludicrousness of the idea of
cancelling the
wedding after...
