however, megadorus declares he has no use for ladies of rank with high dowries. the siblings discuss marriage, and eunomia indicates her desire to see megadorus married. We next meet the elderly bachelor megadorus and his sister, eunomia. despairing about her mistress's fate, she bemoans the pregnancy and fails to notice euclio's paranoia. his fear is wholly unfounded, for staphyla is more concerned by her knowledge of phaedria's pregnancy. extremely paranoid and fearful of harm befalling this wondrous item, euclio fears that his servant, staphyla, will learn of its whereabouts. her adverse circumstance is the only reason the deity has given up the location of the gold, so he can ensure phaedria's marriage to lyconides, the man who seduced her.Įuclio is entirely unaware of the drama unfolding before him, as he is obsessed with his newfound pot of gold. The household deity tells readers he is greatly pleased by phaedria, as she is pious and more than devoted to him, but reveals that she has been ravished and impregnated by a gentleman of high rank.
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