Nine months before this play begins, one character is impregnated at the Festival of Ceres, while minor characters include the cooks Charcoal and Eel.
To conclude an extended metaphor in this play, the protagonist states, "It's very dangerous, this climbing up / From the donkey class to the oxen ranks", and that character later tells his housekeeper to "make sure [his house of emptiness and] cobwebs is not disturbed". Nine months before this play begins, one character is impregnated at the Festival of Ceres, while minor characters include the cooks Charcoal and Eel. After climbing a tree to observe the main character of this play, Sobersides (*) is able to find an object that he attempts to use to achieve his freedom. The main character's assertion that "I used to be digging ten ditches a day" is one of the few extant lines from the end of this play, implying that he rids himself of the titular burden to after the marriage of Lyconides to his daughter Phaedria, who has just given birth. Titled for an object that the Lars Familiaris revealed to its protagonist, for 10 points, identify this play starring Euclio, a work by Plautus centering on the titular treasure.
To conclude an extended metaphor in this play, the protagonist states, "It's very dangerous, this climbing up / From the donkey class to the oxen ranks", and that character later tells his housekeeper to "make sure [his house of emptiness and] cobwebs is not disturbed".
The {Pot} of {Gold} [or {Aulularia}]