Adelphi: or, The Brothers

<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/14797.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Adelphi: or, The Brothers</u><br><span>"Micio and Demea are two brothers of dissimilar tempers. Demea is married, and lives a country life, while his brother remains single, and resides in Athens." Things quickly get a bit messy with hushed-up debauchery, kidnapping/elopement/theft of a slave, general carousing, and marriage nuptials - the usual for the day perhaps, except that: "The Play concludes with a serious warning from Demea, who advises his relatives not to squander their means in riotous living; but, on the contrary, to bear admonition and to submit to restraint in a spirit of moderation and thankfulness."</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />