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Brothers Demea and Micio disagree about how to raise Demea's sons: Demea is strict with Ctesipho while Micio permissively raises Aeschinus. The sons' romances and deceptions bring the fathers into conflict, until Demea adopts Micio's generosity to teach him a lesson and both sons choose Demea's guidance.
Pamphilus loves Glycerium, who is pregnant with his child, but his father Simo is arranging his marriage to Philumena. The cunning slave Davus schemes to stop the wedding, yet his plan backfires and leaves Pamphilus in danger of betraying Glycerium and his friend Charinus. When Crito arrives and reveals that Glycerium is the daughter of Chremes's lost brother, Chremes consents to her marriage with Pamphilus and Philumena is free to marry Charinus.
Courtesan Thais tries to return Pamphila, kidnapped as a child, to her Athenian family. Phaedria's brother Chaerea disguises himself as a eunuch to enter Thais's house and sexually assaults Pamphila; the truth emerges, Pamphila is recognized as freeborn, and Chaerea offers to marry her as the households reconcile.
In a street in Attica, a father who regrets sending his son abroad secretly shelters the returning young man. A slave’s deceptions entangle two neighboring households over the sons’ romances, until a ring reveals that one young woman is the other father’s lost daughter and the families arrange marriages.
Pamphilus is forced to marry Philumena after ending his affair with Bacchis, then leaves town. Philumena returns to her parents’ home while pregnant from a rape that occurred before the marriage; Pamphilus fears she was unfaithful and rejects her. A ring reveals that he himself was the assailant, and the couple reconcile when he accepts his son.
Phormio, a clever parasite, helps Antipho keep a wife chosen through a legal trick while arranging to use the payment to free Phaedria’s beloved lyre-player. The plan exposes Chremes’s secret second marriage and daughter, leaving his wife Nausistrata to decide how to respond.
Brothers Demea and Micio disagree about how to raise Demea's sons: Demea is strict with Ctesipho while Micio permissively raises Aeschinus. The sons' romances and deceptions bring the fathers into conflict, until Demea adopts Micio's generosity to teach him a lesson and both sons choose Demea's guidance.
Pamphilus loves Glycerium, who is pregnant with his child, but his father Simo is arranging his marriage to Philumena. The cunning slave Davus schemes to stop the wedding, yet his plan backfires and leaves Pamphilus in danger of betraying Glycerium and his friend Charinus. When Crito arrives and reveals that Glycerium is the daughter of Chremes's lost brother, Chremes consents to her marriage with Pamphilus and Philumena is free to marry Charinus.
Courtesan Thais tries to return Pamphila, kidnapped as a child, to her Athenian family. Phaedria's brother Chaerea disguises himself as a eunuch to enter Thais's house and sexually assaults Pamphila; the truth emerges, Pamphila is recognized as freeborn, and Chaerea offers to marry her as the households reconcile.
In a street in Attica, a father who regrets sending his son abroad secretly shelters the returning young man. A slave’s deceptions entangle two neighboring households over the sons’ romances, until a ring reveals that one young woman is the other father’s lost daughter and the families arrange marriages.
Pamphilus is forced to marry Philumena after ending his affair with Bacchis, then leaves town. Philumena returns to her parents’ home while pregnant from a rape that occurred before the marriage; Pamphilus fears she was unfaithful and rejects her. A ring reveals that he himself was the assailant, and the couple reconcile when he accepts his son.
Phormio, a clever parasite, helps Antipho keep a wife chosen through a legal trick while arranging to use the payment to free Phaedria’s beloved lyre-player. The plan exposes Chremes’s secret second marriage and daughter, leaving his wife Nausistrata to decide how to respond.