See, lady Moon, where my love came from. So I told my slave girl the truth: "Come, Thestylis, find me some cure for this cruel sickness. The man from Myndus has all of me, poor thing. Go and keep watch at Timagetus' wrestling school, for that is where he goes, and where he likes to sit."

She tells Thestylis everything and sends her to look for Delphis where he spends his days, at the wrestling school of Timagetus that she named in line 8. She calls her love a χαλεπὰ νόσος, a cruel sickness, and asks for a μῆχος, a means or remedy; the words are the plain words for illness and cure. So it was Simaetha who sent for him. Delphis will say so himself in a few lines, and make it sound like a compliment.