THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT. [Supposed to have been written by Priscian the Grammarian.]
A young man of
Lemnos ravishes (
Comprimit) a woman of
Sicyon. He (
Is) returns to his country, and becomes father of a daughter by his marriage there. The woman of
Sicyon (
Sicyonia) also bears a daughter. A servant takes (
Tollit) and exposes her, and keeps watch in secret; her (
Eam), taken up, a Courtesan presents to another. Coming back afterwards from
Lemnos (
Lemno), he marries her whom he had ravished; and his daughter born at
Lemnos (
Lemni) he promises in marriage to a young man captivated by passion (
A more) for the one that had been exposed. On making enquiry (
Requirens), the servant finds her whom he had exposed; and so (
Itaque) legaliy and properly does Alcesimarchus (
Alcesimarchus) gain her recognized as a tree woman, whom before he had had
as a concubine.