There is little doubt that the 'fabulae Varronianae' are those which have come down to us with the addition of the _Vidularia_, which was lost between the sixth and the eleventh centuries. The number of Varro's second class, consisting of those pieces that stood in most of the indices and exhibited Plautine features, Ritschl has fixed at nineteen, from citations in Varro _de lingua Latina_. Besides the genuine plays the names of thirty-two others are known. The extant plays[6] are as follows: 1. _Amphitruo_, a _tragicomoedia_, the only play of Plautus of the kind. Prol. 59, 'Faciam ut conmixta sit haec tragicomoedia.' The original and the date are unknown. The play shows the features of the Sicilian _Rhinthonica_.[7] About three hundred lines have been lost after Act. iv., Scene 2. The scene is Thebes, which, with Roman carelessness or ignorance, is made a harbour; cf. ll. 629 _sqq._ 2. _Asinaria_ (sc. _fabula_), from the ᾽Οναγός of Demophilus, supposed to have been a writer of the New Comedy. Prol. 10-12, 'Huic nomen Graece Onagost fabulae; Demophilus scripsit, Maccius vortit barbare. Asinariam volt esse, si per vos licet.' Authorities assign the play to about B.C. 194. The scene is Athens. 3. _Aulularia_ (from _aulula_, 'a little pot.')--Neither the original nor the exact time of composition is known. From Megadorus' tirade against the luxury of women, ll. 478 _sqq._, it has been inferred that the play was written after the repeal of the Oppian Law in B.C. 195. The end of the play is lost. The scene is Athens. 4. _Captivi_, a piece without active interest (_stataria_), without female characters, and claiming a moral purpose; l. 1029, 'Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabulast.' Some authorities think that the parasite (Ergasilus) is an addition to the original play, which may have belonged to the New Comedy. The scene is in Aetolia. 5. _Curculio_, so called from the name of the parasite. The Greek original is unknown; but ll. 462-86 contain a speech from the Choragus, in the style of the παράβασις of the Old Comedy. In l. 509, 'Rogitationes plurumas propter vos populus scivit quas vos rogatas rumpitis,' there is probably an allusion to the Lex Sempronia de pecunia credita, B.C. 193. The scene is Epidaurus. 6. _Casina_, so called from a slave-girl introduced. The original was the Κληρούμενοι of Diphilus. Prol. 31, 'Clerumenoe vocatur haec comoedia Graece, Latine Sortientes. Deiphilus hanc Graece scripsit.' The inference from l. 979, 'Nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt,' that the play was written after the S.C. de Bacchanalibus in B.C. 186, is improbable; the words rather show, as Mommsen[8] believes, an anterior date, when it was not yet dangerous to speak of the Bacchanalia. Some authorities find support for the latter date in the words of the prologue, ll. 9-20 (written after the poet's death). The text of the play has suffered greatly. The scene is Athens.