ABSTRACT: I argue for a bilingual pun (liberos~ τόκος) at Aulularia 736, and defend an allusion, noticed by previous scholars, at lines 394-396 to the scene in Iliad (1.37-42) where Chryses asks Apollo to avenge the theft of his daughter, Chryseis. Both wordplay and allusion are further instances of the recurrent identification in Aulularia of Euclio’s daughter, Phaedria, with the pot of gold. Each, the pun and the allusion, serves an important function in the play, namely, the pun points to Euclio’s deficiencies as a father, just as the allusion gestures towards rehabilitation of the miser in his paternal role.