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''Sikyionioi'' takes place in a street in [[Athens]], outside the houses of Kichesias and Smikrines, two Athenians who have reversed their luck, as the once rich Kichesias has grown poor and the poor Smikrines has become rich.
In the [[prologue]] speech the divinity has exposed how years before the four-year-old Philumene, together with her nurse and the slave Dromon, was kidnapped by pirates from her father's estate on the coast of [[Attica
The action probably started with a conversation between Theron and his love interest Malthake, during which the audience learns that Theron is the parasite of Stratophanes, a successful mercenary soldier who has lately arrived from Asia Minor taking his lodging in the house of Smikrines. In the first acts Stratophanes starts his search for the father of a young slave girl in his custody, with the intention to return her to her family. Belonging to his late Sicyonian father, the girl was educated like a lady and Stratophanes fell in love with her, but now, due to an important law suit lost by his father, her fate is uncertain as the slaves might be transfered to the property of the plaintiff. When the girl and Dromon are discovered at [[Eleusis]], the slave claims that she is an Athenian, and a pale beardless young man offers himself as her protector. But then Stratophanes steps up to declare that she belonged to his family. He then implores the Eleusinian assembly to be given more time allowing to prove that she is actually an Athenian, which would be her salvation, but also make it impossible for the Sicyonian to marry her.
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