Nicobulus

but the salacious ass wearied with its journey is bringing to you three if i remember right one you behold see now what on my lips i bring to wit two samian sisters bacchanalians merry courtesans born of the same parents at one time at a twin birth no less alike than milk to milk if you compare it or water to water were you to see them you would think them halved so much would you confuse your sight that you would not be able to distinguish which was which what remains you long to hear now give attention the story of this play i will disclose What country Samos is, is known to all, for seas, lands, mountains, and islands have your legions made easy of access.

There, Solstrata bore to her husband, Phyrgotelus Pyrocles, twin daughters at one birth, and it pleased them, being initiated at the triennial festival of Bacchus, to call after his name the damsels of which they were the parents the parents as often happens gave a turn to their future fortunes a captain carried one of them with him to crete the other of the twins sailed for athens As soon as Nassilicus, the son of Nicopolis, beheld her, he began to love her, and frequently paid her visits.

Meantime, his father sent the youths to Ephesus, to bring back thence some gold, which he himself, some time before, had deposited with Archidamedes, an ancient friend of his, an aged Phoenician.

When, for two years, he had stayed at Ephesias, he received the sad news that Bacchus was gone from Athens, for some sailors of his acquaintance sent him word that she had set sail.