Bound to one man whose temper suits with yours,
He too attaches his whole heart to you.
Thus mutual friendship draws you each to each;
Nothing can part you, nothing shake your love.
How beautiful, too, is the unselfish devotion of Antiphila, when she artlessly professes to know nothing of other women’s feelings, but to know this one thing only, that her happiness is wrapped up in that of her lover!——
Nescio alias; me quidem semper scio fecisse sedulo
Ut ex illius commodo meum compararem commodum.
II. iv. 16.
Phormio.
The Phormio is a translation or adaptation of the Epidicazomene (the subject of the law suit) of Apollodorus: it was entitled Phormio.