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* [[Bed Trick]]: A double one: when Gynecia discovers Pyrocles is a man, she wants to sleep with him, and he arranges to meet her in a cave that night. As 'Cleophila', he's also being lusted after by her husband Basilius, so he says he'll meet him in the cave that night too, and gives Gynecia his garment so Basilius will think it's Cleophila. Gynecia and Basilius, the married couple, have sex in the cave, each thinking the other is Pyrocles/Cleophila. Which puts our hero into [[Magnificent Bastard]] territory.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Strephon and Klaius, the two shepherds from the Eclogues, sing about their own set of adventures.
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