Aulularia is a Latin play

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 by the early Roman

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 playwright

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 Titus Maccius Plautus. The title has been translated as The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold

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 that the miser

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ly protagonist

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, Euclio, guards zealously. The play’s ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue.
Lars Familiaris, the household deity

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 of Euclio, an old man with a marriageable daughter named Phaedria, begins the play with a prologue about how he allowed Euclio to discover a pot of gold buried in his house.