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 NOTE. 
 
 The Chronolog.cai Older of the Plays in the present volume is as 
 follows : — 
 
 Hecyra . . .B.C. 165. 
 
 Phormio . . . ,, 162. 
 
 Adelphi . „ 160. 
 
 The "Andria" was first acted ip B.o. 136; the "Heautontimorumeuos" 
 in 1 03 B.c ; and the " Euuuchus'' in the same year with the "Phormio." 
 
 The plot of each play has been sufficiently detailed in the headings tc 
 the notes upon each scene.
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 This second volume embraces the remaining plays of 
 Terence, with the exception of the " Eunuchus," which was 
 not included in the " Programme " of Weale's Series. What 
 was said by way of preface to the first volume applies also, 
 in a great measure, to this : and in finishing the work pre- 
 scribed for him, the Editor has but to express his hope and 
 trust that, if it bears no great evidence of originality (fur 
 which indeed an Edition of Terence affords little field, so 
 often has the ground been pre-occupied), it may at least 
 lay claim to care and accuracy, and diligent sifting of the 
 labours of former editors and commentators, in number not 
 a few. He has tried to award the meed of obligation to 
 each editor, from whom any light has been derived upon 
 each passage, as it passed under review ; but indeed the 
 task is not easy ; for there is nothing in the way of 
 quotation or interpretation, which has not come down to 
 aa through a long series, and which cannot boast an almost 
 Welsh pedigree. 
 
 Yet to Mr. Parry's Terence some special acknowledgment 
 is due for the statement of metres prefixed to each scene, 
 of which free use Las been made : as well as for the 
 substance of casual observations on metre here and there. 
 The Notes of Gronovius have been of great use, as have 
 those of Stalbaum'B edition; and Key's Grammar lias
 
 V111 PRKFACh. 
 
 been, to this second volume, of service, which the lack of 
 it denied to the first. But the chief basis of illustration 
 and criticism of the text of Terence lias been Mr. Hildyard's 
 "Aulularia" and "Mentechmei :" indeed, so frequent has 
 been the Editor's recurrence to those most useful editions, 
 •that he has been obliged (he hopes, "pace viri tanti") to 
 abbreviate the words "Hildyard's Glossary" into "H. (!./' 
 throughout the notes of the present volume. The study of 
 these two plays, with the help of Hildyard's Notes and 
 Glossary, is strongly commended to young students, who 
 will thus acquire a clearer insight into Latin Philology, and 
 a keener appreciation of Latin Comedy. They will also 
 be more ready to welcome the publication, of which there 
 is some hope, of other plays of Plautus, on the same plan, 
 edited by the same hand, or, at least, under the same 
 auspices. 
 
 Perhaps the Editor may venture to add, that in the follow - 
 ing pages the possessor of the second volume is supposed 
 to l)e possessed also of the first ; and thanks to the spirit 
 of the Publisher of this series, this supposition is one which 
 involves no costly outlay to realise. 
 
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 Nov. 25, 1859.
 
 P. TERENTI 
 
 COM(EDII.
 
 ADELPHI 
 
 P. TERENTI. 
 
 1RS.CK MENANDRV, ACTA LVDIS FVNERALIBVS, LVCIO 
 JEMILIO PAVLO QVOS FECERE, Q. FABIVS MAXVMVS, P. COR- 
 NELIVS AFRICANVS. EGERE L. ATILIVS PR JIN. L. AMBIVIVS 
 TVRPIO. MODOS FECIT FLACCVS CLAVDI, TIB. SERRANIS, TOTA 
 FACTA SEXTA M. CORNELIO CETHEGO, L. GALLO COS.
 
 C. SULPICI APOLLINARIS PERIOCHA. 
 
 Duos cum haberet Demea adulescentulos, 
 Dat Micioni fratri adoptandum iEscbinurn, 
 Sed Ctesiphoneru retinet. hunc citbaristrias 
 Lepore captum sub duro ac tristi patre 
 Frater celabat JEschinus : faniam rei 
 Ex fralre in sese transferebat : denique 
 Fidicinam lenoni eripit. uitiauerat 
 Idem JEschinus ciuem Atticam pauperculam, 
 Fidemque dederat banc sibi uxorem fore. 
 Demea jurgare, grauiter ferre : mox tamen, 
 Ut ueritas patefacta est, ducit iEschinus 
 Vitiatam, potitur Ctesipho citbaristriam. 
 
 P E E S O N M. 
 
 Micio Senex. 
 Demea Senex. 
 Sannio Leno. 
 jeschinvs advlescens. 
 Syrvs Servos. 
 Ctesipho Advlescens. 
 
 SoSTRATA MATRONA. 
 
 Cantuara Nvtrix. 
 Geta Servos. 
 Heoio Senex. 
 Pami-uila Viroo. 
 Drojio Servos. 
 
 P 3
 
 PROLOGVS. 
 
 Postqi'am poeta sensit scripturam suam 
 
 Ab iniquis obseruari et aduorsarios 
 
 Rapere in pejorem partem quaru acturi sumus : 
 
 Indicio de sesc ipse erit, uos judices, 
 
 Laudin an uitio duci id factum oportent. 
 
 Synapothnescontes Diphili coincediast : 
 
 Earn Commorientis Plautus fecit fabulam. 
 
 In Graeca adulescens est, qui lenoni eripit 
 
 Meretricem in prima fabula : eum Plautus locum 
 
 Tteliquit integrum ; eum hie locum sumpsit sibi 
 
 In Adelphos ; uerbum de uerbo expressum extulit. 
 
 Earn nos acturi sumus nouam : pernoscite 
 
 Furtumne factum existumetis an locum 
 
 Reprensum, qui prseteritus neglegentiast. 
 
 Nam quod isti dicunt mahuoli, homines nobilis 
 
 Eum adiutare adsidueque una scribere : 
 
 Quod illi maledictum uehemens esse existumant, 
 
 Earn laudem hie ducit maxumam, quom illis placet, 
 
 Qui uobis uniuorsis et populo placent, 
 
 Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio 
 
 Suo quisque tempore usust sine superbia. 
 
 Dehinc lie expectetis argumentum fabulse : 
 
 Senes qui primi uenient, hi partem aperient, 
 
 In agendo partem ostendent. facite sequanimitas 
 
 * * *• * 
 
 Poetoe ad scribendum augeat in'lustriam.
 
 ADELPHI P. TEREiNTI. 
 
 AC TVS L— Scen. 1. 
 
 socio. 
 
 Storax. non rediit hac nocte a cena ^Eschinus 
 
 Neque seruolorum quisquam, qui aduorsuru ierani. 
 
 Profecto hoc uere dicunt : si absis uspiam, 
 
 Aut ubi si cesses, euenire ea satius est 
 
 Quae in te uxor dicit et qua? in aninio cogitat 
 
 Irata, quam ilia quae parentis propitii. 
 
 Uxor, si cesses, aut te amare cogitat 
 
 Aut tete amari aut potare atque aninio obsequi, 
 
 Et tibi bene esse, soli sibi quom sit male. 
 
 Ego quia non rediit filius quae cogito ! 
 
 Quibus nunc sollicitor rebus! ne aut ille alseint 
 
 Aut ceciderit aliqua atque aliquid praefregurit. 
 
 Yuh, quemquamne hominem in animum instituere aut sibi 
 
 iru quod sit carius quam ipse est sibi! 
 At.jue ex me hie natus non est, sed fratre ex nieo. 
 Dissimili is studiost jam inde ab adulcscentia. 
 
 banc clementem uitam urbanam atque otium 
 
 itus sum et, quod fortunatum isti putant, 
 mi anmquam habui. ille contra lnoc omnia 
 liuri agere uitam: Bempei parce ac duritei :u
 
 6 ADELPHI. 
 
 Se h.abere : uxorein duxit : nati filii 
 
 Duo : indo ego hunc maiorem adoptaui mihi : 
 
 Eduxi a paruolo, habui, amaui pro meo; 
 
 In eo me oblecto : solum id est carum mihi. 
 
 Ille ut item contra me habeat facio sedulo : 
 
 Do, praetermitto : non necesse habeo omnia 
 
 Pro meo jure agcre : postremo, alii clanculum 
 
 Patres quae faciunt, quoe fert adulescentia, 
 
 Ea ne me celet consuefeci filium. 
 
 Nam qui mentiri aut fallere insuerit patrem, 
 
 Fraudare tanto magis audebit ceteros. 
 
 Pudore et liberalitate liberos 
 
 Petinere satius esse credo quam metu. 
 
 Hsec fratri mecum non conueniunt neque placent. 
 
 Venit ad me ssepe clamans ' quid agis, Micio ? 
 
 Quor perdis adulescentem nobis ? quor amat 1 
 
 Quor potat 1 quor tu his rebus sumptum suggeris ? 
 
 Vestitu nimio indulges: nimium ineptus es.' 
 
 Nimium ipsest durus prseter sequomque et bonum : 
 
 Et errat longe mea quidem sententia, 
 
 Qui inperium credat grauius esse aut stabilius, 
 
 Vi quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia adiungitur. 
 
 Mea sic est ratio et sic animum induco meum : 
 
 Malo coactus qui suom officiura facit, 
 
 Dum id rescitum iri credit, tantisper cauet : 
 
 Si sperat fore clam, rursum ad ingenium redit. 
 
 Ille quern beneficio adjungas ex animo facit, 
 
 Studet par referre, prsesens absensque idem erit. 
 
 Hoc patriumst, potius consuefacere fiHum 
 
 Sua sponte recte facere quam alieno metu : 
 
 Hoc pater ac dominus interest : hoc qui nequit, 
 
 Eateatur nescire inperare liberis. 
 
 « 
 
 4C 
 
 SO
 
 ADELPHI. 
 
 Sed estne hie ipsus, de quo agebain 1 et certe is est. 
 Nescio quid tristem uideo : credo jam, ut solet, 
 Jurgabit. saluom te adueuire, Demea, 
 Gaudeinus. 
 
 ACT. I.— Scen. 2. 
 
 DE.MEA. MICIO. 
 
 De. Ehein opportune : te ipsuui quserito. 
 
 Mi. Quid tristis es ? De. Rogas me ? ubi nobis ^Eschiuusi ? 
 Scia jam quid tristis ego sim ? Mi. Dixin hoc fore ? 
 Quid fecit 1 De. Quid ille fecerit ? quern neque pudet 
 Quicquam, nee metuit quemquam, Deque legem putat 
 Tenere se ullam. nam ilia quae antehac facta sunt 
 Omitto ; modo quid designauit ? Mi. Quidnam id est ? 
 
 De. Foris eff'regit atque in sedis inruit 
 Alieuas : ipsum dominum atque omnem familiam 
 Mvdcauit usque ad mortem : eripuit mulierem 
 Quam amabat. clamant omnes indignissume 
 Factum esse : hoc aduenienti quot mihi, Micio, 
 Dixere ! in orest omin populo. denique, 
 Si conferendum exemplumst, non fratrem uidet 
 It' i dare operam, ruri esse parcum ac sobiium ? 
 Nullum huius sinnle factum, hoec quom illi, Micio, 
 Dico, tibi dico : tu ilium corrumpi sinis. 
 
 Mi. Homine inperito numquam quicquam injustiust, 
 Qui nisi quod ipse fecit nil rectum putat. 
 
 De. Quorsum istuc ? Mi. Quia tu, Demea, hsec male 
 
 judicas. ' 
 
 Nou 'i Bagitium, mihi crede, {l<1ii1cs<-<-h< ulum 
 
 rtari, aequo potare: non est: neque foris
 
 P ADKLPHI. 
 
 ESffiringere. hsec si neque ego neque tu fecimus, 
 Noii siit egestas facere nos. tu nunc tibi 
 Id laudi duds, quod turn fecisti inopia 1 
 Injuriumat: nam si esset unde id fieret, 
 Faceremus. et ilium tu tuom, si esses homo, 
 Sineres nunc facere, dum per setatem licet, 
 Potius quam, ubi te cxspectatum ejecisset foras, 
 Alieniore Eetate post faceret tamen. 
 
 De. Pro Iuppiter, tu homo adigis me ad insaniam. 
 Non est flagitium facere hsec adulescentulum ? Mr. Ah, 
 Ausculta, ne me obtundas de hac re stepius. 
 Tuom filium dedisti adoptandum mini : 
 Is meus est factus: siquid peccat, Demea, 
 Mihi peccat : ego illi maxumam partem feram. 
 Obsonat, potat, olet unguenta : de iubo ; 
 Amat : dabitur a me argentum, dum erit coinmodum. 
 Ubi non eiit, fortasse excludetur foras. 
 Foris efl'regit : restituentur ; discidit 
 A\>stem : resarcietur. et (dis gratia) 
 Est unde hrec fiant, et adhuc non molesta sunt. 
 Postremo aut desine aut cedo quemuis arbitrum : 
 Te plura in hac re peccare ostendam. De. Hei mild, 
 Pater esse disce ab illis, qui uere sciunt. 
 
 Mr. Natura tu illi pater es, consiliis ego. 
 
 De. Tun cousulis quicquam ? Mi. Ah, si pergis, abiero. 
 
 De. Sicine agis ? Mi. An ego totiens de eadem re audiam I 
 
 De. Curaest inihi. Mi. Et mibi curaest. uerum, Demea, 
 Curemus sequam uterque partem : tu alteram, 
 Ego item alteram, nam curare ambos propemodum 
 Reposcere illumst quern dedisti. De. Ah, Micio. 
 
 Mi. Mihi sic uidetur. De. Quid istic ? tibi si istuc placet, 
 Profundat, perdat, pereat, nil ad me attinet.
 
 ADELPHI. 
 
 Jam si uerbuui ullurn postliac — Mi. Rursuru, Demea, 
 Irascere ? De. An non credis ? repeton quein dedi ? 
 ^Egrest : alienus non sum : si obsto — hem, desiuo. 
 Unum uis curem, euro, et est dis gratia, 
 Quom ita ut uolo est ; iste tuos ipse seutiet 
 Posterius : nolo in ilium grauius dice] e. 
 
 Mi. Nee nil neque omnia haec sunt quse dicit : tamen 
 Non nil molesta hsec sunt mihi : sed ostendere 
 Me tegre pati illi nolui : nam itast homo : 
 Quom placo, aduorsor sedulo et deterreo ; 
 Tamen uix humane patitur : uerum si augeam 
 Aut etiam adjutor sim ejus iracundise, 
 Insaniam profecto cum illo. etsi iEschinus 
 Xonnullam in hac re nobis facit injuriam. 
 Quam hie non amauit meretricem ? aut quoi non dedit 
 Aliquid ? postremo nuper (credo jam omnium 
 Taedebat) dixit uelle uxorem ducere. 
 Sperabam jam deferuisse adulescentiam : 
 Gaudebam. Ecce autem de integro : nisi quidquid est 
 Volo scire, atque homiuem conuenire, si apud forumst. 
 
 » 6
 
 10 ADELPHI. 
 
 ACTVS II.— SOEN. 1. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 SANNIO. ^SCHINVS. (PARMENO. PSALTEIA.) 
 
 Sa. Obsecro, populates, ferte misero atque innocenti aux- 
 ilium : 
 Subuenite inopi. Ae. Otiose, nunc jam ilico bic consiste. 
 Quid respectas ? nil periclist : numquain, dum ego adero, hie 
 te tanget. 
 Sa. Ego i stain inuitis omnibus. 
 
 Ae. Quamquamst scelestus, non committet hodie umquam 
 
 iterum ut uapulet. 5 
 
 Sa. ^Escbine, audi, ne te ignarum fuisse dicas meorum 
 
 morum, 
 
 Leno ego sum. Ae. Scio. Sa. At ita, ut usquam fuit fidt 
 
 quisquam optuma. 
 Tu quod te posterius purges, banc injuriam mibi nolle 
 Factam esse, hujus non faciam. crede hoc, ego meum jus per- 
 
 sequar : 
 Neque tu uerbis solues umquam, quod mihi re male feceris. 10 
 Noui ego uostra haec ' nollem factum : dabitur jus jurandum, 
 
 te esse 
 Indignum injuria hac,' indignis quom egomet sim acceptus 
 modis. 
 Ae. Abi prse strenue ac foris aperi. Sa. Ceterum hoc nil 
 
 facis j 
 Ae. I intro nunc jam. Sa. At enim non sinam. Ae. Ac- 
 cede illuc, Parmeno : 
 Nimiuin Lstoc abisti : hie propter bunc adsiste : hem, sic uolo. 1S
 
 ADELPHI. 11 
 
 Oaue nunc jam oculos a meis oculis quoquam demoueas tuos, 
 Ne mora sit, si innuerim, quin pugnus continuo in mala htereat. 
 Sa. Istuc uolo ergo ipsum experiri. Ae. Hem, serua : omitte 
 
 mulierem. 
 Sa. indignum facinus. Ae. Nisi canes, geminabit. Sa. 
 
 Hei misero mihL 
 Ae. Non innueram : uerum in istam partem potius peccato 
 tamen. "" 
 
 I nunc jam. Sa. Quid hoc reist ? regnumne, iEschine, hie tu 
 possides ? 
 Ae. Si possiderem, ornatus esses ex tuis uirtutibus. 
 Sa. Quid tibi rei mecumst ? Ae. Nil. Sa. Quid 1 nostin 
 
 qui sim ? Ae. Non desidero. 
 Sa. Tetigin tui qnicquam ? Ae. Si attigisses, ferres infor- 
 tunium. 
 Sa. Qui tibi lnagis licet meam habere, pro qua ego argentum 
 dedi ? 23 
 
 Responde. Ae. Ante aidis non fecisse erit melius hie con- 
 
 uitium : 
 Nam si molestu3 pergis esse, jam intro abripiere atque ibi 
 I '-[\ie ad necem operiere loris. Sa. Loris liber ? Ae. Sic erit. 
 S v. O homiuem inpurum : hicin libertatem aiunt esse pequam 
 
 omnibus ? 
 A ■ . Si satis jam debacchatus es, leno, audi siuis nunc jam. ; 
 . Egon debacchatus sum autem an tu in me ? Ae. Mitte 
 ista atque ad rem redi. 
 S \ . Quam rem ? quo redeam ? Ak. Jamne me uis dicere id 
 
 quod ad te attinet ? 
 Sa. Cupio, aaqui modo aliquid. Ae. V.di, leno iniqua me 
 
 QOO uolt lorpui. 
 9a. Leno sum, pemioies communis, fateor, adulescentium, 
 Periurus, peatu : tamen tibi a ■,,,< aullasl orta injuria.
 
 12 
 
 ADELPIII. 
 
 Ae. Nam lierclo etiani hoc restat. Sa. Illuc quasso redi, 
 
 quo coepisti, ./Eschine. 
 Ae. Minis uiginti tu illam emisti ; quae res tibi uortat male. 
 Argenti fcantum dabitur. Sa. Quid ? si ego tibi illam nolo 
 
 ueudere, 
 Coges me ? Ae. Minume. Sa. Namque id metui. Ae. Neque 
 
 uendundam censeo, 
 Quae liberast : nam ego liberali illam adsero causa manu. 40 
 
 Nunc uide utram uis : argentum accipere an causam meditari 
 
 tuam. 
 Delibera hoc, dum ego redeo, leno. Sa. Pro supreme Iuppiter, 
 Minume miror qui insanire occipiunt ex injuria. 
 Domo me eripuit, uerberauit : me inuito abduxit meam : 
 Homini misero plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi. 
 Ob malefacta haao tantidem emptam postulat sibi tradier. 
 Verum enim quando bene promeruit, fiat : suom jus postulat. 
 Age jam cupio, modo si argeutum reddat. sed ego hoc hariolor : 
 Ubi me dixero dare tanti, testis faciet ilico, 
 Vendidisse me, de argento somnium : ' mox : eras redi. ' s0 
 
 Id quoque possum ferre, modo si reddat, quaniquairi injuriumst. 
 Verum cogito id quod res est : quando eum quaestum occepuris, 
 Accipiunda et mussitanda injuria adulescentiumst. 
 Sed nemo dabit : frustra has egomet mecum rationes puto. 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 2. 
 
 8YRVS. SANNIO. 
 
 Sy. Tace, egomet conueniam ipsum : enpide accipiat faxo 
 atque etiam 
 Bene dicat secum esse actum, quid istuc, Sannio, est quod te 
 audio
 
 ADELPHI. 13 
 
 Nescio quid concertasse cum hero ? Sa. Numquam uidi ini- 
 
 quius 
 Certationem comparatam, quam hsec hodie inter nos fuit : 
 Ego uapulando, ille uerberando, usque ambo defessi sumus. 
 St. Tua culpa. Sa. Quid facerem ? Sy. Adulescenti mo- 
 
 rem gestum oportuit. 
 Sa. Qui potui melius, qui hodie usque os praebui ? Sy. Age, 
 scis quid loquar 1 
 Pecuniam in loco negligere maxumum interdumst lucrum : hui, 
 Metuisti, si nunc de tuo iure concessisses paululum 
 Atque adulescenti morigerasses, hominum homo stultissume, 
 Xe non tibi istuc fameraret. Sa. Ego spem pretio non emo. 
 St. Numquam rem facies : abi, inescare nescis homines, 
 
 Sannio. 
 Sa. Credo istuc melius esse : uerum ego numquam adeo 
 astutus fui, 
 Quiu quidquid possem mallem auferre potius in prsesentia. 
 Sv. Age noui tuom animum : quasi jam usquam tibi sint 
 uiginti minae, 
 Dum huic obsequare. praeterea autem te aiunt proficisci Cyprum. 
 Sa. Hem. 
 Sy. Coemisse hinc quse illuc ueheres multa, nauem conduc- 
 tam : hoc scio, 
 Animus tibi pendet. ubi illinc spero redieris tamen hoc ages. 
 Sa. Nusquam pedem. perii hercle : hac illi spe hoc iucepe- 
 ruut. Sy. Timet : 
 Injeci scrupulum homini. Sa. O scelera : illud uide, 
 Ut in ipso articulo oppressit. empta; mulieres 
 Complures et item hinc alia quae porto Cyprum. 
 Niai eo ad mercatum uenio , damnum maxumumst. 
 Nunc si hoc omitto actum again ; ubi illinc redicro, 
 Nil est ; refrixerit res : ' nunc demum uenia ?
 
 14 ADEL1M1I. 
 
 Quo r passu's ? ubi eras ? ' ut sit satins perdere 
 Quam ant nunc manere tarn din aut turn persequi. 
 
 Sy. Tamno enumerasti id quod ad to rediturum putes 1 
 Sa. Hocinc illo dignumst ? hocine incipere ^Eschinum 1 
 Per oppressioneni ut hanc mi eripere postulet ? 3C 
 
 Sy. Labascit. unura hoc habeo : uide si satis placet : 
 Potius quam nenias in periclum, Sannio, 
 Seruesne an perdas totum, diuiduom face. 
 Minas decern conradet alicunde. Sa. Hei mini, 
 Etiam de sorte nunc uenio in dubium miser ? M 
 
 Pudet nil ? omnis dentis labefecit mibi : 
 Prseterea colapbis tuber est totum caput : 
 Etiam insuper defrudet 1 nusquam abeo. Sy. Ut lubet : 
 Numquid uis quin abeam ? Sa. Immo hercle hoc quseso, Syre, 
 Ut ut haec sunt acta, potius quam litis sequar, 
 Memn mihi reddatur, saltern quanti emptast, Syre. 
 Scio te non usum antehac amicitia mea : 
 Memorem me dices esse et gratum. Sy. Sedulo 
 Faciain. sed Ctesiphonem uideo : lsetus est 
 De arnica. Sa. Quid quod te oro ? Sy. Paulisper mane. 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 3. 
 
 CTESIPHO. SYRVS. (SANNIO.) 
 
 Ct. Abs quiuis homine, quomst opus, beneficium accipero 
 
 gaudeas : 
 Verum enim uero id demum juuat, si quem eequomst facere is 
 
 bene facit. 
 O frater frater, quid ego nunc te laudem ? satis certo scio : 
 Xumquam ita magnifice quicquam dicam, id uirtus quin superet 
 
 tua.
 
 ADELPHI. 1 5 
 
 Itaque unani banc rem me habere praeter ahos prsecipuam 
 
 arbitror, 
 Fratrem bomini neniini esse primarum artium magis principem. 
 Sy. O Ctesipbo. Ct. O Syre, ^Escbinus ubist ? Sy. Ellum, 
 
 te expectat domi. Ct. Hem. 
 Sy. Quid est ? Ct. Quid sit ? illiu» opera, Syre, nunc uiuo : 
 
 festiuom caput, 
 Qui omnia sibi post putauit esse prse meo commodo, 
 Maledicta, famam, meum amorem et peccatum in se transtulit: 10 
 Nil pote supra, quidnam foris crepuit ? Sy. Mane, mane : ipse 
 
 exit foras. 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 4. 
 
 ^SCHINYS. sannto. ctesipho. syrvs. 
 
 Ae. Ubist ille sacrilegus ? Sa. Me quserit. numquidnam 
 effert ? occidi : 
 Nil uideo. Ae. Ebem opportune : te ipsum qusero : quid fit, 
 
 Ctesipbo ? 
 In tutost omnis res : omitte uero tristitiem tuam. 
 
 Ct. Ego illam hercle uero omitto, qui quidem te babeam fra- 
 trem : o mi ^Eschine, 
 O mi germane : ah uerec coram in os te laudare amplius, 5 
 Xu id adsentandi magis quam quo habeam gratum facere ex- 
 iptumes. 
 Ae. Age inepte, quasi nunc non norimus nos inter nos, 
 Ctesipho. 
 Hoc mibi dolet, nos sero rescisse et psene in eum rem locum 
 Kedisse, ut si omnes cuperent nil tibi possent auxiliarier. 
 
 Ct. Pudebat. Ae. Ah, stultitiast istcec, non pudor : tam ob 
 paruolam '*
 
 16 ADELIMll 
 
 Rem pame e patria ! turpe clictu. dcos quoeso lit istaic prohi- 
 beant. 
 Ct. Peocaui. Ae. Quid ait tandem nobis Sannio ? Sy. Jam 
 
 roitis est. 
 Ae. Ego ad forum ibo, ut hunc absoluam : tu intro ad illam, 
 
 Ctesipho. 
 Sa. Syre, insta. Sy. Eamus : namquu hie properat in Cy- 
 prum. Sa. Ne tarn quidem : 
 Quamuis etiam maneo otiosus hie. Sy. Reddetur : ne time. " 
 Sa. At ut omne reddat. Sy. Omne reddet : tace modo ae 
 
 sequere hac. Sa. Sequor. 
 Ct. Heus heus, Syre. Sy. Quid est I Ct. Obsecro hercle 
 te, hominem istum inpurissumum 
 Quam primum absoluitote, ne, si magis inritatus siet 
 Aliqua ad patrem hoc permanet, atque ego turn perpetuo peri- 
 erim. 
 Sy. Non fiet, bono animo es : tu cum ilia te intus oblecta 
 interim M 
 
 Et lectulos iube sterni nobis et parari cetera. 
 Ego jam transacta re conuortam me domum cum obsonio. 
 
 Ct. Ita quseso : quando hoc bene successit, hilarem hunc 
 sumamus diem.
 
 ADELPHI. 17 
 
 ACTVS III.— Scen. 1. 
 
 SOSTRATA. CANTHARA. 
 
 So. Obsecro, inea nutrix, quid nunc net ? Ca. Quid fiat 
 rogas ? 
 Recte edepol spero. So. Modo dolores, mea tu, occipiunt pri- 
 muluin. 
 Ca. Jam nunc times, quasi numquam adfueris, numquam tute 
 
 pepereris ? 
 So. Miseram me, neminem habeo, solse sumus : Geta autem 
 hie non adest : 
 Nee quern ad obstetricem mittam, nee qui arcessat iEschinum. 5 
 Ca. Pol is quidem jam hie aderit : nam numquam uimin 
 intermittit diem, 
 Quin semper ueniat. So. Solus mearum miseriarumst reme- 
 dium. 
 Ca. E re nata melius fieri hand potuit quam factumst, hera, 
 Quaudo uitium oblatumst, quod ad ilium attinet potissumum, 
 Talein, tab: tngenio atque auimo, uatum ex tanta familia. " 
 
 So. Ita pol est ut dicis : saluos nobis deos quseso ut siut. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 2. 
 
 GETA. SOSTRATA. CANTHARA. 
 
 Ge. None illud est, quom, si omnia omnes sua consilia con- 
 ferant 
 Atqui huic tnalo silnt.-m ^uajrant, auxili nil adferant,
 
 13 ADELPHI. 
 
 Quod inihique herreque filireque herilist. use inisero milii : 
 
 Tot res rcpente circumuallant, unde cmergi nou potest : 
 
 Vis egestas iujustitia solitude infarnia. 
 
 Hocine scccluni ! o scelera, o genera sacrilega, o hominem 
 
 inpium, 
 So. Me miseratu, quidnamst quod sic uideo tirnidum et pro- 
 
 perantem Getam ? 
 Ge. Queui neqiie fides neque jusjurandum neque ilium mise- 
 ricord ia 
 Repressit neque reflexit neque quod partus instabat prope, 
 Quoi miserse indigne per uim uitium obtulerat. So. Non in- 
 
 teUego 10 
 
 Satis quae loquatur. Ca. Propius obsecro accedamus, Sostrata. 
 
 Ge. Ah 
 Me miserum, uix sum compos animi, ita ardeo iracundia. 
 Nil est quod malim quam illam totam familiam dari mi obuiam, 
 Ut ego iram banc in eos euomam omnem, dum segritudo haec est 
 
 recens. 
 Satis mibi id babeam suppbei, dum illos ulciscar modo. 
 Seni animam primum extinguerem ipsi, qui illud produxit 
 
 scelus : 
 Turn autem Syrum inpulsorem, vab, quibus ilium lacerarem 
 
 modis ! 
 Sublimem medium arriperem et capite pronum in terram sta- 
 
 tuerem, 
 Ut cerebro dispergat uiam. 
 
 Adulescenti ipsi eriperem oculos, posthnec praecipitem darem. ■'" 
 Ceteros ruerem, agerem, raperem, tunderem et prosternerem. 
 Sed cesso beram boc malo inpertiri propere ? So. Reuocemus, 
 
 Geta. 
 Ge. Hem, quisquis es, sine me. So. Ego sum Sostrata. 
 
 Ge. Ubi east ? te ipsam quserito,
 
 ADELPHI. 19 
 
 Te expecto : oppido opportune te obtulisti mi obuiam, 
 Hera. So. Quid est ? quid trepidas ? Ge. Hei mini. Ca. Quid 
 festiuas, mi Geta ? - 5 
 
 Animani recipe. Ge. Prorsus. So. Quid istuc ' prorsus ' er- 
 
 gost ? Ge. periimus : 
 Actumst. So. Eloquere, obsecro te, quid sit. Ge. Jam. So. 
 Quid 'jam,' Geta ? 
 Ge. iEschinus. So. Quid is ergo ? Ge. alienus est ab nostra 
 familia. So. Hem, 
 Perii. quare 1 Ge. Amare occepit aliam. So. Vie miserse mihi. 
 Ge. Neque id occulte fert, ab lenone ipsus eripuit palam. 30 
 So. Satin hoc certumst ? Ge. Certum : bisce oculis egomet 
 uidi, Sostrata. So. Ah 
 Me miseram. quid jam credas ? aut quoi credas ? nostrumne 
 
 ^Eschinmn ? 
 Nostram omnium uitam, in quo nostrae spes opesque omnes 
 
 sitae 
 Erant, qui sine hac jurabat &« unum numquam uicturum diem ? 
 Qui se in sui gremio positurum puerum dicebat patris ? 35 
 
 Ita obsecraturum, ut Uceret hanc se uxorem ducere ? 
 
 Ge. Hera, lacrumas mitte ac potius quod ad hanc rem opus 
 est porro prospice : 
 Patiamurne an narremus quoipiam ? Ca. Au an, mi homo, 
 
 sanun es ? 
 An lioc proferendum tibi nidetnr usquam ? Ge. Mihi quidem 
 
 non plaoet, 
 Jamprimum ilium alieno animo a nobis esse res ipsa indicat. 40 
 Nunc si hoc palam proferimus, illo infitias ibit, sat scio : 
 Tua fama et gnatre uita in dubium ueniet. turn si maxume 
 ! itur, quom amet aliam, non est utile hanc illi <lari. 
 Qnapropter quoquo pacto tacitost opus. So. All ininume gen- 
 tium :
 
 20 ADELPHI. 
 
 Non faciam. Ge. Quid ages ? So. Profcram. Ca. Hem, men 
 
 Sostrata, uide quam rem agas. 4S 
 
 So. Pejore res loco non potis est esse quam in quo nunc 
 
 sitast. 
 Primum indotatast : turn prceterea, qua? secunda ei dos erat, 
 Periit : pro uirgine dari nuptum non potest, hoc reliquomst : 
 Si infitias ibit, testis mecum est anulus quern amiserat. 
 Postremo quaudo ego couscia mihi sum, a me culpam esse hanc 
 
 procul, 
 Neque pretium neque rem ullam intercessisse ilia aut me in- 
 
 dignam, Geta, 
 Experiar. Ge. Quid istic ? cedo ut melius dicas. So. Tu 
 
 quantum potest 
 Abi atque Hegioni cognato hujus rem enarrato omnem online : 
 Nam is nostro Simido fuit summus et nos coluit maxume. 
 Ge. Nam hercle alius nemo respicit nos. So. Propure tu, 
 
 mea Cantbara, M 
 
 Curre, obstetricem arcesse, ut quom opus sit ne in mora nobis 
 
 siet. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 3. 
 
 DEMEA. syrvs. 
 
 De. DLsperii : Ctesiphonem audiui filium 
 Uua fuisse in raptione cum ^Eschino. 
 Id misero restat mibi mali, si ilium potest, 
 Qui aliquoi reist, etiam cum ad nequitiern abducere. 
 Ubi ego ilium quatrain ? credo abductum in gatieum 
 Aliquo : persuasit ille inpurus, sat scio. 
 Sed eccum Syrum ire uideo : hinc scibo jam ubi siet. 
 Atqui hercle hie de grege illost : si me senserit
 
 ADELPHI. 21 
 
 Euni qujeritare, numquaru dicet carnufex. 
 
 Non ostendam id rue uelle. Sy. Oinnein rem modo seni ! * 
 
 Quo pacto haberet enarramus ordine. 
 
 Nil quicquam uidi laetius. De. Pro Iuppiter, 
 
 Horn in is stultitiam. Sy. Conlaudauit filium : 
 
 Mihi, qui id dedissem consilium, egit gratias. 
 
 De. Disrumpor. Sy. Argentum adnumerauit ilico : 1S 
 
 Dedit prceterea in sumptum dimidium minaj : 
 Id distributum sanest ex sententia. De. Hem, 
 Huic mandes, siquid recte curatum uelis. 
 
 Sy. Ehem Demea, baud aspexeram te : quid agitur ? 
 
 De Quid agatur ? uostram nequeo mirari satis :o 
 
 Rationem. Sy. Est bercle inepta, ne dicam dolo, 
 Atque absurda. piscis ceteros purga, Dromo : 
 Cougrum istum maxumiun in aqua sinito ludere 
 Tantisper : ubi ego rediero, exossabitur : 
 
 Prius nolo. De. Hiecin flagitia ! Sy. Mihi quidem non place nt, :i 
 Et clamo saepe. salsamenta hcec, Stephanio, 
 Fac macerentur pulchre. De. Di uostram fidem, 
 Utrum studione id sibi habet an laudi putat 
 Fore, si perdiderit gnatum ? uaj misero mihi. 
 Videre uideor jam diem ilium, quom hinc egens % 
 
 Profugiet aliquo militatuin. Sy. O Demea, 
 
 ic est sapere, non quod ante pedes modost 
 Videre, sed etiam ilia quae futura sunt 
 Prospicere. De. Quid ? ist;(jc jam penes uos psaltriast ? 
 
 Sv. Ellam intus. De. Eho, an domist habiturus ? Sy. 
 Credo, ut est a* 
 
 Dementia. Db, Iljucin fieri ! Sy. Inepta lenitas 
 Patris et f;icilitas praua. De. Fratris me quidem 
 Pndd pigetque. Sy. Nimium inter uos, Demea, 
 d quia ades pnssena dico hoc) pernimiTun infer est.
 
 22 ADELPHI. 
 
 Tu, quantus quantu's, nil nisi sapientia es, *° 
 
 Illo sonmium. num sineres uero ilhim tuom 
 Facere base ? De. Sinerom ilium ? aut non sex totis mensibus 
 Priua olfecissem, quani ille quicquam cceperit ? 
 
 Sy. Vigilantiam tuam tu mibi narras ? De. Sic siet 
 Mode- ut nunc est, quasso. Sy. Ut quisque suom uolt ease, 
 
 itast. 4S 
 
 De. Quid eum ? uidistin bodie ? Sy. Tuomne filium ? 
 Abigam bunc rus, jamdudum aliquid run agere arbitror 
 
 De. Satin scia ibi esse ? Sy. Oh, qui egomet produxi. 
 De. Optumest : 
 Metui ne hsereret bic. Sy. Atque iratum admodum. 
 
 De. Quid autem ? Sy. Adortus jurgiost fratrem apud 
 forum * 
 
 De psaltria istac. De. Ain uero ? Sy. Ah, nil reticuit. 
 Nam ut numerabatur forte argentum, interuenit 
 Homo de improuiso : ccepit clamare ' o -55schine, 
 Hsecine flagitia facere te ! bsec te admittere 
 Indigna genere nostro !' De. Oh, lacrumo gaudio. 6i 
 
 Sy. ' Non tu hoc argentum perdis, sed uitam tuam.' 
 
 De. Saluos sit : spero, est similis majorum suom. Sy. Hui. 
 
 De. Syre, pra3ceptorum plenust istorum ille. Sy. Phy : 
 Domi habuit undo disceret. De. Fit sedulo ; 
 Nil praetermitto : consuefacio : denique *° 
 
 Tnspicere, tamquam in speculum, in uitas omnium 
 Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi. 
 4 Hoc facito. ' Sy. Recte sane. De. ' Hoc fugito. ' Sy. Cal- 
 Ude. 
 
 De. ' Hoc laudist. ' Sy. Istaec res est. De. ' Hoc uitio 
 datur. ' 
 
 Sy. Probiasume. De. Porro autem . . Sy. Non Itercle 
 otiumat 6S
 
 ADELPHI. 23 
 
 Nunc mi auscultandi. piscis ex sententia 
 
 Nactus sum : hi mihi ne coiTiimpantur cautiost : 
 
 Nam id nobis tarn flagitiumst quam ilia, Demea, 
 
 Non facere uobis, quae modo dixti : et, quod queo, 
 
 Conseruis ad eundem istunc prsecipio modum : 
 
 1 Hoc salsumst, hoc adustumst, hoc lautumst parum : 
 
 Illud recte : iterum sic memento :' sedulo 
 
 Moneo, quae possum pro mea sapientia : 
 
 Postremo tamquam in speculum in patinas, Demea, 
 
 In-picere jubeo et moneo quid facto usus siet. 
 Inepta hsec esse, nos quae facimus, sentio : 
 Verum quid facias ? ut homost, ita morern geras. 
 
 Nuniquid uis ? De. Mentem uobis melioretn dari. 
 
 Sy. Tu rus hinc ibis ? De. Recta. Sy. Nam quid tu hie 
 agas, 
 
 Ubi siquid bene prsecipias, nemo obtemperet 
 
 De. Ego uero hinc abeo, quando is, quamobrem hue 
 ueneram, 
 
 Rus abiit : ilium euro unum : ille ad me attinet, 
 
 Quando ita uolt frater : de istoc ipse uiderit. 
 
 E quia ilhc est, quern uideo procul ? estne Hegio 
 
 Tiibulls noster ? si satis cerno, is est hercle : uah, 
 
 Homo amicus nobis jam inde a puero : di boni, 
 
 No illiusmodi jam magna nobis ciuium 
 
 Penuriast : homo antiqua uirtute ac fide. 
 
 1 1 i ad cito mali quid ortum ex hoc sit publice. 
 
 Quam gaudeo ! ubi etiam huius generis reliquias *° 
 
 i tare uideo, uiuere etiam nunc lubet. 
 
 Opperiar hoiuiucin hie, ut salutem et conloquar.
 
 \i I ADELrHI. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 4. 
 Hegio. Geta. Demea. Pamphila. 
 
 He. Pro cli inmortalea, facinus indignum, Geta, 
 Quod narras. Ge. Sic est factum. He. Ex illan familia 
 Tain inliberale facinus esse ortum ! o JEschine, 
 Pol haud paternum istuc dedisti. De. Videlicet 
 De psaltria hac audiuit : id illi nunc dolet s 
 
 Alieno. pater eius nili pcndit : liei mild, 
 Utinam hie prope adstt alicubi atque hsec audiat. 
 
 He. Nisi facient qufe illos aequomst, hand sic auferent. 
 
 Ge. In te spes omnis, Hegio, nobis sitast : 
 Te solum habemus, tu es patronus, tu pater : 1§ 
 
 Tile tibi moriens nos commendauit senex : 
 Si deseris tu, periimus. He. Caue dixeris : 
 Neque faciam neque me satis pie posse arbitror. 
 
 De. Adibo. saluere Hegionem plurimum 
 Jubeo. He. Oh, te quaerebam ipsum : salue, Demea. 
 
 De. Quid autem ? He. Maior filius tuos iEschinus, 
 Quem fratri adoptandum dedisti, neque boni 
 Neque liberalis functus officiumst uiri, 
 
 De. Quid istuc est ? He. Nostrum amicum noras Simulum 
 ^Equalem ? De. QuMni ? He. Filium eius uirginem -° 
 
 Vitiauit. De. Hem. He. Mane : nondum audisti, Demea, 
 Quod est grauissumum. De. An quid est etiam amplius ? 
 
 He. Vero amplius : nam hoc quidem ferundum aliquo 
 modost : 
 Persuasit nox, amor, uinum, adulesceutia : 
 Humanumst. ubi scit factum, ad matrem uirginis M 
 
 Venit ipsus ultro lacrumans, orans, obsecrans, 
 Fidem dans, jurans se illam ductunim domum.
 
 ADELP1II. 25 
 
 Ignotumst, tacitunist, creditunist. uirgo ex eo 
 Compressu grauidast facta : hie mensis decumus est : 
 Ille bonus uir nobis psaltriam, si dis placet, 
 Parauit, quicuni uiuat : illam deserit. 
 
 De. Pro certon tu isttec dicis ? He. Mater uirginis 
 In mediost, ipsa uirgo, res ipsa, hie Geta 
 Prreterea, ut captus est seruorum, non malus 
 Neque iners : alit illas, solus omnem fainiliam 
 Sustentat : hunc abduce, uinci, quaere rem. 
 
 Ge. Immo hercle extorque, nisi ita facturnst, Demea ; 
 Postremo non negabit : coram ipsum cedo. 
 
 De. Pudet : nee quid agam neque quid huic respondeam 
 Scio. Pa. Miseram me, differor doloribus. 40 
 
 Iuno L\icina, fer opem : serua me obsecro. He. Hem, 
 Numnara ilia quaeso parturit ? Ge. Certe, Hegio. He. Hem : 
 Illajc fidem nunc uostram implorat, Demea, 
 Quod uos vis cogit, id uoluntate inpetret. 
 
 H;ec primum ut tiant deos quteso ut uobis decet. " 
 
 Sin aliter animus uoster est, ego, Demea, 
 Sunima ui defendam banc atque ilium mortuom. 
 Cognatus milii erat : una a pueris paruolis 
 Sumus educti : ana semper militise et domi 
 Fuimus : paupertatem una pertulimus grauem. :J 
 
 Quapropter nitar, faciam, experiar, denique 
 A 11 imam relinquam potius qnam illas deseram. 
 Quid rnihi respondes ? De. Fratrem conueniam, Hegio. 
 Is, quod mihi de hac re dederit consilium, id sequar. 
 
 Hi.. Bed, Demea, hoc tu facito cum animo cogites, 
 Qnam uos facillumo agitis, quam estis maxume 
 Potentea ditea fortnnati nobiles, 
 Tarn maxume uos aequo animo aequa noscere 
 Dportet, si uos uoltis perhiberi probos.
 
 26 ADELPI1T. 
 
 De. Redito : fient quae fieri cequomst omnia 
 
 He. Decet te facere. Geta, due me intro ad Sostratam. 
 
 De. Non me indicente lisec fiunt : utinam hie sit modo 
 
 Defunct u m : uerum nimia illsec licentia 
 
 Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum. 
 
 lbo ac requiram fratrem, ut in eum haec euomam. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 5. 
 
 HEGIO. 
 
 Bono animo fac sis, Sostrata, et istam quod potea 
 Fac consolere. ego Micionem, si apud forumst, 
 Conueniam atque ut res gestast narrabo ordine ; 
 Si est, facturus ut sit oflicium suom, 
 Faciat : sin aliter de hac re est eius sententia, 
 Respondeat mi, ut quid agam quam primum sciam.
 
 ADELPHI. 
 
 27 
 
 ACTVS IV.— Scen. 1 
 
 Ctesipho. Syrvs. 
 
 Ot. A in patrem hinc abisse rus ? Sy. Janidudum. Or. 
 Die sodes. Sy. Apud uillanist : 
 Nunc quom maxume operis aliquid facere credo. Ct. Utinam 
 
 quidein : 
 Quod cum salute eius fiat, ita se defatigarit uelim, 
 Ut triduo hoc perpetuo prorsuin e lecto nequeat surgere. 
 
 Sy. Ita fiat, et istoc siquid potis est rectius. Ct. Ita : * 
 nain liunc diem 
 Misere minis cupio, ut coepi, perpetuom in laetitia degere. 
 Et illud rus nulla alia causa tarn male odi, nisi quia propest : 
 Quod si esset longius, 
 
 Prius nox oppressisset illic, quam hue reuoiti posset iterum. 
 Nunc ubi me illic non uidebit, iam hue recurret, sat scio : '" 
 Rogitabit me, ubi fuerim : quern ego hoc toto non uidi die : 
 Quid dicam ? Sy. Nilne in mentem ? Ct. Numquam quie- 
 quam. Sy. Tanto nequior. 
 D -, amicus, hospes, nemost uobis ? Ct. Sunt : quid 
 voa ? 
 Sv. Ilisce opera ut data sit. Ct. Quae non data sit? non 
 
 potest fieri. Sy. Potest. 
 Ct. Interdiu : sed si hie pemocto, causae quid dicam, Syre? " 
 Sy. Vah, quam uellem etiam noctu amicis operam mos esset 
 <Jari. 
 <^uin tu otiosua ea : ego illius sensum pulchre calleo. 
 
 c 2
 
 A DELPHI. 
 
 Q uom feruit maxume, tarn placidum quam oucm reddo. Ct. 
 
 Quomodo ? 
 
 Sy. Laudarier te audit lubenter : facio te apud ilium deuin : 
 
 Virtutes narro. Ct. Meas ? Sy. Tuas : hoiniui ilico lacrumie 
 
 cadunt -° 
 
 Quasi puero gaudio. en tibi autem. Ct. Quidnamst ? Sy. 
 
 Lupus in fabula. 
 
 Ct. Pater est ? Sy. Is ipsust. Ct. Syre, quid agimus 1 
 
 Sy. Fuge niodo intro, ego uidero. 
 Ct. Siquid rogabit, nusquam tu me : audistin ? Sy. Potin 
 ut desinas ? 
 
 ACT IV.— Scen. 2. 
 
 DEMEA. CTESIPHO. SYRVS. 
 
 De. Nee ego homo infelix : primum fratrem nusquam inuenic 
 gentium : 
 Praeterea autem, dum ilium qusero, a uilla mercenariuiu 
 Vidi : is nlium negat esse ruri : nee quid agam scio. 
 
 Ct. Syre. Sy. Quid est ? Ct. Men quaerit ? Sy. Verum. 
 
 Ct. Perii. Sy. Quin tu aniino bono es. 
 De. Quid hoc, malum, infelicitatis ? nequeo satis decer- 
 nere : s 
 
 Nisi me credo huic esse natum rei, ferundis miseriis. 
 Primus sentio mala nostra : primus rescisco omnia : 
 Primus porro obnuntio : segre solus, siquid fit, fero. 
 
 Sy. Fiideo bunc : primum ait se scire : is solus nescit omnia. 
 
 De. Nunc redeo : si forte frater redierit uiso. Ct. Syre, "' 
 
 Obsecro, uide ne ille hue prorsus se in mat. Sy. Etiam taces ? 
 
 Ego caucbo. Ct. Numquam hercle hodie ege istuc com- 
 
 mittam tibi :
 
 ABELPHI. 29 
 
 Nam me jam in cellam aliquam cum ilia coucludam : id 
 tutissumumst. 
 Sy. Age, tamen ego hunc amouebo. De. Sed eccum 
 
 sceleratum Syrum. 
 
 Sy. Non hercle hie quidem durare quisquani, si sic tit, 
 
 potest. lu 
 
 Scire equidem uolo, quot mini sint domini : quae luec est 
 
 miseria ! 
 
 De. Quid ille gaunit ? quid uolt 1 quid ais, bone uir ? est 
 
 frater domi ? 
 Sy. Quid malum ' bone uir ' mihi narras 1 equidem perii. 
 
 De. Quid tibist ? 
 Sy. Rogitas ? Ctesipho me pugnis miserum et istam psal- 
 triam 
 Usque occidit. De. Hem, quid narras ? Sy. Hem, uide ut 
 discidit labrum. ;u 
 
 De. Quamobrem ? Sy. Me inpulsore hauc emptam esse ait. 
 De. Non tu eum rus bine modo 
 Produxe aibas ? Sy. Factum : uerum uenit post insaniens : 
 Nil pepercit. non puduisse uerberare bominem senem ! 
 Quern ego modo puerum tantillum in manibus gestaui meis. 
 De. Laudo : Ctesipho, patrissas : abi, uirum te judico. 
 Sy. Laudas ? nse ille continebit posthac, si sapiet, maniis. 
 De. Fortiter. Sy. Perquam, quia miseram mulierem et me 
 seruolum, 
 Qui referire non audebam, uicit : hui, perfortiter. 
 
 De. Non potuit meUus. idem quod ego, sensit te esse huic 
 rei caput. 
 Sed estne frater intus ? Sy. Non est. De. Ubi ilium 
 inueniam cogito. 
 Sy. Scio ubi sit, uerum hodie numquam monstnabo. De. 
 Hem, quid aia ? Sy. Ita.
 
 30 ADELPHI. 
 
 De. Diminuetur tibi quidem jam cerebnim. Sy. At nomen 
 nescio 
 Illius hominis, sed locum noui ubi ait. De. Die ergo locum. 
 Sy. Nostin porticum apud macellum banc deorsum ? De. 
 
 Quidni uouerim ? 
 Sy. Praiterito hac recta platea sursum : ubi eo ueneris, 
 Cliuos deorsum uorsus est : hac te prsecipitato ; postea 
 Est ad banc manum sacellum : ibi angiportum propter est, 
 De. Quonam ? Sy. Illic ubi etiam caprificus magna est. 
 
 De Noui. Sy. Hac pergito. 
 De. Id quidem augiportum non est peruium. Sy. Verum 
 hercle : uah, 
 Censen bominem me esse ? erraui : in porticum rursum redi : 4 " 
 Sane bac rmilto propius ibis et minor est erratio. 
 Scin Cratini buius ditis aedis ? De. Scio. Sy. Ubi eas pra> 
 
 terieris, 
 Ad sinistram bac recta platea ; ubi ad Dianae ueneris, 
 Ito ad dexti-am : priusquam ad portam uenias, apud ipsum 
 
 lacum 
 Est pistrilla et exaduorsum fabrica : ibist. De. Quid ibi 
 facit ? 4S 
 
 Sy. Lectulos in sole ilignis pedibus faciundos dedit. 
 De. Ubi potetis uos : bene sane, sed cesso ad e'um pergere ? 
 Sy. I sane : ego te exercebo bodie, ut dignus es, silicernium. 
 ^Eschinus odiose cessat : prandium corrumpitur : 
 Ctesipbo autem in amorest totus. ego jam prospiciam mini : 50 
 Nam jam adibo atque unum quicquid, quod quidem erit bellis- 
 
 sumum, 
 Carpam, et cyatbos sorbilans paulatim hunc producam diem.
 
 AUELPHI. 31 
 
 ACT IV.— Scen. 3. 
 
 MICIO. HEGIO. 
 
 Mi. Ego in hac re nil reperio, quamobrem lauder tanto 
 
 opere, Hegio. 
 Meum officium facio : quod peccatum a nobis ortumst corrigo. 
 Nisi si me in illo credidisti esse hominum numero, qui ita 
 
 putant, 
 Sibi fieri injuriam ultro, si quam fecere ipsi expostules, 
 Et ultro accusant : id quia non est a me factum, agis gratias ? i 
 He. Ah, minume : numquam te aliter atque es in animum 
 
 induxi meum. 
 Sed quaeso ut una mecum ad matrem uirginis eas, Micio, 
 Atque istaec eadem quae mihi dixti tute dicas mulieri ; 
 Suspitionem hanc propter fratrem ejus esse et illam psaltriam. 
 Mi. Si ita cequom censes aut si ita opus est facto, eamus. 
 
 He. Bene facis : w 
 
 Nam et illi animum iam releuabis, qiue dolore ac miseria 
 Tabescit, et tuo officio fueris functus, sed si aliter putas, 
 Egomet narrabo quae mihi dixti. Mj. Immo ego ibo. He. 
 
 Bene facis : 
 Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundae, magis sunt nescio quo 
 
 modo 
 Suspitiosi : ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis : 
 Propter suam inpotentiam se semper credunt negligi. 
 Quapropter te ipsum purgare ipsis coram placabilius est. 
 
 Mi. Et recto et uerum dicLs. He. Sequere me ergo h.*K 
 
 intro. Mi. Maxume.
 
 32 ADELPHI. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 4. 
 
 AESCHINVS. 
 
 Discrucior animi : 
 
 Hocine de inprouiso milii inali objici 
 
 Tantum, ut neque quid de me faciam nee quid agam certum 
 
 siet ! 
 Membra metu debilia sunt : animus timore 
 Obstipuit : pectore consistere nil consili 
 
 Quit, vah, quomodo me ex hac expediam turba ? tanta nunc 
 Suspitio de me incidit : 
 Neque ea inmerito : Sostrata credit mihi me psaltriam banc 
 
 emisse : 
 Id anus mi indicium fecit. 
 Nam ut bine forte ea ad obstetricem erat missa, ubi earn uidi, 
 
 ilico ,0 
 
 Accedo : rogito, Pampbila quid agat, jam partus adsiet, 
 Eone obstetricem arcessat. ilia exclamat • abi, abi : jam, 
 
 .^Escbine, 
 Satis diu dedisti uerba : sat adbuc tua nos frustratast fides. ' 
 "Hem, quid istuc obsecro" inquam "est?" 'ualeas, habeas 
 
 illam quae placet.' 
 Sensi ilico id illas suspicari : sed reprendi me tamen, l5 
 
 Nequid de fratre garrulse illi dicerem ac fieret palam. 
 Nunc quid faciam ? dicam fratris esse banc ? quod minumest 
 
 opus 
 Usquam efferri : ac mitto : fieri potis est ut nequa exeat. 
 Ipsum id metuo ut credant : tot concurrunt uerisimilia : 
 Egomet rapui : ipse egomet solui argentum : ad me abduct.ist 
 
 domum. w 
 
 llaic adeo mea culpa fateor fieri, non me hanc rem patri, 
 Ut ut erat gesta, indicasse ! exorassem ut earn ducerem.
 
 ADELPHI. So 
 
 Cessatum usque adhuc est : nunc porro, ^Eschine, expergis- 
 
 cere : 
 Nunc hoc priniumst : ad illas ibo, ut purgem me accedam ad 
 
 foris. 
 Perii : horresco semper, ubi pultare hasce occipio miser. ~" 
 
 Heus heus : JEschinus ego sum. aperite aliquis actutum ostium. 
 Prodit nescio quis : concedam hue. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 5. 
 
 MICIO. ^SCHINVS. 
 
 Mi. Ita uti dixi, Sostrata, 
 Facite : ego iEchinum conueniam, ut quomodo acta hrec sunt 
 
 sciat. 
 Sed quis ostium hoc pultauit ? JE. Pater hercle est, perii. 
 Mi. -<Eschine, 
 JE. Quid huic hie negotist ? Mi. tune has pepuiisti foris 1 
 Tacet. quor non ludo hunc aliquantisper ? melius est, 
 Qiuuidoquidem hoc nunquam mi ipse uoluit credere. 
 Nil mihi respondes 1 JE. Non equidem istas, quod sciam. 
 
 Mi. Ita : nam mirabar, quid hie negoti esset tibi. 
 Erubuit : salua res est. JE. Die sodes, pater, 
 Titii uero quid Lstic est rei ? Mi. Nil est mihi quidem. 
 Amicus qnidam me a foro abduxit modo 
 Hue aduocatum sibi. JE. Quid ? Mi. Ego dicam tibi : 
 Habitant hie quasdam mulieres pauperculse : 
 I ' t opinor has non nosse te, et certo scio : 
 
 Neque eniin diu hue commigrarunt. JE. Quid turn postea ? Is 
 Mi. Virgo est cum matre. JE. Perge. Mi. Hoec uirgo 
 orbast patre : 
 Hie ineus amicus illi generest proxumua : 
 
 o 8
 
 fl 1 A DELPHI. 
 
 Huio leges cogunt nuberc banc. JE Perii. Mi. Quid est T 
 
 .K. Nil : recto : perge. Ml. Is uenit ut secum auehat : 
 Nam habitat Mileti. ^-E. Hem, uirginem ut secum auebat ? '-'" 
 
 Mi. Sic est. JE. Milc.tum usque obsecro ? Mi. Ita. JE. 
 Animo malest. 
 Quid ipsoe ? quid aiuut ? M i. Quid illas censes ? nil enim. 
 Commenta mater est, esse ex alio uiro 
 Nescio quo puerum natum : neque eum nominat : 
 Priorem esse ilium, non oportere buic dari. 
 
 JE. Eho, nonne brec justa tibi uidentur postea? 
 
 Mi. Non. JE. Obsecro non ? an illam bine abducet, pater ? 
 
 Mi. Quid illam ni abducat ? JE. Factum a uobis duriter 
 lumisericorditerque atque etiam, si est, pater, 
 Dicendum niagis aperte, inliburaliter. 
 
 Mi. Quamobrem 1 JE. Rogas me 1 quid illi tandem creditia 
 Fore auimi misero, qui cum ilia consueuit prior ? 
 Qui infelix baud scio an illam misere nunc amat, 
 Quom banc sibi uidebit pnesens praesentem eripi, 
 Abduci ab oculis ? facinus indignum, pater. 
 
 Mi. Qua ratione istuc ? quis despondit ? quis dedit ? 
 Quoi quando nupsit ? auctor bis rebus quis est ? 
 Quor duxit abenam ? JE. An sedere oportuit 
 Domi uirginem tarn grandem, dum cognatus hinc 
 IUinc ueuiret exspectantem ? hsec, mi pater, 
 Te dicere ssquom fuit et id defendere. 
 
 Mi. Pudiculum : aduorsumne ilium causam dicerem, 
 Quoi ueneram aduocatus ? sed quid ista, iEscbine, 
 Nostra ? aut quid nobis cum illis ? abeamus. quid est ? 
 Quid lacrumas ? JE. Pater, obsecro, ausculta. Mi. JEschino, 
 . audiui omnia 4 * 
 
 Et scio : nam te amo : quo magis quae agis curse sunt mibi. 
 
 JE. Ita ueUm me promerentem ames, dum uiuas, mi pater,
 
 ADELPHI. 35 
 
 Ut me hoc delictum admisisse in me, id mihi uehementer 
 
 dolet, 
 Et me tui pudet. Mi. Credo hercle ; nam ingenium noui 
 
 tuom 
 Liberale : sed uereor ne indiligens nimium sies. i0 
 
 In qua ciuitate tandem te arbitrare uiuere 1 
 Virginem uitiasti, quam te non jus fuerat tangere. 
 Jam id peccatum prinium magnum, magnum, at humanum 
 
 tamen : 
 Fecere alii saepe item boni, at postquam id euenit, cedo 
 Numquid circamspexti ? aut numquid tute prospexti fcibi, 
 Quid fieret ? qua fieret ? si te mi ipsum puduit dicere, 
 Qua resciscerem ? hsec dum dubitas, menses abierunt decern. 
 Prodidisti et te et iiiam miseram et gnatum, quod quidem in te 
 
 fuit. 
 Quid ? credebas dormienti naec tibi confecturos deos f 
 Et illam sine tua opera in cubiculum iri deductum domum ? 6C 
 Nolim ceterarum rerum te socordem eodem modo. 
 Bono animo es, duces uxorem banc. JE. Hem. Mi. Bono, 
 
 inquam, animo es. J£. Pater, 
 Obsecro, num ludis tu nunc me ? Mi. Ego te ? quauiobrem ? 
 
 JE. Nescio : 
 Quia tarn misere boc esse cupio uerum, eo uereor magis 
 
 Mi. Abi domum ac duos comprecare, ut uxorem arcessas : 
 
 abi. 6i 
 
 M. Quid ? earn uxorem ? Mi. Enva. M. Jam ? Mi. Jam 
 
 quantum potest. JE. Di me, pater, 
 Omnefl oderint, ni magis te quam ocidos nunc ego amo meos. 
 .Mi. Quid I quam illam ? -*E. yEquo. Mi. Perbenjgne. 
 
 M Quid I ille ubist Milesius < 
 Mi. Abut, periit, oauem ascendit; sed quor cessas ? .K. 
 
 Abi, pater :
 
 36* ADi:i,pni. 
 
 Tu potius deos comprecaro : nam tibi eos certo scio, 70 
 
 Quo uir melior uiulto es quam ego, obtemperaturos ruagis. 
 Ml. Ego eo intro, ut quae opus sunt parentur : tu fac ut 
 
 dixi, si sapis. 
 JE. Quid hoc est negoti ? hoc est patreni esse aut hoc est 
 
 filium esse ? 
 Si frater aut sodalis esset, qui niagis morem gereret ? 
 Hie non amandus ? hicine nou gestandus in sinust ? hem : 75 
 Itaque adeo magnam mi injicit sua commoditate curam 
 Ne forte inprudens faciam quod nolit, sciens cauebo. 
 Sed cesso ire intro, ne moras meis nuptiis egomet siem ? 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 6. 
 
 DEMEA. 
 
 De. Defessus sum ambulando : ut, Syre, te cum tua 
 Monstratione magnus perdat Juppiter ! 
 Perreptaui usque omne oppidum : ad portam, ad lacum, 
 Quo non ? neque illic fabrica erat neque fratrem homo 
 Vidisse se aibat quisquam. nunc uero domi 
 Certum obsidere est usque, donee redierit. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 1. 
 
 DEMEA. MICIO. 
 
 Mi. Ibo, illis dicain nullam esse in nobis moram. 
 De. Sed eccum ipsum : te jamdudum qusero, Micio. 
 Mi. Quid nam ? De. Fero alia flagitia ad te ingentia 
 Boni illius adulescentis. Mi. Ecce autem noua.
 
 ADELPHI. 37 
 
 De. Capitalia. Mi. Ohe jam. De. Nescis qui uir sit. Mi. 
 Scio. s 
 
 De. O stulte, tu de psaltria me somnias 
 Agere : hoc peccatum in uirgineinst ciuem. Mi. Scio. 
 
 De. Oho, scis et patere ? Mi. Quid ni patiar 1 De. Die 
 mihi, 
 Non clamas ? non insanis ? Mi. Non : malim quid em — 
 De. Puer natust. Mi. Di bene uortant. De. Virgo nil 
 habet. 10 
 
 Mi. Audiui De. Et ducenda indotatast ? Mi, Scilicet. 
 De Quid nunc futurumst ? Mi. Id enim quod res ipsa fert : 
 Illinc hue tranferetur uirgo. De. O Juppiter, 
 Istocine pacto oportet ? Mi. Quid faciam amplius ? 
 
 De. Quid facias 1 si non ipsa re tibi istuc dolet, ls 
 
 Simulare certe est hominis. Mi. Quin jam uirginem 
 Despond i : res compositast : fiimt nuptise : 
 Dempsi metum omnem : hajc magis sunt hominis. De. Ce- 
 
 terum 
 Placet tibi factum, Micio ? Mi. Non, si queam 
 Mutare. nunc qtiom non queo, animo asquo fero. ru 
 
 Ita uitast hominum, quasi quom ludas tesseris, 
 Si illud quod maxume opus est jactu non cadit, 
 Illud quod cecidit forte, id arte ut corrigas. 
 
 De. Corrector : nempe tua arte wiginti minae 
 1'ro psaltria periere : quce quantum potest - 5 
 
 Aliquo abjiciendast, si non pretio, gratus. 
 
 Mi. Neque est neque illam sane studeo uendere. 
 De. Quid igitur faciei ? Mi. Domi erit. De. Pro diuom 
 fi'lem, 
 Meretrix et materfamiliaa una in domo ? 
 
 Mi. Qnoi aon ? De. Banumne credifi te esse ? Mi. Equi- 
 dem arbitror. - 1U 
 
 J14 •
 
 38 ADELPHI. 
 
 De. Ita me di anient, ut uideo tuaui ego ineptiam, 
 Facturuni credo, ut habeas quicnm cantites. 
 
 Mi. Quor non 1 De. Et noua nupta eadem hsec discet ? 
 Mi. Scilicet. 
 
 De. Tu inter eas restim ductans saltabis. Mi. Probe. 
 
 De. Probe ? Mi. Et tu nobiscum una, si opus sit. De. 
 Hei mini. 3i 
 
 Non te hjec pudent ? Mi. Jam uero omitte, Demea, 
 Tuam istam iracundiam, atque ita ut hodie decet 
 Hilarutn ac lubentem fac te gnati in nuptiis. 
 Ego hos conueniam : post hue redeo. De. O Juppiter, 
 Hancine uitam ! hoscin mores ! hanc dementiam ! * b 
 
 Uxor sine dote ueniet : intus psaltriast : 
 Domus sumptuosa : adulescens luxu perditus : 
 Senex deUrans. ipsa si cupiat Salus, 
 Seruare prorsus non potpst hanc familiam.
 
 ADELPHI. 39 
 
 ACTVS V.— Scen. I. 
 
 SYRVS. DEMEA. 
 
 Sy. Edepol, Syrisce, te curusti molliter 
 Lauteque niunus adniinistrasti tuoin. 
 AbL sed postquani intus sum omnium rerum satur, 
 Prodeambulare hue lubitumst. De. Illud sis uide 
 Exeinpluni disciplinse. Sy. Ecce autem hie adest 
 Senex noster. quid fit ? quid tu es tristis ? De. Oh scelus. 
 
 Sy. Ohe jam : tu uerba fuudis hie, sapientia ? 
 
 De. Tu si meus esses — Sy. Dis quidem esses, Demea, 
 Ac tuam rem constabilisses. De. exemplo omnibus 
 Curarem ut esses. Sy. Quamobrem ? quid feci ? De. Rogas ? " 
 In ipsa turba atque in peccato maxumo, 
 Quod uix sedatum satis est, potasti, scelus, 
 Quasi re bene gesta. Sy. Sane nollem hue exitum. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 2. 
 
 DROMO. SYRVS. DEMEA. 
 
 Dr. Heus S)Te, rogat te Ctesipho ut redeas. Sy. Abi. 
 De. Quid Ctesiphonem hie narrat ? Sy. NiL De. Elm, 
 carnufex, 
 Est Ctesipho intus ? Sy. Non est. De. Quor hie nominat I 
 
 By. Est alius qtlidam, parasitaster paululus : 
 N'ortin ? Ed. Jam scibo. Sy. Quid agis ? quo abis ? De. 4 
 Mitte me.
 
 40 ADELPHI. 
 
 St. Noli inquam. De. Non manum abstines, mastigia ? 
 An tibi jam mania cerebrum dispergam hie ? Sy. Abit. 
 Eldepol commissatorem baud sane commodum, 
 Pnesertim Ctesipboni. quid ego nunc again ? 
 Nisi, dum hie silescunt turbse, interea in angulum 
 Aliquo abeam atque edormiscam hoc uilli. sic agam. 
 
 10 
 
 ACT V.— Scen. 3. 
 
 MIC10. DEMEA. 
 
 Mi. Parata a nobis sunt, ita ut dixi, Sostrata, 
 Ubi uis. Quisnam a me pepulit tam grauiter foris ? 
 
 De. Hei milii, quid faciam ? quid agam ? quid clamem aut 
 querar ? 
 O caelum, o terra, o maria Neptuni. Mi. Hem tibi, 
 Resciuit omnem rem : id nunc clamat scilicet ; 
 Paratre lites : succurrendumst. De. Eccum adest 
 Communis corruptela nostrum liberum. 
 
 Mi. Tandem reprime iracundiam atque ad te redi. 
 
 De. Repressi, redii, mitto maledicta omnia : 
 Rem ipsam putemus. dictum hoc inter nos fuit 
 (Ex te adeost ortuni), ne tu curares meum 
 Neue ego tuom 1 responde. Mi. Factumst, non nego. 
 
 De. Quor nunc apud te potat ? quor recipis meum ? 
 Quor emis amicam, Micio ? Numqui minus 
 Mihi idem jus sequomst esse quod mecumst tibi ? 
 Quando ego tuom non euro, ne cura meum. 
 
 Mi. Non sequom dicis. De. Non? Mi. Nam uetus uerbmn 
 hoc quidemst, 
 Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia. 
 
 De. Facete : nunc demum istaec nata oratiost.
 
 ADELPHI. 11 
 
 n 
 
 Ml Ausculta paucis, nisi molestumst, Demea. 
 Priucipio, si id te mordet, suinptum filii 
 Quern faciunt, quaeso hoc facito tecum cogites : 
 Tu illos duos oliui pro re tollebas tua, 
 Quod satis putabas tua boua ambobus fore, 
 
 Et me turn uxoreni credidisti scilicet ib 
 
 Ducturuin : eandem illam rationem antiquam obtine : 
 Conserua, quaere, parce, fac quam plurimum 
 IlLLs relinquas : gloriam tu istam obtine. 
 Mea, quae praeter spem euenere, utantur sine. 
 De summa nil decedet : quod hinc accesserit, 
 Id de lucro putato esse omiie._ Haec si uoles 
 In animo uere cogitare, Demea, 
 Et mi et tibi et illis dempseris molestiam. 
 
 De. Mitto rem : consuetudinem ipsorum. Mi. Mane : 
 Scio : istuc ibam. Multa in homiue, Demea, 3i 
 
 Signa insnnt, ex quibus conjectura facile fit, 
 Duo quom idem faciunt, saepe ut possis dicere 
 ' Hoc licet impune facere huic, illi non licet,' 
 Non quod dissimUis res sit, sed quod is qui facit. 
 Qu£e ego inesse in illis uideo, ut confidam fore 
 Ita ut uolumus. uideo eos sapere, iutelligere, in loco 
 Vereri, inter se amare : scires liberum 
 
 iiium atque aninum. quouis illos tu die 
 Redducas. At enim metuas, ne ab re sint tamen 
 OmiMioree paulo. O noster Demea, 
 Ad omnia alia rctate sapimus rectius : 
 Solum unum hoc uitium fort seuectus hominibus : 
 Attcntiores sumus ad rem omnes, quam sat est : 
 
 I illos sat aetas acuet. De. Ne nimium modo 
 Bona ture istae nos rationes, Micio, w 
 
 Et tuos iate animus cequos subuortat. Mi. Tace : 
 
 « 
 
 4i
 
 42 ADELPHI. 
 
 > 
 Non fiet. mitte iam istrec : da te hodie milii : 
 
 Exporgo frontem. De. Scilicet ita tempus fert, 
 
 Faciundumst : cetcrum rus eras cum filio 
 
 Cum primo lucu ibo hinc. Mi. De nocte censeo : s * 
 
 Hodie mode- hilarum fac te. De. Et istam psaltriam 
 
 Una illuc mccum hinc abstraliam. Mi. Pugnaueris. 
 
 Eo pacto prorsum illi adligaris filium. 
 
 Modo facito ut illam serues. De. Ego istuc uidero : 
 
 Atque ibi fauillae plena, fumi, ac pollinis, M 
 
 Coquentlo sit faxo et molendo : praeter haec 
 
 Meridie ipso faciam ut stipulam colligat ; 
 
 Tarn excoctam reddam atque atram quam carbost. Mi. Placet : 
 
 Nunc mihi uidere sapere : atque equidem filium 
 
 Turn etiam si nolit cogam ut cum ilia una cubet. 
 
 De. Derides ? fortunatu's, qui isto animo sies : 
 Ego sentio. Mi. Ah, pergisne ? De. Jam jam desino. 
 
 Mi. I ergo intro, et quoi rei est, ei rei hunc sumamus diem. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 4. 
 
 DEMEA. 
 
 Numquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad uitam fuit, 
 
 Quin res, aetas, usus semper aliquid adportet noui, 
 
 Aliquid moneat : ' ut ilia quae te scire credas nescias, 
 
 Et quae tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies. 
 
 Quod nunc mi euenit : nam ego ivitam duram, quam uixi usque 
 
 adhuc, 
 Prope jam excurso spatio mitto. Id quamobrem ? re ipsa rep- 
 peri 
 Facilitate nil esse homini melius neque dementia. 
 Id ease uerum ex me atque ex fratre quoiuis facilest noscere.
 
 ABELPHI. 43 
 
 Ille suam egit semper uitam in otio, in conuiuiis, 
 
 Clemens, placidus, nulli Isedere os, adridere omnibus : 
 
 Sibi uixit : sibi sumptum fecit : omnes bene dieunt, amant. 
 
 Ego ille agrestis, sseuos, tristis, parcus, truculentus, tenax 
 
 Duxi uxorem : quam ibi miseriam uidi ! nati filii, 
 
 Alia cura. Heia autem, dum studeo illis ul quam plurimuin 
 
 Facerem, contriui in quserundo uitam atque oetatem meam : u 
 
 Xunc exacta aetate hoc fructi pro labore ab his fero, 
 
 Odium : ille alter sine labore patria potitur commoda. 
 
 Ilium amant, me fugitant : illi credunt consilia omnia, 
 
 Ilium diligunt, apud ilium sunt ambo, ego desertus sum : 
 
 Ilium ut uiuat optant, meam autem mortem exspectant scilicet. w 
 
 Ita eos meo labore eductos maxumo hie fecit suos 
 
 Paulo sumptu : miseriam omnem ego capio, hie potitur gaudia. 
 
 Age age nunc jam experiamur porro contra, quid ego possiem 
 
 Blande dicere aut benign e facere, quando hoc prouocat. 
 
 Ego quoque a meis me amari et magni pendi postulo. ** 
 
 Si id fit dando atque obsequendo, non posteriores feram. 
 
 Deerit : id mea minume refert, qui sum natu maxumus. 
 
 ACT. V.— Soen. 5. 
 
 8YRUS. DEMEA. 
 
 Ileus Demea, orat frater ne abeas longius. 
 De. Quishomo? Syre noster, salue : quid fit? quid agitur ? 
 Sv. Itecte. De. Optumest. Jam nunc ha3C tria priinuin 
 ;i Midi 
 l': • tor Datnram : • o noster, quid fit ? quid agitur?' 
 s. ruuiii hand inliberalem probes te, et tibi * 
 
 Lubens bene faxim. Sy. Qratiam habeo. De. Atqui, Syre, 
 Hue nrrumst ; et re ipsa experiure propediem.
 
 44 ADKLPIII. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. G. 
 
 OETA. DEMEA. (SYItVS.) 
 
 Ge. Hera, ego hue ad hos prouiso, quam mox uirginem 
 
 Arcessant. sed eccum Demeam. saluos sies. 
 
 De. O, qui uocare ? Ge. Geta. De. Geta, hominem max- 
 umi 
 Preti te esse hodie animo judicaui meo : 
 Nain is mihi profectost seruos spectatus satis, 
 Quoi douiinus curaest, ita uti tibi sensi, Geta, 
 Et tibi ob earn rem, siquid usus uenerit, 
 Lubeus bene faxim. Meditor esse adfabilis, 
 Et bene procedit. Ge. Bonus es, quom haec existumas. 
 
 De. Paulatim plebem primulum facio meam. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 7. 
 
 AESCHINVS. DEMEA. SYRVS. GETA. 
 
 Ae. Occidunt me quidem, dum nimis sanctas nuptias 
 Student facere : in adparando consumunt diem. 
 
 De. Quid agitur, Aeschine ? Ae. Ehem, pater mi, tu hie 
 eras ? 
 
 De. Tuos hercle uero et animo et natura pater, 
 Qui te amat plus quam hosce oculos. sed quor non domum 
 Uxorem arcessis ? Ae. Cupio : uerum hoc mihi moraest : 
 Tibicina, et Hymenaeum qui cantent. De. Eho, 
 Vin tu huic seni auscultare ? Ae Quid ? De. Missa haec face, 
 Hymenaeum, turbas, lampadas, tibicinas, 
 Atque hanc in horto macoriam jube dirui 
 Quantum potest : hac transfer : unam fac domum : 
 Traduce et matrem et familiam omnem ad nos. Ae. Placet,
 
 ADELPHI. 45 
 
 Pater lepidissume. De. Eugae, jam lepidus uocor. 
 
 Fratri aedes fient peruiae, turbam domum 
 
 Adducet, sumptu amittet multa : quid mea ? 15 
 
 Ego lepidus ineo gratiam. jube nunc jam 
 
 Dinumeret ille Babylo uiginti minas. 
 
 Syre, cessas ire ac facere ? Sy. Quid ego ? De. Dime. 
 
 Tu illas abi et traduce. Ge. Di tibi, Demea, 
 
 Bene faciant, quom te uideo nostrae famdiae 20 
 
 Tarn ex animo factum uelle. De. Dignos arbitror. 
 
 Quid tu ais ? Ae. Sic opinor. De. Multo rectiust 
 
 Quam illam puerperam hue nunc duci per uiam 
 
 Aegrotam. Ae. Nil enim uidi melius, mi pater. 
 
 De. Sic soleo. sed eccum Micio egreditur foras. Js 
 
 ACT. V.— Scex. 8. 
 
 MICIO. DEMEA. AESCHINVS. 
 
 Mi. Jubet frater ? ubi is est 1 Tun iubes hoc, Demea ? 
 De. Ego uero iubeo et hac re et aliis omnibus 
 Quam maxume unam facere nos banc familiam, 
 Colere, adiuuare, adiungere. Ae. Ita quseso, pater. 
 
 Mi. Haud aliter censeo. De. Immo hercle ita nobis decet : s 
 Primum huius uxorist mater. Mi. Est. quid postea 1 
 
 De. Proba et modesta. Mi. Ita aiunt. De. Natu gran- 
 dim. 
 Mi. Scio. De. Parere jam diu haec per annos non potest : 
 .Wc qui earn respiciat quisquam est : solast. Mi. Quam hie 
 rem agit ? 
 Dk. Ilanc te requomst ducere, et te operam ut fiat dare. 10 
 Mi. Me ducere autem ? Dk. To. Mi. Me ? De. Te in- 
 quam. Mi. Iueptis. De Si tu sis homo,
 
 46 ADEI/PHT. 
 
 Hie faciat. Ae. Mi pater. Mi. Quid tu antein huic, asino, 
 
 auscultas ? De. Nil agis : 
 Fieri alitor non potest. Mi. Deliras. Ae. Sine te exorem, mi 
 pater. 
 Mi. Insanis : aufer. De. Age, da ueniam filio. Mi. Satin 
 sanus es ? Ego 
 Nouos maritus anno demnm qninto et sexagesumo 
 Fiam ato^ie anura decrepitam ducam ? idne estis auctores mihi ? 
 Ae. Fac : promisi ego illis. Mi. Promisti autem 1 de te lar- 
 
 gitor, puer. 
 De. Age, quid siquid te maius oret 1 Mi. Quasi non hoc sit 
 
 maxumurn. 
 De. Da ueniam. JE. Ne grauere. De. Fac, promitte. Mi. 
 
 Non omittis ? 
 Ae. Non, nisi te exorem. Mi. Vis est haec quidem. De. 
 Age prolixe, Micio. 2( 
 
 Mi. Etsi hoc mihi prauom, ineptum, absurdum, atque alienum 
 a uita mea 
 Videtur : si uos tantopere istuc uoltis, fiat. Ae. Bene facis. 
 De. Merito te amo. uerum — Mi. Quid ? De. Ego dicam, 
 
 hoc quom fit quod uolo. 
 Mi. Quid nunc ? quid restat ? De. Hegio cognatus his est 
 proxumus, 
 Adfinis nobis, pauper : bene nos aliquid facere illi decet. -'" 
 
 Mi. Quid facere ? De. Agelli est hie sub urbe paulum quod 
 locitas foras : 
 Huic demus qui fruatur. Mi. Paulum id autemst ? De. Si 
 
 multuinst, tamen 
 Faciuudumst : pro patre huic est, bonus est, noster est, recte 
 
 datur. 
 Postremo non meum illud uerbum facio, quod tu, Micio, 
 Bene et sapienter dixti dudum : ' uitium commune omniumst, M
 
 ADELPHI. 47 
 
 Quod nimiurn ad rem in senecta attenti sumus V banc maculam 
 
 nos decet 
 Effugere : dictnmst uere et re ipsa fieri oportet, Micio. 
 
 Mi. Quid istic ? dabitur quandoquidem hie uolt. Ae. Mi 
 
 pater. 
 De. Nunc mihi germanu's pariter animo et corpore. Mi.. 
 
 Gaudeo. 
 De. Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo. M 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 9. 
 
 SYRVS. DEMEA. MIC LO. AESCHLNVS. 
 
 Sy. Factumst quod kissisti, Demea. 
 
 De. Frugi homo's, ergo edepol hodie mea quidem sententia 
 Judico Syrum fieri esse sequom liberurn. Mi. Istunc Uberum ? 
 Quodnam ob factum ? De. Multa. Sy. O noster Demea, edepol 
 
 uir bonu's : 
 Ego istos uobis usque a pueris curaui ambos sedulo ; 
 Docui, monui, bene prsecepi semper qute potui omnia. 
 
 De. Res apparet : et quidem porro hsec, obsonare cum fide, 
 Scortum adducere, adparare de die conuiuium : 
 Non mediocris hominis hsec sunt officia. St. O lepidum caput. 
 De. Postremo hodie in psaltria hac emunda hie adjutor fuit, l0 
 Hie curauit : prodesse sequomst : alii meliores emnt : 
 Denique hie uolt fieri Mi. Vin tu hoc fieri ? Ae. Cupio. 
 
 Mi. Si quidem 
 Tu uis, Syre, eho accede hue ad me : liber esto. Sy. Bene 
 
 facis : 
 ' inirubus grati;ira liabeo, ot seorsum tibi prreterea, Demea. 
 
 Dk. Gaudeo. Ae. Et ego. Sy. Credo: utinam hoc pcrpe- 
 tuom fiat gaudium, u
 
 ■^ ADELPHI. 
 
 Phrygiam nt uxorem mcam una mecum uideara liberam. 
 
 De. Optumam quidem muliorem. Sy. Et quidem tuo ncpoti, 
 huius filio, 
 Hodie primam maminam dedit haec. De. Hercle uero serio, 
 Siquidem primam dedit, haud dubiumst quin emitti jequom siet. 
 
 Mi. Ob earn rem 1 De. Ob earn : postremo a me argentum 
 quantist suniito. so 
 
 Sy. Di tibi, Demea, omnes semper omnia optata offerant. 
 
 Ml. Syi-e, processisti hodie pulchre. De. Siquidem porro, 
 Micio, 
 Tu tuom officium facies, atque huic aliquid paulum pros manu 
 Dederis, unde utatur : reddet tibi cito. Mi. Istoc uilius. 
 
 Ae. Frugi homost. Sy. Reddam hercle, da modo. Ae. Age, 
 pater. Mi. Post consulam. - b 
 
 De. Faciet. Sy. O uir optume. Ae. O pater mi festiuis- 
 sume. 
 
 Mi. r Had istuc ? quae res tarn repente mores mutauit tuos ? 
 Quod J ibiuin ? quae istaec subitast largitas 1 De. Dicam tibi : 
 Ut id ostenderem, quod te isti facilem et festiuom jmtant, 
 Id non fieri ex uera uita, neque adeo ex aequo et bono, so 
 
 Sed ex adsentando, indulgendo, et largiendo, Micio. 
 Nunc adeo si ob earn rem uobis mea uita inuisa, Aeschine, est, 
 Quia non justa injusta prorsus omnia omnino obsequor, 
 Missa facio : effundite, emite, facite quod uobis lubet. 
 Sed si id uoltis potius, quae uos propter adulescentiam 
 Minus uidetis, magis inpense cupitis, consulitis parum, 
 Haec reprendere, et conigere, et obsecundare in loco : 
 Ecce me, qui id faciam uobis. Ae. Tibi, pater, permittimus : 
 Plus scis quid facto opus est. Sed de fratre quid net ? De. Sino : 
 Habeat : in istac finem faciat. Mi. Istuc recte. Cantor. Plau- 
 dite.
 
 PUBLII TERENTII AFRI ADELFHI. 
 
 PROLOGUS. 
 
 Our Author's prologue, in the present instance, touches on the same 
 charges as those alluded to in the Prologues to the Eunuchus and 
 Heautontimorumeuos. As to the former, the charge of plagiarism, he 
 freely admits that he has borrowed from Diphilus, whose play, the 
 " Synapothnescontes," Plautus had translated under the title of 
 '• Commorientes," a scene of which Plautus had left untouched. For 
 introducing this scene to the Latin stage, he claims credit, not blame. 
 And as to the other charge, put forth by his old enemy (see the Pro- 
 logus to the Andria and Heautontimorumenos), namely, that he is 
 helped in the composition of his plays by the eminent Romans, Lselius 
 and Scipio Africanus the younger, he asks, confidently, why he should 
 be ashamed of aid from men to whom every Roman looks, in his need, 
 " in bello, in otio, in negotio. " 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Postquam. i. q. " quoniam," expressive of the cause. W >'o used 
 in Adelph. v. 1, 3, " Sed postquam intua sum omnium reru. j. satur, 
 Prodeambulare hue lubitumst." Donatus notices the converse use of 
 "quoniam" for "postquam," said of time in Plaut Aul., Prol. ^accord- 
 ing to the text of some editions. 
 
 2. Obxervari, "is scrutinised." Cooper in his Thesaurus translates, 
 " Scripturam alicujus observare," "to spie for faultes in one's writing." 
 The word is no doubt used here in a bad sense, though it is much 
 more common in a good sense, e. g. Virg. Georg. iv. 212, &c. Ab 
 iniquis, " by unfavourable critics." Cf. Heaut. Prol. 27, " Ne plus 
 iniquom possit quam sequom oratio." 
 
 Rupere in p'jorem partem, " misrepresent ; " " tachent de decrier." 
 Marlam Dacier. Ruhnken refers to a like phrase in Cicero ad Div. 
 x. '■'/■>, "consilium raperent in contrariam partem." Quam (fabulam sc ) 
 So "fabulas" is understood in Heaut. Prol. 17, 18 ; q. v. 
 
 4. Indicio >le srse ipse erit, von judices. Such is the reading of Botlie, 
 adopted by Fleckheisen for the awkward " Indicio de se' ipse erit ; vos 
 eritis judices." Ritschl proposes to read "Indicio de se ipse, et vos 
 'litis judices." See Proleg. ad Plaut. p. 119. We prefer the reading 
 retained in the text, as leaving the verb to be supplied in the second 
 clause, a simpler process. Construe " Tho author will give evidence 
 against himself." For this use of the dative of that to which snmethiii',' 
 
 • and tends, see Madvig. § 219 ; and for " indicium" and " indico" 
 in the Mme sense, see Lucret. iv. 101 0. " Indicioquo Bui facti persrcpe 
 fuere," and Cic. pro Murrena, 20, " Non se purgavit, sed iudicavit." 
 
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 50 NOTES ON 
 
 15. Bynapothneacontes Diphili. The "Synapotlmescoutes " was one of 
 the very numerous plays of Diphilus, an Athenian Comic Poet of 
 Siuope, the natiye city of two other comedians, Diodorus and Dio- 
 nysius. He was a little later in date than Philemon. Plautus seems 
 to have translated several of his plays : among others, this one, which 
 he called " Oommorieutes." He overlooked, however, or omitted, the 
 scene alluded to in v. 8 infra, of which Terence availed himself for 
 the Adelphi, which he made up (by the process " contaminatio," see 
 Heaut. Prol. 17 ; Andr. Prol. 16, notes) of the Tewpybs of Menander, 
 and 'S.vva.TroQvriaKOVTZs of Diphilus. 
 
 8. Qui ienoni eripit. So Bentley read, rejecting "eripuit," which is 
 fouud in some MSS. Parry defends "eripuit" on the analogy of 
 "surripuit," and other similar abbreviations, "erpuit, surpuit." Most 
 modern editors read "eripit." In prima fabula, h. e. in prima parte 
 fabulffi. See Madvig, sect. 311, p. 273, and Ter. Heaut. v. 1, 29, note. 
 
 10. Reliquit integrum. That passage Plautus left untouched, left it 
 fresh ground, whereupon Terence might try his powers. "Integrum " 
 implies, that it had never been translated before. Compare Heaut. 
 Prol. 4, and note ibid., " Ex. integra Gneca integram comoediam." 
 
 11. Verbum de Verbo expressum extulit, " Has brought it out translated 
 word for word." Donatus remarks on the use of "extulit" instead of 
 "transtulit,'' "he has more than merely translated, brought out in Latin, 
 the whole force of the Greek original." This may be somewhat fanciful. 
 Madame Dacier translates it barely " Terence l'a traduit mot a mot." 
 
 12. Novaiu: new to the Latin stage, not before translated. It is 
 opposed to " vetus," i. e. the Greek original. — Pernoscite, " arrive at a 
 decision" (after taking cognisance of the matter). Compare Andr. 
 Prol. 25, Ut pernoscatis, and see note. Construe, " Decide whether ye 
 think that a plagiarism has been committed, or a passage recovered 
 and handled anew, which has been by carelessness overlooked." 
 " Pernoscere " was the function of the umpires or " arbitri." Ruhnken 
 parallels the use of " reprehensum " here, by Phsedrus, V. viii. 3, 
 '• Elapsum semel Non ipse possit Jupiter reprehendere." For "neglegen- 
 tia," cf. Andria, Prol. 20. In neither case docs the poet imply anything 
 more than an indifference to the passage or play in question, because not 
 needful to the author's purpose. 
 
 15. Nam, quod isti &c. For a parallel instance of " nam" (yap), used 
 in transitions, or to anticipate a supposed objection, see Plaut. Mil 
 Gl. I. i. 5, "Nam ego banc maclKeram," &c. Construe " Now as to the 
 say ing of those ill-wishers," &c. On the whole subject of this second 
 charge, see Ter. Heaut. Prol. 22 — 26, and notes. In the next line, the 
 frequentative verb " adjutare" implies the same habit as is indicated 
 in the addition of "assidue" to "scribere." 
 
 15. Earn is here attracted to " laudem ; " wherens we might more 
 naturally have expected "id'' as antecedent to "quod." — Vobis 
 universis, "the whole body of you, the aulience;" populo, "the 
 people," without the theatre. So Donatus explains. 
 
 20. Quorum operd — supcrbid, " Of whose help in war, peace, business, 
 each iu his particular need, has not been too squeamish to avail him- 
 self." "Sine superbia " cannot, as Ruhnken would have it, be referred 
 to Scipio, Ladius, and Furius, as if it had been" whose aid lent without 
 pride" The collocation and senBe alike forbid this.
 
 ADELPHI. 5 1 
 
 23. Series. Micio and Demea ; who unfold the plot in a great mea- 
 sure in the first act. Hi partem aperient. Bentley reads " partini ' 
 here, and in the next line, quoting Hecyr. Prol. 6. For "hi," "ei," 
 and "ii" are also read. 
 
 24 — 5. Facite aquanimitas Poeta, &c. Bentley, to avoid the 
 lengthened last syllable of " augeat," introduced a hotchpotch line. 
 " Bonitasque vestra adjutrix nostrae industrial," and theu read " augeant" 
 in the 25th line. But " industrial ." and " industriam " sound awkwardly 
 together. Vestra is much more simply understood with "sequanimitas," 
 and Mr. Parry in his Introduction, p. lv. accounts " augeat" an instance 
 of last syllables of polysyllabies lengthened by " ictus." Goveatms reads 
 Vestra Poetae at the beginning of v. 25, as does also Madame Dacier. 
 There may however be a lacuna between the 24th and 25th verses. 
 
 ACTUS I.— Sc. I. 
 
 Micio is introduced in anxiety about the lateness of his nephew, and 
 adopted son, iEschinus, in returning home. He soliloquises on the 
 charge which he has taken upon himself, involving all these fears and 
 fancies which belong to a real parent. He theu goes on to contrast his 
 own liberal notions and practice in regard to young men, with his 
 brother Demea's strictness towards his son who lives under his own 
 roof. His musing is interrupted by Demea's appearance. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Storax I "What ho, Storax !" a call to one of the attendants, 
 who had been sent to see ^Eschinus home. No answer being made, 
 Micio iufers the rest of the sentence. 
 
 2. A dvorsum ierant, " had gone to meet him, and see him home." 
 Such an office belonged to certain slaves, who were called (see Gesner's 
 Thesaurus, L 132, and Lambinus's Plaut. Mostell. iv. 1 and 2, notes) 
 '• adversitores." Indeed in the edition of Lambinus '' Phaniscus, 
 adversitor" is found as one of the Dramatis personse. Lambin. explains 
 - advorsitor," "servus qui ire adversum hero jussus est, aut debet, aut 
 solet." 
 
 4. A nt ubi si cesses, " Or if you tarry anywhere." Many MSS. appear 
 . i " il»i," but the editors are in favour of " ubi" ; and Servius, on 
 .)'. . i:i. 430, quotes the passage " ubi si cesses." " Ubi si," is equiva- 
 lent to " sicubi." Erasmus explained " ubi " as "alicubi." 
 
 /ites propitii, " fond parents." " Propitii" is of course opposed 
 rata :" the " scolding wife " to the " indulgent parent." Gronoviu- 
 illustrates this antithesis of the two words by Cic. ad Att. viii. Kp. ult. 
 " Hunc propitium sperant : ilium iratum putant;" and Cornel. Nep. 
 Dion. c. 9, "Illi ipsi custodea, si propitia fuissent voluntate," &c. The 
 word in more usually used of the Gods than of men. 
 
 -. Avim.0 obserpri, "are following your inclination." Cf. Hecyra iii. 
 
 v. 9, "Homo voluptati ob.m quenB." With the next veree, " Et tibi bene 
 
 Ac. Compare An dr. ii. v. 16, " Omnes sibi inalle melius," &c. 
 
 Madams Dacier translates "Et quo vous vous donnez du bon temps, 
 
 pen dant qu'elle n'a <pio «le la peine," "And that all goes well with you, 
 
 whereas 'tM only with herself that there's trouble." 
 
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 52 NOTES ON 
 
 10. Ego, quia non rediit, &c. This in incorrectly called an "anacolu- 
 thon." The sequence is, " Fond parents have more anxiety than 
 scolding wives. Witness my case ! See what is my state of mind, 
 because my adopted son is not returned ; And yet he is not my own 
 son (v. 15) : ergo, how much more would this be true, if he were." — 
 SoUicitor, " I am disturbed." Servius quotes this passage on Mn. iv. 
 379 : " Ea cura quietos Sollicitat" — Ne aut ille aherlt, &c. Lindenbr. 
 quotes on this passage, Flaut. Mil. Ql. III. i. 124 — 6, "Pol si habuissem 
 — cervices sibi." 
 
 12. The ordinary reading is, "Aut uspiam ceciderit, aut perfregerit 
 Aliquid. Vah," &c. Ritschl alters this to " Aut ceciderit aliqua, aut 
 aliquid perfregerit," objecting to the use of " uspiam " so soon after, 
 v. 3; and deeming it a gloss of "aliqua." If emendation be needed, 
 we prefer Fleckeisen's "Aut ceciderit aliqua, atque aliquid preefregerit," 
 '• Or shall have had a fall somewhere, and broken some limb." Besides, 
 " prae " is preferable to " per "' in composition, in this instance. 
 
 13. Vah, quemquamne, &c, " Bah ! to think that any mortal," &c. 
 For this construction, see note on Andr. i. v. 10, Adeone hominem esse 
 invenustum, &c, and Madvig. Gr. § 399. — In animum instituere seems 
 preferable to the reading " in animo " (Bentley's), though both have 
 authority : the meaning seems to be, " should introduce into his heart," 
 or "give a footing in his heart" ("placer dans son cocur"). — Parare, 
 "should acquire." 
 
 14. Atque ex me. Bentley preferred reading "Atque," quoting 
 Charisius, who explained it as " et," here. But " atqui " best agrees 
 with the sense of the whole passage, see note on v. 10. Is, in v. 15, 
 refers to Demea. Ritschl emends the usual reading in v. 14, sed ex 
 f rat re: is adeo Dissimilis, &c, by reading " Sed fratre ex meo. Dissimili 
 is studio est." Parry defends the metrical irregularity of the usual 
 reading, and justifies the " ictus " on " is " because emphatic. The 
 narration flows most easily with Ritschl. 
 
 17. Clementem vitam urbanam, "this easy city life." Cf. Andr. I. 
 i. 9, note. Cic de Off. i. 69, " Vita lenior." " Otium " i. e. " vitam 
 non negotiosam." Cf. Phsedr. V. i. 7, " Quinetiam resides et sequentes 
 otium." — Qaod fortunatum isti putant, &c, "And I've never had a 
 wife, a blessing in the estimation of my brother, and such as he." 
 " Isti" = "those wretched fellows, who have put a halter round their 
 necks." The sentence, "quod .... putant," is in apposition with 
 "uxorem." The proposed reading " infortunatum," is needless. Micio 
 is sneering at Demea and the married men for their delusion. He, 
 not they, holds " Melius nil cadibe vita," Hor. Ep. I. i. 88. 
 
 19. Ille, contra ho3C omnia. We adopt here Bentley's punctuation as 
 better than ille contra, hiec omnia, which is the reading of some editions. 
 Construe, " He, doing tbe opposite to all these things." — Ruri, see 
 Word* worth, Lat. Gr. p. 155 ; Madvig. sect. 273, b. 
 
 21. Uxorem duxit. As Donatus remarked, the change to the perf. 
 indie, is natural here. The infinitives preceding spoke of " habits," 
 "duxit," of an act once for all. Inde. "of these," I q. ex. iis. Com- 
 pare "nnde" for " E quibus" in Eun. I. ii. 35, " E prsedonibu6 Unde 
 einerat," &c. 
 
 23. Eduxi, often used in the sense of " educavi," by Plautus. Cf. 
 PI. Curcul. IV. ii. 32, " Bene ego Utam eduxi domi meae et pudice.'
 
 ADELPHI. 58 
 
 Also by Virg Mn. vi. 765 : Educet silvis regem. — Amavi pro meo, "I 
 hare loved him as my own child." Cf. Andr. IV. i. 51, " Pro servitio," 
 and see Hildyard's Mensechmei, Plaut. 213, " Pro sano." 
 
 25. Hie ut item contra me kabeat, &c. " I do my utmost to make 
 hiua in return (contra) hold me in the same light" (item). For "contra" 
 in this sense, see Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. i. 23, " Ut ilia ilium contra, qui 
 est," &c. ; and for " item " = " similiter," see Ter. Eun. II. ii. 33, 
 " Parasiti item ut Gnathonici vocentur." For " sedulo " see Andr. I. 
 i. 119, note. 
 
 27. Pro meo jure, "on the strength of my authority," delegated from 
 Demea. —Claneulum Patves, " without their fathers' knowledge." This 
 appears to be the only passage where "claneulum" (a diminutive of 
 " clam") is used as a preposition. Quzefert, &c, see Ter. Andr. I. ii. 17, 
 Heaut. II. L 3, notes. 
 
 30. Nam qui mentiri, &c. — audebit cceteros. We have here retained the 
 reading of Hitachi adopted by Fleckeisen. [See Prol. ad Plaut. p. 120.] 
 The old reading was — 
 
 Nam qui mentiri, aut fallere insuerit patrem, aut 
 Audebit, tanto magis audebit creteros. 
 
 Bentley proposed ita ut fit in place of insuerit, and omitted aut at the 
 close of the verse. This removed the awkwardness of moods. Boeder 
 and Madame Dacier read 
 
 Nam qui mentiri aut fallere insueverit 
 Patrem tanto, &c. 
 
 But the emendation retained in the text is most satisfactory, and needs 
 DO explanation. 
 
 32 — 3. Pudore et liberalitate, &c. Lindenbrog quotes from Meander. 
 ov 5«? \inrovvra rb ircuSapiov opBovv, 'AWa. Treidovvra ri. And Colmau 
 addfl from Ben Jonsou's " Every man in his humour," Act L, Sc. L, 
 ad fin., "There is a way of winning more by love And urging of the 
 modesty, than fear : Force works on servile natures, not the free." 
 
 '■ J ,i. Ihtc fratri mecum non conveniunt, " On these points my brother 
 and I are not agreed." The more ordinary construction is " inter me 
 et fratrem." Cf. Hecyra. IV. iv. 36, " Nee conveuturum inter nos 
 posthac arbitror." For the use of "nobis," in v. 36, (Why are you 
 raining our lad?) the ethic dative as it is called, see Madvig. Gr., sect. 
 248; Wordsworth, sect. 144, page 143, ad fin. Cf, also Adelph. 111. 
 iv. 30, below, "Ille bomn vir nobis psaltriam " &c. With " suinptuui 
 Buggeria" in v. 37, cf. Heaut. V. i. 57, (quoted by Parry) "Nam m 
 il!i pergo luppeditare Bumptibus." " Vestitu nimio," is surely the 
 ablative case, though taken by many editors as the dative for 
 " vestitui." We should understand "illi," "You humour him with 
 too much dress." 
 
 39. Ximiuiu ipsest durus. Micio had been representing Demea as 
 Maying. " Niiniuiii in»|.tus es." "You're exceedingly foolish ; " and he 
 then goes on in his own person retorting on his brother, " Nimiuin 
 ipsest duriin," &0. "Nay it's himself who is exceedingly harsh" ", 
 "strict*" — Prater cequumqtu tt bonwn, " Beyond what, La jnHt and meet." 
 In Plant. M'-n;idi. IT'- 1 , we have "Qui Deque leges, Deque Bequom
 
 bi NOTES ON 
 
 houuin usquam oolunt." The phrase seems to convoy the notion of 
 •' equity " opposed to " law." See also Cure. I. L 65. 
 
 41. Qui imperinm credat, "In thinking that the sway is of greater 
 weight, or durability, which is effected by force, than that which is 
 won to us by friendship." For " qui credat," cf. Wordsworth's Or. 
 p. 161, and notes on Andr. Prol. 6. — Oravius. Ruhnken illustrates 
 this word by Plaut. Trinum. II. ii. 107, " Gravius erit tuum unuui 
 verbum," &c. — Mca sic est ratio, " Such is my way ;" ratio = mos ; as 
 in III. iii. 20 — 21, "Vestram nequeoadinirari satis Itationem." — Animum 
 induce- mcum, i. o. " duco in animum meum." Cf. Ter. Hecyr. I. ii. 24 ; 
 Plaut. Asin. V. i. 5, " Possum equidem inducere animum, ne £egre 
 patiar." 
 
 44. Male- coactus, &c, "Constrained by (fear of ) punishment." For 
 " malum " in this sense, Gronov. quotes, Cic. in Verr., Act ii., Lib. iii. 
 c. 25, " Tu nisi uialo coactus recte facere nescis;" and Ibid. ii. 59, 
 " Omnes imperio, vi, metu, malo adductso — pecuniam coutulerunt." 
 Seneca, Agam. 955, " Scd agere domitam fceminam disces malo." Plaut. 
 Mensechm. 1G6, " Discaveas malo." With the whole sentence, compare 
 Ben Jonson's " Every man in his humour," Act. L, ac. i. " He that's 
 compell'd to goodness may be good," &c. So also, " Oderunt peccare 
 niali formidine pcenEe." — Dum — tantisper, see note at Heaut. I. i. 54. 
 After cuvct understand peccare. Ingenium in v. 46 = indolem, "natural 
 bent." Compare Ter. Hecyr. I. ii. 38, "Ad ingenium redis." Ter. 
 Andr. I. i. 50. 
 
 47. Ex animo facit (officium, sc), "Does his duty freely," "sans 
 aucune contrainte."- Madame Dacier. Cf. Heaut. II. i. 4, "Ex sua 
 lubidine." — Sludct par referre (pro pari, sc.), cf. Eun. III. i. 55. Sludet, 
 the last syllable of which Bentley considered short, is by Parry taken 
 as a monosyllable. — Prtesens absensque, &c, " He will be just the same 
 out of your sight as in it," in contrast to v. 46. 
 
 50. Alieno metu, "from fear of others." A translation, Parry suggests, 
 of aAKorpiu) <p60cp. " Alius," the genitive, is understood in " alieno." 
 — Hoc pater ac dominus interest, "Herein lies the difference botwixt a 
 father and a master." Hue is here the accusative of limitation («otA, 
 tovto). Compare, Eun. II. ii. 2, "Stulto iutelligens Quid interest." 
 ( Commentators take this as a Grajcism, translated from Tovry -Karrjp nal 
 8e<nrdT7)5 5ia<pepti. The simple construction would be, "Hoc interest 
 inter patretn ac dominum." 
 
 52. Fattatur nescire, &c. Bentley, following Faernus (and indeed 
 Donatus), omitted " se " before " nescire." — Agebam, "I was speaking." 
 (,'f Hecyr. III. v. 5, "Ipsus est de quo hoc agebam tecum." 
 
 55. Jurgabit, " He'll scold." Cf. Ter. Andr. II. iii. 15. Jurgium 
 Midjurgurc, were words used of the differences of friends and rela- 
 tions ; lis and litigo denoted those of enemies. See Hildyard's Glossary 
 at ilenffichm. 51, and the authorities there quoted.
 
 ADKLPHI. 55 
 
 A.CTUS I.— Sc. II. 
 
 Demea replies to the question of Micio as to the cause of his sadness, 
 that it is the misconduct of his son ^Eschiuu<, who has just invaded 
 another man's house, and carried off a music-girl. He contrasts his 
 other son Ctesipho's conduct, who lives a regular active life at home, 
 and is never in scrapes. The blame lies, he says, on Micio, who spoils 
 bis adopted son. Micio reasons with his brother, upholding the plan 
 of letting young men have a little indulgence. Better they should 
 sow their wild oats betimes, than begin to be wild later in life. 
 Besides, adds Micio, " I am responsible. You have made him over to 
 me. It is my purse that suffers. Leave me to find fault." Demea 
 retires in a rage, and Micio then admits, in a soliloquy, that his adopted 
 son's goings-on do somewhat disturb him. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Opportune ("a'lvenis" sc). Madame Dacier makes sc. 2, begin 
 after " Juryabit," at " Salvom," &c. 
 
 2. Iiogns me, ubi nobis ^Esckinus Siet, quid tfistis cqo aim ? If we 
 retain the generally accepted reading, we must translate, "Do you ask 
 ni", wiien I have an ^Echiuus (for my son) why I am sad?" And 
 there Ls no reason why "ubi" should not be used as simply "when" 
 of time. See Audr. V. ii. 7, "Ubi voles, arcesse." Madame Dacier 
 proposed another solution, understanding "ubi" as "apud quern," 
 
 ' !>■, you, at whose house ^Eschinus lives," &c. For "ubi," so used, see 
 Yir_r. Georg. i. 50o, " Quippo ubi fas," &c. But here "tu" should have 
 I emphatically expressed, if "ubi" was to be n< it were its rela- 
 tive. Fleckeiseu adopts Kitschl's reading, " Rogas me] Ubi nobis 
 linust? Scin jam quid tristis ego sim." "Do you ask me? 
 Where's my ^Escliinus? Now, don't you know why I'm sad ? " This 
 is perhaps admissible, and has certainly most force. 
 
 ■i — 4. Quern iinjite piulet quicquam, "Who's ashamed of nothing." 
 For this use of the neuter pronoun as subject to such verbs, as "libet,'' 
 '" licet,'' &c. see Madvig. (Jr., sect. 218, a. obs. 2; and Adelph. IV. 
 vil 36, infra. With " metuit," we must supply " ille '' from above. 
 M.-nander's verses are imitated here. 
 
 os 5' otir' ipvOptuv olfier otire SeSieWi 
 to. irpurta irao-ns ttjs aeaiSei'as Zx el - 
 
 7. Modo quid di ',,,,.<, -it, " What is this new crime that he has per- 
 petrated just laulij 1 ' 'I In; meaning of "designo" here seems to be 
 derived from ita sense oJ "to chalk "»', to contrive;" hence, " to per- 
 ls," See Plant. Mostell. II. i. 66, " Quae designata sint et facta 
 nequiter," on w!in;li pa-.-a.'i: L unburns says, derignare is, "novo more 
 etexemplo malefaeere." Nonius explains it, "cum notd et ignominid 
 fa . r. auquid." 
 
 I Mam, "household." See Beaut. IV. v. 3; Plant. M. (i. II. ii. 
 11 ; A nl. I'rol. 2; Cic. proCecin. o. 19, — M iilriir'it tuque ad mortem, " lla« 
 well nigh beaten to death." Cf. Kun. IV. vii. 4, "Male mulcabo ipsam."
 
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 Plant. Mil. Gl. II. ii. 8, " Ni usque ad mortem male mulcassitis." 
 Iu the 12th verse, Madatno Dacier places the full stop after "hoc." 
 " Factum esse hoc." Reading according to the ordinary punctuation, 
 we construe it as the accusative after " dixcre." 
 
 15. Rci dare operant, "attending to business." — Ruri esse, &c. Parry 
 retains " esse," which Fleckeisen has omitted. He defends it by refer- 
 ence to Hecyr. IV. iv. 75, where, as here, occurring as the first syllable 
 of an Iambus, it is shortened in pronunciation. 
 
 16. Nudum hujus simile factum, sc. * vidcas," or "est." TTiere's no 
 act on his part like this; "hujus," is the gen. after "simile." Cf. 
 Heaut. III. ii. 40, quoted by Parry. — Illi = "in ilium;" Tibi = "in 
 te." In v. 17, tu is emphatic. — Corrwmpi sinis. Cf. Andr. II. iii. 22, 
 note. Parry adds a reference to Plant. Bacch. III. iii. 5—9; q. v. 
 
 18. Homine imperito, " Than a man without knmvlcdge of the world." 
 Cir. pro Rose. Com. c. 7, "Callidum imperitus fraudasse dicitur." 
 — Nuttquam is, i. q. "nun," as in Virg. Eel. iii. 49, "Nunquam hodie 
 ettugies." — Quorsum istuc (pertinet, sc). 
 
 21. Non est flagitium, &c, "It is not a gross sin" (though it may be an 
 error). Flagitia= "enormities," in Plaut. Mensechm. 507, 6^1 (Hildyard's 
 Glossary), and such too seems the force of the word here. Gesner, 
 in his Thesaurus, on the word "flagitium" observes that Micio here 
 understands it of " infamia civilis," while Demea, in v. 32, understands 
 it of " res pudenda inter bonos viros." And this is perhaps the simplest 
 explanation. Forcellini, in his Lexicon, followed by Parry at this 
 passage, speaks of the first sense of '' flagitium " being " noise," and 
 quotes for that sense Plaut. Paeuul. III. ii. 32, " Fores hac fecerunt 
 magnum flagitium modo," &c. But, as Lambinus and other commenta- 
 tors show on that passage, the word only means "noise," in a comic 
 sense, and with a connexion too (vid. loc.) with that of " shame," which 
 is prior. The repetition of " non est," is emphatic, " It is not in- 
 deed." Ruhnken quotes Cic. pro Sylla, c. 27, " Non cadit, non inquam 
 eadit." 
 
 24. Non siit egestas facere nos. "Siit" for "sivit" is Bentley's 
 emendation, from the Bembine MS. — Ttii id laudi duels. For this 
 double dative, one, of that to which a thing tends, the other, of the 
 person whom it tends to benefit, cf. Madvig. Gram. sect. 249. And for 
 the pluperfect sense of " esset" and " faceremus," see Andr. IV. iv. 54, 
 •' Praediceres." Virg. Mn. viii. 643, and Madvig. 347. obs. 2. 
 
 28. Bum pa- cetatem licet, &c. Old editions read " decet." — exspecto- 
 tum ejecisset foras, " had thrust your body out of doors, after your 
 death had long been looked for," or " waited for." Ejicere is " raptim 
 exportare" here, as Gronovius observes. For the use of " exspecto," 
 of. infra V. iv. 20, " Ilium, ut vivat, optant, meam mortem exspectaut," 
 and Hecyr. IV. ii. 20, "Mortemve exspectet meam." Parry a>lds 
 Mostell. Plaut. II. ii. 13. For the orthography of "exspecto," vid. 
 Hildyard's Glossary to Plaut. Menscchm. 781. Donatus distinguishes 
 between exspecto ("ante diem") and spero ("ad diem") — Si esses homo 
 in v. 27 is, "If you had common sense." Cf. IV. ii. 40, "Censen' 
 hominem me esse " ? At " faceret " iu v. 30, there is probably an ellipse 
 of " siueres ut." Cf. Andr. IV. v. 3. 
 
 32. Non est, &c. Cf. note at v. 21. In the next verse for ne me 
 obtundas, compare Andr. II. ii. 11 ; Heaut. V. i. 6, and notes.
 
 ADELPHI. 57 
 
 36. Ego illi maximam partem feram, "In that I shall bear the largest 
 share." Illi is the old form of " illic," which is found in Phorm. I. ii. 
 41, "Dum sedemus illi;" and Hecyr. V. iii. 4, " Dum illi sedeo." 
 Compare also Plaut. Menrechm. 223, " Dii illos, qui illi habitant," &c, 
 and Hildvard's Glossary ad loc. See also Virg. ^En. II. 548, and 
 Servius's note there. — Mihi peccat above, is L q. " it is to my cost that l.e 
 errs." 
 
 37. OUt unguenta. Cf. Madvig. Gr. 223, obs. 2. Wordsw. Gr., sect. 
 146, p. 145. — Fortasse excludetur foras," Peut-etre que ses maitresses le 
 chasseront," Madame Dacier ; rightly. 
 
 40. Fores effregit, &c. This and the following verse are quoted by 
 Cicero Pro M. Ccelio. c. xvi., where see Long's note, Biblioth. Cla^s. 
 vol. iv. p. 61. For " Discidit vestem " cf. Eun. IV. iii. 4, " Vestem 
 omnem miserse discidit." 
 
 43. Cido quemvis arbitrum, "let us have any umpire you will." 
 For " cedo " compare Heaut. IV. viii. 5, note, and Hildyard's Glossary 
 at Mensechm. 114 ; and for arbitrum, ("ad" and " bito " to go), Heaut. 
 III. i. 91, " Me cepere arbitrum." 
 
 45. Qui vere sciunt. This is the reading of the MS8. and older 
 editions. Bentley pioposed " veri sient," i. e., " Learn to be a father, 
 from those who are real fathers." The first reading is not objec- 
 tionable, but that of Bentley seems best. Donatus read " aliis " for 
 " illis," which however would diminish the force of the passage. In the 
 next line, consiliis seems to mean, " by my plans for his welfare," as a 
 retort upon which Demea says, offensively, Tun' consults quicquam, 
 " What ! do you take any thought for him !" Madame Dacier and others 
 seem to have understood " consiliis " " by the advice I give him ;" but 
 this is not suitable to the character of Micio. 
 
 47. Abiero, "I shall be gone," an archaism for "abibo." — Sicinc 
 agis f " Is this your way of proceeding?" — Curcest mihi (sc. ^Fschinus). 
 
 50. Curenius lequam uterque partem, " Let us attend each to his fair 
 share ; you to the one, I in my turn to the other." — Nam curare ambos : 
 understand te as the accusative before curare. In v. 53, " Quid istie " 
 = "Enough./" or "why say all that?" compare Andr. III. iii. 40, 
 notes. 
 
 54. Profunda! pcrat, pereat, " Let him squander, waste, go to the 
 dogs, in short." Servius on Virg. JEa. iv. 381 (" I sequere Italiam 
 veutis, pete regna per undas"), instances this passage as a case of 
 " prohibltio per concessionem," where, by withdrawing your opposi- 
 tion, you effect your object of opposing. In the next verse, "Jam 
 'hi, a vllum posthac," is an example of the figure " aposiopesis," 
 far which see Andr. I. L 122 and 137, notes, and Virg. iEn. i. 135. 
 We must suppose Demea to have intended to add, " addidero," " Now 
 lf'ever another word." 
 
 56. Annon credisl Repeton eum quern d<di? " Don't you think I've 
 ii I What ! I'm demanding back him I gave you, am I?" "Irasci" 
 U understood, and in " repeton," &c, we must understand Demea as 
 indignantly taking up his brother's words in v. 52. and going on to 
 show that though he has delegated his authority to Micio, he cannot b'- 
 indifferent to his own child — AHenus non sum, "I'm not uninterested 
 in him, indifferent to him." Cf. Heaut. I. i. 25. Wc punctuate th.- 
 following words thus: Si obsto — Hem, desi/not ''If I set my 
 
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 against — Ah, well ! I'll leave off speakiug." Demea discovers that he 
 is prevailing nothing, and so stops short. 
 
 .59. late twn, '' that hopeful ward of yours; " sentiet "will feel it to 
 hid coat." With the next verse Parry compares Aadr. V. iii. 3; q. v. ; 
 and Westerh. from Meuander — 
 
 ovStnor' aKrjdis ouSiv odd' vit? irarfyp 
 ttcod' aiTdKeTv, o6t' tpuiv 4p<i/j.4vT). 
 
 61. Nee nil ncque omnia hcec sunt, &c. Colman has hit off this 
 sentence very well — 
 
 " Tho' what ho says be not entirely true, 
 There's something in it, and it touches me." 
 
 Madame Dacior supposes a new scene to begin here. With the verses 
 beginning " Nam itast homo," Parry compares aptly Plaut. Trinum. 
 111. ii. 42-46. 
 
 65. Tamen vix humane patitur, " Yet, even so, he scarcely brooks it 
 like a reasonable being." Gronovius illustrates this phrase by Cicero. 
 Tusc. Qusest. II. sect. 27. " Morbos toleranter atque humane ferunt." 
 
 67. Insaniam profecto, &c. Compare Plaut. Amphit. II. ii. 73, 
 " Bacchse bacchanti si velis advorsarier Ex insana iusaniorem facies." 
 
 72. Sperabam jam defervhse, &c, " I was hoping that at length his 
 hot youth had begun to cool down.'' For the force of " defervisse " here 
 compare Cic. Tusc. Quaest. iv. 36; Cic. pro Ca;l. c. 18, " Quurn adoles- 
 ceutice cupiditates deferuissent," where Long quotes Cic. de Sen. c. 13, 
 " Erat quidam fervor setatis, qua progrediente omnia hunt in dies 
 mitiora. Parry illustrates the force of " de " (anb) here by Hor. I. 
 ix. 10; " Ventos iEquore fervido Deprceliantes," which he explains, 
 '• ceasing their strife." But surely this was not the poet's meaning : 
 and is against the "consensus" of all commentators. 
 
 ~i. Ecce autem, " When lo ! " So the Greek dramatists used Kal fx-iju. 
 It is used of some unexpected or marvellous occurrence or interposi- 
 tion. Cf. Ter. Eun. II. 3, 6, and Plaut. Mensechm. (Hildyard's Glos- 
 sary), 637. For "de integro," see note on Andr. Prol. 26. — Nisi 
 quicquid est, "Nisi" is i. q. " sed." See Andr. IV. i. 40, and Heaut. 
 V. ii. 4, notes. 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. I. 
 
 This scene opens with iEschinus carrying off the music-girl from the 
 house of Sannio, a procurer, to hie own dwelling. Sannio is intro- 
 duced as following him up with much clamour, and many appeals for 
 justice, to the townsmen. iEschinus meets his threats to attempt the 
 recovery of the girl by charging Parmeuo to keep an eye on him, and 
 to give him a sound dressing if he touches her. After a scuffle and 
 much altercation, iEschinus proposes to pay for the girl, if Sannio 
 chooseB, or, if not, to claim her at a legal tribunal, as a free citizen.
 
 ADELP1II. 59 
 
 Sannio, on reflection, thinks it wise to close with the young man's 
 otter, if he can keep him up to it. 
 
 Metre:— 1—3, 6, 8, 11. Trochaic Tetrameters. 
 7, 9, 10, 12—16. 43 — 54. Trochaic Tetram. catalectic. 
 
 4. an Iambic Dimeter. 
 5. 17 — 42. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Populares, "Fellow-countrymen." Cf. Eun. V. viii. 1, " popu- 
 lates." It must be understood that this is the second rencontre 
 between JEschinus and Sannio. 
 
 2. Otiose, " Calmly there," as if he had said, " Fear nothing." — Nunc 
 jam ilico hie consUte, " Now then, take your stand here on this spot." 
 Ail this is said to the music-girl, who is in tenor, owing to the recent 
 fracas. For " ilico," see Andr. I. L 98, note. III. ii. 34, and Aulul. 
 Plaut. (Hildyard's Glossary), 54. — Quid resptctas f " Why are you look- 
 ing behind you, in terror?" For this use of "respectas" compare 
 Phut. Men. 84, " Ne te sequatur uxor, respectas identidem." See 
 lli.dyard's Glossary, ad loc. — Nunquam =non: as in Virg. Eel. iii. 49, 
 " Nunquam hodie effugies." Cf. 'Per. Adelph. IV. ii 31, Virg. iEn. ii. 
 670, •' Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti." In v. 4, after " om- 
 nibus " supply " abducam." » 
 
 5. Quunquamxt scelestus, &c, " Rascal though he is, he won't expose 
 himself to being beaten again to-day." — Committet — ut. Compare 
 ir de B. G. L 13, "Ne committeret ut is locus ex calamitate populi 
 Romaoi n<>men caperet." For "hodie" used thus in threats, and 
 '■ uou-unquam," L q *■ nunquam " or " uon," see Andria I. ii. 25, note, 
 and above at v. 3. See too Conington's note at Virg. Eclog. iii. 49. 
 Fur verbs like "vapulo" see Wordsw. Lat. Gram. sect. 155, 3. 
 
 7. At ita, ut usquam full, &c, "Yet of as good faith as any man 
 alive." The order is, " At ita optima fide, ut quisquam usquam fuit." 
 
 8. Tu quod teposterius puryes, &c, "As to your excusing yourself at an 
 after date, by saying that you are sorry that this wrong has been done 
 to me, I shall not value it this." For "quod" here, in the sense of 
 " as to," " as to that which," " as to the excuse which you may make," see 
 Plaut. Aulul. 52 (Hildyard's Glossary), " Quod quispiam ignem quporat," 
 " as to anyone asking a loan of fire." See also Caesar, B. G. i. 14," Quod 
 
 victoria tain insolenter gloriarentur," &c. Parry explains "quod" 
 U i. q. "quamvis" here, and at Eun. V. viii. 34, where he quotes 
 
 it Mil Gh II. ii. 7, and Propertius IV. (3) i. 49, in which place 
 Paley englislies " quod" rightly, "as to the fact that." A duo con- 
 sideration of all the ; quoted will, we think, satisfy students 
 that "quod" is Dot for '' quanivis," but of the nature of a relative, 
 wherever it is found in such collocation. — Ilujuit uon faciam. For 
 tins genitive of the value, Hi-e Madvig. Or. Rect. 294, Obs. 1, Words- 
 worth, sect. 149, obs. 4. "Hujua" is used Senm/cis with a snapping 
 of the fmgers. 
 
 10. Ncque (u vcrf/is — re male feceris, " I'll take no verbal apology for 
 actual wrongs." Note the antithesis of " verbis" and " re." — Novi ego 
 vottia hmc, &c, " Pin up to these speeches of yours ; I regret that 
 it was done," &c. — Jmjurandum dabilwr, " I m ready to make oath." 
 In v. 12, the first syllable of '' indignnm" eoaiesees with the last of 
 the preoeding line, and the verse is Troth. Tetram. cutahct.
 
 HO NOTES ON 
 
 13. Abi prce strcnue, " Go forward quickly." " Prre " and " stronue " 
 are properly separated, though in many editions they are read 
 " praj3trenu6," which Goveanus explains " celerriink," quoting Cicero 
 ad Terentiam " Exeuntibus Acastus prsesto fuit cum litem uno et 
 vicesimo die; sane strenue." Idem ad Q. Fratrem, "Domua redilioa- 
 batur streime." But these illustrate either reading. The direction U 
 given to Sannio to go open Micio's house-door. — Ccterum hoc nihil 
 facts, "Nay, 'tis no use your doing this," h. e. "hoc quod facis nihil 
 est." Others with Hare read " Nihili," i. e. " Nay, then, you treat my 
 threats (hoc) as of no account." The former reading is best. 
 
 15. Nimium istoc ubisti, " You've gone too far from yon knave." 
 " Tu t' es trop eloigne de ce coquin," Madame Dacier. — Propter hunc, 
 " near him." Cf. Virg. Georg. iii. 13, " Propter aquam." 
 
 17. Ne mora sit, &c, " That there may be nothing to hinder your fist 
 finding a lodgment in his face, if I give you a nod." With the previous 
 line Westerhov. compares Plaut. Aulul. IV. i. 13 (553 Hild.), "Herile 
 impcrium ediscat, ut quod frons velit, oculi sciant." Pseud. III. ii. 09, 
 " Turn ut hujus oculos in oculis habeas tuis," &c. — Istuc volo, &c. " I'd 
 like to see him try that game I" — Serva, " Look out," i. q. "observa." 
 Cf. Andr. II. v. 5, note. 
 
 19. Nisi caves, geminabit (Parmeno plagam sc), " If you don't mind, 
 he shall repeat it." Parmeno appears to have only listened as far as 
 the penultimate of the verb " geminabit," and obeys the imperative 
 "gemina" — an unbidden act, as iEschinus observes, but a fault in the 
 right direction. Tamen i. q. 6/xc2s. 
 
 22. Si possiderem, ornatus, &c. Sannio, in sarcastic allusion to the 
 boasted liberty of Athens, has asked iEschinus, " Have you absolute 
 power ? Are you tyrant here 1 " His answer in this verse is, " If I 
 were, you should have been distinguished according to your merits," 
 i. e. have been soundly dressed. There is a double meaning in " orna- 
 tus" here, "decked out," as in Heaut. V. i. 78, " Adeo exornatum 
 dabo" (where see notes). In Plaut. Capt. V. iii. 20, "Sod eccum 
 incedit hue ornatus haud ex suis virtutibus," the words are used, not 
 as here, in a good sense, as Gronovius observes. With the question of 
 Sannio, in v. 21, compare (with Parry) Phormio II. iii. 58. 
 
 23. Nostin' qui skat "Know you who I am?" Donatus says that 
 this is a law phrase, equivalent to " Do I owe you aught ]" But this is 
 needless. The simple force is enough. iEschinus answers, " Non desi- 
 dero," " No, nor do I want to know." Compare Plaut. Mensechm. 211, 
 " Ego te non novi, neque novisse adeo volo." — Si altigisaes, the com- 
 pound verb here may have the same sense as iu Hecyr. I. ii. 61. 
 
 26. Ante cedes wmfecisse erit melius, " 'Twill be better for you not to 
 make a row before the house." " Non melius erit," as Gronov. shows, 
 implies a threat. See Livy iii. 41, where Appius says, " Non melius 
 erit nisi de quo consulimus, vocem misisse." Compare for the form, 
 " melius est," Adelph. IV. v. 5, and Plaut. Menaechm. 704 (Hildyard), 
 ''Melius .-imam est, mulier, meutem sumere." " Convicium " = the 
 noise of many voices together. Th. "vox," and see Cicero pro 
 Archia, c. 6. 
 
 27. Abripvre. Cf. Andr. IV. iv. 47, "In cruciatum hinc abripi.' 
 
 28. Lnris liber t An illegal act at Athens, as at Rome. Cf. Acts 
 xxii. 25, ei (ivOponrov 'VbifxoXov ko\ Wiarajipirov t^tcmv v/x7v ixaari^av,~'
 
 ADELPHI. 61 
 
 hominem impurum, " the disgraceful fellow." Impurus = 
 improbus. Cf. Heaut. IV. i. 16, " Anus baud impura." — Hlome, b. e. 
 " Athenis." In v. 30 " satis jam debaccbatus es,"= "you bave raved 
 enough." Cf. " defervisse"' in I. ii. 72, above. 
 
 33. Cupio cequi modo aliquid (dicss, bc.) Yah leno, &c. Said 
 ironically. Terence has imitated v. 34, " Leno sum," &c, from Dipbilus, 
 from whom Westerhov quotes : — 
 
 ovk iaTiv ovSiv nx viov i^uXitrrtpov 
 toxi iropvofidaKov. 
 
 36. Nam hercle etiam hoc restat, " Wby no ! 'faith ! that's yet to 
 come." Madame Dacier, " Ah, vraiment il ne te manquerait plus que 
 cela." Parry shows that " redi," with many other dissyllable impera- 
 tives, has the last syllable short. See Heaut. II. iii. 108. 
 
 37. Minis viginti lu illam emisti, quce res tibi vortat male. Such is 
 the reading generally accepted. Fleckeisen reads Minis — emisti ? 
 Sa. — Loqueris (" even so ! ") ^Esch., " Tibi vortat male," which is 
 certainly an ingenious emendation, though not necessary. For the 
 phrase " quae res tibi vortat male" ("bad luck to your bargain"), see 
 Virgil Eel. ix. 6. " Hos illi, quod nee vortat bene, mittimus heedos," 
 (at which passage see Conington's note.) See also Ter. Pborm. IV. 
 iii. 73, " Male tibi vertat," and for the phrase in a good sense, Plant. 
 Aulul. IV. x. 58, '' Bene feliciterque vortat." 
 
 40. Nam ego liberali illam adsero causa manu, " For I will claim her 
 (' assero manu') for a free woman by a suit at law." " Liberalis causa"= 
 " a suit for a person's freedom ;" and the whole phrase is i. q. " ego 
 illam in libertatem viudicabo." Goveanus illustrates the phrase by a 
 quotation from Cicero pro Flacco, c. 17, 40, " Quum in causa liberali 
 eum qui asserebatur cognatum suum esse diceret," to which we may 
 add Cic. in Ca;cil. Divinat. c. 17, and for the whole process Smith's 
 Diet. Ant. 143; Livy. III. 44, &c. Assero is for "asseram," pres. for 
 fut. see Ter. Eun. IV. vii. 44. Plaut. Men. (Hildyard) Gloss. 148. 
 —Meditari, in v. 41 = " to get up." Cf. Virg. Eel. 1, 2 ; Hor. Sat, I. 
 ix. 2; Andr. Ter. II. iv. 3, (see note in v. 1); Cic. ad Att., " Meditare 
 adversus Brutum causatn meam." At pro supreme Juppiter, in v. 42, 
 Madame Dacier supposes a new scene to commence with the exit of 
 ^Eschinus. 
 
 43. Minime miror (eos, sa). This verse is illustrated by one from 
 Menander. : — 
 
 o1fioi rb yap &.<bv<a Suarvxti" /xaviav iroiti. 
 
 45. I/omini rnisero plus — colaphos, &c. Later editions rightly read 
 this verse before that commencing " Ob malefacta." For plus with the 
 ellipse of " quam," sec Madvig. Gram. sect. 305. obs. 1 ; Wordsworth's 
 Lit. dr. 1 IS. 3; Ter. Eun. III. L 32. Mi-sero, says Goveanus, is i. q. 
 " iiui'icenti." In tho next verse after lanlidem emptam, supply " quanti 
 a me empta sit." Construe, " on the score of these wrongs he claims that 
 she should be handed over to him for the sum she cost me." For tho 
 form "tradier" Bee Wordsworth's Lat. Gram. (K. Edw. VI.) p. 64, 
 obe. 4. "Bene promeruit" in v. 17 is said ironical^', " Sinco ho bun 
 so well deserved it of me." CI'. Virgil Mn. iv. 334, " I'romeritam." 
 
 48. Age jam cupio si mo</", 4a " Well, well, I'm willing to agree,
 
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 if only lie pay the money." — Sed ego hoc hariolor, " But 1'in dreaming 
 ns to this." Some read " ariolor," but " hariolor" seems the ancient 
 made of writing. Cf. Haruspex, &c. The word is derived from " fari," 
 and sometimes written " fariolor." Cf. Hildyard Glossary to Plaut. Men. 
 prol. 76. The word is used in the sense of "madness'' in Phorui. 
 iii. 2. 8. 
 
 49. Testes faciet, "He'll produce witnesses forthwith." Cf. Plant.- 
 Cur. IV. iv. 9, " No facias testes ;" see also " Antestari," Hor. Sat. I. 
 ix. 76°, and Smith's Gr. and R. Ant. 11, a. 
 
 50. De argento somnium t "It's all moonshine about the money." 
 Iluhnken compares Ueaut. IV. ii. 4. "quod de argento sperem, nihil 
 est " (see note there), and for " somnium" used thus, see Phorm. 
 V. vi. 34. " Mox :" " eras redi " represent the excuses of ^Eschinus, 
 ns foreseen by Saunio. — Id quod res est, " what's a fact." Cf. Andr. 
 III. iv. 9, "Sic res est," and note. — Quantum occeperis, cf. Andr. 
 I. i. 52, note, " Dein qusestum occipit." 
 
 53. Mussitanda est, "must be hushed up." See Plaut. Mil. G. III. 
 i. 120, " Ego base mecum mussito." " Mussito, musso, mutio, mutus, 
 ixv£w" are derived from /uu the sound of compressed lips. — Has egomet 
 mecum ru t tones puto, "I make all these calculations with myself." The 
 reading "egomet mecum has ratioues puto" occurs in most editions. 
 That here adopted is that of the Bombme Codex. Parry well explains 
 "ratioues putare," to clear one's accounts, — " puto" meaning " to clear," 
 "to trim," "to prune." " Rationes" — " ratioues argentarias." Cf. Plaut. 
 Menajchm. 123. Hildyard's note; and see also Aulul. 482, note (Hildy.), 
 '« Putatur ratio." 
 
 ACTUS II— Sc. II. 
 
 Syrus approaches Snnnio, being armed with a "carte blanche" from 
 ^Eschinus, who is somewhat uneasy as to the result of his violence, to 
 make the best of matters with the procurer. By artfully leading 
 Sannio to apprehend the dangers of delay to his projected journey to 
 Cyprus from a lawsuit with zEschinus, to recover his money, he 
 brings him to consent to take ten mina? instead of twenty. 
 
 Metre : — 1 — 19. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 20 — 45. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Cupide accipiat faxo, " I'll make him eagerly accept" (sc. ut). 
 Faxo = fecero. Cf. Plaut. Men. Gloss. Hildy. 37; Aul. 745; Ter. 
 Heaut. II. iii. 100. Syrus comes on the stage finishing his words of 
 encouragement to ^Ischiuus, " Tace — ipsum." 
 
 2. Bene dicat secum e-.se actum '' admit that he has been lucky, that it 
 has fared well with him." We*terhov. quotes Cic. ad. Farm iv. 6, 
 " Nun pessime cum iis esse actum, quibus sine dolore licitum est 
 mortem cum vita commutare." In Ter. Heaut. IV. v. 50, some read 
 "omnes te in lautd, esse et bene acta parte putant;" and if that reading 
 be preferred to "aucta re" which is Bentley's emendation, it may bo 
 adduced as a parallel to the phrase here used. Donatus notes that 
 Syrus, in addressing a low fellow like Sanuio by his name, means to
 
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 treat him with courtesy, to get round him, no doubt, for his master's 
 enda. ^Eschinus had called him " leno," and other opprobrious names, 
 but not Sannio. Compare Eun. III. ii. 1 — 2, where Thraso before 
 Thais sees him is called " miles," but when he is before her, and she 
 wants to»simulate great affection, she says "Salve mi Thraso." Neacio 
 quid concertdise cum hero, " Have had a slight difference with my 
 master." 
 
 4. Iniquius certationem comparatam, "a quarrel or contest in which 
 the combatants were more unequally matched." For this sense of 
 " comparo," " to pit one against another,'' see Eun. II. iii. 63, " Quod 
 donum huic dono contra comparet;" Sueton. Calig. 35, " Hunc in 
 arenam deductum Thraci comparavit." Gronovius adds to these illus- 
 trations Plaut. Asin. III. iii. 78, " Prehende auriculis, compara labella 
 cum labellis," where " compara" is comically used in the same sense. 
 The metaphor is from the gladiatorial combats. With the next line 
 all the editors compare Juvenal Sat, iii. 289, " Si rixa est ubi tu pulsas, 
 ego vapulo tantum." 
 
 6. Quid agerem. Language of excuse.^. Cf. Virg. Eel. i. 41, " Quid 
 facerem," &c. — Adulescenti morem gestum oportuit, " You ought to have 
 humoured the young man." For " morem gerere," cf. notes on Andr. 
 IV. L 17 ; Plaut. Men. H. 690. And for the ellipse, "a te fuisse," com- 
 pare notes on Heaut. I. ii. 26 ; Andr. I. v. 4. 
 
 7. Qui polui melius, &c., " How could I have done so more effectually, 
 peeing that I've been all day long submitting to insult." This seems 
 the force of hodie usque, for " usque" cannot mean anything else thau 
 '•constantly" here. Gronov. illustrates "os praebui" by Cic. in Verr. 
 Act II. iii. 16, " Qui testes iuterrogari — nolueris, et iis taciturn os tuum 
 praebere malueris." Cf. Cic. ad. Alt. i. 13. The metaphor is from 
 comic actors, the frequent buffets bestowed on whom moved the 
 laughter of an audience. See Martial, Ep. ii. 72, "Os tibi percisum, 
 quaoto non ipse Latinus Vilia Pauniculi percutit ora suno;" and v. 61, 
 11, "0 quaui digitus eras alapis, Mariane, Latini," &c. See further 
 examples of the phrase in Livy, iv. 35; Tac. Hist. iii. 32. 
 
 8. Pecuniam in loco neyligeTe, &c. So Menauder : $e\Ti<TTov ob to 
 KfpSos iv iruoiv (TKoTTiiv; and Plaut. Capt, II. ii. 77, "Est etiam ubi pro- 
 fecto damnum praestet facere quam lucrum." For the phrase " in 
 loco" " seasonably, in the right place," cf. V. iii. 41. "In loco vereri," 
 Hor. Od. IV. xii. 28, Dulce est desipere in loco. — De tuo jure concessi uses 
 paululum, " If you had abated a trifle of your right." Cicero, as 
 
 irhov. observes, had this passage in view in Off. ii. 18, " Est 
 enim non modo liberale, paulum aonnunquam de suo jure decedere, 
 sed interdnm etiam fructuosum." For inorigeralus see Plaut. Capt. 
 11. i. 4. and for the kindred adj. " nioiigerus" see Ter. Andr. I. v. 59 ; 
 Plaut. Men. (Hildy. GlOBS.) 119. See also note above at v. 6. 
 
 11. A' /'"" iibt istuc famerarct, " '1'hat that course might not pay 
 you." For the unusual sense of " fasnero," "to briu^ in interest," see 
 1'horm. 11 1, ii. 8, " F a;; h latum istuc beneiicium tibi pulchre dice.-i," "You 
 nhall nay you're well repaid for thin benefit." Akin to this is the us© 
 of " facnerato," "with interest," in Plaut. Men. 606 (Hildy. Gloss.), 
 and in Asin. 876. — Nwmquam rem. fades, "You will ucver grow 
 rieh." So in Plant Men. 475 we find "' Kes magis quicritur." Plant. 
 ■ I. II. i. 12, " Facilem ego hauc rem meis civibus faciam."
 
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 12, Abi. A term of contempt,— " Pshaw," "Away." Cf. Ter. Phorm. 
 I. ii. 9, "Abi sis, iusciens." — Inescare nesc is homines, " You're no hand 
 at trapping men!" Metaphor from bird-catching. Cf. Plaut. Asiu. 
 
 I. iii. 63, " Hie uoster qusestua aucupii simillimust," &c. Istwc, "your 
 way." With v. 14, cf. our common proverb, " a bird in the hand," &>:. 
 Westerhov, compares Plaut. Asm. I. iii. 50, " Semper oculatoe nostra; 
 sunt man us : credunt quod videut." For the pleonasm in " mallem 
 potius'' cf. Madvig. L. G. sect. 308. obs. 2; Cic. de Or. ii. 74 ; Divin. 
 in Caecil. vi., " Se potius defensos malunt." Something similar are such 
 phrases in Greek, as fiaWoi/ tvrvx^Ttpos, Hec. Eur. 377. 
 
 15. Usquam, " in any account." Bentley, remarking that " usquam" 
 is nowhere else thus used, reads "quasi terunci tibi," &c. But this is 
 needless. Turneb. illustrates the phrase by the Greek oiiSa/xov \4yw. 
 See also Eun. II. iii. 2. Construe — "As if twenty minse were any 
 object to you, provided you could oblige my master." — Proficisci 
 Cyprvm. The common usage is to place the names of towns and 
 smaller islands as objects of a motion in the accusative without a prepo- 
 sition. With countries and larger isles, we find " in" often used, as in 
 
 II. iv. 14, below; and often without "in," as here. Cf. Madvig. 232, obs. 3. 
 18. Animus tibi pendet, "You're hesitating." Plautus in Trinum. 
 
 II. i. 19, uses " pendentem" in this sense, " Ibi ilia pendentem ferit." 
 Cf. Andr. I. v. 31. — Hoc ages, " you'll get this money," you'll settle the 
 matter; tamen " notwithstanding" its being an old story then. — Nus- 
 quam pede.ni, aposiopesis, " I wont budge a foot." 
 
 20. Injeci scrupulum homini, " I've suggested a difficulty to the 
 fellow." Compare notes on Andria. V. iv. 37 ; Phorm. V. ix. 30 ; 
 V. viii. 61. — Mud vide I "See there! There now!" Vt in ipso 
 articulo oppressit, " How he has surprised me at the very nick of time." 
 Understand " temporis" and see Plaut. Men. (H. G.) 64, " Commodi- 
 tatis omnes articulos scio." Westerhov. supplies the ellipse from Cic. 
 pro. P. Quiutio, c. 5, " In ipso articulo temporis." — Ad mercatum, "to 
 the fair," perhaps "the slave market." Cf. Livy. i. 30, "Frequens 
 mercatus." 
 
 24. Nam si hoc omitto, actum agam, " If I fail to get my money now, 
 it will be all up with me!" "Actum agam"=" 'twill be labour in 
 vain." See note at Andr. III. i. 7, and see below at III. ii. 27, " Actum 
 est ;" Phorm. II. iii. 72, " Actum aiunt ne agas," and Plaut. Cistell. 
 IV. ii. 36, " actam rem ago." — Ubi illinc rediero, nihil est, " On my 
 return thence, 'tis no u~e" (attempting to get paid;. Cf. Phorm. V. 
 ix. 6, " Nihil est," " formula detrectantis." Refrixerit res, " The 
 matter will have grown cold and stale," " in oblivionem venerit." The 
 opposite idea is found in Plaut. Pten. IV. ii. 92, " At enim nil est, 
 nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur." Ter. Eun. III. iii. 11, " Ubi friget." 
 The metaphor is from the anvil. Cf. Cic. Philipp. V. 11, " Belli 
 apparatus refrigescent." — Nunc demum — ubi eras : represent the taunt- 
 ing banter which Sannio expects to meet if he prosecutes his claim 
 after his return. 
 
 27. Nunc, " While I ought to be on my voyage :" tunc, " On my 
 return." — Persequi (sc. jus meum). Cf. II. i. 9. 
 
 28. Quod ad te rediturum putes. " What you calculate will be your 
 profits." Cf. Andr. IV. v. 4 ; Hecyra. I. ii. 97, (in which cases however 
 heirship is concerned). The sense of " redeo" here is precisely that in
 
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 which it is used in Corn. Nep. Tbemistocl. ii. " Pec ;nia, quae ex 
 metallis redibat." Cic. de Fin. ii. 78, " Nihil ad me rediit ex his." 
 The verb " putes" also is here used very appropriately. Cf. II. i. 54. 
 Parry points out on " rediturum" the like use by the Greeks of the 
 verb Trpoaipxofi-ai and irpocroSos. 
 
 29. Hocine Mo dignumat, &c, " Does this become that respectable 
 young man ) Can it be that JEschinus," &c. Donatus points out that 
 Sannio is now having recourse to flattery. Illo and the proper name 
 jEtchinum denote his purpose to make much of ^Eschinus for the 
 occasion. " Hocine incipere jEschinum." For this construction see 
 Andr. I. v. 10, note. For "incipere" Bentley read "inceptare," metri 
 gratid. — Ut hanc mi eripere po&tulet, viz. : "to desire to carry this girl 
 off from me," &c. For this sense of " postulo" see notes at Andr. IV. 
 i. 20, and Parry's note at the same passage. 
 
 31. Labascit, " He wavers" (aside to the audience). So in Plant. 
 Rud. V. iii. 38, " Leno labascit." Comp. Eun. I. ii. -98, "Labascit, 
 victus't, uno verbo." Unum hochabeo, " I can suggest but this one thing." 
 Compare Andr. IV. ii. 21, " Quin jam habeo." — Servesne an perdas 
 totum, dividuum face/ " Rather than run the risk of saving or losing 
 the whole, halve it." So Plant. Rudens. V. iii. 52, quoted by Stalbaum., 
 " Dividuum talentum faciam." — Conradet, "He will scrape together." 
 Heaut. I. i. 89, "Conrad omnia." Plaut. Pan. V. vi. 25, " Trecentos 
 philippos, credo, corradi potest." 
 
 35. Etiam de sorte, &c, "Alas, wretch that I am, I'm now coming to 
 jeapardy about even my principal :" ( letting alone the interest). Sors 
 is i. q. "caput;" (see Livy. vi. 15, " Sortem aliam ferte : de capite 
 deducite, quod usuris pemumeratum est," quoted by Gronovius), and 
 is opposed to " fccnus," " the interest," elsewhere called " usura." See 
 Plaut. Mostell. III. i. 34, "Quimihi neque fcenus, neque sortem argenti 
 danunt," where Gronov. quotes Martial, v. 42, " Debitor argentum 
 pariter cum sorte negabit." 
 
 37. Prceterea colaphis — caput, "Besides my whole head's one swelling 
 with buffets :" or " my head's a swelling all over with buffets." Tuber 
 is from " tumeo," a swelling of any kind. The idea of " fungus," or 
 " mushroom," seems to be only a secondary one. " Tuber" is used 
 figuratively in Hor. Sat. I. iii. 73, in contradistinction to verrucis, 
 " warts," i.e. " lesser vices." — Etiam insuper defrudet 1 " Is he to defraud 
 me, over and above?" as a climax to his other wrongs. Many editors 
 read " defrudat," Donatus, Bentley, &c, read " defrudet," which we 
 have retained. — Nusquam abeo, " I'll go nowhither." " Nusquam" is 
 of motion to a place, as Ruhnken shows, at Eunuch II. ii. 50, 
 " Nusquam. "i "Abeo" is the pres. for the future, of which see ex- 
 amples passim. — Ut Ivbtt. Cf. Andr. II. i. 10, " Age, age, ut lubet." 
 
 Nuiii'jukI * is, quin abeam. This i< the " plena locutio" of the 
 comic "formula" of departure. " Numquid vial" "Have you any 
 further commands, to delay my being off '( " For good examples, 
 see Eun. II. iii. 50 ; Hor. Bab I. ix. 0, " Cum assectaretur, numquid vis? 
 ipo." And see particularly Plaut. Memcchni. (Hildyard'i Gloss.) 
 'Jl'J; and Aulul. II. i). 219, " Ibo igitur, parabo : Dumquid mo visl" 
 For " ut ut h<ec sunt acta, compare Heaut. I. ii. 2G, "Ut ut erat, mansum 
 tamt.-n oportuit." — Polfou quam lite* lequar, " rather thau engage in 
 a lawsuit. Cf. Dotet :tt Andr. IV. v. 16; Phorm, II. iii. 01.
 
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 42. Scio te non mum, kc. Dooatua aptly quotes, Virg. Mu. III. 602, 
 "Scio me Danais e claasibua uuuin, Et bello Iliacoa fatoor petiisse 
 Penates," as an illustration of the figure d^toTna-Ttia, which has for ita 
 olject to inspire confidence, by admission. £Scio=" I confess." Compare 
 also with Stalb. Ovid That. 111. v. 1, " Usus amicitiae tecum mihi 
 parvus." — Scdulu (sine-dolo). See note on Audria, I. i. 119, and III. 
 iv. 18 ; IV. i. 55. — Quid, quod te oro? " What, of my petition 1 ?" 
 
 ACTUS II.— So. III. 
 
 Enter Ctesiphon, Demea's supposed model-son ; who cannot suffi- 
 ciently praise his brother -disclaims, who has carried off the music-girl 
 for him, and taken all the blame on himself. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Gaudeas, "One might rejoice." Indef. Compare, Andr. I. i. 108 
 " cerneres." — Verum enim vero id demum juvat, " But in good truth 
 that is in the highest degree pleasing;" "Demum" is an adv. pro- 
 perly of time, and here would seem to strengthen " enim vero," and to 
 lueaD " beyond .all else," " in the last or highest degree." lluhuken 
 and Stalbaum illustrate the passage from Sallust, Catil. 2, " Verum 
 enimvero is demum mihi vivere, et frui anima videtur." Facere (sc. 
 bene). 
 
 5. Unamhanc rem — prater alios prwcipuam, " This one blessing in an 
 especial degree beyond other men." Prascipuum, says Huhuken,is said 
 of what is not held in common with others; e. g. " the general's share 
 of spoil." It is explained by Festus : " quod ante capitur," prsecipitur. 
 
 6. Fratrem honiini nemini — principem, " To wit, that no man has a 
 brother more pre-eminent in first-rate qualities." " Homini nemiui," 
 Cf. Eun. III. v. 1, "Nemo homost ; " Hecyr. III. i. 1; "Homini 
 nemini," Phorm. IV. ii. 1 ; " Hominein nemiuem," Madv. 301, c. obs. 2. 
 — Primarum artium: "ars" means fitness or excellence bodily, mental, 
 or, as here, moral; th. apoo, "apto," probably. It is here, i. q. "virtus" 
 in v. 4, though it does not seem to be connected with apery. — Ellum 
 = " ecce ilium !" Cf. Andr. V. ii. 14, note. 
 
 8. Quid sit (quceris sc.) Cf. Act. I. sc. ii. 4, " Quid ille fecerit]" — Festi- 
 rum caput, qui, " A dear fellow, who," &c. For " festivum," cf. V. ix. 26 ; 
 for "caput," Andr. II. ii. 34, note. For the relative "qui" agreeing 
 with jEschinus implied in caput, by the fig. " synesis," see Hor. Od. I. 
 xxxvii. 21, " Fatale monstrum, qua? generosius." The figure is very 
 common in the Greek writers. Beutley, after Donatns. reads quin, i. e. 
 "quine," and " postputavit ;" and "quine" is found in the Bemb. Cod. 
 Eut the sense is better if we retain "qui" and explain as above. 
 
 9. Omnia sibi postputavit esse pro? meo commodo, "Deemed that he 
 must hold everything secondary, in comparison with my interest." 
 Postputavit, i.e. "postponenda duxit." Cf. Hecyr. III. v. 33, "Cum 
 te post putasse omues res prce parente intelligo." In v. 10, fa/mam, is 
 iq. "infamiam." — Peccatum in se transtulit. Cf. Andr. II. iii. 5, " Cul- 
 pam in te transferet." Fleckeisen for "amorem" reads "laborem;" 
 Bentley, " sese" for "se:" both in aid of the halting metre.
 
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 11. Nil pole supra (did, sc.), "Nothing stronger can be said." Pott 
 is a form of '• potis," as " mage" of " magis," as Donatus observes. See 
 note on Andr. II. vi. 6. See also Plaut. Men. 507, where " pote " 
 and the substantive verb "esse," appear in "Potesse." See Hildyard's 
 Glossary ad loc, and at Men. 368. For the " nam " in quidnam, see 
 Virg. Georg. iv. 445. For foris crepuit cf. Andr. IV. i. 58, " Cou- 
 crepuit a Glycerio ostium ; " Heaut. I. i. 121 ; Plaut. Mil. G. II. i. 76, 
 where " foris " the rare nominative singular, occurs as here. 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. IV. 
 
 ^EscHrNus enters, to find Sannio more ready to come to terms. He 
 is met by his brother Ctesipho, who is profuse in thanks for the service 
 done him. The latter goes into the house of ^Eschiaus to visit his 
 rescued mistress, while ^Eschinus, Sannio, and Syrus, repair to the 
 forum, to settle the payment. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Numquidnam. Cf. Andr. I. iv. 8 ; II. i. 25. Construe, "Is he 
 bringing out any money!" — Opportune (advenis, sc), cf. Heaut. I. ii. 5; 
 Andr. II. ii. 8. "Opportune" (adestis, sc), "Well met !" In tutost 
 ramil res, " It's all safe and sure ! " Compare, Ter. Andr. V. ii. 4, 
 " Omnes res est jani in vado;" Plaut. Mer. II. iii. 48, ''Res adhuc 
 quidem hercle in tutost." — Vero, in v. 3, seems to have the force 
 of " nay " or " come." 
 
 4. Bgo ittam hercle vero omitto, "Well, in good faith, I am laying it 
 aside, seeing that I have thee for my brother ! " — Coram in os laudare, 
 "to praise you openly to your face." In os = " praisentem" Kara crri/xa. 
 Heaut. III. iii. 1 1, " Concedas ab ore eorum aliquautisper." 
 
 6. Atsentandi (sc. gratia; Gr. X"P" / 01 * «"€*<*), "for flattery's sake." 
 For the construction, see Madvig. 417, obs. 5, who considers it & genitive 
 "/ definition ; not, however, in the same sense as a genitive of defini- 
 tion is used by Prof. Key, 926. 1. — Quam quo habeam gratum, " than 
 because I am grateful." "Habeo gratum" can hardly be other than 
 a kindred phrase to "habeo gratias" — "gratum " being the neut. adj., 
 used as a substantive. Ed i tore refer to Plaut. Trucul. II. vii. 56, " Dona 
 accepta et grata habeo;" and we might perhaps understand "bene- 
 liciuin tuum " here ; but to consider gratum i. q. gratias, is simpler. 
 Faotrt (me, bo.) 
 
 7. //'",' ini/'i dolet, " I'm pained at this." Impersonal verbs admit a 
 nominative of neuter pronoun, see Key's Grammar, 872. 1 ; Ter. Ad. 
 IV. vii. 36. " Nos pane sero scisse et in cum rem locum," is Bent ley's 
 mxling in the rest of the line. Ho has the authority of three ]\!SS. 
 for leading 'rem." Parry and Stalbaum, and Zeuue, read " Nos pseue 
 Hero roue in cum lucum ; " and Fleckeiseu suggests, " Not ra 
 reAcisseet />" i" in • urn rem locum," which avoids the repetition of "pane," 
 and makes room for "rem." Put "rem" may be omitted, and "redis.se" 
 be construed as impersonal, "that matters had coino to that pass." 
 
 illustration of the phrase given by editors (Heaut, II. iii. 118; 
 Phono. I. iii. 1 ; Phorm. IV. iv. 5;, all have "res" expressed, and wo
 
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 therefore prefer Bentley, or Fleckeisen's reading. Sero is, i. q., nimis 
 sero. — Pudebat (fateri, sc.) — Rem pane ex patrid. Aposiopeais. Cf. 
 Amir. Li. 137; Ad. I. ii. 55. 
 
 11. Dcus qucrso ut isla prohibeant. Cf. Heaut. V. iv. 15, "Di istaec pro- 
 hibeaut." — Quid ait tandem nobis Sannio 1 " Prythee, what says our 
 frieDd Sannio." " Nobis" is the dat. ethic used ironically ; cf. Madvig. 
 Or. 248; Key, 978. "Tandem" is used as here constantly. See 
 Monaechui. 614, Hildyard. — Jam mitis est, "He's tamed at last." Cf. IV. 
 i. 18. Mo had been " as savage as a bear," a scene or two before. 
 
 13. Vt hunc absolvam, "to pay this fellow off." It was usual to settle 
 money matters in the forurn (see Phorm. V. viii. 28), where the 
 bankers had their mensce and tabernte. Ruhnken explains, " absolvam " 
 " soluta pecuuia dimittam." See Plaut. Epid. V. i. 25, " Age, age, 
 absolve me atque argentum nuinera." Cf. also, v. 18 below. 
 
 14. Ne tarn quidem, "Nay, I'm not going off so," (i. e. empty-handed). 
 Cf. Plaut. Pers. IV. vi. 11, " Quid tarn propera3 ? Ita negotiumst." — 
 Quamvis etiam muneo otiosus hie, " Nay, here I'll stay, as much at 
 leisure as you please." " Quamvis " = " quautumvis," as in Plaut. Men. 
 232, Hildyard's Gloss., "Quamvis ridiculus;" Pseud. IV. vii. 79. 
 Parry dissents from this view of the sense of quamvis here. — At ut 
 omne reddat (fac, sc). 
 
 18. Quam primum absolvitote, "Get quit of this most wretched 
 knave as quickly as possible." Gronovius illustrates this sense of 
 "absolvo," by Plaut. Epid. III. iv. 30, "Te absolvam brevi." It is 
 akin to the use of it in v. 13 above. See also Curcul. Plaut. III. i. 84, 
 " Sequere hac, te absolvam."— Irritatus. See notes on Andr. III. iv. 18; 
 Pliorm. V. viii. 39. — Permanet, " should make its way ; penetrate ; 
 reach." Stalbaum quotes Plaut. Capt. II. i. 25, "Neu permanet palam 
 hsec nostra fallacia." — Atque ego turn perpetuo perierim, "And then I 
 should be undone for ever." " Perpetuo " is emphatic. Things are bad 
 enough with Ctesipho now ; but, in the event of his father's finding 
 out all, irretrievable. 
 
 20. Te oblecta. Cf. Adelph. I. i. 24, " In eo me oblecto." Lectulos, 
 h. e. " triclinia," cf. Plaut. Stich. V. iii. 5, " Lectis sternendis studui- ■ 
 mus." Nobis, is said by Syrus, comically, " Bid our couches be spread," 
 &c. — Obsonio. Cf. Andr. (notes) II. ii. 23. 
 
 23. Eilarem hunc sumamus diem, " Let us spend this day in plea- 
 sure;" cf. below, at V. iii. 68, " Ei rei hunc sumamus diem." Swmamus 
 is, L q. consumamus. Compare, Plaut. Pseud. V. i. 23, " Hanc diem 
 sumpsimus prothyme." Bentley here reads hilare (antiq. for "hilariter";, 
 supporting his emendation by the authority of Charisius, the gram- 
 marian. Authorities are in favour of the reading "hilarem." 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. L 
 
 SostraTa, the mother of Pamphila, an Athenian damsel, beloved by 
 ^Eschinus, talks with the nurse Sostrata, respecting her daughter's 
 confinement, and the unusual absence to-day of her lover, whom she 
 highly commends.
 
 ADELPHI. 69 
 
 Metre :— 1, 5, 6. 8—11. Trochaic Tetram. Cat. 
 2 — 4, 7. Iambic Tetram. 
 
 1. Quid nunc fiet ! (ab ilia, sc.). Recte edepol spew, "All well, I 
 trust, bv Pollux." For the exclamation "Edepol," see Eun. V. ii. 28, 
 HiMyard's Plaut. Men. 130, " Ecastor," and 16, "Edepol." "Ecastor" 
 was an oath of women only — " (Edepol " or " Edepol " of both sexes. — 
 Mea tu, words of endearment. " My good creature ! " — Dolores, " pains 
 of labour," as in Plant. Amph. V. i. 40, " Ubi utero exorti dolores, ut 
 solent, puerpeife." Propert. V. i. 99 (Paley), " Cum Cinarae traheret 
 Lucina dolores." 
 
 3. Adfueris (" parientibus," sc.) "had been present at a labour." 
 Cf. Andr. IV. iv. 32. " In pariendo aliquot ad fuerunt laborae." With 
 v. 4, cf. Eun. I. ii. 67, " Sola sum : habeo hie neminem." 
 
 8. E re natd, &c, "Under the circumstances, mistress, it could not 
 have befallen (your daughter') better than it has." This is the simple 
 English of "e re nata " — literally, "out of" or "after." Gronov. 
 illustrates the phrase by Plaut. Ikcch. II. ii. 40, "Ut hanc rem uatam 
 intelligo." Casin. II. v. 35, " Ita rem natam intelligo." Pro re natd 
 is a common phrase in Cicero. Bentley follows most MSS. and editions 
 in reading: " E re nafre ;" in which case we should construe, " It could 
 not have happened better for your daughter's interests." This was the 
 reading of Goveanus among: others, and it is approved by Ruhnken. — 
 For vitiwm oUatwn, cf. Hecyr. III. hi. 23; V. i. 14. — Vitium oblatumst. 
 " Injuriam oblalam." — Quod ad ilium atlinet potissimum, " Especially as 
 far as relates to that young man." 
 
 10. Tali genere atque animo. Bentley read " tnli ingenio atque 
 animo," alleging that there is nothing: in the distinction drawn by 
 Donates between "genus" and "familia.." He quotes V. iii. 42 below. 
 nnd Andr. I. i. 86, for the juxtaposition of "animus," and ingenium." 
 It is a matter of little moment which we read. 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. II. 
 
 !■ this scene misapprehensions arise from Geta having seen ^Eschinus 
 currying off tho music-girl. He inveighs against such conduct in the 
 bearing of his mistress, in ignorance of the circumstances under which 
 /Eichinus did it. It all comes out from the indignant slave : and after 
 various suggestions as to what had better be done, Geta is sent to fetch 
 Hetrio, the old friend of Simulus, Sostrata's husband, who will be 
 their only stay in their trouble. Canthara is sent for a midwife. 
 
 Metre :— 1— 4. 7—18, 22, 32—56. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 5, «;, 20, 21, 2:5—31. Trochaic Tetram. Cat. 
 
 19. Iambic Dimeter. 
 
 1. Niitir illml tit, yuod, &c. "Now is that crisis, as to which." 
 
 tppean to lie the accusative of limitation, and " nunc illml e-t," 
 
 \n equivalent to the phrase in II. iv. 7, in ilium locum rtditte, Ac. But 
 
 perhaps there is some ground for Flockeisen's reading, " quoin " for
 
 70 NOTES ON 
 
 "quod," ("Now things are at a point, when ") ; for in Plaut. Rud. ITT. 
 iii. 1, we read, "Nunc id est quum omnium copiarum atque opum, 
 Auxilii, praeidii viduitas nos teiiet." Si is, i. q. etsi. For " Omnea 
 omnia," cf. Hec. V. iv. 27, "Omnia otnnes ubi rcsciscunt." — ffuic 
 wtalo salutem qucerant. Cf. Andr. IV. i. 48. — Consilia confermit, 
 "should lay all their heads together." So Heaut. III. i. 64, "Con- 
 ferunt cousilia." 
 
 4. Tot res repent e circumvallant, &c., " So many difficulties on a 
 sudden hem me in, out of which 'tis impossible to extricate myself." 
 Such metaphors from military tactics are very common in Plant, and 
 Ter., cf. Heaut. IV. ii. 2 and 5, and note3 thereupon ; Plaut. Mil. Gl. 
 
 II. ii. 64 — 69, "Viden hostes tibi adesse," &c. For "emergi," cf. Andr. 
 
 III. iii. 30, " Sese emersurum," where, as here, it is used peculiarly. 
 See notes. — Hocine aaclum ? " Is it such an age we live in !" 
 
 7. Timidum, " trembling or disturbed." Donatus illustrates this 
 use of "timidus" by Bacchid. Plaut. I. i. 73, "Credo tiinida es," where 
 " timida es" is explained " trepida," "sudore perfusa es." 
 
 8. Neque ilium misericordia, &c. "Ilium" here is elegantly pleo- 
 nastic. Donatus illustrates this usage by Virg. JEn. v. 457, "Nunc 
 dextra ingeminans ictus, nunc ille sinistra." See also Horn. II. iii. 409; 
 Callim. H. in Dian. 150; Hor. Od. I. ix. 15, 16, "Nee dulces amores 
 sperne puer, neque tu choreas;" and Ovid. Fast. ii. 271. This usage 
 is not uncommon in the Septuagint. For "vitium obtulerat," see 
 Act. III. 8C. i. 9, above. 
 
 13. Nihil est quod, &c. " There is nothing I should like better than 
 that all that family should be thrown in my way," &c. — Jram hanc in 
 eos evomam, "that I might vent all my wrath on them." Compare 
 with "evomam." Hecyr. III. v. 65, "Atque in earn otune hoc, quod 
 mihi tcgrest, evomam.'' And see below at III. iv. 65. Westerhov. 
 illustrates the phrase by the Greek e'/ueVat rbv irou-qpbv X°^'? s X v ^ v - 
 — Satis mihi id kabeam supplici, " I'd be content with exacting this 
 punishment," or " with this satisfaction." " Satis habeam " is, i. q. 
 "putarem mihi satisfactnm ; " cf. Phorm. V. ix. 40, "Jam supplici 
 satis est mihi." Andr. V. iii. 32, " Paulum supplici satis est patri." — 
 Seni in v. 16, is of course "Demea." 
 
 16. Animam extinguerem. Cf. Virg. JEn. iv. 605, "Natumque pa- 
 tremque Cum genere extinxem." — Scelus, i. q. "scelestum," the abstr. 
 for concrete, as "arma" for "armati," &c. "Illud scelus" refers to 
 jEschinus. — Impuhorem, " his instigator." 
 
 18. Sublimem medium arriperem, " I'd first snatch him up in the air 
 by the waist." For "Sublimem arripere," cf. Andr. V. ii. 20, "Subli- 
 mem intra hinc rape." For " medium arripere," see Andr. I. i. 106, 
 and the notes there; and the phrase apira^eiv pdaou, quoted by Parry 
 from Herod, ix. 107. — Capite in terram ttatuerem, " Pitch him on the 
 ground headforemost." Ruhnken quotes Virg. ^En. i. 115, " Pro- 
 nu8que tnagister Volvitur in caput." Cf. Catull. xvii. 23. " Mittere pro- 
 num." Plaut. in Curculio II. iii. 8, has "Quin capite sistat de via, 
 de semita " in the same sense as here. — Ut cerebro dispergat viam. 
 In V. ii. 7, we find "An tibi jam mavis cerebrum dispergam hie;" from 
 which it would seem that " dispergere viam cerebro," or " dispergere 
 cerebrum in" or "per viam," would be good Latin. Stalbaum thinks 
 this is not so ; but the English idiom is similarly twofold.
 
 ADELPHI. 71 
 
 20. Adolescenti ipsi criperem oculos. For this dative of the person 
 ■whose body is concerned, see Key's Grammar, sect. 97*2; Plaut. Aul. 
 146 (Hildyard), " Cui ego jam lingnani praecidam atque oculos refo- 
 diani domi." Casina. 295, "Praecide os tu illi hodie." — Prcecipitem 
 darem, " I'd pitch him headlong." In the next verse, ruercm = " I 
 would dash to the ground;" for which transitive force of the verb 
 compare Plaut. Trin. IV. i. 18, " Iinbres fluctusque — Ruere an- 
 tennas.'' Virg. Georg. ii. 309, " Ruit atram Ad ccelum — nubem." 
 I'il. JEa. xii. 454, " Ruet omnia late.'' — Agerem, "I'd assail him." 
 For "tunderem," Guyet, followed by Bentley, reads "funderena," 
 quoting the phrase " fusi hostes;" but tunderem, "I'd pummel him," 
 is quite satisfactory. 
 
 22. Htratu hoc nialo imperliri, " To communicate this-. bad news to 
 my mistress." The deponent form is not so common as the active 
 " impartire" or " impertire,'' for which see Plaut. Aul. Prol. 19, " Im- 
 pertire me honoribus." Mil. Gl. IV. ii. 68, " Non hie suo seminio 
 quanquam porculam impertiturust." — Hem, quisquis es, sine me, " Harkye, 
 whosoever you are, let me go ou my way." Madame Dacier explains 
 this rightly, by referring to the common joke of calling after or delay- 
 ing a slave who was in a hurry, that he might get into a scrape. 
 
 24. Oppido opportune, " Very opportunely." So in PI. M. G. II. ii. 
 21, "Repente subito," and, elsewhere, "Insane bene." For "oppido," 
 6ee note Heaut. IV. ii. 2, Donaldson Varr., p. 93. 
 
 26. Animam recipe, "Take breath." Cf. Phorm. V. vi. 28. "Ani- 
 iiiain compressi.'' This reading is more correct than " aniinum." The 
 exhortation is paralleled by Heaut. II. ii. 12, "Respira" — Quid isluc 
 'prorsus' ergo'sl? For instances of this taking up a word of a former 
 speaker, see And. II. ii. 30. "Opinor, narras?" I. v. 29; IT. i. 14, 
 ibid, and the notes on these passages. For " actumst," in v. 27, cf. 
 Andr. III. i. 7, no! 
 
 28. AUenus en', &c.. " Is estranged from," &c. Cf. below at v. 40, 
 and at Hecyr. IV. iv. 36. 
 
 30. Neqite id occulle fert, "Nor does he disguise it." The opposite 
 phrase to " occulta fert" is " prae se fert." — Hisce oculis egomet vidi. 
 Cf. Heaut. III. ii. 3. " Hisce oculis, ne nega." Mil Gl. Plaut. II. iii. 19, 
 " Egomet duobua his oculis meis." 
 
 33. Notlram omnium vitam. For similar instances of the adj. agree- 
 ing with the genitive of the personal pronoun understood in the pos- 
 ••. cf. Madvig. Gr. 297, a. In some editions, "nostrarum" is read, 
 which La equivalent to "nostrum" as "vestrarum" for " vestrum," in 
 Becyr. II. i. 44, " Nam rostrarum nulla est," For "apes" and "opes" 
 coupled, pee Phorm. III. i. 6, " Spes ope-que sunt in te uno 
 omnea Bitae." Plaut. Amph. V. i. 1. In v. 34, "Nuuquam" is as often 
 i. q. "non," cf. Virg. Eci iii. ■)'.'. Sine in tliis line must be pronounced 
 as " se," according to Parry, who prefers this to the omission of " eraut," 
 which \siis Bentley's solution of the metrical difficulty. 
 
 35. In kui gremio — palris. Etahnken refers to Horn. II. ix. 454, for 
 
 :incient custom. In v. '■',*'> w« have followed Keiilh-y's reading. 
 
 " i't liceret banc se," &c, rather than the usual " Ut liccret sibi banc.'' 
 Porro, in v. 87, ="in reliquum," "in futurum,'' as in Andr. IV. 
 iii 16. 
 
 40. Aiieno animo a nobis, cf. above, v. 28. — IUc infitias tint,' He
 
 72 NOTES ON 
 
 will have recourse to subterfuges." Cf. Livy VI. 40. 4, " Neque ne| 
 neque infitias eo," and see Key's Grammar, sect. 886, and note, 
 which he shows that " to deny," is not an adequate translation 
 i/ititias ire. For the derivation and the preferable etymology of tl 
 word, see Hildyard Menacchm. 305, who prefers to read " inficias," ai 
 explains the verb inficiari, " qua; feceris, ea te non fecisse asseverare." 
 42. In dubium veniet, "Will be hazarded." Andr. II. ii. 10, "Cer 
 in dubio vitast ; " and see above, at II. ii. 35, " Venio in dubium misei 
 — Maximefatcatur, " If he were to admit most fully " (his intimacy wi 
 Pamphila). — Tacitost opus. For this construction, see Key's Qrammt 
 sect. 1280 ; Madvig. 266, obs., and Andria III. ii. 10, notes. 
 
 46. Pejore loco, &c, "Id a worse position." Cf. Heaut. II. iii. 11 
 " In eum jam res rediit locum, ut sit necessus." — Potis est esse. Tl 
 is the reading of the Bembine Codex. 
 
 47. Qua secunda ei dos crat, &c. Lindenbrog quotes here Plat 
 Amph. II. ii. 209, "Non ego illam dotom mi esse duco, quae dos dicit 
 Sed pudicitiam et pudorem," &c. Parry adds, Horace. Od. III. xxiv. 1 
 &c. "Dos est magna pareDtium, Virtus et — castitas." — Dari nuptu 
 Cf. Plaut. Aul. (Hildyard), 338, 558 ; Madvig. sect. 411, obs. 1. In tl 
 next verse " mecum " is rightly explained as i. q. " penes me," as 
 Eun. III. iii. 9, " I have in my keeping a ring as evidence." 
 
 50. Quando = "quoniam," as in III. iii. 81, and elsewhere. — Experi 
 (jure, sc), " I'll have the law of him." Ruhnken illustrates this phra 
 by Cicero pro Rose. Com. c. 9, " Judicio gravi experiri nolebas :" ai 
 t Cic. pro Coel. 8, where experiri is used as here, simply. So also Plai 
 
 c Most. V. i. 41, " Quin cita ilium in jus. Si veniat. Mane : Experiar." 
 
 % 52. Cedo ut melius dicas. So Bentley reads for "accedo" the coi 
 
 r mon reading. He explains it, " I admit that you suggest what is bes' 
 
 j Madame Dacier translates, " Je vous en prix, changez de sentiment," 
 
 rendering of which the words are not susceptible. — Quantum pote 
 . This is Fleckeisen's reading. Most editions have "potes." Botli a 
 
 i. admissible. For "Quantum potest," cf. Menaechm. (Hildyard), 340. 
 
 Bern enarrato omnem wdine. Cf. below, III. iii. 10; PI. Menaech 
 ~ & (H.), 581 ; Virg. JEn. iii. 179. 
 
 54. Summus, h. e., " suramus amicus," " our Simulus's nearest frienc 
 
 j, Cf. Andr. V. vi. 6, " Pater amicus summus nobis ; " Eun. II. ii. i 
 
 f ( " Summum suum." In v. 55, Respicit is said of the regard of a suj 
 
 j rior for an inferior. See notes on Andr. IV. i. 18. We adopt Bei 
 
 ley's reading " proper^ " instead of " propera." For the phrase " 
 
 in mora nobis siet," see Andr. II. v. 13. 
 
 p 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. III. 
 
 In this scene Syrus is represented as trying to quiet Demea's sus] 
 cions, who has heard that Ctesipho had had a hand in the seizure 
 the girl by ^Eschinus. The slave, after detailing in Demea's heari 
 an account of Micio's treatment of his nephew's escapades, and of t 
 supper he has bidden Syrus purchase in consequence, pretendfl si 
 prise at finding Demea near him, and amusingly gives a careless asse
 
 ADELPHI. /3 
 
 to his prosiugs about extravagance, at the same time with his directions 
 about the cooking of the supper. In the course of the scene, Syrus 
 relates to the old man what a rebuke Ctesipho has given iEschinus on 
 his misconduct, a story which much delights Demea. His good sou, 
 so the slave tells him, is gone to the farm, whither Demea resolves to 
 follow him, leaving the scapegrace and his foolish uncle to themselves. 
 As he is going, Demea spies an old friend, a pattern gentleman of the 
 old school. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 4. Qui aliquoi reist, " AVho it good for something." Ruhnken com- 
 pares Plaut. Stieh. V. iv. 38, " Nulli rei erimus postea." For the con- 
 struction, see Key's Grammar, § 983. "Edam eum ad nequidam 
 adducere." Bentley : " nequitiem." For " eum," which is the reading 
 of the Bemb. C, FleckeUen cleverly suggests "nieuin," h. e. "Ctesi- 
 phoneni. — "Abducere is i. q. " seducere." See, in the next verse, "ab- 
 ductum." 
 
 5. Abductum in ganeum aliqub. Festus derives "ganeum" from 
 uirb yav, "sub terra?" See Hild. Gloss, on Plaut. Men., 605, " Im- 
 mersit aliquo, credo, in ganeum." 
 
 7. Mine scibo, " From him I shall learn." For " hinc " for " ab hoc,' 
 compare Eun. III. v. 36. " Tabula ubi (i. e. in qua) inerat pictura 
 hrec." For the form "scibo," see Plaut. Men. (H.), 295, 907; Madvig. 
 Gr. § 115, c. —Be grtge Most," HVs of that lot" or "gang." Cf. 
 Eun. V. viii. 54, " In vestrum gregem Kecipiatis." Hor. Ep. I. iv. 16, 
 " Epicuri de grege porcum ; " ix. 13, " Scribe tui gregis hunc." 
 
 11. Quo pacto habcrtt (se, sc). Compare Livy xxii. 39, where there 
 is a similar ellipse in the phrase " Sic res habet." — Enavramus, the 
 present for the perfect. Compare Men. Plaut. 1033, " vocat " for 
 " vocavit." Aulul. 423, " Capio " for " cepi," see Hildyard's notes. 
 
 15. Disrumpor, "I burst with rage." So Cic. ad Att. vii. 12, " DU 
 rumpor dolore." Ad Fam. 12. 2, " Fratris tui plausu dirumpitur." — Ad' 
 HumtraiU, "he counted down," cf. Plaut. Merc. I. i. 88, " Taleutum 
 argenti ipsus sua adnumerat manu." — Dedit in sumptum, " He gave me 
 to spend." Cf. Heaut. V. i 57, " Xam si illi pergo suppeditare sump- 
 tibus." Cic. ad Att. viii. 5, " Erogare in sumptum." 
 
 17. Ex tententid, "As I pleased." Cf. Heaut. IV. iii. 5; IV. v. 17; 
 Plaut. Aul. (H. G.), 544, Men. 190, ibid. — Htm hide mandes — curatum 
 Vtlis, "So so ! if you want anything thoroughly attended to, here's the 
 man to trust it to." Ironically. So Phorm. IV. 4. 8, "Hem siquid 
 velis Huic mandes ;" Plant. As. I. i. 107, " Eidein homini, siquid reote 
 (uiatum velis, Maudes." — Quid agitur, "How goes it with you?" a 
 form of salutation, as in V. v. 2, below. 
 
 20. Quid agalur (" rogas," sc), as constantly above — Ra'iontm (agendi, 
 bc), " Your plan of action." So below, V. iii. 26, " Kandem illam 
 autiquam ratiouem obtine." — A"e dicam dolo, " To say the truth," or 
 "and no mistake." Cf. Plaut. Men. (H. G), 145, " Non dicam dolo." 
 Trinumm. I. ii. 53, "vEdepol, hand dicam dolo." Note here the in- 
 difference with which Syrus turns from his conversation with Demea 
 to the cooking operation*] 
 
 22. Purga, h. e. "desquama," "Scale and cleanse." Lwlcre is com- 
 mented npon needlessly by editors : we use the very same metnplmr 
 in EuglL-.h, " of a fish playing." For congvum, " the conger-eel," see 
 
 K
 
 7 I NOTES ON 
 
 Plaut. Aul. ;j53 illiidyard's Glossary) — Tanlisper, here retained, is 
 tlio reading of the C. Bembin, Other eilitors read " paulisper." — Exos- 
 mihitur, " It shall be boned," Cf. Aulul. 1. c. "Dromo, desquama pieces. 
 Tu, Maehanio, Congrum, munenam exossata fac sient." In which 
 passage, however, Nonius read " exdorsua quantum potes." 
 
 26. Salsameiita lute — pulchre, "See that this salt-fish is well soaked." 
 For " salsaineuta," compare Plaut. Pteuul. I. ii. 31 — 34, "Quasi salsa 
 Diuriatica esse perhibentur Sino omni lepore et sine suavitate Nisi 
 inultii aqua usque et diu niacerantur," and ibid. 39, " Scit muriatica 
 ut niaceret." For " macerentur," compare Audr. IV. ii. 2, note; PI. 
 Trinumm. II. i. 2. 
 
 28. Utrum sludione. Tmesis for "utrumne studio." Unless with 
 Parry we take " utrum " as a pronoun here ; and construe " which of 
 the two things is it I Does he make that his aim," &c. We prefer the 
 former explanation. — Vidcrc videor. Cf. Cic. Catil. iv. 6; Hor. 0. II. 
 i. '21, " Videre niagnos jam videor duces." 
 
 31. Profwjiet ati'/no mil datum. Cf. Heaut. I. i. 65, " In Asiam ad 
 regem militatum abiit, Chreme." — htuc est sapere, &c., " That's your 
 true wisdom.' 1 — Ante pedes, ra wpos iroal, Soph. JEd. T. 130. — Quie futura 
 sunt prospicere, h. e. " contuiere in longitudiueni," us in Heaut. V. 
 ii. 10 ; q. v. 
 
 35. Ellam intus, ''Ay! Madam's within." Col man. For "ellam," 
 see Andr. V. ii. 14, Elluni; and Plaut. Aul. 738. "lino, eccillam 
 domi:" where we have the uncontracted form. 
 
 39. Ades prcesens, '■ You are here in person." Cf. Plaut. Amph. III. 
 iii. 22. " Tametsi prseseus non ades." 
 
 40. Tu quant us quantut nil row sapientia es, "You are wisdom, all 
 over" — "from head to foot." For " quautus quantus," see PI. Pecii. 
 III. iv. 28, "Quantum quantum ad cum erit delatum ; " Ter. Phormio 
 V. viii. 10, " Jrieu, quanta quanta haec mea panpertas est." The phrase 
 «eems to mean "entirely," "without exception."— Nil nisi sapientia es. 
 Lindenbr. compares Catull. xiii. 14, "Totum ut te faciant, Fabulla, 
 uasum." — S'jmnium, h. e. "somniculosus," the thing for the person. Cf. 
 II. i. 50, " De argento, somnium." Construe, " He's but a dotard." 
 
 42. Aut wm sex Mis mensibus Prias, &c, "Shouldn't I rather have 
 sniffed it out six whole months before he began any mischief." "Sex 
 tons mensibus," the definite for the indefinite, as in Plaut. Men. (H. G.) 
 795, "Sexcenties ;" Aul. 275, " Sexcenta sunt, qua; memorem ;" Hor. 
 Sat. I. v. 12, "Treeentos ingeiis; ohe !" Olfeasstm, cf. Plaut. Aul., 173 
 (Hildy.), " Aurum huic olet," " He scents my gold." In the next verse 
 the emphasiB is on " mihi." 
 
 48. 01' I qui eijoniet produxi, " What ! when I myself set him on hia> 
 way." Produxi — " porro duxi." Cf. IV. ii. 22, " Produxe aiebas." So 
 " prosequi " is used Plaut. Cas. IV. ii. 3. Compare the use of ■npotttn- 
 (pdrjfai in St. Paul's Ep. to Romans, xv. 24. 
 
 49. Uareret, "Should stick fast," caught by the birdlime of his 
 brother's bad example. — Atque iratutn admodum, "And very angry he 
 was too." " Iratum," agrees with the accusative, implied after the verb 
 " produxi."— Apud forum. Cf. Andr. I. v. 19. 
 
 53. De improvise-." Cf. Heaut. II. iii. 40, note; Andr. IV. ii. 18, note. — 
 O^Eschinc, llacine, &c. For this elliptical mode of expression, cf. Andr. 
 L v. 10, note, " Ad one homiuem e;-se invenustum ; " Madvig. Or. § 3L'9.
 
 ADELP11I. 75 
 
 For "admittere, used as here, see Heaut. V. ii. 3, "Quid ego tantum 
 sceleris admisi miser." 
 
 55. Lacrumo (/audio, " I weep for joy." Lindenbr. quotes Plaut. 
 Stich. III. ii. 13, " Ut prae lsetitia lacrimse prosiliunt mihi." See also 
 below, at IV. i. 20, " Lacrutuae cadunt Quasi puero gaudio." 
 
 58. Prceceptorum plemu istorutn ille, " Your excellent son is full of 
 those precepts of yours." Note the force of theprououu "iste" (is tu). 
 Plaut. Epid. I. ii. 49, " Pleuus consilii es." 
 
 59. Domi habuit unde disceret, " He had not to go from home for a 
 teacher." Ruhuken quotes Plaut. True. II. v. 4, " Ego prima domi 
 modo docta dictito." An expansion of the same proverbial expression 
 occurs in Plaut. Mil. 01. II. ii. 36 — 9, "Domi habet auimum falsilo- 
 quum, falsificum, falsijurium, &c. Nam mulier olitori nunquam 
 supplicat siqua est mala. Domi habet hortum et condimenta ad omnes 
 mores maloe." 
 
 62. Ex uliis sumere exempt um sibi. Cf. Heaut. I. ii. 36, and notes 
 there. Plaut. Pers IV. iii. 70, " Sed te de aliis, quam alios de te 
 suaviust Fieri doctos." Parry adds to these, Epidic. III. iii. 1 — 5, q. v.; 
 and Hor. Sat. I. iv. 105. The same simile of the minor occurs also 
 in Eurip. Hippol. 428, (P.dey), irpoadtls naTompov, k. t. A. 
 
 64. Istcec res est, "That plan of yours is the right thing." Istcec, 
 Demea's method as contrasted with Micio's. 
 
 67. ll'i mihi ne corrumpant ur cautiost, "I must take care that these 
 be not spoiled." A hit perhaps at Demea's words, I. ii. 17, " Tu ilium 
 corrumpi sinis." Cur,umpitur is bo used again, IV. ii. 49, "Prandium 
 corruuipitur." For the verbal noun cautiost (i. q. "cavendum est"), cf. 
 Audr. II. iii. 26. where the same word occurs; and Hecyra IV. iv. 28, 
 " Consultatioet." Plaut. Cas. ii. 6, 54, " Quid tibi istum tactiost." See 
 also Prof. Key's Gramm., § 907. 
 
 71. Hoc salsuiits', &c. A parody of v. 63, " Hoc facito," &c. "This 
 tit; this is burnt; this ia not nicely cooked." For " lautum," 
 Weeterhor, cites Martial Ep. XI. xxxii. 20, " Hoc lautum vouat ; hoc 
 putat venustum Unum pouere ferculis tot assem." — Iterum sic memento, 
 "Mind this another time." "Sedulo" &c, a joke upon Demea's words, 
 in v. 59. "Pro mea Bapieotia," "As far as my poor wisdom suffices. " 
 Cf. Plant. Awl. 496, H. O., "Pro re: pro copia." 
 
 75. (laid facto usus siet, " What one must do," or "ought to do." 
 For this construction, see Amir. III. ii. 10, note; Madv. 266 obs. 
 And see Ter. Hecyr. III. i. 47 ; Key's Or. § 1280, note; and ibid. 999. 
 In 76 nof = "ottr people," i. e. Micio, iEschinus, aud Micio's household. 
 — Verum quod facias t " Bat what is one to do." — Ut homost, &c. " As 
 B. iiiau is, so you must humour him ;" i. e. " You must take a man as 
 you find him." Huhnken quotes Plaut. MoatelL III. ii. 36, " Ut 
 homines sunt, ita moretn geras." — Numquid vis, of. IL ii. 39, note. The 
 reply of Demea, " Meutem vobis meliorem dari," is a surly "I wish 
 you better brains — a stronger head." Ruhnken shows that " bona 
 lu'im"^ "sana mens" here and elsewhere. 
 
 81. Quando is, quamobrem, &c. For quando, see III. ii. 50, above. 
 Quamobrem is, i. q. " cujus causa." Cf. Eun. I. ii. 65. So in Plaut. 
 Aul. 889 | II. i, " Qua gratia" seemi to be i. q. "cujus gratia." 
 
 83. De istoc ipse indent, "To that gool-for -nothing iEschinua let 
 ouy brother look himsell.'' For "viderit" thus used, see Ovid. Ex. 
 
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 Pont. I. ii. 9, "Viderit luce siquis," &c. ; Epist. xii. 211, "Viderit hoc, 
 Biquam jam peperisse pudetj" Virgil JEn. x. 744, " Ast de me Divuin 
 
 |);itor atque houiinum rex Viderit." See also Madvig. Gr. § 34u, 
 ODS. 4. Iu the next verse Procul = " at a little distance," "prope 
 ah oculis." See for this sense, Plant. Men. (H. G.) 144. Virg. Eel. vi. 
 16, "Serta procul tautuui capiti sublapsa jacebant," &c. Plaut. Capt. 
 IV. ii. 8. 
 
 85. Si satis cerno, " If I can believe my eyes." So Phorm. V. i. 8. 
 " Nisi me animus fallit, aut parum prospioiunt oculi." Plaut. Triu. 
 IV. iii. 64, "Satin ego oculis plane vidi." — Nw illiusmodi—fide. The 
 
 old man is, " Laudator temporis acti Se puero." Hor. A. P. 173. 
 
 Antiqua, is, i. q. "simple," "old fashioned." Cf. Andr. IV. v. 22, 
 "Pol, Crito, antiquom obtines;" Hecyra V. iv. 20; Plaut. Capt. I. 
 ii. 20; Hor. Sat. II. vii. 23, " Fortunam et mores antiqusc plebis." — 
 Publice in v. 89, is, i. q., " In a public point of view." 
 
 90. Etiam hujus generis reliquias, &c. "Etiam" = "yet," "still" 
 Cf. Andr. I. i. 89 ; III. ii. 2. See notes. 
 
 ACTUS III— Sc. IV. 
 
 Hegio enters, talking to Geta, and Demea overhearing their dis- 
 course at first supposes that it refers to the music-girl, but soon learns 
 the affair and the troubles of Pamphila. Hegio urges him to do her 
 that justice voluntarily, which otherwise the law will enforce — appeal- 
 ing to old friendship and to the character and standing of Demea's 
 family. He will give no answer till he has seen Micio, whose fault it 
 all is, and against whom he is prepared to launch out. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 2. llliberale f acinus, " An act unworthy of a gentleman." So below 
 at IV. v. 30, we find " illiberaliter" used. — Pol haud paternum istwc 
 dedidi. "Faith, this conduct which you've exhibited was not like your 
 father." " This was not acting like your father," Colman. Note the use 
 of "dedisti" i. q. "fecisti," and see Eun. V. ii. 60, "Dabit hie aliquani 
 pugnam denuo." 
 
 5. Id Mi dulet. Impersonal verbs admit a nom. of neuter pronoun. 
 See Key's Gr. 872. 1, and below IV. vii. 36, " Non te ha;c pudent." 
 Pater is, " that so-called father," i.e. Micio. 
 
 8. Haud sic auferent, " They shall not carry off the matter thus." 
 Cf. Andr. IIL v. 4, "Sed inultum nunquam id auferet," and ibid. I. 
 ii. 4, " Mirabar hoc si sic abiret." With v. 10, "Tu es patronus," &c, 
 compare Andr. I. v. 60, "Te isti virum do, amicum, tutorem, patreni," 
 &c, in which passage (see ibid. 50) as hero, great stress is laid on a dying 
 person's injunction. 
 
 12. Cave dixeris, " Don't name the word," (" deseris," sc, a word of 
 ill omen) The old man deprecates the barn idea of a patron deserting 
 li is client in difficulties. — Satis, pie, " with due regard to family 
 affection." 
 
 15. ikdvere Iltyionem plurimum Jubeo. Cf. Andr. III. iii. 1, "Juboo
 
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 Chremetem;" Plaut. Mostell. III. i. 41, "Salvere jubeo te, Misargyrides, 
 bene." For v. 17, cf. above, I. ii. 34. — Fmiclus ojjiduni est viri. For 
 this use of the ace. after "fuugor," 'cf. Heaut. I. i. 13 ; Andr. Prol. 5, 
 notes. 
 
 20. ^Equalem, " contemporary," cf. Heaut. III. i. 8 ; Andr. II. vi. 22, 
 notes, Gr. 'onr}\uca. — A mplius, in v. 22 = " more aggravated." Ruhn- 
 keu illustrates the word by Heeyr. III. i. 9, " Irse multo ampliores." 
 
 24. Persucuit nox, amor, &c. Asyndeton, cf. below at v. 28, and 
 Audr. V. iv. 35. For the same causes for a like act mentioned 
 together, Lindenbr. quotes Demosth. c. Midiam, Tptis «Ix € Trpcxpdcrtis, 
 fifOyv, epwra, iryvoiav 8ia rb (TkStos, kcu vvurbs to irparyfia •ytveoOai. Plaut. 
 Bacch. I. L 54, " Istoc illecebrosius Fieri nihil potest Nox, mulier, vinum, 
 liomini adolescentulo." Ovid. Am. I. vi. 59, " Nox et amor viuumque 
 nihil moderabile suadent." With " lacrumans, orans, obsecraus," &c. 
 Westerhov. compares Emiius Ann. I. i. 28, " Flentes, plorantes, lacru- 
 inantes, obtestantes." — Fidem dans. Cf. Andr. II. iii. 27. 
 
 29. Men&is hie decimus est, "The tenth lunar mouth," i.e. according 
 to the computation of time before Julius Casar. See below IV. v. 57, 
 "Menses abierant decern." Hec. V. iii. 24; Virg. Eel. iv. 61, " Matri 
 louga decern tulerunt fastidia menses." 
 
 30. Hie bonus vir nobis, &c, " Yon good gentleman of ours, Heaven 
 bless the mark, hath gotten him a music girl," &c. For this ironical 
 use of " bonus vir" and "si diis placet," see Eun. V. iii. 10, " Viruni 
 bonuin eccum Parmenonem incedere Video : vide ut otiosus sit, si Diis 
 placet," where Ruhnken observes that " si Diis placet" iu such places 
 refers to some couduct which must be displeasing to the gods. This 
 must be taken with some reservation, for see Plaut. Capt. II. iii. 94. For 
 the ironic " vir bonus," see too Andr. V. ii. 5, " O salve, bone vir." 
 
 32. In mediost, "is present," " is at hand," i. e. "can be produced," or 
 "is before the world." This is better than to suppose it to mean "lives," 
 comparing Phorm. V. viii. 74, "E medio excessit;" and V. ix. 30, with 
 Westerhov. and Parry. 
 
 34. Ut captus est S'l-vorum, " As servants go," Colman. Literally, 
 " according to the capacity of servants." The word "captus" is used 
 by Car-ar, B. G. iv. 3, " Ut captus est Germanorum;" Cic. Tuscul. II. 
 ii. 27, " Ut est captus hominum." — Non malus, " a very decent fellow." 
 Litotes. Cf. Eun. II. ii. 43, "Non malum herclo." — Solus omnem 
 famiitum susteutat, "He's the sole prop of the family." So Phorm. II. 
 i. .".7. "Columen vero fiiniilise ;" Virg. JEiu xii. 59, "In te omnis 
 domoa inclinata recuuibit." In v. 36 we have another case of 
 Ddeton." — Qwere rem implies "torture," as the means of eliciting 
 the troth. Bxtorque in the slave's reply does not blink the question, 
 being i. q. "ay, wrack it out of me." With the form "abduce" 
 in v. 34 compare Virg. ^En. xi. 463, "Edice lnaniplis." 
 
 38. C'edo, cf. Heaut. IV. viii. 5. note; Hiidyard's Menscchm. 114, 
 ■ m. With vv. 40 — 41 compare notes ou Audria, III. i. 15, and Plaut. 
 Aulul. 046. H. d., "Juuo Lucina," With "differor doloribus" com- 
 pare Plant. CiltelL II. i. 5, "DifTeror, distrahor, diripior." Epid. I. 
 n. 15, " Clamore defatigor, difiPeroT." 
 
 43 /•'/■/•//; -nunc vettram implorat, " Imploringly asks your proteo- 
 
 Cf. Plant. Rudens III. ii. 1, " Pro Cyreuenses populares, 
 
 vodtram ego iiuploro fidciu." — Quod Vol vis cnjil, &c, " Let her
 
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 obtain of your free will that which the compulsion of the laws enforces 
 you (to grant to her, sc). Bentley, followed by Ruhnken and others, 
 reads " via" (loguin, sc.), while in many MSS. "jus" is found. In 
 Phorin. I. iv. 36, as Benl ley shows, we have " vi coactum," (sc. leguni), 
 as here. Editors quote from Menauder, rpla i(n\ 8<' Siv &iravro. ylyvercu, 
 ij Kara i/6/j.ous, ij rah avdyKats, f) ye rpirov ZOei riyi. For the double 
 accusative after "cogit, " cf. Wordsworth's Gramm. K. Edward VI. 
 § 146; Key's Grammar, § 902; Madvig. Gr. 228. c. obs. ; and Virgil 
 ..En. iii. 56. — Vuluntate is i. q. " sponte vestra." Compare Ter. Phorin. 
 V. iii. 2, " Ut sua voluntate id quod est faciundum faciat." Similarly 
 in Audr. II. v. 11, "Cum gratia" is used for " willingly." Gronovius 
 compares Livy. xxxv. 22, " Castella multa expugnavit : alia voluntate 
 ad eum defecerunt." 
 
 45. Ut vobis decet (facere, sc.),a Graecism i.q. v/uv irpdirei. Cf. below at 
 V. viii. 5. " Decet" is used with a dative in like manner, in Plaut. 
 Amph. II. ii. 18S, '' Istuc faciuus — nostro generi non decet." But see 
 Key's Grammar, § 964 on this. — Sin alitor animus vester est. Compare 
 Hecyr. V. ii. 19, "De hac re animus meus ut sit." Uur own idiom 
 is nearly similar. 
 
 48. Cognatus mild era', cf. Andr. V. iv. 23; Phorm. II. iii. 44 ; and 
 below at V. viii. 24. — Militia? et domi. See for this construction 
 Madvig. Gr. 296. b. 1.; Plaut. Capt. Prol. 68, "Domi bellique duella- 
 tores optumu" — Experiar in v. 51, is used as in III. ii. 52 above. 
 
 54. Is quod mihi de hac re dederit consilium, id sequar. This line, 
 which is found in Phorm. II. iv. 21, does not appear in the Codex 
 Bembinus, and it is omitted by the latest editor to whom we have 
 aceess. Fleckeisen, Parry, and others retain it. 
 
 55. Cum animo corjites. Westerhov. illustrates this phrase from 
 Plaut. Mostell. III. ii. 13, " Quo magis cogito ego cum animo meo ;" 
 Cic. Agrar. ii. 24, "Cum animis vestris cogitare ;" Ter. Eun. I. i. 19, 
 " Tecum iratus rogitas." For tarn — quam with the superlatives, 
 (a Greek construction) in the next verses, see note on Heaut. V. ii. 43, 
 and Parry's note on the passage before us. Construe, '' The more 
 comfortably you live, the more influential, rich, fortunate, noble you 
 are, the more bounden are you in fair dealing to exercise fairness," (or, 
 to act fairly), &c. — With quam facillime ar/itis, Westerhov. quotes 
 Plaut. Curcul. V. ii. 6, "Nam propter eas vivo facilius." Epid. II. ii. — 
 jEqua nosccre is i. q. imeiKrj yvwvat, " avoir les sentimens d'un homme 
 droit" (Madame Dacier). For the sentiment editors compare Virg. 
 .En. i. 630 ; Soph. Autig. 299. 
 
 62. N"n me indicente hcec fiunt, "These things don't happen without 
 my warning," i. e. " me non dicente." Gronov. quotes a parallel use 
 of " indico" in Livy xxii. 39, " Nam et duo boni coDsules, etiam me 
 indicente, omnia e republica fide vestra faceretis." In Virg. JEn. 
 vii. 733, '-Nee tu carminibus nostris indictus abibis," and in Phorm. 
 V. viii. 58, " Quod dictum, indictum est," " indico" is as here i. q. " non 
 dico." — Utivam hie sit modo defunctum, "Would that it were only got 
 quit of with this," or " would it were but ended thus." "Defunctum" 
 is used passively, as in Eun. Prol. 15, " Defunctus jam sum;" Phorm. 
 V. ix. 32, " Cupio misera in hac re jam defungier." 
 
 05. In eum hvec evomom, cf. above III ii. 14, note.
 
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 ACTUS III.— So. V. 
 
 Hbgio enters, speaking to Sostrata, as he quits her house (cf. Andr. 
 
 III. iii. ; Heaut. V. i.), and assuring her of his urgent interference with 
 Micio. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Quod potes, i. e. "quantum potes." So in Heaut. III. i. 7, " Quod 
 potero," where " quod" is i. q. " quantum" or " quoad," see note in loc. 
 Guyetus rejects this scene as spurious, but it seems necessary to retain 
 it : ;us explaining which, Hegio and Micio are together in Act IV. 
 Seen. iiL This Bentley pointed out. 
 
 3. Narrabo ordine, cf. III. iii. 11, above; and Heaut. IV. iii. 28. In v. 4, 
 "Si est, facturus ut sit," &c, a curious periphrasis for "Si facturus 
 est," compare Hecyia III. v. 51, "Si est ut velit reducere uxorem ;" 
 
 IV. i. 43, "Si est, ut dicat velle se ;" Phorm. II. i. 40. With v. 5 
 Atiter — ejus est sententia, cf. III. iv. 46 above, " Sin aliter animus vester 
 est." 
 
 6. Respondeat mi, cf. III. iv. 53., " Quid inihi respondes." 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. I. 
 
 Ctesipho questions Syrus, in a state of alarm, about his father's 
 movements. Demea had gone to his farm, supposing Ctesipho to be 
 there, and the latter fears that he will soon be back, and find that he 
 haa been loitering in town. What excuse is he to invent 1 While 
 Syrus is suggesting a variety of these, Demea is seen approaching and 
 Ctesipho retires into the house, yet not out of hearing, while Syrus 
 awaits Demea. 
 
 Metres : — 1 & 9. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 2 & 10. Troch. Tetram. Catalectic. 
 
 8. Trochaic Dimeter Catalectic. 
 3—7, 11 — 23. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. S'jdes. Cf. Andr. I. i. 58, note; and Hildyard on Plaut. Menaechm. 
 445. Gl. — Nunc quom tnaxime, &c, " I suppose he's now as busy as pos- 
 sible at some work or other." " Quom maxime," = " most particularly," 
 in Andr. V. i. 4; Heaut. IV. v. 40, and Hecyr. I. ii. 40; Phorm. I. 
 iv. 26 Westerhcjv. explains the words here to mean, " Ita nunc, ut 
 nun cum maxime," which seems to be correct. In the next verse 
 is for " quoad " or " quantum." Fleckoison rightly places a 
 colon at " utinam quidein," thus obviating the awkwardness of sup- 
 posing " utinam velim" to bo joined in construction, as liuhnken does. 
 — Tndw) hoc perpetuo, Translate "within the whole of the next three 
 days." 
 
 5. htoc si quid polis est reditu (addi, sc), an euphemism of the slave 
 for the old man's death. It tin; son had heard the plain statement, he 
 could not have rejoined with "ita." " Potis est," Bee note on Andr. 
 II vi. 6. 
 
 6. Mi acre nimis, " Very intensely." For this redundancy of expres*
 
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 Bion, compare riant. Mil. G. I. i. 24, " Insane bene;" Ibid. II. ii. 22, 
 '• Repcnte subito ;" and above at Ter. Ad. III. ii. 24, " Oppido oppor- 
 tune." So also in Catull. xxxvi. 10, "Jocose lepide vovere divis :" 
 where the two adverbs (if the reading is sound) combine to strengthen 
 each other, (see " English Journal of Education," vol. xi. p. 419.) 
 
 7. Tarn male odi, " I hate so fiercely." Compare Plant. Men. 107 
 (Hildyard), " Ut ego uxorem, ubi te aspieio, odi maid." In v. 9 we 
 have " oppressissct " in its common sense of "overtake.'' See above 
 at II. ii. 21, " Ut in ipso articulo oppressit," and Andr. I. iii. 22, Cic. 
 de Sen^ctut. c. 14, " Quoties nox oppressit, quum mane ccepisset." 
 — Revorti posset iterum. " Iterum" is pleonastic, as "rnrsus" in 
 I. i. 46, " Kursus ad iugenium redit." Cf. Eun. IV. ii. 6, " Eedeo 
 rursum." 
 
 11. Quern erjo hodie Mo non vidi die. These are the supposed words 
 of Demea, and are an illustration of the abrupt transition from the 
 narrative to the direct form of speech. Fleckeiseu omits " queui" and 
 reads " Ego hoc te toto non vidi die." 
 
 12. Nilne in mentcm. The best reading here is that which omits 
 " est." Understand " veuit," as in Heaut. V. ii. 33, where see notes. 
 " Does nothing occur to you ? " Nunqwnn qukquam, " Never a thiug." 
 Cf. Andr. II. iv. 7, where as here and elsewhere " nunquam" is used 
 fur "non." — Tanto ncquior, " So much the worse." This phrase occurs 
 in Plaut. Mensecb. 339. See Hildyard's Glossary and notes. Its oppo- 
 site is " Tanto melior," for which see Heaut. III. ii. 38, notes. 
 
 13. Client, amicus, hospes. Westerhov. quotes Cic. de Senect. c. 10, 
 " Non curia desiderat vires, non rostra, non amid, non elkntes, uou 
 hospitcs." — "llixce ut opera data sit (varra, ec), " S.iy you've been attend- 
 ing to these." Cf. Heaut. V. i. 37, " Operam amico dat suo."— Quo? non 
 data sit. Construe, " 'What ! when I've not been attending to them I" 
 " Quae" is i. q. " cum ea." 
 
 15. In'erdiu, " Your excuse will hold good for the dai/time." 
 
 17. Quin tu otiosus cs, " Can't you be easy in your mind." For this 
 sense of "quin," with an indicative, cf. Virg. Eel. ii. 71, " Quin tu 
 ahquid saltern potius," &e. As it is practically an exhortation, we do 
 not find a note of interrogation. — Illius sensum pulchre calleo, " I 
 thoroughly understand his disposition," or perhaps " way of thinking." 
 
 18. Tarn placidum quam ovem reddo, " I'll make him as tame as a 
 lamb." For this attraction of the object compared to the case of that 
 with which it is compared, cf. Phorm. IV. ii. 1, "Ego hominem calli- 
 diorein vidi neminem, quam Phormionem." There is no necessity to 
 adopt Bentley's emendation, " quam ovis est," or Fleckeisen's conjec- 
 ture of " quasi ovem" for " quam ovem." For instances of " fervere," 
 used as of the third conjugation, see Virg. JEn. iv. 409, " Littora fervere 
 longe," and ibid. 567. 
 
 19. Facio te apud ilium deum. For this hyperbole editors find a com- 
 parison in Cicero de Oratore, ii. 42, '' Qua? dispositio argumentorum, 
 in qua tu milii semper deus videri soles ;" and Plato's Meno. p. 99, 
 where " women" and the Spartans are said to afiVct this style of praise. 
 With v. 20, Lacrumce cadant, cf. above III. iii. 55, " Oh ! lacrumu 
 gaudio." 
 
 21. Lupus in fabitld, "The wolf in the fable;'' h. e. he, of whom 
 there has been so much talk : in reference to the fable of the boy who
 
 ADELPHI. Si 
 
 so often raised the alarm of " Wolf, wolf ! " Plautus, in Stichus IV. 
 i. 7., has "Atque eceuni tibi lupum in sermone : praesens esuriens 
 adest ;" and Madame Dacier takes " sermo" and " fabula" to be synony- 
 mous, meaning, as one of the commentators on Plautus says, " common 
 talk," cf. " fabulari." This seems a more simple explanation than that 
 which is based on Virgil Eel. ix. 54, " Msenm lupi videre priores;'' 
 and Theocr. xiv. 22, ov <pdiy£g ; \vkov eTSes. viz., the superstition that 
 to see a wolf caused loss of speech. Adopting the former explanation, 
 we have an English proverb to match it : " Talk of the devil," &c. 
 
 22. Syre, quid agimus? Present foe future, as in Plaut. Men. 148, 
 H. G., and in Terence, passim. — Ego videro, " I'll see to it." Cf. Andr. 
 H. vi 25, " Ego istsec videro," see note. — Nusquam tu me (vidisse 
 — dicas, sc), Aposiopesis. Cf. Virg. Eel. iii. 25, " Cantando tu ilium )" 
 Potin' ut desinas? " Can't you be still V Dcsino is thus used in Andr. 
 V. vi. 8, " Turn de puero, Dave, — ah, desine ! " For instances of this 
 form of checking a speaker, see Plaut. Menjech. H. G. 368, " Potin' ut 
 quiescas;" Plaut. Merc. V. ii. 49, "Potin' ut animo sis tranquillo." For 
 the form " potin," see note at Andr. II. vi. t». 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. II. 
 
 Demea returns to his brother's house from a fruitless search for 
 him, and in further trouble because he learns from a farm-servant that 
 Ltenipho is not at the farm. He looks upon himself as the most unfor- 
 tunate of men, being the first to learn and feel for the family troubles. 
 He soon sees Syrus, who invents a long story how Cte^ipho has been 
 ill-treatiug both him and the music-girl, as the result of a mad mood, 
 which came upon him as he was beginning his walk to the farm. 
 Demea is charmed by this evidence of Cteaipho's virtue and right- 
 miudedness, and is started again by a circuitous route, suggested by 
 iSyrus, in search of Micio. 
 
 Metre : — Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1 . Nusquam gentium. Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 179 ; Ter. Heaut. II. iii. 16, 
 " Iuterea loci;" Key's Gramm. § 923; Madvig. § 2S4, obs. 10. — 
 .1 i did mercenarium, - ' A farm-servant ;" a villd = " villa;," as in Andr. 
 III. L 3, " Ab Andriast ancilia bajc." Compare Andr. IV. iv. 15, 
 " a nobis;" and 17, " Ab Audna." Plaut. Mil. G. II. ii. 5, " Quemque a 
 milite hoc hominem," &c. 
 
 4. Quintuanimo bono es. Cf. above IV. i. 17, " Quin tu otiosus es." — 
 Quid hoc, malum, mfelicitatu f " What a misfortune's this, plague take 
 it.'" For " malum," thus used interjectioually, see Plaut. Mona:chm. 
 U. Q. 299, 695; Aulul. 11. G. 383, "Quid, malum, curas f" Heaut. 11. 
 in. 77, note. — tfisi vie credo, &c. For this comic use of " nisi," see 
 Amir. IV. i. 4u, " Nescio, Niai mini doos satis scio esse iratos," &c, 
 and Heaut. III. ii. 31. Construe, "Save that 1 believe 1 was born for 
 tiiis one object, to endure miseries." 
 
 7. lUtcitco, " come to the knowledge of" a thing concealed. Cf. 
 !!• ■ yr. V. iv. 27, " Omnia omnos ubi reseiseuut.' bee Plant. Meusech. 
 
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 581. H. G.; Aulul. 727, II. G. The verb is used four times in this 
 sense in the Andria. 
 
 8. Obntmtio, "I announce bad news;" a word borrowed from the 
 augurs aud magistrates; see Smith's Antiq. G. and R., 176, 178; Cie. 
 Philipp. ii. 33, " Augur auguri, consul consuli obnuutiavisti." The 
 magistrate stopped the assemblies by reporting (obnantiando) evil 
 omens, which the augurs had declared. 
 
 11. Ne ilk hue prorsus se irruat, "That he don't burst right in here !" 
 Prorsus i. q. " pro versus-;" cf. " horsum," " dextrorsum," &c. For the 
 active use of "irruo" here cf. Euu. III. 5. 51, " Foras simul omnes 
 proruunt se ;" Adelph. III. ii. 21, " Ceteros ruerem." Parry adds 
 Virg. Georg i. 445, "Sese Diversi erumpunt radii." — Etiam taces? 
 " Be quiet !" cf. Heaut. II. ii. 6, " Etiam caves V and Andr. V. ii. 8, 
 " Etiam tu hoc respondes." In v. 12 hodie is used by way of assevera- 
 tion, as constantly in Terence. — Istuc committam, " Entrust that task," 
 viz., "of keeping my father from rushing in." 
 
 15. N<m Kerch hie quidem durare quitqnam, si sic fit, potest, " No one 
 can ever stay here, by Jove, if things go on in this way." Here 
 Bentley proposed to read " perdurare" for " durare." Fleckeisen for 
 " quidem" has " qui volt." In Tlaut. Men. 684. H. G. we find " durare," 
 for "edurare,"as here, " Vivere hie non possum, neque durare ullo modo." 
 Syrus is supposed here to come to the front of the stage, and complain 
 of his grievances, so as to attract the attention of Demea. — Quid tUe 
 gannit f " What is he grumbling about?" " Gannio" is used by Catull. 
 Ixxxiii. 4, "Quod nunc gannit et obloquitur." A compound of this 
 verb occurs in Phorm. V. ix. 41, " Usque ad aurem ogganniat," and in 
 Plaut. Asinar. II. iv. 16. " Gannio" is said to be properly used of 
 " dogs" by Varro and Festus. For malum! in v. 18, see above at v. 4. 
 
 20. Hem, vide v.t discidit labrum, " See how he has cut my lip." 
 A hoax on the short-sighted old man, who is probably intended by 
 Syrus to look for a cut inside his mouth. 
 
 22. Pvoduxe aibasl "Didn't you say that you had just set him on 
 his way hence into the country '{" " Producere = irpoirefXTreif, cf. III. 
 iii. 48, note. For the syncope of " produxe" for " produxisse," cf. 
 Heaut. Prol. 32, " decesse" for " decessisse ;" Virg. iEn. viii. 274, 
 " porgite" for "porrigite;" Hor. Sat. I. ix. 73, " Huuccine solem Tarn 
 nigrum sutTexe mihi." 
 
 23. Non puduisse, &c. For the infinitive used as here without a 
 governing preposition, see Madvig. Lat. Gr. §. 399; Ter. Andr. I. v. 10, 
 uote. — Quern ego modo, &c, " Altho' 'twas I who not so very long ago 
 carried him in my arms, a child no bigger than this" (Sciktikws). — Modo 
 needs not here be explained of a great distance of time. The force 
 lies in the slave's thinking the interval " no time to speak of." 
 We-fterhov. quotes Eurip. Cyclops. 142, iv t£e6pf\f/a Tra.78' iyw itot 
 o7*faAair, and shows from Plaut. Mil. G. III. i. 102, that the office 
 alluded to was performed by a person called "geraria," th. "gero," 
 whence the frequentative "gesto." 
 
 25. Patrixsas, " You take after your father," " You are a chip of the 
 old block " Cf. Plaut. Mostell. III. i. 108, " Euge, Philolaches patris- 
 Bat." Tbia verb is one of a small class formed after Greek verbs in 
 { (e. Z m^Si'Co)), of which "Graccisso," " Atticisso," and " Sicelicisso" are 
 examples; see Plaut. Memech. H. G. Prol. 11, and Key's Grammar,
 
 ADELPHI. 83 
 
 § 751 For ubi, "go," "go your ways," an ejaculation expressive of 
 j. raise, as here, and at Plaut. Asin. III. iii. 114, " Hem sic, abi;" and of 
 blame or ridicule as in this play above, II. ii. 12, "Abi : nescis inescare 
 homines." — Perquam and perforliter, in 27 and 28, are used ironically : 
 •' very ! " " Very bravely." 
 
 29. Idem quod ego, sensit te esse huic rel caput, " Even as I had, he 
 has found out that you are 'head and front of this offending.' " For 
 " caput" thus used with a dative, see Andr. II. vi. 27, note, and Plaut. 
 Asin. III. iii. 138, "Ego caput huic argento fieri hodie reperiundo." 
 
 32. Diminuetur — cerebrum, "I'll break, your crown in a minute !"' 
 Compare III. h. 19, " Ut cerebro dispergat viam;" V. ii. 7, "An tibi 
 mavis jam cerebrum dispergi hie." In the following sentence we see 
 the difference between "scio" and "novi," Cf. Aulul. Plaut. H. G. 672. 
 
 34. Nostin' porticum, apud macellum, Itanc deorsum ? " Kdow you the 
 colonnade here, just below, near the provision market?" " Hanc" 
 agreeing with " porticum" signifies " hard-by," or "in this direction ;" 
 aud " deorsum" is used as an adverb of rest, not motion, signifying 
 " below," or "downwards," as in Aulul. Plaut. H. G. 321, " Si autem 
 deorsum comedent," &c. Bentley proposed to read " hac deorsum ;" 
 but there is no need, and we have " hac" in the next line. 
 
 35. Prceterito hac recta plaUa sursum, " Pass this way straight up the 
 street:" or "right along the street upwards." With hdc understand " via," 
 or "parte;" sursum = " subvorsum," as "deorsum," " devorsum." A 
 parallel to this fool's errand, on which Syrus is sending Demea, is 
 quoted by Colman from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act iL 
 Sc. ii., Launcelot and Gobbo. 
 
 36. Ctivus deorsum versus est: hac te prcccipitato. Madame Dacier 
 translates " vous trouverez a cette main-la une petite descente : jettes- 
 vous-y." For the juxtaposition of deorsum vermis h e. " downwards." 
 Forcellini gives a parallel in Cato de R. R. c. 156, "Postea ubi 
 di-<>rsum versus ibit;" Cicero, Orator, c. 39, " Sursum versus reditur." 
 For "versus" used with "ad" or " in," a parallel case, see Madvig. Gr. 
 § 172, obs. 4. Construe, "There's aslope looking downwards." — 
 Hac te pracipi'ato seems to mean "Make the best of your way down 
 tills road." Some omit the case after " praecipito," as in \ irg. ^Eu. 
 ii. 9, " Nox humid. i coclo prcccipitat." — Est ad hanc mauum, "right or 
 
 according as he points with his finger. — Ibi angiportum propter 
 at, " Tiure, there is an alley hard-by." For the word '' angiportum," 
 cf. Euuucuus, V. ii. 6. The masc. from "angiportus" occurs in Hor. 
 Od. 1. xxv. 10, " In solo levis angipoitu." — Propter : adv. i. q. 
 " propiter," or " prope," see Phaedrus II. vi. 7. 
 
 ' "In which direction?" Fleckeisen here conjectures 
 " Qoanam | ' " By which way, pray ?" 
 
 •)<). (Jensen' hominem me esse i " Don't you count me to be a man?" 
 ("An such, and therefore as liable to error ") " I've made a mistake." 
 ia the simple meaning, and the only interpretation of this passage, 
 which can claim acceptance. Ne admits, when affixed to the verb, an 
 affirmative or a Degative answer: cf. .Madvig. Gr. § 451 a, who gives 
 instances where, as here, an affirmative answer is expected. See also 
 
 Parry's note here, and Long OD Cio in Verr. II. ii. 16. 
 
 43. Ad tinutram hac recta platea, " <'■<> this way right along the 
 street to the left." — Ad Diana '" tem] Poi this common
 
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 ellipse, see Madvig. Oram., § 280, 3; Hor. Sat, I. ix. 35, " Ventum 
 erat ad Vesta: ; " Hoin. Odyss. x. 282, iv\ Kipicris, h. e., in Circe's 
 Temple. 
 
 45. Pittrilla, "a email pouudiug-mill;" diminutive from " pistrinum," 
 for which it is perhaps used here. — Fabrica, is simply, " a workshop." 
 — Exadvorsum, "over against it." The word is used by Terence, 
 Phorm. I. ii. S8, " Exadvorsum ei loco Tons trina erat ; '' Plaut. Bacch. 
 IV. vii. 37, " Video exadvorsum Pistoeloruni." 
 
 46. Lectulos in sole, &c., " He has been ordering some open-air 
 benches with legs of holm oak." " Lectulos in sole," indicate seats made 
 for the "solarium" (or "flat house-top," cf. Plaut. Mil. G. II. hi. 69), 
 on which the ancients were wont to bask, enjoying the luxury of what 
 Gronovius calls " insolatio." Cf. Persius, Sat. iv. 18, " As.siduo curata 
 cuticula sole." In the next veree, ubi is, i. q., " in quibus." 
 
 48. Ego te. exerccbo /iodic — silicernium, " I'll work you to-day, as you 
 deserve, old dryboues!" For like threats, cf. Audr. V. ii. 23, " Ego 
 jam te commotum reddam." Excrceo is used thus in Virg. JEn. iv. 
 623, " Genus omne futurum Exercete odiis." Cooper in his Thesaurus 
 explains silicernium, a " puddiug eaten at funerals." In Terence, he 
 adds, it means " an olde cripple at the pitte's mouthe, that is ready to 
 have such a dinner made for him." The derivation according to some 
 is, * silices cernere," h. e., " sepulchorum suorum," but this is very ques- 
 tionable ; though far from the worst explanation. — jEsckinus odioee 
 cassat, " ^Eschinus is intolerably behindhand;" Euu. IV. vi. 16, 
 " Odiosa cessas." — Prandium corrnmpitur, " Dinner's spoiling." " Pran- 
 dium " perhaps has here somewhat of its original sense, i. e. " the first 
 meal," th. irpav or -rrpwi ; for it would seem from v. 52 that the hour was 
 early. "Cce'ua"and "prandium" however, were frequently confounded 
 with each other by the ancients, see Hildyard's note on Plaut. Menaich. 
 1*4, ii., and ibid. 4S, on " coena." In Plaut. Pseud. III. ii. 102, we have 
 " Corrumpitur jam eceua." 
 
 50. In amored Mm, "Is wholly taken up with his love." Cf. Hor. 
 Sat. I. ix. 2, " Ncscio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis." — Uuum, 
 quicquid, quod eril beUissimum, &c, "I'll pick out all and each of the 
 nicest sweets." Carpo is used thus, in Martial, iii. 13. 1, " Non vis 
 leporem, dum non vis carpere mulluin." " Bellus," as au adjective, 
 is applied often to the sweetmeats, or second course, of the Romans. 
 Hence the word, '' bellaria," " confections." 
 
 52. Cyatkos sorbilans, " In sipping my cups." The " cyathus " was 
 one-twelfth of a sextarius, see Hor. Od. III. xix. 12, "Tribus aut novem 
 Misceutur cyathis pocula commodis." For the sense of producam here, 
 h. e., "lengthen out," "spin out," cf. Martial. Epig. II. 89, 1—2, " Quod 
 nimio gaudes noctem producere vino, Ignosco." The cyathus appears 
 usually to have been tossed off at a gulp. Hence we see the leisurely 
 style i-f enjoyment which the slave promises himself, in sorbiluns and 
 producam.
 
 ADELPH1. 85 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. III. 
 
 Micio and Hegio have met in the Forum ; and on the former having 
 been acquainted with the connection between ^Eschiuus and Pamphila, 
 he has promised Hegio that the girl shall have justice. Hegio per- 
 suades Micio to go with him to Sostrata, and make it clear to her that 
 it is only on behalf of his brother Ctesipho, that ^Eschlnus has at all 
 interfered iu the affair of the music-girl. 
 
 Metre : Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 I. Ego in kac re, &c. Compare similar modest refusals of undue 
 praise, in Andr. II. i. 30, " Chariue, neutiquam," &c. ; Plaut. Trinumm. 
 V. ii. 5, " Non videor meruisse laudem ; culpa caruisse arbitror." For 
 nisi si, in v. 5, cf. Andr. I. v. 13, " Nisi 6i id est, quod suspicor," note. 
 
 4. Sibi fieri injuriam, ultro, &c. — expostules, " That a gratuitous 
 iujury is done them, if you expostulate with them about a wrong 
 which they themselves have done you; and who furthermore go on 
 to accuse you. Expostules, the reading of the C. Bembin., is to be 
 adopted without hesitation. For instances of ultro, similarly used, see 
 Andr. L i. 73, note. Parry aptly quotes Eunuahus I. i. 22 — 5 ; Phorm. 
 II. hi. 13 ; Plaut. Mensecnm. 272. 
 
 6. Aliter atque es, ''Other than you are." Cf. Madvig. Qr. § 444,6. 
 In Ter. Phorm. Prol. 31, we have " ne simili utamur fortuna atque 
 usi sumus." At v. 9, Bentley proposed " Suspicionem hanc prop- 
 ter fratrem esse ; ejus esse illam psaltriam." But the common read- 
 ing may stand. — Opus est facto. Cf. Madvig., § 266, obs. ; Key, § 1280; 
 Andr. III. ii 10, note ; Heaut. I. i. 28, note. 
 
 II. Rdtvabis. Bentley reads " relevaris," for the sake of uniformity 
 of tense with " functus fueris " ; but this is nowise necessary. — Tabescit, 
 " languishes," cf. Cicero Catil. II. iv. ; Plaut. Captiv. I. ii. 30, " Tuo 
 moerore maceror — et tabesco miser." 
 
 14. Quiljus res sunt minus se<-undce. " Minus secunda; " is an 
 euphemism for " misera;." In v. 15, Ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt 
 magis=" They take everything in the light of an affront, more" (" than 
 other men/'sc). Westerhov. illustrates "ad contumeliam" by Phnedrus 
 Fab. III. viii. 8, " Accipiens (quidenim?) cuncta in contumeliam." 
 
 16. Impotent iarn, "poverty," " want of means." Ruhnken refers to 
 Cic. pro. Mursen., c. 28, " Valeant ha?c omnia ad salutem innocentium, 
 ad opem impotentium, ad auxilium calamitosorum." — Semper creclunt 
 negliyi. Such is the reading of many MSS. But the Bembine has 
 "claudier" (cf. Andr. III. lii. 41), which yields little sense, and for 
 which Paaro proposed " calvier" a very rare word (= to be deceived) ; 
 and Bentley, " ludier." This last is the best emendation. But " negligi " 
 may well be retained. Editors quote a fragment of Meuander — 
 
 rp)js inavTa SaK6v ta-riv 6 tt(v7\s Ttpdyuara 
 KtU irdfTas avroii Karatppovuv viro\afxfid>'ei. 
 
 17. Te ipsum purgare iptis cm-am. placalnlius est, " To excuse yourself 
 in their presence, is a plan most fitting to appease them." Verbals iu 
 " bihrt" are lomatiiiMf activi- io signification u hare; o£ Madvig. sect. 
 1«5, b. L The word " placabibua " is so used again in Phorm. V. viii.
 
 86 
 
 NOTES ON 
 
 68. The Bembine C. read here'Mpsi coram," in which case " ipsi " 
 would refer to the mother, and " coram " would be used adverbially. 
 For the dative, after "purgare," see Hecyr. V. iv. 31. 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. IV. 
 
 iEscHiNUs enters in great distress at having learned the suspicions, 
 winch Pamphila and her mother entertain of him, from the old woman 
 who was sent for a nurse. He could not explain himself to the old 
 woman, for fear of compromising his brother. But now ho blames, 
 himself for not having asked his father's leave to marry Pamphila, at 
 lirst. He determines, however, to go and see Sostrata, and is about to 
 cuter, when the door opens, and the scene ends. 
 
 Metre : — 1. Iambic Monometer Hypcrcatalectic. 
 2. Cretic Dimeter. 
 3, 6, 10, 17—27. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 4, 5. Choriambic. 
 T. Iambic Dimeter. 
 
 8. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 9. Iambic Dimeter Catalectic. 
 11 — 16. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 (This statement of Metres is taken from Mr. Parry's Edition of Terence.) 
 
 1. Discrucior animi, " I am tortured in mind." For this use of the 
 genitive, cf. Madvig. Gr. § 296, b., obs, 3; Plaut. Aul. H. G. 66; 
 Mil. G. III. i. 125, "Coutinuo excruciarer animi." Rubnken observes, 
 that "objici" in v. 2, is properly used of "malum; " cf. Hec. III. i. 6, 
 " Objectus labos;" Phorm. III. ii. 18, "Turn hoc esse mi objectum 
 malum;" Virg. vEn. ii. 200, "Aliud majus miseris multoque tremendum 
 Objicitur." — De improviso, cf. Andr. II. ii. 23; Heaut. II. iii. 40. 
 
 5. Obslipuit, cf. note on Andr. I. v. 21 ; Plaut. Pasn. I. ii. 48, "Quid 
 hie, malum, Astans obstipuisti." With "consistere" in v. 5, Westerhov. 
 compares Virg. JEn. i. 643, " Ncquo enim patrius consistere menteui 
 1'ii.ssus amor." — Me ex hac expediam, turbd, "How shall I extricate 
 myself from this trouble?" or "scrape." For " expediam," see note 
 at Andr. III. v. 11. 
 
 7. Suspitio de me incidit ("illis," sc). Comp. Andr. II. ii. 22, "Ex 
 ipsa re mi incidit Biispitio," and Andr. III. ii. 21. 
 
 9. Id anus mi indi> ium fecit, " The old woman has made that clear 
 to me." " Indicium fecit" is, i. q., "iudicuvit," as in Aulul. Plaut. 145 
 and 625, H. G. ; q. v. 
 
 13. Abi, abi. Expressions of scorn and reprobation. Cf. Phorm. I. 
 ii. 9, "Abi sis, insciens." — Salii din, dedisti verba. Cf. notes on Andr. 
 I. iii. ; Plaut. Men. 11. G. 55j Aulul. 23, H. G. Construe, " You have 
 deceived us long enough." — Aw frustratast fides. Cf. Andr. II. ii. '-,7, 
 '• Jam me spes haec frustratast." 
 
 14. Vulcas : habeas Mam, &c, "Away with you! Have her you 
 fancy." ^Eschinus is utttriug the words of Cauthara. Here, as ia 
 Andr. IV. ii. 12, " Valeant qui inter nos," &c. ; and V. iii. 18, ibid., 
 "valeas" is. i. q., " abeas in malam rem." bee notes on Andr. 1. c.
 
 ADELPHI. S7 
 
 — Me reprehend!, "I checked myself." A secondary use of " reprehendo" 
 derived from its first meaning, viz., " to lay hands on, and holdback 
 anything." Cf. Ad. ProL 14, "Locum reprensum ; " Plaut. Trin. III. 
 i. 23, " Ille reprehendit hunc priorem pallio ; " Phaedrus. V. viii. 4, 
 ''Elapsum semel Non ipse possit Jupiter reprehendere." — Ac Jieret 
 fialam (sc. "ne"). Compare Heaut. IV. hi. 43, "Rem facias palam;" 
 Hecyr. I. h, 30, " Ne id Gat palam." 
 
 18. Quod minume opus est U&quam efferri: ac mitlo, "A tale which 
 ought by no ineaus to get abroad," "so let it pass !" Parry following 
 most editors, reads, " id quidem " for quod, which last Bentley pre- 
 ferred. For efferri in this sense, compare above III. ii. 41, " Nunc si 
 hoc palam proferinms ; " Phorm. V. viii. 65, " Vides tuom peccatum 
 esse elatum foras." — Fieri potis est ut ne qud exiat, " It's just possible 
 that it may not get wind in any quarter." Kuhnken illustiates this 
 use of "exeat" by Cornel Nep. Datam. c. 6, "Si in turbam exisset." 
 
 19. Tot concurrunt vtrisimilia. Cf. Andr. III.ii.31, "Multa concurrunt 
 biniul;" Heaut. II. ii. 3, "Concurrunt multaj opinioues," &c. In v. 21, 
 mieo teems to strengthen mea, " I own that these things occur through 
 mi/ fault, and mine only." Cf. Andr. III. iii. 47, note. — Ut ut erat gesta, 
 " Be it as it might," Colman. For " Ut ut " so used, cf. Heaut. I. ii. 26, 
 '• It ut erat mausum tameu oportuit;" Adelph. II. ii. 40. 
 
 23. Cessatum usque adhuc est, " I've been lazy up to this point." — 
 .Vane porro, jEscldne, expergiscere, " Now, ^Eschinus, from this time 
 rouse yourself." Westerhov. quotes Plaut. Asin. II. i. 1, " Hercle vero, 
 Libane, nunc te meliust expergiscier." Fur "porro" in this sense, cf. 
 Andr. Prol. 22, " Dehinc ut quiescant porro.'' 
 
 25 Horresco semper, &c, " I'm always in a trembling, when I begin 
 knocking at these doors, wretch as I am." Compare Eun. I. ii. 4, 
 " Treino, horreoque postquam aspexi banc" Pulio — " to knock at a 
 door from the outside.'' Conwepuit fori*, is Baid of knocking from the 
 lii.-i.ie, a common custom with Greek doors, which opened outwards, 
 and were therefore knocked by comers-out, to warn passers-by; cf. 
 Andr. IV. i. 59, note. — Aperite aliquis actutum ostium, "Soma one open 
 the door forthwith." Parry illustrates this construction, (in which 
 " aliquis," being used distributivcly, takes a plural verb) by Plaut. Men. 
 IV. ii. 115, (576, Hildyard), " Aperite atque Erotium aliquis evoeate 
 ante ostium," and by Soph. Aj;ix, 964. Compare also, Epid. 390, 
 '• Kxite hue aliquis;" Mereat. 129, " Aperite aliquis;" Pseudol. V. i. 37. 
 — Concedam hue. Cf. Heaut. I. i. 121, "Hue concessero." 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. V. 
 
 Mnio, from the house, meets ^Eschinus just entering, and to play 
 off his nephew, who has concealed his love; from him, coins a story, 
 " that a friend of his, as nearest of kin to the youug woman dwelling 
 here, is about to marry her, according to tin; Athenian law, and take 
 her <i Milet.nn. Sostrata, it is true, pretcuds that her daughter hac t 
 child by some one else, but that's an excuse." yKschinus, in the excess 
 of trouble, confesses his love affair; and Micio, after a gentle reproof 
 of bis concealment, bids him get ready to bring home his wife.
 
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 Metres : — v. 1, with v. 27, of the last scene, is (1.) Trochaic 
 
 Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 2, 3, 45 — 72. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 4 — 44. Iambic Trimeter. 
 73 — 8. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 4. Quid huic hie negotist? "Aside," to the audience. Ludo, h. e., 
 " illudo," as in Heaut. IV. vi. 20, " Ludis fortaase mo." — Melius est, 
 " 1 had better do so." Cf. note on Adel. IJ. i. 26, above. 
 
 9. Erubuit : salva rest est, " He blushes : 'tis all right." Donatus 
 quotes from Anclr. V. iii. 7, " Vide num ejus color pudoris siguum 
 u>quani iudicat," of one supposed to be very hardened, and 
 Westerhov. quotes from Meuander, 'Epv9piu>i> iras XP 7 )' 7T ^ S flvtu. /uoi 5o«6?. 
 In Euu. II. ii. 37, we find, "Salva res" as here. See also Plaur,. 
 lludens, IV. iii. 98, " Euge, salva res est, prreda ha3C perpetua est mea." 
 In v. 10, Fleekeisen reads, " Nil est mihi quidem." 
 
 12. JJuc advocaturn sibi, "as an assistant" or "witness." See a 
 parallel use of the word in Euu. II. jii. 4 8, " Advocatus mane mihi esse 
 ut meminerit." See, too, below at v. 42 of this scene, " Advorsumno 
 ilium causain dicerem," and Plaut. Menreelim. (llildyard) 700, " Nou 
 equidem mihi te advocaturn, pater, adduxi." 
 
 14. Ut opinor has non nosse te, et certe scio. This line seems to depend 
 on "pauperculse" in the last verse: "Certain women in poor circum- 
 stances, so that I suppose you don't know them : indeed (et) I am very 
 sure of it." We are inclined to adopt Bentley's " ut opiner," i. e. " adeo 
 ut." This seems more probable than the supposition that "ut opinor" 
 is dependent on " pauperculse," and parenthetic. Gronovius illustrates 
 this mode of assertion (" cum quasi primum dubitavimus, et inter 
 loquendum re considerata certius aliquid affirruauius") by Cic. ad Att. 
 vi. ep. 3, 2 : " Cicero puer legit (ut opinor et certe) epistolam inscriptam 
 patri." "Et" is used emphatically. Goveauu3 reads, as does Madame 
 Dacier — 
 
 " Opinor has non nosse te, at et certo scio." 
 
 18. Huic leges cogunt nubere hanc. Westerhov. refers to Numbers 
 xxxvi. 6 (concerning the daughters of Zelophelad), for evidence of a 
 like custom among the Israelites. For its existeuce at Athens, com- 
 pare Andr. I. L 43, note; and Phorm. I. ii. 45 — 47 and 75; II. iii. 63. 
 — Nil : recte : perge (exclamations indicative of one endeavouring to 
 disguise his feeliugs and feign indifference), " Nothing! All right! Pro- 
 ceed ! " Hecyr. III. ii. 20, "Recte, mater;" Heaut. III. ii. 7, "Recte 
 equidem." 
 
 21. Animo male est: " I'm ill at ease." Plaut. Amph. V. L 6, "Animo 
 male est, aquain velim." In this passage, as in Curcul. II. iii. 33, 
 (quoted by Parry, " Animo male est — Vin aquam]"), there seems to be 
 » reference to fainting. — Quid HI as censes? (dicere posse, sc.) "What 
 think you they'd say V See note on Andr. V. ii. 12, and Gronovius on 
 that passage. — Nil enim, "Why, nothing!" " Enim"=" enimvero." 
 Cf. note on Andr. III. ii. 23, "Certe enim scio." 
 
 25. Priorem esse ilium, "That he has the prior right" ("jure tori," 
 Stalbaum). 
 
 20. I'ustea, "After all." Cf. Plaut. Menscehm. III. ii. 31, "An tibi
 
 ADELPHI. S9 
 
 malam rem vis pro rnaledictis dari postea" where, however, Hildyard 
 (398, H.) reads with Bothe " posee" instead of " postea," 
 
 30. Dicendum magis aperte, illiberaliter, "And, to speak more plainly, 
 ungenerously." With this form of speech, compare Andr. II. vi. 23, 
 " Et quod dicendum hie siet. Tu quoque perparce nimiura." In v. 32, 
 Qui cum iUa consiuvit prior, " With whom she lived before." Parry 
 tikes "ilia" as the nominative, and "quicum" as the ablative, com- 
 paring Ter. Hecyr. IV. i 40, " Quacum tot consuesset annos." Add to 
 this Phorm. V. vi. 34, " Cum ejus consuevit olim matre in Lesbo 
 clanculum." Some editors omit " cum." For the phrase " baud scio 
 aD," cf. Andr. III. ii. 45, note. 
 
 34. PrcEsens prcesenti eripi, " Snatched from him before his face." 
 For this collocation of the adjectives, compare Virg. ^En. iv. 83, 
 "Ilium absens absentem auditque videtque;" Terence, Hecyr. III. ii. 
 15, •' Continuo sola soli;" Ibid. IV. i. 42, "Solum solus conveni." 
 For the dative after " eripere," cf. Key's Gr. § 973. — Facinus indig- 
 jium, "'Tis a disgraceful piece of business." Cf. Andr. V. ii. 13, note, 
 " Immo vero indignum," &c. 
 
 37, Cui quando nupsiti "To whom was she wedded, and when?" 
 There is no need, as Stalbaum shows, of any stop at "cui;" the 
 sentence is a twofold interropation. — Anctor his rebus quis est .' "Who 
 sanctioned these proceedings.'" For this sense of " auctor," cf. Plaut. 
 Aulul. 207, H. G., "Auctor sum;" Eun. V. vi. 12, " Te auctore."— 
 Alienam, i. e. one virtually betrothed to another, as next of kin. 
 
 39, 40. Dum cognatus hinc Illinc veniret, &c. " Waiting till a kinsman 
 should come from some quarter or other." Hinc was Bentley's emen- 
 dation for "hue." For "grandem," (natu, sc.) cf. Plaut. Aul. H. G. 
 116, "Grandior natu;" 148, "Grandem virginem." — Scdere in v. 38 is, 
 L q. "to lincer," or "sit inactive." Compare Plaut. Aulul. 34, H. G., 
 " Quasi claudus sutor domi sedet totos dies." In an old inscription the 
 compound " domiseda" occurs. 
 
 41. Et id defendere, " And to have maintained that line of argument." 
 Such appears to be the force of these doubtful words. Westerhov., 
 however, explains "defendere" to mean here " prohihere," h. e. to 
 have averted this issue, viz. that the kinsman should intervene. But 
 the former meaning is best. 
 
 42. A dvorsnmve ilium . . . advocatus. " What, plead against him, to 
 befriend whom I had come." For "advocatus," see above at v. 12. 
 Pot " can-am dicerem," see Plant Mensechm. 700, 701 ; Hildyard, " Te 
 adVocatum, pater, adduxi,sed viro. Hincstas: illinc causam dicis." See 
 note, ibid. — Qui'/ notfie cum ilhsf Cf. above, II. i. 23, "Quid tibi rei 
 mecumst!" Heaut. IV. iv. 20, "Etiamne tecum hie mihi res est!" aud 
 see note, ibid. 
 
 45. Q"id /urrumas? " Wherefore weep you 1" For this ace. Bee Key's 
 Gr. § 909.— Cune sunt mihi. Cf. Madvig. Gr. § 249 ; Key, 984. 
 
 47. Promerentcm, h. e. " bono mcrentem." Cf. Virg. JEn. iv. 333, 
 " Nnnquam, regina, negabo, promeritam." In Plautus (e. g. at Me- 
 nsechm. H. O, B80) " Promeritum" is used in a bad sense, though at 
 S'65 and 998 it is used " in bonam partem." Donatus, on Terence 
 lb ;. r.i III. v '-'7. Bayi tbat " nureti" (cf. Andr. II. i. -i I ) mid "promt- 
 
 reri a :m> 1 "eotnmercri ad mala referre."- -.'/»■ hoc delictum 
 
 udmuuac in m "That 1 have oommitted this fault" Bo in Phorin,
 
 90 NOTES ON 
 
 II. i. 40. "Culpam in te admiserit." See also Plaut. Men. }f. O. 614; 
 AuluL 747, H. G. ; Hor. Ep. I. xvi. 53, "la nihil adinittos in te fornii- 
 dine poena}." 
 
 49. Me tin pudet, "I am ashamed in reference to you," Cf. Heaut. 
 II. iii. 18, 19, " Cujus nunc pudet me et miseret." In v. 50, indiliyens 
 is "careless," "reckless." Gronovius shows that it is the opposite of 
 "diligeus." an epithet proper in the language of the jurisconsults to 
 " patrcsfamilias." — Indiligenter occurs in Phorm. V. iii. 5; and in 
 Tlaut. Mostcll. I. ii. 23, we find " nequam homo indiligeusque." For 
 tandem in v. 51, cf. Audr. III. ii. 12 (notes) ; and Plaut. Men. H. G. 
 614. 
 
 56. In this verse qua is, i. q. "qua ratione ;" in v. 57, it is equivalent 
 to " per quos." and, as Donatus observes, all the clauses depend uii 
 " numquid circuuispexti." — lime dum dubitas. For this ace. after an 
 iutransitive verb, cf. Key's Gr. 893; Madvig. § 223, c. 
 
 59. Dormienti hcec tibi conjectures deos? " That the gods would bring 
 to pass these things for you if you remained inactive." For this sense 
 of" dormienti," cf. Plaut. Cure. I. ii. 67 ; Heaut. IV. iv. 8, " Dormiunt: 
 ego pol istos commovebo;" Phorm. V. ix. 18, " Filiam Suscepit jam 
 unam, dum tu dormia." Lindeubrog quotes Menander, 'Aur6p.aTa yap ra 
 irpd.yp.aTa btl to avp.<p4pov pu, Kav Kadtv8r)<rri. — Duluctum iri, " Would be 
 conducted home to her husband." Cf. Ter. Hecyr. I. ii. 60, " Uxorem 
 deducit domum;" Plaut. Mil. G. III. i. 91, "Nam bona uxor si ea 
 deducta est usquam cuiquam gentium." 
 
 61. Cceterarum rerum te socordtm. " I would not have you be careless 
 as to other matters." For this genitive after an adjective, cf. Key's Gr. 
 § 932; Madvig. § 289, b.; Ovid. Trist. I. i. 49, « Seeurus fainse;" Cic. 
 pro Quinctio, 3, "Cfeteraruin rurum et prudens et attentus." With 
 mvsere — cupio in v. 64, cf. above, IV. i. 6, " Misere nimis cupio." 
 
 65. Deos comprecare, " Offer prayers to the gods" (presiding over 
 wedlock). Religious rites were deemed essential to the due solemnisa- 
 tion of a marriage. Westerhov. refers to Aulul. 534, where Megadorus, 
 before marriage with Euclio's daughter, says, 'Eo lavatum ut sacn- 
 ficem." For quantum potest, see Audr. V. ii. 20, note. 
 
 68. Quam oculos, &c. Cf. Catull. iii. 4, '* Quern plus ilia oculis sui3 
 amabat;" ibid. xiv. 1, " Ni te plus oculis meis amarem." See also 
 llildyard's Glossary Meurechm. 593, where Psalm xvii. 8, <pi\a£6v pie 
 is K6pnv 6(p9a\/xov, " Preserve me as the pupil of an eye," is quoted ; 
 and King Lear, Act I. ii. "Dearer than eyesight." — Perbenigne, " P m 
 much obliged to you;" a form of thanks, for parallels to which see 
 Hor. Epist. I. vii. 16, "At tu quantum vis tolle. Benigne ;" Phorm. V. 
 ix. 62, " Benigne dicis." 
 
 69. A biit, periit, navem ascendit. A case of vmipov irpoTepov. See for 
 a parallel, Plaut. Rudeus, II. ii. 19, " Leno abiit scelestus exulatum: h\ 
 navem ascendit." Ruhnken explains " periit," "abiit ut nesciamus ubi 
 locorum sit." It seems to mean " he has vanished." In the words tu 
 polius deos comprecare, commentators note a proper deference to his 
 elders on the part of ./Eschinus, and compare Virg. JEa. ii. 717 : " Tu, 
 genitor, cape sacra mauu, patriosque peuates." 
 
 71. Quo virmelior multo ex quam ego. Fleckeisen here reads " Quom" 
 for "quo," ingeniously, but not necessarily; for "eo" is often ur.der- 
 atood in the antecedent clause, as here with " obkwperaturos inagis ; '*
 
 ADELPHI. 91 
 
 (see Stalbauru ad loc.) Construe, " For I'm very sure, that tbey will 
 hear your prayer all the more, iu proportion as you are a far better 
 man than I." Ruhnken illustrates the sentiment here expressed by 
 Ovid. Met. viii. 724, " Cura pii Dis sunt, et qui coluere coluntur." 
 
 72. Qua opus sunt. Cf. Andr. II. i. 37, " Nisi ea quae nil opus sunt 
 sciri," and note thereon. — Quid hoc est negotil "'Why ! what a marvel's 
 this!" Surprise and commendation, aa Donatus notes, are implied 
 here. 
 
 74. Qui magis morem gereret, " How could he humour me more, if he 
 were my brother," &c. For "morem get ere" thus used, see above, at 
 III. iii. 75, note; Plaut. Menaech. H. G. 69i>, "Morem geras;" Eun. I. 
 ii. 103. 
 
 75. G'Standus in sinu est. This metaphor is common to all lan- 
 guages. Westerhov. refers to Horn. 11. vi. 135, and to Cic. ad Fam. xiv. 
 4. But no editor seems to have noted the parallel iu Shake-peare's 
 Hamlet, Act HI. seen. ii. — 
 
 " Give me that man 
 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him, 
 In my heart's core, ay iu my heart of hearts 
 As I do thee." 
 
 In v. 76, Bentley suggested "iujicit," which is adopted by Zeune and 
 Fleckeisen. For commoditate, h. e. " obsequio," cf. Heaut. III. ii. 10, 
 note, "Mulier commoda," Adelph. V. ii. 8, below. 
 
 78. ^ T e nwrce meis nuptiis eyomet siem ? Cf. Madvig. Gr. §. 249. 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. VI. 
 
 Dfmka returns weary from a fruitless search for his brother. He 
 complains of his disappointment, but is resolved to wait at his doors 
 for hia return. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Cum, tua, &c, "May Great Jove confound you along with your 
 directions. ' For "cum," thus used, cf. Andr. V iv. 38, " Dignus es, Cum 
 • , l religioDe, odium.'' And for '' ut," used as "ulinam," cf. Heaut. IV. 
 vi. 6, " L T t te qnidem — perduint." See notes, ibid. 
 
 3. Perreptaci luqm omnt oppidum, "i have crawled all the town 
 iivcr." Compare Plaut, Amphit. IV. i. 3, "Nam oinnes plateas perrep- 
 tavi," &c. Indeed the whole of this short scene seems to have been 
 migge.->ted by that passage of the Amphitryo, and by his Epidicus, 
 Act II. Sc. ii. 18 — 16. M Perrepto"is properly used hereof an old man's 
 v pace. Cf. Hor. Sat. I. v. 25, " Millia turn pranai tria repimus." 
 
 6. Cerium obsidere est, "Now I'm determined to Biiek at his house, 
 even till his return." "Obsidere," according to Gronovius, is "se- 
 desdo diu perseverare." He quotes for this neuter sense, Plaut. 
 Pamul. Prolog. 28, " Bervi ae obsideant, liberie ut hit locus," and Pseu- 
 
 dol. III. ii. 18, " Hoe ego fwi hodn: Kilos ol i i fori." The verb is 
 more commonly active, as iu Livy III. v., "Qui aruiati Aventinuiu 
 obsedisacut."
 
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 ACTUS IV.— So VII. 
 
 Micio, coming forth from his house, is assailed by Demea with 
 reproaches, on account of the new iniquities of yEschinus, whose 
 intrigue with Pamphila is a graver business than the affair of the 
 music-girl. Micio tells him that all is right. The young people are 
 to marry, and live with him ; and the music-girl will also remain 
 with him. Demea waxes more wroth, and deems his brother, and all 
 belonging to him, utterly hopeless. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. IUis, i. e. Sostrata and her daughter. — Nallam esse in nobis moram. 
 So Virgil. Eel. iii. 52, " In me mora non erit ulla." — Quidnam, " What 
 is it, pray?" or " wherefore (propter quid), pray]" Ftro, says Donatus, 
 jiaytiia and ingentia, indicate the gravity of the charges he has to 
 make. For " fero," used of bearing important news, compare, with 
 Westerhov. Phorm. V. vi. 17, "Quod fers cedo," and Heaut. III. i. 18; 
 Andr. V. ii. 17, in which places " adporto " is so used. Boni is, of 
 course, used ironically. 
 
 4. Ecce autem, " See now then ! " For this exclamation, used of 
 something sudden, or unexpected, see Adelph. I. ii. 73, note above; 
 Hecyr. III. v. 53, and Plant. Meneech. 687, H. G, "Ecce autem liti- 
 giura ; " Eun. II. iii. 6, " Ecce aatem alteruni." — Nova in Zeuue, 
 Stalbaum, Parry, and other editions, is in the mouth of Demea. 
 Fleckeisen takes it with " Ecce autem " with much probability. " See 
 now, here are new charges!" — Demea rejoins, " ay, capital charges." 
 For "capitalia," see Cicero, pro Kabir. c. 9, " Fraudem capitalem," h. e. 
 "propter quam capite puniendus sit," according to Ulpian. — Ohe jam, 
 " Enough ! enough ! " Compare Aulul. Plaut. H. G. 16, " Etiam nunc ! 
 etiam ! ohe ;" Hor. Sat. II. v. 96; I. v. 12, " Trecentos inserts ! Uhe. 
 Jam satis est.'' 
 
 6. Somnias, " idly dream." Cf. Plaut. Mcnajch. 304, H. G. Ter. 
 Andr. V. vi 7. "Numille somniat," &o. — Virginem civem, Cf. Plaut. 
 Mensech. 3, H. G, " Homines captivos ;" and Ter. Andr. V. i. 9, " Homini 
 adolesceutulo ; " IV. iv. 16, " Mulier meretrix." 
 
 9. Non damns ? Non insanis ? " Don't you cry out, or complain ! 
 Dun't you run mad V Cf. for " clamo " in this sense, Adelph. I. ii. 1 1 ; 
 III. iii. 26, and for "insanis," see IV. ii. 22. At malim quidem, Bentley 
 and others suppose a break or interruption of Micio's words. — Di bate 
 vcrtant, "Heaven bless it!" Cf. Plaut. Aulul. (H.) 213, " Istuc dii 
 bene vortant." Ibid. 228. Virgo is used occasionally in a wide accep- 
 tation, e. g. Hor. Od. II. viii. 23, " Virgines nuptae" (cf. Puella, ibid. 
 
 III. xiv. 10 ;) Virg. Kcl. vi. 47, " Ah virgo infelix," said of Pasiphae. 
 11. Ducenda i»dotata estl Such was the alternative, unless death 
 
 were preferred, in Athenian law. See Plaut. Aulul. 748 — 51 (Hild- 
 yard). and 715, and the notes on both passages. — Res ipsa fert, "The 
 nature of the ca-.e. or the circumstance suggests." 
 
 14. Istocine pacto oportet (nuptias fieri, sc.) — Ipsd re, " In reality," in 
 very truth. In prose we find "reipsa" very commonly. — Tibi istuc 
 doltt, "That grieves you." Cf. Key's Grammar, §. 872, 1; Adelph. 
 
 IV. vil 36, below. — Simulare eerie est hominit, " Surely 'tis a inau'»
 
 ADELPHI. 9'S 
 
 duty to feign (grief) at it." As Parry well observes, Demea uses 
 
 "homo" for a "man of right feeling," Micio for a man of " kind 
 
 feeling." 
 
 17. Res compositast, "The affair is settled." Cf. Phorm. IV. iii. 17, 
 
 " Hcec potius cum bona Ut comporiantur gratia quam cum mala." — 
 
 Hac magis sunt kominis, b. e. " Of a man of kind feeling." Cf. Heaut. I. 
 
 i. 25, "Homo sum," &c. Witb the sentiment of v. 20, cf. Hor. Od. I. 
 
 sxiv. 19. " Durum sed levius fit patientia," &c. 
 
 21. Ita vitast hominum, &c. Lindenbrog compares Alexis apud 
 
 Stobaeum — 
 
 Totovro Tb ^TJv tarlv Sicmep ol nv&ot 
 ov ravr del rriiTTOvaiv, ov5e T<£ ;8ioi 
 Tavrbf Sia/Aevfi <rx?)M a ' /J-erafioKas 8' «x«. 
 
 — Maxime opus est jartu. Cf. Key's Grammar, §. 12S0. Construe, " If 
 the throw, most needed by you, turns not up, take care to mend by 
 skill the throw that has chanced to you." Compare Caesar B. C. iiL 73, 
 quoted by Lindenbrog. "Si non omnia cadeient secunda, fortunam 
 
 industria sublevaudam." Cf. also, Hor. Sat. II. viii. 85, "Arte 
 
 Kmendaturus fortunam." — Corrector, "A fine mender you are ! " (ironi- 
 cally). Nempe, " to wit," or "for example" (ironically). Cf. Andna 
 III. v. 12, "Nempe ut modo." 
 
 25. Mince Pro psalt rid periere, " By this skill of yours, twenty pounds 
 have been lost to you on the music-girl." Cf. Plaut. Menseehm. H. G. 
 123, " Quatuor minaj Periere plane." — Quantum potest (sc. celerrime), 
 " with all speed." Cf. Andr. V. ii. 20, note, Meusechm. H. G. 340.— 
 Aliquo al'jiciendast, si non pretio, gratiis, "Must be thrown away in 
 pome quarter or other, if not for a price, for nothing." "Abjicere," 
 says Gronovius, is, i. q. " vili vendere." Cf. Plaut. Mostell. III. iii. 3, 
 "Nunqnam aedepolme scio Vidisse usquatn abjectas £edes, nisi modo 
 liasce;" Seneca do Benef. i. 1, "Qui beneficiuiu aut superbe abjecit, 
 aut iratus impegit," &c. ; iv. 29, "Stipem aeiis abjecti." 
 
 28. Quid igitur fades? Bentley read "Quid ilia igitur facies?" 
 Fleckeisen suggests, "Quid igitur faciet." Both are needless. When in 
 v. 30 Micio eaya, Cur non, we must bear in mind that he is trying to 
 shield Ctesipho ; or he mi^ht have given a direct answer. 
 
 81, Ita me di ament, ut, &c., " So help me Heaven, such is my view 
 of y>ur folly, I believe," &c. For the phrase, " Ita me," &c, cf. Plant. 
 Men. 196, "Dii te amabunt; n Heaut. III. i. 54, IV. vi. 6, note; Andr. 
 V iv. 4 4, notes. — Ut video — ineptiam, seems to be parenthetic, as in 
 Beaafc. IV. viii. 29, " N;c tu propedicin, ut istam rem video, istius 
 • urabere." — Pactunm (te, sc.) credo, &c, " I believe you will bring 
 it to pass, that you will have a companion to sing with." 
 
 34. Tu inter cos ratim ductans, &c, " You will dance between 
 them, joining hands." " In saltatione restim ducere dicuntur chori 
 rum pnellarumqae manus conserti," Cooper's Thesaurus in voc. 
 A eordiog to Lindenbrog and other commentators it is i. q. KdpSaxa 
 f\Kttv, which occurs iti Ariatoph. Nub. 540 (cf. Smith's Diet. G. and 
 B. A., p. -77 b.), and if so, it implies here a licentious familiarity 
 between Micio and the partners in the supposed dance. Gronovius 
 illustrates the passage by Hor. Epist. I. x. 48, " Tortum digna Bequi 
 potius quam ducero fuucm ; '' and Plaut. l'icu. Prol. 110, "Jauiuc hoc
 
 •I [, NOTKS ON 
 
 tenetisl Si tenctis ducite: Cavo dirumpatis" aud III. i. 63 ibid., where 
 there is a similar metaphor from the rope which those who danced 
 in the ring held. 
 
 36. Non te hcec pudentl Cf. Adelph. I. ii. 4, "Quern neque pudct 
 Quicquam," and see Key's Grammar, 872, 1. In the next verse, 
 Fleekeiseu reads istam for the usual istane, and "ita ut hodie decet," for 
 '• ita uti decet," the common reading. There seems reason and force in 
 the introduction of "hodie." 
 
 33. JJilarum, &c , "Make yourself glad and hearty." For the 
 aucient use of " hilarus " for "hilaris" see Madvig. §.59, obs. 3. 
 Similar adjectives are imberbus, imberbis, inermus, inerrnis, &c. 
 '• Hilarus" occurs in Plant. Pers. V. i. 8, " Unde ego omnes hilaros, 
 bibentes, Uctificantes faciain ut fiant." In v. 39, redeo is i. q. "redibo." 
 Cf. Menaechm. Plaut. H. G. 148. 
 
 42. Adule*cens luxu perditus. Valkecacr quotes this passage at 
 St. Luke xv. 13, 8ie<r/c(fy>7n(Te t\\v ohaiav al/rov, £ci>/ aauTias. With this 
 last word compare the words "salus," and " servare," in v. 43, 44. 
 In v. 43, Senex delimits, "a doting old man," see Phorm. V. ix. 8, 
 Delirat miser Timore ; Plaut. Epid. III. iii. 11, " Pro feet o deliramus 
 iuterdum senes." Salus, a goddess, at Rome, as 'TyUta with the 
 Greeks. Cf. Plaut. Capt. III. iii. 14, " Neque jam Salus servare, 
 si volt, me potest;" Mostell. II. i. 4, "Nee Salus nobis saluti jam 
 esse, si cupiat, potest;" Cic. Verr. iii. 57, "Quo ex judicio te ulla 
 Salus servari posset." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. I. 
 
 Syrus enters, in liquor, from the house of Micio: and stumbles 
 unon Demea : whose wrath is still further aroused by this confirmation 
 of his last words:— Syrus pays little heed to him, and treats him, 
 as a man in his cups would treat another, to some advice. 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. jEdepol. Cf. Ad. III. i. 2, "Recte sedepol spero ;" and Menaechm. 
 16, H. G. Gellius says that men and women alike us* the oath 
 •• sedepol,'' women only " Mecastor," and men only, " Mehercule." For 
 the diminutive Syrisce, "Syrus, my boy !" compare Plaut. Casin. III. 
 vi. 14, " Olympisce mi," addressed to Olympic — Te curasti molhter, 
 " You've taken special care of yourself." So Hor. Epist. I. iv. 15, 
 '• Bene curata cute ;" I. ii. 29, " In cute curanda plus aequo operate 
 juventus ;'* Plaut. Paen. III. iii. 80, " Ubi ego curer mollius, Quam regi 
 Antiocho oculi curari solent." — Lautcque munus administrasti tuum, 
 " And have nicely discharged your province," or " fulfilled your task," 
 i e "of filling his stomach." Westerhov. compares with this comic 
 u^e of "munus administrare," Plaut. Captiv. IV. iii. 7, "Nunc ibo ad 
 pnefecturam, utjusdicam larido."— Abi. Cf. above, IV. ii. 25, note. 
 J'oxt'iuam. Cf. Adelph. Prol. I. # , 
 
 4. Pradeambulare, a rare use of two prepositions united in compo- 
 sition. Cf. Virg. Gcorg. iii. 256, " Et pede prosubigit terrain." So in
 
 ADELP1II. 95 
 
 Valerius Flncc. IV. 288, and Prudentius, Peristeph. iii 129, we find 
 " prosubigit."— Sis = si vis, Plaut. Aul. 7, Meusech. 264, H. G. ; Ter. 
 Heaut. I. ii. 38 — Ecce au'em. Cf. above, IV. vii. 4. — Quid tu, es tristis, 
 Key's Gr. §. 873. 
 
 7. Ohe jam, "Hold! enougb, there!" Compare above, IV. vii. 5. 
 The punctuation of Fleckeisen seems right here ; the colon being 
 placed after jam. — Sapientia, " old wiseacre," the abstract for the 
 concrete, as "arma" for "armati;" scelus (in v. 6) for " sceleste." 
 This is better than taking sapientia as the ace. neut. plur. agreeing 
 with "verba." — Tu si mens esses — SuchisBentley's reading, preferable to 
 the usual reading of editions, " Tun', si meus esses ? " Syrus interrupts 
 Demea's remark, which is concluded in 9 and 10. 
 
 9. Titam rem constabi/is»es, " You would be rich, and would have 
 established your fortunes." Cf.Plaut.Capt.il. iii. 92— 93, " Edepol 
 rem meam constabilivi." Cicero Philipp. xi. 2, " Rem fainiliarem con- 
 stitutes." Exemplo for exemplum, is the reading of the Codex 
 Bembinus. — In ipsd turbd, " In the very midst of this disturbance." 
 As Westerhov. remarks, " sedatum " is properly applied to " turba," as 
 well as " peccatum ; " though of course grammatically it is only con- 
 nected with the latter. 
 
 13. Quasi re bene gesid, "As if matters had been well and success- 
 fully managed." A military metaphor, cf. Virg. JEn. ix. 157, " Quod 
 superest, lseti bene gestis corpora rebus Procurate, viri ;" Plaut. 
 Ainphit. 1 1, ii. 23, "Re gesta bene Victis hostibus, quos nemo posse 
 superati ratu'st." — Nollem hue exitum, " I would I had not come forth 
 hither." Cf. above, II. i. 11, " Nollem factum;" Heaut. I. ii 26, 
 " Mansum tamen oportuit." " Nolim exitum," would mean, " I should 
 be sorry to have pone out." " Nollem exitum," " I could have wished 
 I had not," &c. Cf. Key's Gram. §. 1221. "Nollem" refers to "past 
 time," or to " what is now impossible." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. II. 
 
 Dromo, Ctesipho's servant, most unluckily breaks in upon Syrus 
 and Demea, with a message from Ctesipho to Syrus. Demea's 
 -u-oicions are routed, and though the slaves vainly try to stop him, 
 he f'jrce* his way into the house. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 4. Parasitastrr parvofuu is the reading of some MSS. and editions. 
 
 But Bentley restores from the C. Bemhiu., "paululus," which is used of 
 
 "stature," while "parvulus" is more properly used of " age." " 'Tis 
 
 ■otoe other Ctesipho, a wretched little parasite." 'Tarasitaster" is a 
 
 Greek diminutive, ai i.-t "Syriscus," in V. i. 1 above. Sec Key's; Gram., 
 
 '.». — Noslint "Don't you know him ] " — Jam BCtbo, "I'll soon 
 
 whe lie is ? " For the form rcibo, see Madvig. Gr. 1 1 ■>, c ; Adelph. 
 
 111. iii. 7; lienach Elaut 11. G. 295. kc.—M'ute me/ "Let me go |" 
 
 or " handH off ! " Cf. Heaut. V. i. 74, " Mitte : siue uic in hac re gcrere 
 
 iiiihi Luoreui."
 
 !'(> NOThS ON 
 
 C. Non manum abttines, nuutigiat " Won't you koop your hands 
 off, Scoundrel 1" "Abstinos" is the present for the future, Plant. 
 Mem&ch, 148, &c. Mattigia (th, paarl^), "one that is always being 
 Hogged." Jt. occurs in Curcul. Plaut. IV. iv. 11. — Cerebrum di*perga<n 
 hie. Cf. above, at III. ii. 19, "Ut cerebro dispergat viam." See 
 note. Bon tley reads " dispergaiu " from the Bembiue Codex ; others, 
 " dispcrgi." 
 
 8. Edepol comi-nsatorem haud save commndum. An exclamation 
 like this is often placed in the accusative without any verb to govern 
 it, e. g. Act. IV. vii. 40. Construe, "In faith, not a very pleasaut 
 fellow-reveller." "Comissator ' is derived from Kufios. Cf. Euu. III. i. 
 62, " Phsedriam iutromittamus Coinissatum." Westcrhov. quotes 
 from Menander — 
 
 6 aKKr)pbs avfjp lariv iv vtots ytpu>v. 
 
 10. Hce silescunt turbce, " While this storm is blowing over." Com- 
 pare Plaut. Mil. G. II. vi. 100, "Dum hae cousilescuut turbae, atcpie 
 irte leuiunt." 
 
 11. Edormiscam hoc villi, "Sleep off this bout of wine." For 
 " edormiscere " thus used with a case after it, cf. Plaut. lindens, II. vii. 
 28, " Ut edormiscam banc crapulam." In a different sense Horace says, 
 in Sat. II. iii. 61, "Fufius ebrius olim Cum lltonam edormit." — Villi 
 from "villum," is a diminutive of " vinum," formed as •'ullus" from 
 " unua ;" " asellua" from "asiuus," &c. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. III. 
 
 Demea, re-entering from Micio's .house, meets him coming forth 
 from Sostrata's, and finishing a few words with her, expressive of all 
 being ready for the marriage. He bursts out into a fierce tirade against 
 his brother for having corrupted and spoiled both his sons, for he has 
 just witnessed Ctesipho's falliug-off. Micio replies, that he has found 
 the money for the lads' amusement, and that he will still do 80. 
 Time, he says, will mend their morals, and their natural dispositions 
 are good. At any rate, he adds, smooth your brow today. Demea 
 agrees, but vows he will make the music-girl scrub, when he gets her 
 home to the farm. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 2. Quisnam a me pepulit, &c. For "a me" here, see Andr. IV. i. 
 59, note ; Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. i. 76. See also above, IV. iv. 25, note. 
 Here, as Knhuken notes, "pepulit" La used in a rarer sense of one 
 coming <mt, of which "crepo" or " concrepo" is more commonly used. 
 — Quid clametn, cf. IV. vii. 9, note. 
 
 4. O caluml U terra/ &c. Cf. Plaut. Trinumm. IV. iii. 63, "Mare, 
 terra, ccelum, Di vostram fidem." Donatus quotes Virg. JEu. ii. 745, 
 " Quem non incusavi amens hominumque Deorumque." Ii^v. 6, with 
 succurrendumst, understand " Ctesiphoui." 
 
 7. Vorruptela nostrUm liberdm. Cf. above, II. i. 34, " Pernicies 
 adolesceutium." — Ad te redi, " Be yourself again." Cf. Andr. III. v.
 
 ADELPHI. 97 
 
 1G, "Sine — ad me redeam;" Heaut. V. i. 48, "Non sum apud me;" 
 Audr. V. iv. 34, &c. Iu St. Luke's Gospel, xv. 17, we find els eavrhv 
 eAdav used in the same sense ; and Kunoel there quotes this passage, 
 and Lucret. iv. 994, " Donee discussis redeant erroribus." 
 
 10. Rem ipsam putemus, "Let us argue the matter in itself" — a 
 metaphor from computations. Cf. Plaut. Aul. 482, H. G.; Ter. Eun. 
 IV. ii. 4, " Dum base puto." — Adeo in ver. 11, strengthens ex te. Cf. 
 Andr. III. hi. 47, note, "Tute adeo." Construe, "The suggestion 
 arose from yourself." 
 
 13. Cur recipis meumt "Why do you harbour my boy?" So in 
 Hecyr. V. i. 16, " Meum receptas filium ad te Pamphilum." "Recep- 
 tore*," says Ulpian, "' non minus delinquunt quam aggressores." — 
 Numqui minus — quod mecum est tibi ? " Is it anywise unfair that I 
 should have the same rights as regards you, as you have as regards 
 me ] " Bentley reads " tecum " after jus idem, as being required by 
 the antithesis. It is at any rate implied. 
 
 17. Non eequom dicis. Dem. Non f Such is the reading of Zeune, 
 Parry, and Fleckeisen. Gronoviua, Lindenbr., Westerhov., &c, read 
 " Non aequom dicis : non," &c Gronov. observes that the second non 
 strengthens the negation, as in I. ii. 22, "Non est flagitium scortaii 
 adolescentulum ; non est;" Catull. xiv. 16, u Non non hoc tibi, sal se, 
 sic abibit." — Comrnunia esse amicorum, &c. Parry adduces Aristot. 
 Polit. II. v. 6 (Congreve), Ethics, viii. 9. 1 ; ix. 8. 2, for the proverb 
 Kotva to Tie <pi\(cv. Cicero, in his Offices, i. 16, and De Legibus, i. 12, 
 quotes the same proverb. The proverb is quoted by Westerhov. as 
 from Menander. Cicero calls it "Ilia Pythagorea vox." 
 
 19. Nunc demum, " At this late period." Micio, in Act I. seen. ii. 
 had advocated a distinction of rights and responsibilities. — Aucsulta 
 paueit, cf. Andr. I. i. 2, note. — Si te id mordet. Eun. III. i. 55, " Quod 
 earn mordeat;" Virg. yEn. i. 261, "Quando hjec te cura remordet." — 
 Sumptum filii quern faciunt. Attraction of antecedent to the case and 
 clause of the relative. Cf. Madvig. Gr. § 319, obs. Andr. Prol. 3, 
 note; Eunuchus IV. lii. 11, " Eunuchum quern dedisti nobis, quas 
 turbas dedit." 
 
 23. Pro re tollebas tied, " You bred them according to your station 
 in life," or " as befitted your fortune." Cf. Heaut. V. i. 67, " Pro re 
 nosti 
 
 26. Eandem Mam anliquam rationem obtine, "Still stick to that good 
 old plan." Cf. Andr. IV. v. 22, note ; Hecyr. V. iv. 20. — Qloriam tu 
 ittam obtine, "Do you get yourself the credit of your present plan." 
 But Bentley reads with the old editions and MSS., "Gloriamque istanc 
 tibi" [obtine]. In these, " obtino " is clearly a gloss ; and tbis reading 
 uceins preferable. 
 
 29. Mca qu<e prater spem — ntantur. For the ace, after such verbs 
 R8"utor," cf. Audr. ProL 5, " Operant abutitur" (note); l'laut. Pscn. V. 
 ii. 128, "Profeoto uteris, ut roles, operum nieani." — De summd nil 
 decedet) &c., "Nothing will be drawn from your principal; whatever 
 addition shall have accrued to it from my funds, count all that clear 
 gain." J/inc in said KaKTit<ws. — Id de lucro putato esse omne. Coin- 
 pare, for <& hicri Phono. II. i. 16, "Quioquid prater ipem evoniat, 
 omne id deputsbo esse in lucro." Hecyr. III. i. 7, " Dmnu quod est 
 [uteres tempus — in lucro est." Hor Od. I. ix. 14, " Queui sors dicruui 
 
 r
 
 0* MOTES ON 
 
 , unique dabit lucro Aflpone." — Dempseris molcstiam, cf. IV. vii. 18 
 ' Dempsi omnem metum." 
 
 31. Mittorem: consueludinem ipsorum, " I pass over tho question of 
 monoy : 'tis their morals I care about." Understand " euro " " queror," 
 or some such verb. — Istuc ibam, "I was coining to that." Eun. I. ii. 
 44, "Soil sino me pervenire, quo volo ;" Hor. Sat. I. i. 108, " llluc, 
 undo abii, redeo." In homine, ''in man's nature." 
 
 37. Duo quom idem faciant, &c, "So that you can often say, when 
 two persons do tho same, ' this man may be let do this without mis- 
 chief to him, that one may not.' " Parry observes well that "impune" 
 is used subjectively.— Non quod, &c, " Not that the thing itself is 
 criminal, But he who does it." Colman.— Qua ego, &c. (sigua, sc. from 
 v. 86). 
 
 41. In loco vereri, " De la pudeur, quand il faut," Madame Dacier; 
 " Ingenuous shame, at the proper season." Cf. for in loco, above, II. 
 ii. 8, and Heaut. III. ii. 27, note— Scires liberum, &c. The usual read- 
 ing here is " Scire est," h. e. "Scire licet," as in Heaut.I.ii.18, "Credere 
 est" was the old reading for " crederes." Parry, in both cases, rightly 
 reads "crederes," "scires," following Lachmann on Lucret. v. 533. 
 
 44. Rcducas (" ad oliicium," sc.) — Ne ab re sint. tamen Onmsiores 
 paulo, " That they may yet bo somewhat too careless as to their own 
 interests." Omissions is tho opposito of " attentiores " in ver. 48. 
 Compare Hcaut. V. ii. 9, note, " Animo esse omisso." At ver. 46, Wes- 
 terhov. quotes from Stobams a fragment of Menauder — 
 
 et t' SA\' a<paipuv 5 iro\os tlwdev XP 6 "" * 
 ■fyuoij', t6 ye (poove7v aartyaheaTtpov notei. 
 
 46. Solum unum hoc vitium. Lindenbrog. quotes here Cic. de Senect. 
 c. 18 and Horace. A. P. 169, "Multa senem circumveniunt incorn- 
 moda : vel quod Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet et timet uti." 
 Attentiores cf. below, V. viii. 31. — Quod illos sat cetas acuet, "As to 
 which time will sufficiently sharpen them." Quod is the accusative 
 of limitation, as in Greek 8 for ko.0' '6. For the use of acuo see Virg. 
 (jeorg. i. 123, "Curis acuens mortalia corda." 
 
 50. Bonce turn istee rationcs, "Those fine arguments of yours ;f 
 tuos isle animus csquos, "your boasted fairness in thinking " (ironically). 
 — Date hodic miki, " Yield yourself to my guidance for the day." Cf. 
 Eun. III. iii. 10, " Mihi scse dare."— Exporge frontcm, " Unruflle your 
 brow." Cf. Hor. Sat. II. ii. 125, " Exphcuit vino contractoe seria 
 frontis;" Od. III. xxix. 16, " Sollicitam explicucre frontem ;" Plant. 
 Cas. II.' iv. 3, "Porrectiore fronte ;" Hor. Epist I. xviii. 94, "Heme 
 supercilio nubem ; " Eurip. Alcest. 776, ffTvyvqi wpoawncp ica\ avvo<ppv- 
 wfitvy.— Frrt, cf. Anflr. II. i. 17, note; Adelph. I. i. 28^ 
 
 55. Cum primo lucu. Here Bentley reads " luci," the adverb, as 
 "mani' for "mane." "Luci" is found in Plant. Ciatell. II. i. 49, 
 " Cum primo lucL" But Donatus reads and justifies "lucu," which we 
 therefore retain. To satisfy the metrical difficulties of this verse, 
 Bentley and others reject " ibo hinc," and consider that there is an 
 aposiopesis. Fleckeisen leaves out " immo," which comes to the 
 same thing. Construe, "I'll go hence at day-dawn." Mia, " Nay, I'd 
 advise you to go at midnight." For "Cum primo lucu," compare
 
 ADELPHl. 99 
 
 Sail ust Jugurth. c. 68, "Cam occasu solis;" and for " De nocte," used 
 as here, Hor. Epist I. ii. 32, "Surgunt de nocte latrones;" Key (Gr. 
 1326. k), seems to think that " de " in such ca6es signifies "by" or in 
 " the course of." — I/iluru/n; cf. above, IV» vii. 38, note. 
 
 57. Pugmaaeru, " You will have won the day," h. e. "fought (and 
 conquered)." Lf. Plaut. Epid. II T. iv. 57, " Pugnasti : homo es." Cf. 
 also, Eun. V. ii. 60, "Dabit hie aliquam puguam denuo." — IUi, in ver. 
 58, is i. q. " illic ;" cf. Phorm. I. ii. 41, "Dum sedemus illi;" Adelph. 
 I. ii. 36 ; Plaut. Men. (H. G.) 223. Illic=" to the farm," or " country," 
 here. 
 
 59. Ego istuc videro, " I'll look to that," or " trust me to look to 
 that." Cf. Andr. II. vL 25, note. — A'que ibi plena — molendo, "And 
 I'll take care that there she be up to her eyes in asbes, smoke and 
 flour, in cooking and grinding:." Donatus remarks upon the varepov 
 wporepov here, and compares Virg. iEn. L 179, " Et torrere parant 
 flammis et frangere saxo." In the Mercator of Plautus II. iii. 62, we 
 find a fuller account of a female slave's occupations, " Nihil opus 
 nobis ancilla, nisi quae tesat, quae molat, Lignum cacdat, pensum faciat, 
 aedes verrat, vapulet, Quseque habeat cotidianum familiae coctum 
 cibum." — Meridie ipso, " at high noon." Varro and Donatus wrongly 
 derive "meridies" from"medius" and "dies," "quasi medi-die." It 
 is derived from "merus dies." But see Donaldson's Varronianus, p. 
 256, who seems to recognise the change of "d" into "r" in the 
 derivation of this word. 
 
 63. Tarn excoctam, " as dried up" or "melted out." Placet —" well 
 done." Cogam, in ver. 61, is i. q. "cogerem," " I'd force my son " &c. 
 ('• if I were you," sc.) — Ego scntw, "I feel;" " while you are trifling" 
 is implied in uto animo sies. 
 
 68. Cut rei ett, ei rei hunc sumamus diem. So read Fleckeisen, Parry, 
 and other modern editors, following the Bembine, Vatican, and other 
 MSS. The reading of Weeterhov. and Zeune, " ei hi'.arem hunc 
 sumamus diem" (cf. II. iv. 23), errs against the metre here. Construe, 
 " And let ub spend this day on that affair (the nuptials, that is,) to 
 which it is dedicated." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Df.mka takes counsel with himself, and reflecting on his brother's ways 
 and on his own, and then on the results of eacli course, as regards the 
 resolves that " it is never too lato to mend." He will try Micio's 
 i henceforward. 
 
 Metre: — Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 1. Bene suhducld ratione ad vit<nn, " Never has any one bo well cast 
 up his accounts as regards his life" — "made his reckonings as to his 
 life so well." For the phrase " subdurf-re rationem," cf. Plant. Cure. 
 Act liLSc. 1. "Snbduxi ratiunculam; Quantum ocris mini sit, quantamqtte 
 . siet;" Captiv. L ii. 89 ; Cic. ad Fain, i. Bp. 9, " Uircumspcctm 
 rebus omnibus, rationibusque aubductia." 
 
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 100 NOTES OK 
 
 4. Prima, h. e. "primo loco ponenda," "most desirable." — In ex- 
 j>, riwtdo Ut rrpudies. We retain " ut, " following the Codex Bembin. 
 
 6. P rope jam cxcurso spatio, "When at Last my course iB well-nigh 
 run." Beutley reads " decurso," omitting " jam " ; and, doubtless, 
 "decurso" is most common in this sense. See Plaut. Mer. III. ii. 4, 
 " Decurso in spatio," &c. ; Virg. Georg. ii. 39 ; Plaut. Stich. I. ii. 14, 
 " Decurso aetatis spatio." The metaphor is from the race-course. — 
 Facilitate, " good nature " ; clementid, " moderation." With ver. 9, com- 
 pare above I. i. 17, "Ego banc clementem vitam urbanam," &c. 
 
 10 Nulli Icedere os, "he offends no one to his face." For the 
 Infinitive put, as here, absolutely, see Andr. I. i. 35; Key's Gr. 1253. 
 The opposite of " os lsedere," occurs above II. iv. 5, " In os laudare." 
 
 11. Sibivixit, "He has lived after his own fancy." Cf. Heaut. II. 
 iii. 47, " Ita uti qua; ornantur sibi," h. e. " for their own satisfaction." 
 — Benedicunt: amant ; cf. Andr. I. i. 41, "Obsequium amicos, Veritas 
 odium parit." — In the next line, agrestis is churlish. Cf. Hor. Epist. 
 I. xviii. 6, " Asperitas agrestis et inconcinna gravisque." 
 
 13. Duxi uxorem, &c. Westerhov. quotes Menander, 
 
 rb yvvouKa %x iiv «?«"»' T * iraiSoov, Happ4vu>v, 
 iraripa, ij.tpip.vas t<? $i'<£ noKKas (peptt. 
 
 — Quam ibi miseriam vidi, "What miseries I experienced thereby ;" ibi. 
 For " vidi," in this sense Stalbaum quotes Virg. ^En. ii. 5, " Quseque 
 ipse miserrima vidi," and from the Scriptures, Psalm xxxiv. 13 ; 1 Pet. 
 iii. 10, rjptpas iSelv ayadds. 
 
 15. Facerem, i. q. "conficerem;" compare Livy I. ix., "Magnas opes 
 sibi, magnumque nomen facere." — Contrivi in qucerendo vitam, " I have 
 spent my life in getting money." Cf. Ter Phorm. I. iv. 32, "Contrimus 
 operam frustra ; " Hecyr. V. iii. 17, " Totum hunc contrivi diem." 
 — Exacta estate, cf. Heaut. II. iii. 39, " Vitam — exegerit ; " Plaut. 
 Aulul. (H. G.) 4, "Malam rctatem exigas;" Cic. pro Deiotaro, c. 10, 
 " Jam aetate exacta." — Hoc fructi, " This measure of requital." For this 
 ancient genitive for " fructus," see Andr. II. ii. 28, " Ornati, tumulti ; 
 and Madvig. Gr. 47, obs. 2. 
 
 18. Patria potitur commoda, "Reaps all a father's comforts," Colman. 
 For " potior" with an accusative, see below, ver. 22, " potitur gaudia." 
 
 20. IUum ut vivat optant; cf. Heaut. I. i. 32, " Fac me, ut sciam." — 
 Meam autem mortem expectant; cf. I. ii. 28, note. — Fecit suos, "has won 
 over to himself." Cf. Andr. V. vi. 12, "Tuus est nunc Chremes; " and 
 below at V. vi. 10, "Plebem — facio meam." 
 
 23. Age, age, &c. The reading here given is from the Bembine MS. 
 Bentley reads " experiar," and omits the first " age." Parry explains 
 the metre by making " age age nunc " one foot — ■«-■ — . Benigne facere, 
 " act liberally." Plaut. Capt. V. i. 29, " Facis benigne." Cf. Plaut. 
 McnaDchm. Prol. 16, H. G. "Benignitas." It differs from " liberalitas," in 
 not being confined to "giving," and from "comitas" which consists in 
 words. Its subject matter is " quocunquo niodo benefacere." — Qv.ando 
 hocprovocat, " Since he challenges me to it." Hoc, the Bembine reading 
 is i. q. hue ; the common reading is eo. 
 
 25. Magni — pendi, "to be made much of," or "highly prized," Andr. 
 I. v. 59, " Te Bemper fecit niaxiiui;" Madvig. Gr. § 294, obs. 1. —
 
 ADELPHI. 101 
 
 Non posteriores feyam (partes, sc.), Gr. ret ecrxaTa (pt'perdai. A metaphor 
 from the stage. For the ellipse of "partes "see Hor. Sat. I. ix. 46, 
 " Magnum adjutorem, posset qui ferre secundas." The phrase was 
 used primarily of the 8€vT€paycMivio~TT)s. 
 
 27. Deerit (si ptcunia, sc), " Suppose money fail ; that is of least 
 consequence to me, seeing that I am the eldest." "Si" is often omitted 
 in hypothetical sentences, see Key's Gr. 1219 ; Madvig. § 442 a, obs. 2 ; 
 Virg. ^u. vi. 30. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. V. 
 
 Dehea proceeds to make his first experiment in mended manners 
 upon Syrus, and thinks he does it rather well. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Abeas longing ; cf. Plaut. Mensechm. (Hildyard) 241, " Proin tute 
 ab scdibus ne quo abeas longius." 
 
 2. Syre noster, salve, quid fit 1 quid ar/itur? "Ha! worthy Syrus, 
 good day ! What's up ] How go matters ? " 
 
 5. Servum haud illiberalem te prcebes, h. e. "servis liberaliter; " cf. 
 Andr. I. i. 11. Construe, "Your conduct is that of a very respectable 
 slave." — Tibi lubens bene faxim, " I should be glad to do you a good 
 turn." So Plaut. Trin. II. ii. 47, "Bene volo ego illi facere." — Atqui, 
 Syre. The old man is fearful that Syrus will think he is joking. 
 —Propediem; cf. Heaut. I. i. 108; IV. viii. 27. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. VI. 
 
 Gf.ta coming out from Sostrata's house to prepare for the wedding 
 is accosted by Demea in the same improved style of courtesy. 
 
 Metre:— Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Hue ad hos proviso, "I'm going hither to our neighbours here, to 
 see how soon," &c. For proviso, see Andr. V. v. 1, " Proviso quid agat 
 Pamphilus;" Plaut. Men. II. G. G06. 
 
 0, qui vocarc? " Oh ! what's your name?" Donatus quotes Virg. 
 .En. i. :;J7, " O quam te memorem, virgo !" Demea's repetition of the 
 u.ave's name, when he learns it, shows his anxiety to please. — Homim m 
 M j.reti. Andr. V. ii. 15, " Videtur esse quantivis preti." 
 5. Servos spcctalus sads, "A thoroughly tested slave." Metaphor from 
 theapsay of metals; cf. Andr. I. i. 04; Plaut. Men. H. G. 860, "Spectamen 
 bono servo" (a test of a good servant) ; Aul. H. G. 542. — Si quid 
 
 it, " If anything shall have happened;" usu3 venit, is i. q, "ueu 
 . en it," used aa one word. Cf. note :it Beaut, III. ii. (2, 
 Q usus veniet, spero ; " Phorui. I. i. 23, "Mi usus venit, hooscio." 
 / a bene fuxirn ; cf. above, V. v. 6. 
 8. Medilor esse affabilis, &,c, "I'm practicing affability, and it sue •
 
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 admirably." For " moditor," cf. Virg. Eel. i. 2; und for " procedit," of 
 Cicero. Voit. iii. 98, "Si bene processit." It is used personally below 
 at V. ix. 22. " Byre, processisti hodio pulchre." — In ver. 9, cum=" quia," 
 as in Plaut. Memeohm 1(144, " Cum tu liber es, gaudeo, Messenio." 
 
 10. Patdatiin plebem, &o., " First of all I'm gradually winning ovor 
 the lower orders." Ovid. A. A. ii. 259, "Fac plebeui, mini crede. tuam ;" 
 Cic. pro Milone, c. 35, " Plebem suam bo i'ecisae commemorat." Cf. 
 above V. iv. 21. 
 
 ACTUS V.-Sc. VII. 
 
 ^EaCHlNDS next comes in for a share of his father's new-found 
 amiability. He is complaining of the delays occasioned by needless 
 preparations for tho marriage; and Demea chimes in with his views, 
 advocating his making a way through the boundary wall, so as to 
 bring homo Pamphila without further delay. ./Eschinus is charmed 
 at the suggestion. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Occident me, " They worry me to death." Ruhuken quotes Hor. 
 Epod. xiv. 5, "Candido Maecenas, occidis srepe rogando," and Ter. 
 Phorin. IV. iii. 67, " Geta, occidisti me tuis fallaciis." — Nimis sanctas, 
 "too formal." Parry. — Quid ayitur, "How d'ye do]" or "how goes 
 it ? " Cf. " Quid agis," Plaut. Men. H. G. 62. 
 
 4. Et anltno et nature!, " Autant par la teudresse, que par la nature ; " 
 Madame Dacier. — Hosce oculos; cf. IV. v. 67, above. — Hoc mild morcent; 
 cf. IV. v. 78, note. 
 
 7. Tibicina, et Ilymcnceum qui cantent, " A female flute-player, and 
 some to sing the nuptial song." In Andr. II. ii. 28, the lack of ''flowers 
 and flute-players" ("nil ornati, nil tumulti") is taken as proof of no 
 wedding being about to take place. For " Hymenaeum cantare," cf. 
 Casiua (Plaut.), IV. iii. 11, "Hymen hymensee ! Io Hymen. Perii hercle 
 ego miser, dirupi Cantaudo Hymeufcum," Catullus, Carm. lxi. and lxii. 
 passim. Sec also Smith's Gr. and It. Ant. pp. 5i>9, 604, and 969. Tibi- 
 cina (cf. Plaut. Aulul. H. G. 237), is L q. " tibiacina." 
 
 8. Huic seui, "an old man like mo,'' Sciktikuis, cf. Hor. Sat. I. ix. 47, 
 "Hunc hominem velles si tradere." — Turbos, lampadas, fidicinas ; cf. as 
 above, Andr. II. ii. 28. For lampadas (torches), at weddings, cf. 
 Ovid. Epist. xii. 137, " Ut subito nostras Hymen cautatus ad aures 
 Venit et accenso lampades igne micant;" Plaut. Cas. i. 30, "Primum 
 omnium huic lucebis novae nuptae faccm." 
 
 10. Maccriam, "a wall" (th. fia.Ke\os, Smith's Diet.). The word is 
 very rare ; never found, except in this passage, in Plautus or Terence. 
 Westerhov. quotes from Plaut. Merc. V. iv. 49, "Iliac per hortum noa 
 domum traasibimuB." — Quantum potest, cf. Andr. V. ii. 20, note, liac 
 (sc. via) " this way," h. e. through the breach. 
 
 13. Pater lepidisdme, " Most jolly father." Cf. Plaut. Men. 71, H. G., 
 " Lepidissirnum horninem; " and Aulul. 658, " O lepidum diem." So 
 in Andr. V. iv. 45, " lepidum patrem." — Fralri cedes fient pervies, "My 
 brother's house will become a thoroughfare;" Virg. iEn. ii. 453, 
 " PerviuB usus Tectoruin inter se Piiaml"
 
 ADELPIII. 103 
 
 1 5. The Bembine MS. here has " amittet," and omits " et " before 
 " suniptum." A very neat emendation is Fleckeisen's "Surnptu amittet 
 multa," " he'll lose much by his expenses." The ordinary reading is 
 rumptum admitlet, = "he will incur expense." Malta standing by 
 itself seems rather unmeaning. — Quid m* a {refert, sc.), " What care I ?" 
 
 17. Jube nunc jam Dinumeret ilie Babylo viginti minas. Such is 
 Bentley's reading, who explains it, " Come then, now let yon spend- 
 thrift count out his twenty minrc." (I am quits with him, I shall get 
 quite as many thanks.) — Babylo, he considers, is i. q. "Babylonian." 
 because the Mrdes and Persians were luxurious and expensive beyond 
 other nations. Jube, he says, is, i. q. " age ;" cf. Mostell. Plaut. II. i. 79. 
 He supposes the words to be uttered " aside." Burrnann at Sueton. 
 Ner. c. 36, approves this explanation. Parry, after Colman, reads 
 " Dinumeret illi Babylo," &c, " Let Babylo (one of Dtmea's slaves) 
 count out for him (^Eschinus) twenty rniuffi," a marriage present. We 
 prefer Bentley's explanation, which appears that of Donatus also, and 
 which is approved by Ruhnken. 
 
 19. Tu -Mas abi et traduce, an _ instance of the figure crvyxvirit. 
 Ruhnken illustrates it by Plaut. Merc. V. iv. 35, " Serva et subveni 
 puuc senem." — Dt tibi Bene faciant; cf. Plaut. Menreclun. 919, Hildyard. 
 
 21. Tarn ex animo factum velle, "wish so well:" "are so kindly 
 disposed." Compare Plaut. Aulul. Hildyard's Glossary, 640, "Facta 
 velle me quae tu velis ; " and notes at 101, "Facta volo." — In ver. 24, 
 enim seems to be used emphatically, " Why to be sure," as in Plaut. 
 Mena;chm. 85, II. G., or elliptically, as in Aul. 454, H. G. — Sic soleo, 
 "such is my wont;" cf. Eun. II. ii. 48, "Sic soleo ainicos." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. VIII. 
 
 Micio, finding what orders Demea has been giving, comes out to see 
 with his own eyes, and to test this transformation of a churl into a 
 good-fellow. Demea astounds him with a proposal, that he, Micio, 
 shall marry Sostrata ; to which, though loth at first, he consents after 
 persuasion from his brother and iEschinus. He is next induced to 
 give up a small farm to Ilenio, as a relation of Sostrata and Pamphila, 
 and Demea enforces the exhortation to do this, by a quotation from 
 Micio's own speech, in V. iii. 18. 
 
 Metre: — 1 — 10,33. Iambic Trimeter. 
 11— 22, 24—32, 34. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 23. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalcctic. 
 3. Unam famrc ; cf. V. vii. 11, " Unam fac domum." — Colcre, "to 
 cherish ;" cf. Virg. A'.n. i. 16, " Posthabita eoluisse Samo." — Adjuru/eve, 
 "to ally with ourselves." So Plaut. Triuumm. III. ii. 73, "Affinitateui 
 adstrinxeris." 
 
 6. Quid postcn ; cf. IV. i. 13; Eun., II. iii. 79, "Quid turn postea." — 
 Ha aiwit, Id nut. IV. viii. 12.— For respici«t in ver. 8, cf. Andr. IV. 
 i.18, note; Adel. Hi. ii. 55, " Nemo reapicit DOS," note. — Solasl, "She's 
 a lone woman ;" Andr. I. v. 55, " 1'erquo hujuB solitudiucm ; " II. iii. 7,
 
 101 NOTES ON 
 
 "Tutu hncc solast mulier." — Quam hie rem agit? "What are you driving 
 at?" Cf. Hcaut. I. i. 37, note. — In vcr. 10, Autem indicates "astonish- 
 ment." Cf. Plaut. Men. 685 ; & 687 H. G. 
 
 10. Te operam, utfiat, dare. This is addressed to ^Eschinus, accord- 
 ing to Donatus. 
 
 11. Si tu sis homo, Hie faciat, "If you've a man, he'll do it," Colmau. 
 Cf. I. ii. 27, "Si esses homo," kc. — Aeine; cf. Ter. Heaut. V. i. 4, " Qua* 
 Hunt dicta in stultum caudex, stipes, asinus, plnujbeus." — Nil agis, 
 " It's no use your opposing it;" cf. II. i. 13, " Nil facis." 
 
 14. Aufer ("te," sc. according to Donatus: " manum" sc. according to 
 Huhnken). " Off ! " or " Away with you." ^Escliiuus had been, with 
 earnest gesture and supplicating hand, trying to persuade him. Cf. 
 Ter. Phorm. I. iv. 46, " Aufer mi oportet ;" V. vi. 17, and III. iii. 26, 
 "Aufer tc hinc." — Da veniam Jilio, "Grant your son's request," " Indulge 
 your son's wish." So Gronovius explains, quoting Cic. ad Fratr. iii. 
 Ep. 1, " Quod tibi amautissiuie peteuti veniam non dedit, uti rescri- 
 beret." 
 
 16. Idne estis auctores mihi? For this construction see Key's Gram- 
 mar, § 909. Construe, " Is this what you recommend to me I " 
 Cf. Phorm. IV. iii. 20, " Uno ore auctores fuere ut," &c. ; Plaut. Pseud. 
 I. iii. 2, "Quid mihi es auctor." — In the line above demum = "now for 
 the first time ;" cf. Ad. II. ii. 25, above ; and see Key's Gr. § 1447. 
 
 17. De te largitor, puerl " Be liberal of what's your own, lad !" Dc te 
 = irapa ffavrov. Cf. Plaut. Men. 446 (Hildyard's Gloss.), "Da, sodes, 
 abs te." Ruhnken quotes Plaut. Pseud. II. iv. 45, " Possum a me 
 dare." — Da veniatn'm ver. 19 is as in ver. 14. — Negravere, " Don't take it 
 amiss." Cf. Plaut. Mil. G. IV. vi. 15, " Quod cupiam ne gravetur." — 
 Non omittis ? " Won't you let me alone ? " Pres. for future, as in 
 Plaut. Men. 148. 
 
 20. Vis hcec est quidem, a protest that he acts under coercion. Plaut. 
 Capt. III. v. 92, " Vis hsec est quidem hercle ;" Sueton. C. J. Caesar. 82, 
 " Ista quidem vis est." — Age prolixe, Micio, " Act handsomely, Micio ! " 
 Parry refers to Eun. V. viii. 52, " Accipit hominem nemo melius 
 prorsus, neque prolixius." It is derived from " laxus." 
 
 23. Merito te amo," I love you and you deserve it." Cf. Eun.I.ii. 106, 
 " Merito te amo : bene facis." — Hoc confit, quod volo, " This answers to 
 my wish," Colman ; " What I wish is being brought about." Cf. Andr. 
 I. L 140, "Et spero confore ;" Virg. Ma. iv. 115, " Confieri possit." 
 " Confit " is the reading of Donatus, but Bentley proposed " Merito tuo 
 te amo. Verum. — Mic. Quid 1 Dem. Ego dicam, hoc cum Jit quod 
 volo." And this reading, with the exception of "tuo," we retain, as 
 adopted by Fleckeisen. In the next line, we read with Bentley " Quid 
 nunc? quid restat," for "quod restat" and "his" for "istis." 
 
 25. Affinis nobis. Donatus notes that this is an illustration of the 
 difference between "cognatus" and "affinis." The wife's "cognati" 
 are " affiues" to the husband ; cf. Plaut. Aulul. 427. H. G, where it is 
 shown that "cognatus" is connected by ties of blood, " affinis" only by 
 those of marriage. 
 
 26. Agclli est hie sub urbe, &c. " There's a bit of land here near the 
 town." For sub in this sense, cf. Plaut. Trin. II. iv. 107, "Est ager 
 sub urbe hie nobis ;" Martial. XI. xviii. 1, " Rus sub urbe." — Quod 
 locitas foras, " Which you let out."— Huic demus qui fruatur, " Let us
 
 ADELPHI. 105 
 
 give him the use of it." Gronov. explains the phrase " dare agrum 
 qui fruatur," dare " ut annuos inde fructus ac reditus percipias, ita tamen 
 ut ager meus maneat :" — " usufructuariuua" in legal phraseology. For 
 this abl. " qui " cf. Heaut. IV. iii. SO, " Nam qui ille potuit esse in tuto, 
 die mihi ;" IV. v. 30, " Aurum atque vestem qui . . . tenesne ?" " Dare 
 fruendum," and " locare fruendum" (cf. Livy. lib. xlii. 19) differ, the 
 latter being " to let the usufruct." — Paululum id autem ? " Nay, but is 
 it such a bit." 
 
 28. Pro patre, " in the light of a father ;" cf. Eun. II. iii. 84, " Facile 
 ut pro eunucho probes." — Postremo non meum, &c, " Last of all these 
 words I'm using are not mine." Bentley from two MSS. reads "nunc" 
 for "non." But either reading will stand with equal force. For ver. 
 31 compare V. iii. 48. 
 
 32. The simplest reading of this verse and the two following is to 
 insert, with Parry, Micio at the close of ver. 32. — Mi pater/ will then be 
 an exclamation of ^Eschinus at the end of ver. 33. Gaudeo will be in 
 Micio's mouth in ver. 34, and Suo sibi gladio will belong to Demea. 
 Hermann carries these words into the next scene, and places them in 
 the mouth of Syrus. For Quid istic " enough," in 33, see Andr. III. 
 iii. 40. note ; Heaut. V. v. 9 ; and for Suo sibi gladio huncjugulo, Plant. 
 Capt. I. i. 14, "Suo sibi succo vivunt." For the adage cf. Cicero pro 
 Csecina, c. 29, * Aut tuo, quemadmodum dicitur, gladio, aut nostro 
 defensio tua conficiatur necesse est ;" and Senec. Controv. 24, " Hac 
 eum Sallustius vicit, et in suis castris cecidit." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. IX. 
 
 Demea in this last scene follows out his novel theory by procuring 
 the freedom of Syrus (for his care of the morals of his master's sons !) 
 and of his wife Phrygia, and bidding Micio let them have some money 
 to start with. Micio inquires whence has come this change, and then 
 Demea shows that ho has thus acted, in order to afford an illustration 
 of the ease with which popularity may be won by headlong indulgence, 
 and of the lengths to which it may be carried. Ho then offers to be 
 hi.nceforth a friendly adviser to his sons, when they need advice. 
 They accept his offer, and he recommends Ctesipho to bo content with 
 his present love, and all may turn out well. 
 
 Metro : — Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 1. Quod jussuti. At V. vii. 10. q. v. — Prugi homo cs: cf. Heaut. III. 
 iii. 19, note; and III. iii. 30, note; Eun. III. v. 00. The word was 
 (•'iinmonly used in addressing slaves, and signifies "You're an honest 
 fellow." Cf. Plant. Men. II. G. 478, Aul. 542. H. G. — Med quidem 
 • 'in ; cf. I. i. 4 above. 
 5. Ego utos, &c. Donatus hence infers that Syrus was tho "P;eda- 
 gogus." So in Heaut. III. iii. 33 Syrus, another equally rascally 
 "pedagogua" laments that his young charge won't heod him. "Nam 
 [hi jam minus minnsque obtemperat." 
 
 7. ti <jui<!' m porro kvec. Said ironically. — Obsonare cumfi<l<\ Madame 
 
 y 3
 
 l!)f) NOTES ON 
 
 Dacier rightly translates in a note " achcter fidelcment," '• To cater or 
 purvey faithfully." Ruhnken and others read "cum fide scortum," and 
 explain it "fidicioam meretriciaui" or " psaltriam quae fidibus canat." 
 But this is very doubtful. For " obsonare," cf. Plant. Men. H. O. 
 126, Aul. 236, &c. 
 
 8. Adparure de die convivium. "To prepare a banquet early in the 
 afternoon" — a practice encouraging luxury and dissipation. For the 
 Romans were not wont to have their " cceua" or public meal (cf. Plaut. 
 Men. 94. H. G.) till the ninth hour (threo o'clock p. m.); cf. Martial 
 IV. viii , " Imperat exstmctos frangere nona toros." But spendthrifts aud 
 profligates began soon after noon, which is the exact force of "dies" iu 
 the phrase " de die." Cf. "Do nocte," V. iii. 55, note; Hor. Epist. I. 
 ii. 32. For " De die" cf. Catull. xlv. 5, " Vos convivia lauta, sumptuoaa 
 De die facitis." — lepidum capu' I cf. V. vii. 13. 
 
 11. Prodcsse aquomst, &c, " 'Tis but fair one should do him a good 
 turn : other slaves will be the better for it." (Ironically.) — Hie, iEschinus. 
 — Cupio, in ver. 12, is put into the mouth of iEschiuus, as stronger 
 than " volo." 
 
 14. Omnibus fjratiam habeo, &c, " Je vous remercie tons en general, 
 et vous en partieulier, monsieur ! " Madame Dacier. — For BcnefacU, 
 cf. V. v. 6 above, viii. 25. 
 
 15. Ulinam hoc perpctuom fat gaudium, &c, "Would that this joy 
 could be made complete" (uninterrupted). Cf. Hor. Epist. II. ii. 175, 
 "Perpetuus nulli datur usus ;" Hecyr. III. iii. 46, "O fortuna, ut 
 nunquam perpetua es data." See also Plaut. Men. H. G. 1045, where 
 " perpetuo" is similarly used. — Phrygia, observe the female slaves, 
 as the males, are named from the nations which mostly furnished 
 slaves, cf. Syrus, Geta, 
 
 18. flercle vero scrio, " Nay then in good earnest," " Oh, en bonne 
 foi." — Emitti is i. q. " manu mitti," as in Plaut. Pseud. IV. ii. 37, 
 " Mulieremque mihi emittere." In Ter. Phorm. V. v. 2, we find 
 " emissa est manu" in full. — Qaanti est = "quauti empta est," "her 
 value." — Di tibi — omnia omnes, &c. We have adopted Bentley's reading, 
 for which he quotes Plaut. Capt. II. ii. 105, "Di tibi omnes omnia 
 optata offerant." 
 
 22. Pror.essistipulclire, " You have thriven rarely." " Procedere," and 
 " Proveuire," are more commonly used impersonally; cf. V. vi. 9, note. 
 But we find "procedere" used as here, in Hor. Sat. I. ii. 38, "Pro- 
 cedere recte Qui mceehos non vultis," on which passage Bentley quotes 
 "Proccssi8ti pulchre" as i. q. "pulchre tibi processit." — Si quidem 
 porro, &c, " Ay, assuredly, if only, Micio, furthermore you shall do 
 your duty," &c. 
 
 23. Attquid paulum.prm manu Dederis, unde utatur, " You shall have 
 given him some little money in hand, on which to live." For " prae 
 manu" compare Plaut. B.iech. IV. iii. 10, "Qui patri reddidi Omne 
 aurum amans, quod fuit prso manu." Unde utatur, h. e. " quo vivat," 
 "quo victum habeat:" cf. Plaut. Trin. II. ii. 74, "Deum virtute 
 babemus et qui nosmet utamur." For " unde," cf. I. ii. 42. — Istoc 
 vilius, "So much the cheaper,'' Bentley; who explains the words to 
 mean, " I gave the other things : this I'll not give." He derives this 
 explanation from Ch;iri>ius. Donatus explains it, " I won't give even 
 anything more worthless than that " (h. e. a snap of the finger), which
 
 ADELPHI. 107 
 
 is perhaps the better explanation, though in this case the ellipse " quic 
 quam non dabo " is rather a large one. 
 
 28. Prolubium, "inclination" (th. pro-lubere), cf. Aul. Gell. xvi. 19. 
 Some MSS. read " proluvium." But Donatus, Bentley, and other com- 
 mentators read " prolubium," a word recognised and explained by 
 Varro de Lingua Latina. The Vatican MS. has " prolubium." — Quod 
 te isti, &c, " That as to those boys of yours thinking you good-hu- 
 moured and jolly," &c. — Id non fieri ex verd vitd, "that that does not 
 arise from a well regulated life." Cf. Heaut. I. i. 102. " Hoc cum fit, 
 ibi non vere vivitur," where vere = "recta, ratione." For Ex cequo 
 et bono, " from equitable conduct," cf. Heaut. IV. v. 40, Phorm. IV. 
 iii. 32. 
 
 33. Quia nonjusta injuria, &c, "Because I don't humour you in all 
 things altogether, just and unjust alike." Understand " vobis." The 
 accusatives " justa," &c, are "accusatives of limitation," and the con- 
 struction is like that in Phorm. I. ii. 29, "Obsequi quae vellent;" Plaut. 
 As. I. i. 61, "Id ego percupio obsequi nato meo." 
 
 34. Missa facio, " I've done with it all." Andr. IV. i. 56. He meang 
 to say he will henceforth let them go their own way. 
 
 36. Minus vidclis, &c, " Matters in which ye exercise less forethought, 
 more excessive eagerness, and but little deliberation, by reason of your 
 youth." For "minus videtis," see Andr. IV. iii. 23, note, "Aut tu 
 plus vides;" Heaut. III. i. 95, note. 
 
 37. Obsecundare in loco, " To humour you m duo season ;" cf. Ter. 
 Heaut. IV. vi. 22, note ; III. ii. 26, note. 
 
 39. Quid opu facto est ; cf. Andr. III. ii. 10, note ; Madvig. 226, obs. 
 
 40. In iitdc finem faciat, " With her let him finish his intrigues," i. e. 
 Let there be no more music girls. " Let him finish there," Colman. 
 — Cantob. Plaudite; cf. Andr. V. vL 15, note; Heaut. V. v. 21, 
 note.
 
 
 P. TEREMI 
 
 H E C Y R A.
 
 H E C Y II A 
 
 P. TERENTI. 
 
 GR&CA MENANDRV, ACTA LVDTS MEGALENSIBVS, S. IVLIO 
 C/KSARE, CN. CORNEL. DOLABELLA MD. CVR. MODOS FECIT 
 FLACCVS CLAVDI, TIBIIS PARIB. TOTA ACTA PRIMO SINE 
 PROLOGO CN. OCTAVIO T. MANLIO COS. RELATA EST ITERYM 
 LVCIO JSMILIO PAVLO LVDIS FVNERALIBVS, NON EST PLA- 
 CITA. TERTIO RELATA EST, Q. FVLVIO, L. MARCIO, MD. CUR. 
 EGIT LVCIVS AMBIVIVS TVRPIO LVCIVS SERGIVS. FACTA EST 
 QVINTA.
 
 C. SULPICI APOLLTNARIS PERIOCHA, 
 
 Dxorem ducit Pamphilus Philumenaji, 
 Cui quondam ignorans uirgini uitium obtuht, 
 Cui»ijque per uim quern detraxit anulurc 
 Dederat arnica? Bacchidi meretriculas. 
 Dein est profeetus Imbrum : nuptam baud attigit. 
 Hanc mater utero grauidam, ne id sciat socrus, 
 Ut aegram ad sese transfert. reuenit Pamphilus : 
 Deprendit partum : celat : uxorem tamen 
 Recipere non uolt. pater incusat Bacchidis 
 Amorem. dum se purgat Bacchis, anuluin 
 Mater uitiatoe forte agnoscit Myrrina. 
 Uxorem recipit Pamphilus cum filio. 
 
 PERSONS 
 
 Philotis Meretrix. 
 Syra Anvs. 
 Parmeno Servos. 
 Laches Senex. 
 
 SoSTRATA MATRONA. 
 
 Pmim-rvs Senex. 
 
 PaMPUILVS ADVLVSCZHfc 
 
 Myrrina Matkona. 
 Sosia Servos. 
 Baccuis Mbretbix.
 
 PROLOGVS. 
 
 HecyrvE huic est nomcn fabulae : hsec quoin datast 
 Noua, nouorn interuenit uitium et calainitas, 
 Tit neque spectari neque cognosci potuerit : 
 Eta populua studio stupidus in fimambulo 
 Animum occuparat. nunc htec planest pro noua : 
 Et is qui scripsit banc ob earn rem noluit 
 Iteruni referre, ut iteruni posset uendere, 
 Sed * * * * * 
 
 Alias cognostis eius : quceso hanc noscite. 
 
 L. AMBIVIVS PROLOGVS. 
 
 Orator ad uos uenio ornatu prologi : 
 
 Smite exorator sim, eodem ut jure uti seneni 
 
 Liceat, quo jure sum usus adulescentior, 
 
 Nouas qui exactas feci ut inueterascerent, 
 
 Ne cum poeta scriptura euanesceret. 
 
 In his, quas prinium Caecili didici nouas, 
 
 Partim sum earum exactus, partim uix steti. 
 
 Quia scibam dubiam fortunam esse scenicam, 
 
 Spe incerta certum milii laborem sustuli. 
 
 Easdem agare coupi, ut ab eodem alias discerem 
 
 Nouas, studiose, ne ilium ab studio abducerem.
 
 25 
 
 L. AMB1VIVS PROLOGVS. 113 
 
 Perfeci ut spectarentur : ubi sunt cognitse, 
 
 Placitse sunt, ita poetani restitui in locum 
 
 Prope jam remotum injuria aduorsarium 
 
 Ab studio atque ab labore atque arte niusica. 
 
 Quod si scripturam spreuissem in pnesentia 
 
 Et in deterrendo uoluissem operam sumere, 
 
 Ut in otio esset potius quam in negotio : 
 
 Deterruissem facile, ne alias scriberet. 
 
 Nunc quid petam, mea causa sequo animo attendite. 
 
 Hecyram ad uos refero, quam niihi per silentium 
 
 Numquam agere bcitumst : ita earn oppressit calamitas. 
 
 Earn calamitatem uostra intellegentia 
 
 Sedabit, si erit adjutrix nostrae industrise. 
 
 Quom primum earn agere ccepi, pugilum gloria, 
 
 [Funambuli eodem accessit expectatio] 
 
 Comitum conuentus, strepitus, clamor niulierum 
 
 Fecere ut ante tempus exirem foras. 
 
 Vetere in noua coupi uti consuetiuUne, 
 
 In experiundo ut essem : refero denuo. 
 
 Primo actu placeo : quom interea rumor uenit 
 
 Datum iri gladiatores, populus conuolat, 
 
 Tumultuantur, clamant, puguant de loco : 
 
 Ego interea meum non potui tutari locum. 
 
 Nunc turba non est : otium et silentium est : 
 
 Ageudi tempus mihi datumst : uobis datur 
 
 Potestas condecorandi ludos scenicos. 
 
 Nolite sinere per uos artein musicam 
 
 Recidere ad paucos : facito ut uostra auctoritas 
 
 Meae auctoritati fautrix adjutrixquc sit. 
 
 [Si numquam auare pretiurn stated arti mese, 
 
 Et eum esse quscBtum in animum induxi maxmnum, 
 
 Qtiam maxumo soruire uostris oommodifl :] 
 
 jj 
 
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 Ill L. A.MBIVIVS PKOLOGVS. 
 
 Sinite inpetrare me, qui in tutelam nacam 
 Studium suom et se in uostram commisit fidein, 
 Xe cum circumucntum iniquo iniqui inridcant. 
 AIca causa causaui accipite ct date silcntium, 
 Ut lubeat scribere aliis mihiquo ut discere 
 2s T ouaa expediat posthac pretio emptas meo.
 
 HECYHA P. TERENTI 
 
 ACTVS I.— Scen. 1. 
 
 PHILOTIS. SYBA. 
 
 Ph. Per pol quam paucos reperias meretricibus 6 
 Fidelia euenire amatores, Syra. 
 Vel hie Pamphilus jurabat quotiens Bacchidi, 
 Quam sancte, ut quiuis facile posset credere, 
 Xumquam ilia uiua ducturum uxorem doruum ! 
 Hera duxit. Sy. Ergo propterea te sedulo 
 Et moneo et hortor, ne quoiusquarn.misereat, 
 Quin spolies, mutiles, laceres, quemquem nacta sis. 
 
 Ph. Utin eximium neminem habeam 1 Sy. Nemiuem 
 Nam nemo illoruni quisquam, scito, ad te uenit, 
 Quin ita paret sese, abs te ut blanditiis suis 
 Quam minumo pretio suam uoluptatem expleat. 
 i!. :ne tu, amabo, non contra insidiabere ? 
 
 Ph. Tamen pol eandem irjjuriumst esse omnibus. 
 
 Sy. Injurium autemst ulcisci aduorsarios ? 
 Ant qua uia te captent eadom ipsos capi ? 
 Ehcu me miseram, fpior non aut istaec mibi 
 vEtas et fonnast aut tilii hno sontcntia ?
 
 llfi HECYRA. 
 
 ACT. I.— Scen. 2. 
 
 PARMENO. PHJLOTIS. SYRA. 
 
 Pa. Senex si quceret me, niodo isse dicito 
 Ad portum pcrcontatum adueutum Pamphili. 
 Audin quid dicavn, Scirte ? si quseret me, uti 
 Turn dicas : si non quseret, nullus dixeris, 
 Alias ut uti possim causa hac integra. 
 Sed uideon ego Philotium 1 unde hsec adueuit ? 
 Pbilotis, salue multum. Ph. O salue, Parmeno. 
 
 Sy. Salue mecastor, Parmeno. Pa. Et tu edepol, Syra. 
 Die mi, ubi, Philotis, te oblectasti tarn diu 1 
 
 Ph. Miuume equidem me oblectaui, quae cum milite 
 Coiinthum liiuc sum profecta inhumanissumo : 
 Biennium ibi perpetuom misera ilium tuli. 
 
 Pa. Edepol te desiderium Atbenarum arbitror, 
 Philotium, cepisse saepe et te tuom 
 
 Consilium contempsisse. Ph. Non dici potest, '* 
 
 Quam cupida eram hue redeundi, abeundi a milite 
 Vosque hie uidendi, antiqua \it consuetudine 
 Agitarem inter uos libere conuiuium : 
 Nam illi baud licebat nisi praifinito loqui 
 Quse illi placerent. Pa. Haud opinor commode 
 Finem statuisse orationi militem. 
 
 Ph. Sed quid hoc negotist, modo quod narrauit mihi 
 Hie intus Bacchis ? quod ego numquam credidi 
 Fore, ut hac ille uiua posset animum inducere 
 Uxorem habere. Pa. Habere autem ? Ph. Eho tu, an non 
 habet ? 2S 
 
 Pa. Habet : sed firmre hoe uereor ut suit nuptite. 
 
 Ph. Ita di deicque faxiut, si in rem est Bacchidis.
 
 HECYRA. 1x7 
 
 Sed qui istuc credam ita esse, die niihi, Parnieno. 
 
 Pa. Non est opus prolato : hoc percontarier 
 Dtsiste. Ph. Nempe ea causa, ut ne id fiat palain ? 
 Ita me di aruabunt, baud propterea te rogo, 
 Ut hoc proferam, sed ut tacita mecuru gaudeam. 
 
 Pa. jSumquam tam dices commode, ut tergum meum 
 Tuam in fidem committam. Ph. Ah noli, Parmeno : 
 Quasi tu non muLo malis narrare hoc mihi M 
 
 Quam ego qure percontor scire. Pa. Vera h?ec prsedicat, 
 Et illud mihi uitiumst maxumnm. si mihi fidem 
 Das te taciturani, dicam. Ph. Ad ingenium redis. 
 Fidem do : loquere. Pa. Ausculta. Ph. Istic sum. Pa. 
 
 Hanc Bacchidem 
 Amabat, ut quom maxume, turn Pamphilus, 
 Quom pater uxorem ut ducat orare occipit 
 Et hsec communia omnium quad sunt patrum, 
 Sese 8enem esse dicere, ilium autem unicum : 
 Presidium uelle se senectuti suse. 
 
 I lie primo se negare : sed postquam acrius 4i 
 
 Pater instat, fecit animi ut incertus foret, 
 Pudorin anue amori obsequeretur magis. 
 Tundendo atque odio denique effecit senex : 
 Despondit ei gnatam huius uicini proxumi. 
 1 que illud uLsumst Pamphilo neutiquam graue, 
 Donee jam in Lpaia nuptiis, postquam uidet 
 Parataa, nee moram ullam quin ducat dari, 
 fl.i demum ita aegre tulit, ut ipsam Bacchidem, 
 Si adeaset, credo ibi ejus comnii ereaceret . 
 I'lii rjuomque datum erat spatium solitudiins, 
 I t conloqui mccum una posset : ' I'armeno, 
 
 i, quid ego egi ? in quod me conjeci malum ! 
 Nun [>')tero hoc fcrre, Parmeno : peril miser.'
 
 118 HECYttA. 
 
 Ph. At te di deeeque perduint cum i: to oJio, Lache. 
 
 Pa. Ut ad pauca rcdcam, uxorem deducit domum. 60 
 
 Nocte ilia prima uirginem non attigit : 
 Qure consecutast nox earn, nilo magis. 
 
 Ph. Quid ais ? cum uirgine una adulescens cubuerit 
 Plus potus, sese ilia abstinere ut potuerit ? 
 Non uerisimile dicis, nee uerum arbitror. " 
 
 Pa. Credo ita uideri tibi : nam nemo ad te uenit 
 Nisi cupiena tui : ille inuitus lllam duxerat. 
 
 Ph. Quid deinde fit 1 Pa. Diebus sane pauculis 
 Post Pampbilus me solum seducit foras ; 
 
 Narratque, ut virgo ab se integra etiara turn siet, '" 
 
 Seque ante quam earn uxorem duxisset domum 
 Spera-sse eas tolerare posse nuptias. 
 1 Sed quam decrerim me non posse diutius 
 Habere, earn ludibrio baberi, Parmeno, 
 
 Quin integram itidem reddam, ut accepi ab Ruis, ri 
 
 Neque bonestum mibi ueque utile ipsi uirginist. ' 
 
 Ph. Pium ac pudicum ingenium narras PamphiK. 
 
 Pa. • Hoc ego proferre incommodum mi esse arbitror : 
 Reddi patri autem, quoi tu nil dicas uiti, 
 
 Snperbumst : sed illam spero, ubi boc cognouerit "° 
 
 Non posse se mecum esse, abituram denique.' 
 
 Ph. Quid ? interea ibatne ad Baccbidem ? Pa. Cotidie : 
 Sed ut fit, postquam hunc alienum ab sese uidet, 
 Maligna et multo magis procax facta ilicost. 
 
 Ph. Non edepol minim. Pa. Atque ea res multo maxumo u 
 Dijunxit ilium ab ilia, postquam et ipse se 
 Et illam et banc quae domi erat coguouit satis. 
 Ad exemplum ambarum mores earum existimans, 
 Usee, ita uti liberali esse ingenio decet, 
 Pudens, modesta, incommoda atque iniurias *°
 
 Hi-.rvitA. 119 
 
 Viri omnis ferre et tegere contumelias. 
 
 Hie animus purtim uxoris niisericordia 
 
 Deuinctus, paitim uictus hujus iujuriis, 
 
 Paulatim elapsust Bacchidi atquc hue transtulit 
 
 Amorem, postquam par iugenium uactus est. * 
 
 Interea in Imbro moritur cognatus senex 
 
 Horunce. ea ad hos redierat lege hereditas. 
 
 Eo amantern inuitum Pamphiluin extrudit pater. 
 
 Relinquit cum matre hie uxorem : nam senex 
 
 Rus abdidit se, hue rare- in urbem commeat. lu0 
 
 Ph. Quid adhuc habent infirmitatis nuptiae ? 
 
 Pa. Nunc audies. primos dies complusculos 
 Bene conueniebat sane inter eas. interim 
 Mixta modis odisse ccepit Sostratam : 
 
 Neque lites ullse inter eas, postulatio m 
 
 Numquam. Ph. Quid igitur ? Pa. Siquando ad earn acceinsi. r;tt 
 Coufabulatum, fugere e conspectu ilico ; 
 Videre nolle : deuique ubi non quit pati, 
 Simulat se ad matrem arcessi ad rem diuinam ; abit. 
 Ubi illic dies est compluris, arcessi jubet : 10 
 
 Dixere causam turn nescio quam. iterum jubet : 
 Nemo renusit. postquam arcessunt siepius, 
 
 ram esse simulant mulierem. nostra ilico 
 It uLsere ad cam : admisit nemo, hoc ubi senex 
 1 1 ciuit, heri ea causa rure hue aduenit : "* 
 
 I , oontinuo connenit PhilumeBse. 
 
 Qui'l egexint inter so, nondum etiam scio : 
 Nisi sane ennest, quorsum euenturum hue siet. 
 Habes omnem rem : pergam quo coepi hoe iter. 
 
 Ph. Et quidem ego : nam constitui cum quodam hospite IJ0 
 Me esse ilium conuenturam. Pa. Di uortant bono 
 Quod agas. Ph. Valo. Pa. Et tu bene uale, Pliilotium.
 
 120 HECYRA. 
 
 ACTVS II.— Scen. 1. 
 
 LACHES. SOSTRATA. 
 
 La, Pro deum atque hominuni fidem, quod hoc genus est, 
 
 quae haec est conjuratio ! 
 Utin omnes mulieres eadem aeque studeant nolintque omnia 
 Neque declinatam quicquam ab aliarum ingenio ullain reperias \ 
 Itaque adeo uno aninio omnes socrus omnis suas oderunt nurus. 
 Viris esse aduorsas aeque studiunist, similis pertinaci;ist. 
 In eodemque omnes mibi uidentur ludo doctse ad malitiam : 
 Ei ludo, si ullus est, magistram hanc esse satis certo scio. 
 
 So. Me miseram, quae nunc quamobrem accuser nescio. La. 
 
 Hem, 
 Tu nescis ? So. Non, ita me di anient, mi Lache, 
 Itaque una inter nos agere aetateni liceat. La. Di mala pro- 
 
 hibeant. 
 So. Meque abs te inmerito esse accusatam postmodum 
 
 rescisces, scio. 
 La. Te inmerito ? an quicquam pro istis factis dignum te 
 
 dici potest ? 
 Quae me et te et familiam detlecoras, filio luctum paras. 
 Turn autem ex amicis inimici ut sint nobis ad fines facis, 
 Qui ilium decrerunt dignum, suos quoi liberos committerent. ' 
 Tu sola exorere, quae pertubes hsec tua inpudentia. 
 
 So. Egon ? La. Tu inquam niulier, quae me omninb lapi 
 
 dem, non hominem putas. 
 An, quia ruri esse crebro soleo, nescire arbitramini 
 Quo quisque pacto hie uitam uostrorum exigat ?
 
 HECYRA. 121 
 
 Multo melius hie quae Hunt quaru illi ubi sum adsidue scio : " 
 
 Ideo quia, ut domi uos mi eritis, proinde ego ero fama foris. 
 
 Jampridem equidem audiui cepisse odium tui Philumenam : 
 
 Miuumeque adeo mirum : et ni id fecisset, magis mirum foret. 
 
 Sed non credidi adeo, ut etiam totam hanc odisset domum : 
 
 Quod si scissem, ilia hie maneret potius, tu hinc isses foras. 2i 
 
 At uide, quam inmerito segritudo hsec oritur mi abs te, Sostrata : 
 
 Rus habitatum abii, concedens uobis et rei seruiens, 
 
 Meo labori baud parcens prseter sequom atque fetatem meam, 
 
 Sumptus uostros otiumque ut nostra res posset pati. 
 
 Non te pro his curasse rebus, nequid eegre esset mihi ! M 
 
 So. Non mea opera neque pol culpa euenit. La. Immo 
 maxume : 
 Sola hie fuisti : in te omnis hseret culpa sola, Sostrata. 
 Quae hie erant curares, quom ego uos curis solui ceteris. 
 Cum puella anum suscepisse iuimicitias non pudet ? 
 Illius dices culpa factum? So. Haud equidem dico, mi Lache. (i 
 
 La. Gaudeo, ita me di anient, gnati causa : nam de te quid em 
 Satis scio peccando fieri detrimenti nil potest. 
 
 So. Qui scis an ea causa, mi uir, me odisse adsimulauerit, 
 Ut cum matre plus una esset? La. Quid ais? non signi hoc 
 sat est, 
 i heri nemo uoluit uisentem ad earn te intro admittere ? ,n 
 
 Bo. Euim lassam oppido aibant turn esse: eo ad earn non 
 admissa sum. 
 
 La. Tuob esse ego illi mores morbum magis quam ullam 
 aliam rem arbitror, 
 Et merito adeo : nam uostrarum nulla est, quin gnatum uelit 
 Ducere uxorem : et quae uobis placitast coudicio datur : 
 Lin duxere inpulsu uostro, uostro inpulsu eaadem exigunt.
 
 I','.' IIECYRA. 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 2. 
 
 PHIDIPPVS. LACHES. S08TRATA. 
 
 Ph. Etsi scio ego, Philumena, meum jus esse, ut te cogam 
 Qua3 ego imperem facere : ego tainen patrio aniruo uictus faciam, 
 Ut tibi concedam, neque tuae lubidiiu aduorsabor. 
 
 La. Atque eccum Pliidippuiu optume uideo : hiuc jam seibo 
 
 boc quid sit. 
 Pbidippe, etsi ego meis me omnibus scio esse adprime obse- 
 
 quentem, 
 Sed non adeo ut mea faciUtas corrumpat illorum auimos: 
 Quod tu si idem facercs, magis in rem et uostram et nostram 
 
 esset. 
 Nunc uideo in illarum potestate esse te. Ph. Heia uero. 
 
 La. Adii te beri de filia : ut ueni, itidem incertum amisti. 
 Haud ita decet, si perpetuam banc uis esse adfinitatem, 
 Celare te iras. siquid est peccatum a nobis, profer : 
 Aut ea refellendo aut purgando uobis corrigemus, 
 Te judice ipso, sin east retinendi causa apud uos, 
 Quia segrast, te mi injuriam facere arbitror, Pbidippe, 
 Si metuifl satis ut mese domi curetur diligenter. 15 
 
 At ita me di ament, haud tibi boc concedo, etsi illi pater es, 
 I't tu illam saluam magis uelis quam ego : id adeo gnati causa, 
 Quem ego intellexi illam baud minus quam se ipsum magnificare. 
 Neque adeo clam me est, quam esse eum grauiter laturum 
 
 credam, 
 Hoc si rescicrit : eo domum studeo hoec prius quam ille ut 
 
 redeat. *° 
 
 Ph. Laches, et diligcntiam uostram et bemgmtatem 
 Noui et quae dicis omnia esse ut dicis auiraura induco, 
 Et te boc mini cupio credere : illam ad uos redire studeo,
 
 HECYRA. 123 
 
 Si facere possim ullo modo. La. Quae res te id facere prohibet ! 
 Eho, numquidnani accusat uirum? Ph. Minume: nam post- 
 
 quam attendi 
 Magis, et ui coepi cogere ut rediret, sancte adjurat 
 Non posse apnd uos Parnphilo se absente perdurare . 
 Aliud fortasse alii uiti est : ego sum amino leni natus : 
 Non possum aduorsari meis. La. Hem, Sostrata. So. Heu 
 
 me miseram. 
 La. Certumnest istuc ? Ph. Nunc quidem ut uidetur : sed 
 
 niunquid uis ? 30 
 
 Nam est quod me transire ad forum jam oportet. La. Eo 
 
 tecum una. 
 
 ACT. II.— Scbw. 3. 
 
 SOSTRATA. 
 
 Edepol nse nos sumus inique teque omnes inuisne uiris, 
 Propter paucas, quae omnes faciunt dignse ut uideamur malo. 
 Nam, ita me di ament, quod me accusat nunc uir, sum extra 
 
 noxiam. 
 Sed non facilest expurgatu : ita animum induxerunt, socrus 
 Omnia esse iniquas: haud pol me quidem: nam numquam 
 
 secuB f 
 
 Salmi illam ac si ex me esset nata: nee qui hoc mi eueniat scio 
 N i si pol tilium multimodis iam expeto ut redeat domum. 
 
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 !9l H1.CYRA. 
 
 ACTVS III.— SCEN. 1. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 PAMPHILVS. PARMENO. MYRRINA. 
 
 Pam. Nemini ego plura esse acerba credo ex ainore homini 
 
 umquain oblata 
 Quaui mi. lieu ine iufelicem, haneine ego uitam parsi perdere ? 
 Hacine causa ego eram tauto opere cupidus redeundi donium ! 
 
 /mi, 
 Quauto fuerat prsestabilius ubiuis gentium agere ajtatem, 
 Quam hue redire atque h&'c ita esse miserum me resciscere ! ' 
 Nam nos omnes quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos, 
 Orane quod est interea tempus prius quam id rescitumst 
 
 lucrost. 
 Par. At sic citius qui te expedias his aerumnis reperias. 
 Si non rediisses, haec irse factse essent multo ampliores : 
 Sed nunc aduentum tuom ambas, Pamphile, scio reuerituras. l " 
 Rem cognosces : iram expedies : rursum in gratiam restitues. 
 Leuia sunt, quae tu pergrauia esse in animum induxti tuom. 
 Pam. Quid consolare me ? an quisquam usquam gentiumst 
 
 aeque miser? 
 1'iiiis quam hanc uxorem duxi, habebam alibi animum amori 
 
 deditum : 
 Taraen numquam ausus sum recusare earn quam mi obtrudit 
 
 pater : '* 
 
 J.im in hac re, ut taceam, quoiuis facile scitust quam fuerim 
 
 miser. 
 Vix me iilinc abstraxi atque inpeditum in ea expediui animum 
 
 meum,
 
 H EC YEA. 12o 
 
 Yixque hue contuleram ; hern noua res ortast, porro ab hac 
 
 quae me abstrahat. 
 Turn matrem ex ea re me aut uxorem in culpa inuenturuin 
 
 arbitror : 
 Quod quoin ita esse inuenero, quid restat nisi porro ut fiam 
 
 miser < 
 Nam matris ferre iniurias me, Parmeno, pietas jubet : 
 Turn uxori obnoxius sum : ita olim suo me ingenio pertulit, 
 Tot meas iniurias quae numquam in ullo patefecit loco. 
 Sed magnum nescio quid necessest euenisse, Parmeno, 
 Unde ira inter eas intercessit, quae tarn permansit diu. 
 
 Par. Haud quidem hercle parvom : si uis uero ueram 
 
 rationem exsequi. 
 Non maxumas, quae maxumae sunt interdum irae, iniurias 
 Faciunt : nam saepe est, quibus in rebus alius ne iratus quidemst, 
 Quoin de eadem causast iracundus factus inimicissumus. 
 Pueri inter sese quam pro leuibus noxiis iras gerunt ! M 
 
 Quapropter ? quia enim qui eos gubernat animus innrnmin 
 
 gerunt. 
 I tidem illae mulieres sunt ferme ut pueri leui sententia : 
 Fortasse unum aliquod uerbum inter eas irarn banc conciuisse. 
 Pam. Abi, Parmeno, intro, ac me uenisse nuntia. Par. Hem, 
 
 quid hoc est ? Pam. Tace. 
 Trepidari sentio et cursari rursum prorsum. Par. Agedum, 
 
 ad foris ib 
 
 Accedo propiuH. hem, sensLstin ? Pam. Noli fabularier. 
 I'ru Juppiter, clamorem audiui. Par. Tute loqueris, me aetas. 
 My. Tace obsecro, mea gnata. Pam. Matris uox lUBast 
 
 Philumenw. 
 Nullus Hum. Par. Quidum ? Pam. Perii Par. Quamobrem] 
 
 Pam. Nescio quod magnum malum 
 Profecto, Paimeno, me oelaa. Par. Uxorem Fhihunenam *"
 
 126 HKC'VKA. 
 
 Pauitare nescio quid dixorunt: id si forte est nescio. 
 
 Pam. Interii : quor id niihi non dixti 1 Par. Quia uon 
 
 poteram uua omnia. 
 Pam. Quid morbi est ? Par. Nescio. Pam. Quid ? nemou 
 
 medicum adduxit ? Par. Nescio. 
 Pam. Cesso hinc ire intro, ut hoc quampriruuin, quidquid 
 est, certo sciam ? 
 Quonaui modo, Philumena mea, nunc te offendam adfectam ? w 
 Nam si periclum ullum in te lDest, perisse me una haud 
 dubiumst. 
 Par. Non usus factost mini nunc hunc intro sequi : 
 Nam inuisos omnis nos esse illis sentio : 
 Heri nemo uoluit Sostratam intro admittere. 
 Si forte morbus amplior factus siet. '• 
 
 Quod sane nolim, maxume heri causa mei, 
 Seruom ilico intro inisse dicent Sostratse, 
 Aliquid tulisse comminiscentur mali 
 Capiti atque setati illorum, morbus qui auctus sit. 
 Hera in crimen ueniet, ego uero in magnuin malum. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 2. 
 
 SOSTRATA. PARMENO. PAMPHILVd. 
 
 So. Nescio quid jamdudum audio hie tumultuari misera : 
 Male metuo ne Philumenoe magis morbus adgrauescat : 
 Quod te, ^Esculapi, et te, Salus, nequid sit huius oro. 
 Nunc ad earn uisam. Par. Heus, Sostrata. So. Hem. 
 Par. Iterum istinc excludere. 
 
 So. Ehem Parmeno, tun hie eras 1 perii, quid faciam misera ? 5 
 Non uisam uxorem Pamphili, quom in proxumo hie sit a:gra?
 
 HhCYRA. 12? 
 
 Par. Xon uisas ? ne mittas quideru uisendi causa queruquam. 
 Nam qui amat quoi odio ipsus est, bis facere stulte duco : 
 Laborem inanem ipsus capit et illi molestiaru adfert. 
 Tum filius tuos iutroiit uidere, ut ueuit, quid agat. 
 
 So. Quid ais? an ueuit Pauipbilus ! Par. Venit. So. Dis 
 gratiarn habeo. 
 Hem, istoc uerbo animus mihi rediit et cura ex corde excessit. 
 
 Par. Jam ea te causa maxume nunc hue intro ire nolo : \ 
 Nam si remittent quidpiam Philuinente dolores, 
 Omnem rem narrabit, scio, continuo sola soli, 
 Quae inter uos interuenerit, unde ortumst initium irse. 
 Atque eccum uideo ipsum egredi : quam tristist ? So. O mi 
 gnate. 
 Pam. Mea mater, salue. So. Gaudeo uenisse saluom. saluan 
 Philumenast ? Pam. Meliusculast. So. Utinam istuc ita ill 
 
 faxint. 
 Quid ta igitur lacrumas? aut quid es tarn tristis ? Pam. Recte, 
 mater. -" 
 
 So. Quid fuit tumulti ? die mihi : an dolor repente inuasit i 
 Pam. Ita factumst. So. Quid morbi est 1 Pam. Febris. 
 So. Cotidiana ? Pam. Ita aiunt. 
 I sodes intro ; consequar jam te, mea mater. So. Fiat. 
 
 Pam. Tu pueris curre, Parmeno, obuiam atque eis onera 
 
 adjuta. 
 Par. Quid ? non sciunt ipsi uiam, donium qua ueniant ? 
 Pam. Cessas? » 
 
 ACT III.— Scen. 3. 
 
 !■ AMI'IIILUS. 
 
 aeo mearam reran) initium ullum inaenire idoneum, 
 Unde exordial oarrare, qrue nee opiaanti aecidunt ;
 
 10 
 
 128 HKCYBA. 
 
 Partim quie perspexi his oculis, partim quae accepi auribus : 
 Qua me propter exanimatum citius eduxi foras. 
 Xam inodo intro ut me corripui timidus, alio suspicans 
 Morbo me uisurum adfectam ac sensi esse uxorem : hei mihi 
 Postquarn me aspexere ancillye aduenisse, omnes ilico 
 Ltetae exclamant ' ueuit', id quod me repente aspexerant. 
 Sed continuo uoltum earuni sensi iiimutari omnium, 
 Quia tarn incommode illis fors obtulerat aduentum meum. 
 Una illarum interea propere praecueurrit nuntians 
 Me uenisse : ego ejus uidendi cupidus recta consequor. 
 Postquam intro adueni, extemplo ejus morbum cognoui miser : 
 Nam neque ut celari posset tempus spatium ullum dabat, 
 "Neque uoce aba ac res monebat ipsa poterat conqueri. 
 Postquam aspexi, ' o facinus indignum' inquam ; et corripui ilico 
 Me inde lacrumans, incredibili re atque atroci percitus. 
 Mater consequitur : jam ut limen exirem, ad genua accidit 
 Lacrumans misera : miseritumst. profecto hoc sic est, ut puto. 
 Omnibus nobis ut res dant sese, ita magni atque bumiles ramus. 20 
 Hanc habere orationem mecum principio inatitit : 
 'O mi Pamphile, abs te quamobrem hsec abierit causam uides : 
 Nam uitiumst oblatum uirgini olim ab nescio quo inprobo. 
 Nunc hue confugit, te atque abos partum ut celaret suom.' 
 Sed quom orata eius reminiscor, nequeo quin lacrumem miser. 2S 
 4 Quseque fors fortunast ' inquit ' nobis quae te hodie obtulit, 
 Per earn te obsecramus ambee, si jus, si fas est, uti 
 Aduorsa ejus per te tecta tacitaque apud omnis sient. 
 Si umquam erga te animo esse amico sensisti earn, mi Pamphile, 
 Sine labore hanc gratiam te ut sibi des pro ilia nunc rogat. 
 Ceterum de redducenda id facias, quod in rem sit tuam. 
 Parturire earn nee grauidam esse ex te, solus consciu's : 
 Nam aiunt tecum post duobus concubuisse mensibus. 
 Turn, postquam ad te ueuit, mensis agitur hie jam septumus :
 
 HECYRA. 120 
 
 Quod te scire ipsa indicat res. nunc si potis est, Painphile, M 
 Maxume uolo doque operam, ut clam eueniat partus patrem, 
 Atque adeo omnia, sed si id fieri non potest quin sentiant, 
 Dicam abortum esse : scio nemini aliter suspectuin fore, 
 Quin, quod uerisimilest, ex te recte eum natum putent. 
 Continuo exponetur : hie tibi nil est quicquam incommodi, ** 
 Et illi miserse indigne factam injuriarn contexeris.' 
 Pollicitus sum, et seruare in eo certumst quod dixi fidem. 
 Nam de redducenda, id uero neutiquam honestum esse arbitror : 
 Nee faciam, etsi amor me grauiter consuetudoque eius tenet. 
 Lacrumo, quae posthac futurast uita, quom in mentem uenit, 4& 
 Solitudoque. o fortuna, ut numquam perpetuo es data ! 
 Sed jam prior amor me ad banc rem exercitatum reddidit, 
 Quern ego turn consilio niissum feci : idem nunc buic operam dabo. 
 Adest Parmeno cum pueris : hunc minumest opus 
 In hac re adesse ? nam olim soli credidi, 
 Ea me abstinuisse in principio, quom datast : 
 Vereor, si clamorem ejus hie crebro audiat, 
 Ne parturire intellegat. aUquo mihist 
 Hinc ablegandus, dum parit Philumena. 
 
 i* 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 4. 
 
 PARMENO. SOSIA. PAMPHILV8. 
 
 Par. Ain tu tibi hoc incommodum euenisse iter ! 
 So. Non hercle uerbia, Parmeno, dici potest 
 Tantum, quam re ipsa nauigare incommodumst. 
 
 Par. Itanest ? So. O fortunate, nescis quid mali 
 PMterieris, qui numquam es ingressus mare. 
 Nam alias ut mittam miaerias, unam hanc uide : 
 triginta aut plus eo in nam fui, 
 
 o 3
 
 130 HKCYKA. 
 
 Quoin interea Bemper mortem expectabam miser : 
 lta usque aduorsa tempestate usi stimus. 
 
 Par. Odiosuui. So. Haud clam me est : denique hercle 
 aufugerim 
 Potius quam redeam, si eo mihi redeundum sciam. 
 . Par. Olim quidem te causae inpellebant leues, 
 Quod nuuc miuitare facere ut faceres, Sosia. 
 Sed Pamphilum ipsum uideo stare ante ostium : 
 Ite intro : ego hunc adibo, siquid me uelit. 
 Here, etiam tu hie stas ? Pam. Et quidem te expecto. Par. 
 Quid est ? 
 
 Pam. In arcem transcurso opus est. Par. Quoi homini ? 
 Pam. Tibi. 
 
 Par. Li arcem ? quid eo ? Tam. Callidemidem hospitem 
 Myconium, qui mecum una uectust, conueni. 
 
 Par. Perii. uouisse hunc dicam, si saluos domum 
 Redisset umquam, ut me ambulando rumperet. 
 
 Pam, Quid cessas ] Par. Quid uis dicam ? an conueniam 
 modo ? 
 
 Pam. Immo quod constitui hodie conuenturum eum, 
 Non posse, ne me rrustra illi expectet. uola. 
 
 Par. At non noui hominis faciem. Pam At faciam ut no- 
 ueris : 2 * 
 
 Magnus, rubicundus, crispus, crassus, csesius, 
 Cadauerosa facie. Par. Di ilium perduint. 
 Quid, si non ueniet ? maneamne usque ad uesperum ? 
 
 Pam. Maneto : curre. Par. Non queo : ita defessus sum. 
 
 Pam. Ille abiit. quid agam infelix ? prorsus nescio 
 Quo pacto hoc celem, quod me orauit Myrrina, 
 Suae gnatae partum : nam me miseret mulieris. 
 Quod potero faciam, tamen ut pietatem colam : 
 Nam me parenti potius quam amori obsequi
 
 HhCYttA. 131 
 
 Oportet. attat eccuin Phidippuiu et patrem bQ 
 
 \'ideo : horsum pergunt. quid dicaru hisce, incertus sum. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 5. 
 
 LACHES. PHIDTPPVS. PAMPHILYS. 
 
 La. Dixtin dudum illam dixisse, se expectare filium ? 
 Ph. Factum. La. Venisse aiunt : redeat. Pa. Quam 
 causam dicam patri, 
 Quamobrem non redducam, nescio. La. Quern ego hie audiui 
 loqui ? 
 Pa. Certum offirmare est uiam me quam decreui persequi. 
 La. Ipsus est de quo hoc agebam tecum. Pa. Salue, mi 
 pater. 5 
 
 Ta. Gnate mi, salue. Ph. Bene factum te aduenisse, Pani- 
 phile : 
 Atque adeo, quod maxumumst, saluom atque ualidum. Pa. 
 Creditur. 
 La. Aduenis modo ? Pa. Admodum. La. Cedo, quid re- 
 liquit Phania 
 Consobrinus noster ? Pa. Sane hercle homo uoluptati obse- 
 
 quens 
 Fuit, dum uixit : et qui sic sunt, haud multum heredem 
 juuant, 10 
 
 Sibi uero hanc Laudem relinquont 'uixit, dum uixit, bene.' 
 La. Turn tu igitur nil attuUsti hue plus una hac sententia .' 
 I'.v. Qnidqnid est id, quod reliquit, profuit. La. Immo 
 ot»fuit : 
 Nam illurn uiuom et saluom uellem. Ph. Iinpuno optare isiuo 
 
 licet : 
 Die reuiuiscet jam numquam, et tamen utrom mali wia
 
 U'i 
 
 HECYRA. 
 
 La. Heri Philumenain ad se arcessi hie jussit. die jussisse te. 
 
 Ph. Noli fodore. jussi. La. Sed earn jam remiistet. Ph. 
 Scilicet. 
 
 Pa. Omuem rem scio ut sit gesta : adueuiens audiui modo. 
 
 La. At istos inuidos di perdant, qui hsec lubenter nuntiant. 
 
 Pa. Ego me scio cauisse, ne ulla merito contumelia w 
 
 Fieri a uobis posset : idque si nuuc memorare hie uelim, 
 Quam fideli animo et benigno in illam et dementi fui, 
 Vere possum : ni te ex ipsa hsec magis uelim resciscere : 
 Namque eo pacto maxume apud te meo erit iugenio fides, 
 Quom ilia, quae nunc in me iniquast, sequa de me dixerit. ** 
 Neque mea culpa hoc discidium euenisse, id testor deos. 
 Sed quando sese esse indignant deputat, matri mese 
 Quae concedat Auiusque mores toleret sua modestia, 
 Neque alio pacto potest componi inter eas gratia : 
 Segreganda aut mater a me est, Phidippe, aut Philumena. 
 Nunc me pietas matris potius commodum suadet sequi. 
 
 La. Pamphile, haud inuito ad auris sermo mi accessit tuos, 
 Quom te postputasse omnis res prae parente intellego : 
 Verum uide ne iupulsus ira praue insistas, Pamphile. 
 
 Pa. Quibus iris inpulsus tandem nuuc in illam iniquos 
 siem ? M 
 
 Quae numquam quicquam erga me commeritast, pater, 
 Quod nollem, et saepe meritam quod uellem scio : 
 Amoque et laudo et uementer desidero : 
 Nam fuisse erga me miro iugenio expertus sum, 
 Illique exopto ut relicuam uitam exigat 40 
 
 Cum eo uiro, me qui sit fortunatior, 
 Quandoquidem illam a me distraint necessitas. 
 
 Ph. Tibi id in manust ne fiat. La. Si sanus sjes , 
 Jube illam redire. Pa. Non est consilium, pater : 
 Matris seruibo commodis. La. Quo abis ? mane, tf
 
 HECYR.A. 133 
 
 Mane, inquam : quo abis ? Ph. Quae htec est pertinacia ? 
 
 La. Dixin, Phidippe, hanc rem aegre laturuin esse eum ? 
 Quamobrem te orabain, filiam ut reroitteres. 
 
 Ph. Non credidi edepol adeo inbumanum fore : 
 Ita nunc is sibi me supplicaturum putat. M 
 
 Si est ut uebt redducere uxorem, licet : 
 Sin aliost animo, renumeret dotem buc, eat. 
 
 La. Ecce autem tu quoque proterue iracundus es. 
 
 Ph. Percontumax redisti buc nobis, Pampbile. 
 
 La. Decedet jam ira bsec, etsi merito iratus est. 
 
 Ph. Quia paulum uobis accessit pecuniae, 
 Sublati animi sunt. La. Etiam mecum litigas 1 
 
 Ph. Deliberet renuntietque hodie rnibi, 
 Velitne an non : ut alii, si buic non est, siet. 
 
 La. Pbidippe, ades, audi paucis. abiit. quid mea ? 
 Postremo inter se transigaut ipsi, ut lubet, 
 Quando nee gnatus neque bic mi quicquani obtemperant, 
 Quae dico parui pendunt. porto boc jurgium 
 Ad uxorem, quoius bajc fiunt consilio omnia, 
 Atque in earn boc oinne quod inibi tegrest euomam. 
 
 Si
 
 KU HECYRA. 
 
 ACTVS IV.— Scen. 1. 
 
 MYRRINA. PHID1PPVS. 
 
 My. Pcrii, quid agam ? quo rue uortani ? quid uiro meo 
 
 respondebo 
 Misera ? nam audiuisse uocem pueri uisust uagieutis : 
 Ita corripuit derepeute tacitus sese ad filiam. 
 Quod si rescierit peperisse earn, id qua causa clam me habuisse 
 Dicam, non edepol scio. ■' 
 
 Sed ostium concrepiut. credo ipsum ad me exire : nulla sum. 
 
 Pi i. Uxor ubi me ad filiam ire sensit, se duxit foras : 
 Atque eccam. quid ais. Myrrina ? heus tibi dico. My. Miliine, 
 
 mi uir ? 
 Ph. Vir ego tuos sim ? tu uirum me aut hominem deputas 
 
 adeo esse 1 
 Nam si utrumuis borum, mulier, umquam tibi uisus forem, lu 
 Non sic ludibrio tuis factis habitus essem. My. Quibus ) 
 
 Ph. At rogitas ? 
 Peperit filia ? hem, taces? ex quo ? My. Istuc patrem rogare 
 
 est fequom ? 
 Perii : ex quo cen.ses nisi ex illo quoi datast nuptum, obsecro ? 
 Ph. Credo : neque adeo arbitrari patris est aliter. sed 
 
 demiror, 
 Qmd sit quamobrem tantopere omuls nos celare uolueris 15 
 
 Partum, pra;sertim quom et recte et tempore suo pepererit. 
 Adeon peruicaci esse auimo, ut puerum prseoptares perire, 
 Ex quo firmiorem inter nos fore amicitiam posthac scires,
 
 HECYRA. 135 
 
 Po tiiis quam aduorsum aniiai tui lubidinem esset cum illo 
 
 nupta ! 
 Ego etiam illorum esse banc culpam credidi, quae te est penes. :o 
 My. Misera sum. Ph. Utinam sciam ita esse istuc. sed 
 nunc mi in mentem uenit 
 De hac re quod locuta es olim, quom ilium generum cepiinus : 
 Xam negabas nuptam posse fibam tuam te pati 
 Cum eo qui meretricem amaret, qui pernoctaret foris. 
 
 My. Quamuis causam hunc suspicari quam ipsam ueram 
 
 mauolo. 
 Ph. Multo prius sciui quam tu ilium amicam babere, 
 Myrrina : 
 Verum id uitium numquam decreui esse ego adulescentioe : 
 Nam id est omnibus innatum. at pol jam aderit, se quoque 
 
 etiam quom oderit. 
 Sed ut olim te ostendisti, eadem esse nil cessauisti usque 
 
 adbuc, 
 Ut fibam ab eo abduceres, neu quod ego egissem esset ratum. 30 
 Id nunc res indicium baec facit, quo pacto factum uolueris. 
 My. Adeon me esse peruicacem censes, quoi mater siem, 
 Ut eo essem animo, si ex usu esset nostro boc matrimonium ? 
 Ph. Tun prospicere aut indicare nostram in rem quod sit 
 potes ? 
 Audisti ex aliquo fortasse, qui uidisse eum diceret 
 Exeuntem aut intro euntein ad amicam. quid turn postea I 
 Si modeste ac raro hoc fecit, nonno dissimulare nos 
 
 is humanumst quam dare operam id scire, qui nos oderit ? 
 N";uu si is posset ab ea sese derepente auellore, 
 Quacum tot consuessot annos, non eum bominem ducerem, 
 -Nee uirum satis firinum gnatio. My. Mitte adulescentem 
 
 obsecro 
 Et fjuui me peccasae aia. abi, solum solus conueni,
 
 136 IIKCYRA. 
 
 Roga uclitne an non uxorem : si est ut dicat uelle se, 
 Rodde : sin est autem ut nolit, recte ego consului me». 
 
 Ph. Siquidcm ille ipse non uolt et tu sensti esse in eo, 
 
 Myrrina, 4S 
 
 Peccatum : aderam, qnoius consilio par ea fuerat prospici. 
 Quamobrem incendor ira, esse ausam facere luec te injussu 
 
 meo : 
 Tnterdico ne extulisse extra sedis puerum tisquam uelis. 
 Sed ego stultior, nieis dictis parere hanc qui postulem. 
 Ibo intro atque edicam seruis, ne quoquam efferri sinant. 
 
 My. Nullam pol credo mulierem me niiseriorem uiucre : 
 Nam ut hie laturus hoc sit, si ipsam rem ut siet resciuerit, 
 Non edepol clam me est, quom hoc quod leuiust tarn animo 
 
 irato tulit : 
 Nee qua uia sententia eius possit mutati scio. 
 Hoc mi unum ex plurimis miseriis reliquom fuerat malum, 
 Si puerum ut tollam cogit, quoius nos qui sit nescimus pater : 
 Nam quom compressast gnata, forma in tenebris nosci non 
 
 quitast : 
 Neque detractum e'i est quicquam, qui post posset nosci qui 
 
 siet : 
 Ipse eripuit ui, in digito quern habuit, uirgini abiens anulum. 
 Simul uereor Pamphilum ne orata nostra nequeat diutius 
 Celare, quom sciet alienum puerum tolli pro suo. 
 
 ACT IV.— Scen. 2. 
 
 SOSTRATA. PAMPHILVS. 
 
 So. Non clam me est, gnate mi, tibi esse suspectiun, uxorem 
 tuam 
 Propter meos mores bine abisse, etsi ea dissimulas sedulo :
 
 HECYRA. 137 
 
 Veruin ita me di anient itaque obtingant ex te qufe exopto 
 
 mihi, 
 Ut nunquam sciens cominerui, merito ut caperet odium illam 
 
 mei : 
 Teque ante quod me amare rebar, ei rei firmasti fidem : 5 
 
 Xam mi intus tuos pater narrauit niodo,"quo pacto me habueris 
 ■Prsepositarn amori tuo \ nunc tibi me certumst contra gratiam 
 Referre, ut apud me prsemium esse positum pietati scias. 
 Mi Pamphile, hoc et uobis et meas commodiun famae arbitror : 
 Ego rus abituram hinc cum tuo me [esse] certo decreui patre, 10 
 Xe mea prsesentia obstet, neu causa ulla restet reliqua, 
 Quin tua Philumena ad te redeat. Pa. Quasso quid istuc 
 
 consilh-t 1 
 Illius stultitia uicta ex urbe tu rus habitatum migres 1 
 Hand facies, neque sinam ut qui nobis, mater, male dictum 
 
 uelit, 
 Mea pertinacia esse dicat factum, baud tua modestia. 
 Turn tuas arnicas te et cognatas deserere et festos dies lo 
 
 Meo causa nolo. So. Nil pol jam istajc mihi res uoluptatis 
 
 ferunt : 
 Dum aetatis tempus tulit, perfuncta satis sum ; satias jam 
 
 tenet 
 Studiorum istorum : haec mihi nunc curast maxuma, ut neqoui 
 
 mea 
 •inquitas statu obstet, mortemque exspectet meam. -* 
 
 Hie uideo me esse inuisam inmerito : tempus est concedere. 
 Sic optume, ut ego opinor, omnia causas prajcidarn omnibus : 
 Et me hac suspitione exsoluam et ill is morem gesscro. 
 Sine me, obsecro, hoc efTiigere, uolgus quod mrdu audit nmli- 
 
 eruin. 
 l'\. Quant fortimatus ceteris sum rebus, absque una hag 
 
 for
 
 188 HBCYBA. 
 
 Elanc matrem Labous talem, illam auteni uxorem ! So. Ob- 
 secro, rui Pamphile, 
 
 Non tute incoimnodani rem, ut quoequest, ia auimum induces 
 
 pati ? 
 Si cetera ita sunt ut uis itaque ut esse ego ilia existumo, 
 Mi gnate, da ueniam hauc mihi, redduce illam. Pa. Hi 
 
 misero mibi. 
 So. Et mihi quidem : nam hsec res non minus me male 
 
 babet quam te, gnate mi. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scex. 3. 
 
 LACHES. SOSTRATA. PAMPH1LVS. 
 
 La. Quern cum istoc sermonem babueris, procul bine staus 
 accepi, uxor. 
 Jstuc est sapere, qui ubi quomque opus sit animum possis 
 
 flectere. 
 [Quod faciendum sit post fortasse, idem boc nunc si feceris] 
 So. Fors fuat pol. La. Abi rus ergo bine : ibi ego te et tu 
 
 me feres. 
 So. Spero ecastor. La. I ergo intro et compone quae tecum 
 simul 
 Ferantur : dixi. So. Ita ut jubes faciam. Pa. Pater. 
 
 La. Quid uis, Pamphile 1 Pa. Hinc abire matrem ? minume, 
 
 La. Quid ita istuc uis 1 
 Pa. Quia de uxore incertus sum etiam quid sim factum s. 
 La. Quid est ? 
 Quid uis facere nisi redducere ? Pa. Equidem cupio et uix 
 
 contineor : 
 Sed non minuam meum consilium : ex usu quod est, id per- 
 sequar :
 
 HKOYltA. 139 
 
 r— • 
 Credo ea gratia Concordes inagis, si nou redducain, fore. 
 
 La. Nescias : ueruni tua refert nil, utrum ilkec feceriut, 
 
 Quando hoec abierit. odiosa haac est setas adulesceutulis. 
 
 E medio eequoni excedere est ; postremo nos jam fabula 
 
 Sumus, Pamphile, ' senex atque anus.' u 
 
 Sed uideo Phidippuin egredi per tempus : accedamus. 
 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 4. 
 
 PHIDIPPVS. LACHES. PA3IPHILVS. 
 
 Ph. Tibi quoque edepol sum iratus, Philumena, 
 Grauiter quidem. nam hercle abs te factumst tivrpiter : 
 Esti tibi causa est de hac re : mater te inpulit : 
 Huic uero nulla est. La Opportune te mihi, 
 Phidippe, in ipso tempore ostendis. Ph. Quid est ? 
 
 Pa. Quid respondebo his ? aut quo pacto hoc operiam? 
 
 La. Die filiee 111s concessuram hinc Sostratam : 
 Ne reuereatur, minus jam quo redeat domum. Ph. Ah : 
 Nullam de his rebus culpam commeruit tua : 
 .\ Myrrina hrtc sunt mea uxore exorta omnia : 10 
 
 Pa. Mutatio fit. Ph. ea nos perturbat, Lache. 
 
 Pa. Dum ne redducam : turbent porro quam uelint. 
 
 Ph. Ego, Pamphile, esse inter nos, si fieri potest, 
 Adfinitatem hanc sam perpetuam uolo : 
 
 Sin est ut aliter tua siet seutentia, ls 
 
 Aocipiaa puerum. Pa. Sensit peperisso : occidi. 
 
 La. Puerum? quern puerum ? Ph. Natus est nobis nepns: 
 .Vim abducta a aobia praegnaa faerat filia, 
 Neque fuisse prsegnatem amquam auto hunc sciui diem. 
 
 La. Bene, ita me 'li ament, Dtintiaa : et gaudeo 30 
 
 Natum ilium et tibi illam Baluam. sed mnd_jnulicri3
 
 1 10 IIKCYRA. 
 
 Uxorem habes ant quibus moratarn moribus ! 
 Nosne hoc celatos tam diu ? nequeo satis, 
 Quam hoc mihi uidetur factum praue, proloqui. 
 
 Ph. Non tibi illud factum minus placet quam mihi, Lache. *' 
 
 Pa. Etiam si dudum fuerat ambiguom hoc mihi, 
 Nunc non est, quom earn sequitur alienus puer. 
 
 La. Nulla tibi, Pampliile, hie jam consultatiost. 
 
 Pa. Perii. La. Hunc uidere ssepe optabamus diem, 
 Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem : 
 Euenit : habeo gratiam dis. Pa. Nullus sum. 
 
 La. Redduc uxorem ac noli aduorsari mihi. 
 
 Pa. Pater, si ex me ilia liberos uellet sibi 
 Aut se esse mecum nuptam, satis certo scio, 
 Non clam me haberet quod celasse intellego. 
 Nunc quom ejus alienum a me esse aninrum sentiam 
 (Nee conuenturum inter nos posthac arbitror), 
 Quamobrem redducam ? La. Mater quod suasit sua, 
 Adulescens mulier fecit, mirandumne id est ? 
 Censen te posse reperire ullam mulierem, 4 
 
 Quse careat culpa ? an quia non delinquunt uiri ? 
 
 Ph. Vosmet uidete jam, Lache et tu Pamphile, 
 Remissan opus sit uobis redductan domum : 
 Neutra in re uobis difficultas a me erit. 
 
 Uxor quid faciat, in manu non est mea. 4 * 
 
 Sed quid faciemus puero ? La. Ridicule rogas : 
 Quidquid futurumst, huic suom reddas scilicet, 
 Ut alamus nostrum. Pa. Quem ipse neglexit pater, 
 Ego alam ? La. Quid dixti 1 eho an non alemus, Pamphile ? 
 Prodemus quteso potius ? qiuo haec amentiast ? 
 Enimuero prorsus jam tacere non queo. 
 Nam cogis ea quse nolo ut prsesente hoc loquar. 
 Ignarum censes tuarum lacrumarum esse me 1
 
 HECYRA. Ill 
 
 Aut quid sit id quod sollicitere ad hunc modurn ? 
 
 Primum banc ubi dixti causam, te propter tuaru 
 
 Matrem non posse liabere hanc uxorem domi : 
 
 Pollicitast ea se concessuram ex aedibus. 
 
 Nunc postquam ademptam hanc quoque tibi causam uides, 
 
 Puer quia clam te est natus, nactus alteram es. 
 
 Erras, tui animi si me esse ignarum putas. M 
 
 Aliquando tandem hue animum ut adjungas tuom, 
 
 Quam longum spatium amandi amicam tibi dedi ! 
 
 Sumptus quos fecisti in earn quam animo aequo tuh ! 
 
 Egi atque oraui tecum uxorem ut duceres, 
 
 Tempus dixi esse : inpulsu duxisti meo. K 
 
 Quae turn obsecutus mihi fecisti ut decuerat ; 
 
 Nunc animum rursum ad meretricem induxti tuom : 
 
 Cui tu obsecutus facis huic adeo injuriam : 
 
 Nam in eandem uitam te reuolutum denuo 
 
 Video esse. Pa. Mene ? La. Te ipsum : et facis injuriam. "° 
 
 Confingis falsas causas ad discordiam, 
 
 Ut cum ilia uiuas, testem hanc quom abs te amoueris : 
 
 Sonsitque adeo uxor, nam ei causa aha qua3 fuit, 
 
 Quamobrem abs te abiret ? Ph. Plane hie diuinat : nam id est. 
 
 Pa. Dabo jusjurandum nil esse istorum tibi. La. Ah, rs 
 Redduc uxorem, aut quamobrem non opus sit cedo. 
 
 Pa. Non est nunc tempus. La. Puerum accipias : nun is 
 quidem 
 In culpa non est : post de matre uidero. 
 
 Pa. Omnibus modis miser sum ncc quid agam scio : 
 Tot me nunc rebus niiiserum concludit pater. "" 
 
 Abibo hino, praesens quando promoueo parum. 
 Nam puerum injussu credo non tollent meo, 
 Praesertim in ea re quom sit mi adiutrix socrus. 
 
 La. Fugis ? hem, nee quicquam certi respoudea mihi T
 
 1 12 HKOYItA. 
 
 Nuia tibi uidetur esse apud sose ? sine : ** 
 
 Puerum, Phidippe, mihi cedo : ego alam. Ph. Maxume. 
 
 Non iniruni fecit ruea uxor, si hoc regre tulit : 
 
 Amaraj niulieres sunt, non facile hajc fcrunt. 
 
 Propterea hoec irast : nam ipsa narrauit mihi : 
 
 Id ego hoc praesente tibi nolueram dicore : ** 
 
 Neque illi credebam primo : nunc uerum palamst. 
 
 Nam ominino abhorrere animum huic uideo a nuptiis. 
 
 La. Quid ergo agam, Phidippe 1 quid das consili ? 
 
 Ph. Quid agas 1 meretricem banc primum adeundam censeo. 
 Oremus : accusemus : grauius denique 9S 
 
 Minitemur, si cum illo habuerit rem postea. 
 
 La. Faciam \vt mones. eho puer, curre ad Bacchidem hanc 
 Vicinam nostram : hue euoca, uerbis meis. 
 Ut te oro porro in hac re adiutor sis mihi. Ph. Ah, 
 Jamdudum dixi idemque nunc dico, Lache : m 
 
 Manere adfinitatem hanc inter nos uolo, 
 Si ullo modo est ut possit : quod spero fore. 
 Sed uin adesse me una, dum istam conuenis ? 
 
 La. Immo abi uero, aliquam puero nutricem para. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 1. 
 
 BACCHIS (CVM DVABVS ANCILLTS). LACHES. 
 
 Ba. Non hoc de nilost, qviod Laches me nunc conuentam 
 esse expetit : 
 Nee pol me multum fallit, quin quod suspicor sit quod uelit. 
 La. Videndumst ne minus propter iram hanc inpetrem quam 
 possiem, 
 Aut nequid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit. 
 Adgrediar. Bacchis, salue.
 
 HECYRA. 143 
 
 Ba. Salue, Lache. La. Credo edepol te non nil mirari, 
 Bacchis, 
 Quid sit quapropter te hue foras puerum euocare jussi. 
 
 Ba. Ego pol quoque etiaui timida sum, quom uenit iu 
 mentem quse sim, 
 Ne nomen mi quoesti obsiet : nam mores facile tutor. 
 
 La. Si uera dicis, nil tibi est a me pericli, mulier : ia 
 
 Nam jam setate ea sum, ut non siet peccato mi ignosci sequom : 
 Quo magis omnis res cautius ne temere faciam adcuro. 
 Nam si facis facturaue es, bonas quod par est facere, 
 Inscitum offerre injuriam tibi inmerenti iniquomst. 
 
 Ba. Est magna ecastor gratia de istac re quam tibi habeain : ls 
 Nam qui post factam injuriam se expurget, parum mi prosit. 
 Sed quid istuc est 1 La. Meum receptas filium ad te Pam- 
 pbilum. Ba. Ah. 
 La. Sine dicam : uxoreru banc prius quam duxit uostrum 
 amorem pertuli. 
 Mane : nondum etiam dixi id quod uolui. hie nunc habet 
 
 uxorem : 
 Quaere alium tibi firmiorem, dum tibi tempus consulendi est : 20 
 Nam neque ille hoc animo erit retatem, neque pol tu eadera 
 ista ;etate. 
 II v. Quis id ait ? La. Socrus. Ba. Menc 1 La. Teipsam: 
 et filiam abduxit suam, 
 Puerumque ob earn rem clam uoluit, natus qui est, extinguere. 
 Ba. Si aliud scirem, qui firmare meam apud uos posaetu 
 
 lidf:m, 
 
 Sanctius quam jusjurandum, id pollicerer tibi, Lache, 
 
 itum habuisse, uxorem ut duxit, a me Pamphilum. 
 La. Lopida es. sed scin, quid uolo potius sodes fanis 
 
 Ba. Quid ? cwlu. 
 La. Eas ad mulieres hue intro atquc istuc jusjurandum ai< m
 
 1 tt HECYRA. 
 
 Polliceare illis. exple aniinum eis toque hoc crimine expedi. 
 Ba. Faciam. quod pol, si esset alia ex hoc quaestu, haud 
 faceret, scio, M 
 
 Ut de tali causa nuptoe mulieri se ostcnderet. 
 Sed nolo esse falsa fama gnatum suspectum tuom, 
 Nee leuiorem uobis, quibus est minurae aequom, eura uiderier 
 rnraerito : nam meritus de me est, quod queam illi ut coin- 
 modem. 
 La. Facilem beneuolmnque lingua tua jam tibi me red- 
 didit : ;<i 
 Nam non sunt solre arbitratoe hasc : ego quoque etiam credidi. 
 Nunc quam ego te esse prteter nostram opinionem comperi, 
 Fac eadem ut sis porro : nostra utere amicitia, ut uoles : 
 A liter ai facias — sed me reprimam, ne a^gre quicquam ex me 
 
 audias. 
 Verum hoc te moneo unum, amicus qualis sun aut quid pos- 
 siem 4 * 
 
 Potius quam inimicus, periclum facias. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 2. 
 
 PlflDIPPVS (CVM NVTRICE). LACHES. BACCHIS (CVM ANCILLIP). 
 
 Ph. Nil apud me tibi 
 Defieri patiar, quin quod opus sit benigne praebeatur. 
 Sed quom tu eris satura atque ebria, ut puer satur sit facito. 
 La. Noster socer, uideo, uenit : puero nutricem adducit. 
 Phidippe, Bacchis dejerat persancte. Ph. Htecine east ? La. 
 Haec est. 
 Ph. Nee pol ist£e metuont deos, neque has respicere deos 
 
 opinor. 
 Ba. Ancillaa dedo : quolubet cruciatu per me exquire.
 
 HECYRA. 145 
 
 Hsec res hie agitur : Pamphilo me facere ut redeat uxor 
 
 Oportet : quod si perficio, nou psenitet me famse, 
 
 Solam fecisse id quod alise meretrices facere fugitant. 10 
 
 La. Phidippe, nostras mulieres suspectas fuisse falso 
 Nobis iu re ipsa iuuenimus : porro hanc nunc experiamur. 
 Nam si compererit crimini tua se uxor credidisse, 
 Missam iram faciet : sin, ut est, ob earn rem iratus gnatusf, 
 Quod peperit uxor clam, id leuest : cito ab eo hasc ira ab- 
 scedet. 1S 
 
 Profecto in hac re nil malist, quod sit discidio dignum. 
 
 Ph. Velim quidem hercle. La. Exquire : adest : quod satis 
 
 sit, faciet ipsa. 
 Ph. Quid mi istaec narras ? an quia nou tute duduni 
 audisti, 
 De hac re animus meus ut sit, Laches ? illis modo explete 
 animum. 
 La. Quoeso edepol, Bacchis, quod mihi es pollicita tute ut 
 semes. - u 
 
 Ba. Ob earn rem uin ergo intro earn ? La. I, exple animum 
 
 eis, coge ut credant. 
 Ba. Eo, etsi scio pol eis fore nicum conspectum inuisum 
 hodie : 
 Nam nupta meretrici hostis est, a uiro ubi segregatast. j 
 
 La. At haec amicie erunt, ubi quamobrem adueneris resci- ' 
 
 scent : 
 I'll. At easdem arnicas fore tibi promitto, rem ubi cogno- 
 imt : 
 Nun iliac errore et te siinul suspitione exolues. 
 
 Ba. Perii, pudet Pbilumense : me sequimini intro hue 
 
 amba.'. 
 La. Quid est quod mihi malim quam quod huic intellego 
 eoenire,
 
 1 16 HICC'YHA. 
 
 I'i gratiam ineat sine suo dispendio, et mihi prosit ? 
 Nam si est at hsBC nunc Pamphilum uere ab so segrcgarit, 
 Scit sil>i nobilitatem ex eo et rem uatam et gloriam esse : 
 Referetque gratiam ei, unaque nos sibi opera amicos iunget. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 3. 
 
 PARMENO. BACCHIS. 
 
 Pa. Edepol nx meam herus esse operam deputat parui preti, 
 Qui ob rem nullam misit, frustra ubi totum desedi diem, 
 Myconium hospitem dum expecto in arce Callideinidem. 
 Ttaque inept us hodie dum illi sedeo, ut quisque uenerat, 
 Accedebam : ' adulescens, die dum quseso, es tu Myconius V ' 
 " Non sum." ' at Callidemides V " non." ' hospitem ecquem 
 
 Pamphilum 
 I lie babes?' omnes negabant : neque eum quemquam esse 
 
 arbitror. 
 Deuique hercle iam pudebat : abii. sed quid Bacchidem 
 Ab nostro adfine exeuntem uideo ? quid buic hie est rei ? 
 
 Ba. Parmeno, opportune te offers : propere curre ad Pam- 
 
 philum. 
 Pa. Quid eo ? Ba. Die me orare ut ueniat. Pa. Ad te ? 
 
 Ba. Immo ad Phihr.ienam. 
 Pa. Quid rei est ? Ba. Tua quod nil re fert, percontari 
 
 desinas. 
 Pa. Nil aliud dicam ? Ba. Etiam : cognosse anulum ilium 
 Myninam 
 Gnarae sua) fuisse, quern ipsus olim dederat mihi. Pa. Scio. 
 Tantumne est ? B^. Tan turn : aderit continuo, hoc ubi ex te 
 audierit.
 
 HECYRA. 147 
 
 Sed cessas ? Pa. Minume equidem : nam hodie mild potestas 
 
 haud datast : 
 Ita cursando atque ambulando totum hunc contriui diem. 
 
 Ba. Quantam obtuli aduentu meo lsetitiam Pampbilo hodie ! 
 Quot commodas res attuli ! quot autem ademi curas ! 
 Gnatum ei restituo, psene qui harum ipsiusque opera periit : -" 
 Uxorein, quam numquamst ratus posthac se habituruin, reddo : 
 Qua re suspectus suo patri et Phidippo fuit, exsolui : 
 Hie adeo his rebus anulus fuit initium inueniundis. 
 Nam memini abhiiic mensis decern fere ad me nocte prima 
 Confugere anhelautem domum sine comite, uini plenum, -' 
 
 Cum hoc anulo : extimui ibco : ' mi Pamphile,' in quam ' amabo, 
 Quid exaniniatu's, obsecro ? aut unde anuluin istum nactu's ? 
 Die mi.' idle alias res agere se simulare. postquam uideo, 
 Nescio quid suspicarier ; magis coepi instare ut dicat. 
 Homo se fatetur ui in uia nescio quam compressisse 
 Dicitque sese illi anulum, dum luctat, detraxlsse. 
 Eum hiec cognouit Myrrina in digito modo me habeute : 
 Rogat unde sit : narro omnia hsec : indest cognitio facta, 
 Philumeuam compressam esse ab eo et filium inde hunc uatum. 
 Hiec tot propter me gaudia LuTcontigisse lsetor : 3a 
 
 Eta hoc meretrices aliie nolunt : neque enim est in rem nos- 
 
 tram, 
 Ut quuquam amator nnptiia lsetetur. uemm ecastor 
 Numquam animum qujesti gratia ad malas adducam partis. 
 Ego durn illo licitumst usa sum benigno et lepido et conii. 
 Incommode mihi nuptus euenit : factum fateor : ** 
 
 At pol me fecLs.se arbitror, ne id merito mi eueniret. 
 Multa ex quo fuerint commoda, eius incommoda ajquomst ferr* 
 
 h 2
 
 14S HECYRA. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 4. 
 
 PAMPHILVS. PARMENO. BACCH1S. 
 
 Pam. Vide, mi Parmeno, etiam sodes, ut mi hsec certa et 
 clara attuleris, 
 Ne me in breue conjicias tempus gaudio hoc falso frui. 
 
 Par. Visumst. Pam. Certen ? Par. Certe. Pam. Duus 
 
 sum, si hoc itast. Par. Verum reperies. 
 Pam. Manedum sodes : timeo ne aliud credam atque aliud 
 
 nunties. 
 Par. Maneo. Pam. Sic te opinor dixisse, inuenisse Myr- 
 rinain s 
 
 Bacchidem anulum suom habere. Par. Factum. Pam. Earn 
 
 quern olini ei dedi : 
 Eaque hoc te mihi nuntiare jussit : itane est factum 1 Par. Ita 
 iuquam. 
 Pam. Quis me est fortunatior uenustatisque adeo plenior ? 
 Egoue te pro hoc nuntio quid donem ? quid ? quid ? nescio. 
 
 Par. At ego scio. Pam. Quid ? Par. Nil euim : 
 Nam neque in nuntio neque in me ipso tibi boni quid sit scio. 
 Pam. Egon qui ab orco mortuom me reducem in lucem 
 feceris 
 Si nam sine munere a me abire ? ah nimium me ingratum putas. 
 Sed Bacchidem eccam uideo stare ante ostium : 
 Me expectat credo : adibo. Ha. Salue, Pamphile. 
 Pam. O Bacchis, o mea Bacchis, seruatrix mea. 
 Ba. Bene factum et uolup est. Pam. Factis ut credam 
 facis : 
 Antiquamque adeo tuam uenustatem obtines, 
 Ut uoluptati obitus, sermo, adventus tuos, quocumque adue- 
 neris,
 
 HECYRA. 149 
 
 Semper sit. Ba. Ac tu ecastor morem antiquoni atque inge- 
 
 nium obtines, 
 Ut unus omnium homo te uiuat numquam quisquam blan- 
 
 dior. 
 Pam. Hahahae. tun mi istuc ? Ba. Recte amasti, Pamphile, 
 
 uxorem tuam : 
 Nam numquam ante hunc diem meis oculis earn, quod nossem, 
 
 uideram : 
 Perliberalis uisast. Pam. Die uerum. Ba. Ita me di ament, 
 
 Pamphile. 
 Pam. Die mi, harum rerum numquid dixti meo patri ? Ba. 
 
 Nil. Pam. Neque opus est, "° 
 
 Adeo muttito. placet non fieri hoc itidem ut in comcediis, 
 Omnia omnes ubi resciscunt. hie quos fuerat par resci- 
 
 scere 
 Sciunt : quos non autem sequomst scire, neque resciscent neque 
 
 scient. 
 Ba. Iinmo etiam qui hoc occultari facilius credas dabo. 
 Myrrina ita Phidippo dixit, jurijurando meo 30 
 
 Se fidem habuisse et propterea te sibi purgatum. Pam. Op- 
 
 tumest : 
 Speroque hanc rem esse euenturam nobis ex sententia. 
 
 Par. Here, licetne scire ex te hodie, quid sit quod feci 
 
 boni ? 
 Aut quid istuc est quod uos agitis ? Pam. Non licet. Par. 
 
 Taraen suspicor. 
 hunc ab orco mortuom ? quo pacto ? Pam. Nescis, Par- 
 mono, * 
 Quantum hodie profueris mihi et ex quanta (erunina ex- 
 
 traxeris. 
 Pak. Iimno scio, netjue hoc irnprudens feci. Pam. Ego istuc 
 
 satis scio.
 
 150 BEOYRA. 
 
 Ba. An toinere quicquam Parmeno praetereat quod facto usus 
 
 sit ? 
 Pam. Sequere me intro, Parmeno. Par. Sequor • equidein 
 plus hodie boni 
 Feci inprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam. Cantor. 
 Plaudite. *
 
 PUBLII TEREXTII AFRI HECYRA. 
 
 PltOLOGUS. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. FTecyva, h. e. ticvpa — socrus, "A mother-in-law." The play is 
 therefore named from the main feature ia its plot. This prologue 
 seems to have been written for the third representation of the play, 
 which failed of a hearing on the first and second exhibition, For 
 "Hecyra," the dative Hecyrce is read by Fleckeisen, cf. Madvig. 246", 
 obs. 2. Bentley proposed "fabulai" for "fabulse," but see note on 
 Andr. II. vi. 8, "hospitai" v. " hospitae." — Cum data Nova est, "When 
 it was first presented," cf. Heaut. Prol. 33, " quoin dabit Alias novas ; " 
 Cic. Tusc. II. i. 1, " Livius fabulam dedit." 
 
 2. Vidian, " Impediment," a term borrowed from augury. Cf. Cic. 
 De Nat. Deor. II, iv. '' Yitio creatos consules esse." — Oalamitas, 
 "damage'' or " misfortune " — according to Donatus, derived from 
 "calamus" culmus, "a tempest damaging the crops," cf. Donat. ad 
 Eun. I. i. 34. But others (cf. Smith's Diet, in voc.) derive it from 
 " cado," by permutation of d and 1. 
 
 3. Spectari, " to be seen out," or "to the end:" cognosci, cf. Andr. 
 Prol. 24, " Rem cognoscite." — Ita popuhis studio, &c, " To such a 
 degree had the people fixed its attention on a rope-dancer, being lost 
 in wonder through their interest in his performances." — Studio 
 itopidui, b. e. "stupens." — Funarnbulo — the " fuuambulus " seems to 
 have been the oKoivofiaTris of the Greeks. Horace, in Epist. II. i. 210, 
 alludes to him, " 111c per extentum funem mihi posse videtur Ire 
 
 i." &c. — Animum occuparat, h. e. "occupatum habel>n.t." 
 5. Pro novd, " In the light of a new piece," Adelph. V. viii. 28, " Pro 
 patre est" — ftemrefi.rre,' &c, " Would not bring it on again a second 
 time, that (by keeping it back) he might be able to sell it again;" h. e. 
 " ;tt other games, to the .Kdiles, whose duty it was to purchase plays 
 fur the festivals." — -Sed .... This lacuna with the word "Sed," 
 i i suggestion of Fleekeioen, who supposes something to have slipped 
 
 8. Alias. The Andri.i was the only play earlier than the Hecyra, 
 
 if the second repr ntation of that play was in B.C. 16f>. The lust 
 
 -i but one was in 160, at the funeral games of L JSmilius 
 us. If this prologue belongs to that representation, aliai would 
 com pi ehend ail but the Adclphi.
 
 152 NOTES ON 
 
 ALTER PItOLOGUS. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimctor. 
 
 1. Ambivius Turpio, a favourite Roman actor, speaks this prologue, 
 condescending to undertake an office, more proper to an inferior 
 actor, in order to assist the success of the play. He reminds his 
 audience how, ere now, he has done a like good office for Crccilius, 
 whose plays the public were inclined to dislike, but who has now 
 surmounted this adverse feeling, through his aid.— Orator ad vos 
 venio, &c, "I come before you as a pleader, in the garb or guise of 
 prologue-speaker."— Orator = "cui causa defendenda mandatur," cf. 
 Heaut. Pro!. 11., note.— Ornatu prologi, Parry thinks should be taken 
 literally, and gathers from it that the speaker of the prologue wore an 
 appropriate dress. 
 
 2. Smite exorator ut sim, " Allow me to gain the end for which I 
 plead." Cf. Andr. V. iii. 30, "Sine to exorem ;" III. iv. 13, " Vixque 
 id exoro ;" Plaut. Bacch. V. ii. 51, " Sine hoc exorare abs te." " Sino " 
 is used constantly in Terence and Plautus in formulas of entreaty. 
 — Eodemutjure — quo jure. For this repetition of the antecedent in 
 the relative clause, see Madvig. § 315 a, obs. 2, Coosar. B. G. i. 6, " Duo 
 itinera — quibus itineribus." 
 
 4. Novas qui exactas, &c, " I, who caused new plays that had been 
 hissed off, to become established (or ' grow old ') in public favour, lest 
 poet with his writing should pass into oblivion." There is an Anti- 
 thesis here between novas and inveterascerent, " the plays that, when 
 new, had been hissed off, became ' veteres,' through the favour which 
 Ambivius won them." For the construction, noras feci ut, &c, for 
 " feci ut novse," &c, cf. Andr. Prol. 3. For exactas, see Andr. Prol. 27, 
 " Spectanda; an exigendae sint vobis prius." 
 
 6. Quas primum Ccecili, " In the case of the plays of Ccecilius, which 
 I played at first when they were new, in some of them I was hissed 
 off, in some 1 scarce stood my ground." We learn hence that Caecilius, 
 who, according to Douatus, was able to take Terence by the hand, and 
 aid Mm with his good word and his hospitality, had some difficulty in 
 his early career to win his way with the Roman playgoers. Ambivius 
 refers to Csccilius as an established favourite. Horace, in Epist. II. i. 59, 
 distinguishes between him and Terence, " Vincere Caecilius gravitate, 
 Terentius arte." — Partim, cf. below, III. iii. 3, and Madvig.Gr. 284, obs. 4. 
 In this case the adverb is used as the ace. of definition or limitation. 
 Vix ste/i. Ruhnken and Gronov. illustrate this phrase, used of actors 
 and plays, by Hot. Epiat. II. i. 176, ''Securus cadat, an recto Btet 
 fabula talo." Phorm. Prol. 8, " Quom stetit olim nova." 
 
 9. Spe iusertd, cerium, &c, " I took upon me certain labour, while my 
 expectation was uncertain" — 
 
 " I was content to hazard certain toil 
 For an uncertain gain." — Colman. 
 
 Compare with the Antithesis here v. 18, " otio " " negotio."
 
 HECYRA. 153 
 
 10. Easdem ogere ccepi, &c, " I began to act these same rejected 
 pieces with the best of my powers, that so I might have other new 
 plays by the same author to act, lest haply I should withdraw him 
 from his profession." He took up the damned plays in the hope that 
 by reversing the public verdict on them, others would be produced by 
 the same poet, for him to act. — Placita sunt, " They gave satisfaction." 
 So " licuit " and " licitum est," are both used as " placuit " and 
 " placitum est." Servius on ^En. x. 106, " Haud licitum;" Andr. IV. 
 i. 21, " Complacita est tibi." — Restitui in lorttm, cf. Andr. IV. i. 57, 
 " Restitue, in quera me accepisti locum ; " Phorm. Prol. 33 ; Plaut. M. 
 G. III. i. 108, " Haud facile te in eundem rursus restitues locum." 
 
 15. Ab studio, &c. This seems a sort of Hendiadys. Construe, 
 " Well-nigh estranged from the profession and practice of the dramatic 
 art." For studio comparever.il. For arte musicd, Heaut. Prol. 23; 
 Phorm. Prol. 17, notes. — In prcesentid, "At the time," cf. Adel. II. ii. 
 14, " Quin quicquid possem mallem auferre potius in praesentia;" 
 Heaut. V. ii. 9. Olio — nrgotio, cf. ver. 9, incertd, certum, &c. 
 
 20. JEquo animo. Cf. Andr. Prol. 24. " Adeste aequo animo," Heaut. 
 
 Prol. 35 Per silentium, " With the advantage of silence," or " by 
 
 favour of sdence," cf. Heaut. Prol. '46, " Statariam agere ut liceat per 
 silentium," and see notes ibid. — Calamitas, cf. above, Prol. i. 2, 
 " Vitium et calamitas." The metaphor from the "storm" is kept up 
 in sedabit, in ver. 24. 
 
 25. Pugi/um gloria, "do fiers athl6tes," Madame Dacier. "Some 
 burly pugilists." The words are a Periphrasis for " pugilea gloriosi," 
 according to Donatus. So in Greek, /3nj Tlpia.fj.oio, i. e. Upia/j.os. Com- 
 mentators quote Hor. Epist. II. i. 182, "Sa?pe etiam audacem fngat 
 hoc terretque Poetam, &c. ; and Parry adds Plaut. Paenul. Prol. 17 
 — 43, in illustration of the interruptions to which a new piece was 
 liable. The 26th verse is as it were in a parenthesis, so that there is 
 no need to read with Bentley accedcns for " accessit." 
 
 27. Coniitum conventus, " The groups of attendants," either on the 
 '•pugilists" or on the wealthier spectators. Bentley suggested the 
 reading comiti, h. e. comilii, the "assembly." — Exirem fonts, cf. above, 
 J , ' ' Partim sum earum exactus." 
 
 29. Vetere in novd — ut essem, " I began to adopt my old custom in 
 the case of this new play, namely, to try again." Tb.9 clause, In 
 r i periendo ut essem, explains vetere consuetudine : and the use of sum 
 is illustrated by reference to Ter. Heaut. III. i. 63, Illos ibi esse'; 
 \\ ii. 80, Ibi nunc sum ; Hecyr. I. ii. 39, Istic sum, in all which cases 
 as here, is i. q. " to be engaged in ; " " to engage oneself in." 
 With /./■"I', in ver. 31 : cf. ver. 13, PlaciUe sunt. 
 
 82. Da'um iri t/ladiatores, " That a show of gladiators is about to be 
 exhibited. " gtadiatores =s " gladiatorium spectaculum," as in Cic. 
 Ep. ad iJiv. x. 82, " Gladiatoribufl Gallos eqnitcs immiait in populum.' 
 — Pwjnanl dc loco, "Tlu-y squabble for scats." Cf. Plaut. Psenul. Prol. 
 19 — 23, whence it appears that it was necessary to be very curly on the 
 ground, if one wished for a seat. 
 
 84. M'niii tutari locum, "While the spectators were fighting lor 
 jdaeei on the ' ■ubeellia,' I could not maintain my place — the stage." 
 Tlicre is a pun intended here, on the double meaning of "locus." 
 —Nunc lurba non est— Thia is the reading of the bembinc MS. 
 
 a 8
 
 1 5 1 NOTES ON 
 
 37. Polat as condecora/ndi, &a, "To you is given an opportunity of 
 gracing (with your presence and favourable hearing) the scenic 
 names." V,ir pctfslit*, so used, cf. Andr, III. iii. 9, " Cujus tibi potestas 
 suuima aervandi datur." In ver. 3D, 40 Ambivius advocates "free 
 trade in the Drama, per vos, " through your means." Cf. Ter. Phorm. 
 Prol. 16, " In medio omnibus Palmam esse positam," &c. — Facite ut 
 nostra ciHCtoritas, &c, "Cause your influence to second and assist my 
 influence," viz., in securing for Terence that patient hearing which I 
 formerly won for Csecilius, though after much difficulty. 
 
 41. Si numquam avare — vostris commodis. Cf. Heaut. Prol. 48 — 50, 
 notes, where these lines occur. Probably they are an interpolation 
 here. Si used here as a form of adjuration, as in Ter. Andr. I. v. 57, 
 "Si te in germani fratria dilexi loco;" Virg. ^En. iv. 317, "Si bene 
 quid de te inerui. — In animu/n induxi. See note at Heaut. 
 Prol. 49. 
 
 44. Qui in tutelam, meam, &c. The antecedent clause is, of course, to 
 be found in ver. 46. — <Se in vostram commmt fidem, " Has thrown himself 
 on your good faith." See this phrase again in Hecyr. I. ii. 34. — Inique 
 iniqiti irridcunt. Stiilbaum illustrates this play on words by Plaut. 
 Amphitr. Prol. 34, " Juste ab justis Justus sum orator datus." 
 
 47. Causam accipite, "Take up the cause (of the Poet)." The phrase, 
 says Gronovius, is used properly of ''patroni," or "causidici." 
 " Causam accipere " is therefore i. q. " patrocinari ; " Westerhov. quotes 
 Plaut. Mostell. V. ii. 23, " Accipito hanc ad te litem." 
 
 49. Prctio emptas meo, " Purchased at my own cost," i. e. by the 
 actor, not the iEdiles. Ruhnken and other commentators gather 
 hence, and from Juvenal, vii. 87 (" Intactam Paridi nisi vendit 
 Agaven"), that actors sometimes purchased plays as a private venture, 
 cf. Prol. i. 7. Madame Dacier explains the words as "achete'es 
 au prix que je leura imarque : " purchased, i. e. for the iEdiles, at a 
 valuation, for which the manager Ambivius was responsible. But 
 this, though ingenious, is not borne out. 
 
 ACTUS I.— Sc. I. 
 
 Philotis and Syra, an old woman, begin to unfold the plot of the 
 play ; which is more fully developed in scene II. These two, who 
 are otherwise unconnected with the action, talk over the marriage of 
 Pamphilus, and his consequent desertion of Bacchis. The old woman 
 takes occasion thence to advise the gay Philotis to fleece all the male 
 sex while she can. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Per pol quam paucos = Pol perquam paucos, by the figure Tmesis. 
 Cf. Ter. Andr. III. ii. 6, " Per ecastor scitus puer," where see note, 
 and Plaut. Casina II. vi. 18, "Per pol ssepe peccas." For pol= sedepol, 
 cf. Plaut. Men. H. G., 16 and 279, the sentiment here expressed; 
 cf. Ter. Andr. III. i. 2, " Fidelem baud ferine mulieri inven.a3 
 virum." — Erenire, " turn up," as in a lottery. Parry quotes Adel. V. 
 iii. 29, " Mea, quje prseter spem evenere, utantur sine."
 
 HECYRA. 155 
 
 3. Yd hie jurabat, &c, " Even Pamphilus here, for example, used to 
 swear, how often and how solemnly!" For " vel," which Parry 
 Englishes, ''to go no further than," see Heaut. IV. vi. 2, "Vel me ha?c 
 deambulatio Quam non laboriosa;" where see also the notes of this 
 editor on quam used as here. See also Andr. I. i. 109, " Quam fami- 
 liariter," notes. — Ut = ita ut. 
 
 5. Ducturum uxorem domum ! Domum duco applies to the husband, 
 nubo to the wife, cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 41 ; " Domum duxi," Aulul. 443, 
 H. G. — Ovid. Met. ix. 764, " Sacra quibus qui ducat abest, ubi 
 
 nubimus ainbse." "Duco" came to be used absolutely Hem, " Look 
 
 you." 
 
 7. Ne quoiusquam misereat (te, sc). "To have pity on none." For 
 this construction cf. Madvig., sect. 292. — Qain spolies, &c, " But strip, 
 pillage, tear to shreds whomsoever you may chance to pounce upon." 
 The metaphor is from beasts of prey, of which " nanciscor " is pro- 
 perly used (cf. Hor, Od. III. xi. 41, " Quaj velut nactm vitulos leanae 
 Siugulos eheu lacerant"). For the verbs "spolio" and " lacero," used as 
 here, see Plaut. Bacchid. V. i. 6, " Chrysalus me hodie laceravit, 
 Chrysalus me miserum spoliavit." — Admutilo is used by Plautus in the 
 same sense as " mutilo " in this passage. Cf. Capt. II. ii. 19, " Verum si 
 frugi est, usque admutilabit probe." For the use of" quemquem," h. e. 
 " quemcunque," cf. Plaut. Menaechm. 619 (Hildyard), "Omnia mala 
 ingerebat, quemquem aspexerat," and ibid. 1054, H. G. Others read 
 " quemque," for which compare Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. ii. 5, quoted by 
 Parry, and others, " Quemque a milite hoc videritis," &c. 
 
 9. UtirC eximium neminem kabeam ? " Do you mean that I'm to make 
 no exception?" The construction is " Visne uti eximium," &c. 
 " Eximius " and " egregias," are words properly used of victims 
 selected ("eximo") from a herd (e grege) for sacrifice. Parry compares 
 the Gr. i£aiperos. See Cic. de Divin. in Q. Csecil. 16, " Te illi unum 
 eximium, cui consuleret, fuisse." — Eximium neminem = " no fancy- 
 man." — Utine, cf. Phorm. V. vi. 34, " Utine ha;c ignoraret suum pa- 
 trem." Hecyr. II. i. 2. — Nemo quisquam, a redundancy, with which 
 cf. Eun. II. i. 20, "Hoc nemo fuit Minus ineptus, magis severus 
 quisquam." 
 
 11. Qain ita paret sese, "Without making up his mind " — "without 
 laying himself out ; " for this use of " paro " cf. Andr. V. iv. 6 ; " Itane 
 hue paratus advenis?" Phorm. II. iii. 80. Suam roluptatcm expleat 
 must be taken with abs te. Cf. Andr. I. ii. 17, "' Animum ut expleret 
 suum." — Quam minimo pretio, "At the cheapest cost." For amabo, 
 "prythee," in ver. 13, cf. Heaut. II. iv. 24, note ; Plaut. Men. H. G. 291, 
 
 14. Tamen pol eemdem injuriumtt, &c, " Yet, 'faith, 'tis unjust to he 
 
 i." "Injurius" ocean in Andr. II. iii. 4, and Heaut. II. 
 
 iii. 79, "Multimedia mjurias;" Plant. Aul. H. G. 6. r )3, "Injurium 
 
 T' captent, " They seek to entrap you;" a metaphor, according 
 
 to Grouoviui from idiator's scienco. — CnjUatio is, i, .]. "petitio, 
 
 nil alter alteri msidiatur ad ictum infereudum ; " of. riant. Biostoll. 
 
 V. i. 21, "Astute mihi eaptandum est cum illoc;" Ptenul. X. ii. 78, 
 
 ■' '^iii hue advenisti do o ipl itum," Pseud. V. i. 6, &.<-. 
 
 tentiat "or why (have not) you my mind," hoc ic 
 itucrutcit. With this pa a '' commentators compare Hor. Od. IV. 
 x. ' " Quae ui< ua est hodie, cur cadem non puero fuit," &o.
 
 l" ,r ' NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS I.— Sc. II. 
 
 P.vkmkno, on his road to the Pirrcus to welcome home his young 
 master, Pampbilus, meets Philotda and Syra. The former gathers 
 from Parmeno the truth of what she has heard from Bacchis about 
 Pamphilus's marriage ; how at first it was agaiust his will, and how 
 he began by neglecting his wifo, but through her gentleness and meek 
 endurance, contrasted with the ill-tempers of Bacchis, at last became 
 attached to her, in spite of himself. How PamphiluB, at this point, 
 was sent by his father, Laches, to look after some property of a 
 deceased relative at Imbros, leaving his young wifo with her mother- 
 in-law. Sostrata: and how, after a time, Philumena left her mother- 
 in-law's house, and went to her own mother, from whom, on pretence 
 of sickness, she will not return. She refuses to see anyone, and 
 Laches has been to see her father, Pbidippus, on the subject. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 2. Ad Portion (Pirseum, sc.) percontatum, "to ascertain," th. 
 " contus," the pole, with which seamen sound the depths. The form, 
 " percunctor," seems to be only a variation of " percontor." — Scirte, a 
 mute person, th. a-KLprav. — Uti turn dicas, " Mind you then say so."— 
 Understand " volo," or some such verb before uti, cf. Act. I. Sc. i. 
 ver. 9. 
 
 4. Nullus dixeris. Null us is i. q. non, as in Eun. II. i. 10, "Memini 
 tametsi nullus moneas;" Andr. II. ii. 33, "Ac nullus quidem," note ; 
 Plaut. Aul. 747 (H.), " Nullus't tarn parvi pretii." Construe, " Don't 
 say anything."— Causd hdc interjrd, "This excuse new and fresh," in 
 reserve for another occasion. 
 
 8. Salm mecastor Parmeno. Mecastor is " Me Castor adjuvet. " Mecas- 
 tor" and, "ecastor" were women's oaths, cf. Plaut. Aul. H. G. 28,; 
 Men. H. G., 130, JEdepol, cf. Men. H. G. Id.—Oblectasti tarn, diuf 
 " Where have you been taking your pleasure this long time ? " cf. 
 Adelph. I. i. 24, " In eo me oblecto." 
 
 12. Bknnium ibi perpetuum—tuli, "There, wretched as I was, I 
 bore with him a whole two years." For "tuli," used as here, cf. below, 
 IV. iii. 4, "Ibi ego te et tu me feres," and Virg. iEn. iii. 327, "Juve- 
 nemque superbum Scrvitio enixae tv.limus." 
 
 15. Consilium, contempsisse, " And that you scouted your plan " (viz., 
 of leaving Athens). Cf. Andr. IV. iii. 18, "Repudio quod consilium 
 priinum inteuderam " — "te desiderium Athenarum cepisse" = "that 
 regret for Athens possessed you," or "struck you;" Cic. ad Fam. II. 
 11, " Mirum me desiderium tenet urbis." 
 
 18. Antiqud ut conauetudAne—convivium, "That after the good old 
 fashion I might spend a merry time among you unrestrictedly." 
 AgUare is so used in Heaut. IV. iv. 11, "Apud eum miles Dionysia 
 agitat;" Ov. Met. vii. 431, " Agitant convivia patres." — Nam illi— 
 prcefinito looui. Here "illi" is i. q. " illic," as in Adelph. I. ii. 36, 
 " Kgo illi maxumam partem feram." — Nisi prcefinito, " Unless in set 
 phrase." For this adverbial form of the adjective or participle, see 
 Madvig. Gr. 198, obs. 2, note r. Cf. " merito," "consulto," "sortito," 
 &c.
 
 HECYRA. 
 
 157 
 
 20. Haud opinor commode — militcm, " I don't think the soldier was 
 polite in thus limiting your speech." " Commode" = " bene et 
 blande," Donatus ; cf. Heaut. III. ii. 10. " Mulier commoda." — Sed quid 
 hoc negotist, "But what's this business." Cf. Andr. V. ii. 8, "Quid 
 istic tibi negotist?" — Anitnum inducere, cf. Adelph. I. i. 43 (note), 
 " Sic animum induco meum ; " Andr V. i. 15. — Habere autem? "Have 
 a wife indeed?"-— Eho tu, an non habet ? " Why look you, has he not 
 got one 1 " 
 
 25. Firmoz hce vereor ut sint nuptiee, " I fear this marriage won't be 
 firmly cemented." Cf. below I. ii. 101, " Quid adhuc habent infirmi- 
 tatis nuptiae 1 ?" Phorm. V. i. 6, " Quom scirem infirmaa nuptias Hasce 
 esse." — Ita Di de&que f axial, " May the gods and godesses grant it, 
 if," Ac. Cf. Plaut. Aul. 213, " Ita Di faxint." For the form "faxint," 
 cf. Andr. IV. iv. 13 ; Menaschm. H. G. 37. — Si in rem est Bacchidis, "If 
 'tis for the interest of Bacehis." In Andr. III. iii. 14, we find " In renist 
 utrique," and in Aulul. H. 90, " Quod in rem esse utrique arbi- 
 treinur." 
 
 29. Non est opus proJato, " It must not be divulged." For this con- 
 struction, see Andr. III. ii. 10, note, Madvig. Gr. 266, obs. For " pro- 
 fero" in this sense, Heaut. V. ii. 41, " Rem profer palam," and below, 
 at ver. 78, of this scene. Nempe ed causd, ut ne id fiat palam, " For this 
 reason doubtless, that it may not get abroad." Heaut. IV. iii. 43, " Rem 
 facias palam." 
 
 31.. Ita vie Di amabunf, " The gods love me." Cf. Plant. Men. 195, 
 " Dii te amabunt." In Ter. Heaut. II. iii. 67, " Ita me DI ament." 
 
 33. Nunquam tarn dices commode, ut, Ac, " You will never speak so 
 pleasantly, as to induce me to trust my back to your safe keeping." 
 For " commode," cf. above, 20, " Haud opinor commode." For the phrase 
 " tergum ccmmittere in fidem alicujus," cf. Caesar. B. O. viii. 23, "Cu- 
 jusquam fidei suam committere salutem." Parmcno speaks as a slave 
 cf. Heaut. IV. iv. 6, "Syrus mihi tergo pcenas peudet." 
 
 35. Quasi tu non mullo malis, Ac, " Now don't say so, Parmeno. As 
 if you were not much more eager to tell me this, than I, who ask, to 
 know it." Multo malis, cf. Heaut. V. i. 55, note. 
 
 37. Illud mihi viiiumst, Ac. (aside to the audience). "That's my 
 greatest fault," viz, "to be a blab." — Ad ingenium redis, "You are 
 coming to yourself." Cf. Adelph. I. i. 46, " Rursum ad ingenium 
 redit," note — Istic sum, "I am engaged thereat," i.e. "I am attending 
 t'< you." Cf. above, Prol. v. 30, note; Heaut. V. ii. 30, " Ibi nunc 
 sum;" III. i. 63, "Dloaibi ease." 
 
 40. Amubnt, ut gwm maximi, turn Pampliifou, " Pamphilus was then 
 most madly in love with Baocbis, when," Ac. For the phrase " ut cum 
 inaxitne" (sc. ita), see Andria, V. i. 4, "Quom maxime." Heaut. IV. 
 v. 40; Adelnh. IV. i. 2. 
 
 44. Pnrsvlium velle, Ac, Ruhnken quotes Tacit Annal. i. 3, "Quo 
 pluribus muuimeuti- inaiateret." Madame Dacier translates, "Qu'il 
 n'avoit que ltd d'en&nt, et le soutien de Ba vieillesBe." — ///cw("duc- 
 turum," bc.) primo nef/are. Historic infinitive. — Anvmi incertua," Waver- 
 ing in mind." So Phorm. IV. i. 12, "Consilii incertum;" Livy i. 7, 
 " Conftirai atqtie inoerttu atumL" Madvig. Gr. 28'.) b. 
 
 4ff. Tv/ndaulo a'qi/e odio, '• By importunity and boring." For 
 "tundo," in this sense, cf. Andr. II. ii. 11, " Obtundis, tauietsi in-
 
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 telligo;" Eun. III. v. 6, " Rogitaudo obtundat." For odio ("by 
 boring him"), cf. Phorm. V. vii. 44, "Si porro esse odiosi pergitis;" 
 V. vi. 9, "Nunquam tu odio tuo mevinces;" Plaut. Cure. 195, 
 " Odium me vocaa ;" Menjcchm. H. Q. 230, " Odiosum ; " Hor. Sat. I. 
 vii. 6, "Odio qui posset vincere Regem." — Despondit ei nalam, "Con- 
 tracted him to the daughter," for " eum nat;c," cf. Andr. I. i. 75, note. 
 
 50. Mud, h. e. "the mere betrothal." — Usque — dunce, &c, " Even up 
 to the very time of the nuptials." Perhaps there is an Aposiopesis 
 here as in Virg. yEn. ii. 100, "Donee Calchante ministro — " This 
 seems to be the view of Westerhov. 
 
 53. Ut ipsam Bacchidem — ejus commiserescerct, " That, I'm sure, even 
 Bacchis, had she been present, would have pitied him, at that juncture 
 (ibi)." For the imperfects "adesset," " commiseresceret," cf. Adelph. 
 II. i. 22, "Si possidererem," &c : and for the construction after "com- 
 miseresceret," see above, I. i. 7, "Ne cujusquam misereat;" Heaut. 
 IV. v. i., note. 
 
 55. Spatium solitudinis, "An opportunity of being alone." . Cf. 
 below, III. iii. 14, " Nam neque ut celari posset tempus spatium ullum 
 dabat ;" Phorm. IV. iv. 21, ' Spatium apparandis nuptiis." 
 
 59. At te 1)1 deaique perduint, &c, "Now may all the gods," &c. 
 For " At," expressing indignation, as here, see notes on Andr. IV. i. 42 ; 
 Virg. JEn. ii. 535 ; Heaut. V. iv. 9. For " Perduint," cf. Monsechm. 
 H. G. 223. — Cum isto odio, "With that boring of yours." "Cumtua 
 odiosa importuuitate." For " cum," thus used, Westerhov. quotes 
 Andr. V. iv. 38, " Dignus es, cum tua religioue, odium." 
 
 60. Ut ad pauca redeam, &c, " Pour le faire court," Madame Dacier. 
 The phrase recurs at Phorm. IV. iii. 43. — Uxorem deducit domum. Cf. 
 Adelph. IV. v. 60, note. 
 
 64. Plus potus, h. e. " plus solito potus." Heaut. II. i. 8, " Ubi 
 adbibit plus paulo." — Sese Hid abstinere." Cf. below, III. iii. 51, " Ea 
 me abstiuuisse in principio." 
 
 69. Me solum seducit foras, " Takes me aside by myself out-of-doors." 
 seducit = " seorsum ducit." Cf. Plaut. Aul. (H.) 94, " Eo nunc ego 
 secreto te hue foras seduxi;" Asin. II. ii. 95, " Nam me hodie senex 
 seduxit solum, seorsum ab ajdibus." — Abs se integra. Abs se = "quod 
 ad se attinet." Cf. Plaut. Curcul. I. i. 51, " Tam a me pudica est quasi 
 soror mea sit." 
 
 73. Sed quam decrerim, &c. There is a transition here from the 
 narrative style to the dramatic, from the third person to the first, the 
 "oratio obliqua" to the "oratio recta." — Earn ludibrio haberi, "That 
 she should be held up as a laughing-stock." Cf. Plaut. Mena;chm. 685. 
 II. <i. and ibid 595, " Habes despicatui." Quin = " quominus," "So 
 that I should not." For the sense of " decrerim" in ver. 73, cf. Heaut. 
 I. i. 95 ; V. i. 67, &c. 
 
 78. Hoc ego proferre incommndum mihi esse arbitror, " To make tins 
 matter public (viz. his love for Bacchis, and indifference to his young 
 wife), I deem to be unhandsome on my part." For "proferre," see 
 above, vor. 32. — Fncommodwn. Litotes. 
 
 79. Cui tu nihil diem viti, "But that a girl, with whom you can find 
 no fault, should be sent back to her father, is an act of arrogance." 
 The antecedent to "cui" is clearly " filiam," or " virginem," under- 
 stood. Cf. Plant. Asin. V. ii. 49, "Dotatae uxori vitium dicere."
 
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 84. Maligna multo, et rnagis procax, &c, h. e. " Multo magis maligna 
 et procax." Bentley proposed " magis " for " multo." But this is not 
 necessary. — Maligna — " chary of her favours." Cf. with Parry, Plaut. 
 Bacch. III. ii. 17, Malignus. largws. Hor. Od. I. xxviii. 23, Vagse ne 
 parce malignus arena?, &c. — Procax, "exacting," cf. Heaut. II. i. 15, note. 
 
 87. Iltam (Bacchidem sc.) — Ad exemplum — existimans, "Forming 
 his judgment of their characters according to the example of each : " 
 i. e., which each gave of them. Bentley read " ad amussim," h. e. 
 " accurate ;" but there is quite a satisfactory explanation to be given 
 of the text as it stands. Parry shows that ''exemplum" means a 
 sample, probably derived from "eximo." — In ver. 90, incommoda=" ^ rude- 
 nesses," " unkindnesses " — "les mauvais traitemens," Madame Dacier. 
 Cf. the frequent use of "commodus," and incommodus above at ver. 78. 
 For " tegere contumelias " cf. III. iii. 28, Adversa ejus per te tecta, &c. 
 
 92. Vxoris misericordid, " Pity for his wife." For " devinctus " as 
 here, cf. Andr. III. iii. 29, " Consuetudine et conjugio liberali devinc- 
 tum." For "victus" cf. Heaut. I. i. 62, "Graviter audiendo victus est." 
 
 94. Elapsust Bacchidi, "Fell away from Bacchis." " Elabor" follows 
 here the analogy of verbs of " taking away," which govern a dative 
 of the person, cf. Key's Grammar, § 973. — Hue transtulit, " Transferred 
 to his wife here." Huc=ad Kane. Heaut. II. iv. 10. " llli suom 
 animum alio conferunt." Rulmken quotes Propert. I. xii. 13, "Sunt 
 quoque translato gaudia servitio." — Par ingeniwm, "a congenial nature." 
 bo Ovid. Her. ix. 32, " Si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari." 
 
 97. Ea ad hos redibat lege keredilas. See Andr. IV. v 4, note. If 
 there was no will, the property " redibat," to the heir at law. — Extrudit 
 rin, " Dispatches against his will," cf. Plaut. Mercator II. iii. 22, 
 "Jam hinc olim invitum domo extrusit ab sese." 
 
 100. Rus abdidit se, "Has gone in the country to hide himself." For 
 this construction see Caesar. B. G. i. 12, " Kcliqui sese in proximas silvas 
 abdiderunt. Virg. Mo. xi. 810, "In montes sese abdidit avius altos." — 
 Infirmitatis,cf. above ver. 26,"Firmse." — Cvmplusculos,cf. (Plaut.) Rudens 
 I. ii. 43, " Jam hos dies complusculos." Construe, " For several days." 
 
 104. Miris modis, "Unaccountably," cf. Andr. V. iv. 36, "Multi- 
 modis." — Postulatio numquam, " Complaint never." Postulatio, accord- 
 ing to Donatu*, differs from " expostulatio ;" in that the latter is 
 addressed to the offending party himself: the former said of him to 
 another. The word occurs iu Bacchid III. iii. 45, "Acris postulatio 
 haec est," and Postu/are, for " expostulare," in Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. vi. 35, 
 " I trumne postulare prius tecum acquom siet." 
 
 106. Aecesserat (Sostrata, sc). In v. 108, " Ubi non quit pati," refers 
 to Fliilumenx — Pan ]. „ ed absolutely, as in Virg. Eel. x. 52, "Inter 
 spelsBa ferarum liallepati." Lucau v. 313, " Disce sine armis Posse 
 pati," Sk. Poti="to get through life," •' to endure." Sec also Heaut. 
 IV. v. 1:5, " Non p., -.inn p.iti." — Ad rem divimam "To a sacrifice." Cf. 
 Ter. Eun. III. iii. 7, "Ait rem divinam feci i " 
 
 112. Nemo remisii (verbum sc), "No answer." — Arcessunt, "They 
 
 f'ir li<-r," i. e. " the messengers from her mother-in-law." For 
 
 "aro •,' cf. Plaut. Ilea H. G. 636.— A'k-:/,-h Ulico It visere ml ,,i,h, 
 
 "My misti «■ at once to her to pay her a visit. // -•;«/•-■. 
 
 ia a poetic oonatruction, the infinitive i'nv the supine, which may be 
 
 illustrated by Virg. iEu. i. 14, " Virum tot adire labor.- Impulit,"
 
 lfiO NOTES ON 
 
 JEn. i. 527 ; " Populnre Penates Venimus." Hor. Od. I. ii. 7, " Pocus 
 egit altos Visere montes. Key's Gr. § 1255. " Visere ad eaiu " occurs 
 
 II. i. -10. "Visentem ad earn." &c. 
 
 115. Rcscivit, " Came to hear," "got to know tliis." Cf. Andr. III. 
 ii. 14; Heaut. I. i. 47; Plant. Men. H. G. 581; Aul. H. G. 727. 
 — Conrenit, ■' He went to meet." So Andr. I. iii. 22, note. Plaut. Men. 
 457 (note) "Conveniam servom." 
 
 118. Curcc est, "But I certainly am anxious." Ruhnken illustrates 
 the phrase by Cicero, Ep. ad Div. x. 1, "Maxime mihi curre est nou 
 de mca quidem vita, sed de patria." — For Nisi, " but," see Andr. IV. 
 i. 40, uote ; Heaut. V. ii. 4, note. 
 
 119. Habes omnem. rem, " You are in possession of the whole story." 
 — Pergam quo ccepi hoc i'cr, " I will proceed with this journey, to the 
 point whither 1 am bound." "Pergo" is properly an active verb; and 
 we have here (as in Salluat. B. J. c. 79), an example of the accusative 
 after it. Quo ccepi (pergere sc.) ' Je vais continuer mon chetnin." 
 
 120. Constitui, "I've made an appointment," cf. Heaut. IV. iv. 4, 
 " Aut quoin venturum dixero et constituero," note. Kun. I. ii. 125, 
 " Venturum ad me constituit domum. — Divortant bene, &c. Cf. Phorni. 
 
 III. iii. 19; Plaut. Cure. V. ii. 58, "Deos volo bene vertere istam rem 
 vobis." 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. I. 
 
 Laches charges his wife, Sostrata, with having driven away Philumena 
 by her hatred aud unkindness ; the usual course of mothers-in-law 
 towards their daughters-in-law. He would have sent her away, and 
 kept Philumena, had he been at home. He complains that, though 
 he slaves at the farm, he cannot trust Sostrata to keep matters smooth 
 at home. She has no reply to make, save that she is not to blame, as 
 she knows not the real cause of her daughter-in-law's departure. 
 
 Metre:— 1—3, 5—7, 10—18. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 4. 8, 9, 19. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 20 — 45. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. Quod hoc est yenus ? Quce hece est conjuralio ? This is, according 
 to Westerhov. a sort of Hendiadys, for "Quod hoc est genus conjura- 
 tionis? " What sort of cabal is this?" Others refer "genus "to the 
 sex ; as Colman, " What animals are women ! " 
 
 2. Utine. So reads the " Codex Bembinus." Bentley, followed by 
 Hermann, reads "Ut ne." Parry, following the Bembine C, adds, that 
 the penult of utine is long, and that " mulieres " is pronounced as a 
 dissyllable. Construe, "Does it not seem as if all women afl'ected and 
 disliked exactly all the same things." — Studeant, cf. Eun. Prol. 28. — 
 Neque declinatam, &c. "And that you caunot find any woman varying 
 at all from the disposition of others." Ncque=" utque non." Menander 
 has yvvrj yvvcMths ttwttot' ou5e 5ia<p(p(t. 
 
 4. Itaque adeo, &c, "And so accordingly all mothers-in-law, with 
 one consent, hate their daughters-in-law." Socrus, as Parry observes, 
 is a monosyllable here. In the next verse, with adversas, compare 
 Audr. I. i. 37, " Advorsus neminL" Heaut. V. iii. 5, q. v.
 
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 6. In eodemque — ludo, " And all appear to me to have been trained 
 to mischief in the same school." Ludo, sc. " gladiatorio." Gronov. 
 refers to Hor. Epist L i. 2 — 3, " Spectatum satis, et donatum jam rude, 
 quseris, Mecamas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo." The word how- 
 ever came to signify a school generally, as here, and in Phorm. I. ii. 36, 
 "In ludum ducere et redducere." With " doctse ad malitiam," cf. 
 Heaut III. L 41, *■ Instructa pulchre ad perniciem." 
 
 7. Si ullus est, " If any such there be." Bentley reads " ulla sit 
 magistra," but there is no need of any change. — Banc, " my wife here, 
 whom he sees approaching." For " non " in ver. 9, Fleckeisen reads 
 "nescio." Ita me Di bene ament, cf. Phorm I. iii. 13; cf. also, Heaut. 
 III. hi. 8. 
 
 10. Ilaque una — liceat, " And so (i. e. if what I say be true) may we 
 be allowed to pass our lives together in unity." Itaque=" et ita." — For 
 Di mala prohibeantl cf. Andr. III. iii. 36; Adelph. II. iv. 11, notes. 
 Construe, " May Heaven forefend it." In ver. 11, most editions place the 
 last " scio " in the mouth of Laches. Bentley, however, refers it to 
 Sostrata, and places a comma at rescisces. Fleckeisen follows him. If 
 we read "scio" as part of Laches' speech, we construe it, "Oh! no 
 doubt," ironically. — For rescisces. cf. Andr. III. ii. 14 ; Heaut. I. i. 47 ; 
 Plaut. Men. H. G. 581 ; Aulul. 727. 
 
 13. Familiam dedecoras. Westerhov. refers to Plaut. Bacch. III. 
 iii. 95, " Qui dedecorat te, me, anricos atque alios flagitiis suis." Ex 
 amicis inimici, for this use of "ex" cf. Andr. I. i. 10, note. — Affinis 
 differs from " cognatus " in that the latter is connected with one 
 "by blood," the former "by marriage," cf. Plaut. Aul. 427, H. G. 
 
 15. Suos cui liberos committtrent, "Who judged him worthy to whom 
 they might entrust their child, or a child of theirs." Liberos is here 
 used vaguely, as in many passages in various languages, cf. Heaut. I. 
 i. 99, In. liberos. Plaut. Aulul. IV. x. 6, "Meosque perditum ires 
 liberos." So in Sophocles, fiaoiXtvoiv is used for " the king," the plural 
 for singular, and in Virg. JEn. x. 632, we have " Gnatis parce tuis," 
 in a similar sense. — Exorere, " start up," the idea of " unexpectedly " 
 is involved in this word, cf. Virg. JEn. iv. 625, " Exonare aliquis 
 nostris ex ossibus ultor." 
 
 17. Lapidem, "A stock or stone," cf. Heaut. IV. vii. 3, " Quid stas, 
 lapis?" ibid. V. i. 44; Plaut. Merc. III. iv. 46, "Islapidimando maxumo." 
 With " tu, inquam, muiier," Donatus compares Eurip. Audroin. 85, 
 iroAAttj av t Spots firtxavas' yvv^ yap et. — In ver. 18, understand me before 
 nescire. — Voatn/rum, h. e. " vostrurn" or " vestrum." So "nostrorum" 
 Eun. IV. iv. 10. Varronian. (Donaldson) p. 309. See also below, 11. 
 i. 4.3; Adelph. III. ii. :;::. note. 
 
 20. Illiub,,\i. e. "illic ubi." Cf. above I. ii. 19, "Nam illi baud 
 licebat," 4c. — Ideo quia — jama fori*, " (And I do this) because as you 
 shall conduct yourselves at home, just ho sh;dl I b« reputed abroad." 
 Alibi is the J>:tt. Ethicus. For promde, used as here, Bee Heaut. I. 
 i. 13. With ero /am a, Westerhov. compares IV. iii. 14, " Noa fubula 
 
 Bumus." Colman translates, " Because upon my family at home depend i 
 
 My character abroad." 
 
 25. Tu hinc issea fora.s. The form of divorco was, Exi /oms, mtilicr. 
 See Hartisl Bp. XI civ. ], " Uxor, vade /oras, ant moribus utere 
 uoiitris." — In ver. 26, Mgr\tvd.Q=." anxiety, caro." Cf. Heaut. III. ii. 28.
 
 102 NOTES ON 
 
 27. Conccdens vobis, " Giving way to you," or " making way for you." 
 So " decedo " is used with a dative, for the simple " cedo," cf. Virg. 
 Eel. viii. 88, " Sera) decedere nocti." Concedens is so used iu Plant. 
 Epid. V. ii. 16, " Num oculis concessi tuis." Amphit. I. i. 119, " Nequo 
 nox quoquam concedit die." Iici semens, " A slave to my property." 
 Cf. Plant. True. II. iii. 21, " Ut rei servire suave est." 
 
 28, 29. Meo labori, &o. These two verses are transposed by many 
 editors. — OliumquQ ut nostra res posset pati. Otium, " Life of ease," cf. 
 Adelph. I. i. 17. Pati, "to sustain," "to be equal to." Ruhnken 
 quotes Hor. Epist. I. xviii. 28, " Meac, contendere noli, Stultitiam 
 patiuntur opes." — Non te pro his, &c. (oportuit sc). — Ne quid ctgre esset 
 mihi, "That I should have no annoyance." Cf. Plaut. Men. 528, "Quid 
 tibi segre est." 
 
 31. Pol. Cf. Andr. I. iv. 2, note. Plaut. Men. 16, H. O.— In ver. 
 33, Solvit" I have freed or detached." Westerhov. quotes Hor. Epod. 
 XVII. 45, " Et tu, potes nam, solve me dementia." 
 
 34. Cum puelld, &c. For the use of " puella," for even a married 
 woman, see, with Ruhnken, Ovid. Heroid. i. 115, " Certe ego, quas 
 fueram, te decedente, puella." Fast. ii. 557, "Vidua; cessate puellaj." 
 So also in Virg. Eel. vi. 48, " Ah, virgo infdix," is addrest to Pasiphac, 
 the mother of Phajdra and Ariadne and Androgeos. Hor. Od. II. 
 viii. 23, " Virgines nuptai." 
 
 37. De te — . peccando detrimenti nihil fieri potest, " No hurt can bo 
 done you by any fault." With detritnentum, cf. Heaut. III. i. 39, note 
 on " intertrimento." — In ver. 39, plus is i. q. " amplius" or " plus diu." 
 Westerhov. illustrates this use by Lucret. vi. 420, "Altaque cur 
 plerumque petit loca : plurima quo plus Montibus in summis vestigia 
 cernimus ignis ? " 
 
 41. Enim, "Why." Gr. yap. The word seems to be used "elliptice" 
 as in Aulul. 454, at the beginning of a sentence. Cf. Hildyard's note 
 at that passage. Understand, " It 's true, I did not see her — for," &c. 
 See also Phurm. V. viii. 90, " Enim nequeo solus." — Lassam, cf. Andr. 
 II. i. 4, note. — Oppido, cf. Heaut. IV. ii. 2, note. 
 
 43. Vostrarum nulla est. See above at ver. 19, and Adelph. III. ii. 33, 
 note. Construe, " There 's not one of your sex," &c. — Et quce vobis 
 placitast conditio datur, "And the match, which you fancy, is made. 
 For conditio used in this sense, 6ee Andr. I. i. 52; Aul. 194, H. G. 430, 
 ibid. — Vbi duxere (uxores sc), exigunt (sc. domo), "They drive them 
 away;" "divorce them." Cf. Plaut. Merc. IV. vi. 5, "Uxor viro si clam 
 domo egressa est foras, Viro fit causa, exigitur matrimonio." 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. II. 
 
 Pitit.umena's Father, Phidippus, joins Laches and Soatrata, after 
 bidding hi* daughter to do as i-he pleases with regard to going back to 
 Sostrata, or remaining where she is. Laches reasons with him, and 
 alvises him not to yield too readily to the women. He asks for some 
 explanation of Philumena's conduct, and grounds of dissatisfaction.
 
 HECYRA. 16? 
 
 Phidippus replies that she urges none ; but objects to remain with her 
 mother-in-law, in the absence of Pamphilus. 
 
 Metre : Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 2. Patrio animo rictus, " Vaincu par la tendresse paternelle," Madame 
 Dacier. — Faciam ut tibi concidam. For this construction, see Heaut. 
 ProL 28, " Facite aequi sitis." 
 
 4. Optime, h. e. " peropportune." Cf. Andr. II. i. 36, note. Eun. V. 
 ii. 66.— Scibo, see Madvig. Gr. 115, c. Plaut. Men. 295, H. G. 
 
 5. Adprime obsequentem, " Exceedingly obliging." For " apprime," 
 cf. Andr. I. i. 34, note. — In the next verse, sed, must be used as equi- 
 valent to tamen, and considered as the Apodosis to " etsi," " Though 
 I 'm aware that I am exceedingly obliged to all my friends, yet I am 
 not so to such a degree as to let my easiness corrupt their characters." 
 — For " in rem" in ver. 7, see Andr. III. iii. 14 ; Hecyr. I. ii. 27. 
 
 8. In illarum potentate esse te, " That you are under their thumb and 
 finger." Gronov. quotes Cic. ad Fam. V. iv., " Quod si mihi tua dementia 
 opem tuleris, omnibus in rebus me fore in tud potestate tibi confirmo ;" 
 and several like passages. See also Aulul. 489 (Hildyard), "Nam 
 quae indotata est, ea in potestate est virl" — Hcia vtro, " Look ye there 
 now !" Plaut. Men. 290, H. G. 
 
 9. Itidem incertum amUti, "You sent me away in doubt, even as I 
 came." Amisti is Syncope for "amisisti." So in Phorm. II. iv. 19, 
 " Incertior sum multo quam dudum." — Si per pet nam — affinitatem, " If 
 you desire this alliance to be lasting." Bentley read "perpetem" as 
 in Plaut. Amph. I. i. 124 ; but Parry rightly rejects this reading, show- 
 ing that the usage of Plautus is no unerring guide as to the text of 
 Tereuce. — Celare te iras, " that you should smother your anger." 
 
 12. Aul ea refellendo aut pmrgando. Ea is referred to " peccatum," 
 by Enallage of number. Cf. Heaut. II. iv. 13, " Hi se ad vos applicant," 
 where "hi" refers to " viro" iu ver. 11. Refellendo, " by refuting," cf. 
 Phorm. I. ii. 82, " Quom tu horum nil refelles. Purgando, " by clearing 
 myself." Parry illustrates this word by Hecyr. V. iv. 31, " Propterea 
 te sibi purgatum." To which we may add Adelph. IV. iii. 17, q. v. 
 — Te judice ipso, "even with you to be judge," or "to arbitrate." — 
 In ver. 15, Si metuis — ut, &c, cf. for this construction, Madvig. Gr. 
 § 87 
 
 17. Id adco gnati ecmtd, Sec, "And, what is more, this is for my son's 
 sake." The force of "adeo" 13 "quod plus est," as in Plant. Men. Prol. 21, 
 21 1 (H. <>.>, and Aulul. 600 (H.). — In the next verse, magvificare" 
 is i. q. " magni facerc," " magni # sestimare." So Plaut. Pseud. IV. i. 34, 
 quote 1 l>v ' Ironov. " I 't ego ob tuam, Simia, pcrfidiam te amo, et metuo, 
 et magnifico." Bee also Rant. Hen. (H. G.) 280, "Magnificare'." Cistell. 
 I. i. 22, " Quia me colitis et magnificatis.'' — Clam me est, cf. Andr. I. 
 v. 52. " Nee clam te e.nt." Construe here, " And what 's more, I 'm not 
 unaware how bitterly I believe lie '11 take it." Bentley proposed to 
 , u clam te." — Eo flomum studeo hmr, prias guam Ule, ut redeat, 
 "Therefore I am desirous that she should return home luforo him." 
 
 21. Diligmtiam, "Affection." T\\<- original meaning of the word, 
 which the verb "diligo," i'-< root, indicates. — Animum mdueo, cf Andr. 
 III. iii. 4'i, "Animum induxti osse utile;" Hecyr. I. ii. 21; Adelph. F. 
 ii. 43. Construe, "I'm pei-auaded." — El te koc mild cupio enden,
 
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 "And I'm very anxious that you should believe me in this." Cf. Heaut. 
 IV. i. 11, " Yin' me istuc tibi, etsi incredible est, credere?" 
 
 25. Eho I numquidnam &c. " Harkye, does she at all blame her 
 husband." For numquidnam, cf. Andr. I. iv. 8 ; II. i. 25, notes. For 
 eho, see "ehodum'' Andr. II. i. 24, note. — Attendi magis, "1 directed 
 my attention more to the matter." For instances in which " attendo " 
 is thus used absolutely, cf. Smith's Dictionary, sub voc. (2). — Sancte 
 udjiirat. So in I. i. 4, " Jurabat quoticns Bacchidi, Quam sancte." — Per- 
 durare, "hold out," "endure life," cf. Adelph. IV. ii. 15, "Non hercle 
 quidem durare quisquam, si sic fit, potest." 
 
 28. Aliudfoi-tas.se alii viti est. Such is Bentloy's reading, though the 
 majority of MSS. have "aliis." The former is preferable; as the 
 reference is to Laches. — Ego sum animo leni natus, " I'm naturally of 
 a mild disposition." 
 
 29. Hem I Sostrata. " Hear you this, Sostrata ! " — Certumne est istuc f 
 "Is that settled :" (viz., that Philumena stays where she is). — Numqxdd 
 vis? Cf. Adelph. III. iii. 78 ; ibid. II. ii. 39, note.— In ver. 31, Nam est 
 quod me, &c. " For I have reasons for being obliged to go across to 
 the forum now." Cf. Andr. II. vi. 17, note, "Est quod succenset ; " 
 Heaut. Prol. 3, Madvig. Gr. §. 365, obs. 1. 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. III. 
 
 Sostrata soliloquises on the injustice of her husband's accusations; 
 which however she cannot easily rebut. Her son's return is her chief 
 hope of clearing her character as a mother-in-law. 
 
 Metre : Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 1. Inique ccque omnes invuee viris, " In good truth, unfairly, are all of 
 us women alike hated by our husbands." There is a sort of " oxy- 
 moron," in " inique aequo/ 1 cf. Andr. Prol. 17, " Faciunt na> inti lligendo 
 ut nil intelligaut." V\ ith v. 2, Westerhov. compares Eurip. Ion. 398, 
 to yap yvvatKwv Suax e P^ irpbs &.p<rtvas, K&v reus kolkcuciv at 'yadai 
 pLf/juy/Atvai Micoii/iefl'* oUtoj 8u(ttux& TrtcpvKa/xev. — Sum extra noxiam, 
 "I am blamelss." Cf. Heaut. II. iii. 56, note. Plaut. Mostell. V. 
 ii. 47, &c. 
 
 4. Sed non facile est expurgatu,, "But this is not an easy matter for 
 clearing up." Cf. Heaut. II. iii. 116, "Hsec res neutiquam neglectu 
 est ruihi," note; and Parry's note on the same passage, where it is 
 shown that the " supine in u " is a dative case of a verbal noun." 
 See also III. i. 16, below. — Animum induxerunt, cf. above II. ii. 22. 
 
 5. Haud pol me quidem (esse iniquam inducant animum, so.). This 
 transition from the " recta oratio " to the " obliqua" is not uncommon. 
 We should look for, " Haud ego iniqua fui." — Habui Mam, cf. Adelph. 
 I. i. 23, " Habui, amavi pro meo. "— Si ex me esset nata, cf. Adelph. I. 
 i. 15, " Atqui ex me hie natus non est." 
 
 7. Nisi, "Save that," or "But this I know, that ; " see Andr. IV. 
 i. 40; Heaut. V. ii. 4.—Mullimodis, cf. Andr. V. iv. 36; Heaut. II. 
 iii. 79 ; Plaut. M. G. IV. iv. 53.— For expectu, the common reading of 
 editors, Bentley reads " expeto."
 
 HECYRA. 165 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. I. 
 
 Pamphilds, returning home from Imbrus, learns that his wife haa 
 quitted his father's roof. He laments bitterly over the rough course 
 of his loves, his severance from Bacchis, aud the untoward journey 
 that has taken him from Philumena, just when he was beginning to love 
 her. He feels that, whichever is to blame, his wife, or his mother, he 
 has grief in store. Parmeno comforts him by saying, that his return 
 will clear up all. Their talk is interrupted by a bustle at the house of 
 Phidippus. Parmeno is sent to learn the cause; but, as he fails to 
 learn it, Pamphilus goes in himself. 
 
 Metre : — 1, 10. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 2, 3, 5—8, 12. Troch. Tetram. Catalectic 
 4, 9, 33, 45, 46. Iambic Tetram. Catalectic. 
 13 — 32, 34 — 44. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 47 — 55. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Nemini homini, cf. Adelph. II. iii. 6.—Oblata esse, "have chanced ;" 
 so " offerre" is used in a bad sense in Act. V. i. 14, below, " Inscitum 
 ofFerre injuriam tibi immerenti iniquom est." Plaut. Epid. II. i. 10, 
 "jErumua Acerbior Herculi, quam ilia mihi est objecta." Amphitr. 
 II. L 58, "Huic homini nescio quid est mali mala objectum manu." 
 Cf. also below at ver. 6. 
 
 2. Hancine ego vitam parsi perdere ? " Have I been sparing of losing 
 this life of mine 1 ?" Donatus notes that " parsi" is the perfect of the 
 verb " parco "=" conservo ; " " peperci " of the verb " parco "=" veniam 
 do." lluhnken quotes a Bimilar construction from Ovid. Trist. III. 
 iii. 51,"Parce tamen lacerare genas." — Ubivis gentium, cf. Heaut. V. 
 i. 55, Madvig. § 284, obs. 9 and 11. — Atque hcec ita esse mherum me 
 resciscere, "And that I, wretched fellow, should come to learn that 
 these things are so." 
 
 6. Objectus labos. Cf. Adelph. IV. iv. 2, and above at ver. 1 of this 
 scene. For labos, see Heaut. I. i. 30, note, " Omne quod est interea — 
 lucrost." See Adelph. V. hi 30, 31, "Id de lucro putato esse omne." 
 Phorm. II. L 16. AVith the " Anacoluthia " which occurs here, where 
 MM (/mnes is said as if " lucri facimus " were to follow ; and " lucro 
 follows as if "nobis omnibus" had preceded, see Ter. Heaut. V. 
 iv. 18, and Parry's note there ; and see also Madvig. Gr. § 480, p. 427, 
 where this passage is quoted. In ver. 9, Fleckeisen, Stiilbaum, and others, 
 read "h»C hie," with lientley. For this form "htec" for "Hae" see 
 Plant. AnL 4-7, H- <>. Curcul. 39, " Lenonis hsec sunt cedes." 
 
 11. Lam txpalies, A somewhat uncommon construction, different 
 from the usual one, which occurs in ver. 8 above. Here we must un- 
 derstand it, " You will settle their squabbles." Cf. Cic. ad. Att. xi. 18, 
 
 Bern, ut poteris, expedias " &c— Rursum in gratiam restitucs. For 
 the Pleonasm here, see Adelph. IV. ii. 40, "Rursum redi." For in 
 vu in mduxti tin, in, cf. llecyr. Prol. alt. 42. 
 
 14. Habebam alibi >mimum amori deditum, " I had bestowed my 
 
 ions in another quarter." Similarly we have in Andr. V. i. 10. 
 
 " 1 1, alio occupato amore." — Cuivis facile scUust, cf. above II. iii. 4, note,
 
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 — Obtrxulit, "forced upon me." So ,in Andr. I. v. 15, "Ea quoniam 
 aemini obtrudi potest, Itur ad inc." 
 
 17- Vix me illinc abstraxi, &c. "Scarcely havo I torn myself from my 
 former lovo." Such is the common reading. The Bembiue MS. has 
 " illi," and Muretus suggests " illinc." Bui there is no need for either 
 emendation, if we adopt Parry's explanation that in Tei*. and Plaut., 
 illinc and illic are often read as monosyllables. Jllinc is here i. q. 
 " ab ilia," as "hue" in the next line is i. q. "ad hauc." Cf. Andr. J 1. 
 iii. 12, " Ut ab ilia excludar, hue concludar." — Impeditam — expedivi, 
 cf. Andr. III. v. 11 note. 
 
 22. Turn uxori obnoxius sum, " Besides, I am beholden to my wife ; 
 so well did she formerly bear with me with her own sweet temper, 
 Olim. i. e. before I loved her." For the sense of " obnoxius," cf. Virg. 
 Geor. i. 396, " Fratris radiis obnoxia surgere Luna." Propert. I. ii. 21, 
 " Facies aderat nullis obnoxia gemmis." — Quce in ver. 23, refers, of 
 course, to " uxori." Though some editors and commentators (e. g. 
 Donatus) consider "quae" to be the neut. plur. ace. used generally, 
 instead of "quas" as the relative to which "injurias" is antecedent. 
 
 25. Inlercessit. Cf. Andr. V. v. 5, " Si nulla iegritudo huic gaudio 
 intercesserit." 
 
 26. Hand quidem hercle parvom (" evenisso neccsse est"), " Nay, not 
 even anything trifling need have occurred, if you'll really examine into 
 the true cause:" much less any " rnagnuin nescio quid." Such is 
 Donatus's reading and explanation. Column appeal's to have followed 
 Bentley's emendation, " Aut hercle parvom," &c. He translates, 
 " Rather some trifle, if you knew the truth." But the reading adopted 
 by Donatus is best here, and simplest. For veram rationem exstqui, 
 Gronovius quotes Livy. Ill v., " Exsequendo numerum subtiliter 
 ducentos ait et trigiuta." See also Plaut. M. G. III. iii. 71, " Ut accu- 
 rate et commode hoc quod agendum est, exsequamur." 
 
 27. Non maxumas, quce maxumce sunt interdum irce, injurias Faciunt 
 " Sometimes the enmities which are greatest, do not make (or ' prove') 
 men's wrongs the greatest, for often in some things one man is not 
 even angered, whereas from the same cause a wrathful man is made 
 most hostile." Parry has very carefully examined the passage, and, 
 following the view of Donatus, has made it more intelligible. He sim- 
 plifies the construction by showing that "maximas faciunt" must be 
 taken together as the predicate. There is no need, with Bentley, to 
 lead " maxumse" "injurise." Colman translates 
 
 " The greatest quarrels do not always rise 
 Froin deepest injuries." 
 
 He appears, as does Madame Dacier, to understand " faciunt," i. q. 
 " ostendunt." For est quibus in rebus (to-riv oh Or.), cf. Hor. Od. I. i. 3, 
 " Sunt quos curriculo," &c, and Macleaue's note, ibid. 
 
 30. Ir'is gerunt, " bear enmity," or oherish wrath." Cf. Plaut. Paen. 
 III. vi. 18, "Si quid peccatum est, plumbeas iras gerunt." — Quia enim, 
 " Why because." Here, as elsewhere, " enim," is used elliptice. See 
 above at II. i. 41, note, and Heaut. I. ii. 14, note; Andr. V. i. 4. — Qui 
 eos gubernat animus infirmvm gerunt. — Here the antecedent is attracted 
 into the clause and case of the relative, cf. Virgil, Mn. i. 573, " Urbem
 
 HECYItA. I*i7 
 
 quam statuo, vestra est.'' See also Andr. Prol. 3, note ; Madvig. 
 Gr. § 319, obs., and Key's Gr. 1125. Stalbaum quotes Sallust. Catil. i. 
 " Auimi imperio, corporis servitio ruagis utimur." 
 
 32. Itideta UUe mulieres — levi sententid, "Just so those women are, 
 pretty much as boys, of fickle purpose." "Sententia" is i. q. "consilio." 
 Grouovius quotes Plaut. Mostell. I. iii. 15, "Ut lepide res omnes teuet, 
 senteutiasque ainantuui;" Mil. Gl. II. i. 51, "Ego quoniam inspexiniulieris 
 sententiaiu, Cepi tabellas." Pro\>ert. (II. ix. 33.) speaks more strongly 
 on the same topic : " Non sic incerto mutantur ilamine Syrtes, Nee 
 folia hybemo tarn tremefacta Noto, Quam cito femine& non constat 
 foedus in ira, Sive ea causa gravis, sive ea causa levis." 
 
 33. Fortasse unum aliquod — concivisse, here, " It may chance that 
 some one word has stirred, up this wrath between them." The ordinary 
 reading is " conciverit." Bentley following Douatus reads " concivisse," 
 and adds here, to which last word Parry objects, as the line is an 
 Iambic Trimeter Catalectic without it. Donatus remarks that the 
 ancients often connected an infinitive with " fortasse," " scilicet," 
 '• videlicet," &c. ; and by referring to Gronov. Observat. Lib. III. c. ix, 
 p. 506, we find "fortasse" so used in three passages of Plautus, viz., 
 Merc.it. IV. iv. 42, "Fortasse te ilium mirari coquom ;" Paenul. V. ii. 43, 
 "Fortasse medicos nos esse arbitrager ; " Trucul. III. ii. 12, " Para- 
 si; urn te fortasse dicere." For " scilicet" so used, cf. Ter. Heaut. 
 II. iii. 117. Gronov. says that "aedepol" and "certe" are likewise so 
 used with an infinitive. 
 
 35. Trepidari — prorsum, "I notice that there is a bustling, and a 
 running backwards and forwards." The verbs are used here imper- 
 sonally. Trepidari is properly used of disturbance caused by some 
 sudden alarm, e. g. a panic in an army. Ruhnken illustrates it here 
 by Sallust. Jug. C7, " Romani milites improviso metu — trepidare ad 
 arcem oppidi;" Hor. Sat. II. vi. 117, " (Jurrere per toturn pavidi con- 
 clave magi.-que F^xanimes trepidare." Adelph. III. ii. 25, q. v., — Rursum 
 prorsum, cf. Plant. Amph. V. i. 60, " Ego cunas recessim rursum 
 vorauni trahere et ducere." Ter. Eun. II. ii. 47, " Ne sursum deorsum 
 cursi' 
 
 36. Nullus sum, "Je suis perdu," Madame Dacier. Cf. Andr. III. 
 iv. 20, note, and below at IV. i. 6, IV. iv. 32.— Quidum? "How so?" 
 For this particle dura thus used, cf. And. I. i. 1, note. 
 
 41. Pavitare nescio quid dixerunt, " They said that your wife has 
 ■,hing of an ague fit." Cooper, in his Thesaurus, applies the word 
 " pavito, however, to mental ailment, construing, "is troubled in 
 spirit. " For the former interpretation, cf. Plaut. Bacch. I. i. 73, 
 " Timida es." — Id si forte est, nescio, " Whether that happens to be the 
 or not, I can't say." -Quid v<m poteram una omnia (tibi dicere, sc), 
 — Quid morhi mtt cf. below III. ii. 22. 
 
 Ii. Nemo medicum adduxitt "Has no one fetched a doctor?" Cf. 
 Plaut. Men. II. 786, " Medicum ducere an fabrum." In ver. 44, Fleckeisen 
 follow! the Bembine MS. and reads " certo sciam." Stalbaum and 
 Parry and others, " certum." 
 
 45. T<: ojhudam adfectam ? "Shall I find thee disordered?" or 
 
 "in di.- posed: " For "offendo," thus o ed, cf Heaut. II. iii. 44, and for 
 
 '•in,'' Westerhov. quotei Propert. II. xxviii. 1, " Jupiter. Hffectaj 
 
 repuellte. Where l'aley(cf. III. xx 1) explain "affecte,"
 
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 sc. "inorbo, regrotauti." — For the sentiment in ver. 46, of. Phorm. 
 I. iv. 24. Propert. III. xx. 42 (Paley), " Vivam si vivet, si cadet ilia, 
 cadatn." 
 
 47. Non urns factost, &c. Cf. Adelph. III. iii. 75; Heaut. I. L 29 ; 
 Andr. III. ii. 10 ; and Plaut. Men. 655, " Usus facto est." Construe, 
 " There's no occasion." 
 
 50. A mplior fact lis siet, " Should have become more serious." 
 " Amplior" is i. q. "gravior," as in ver. 9, " iroe ampliores." 
 
 54. Capiti atque atati illorum, " To thoir persons and lives." " To 
 them all." A Periphrasis for " illis," see Plaut. Men. 577. "^Etati 
 tuffl " = " tibi." ^Esch. Choeph. 434, aXaivi af, Phorm. III. ii. 6, " Suo 
 capiti fuat ; " Virg. JEn. viii. 484, " Di capiti ipsius, geuerique reservent." 
 Plaut. Rudens. V. ii. 59.— Qui, "whereby." 
 
 55. Hera hi crimen veniet, "My mistress will come in for blame:" but 
 I for severe punishment. Westerhov. points out a parallel to this in 
 Heaut. II. iii. 115, "Tibi eruut parata verba, huic homini verbera." 
 See also Phorm. II. ii. 8. — For malum, in the sense of punishment, 
 cf. Adelph. I. i. 44. "Malo coactus," note. 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. II. 
 
 Parmeno stops Sostrata who is going to inquire what is amiss in the 
 house of Phidippus, and persuades her to await her son's coming-out 
 thence, that she may hear all from his lips. Pamphilus soon comes 
 out ; but parries all inquiries, and is most uncommunicative. He looks 
 sad and dejected, and tries to get rid of Sostrata and Parmeno that he 
 may sorrow in secret. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. Nescio quid jamdudum — tumultuari, " I hear some disturbance or 
 other going on here." Cf. above III. i. 35, " Trepidari sentio," &c. — 
 Male metuo, " I'm soro afraid." Westerhov. quotes Cic. ad. Fam. x. 33, 
 " Tanquam nihil pejus timerent;" Heaut. III. ii. 20, "Syre, tibi timui 
 male." — Morbus adgravescat, h.e. "gravior fiat." Cic. in Catil. i. 13, 
 "Hie morbus, qui est in republica, vehementius gravescet;" Cic. Tusc. 
 Disp. III. 31, " Vulnus adgravescens." 
 
 3. Quod te, jEsculapi, &c. An Apostrophe. Cf. notes to Andr. 
 I. v. 55. — Nequid sit hujus. The full phrase occurs in Heaut. III. ii. 40, 
 " Siquid hujus simile evenorit." — Salas was a daughter of ^Esculapius, 
 and had a temple on the top of the Quirinal Hill. See Ad. IV. vii. 43, 
 " Ipsa si cupiat Salus." — Nunc ad earn visam, cf. I. ii. 114, note, Plaut. 
 Mil. G. II. vi. 40, " Vise ad me intro." 
 
 5. Tan' hie eras. Eun. I. ii. 6, " Ehem, tun hie eras, mi Phscdria." 
 — In proxumo hie (loco sc), Cf. Heaut. I. i. 2, note; Plaut. Cistell. 
 I. i. 102, " Quae habitat in proximo." — Non visas? ne mittas, ftc, " Not go 
 and 6ee her ? Nay don't even send any one," &c. Madame Dacier reads, 
 " Non visas, nee mittas quidem," &c, without notes of interrogation. 
 She translates, " Ni vous n' ircz la voir, ni voub n'y envoyorcz pereonne 
 de votre part."
 
 HECYRA. ItiJ 
 
 8. Nam qui amat, &c. The antecedent to qui is " eum," the aco. 
 before facere.—Cui odio. For this double dative see Madv. § 249 ; 
 Heaut. II. iii. 116, and above, passim. "Odio" is the abstract for the 
 concrete, as "aruia" for "armati," "scelus," for "scelestus." — Laborem 
 — capit, cf. Andr. V. ii. 29, " Tantum laborem capere ob talem filium," 
 and note there. 
 
 10. Turn, "Moreover." — Introiit ridere, see note at I. ii. 114, "It 
 visere." — Quid agat, " how she is," cf. Andr. I. v. 33, note. Propertius, 
 I. L 12, " Ibat et hirsutas ille videre fera3." 
 
 14. Si remittent quippiam Philumence dolores, "Shall abate at all." 
 " Remitto " is used here in a neut. sense, as in Ctesar. B. C. iii. 20, 
 " Si ventus forte remisisset ; " Cic. ad Att. x. 4, " Alter ardet furore et 
 scelere, nee remittit aliquid. — Continuo sola soli, cf. Ad. IV. v. 34. 
 
 18. Gaudeo venisse salvom. Cf. Eun. V. v. 6, " Ehem, salvum te 
 advenire, here, gaudeo." — Mtliusculast, " She is a trifle better." Ruhn- 
 ken quotes in illustration Cicero ad Div. xvi. 5, " grandiuscula." Eun. 
 III. iii. 21, "majuscula." 
 
 20. Recti, mater, " All right, mother ! " or " Nothing, mother ! " 
 Cf. Heaut. II. i. 16, " Recte est;" note. III. ii. 7; Adelph. I. v. 19.— 
 Quid fuit tumulti ? " What was the disturbance which I heard ?" 
 " Tumulti," cf. Andr. II. ii. 28, note. Plaut. Aul. H. G. 678, "gemiti." 
 
 24. Eis onera adjuta, "Help them with the baggage." The con- 
 struction is either an Hypallage, " eis onera " for " eos oneribus " 
 (ferendis, sc.); or we may consider "onera" to be the ace. of limitation 
 or definition (i. e. " help them as regards the burdens "). In Phorm. 
 I. ii. 49 we find " Qui adjutaret fuuus." 
 
 ACTUS III— Sc. HI. 
 
 Pamphilus recounts his discovery of his wife's real state, after having 
 gone unexpectedly into her room. On his retreat thence he has been 
 followed by his mother-iu-law, who extenuated the circumstances by 
 assuring him that Philumena was blameless, and that she had left the 
 house of Laches, to bring no shame upon it. Myrrhina has induced 
 him to keep the matter a secret — still, he says, he will not take his 
 wife home again. 
 
 Metre : — 1 — 48. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 49 — 54. Iambic Trimeter. 
 2. Nee opinanti (mihi, sc). Cf. Andr. I. ii. 9, "Nos sic necopiuantes 
 duci." — Partim qua — accept auribus. "Accipio " is often used absolutely 
 in this sense, as in Andr. II. iii. 23, "Si te axpuo animo ferre accipiet." 
 4. Qua me propter cxanimatum citius eduxi foras. "Qua propter" 
 i- divided by " Tmesis." Cf. Hor. Od. I. vii. 25, " Quo nos cunque feret 
 iu<lioif(jrtuua,"&c. — J-Jiluxiforas," Withdrew," or "Bushed out of door*." 
 rhov. (plot. -s Plaut. Aul. 0G2, "Ego me deoraum duco ; " and 
 Kuhnkeu, Plant, ii.ucli. IV. ii. 11, "Due te ab aodibua."— In ver. 5, corripui 
 as in IV. i. 3, is used of" hurrying" into a place. In ver. 16 below, and 
 also in Plaut. Mercator III. iv. 76, " Ut corripuit se repente, atquu 
 abiit," " corripio " has the sense of" hurrying forth."
 
 \T0 NOTES ON 
 
 8. Id quod 7>ie rcpcntc a'lapexerant. Id quod = " Ideo quod." Seo 
 Madvig. Gr. § 315 b; Key, § 1454 a. — Valium earum sensi immutari 
 omnium, " I beheld all their countenances changed." Westerhov. 
 quotes Hor. Sat. II. viii. 84, " Nasidiene, redis mutatce frontis." — In- 
 commode in ver. 10 = "unseasonably." In Plant. Men. (H.) 64, we 
 find commoditatis articidos, " The very nick of time." 
 
 12. Ego, ejus videndi cupidus, &c, " I, in eagerness to sec her, follow 
 her Btraight" (anoillam, ac.). For "ejus videndi," a blending of the 
 gerundive construction wifli that usual after the gerund, compare Tir. 
 Heaut. Prol. 24, Norarum spectandi, &c, note; Madvig. 413, obs. 2; 
 and Phorm. I. iii. 24, " Ut neque mihi ejus sit mittendi nee retinendi 
 e ,,pia."_ Hectd (sc. vifl), cf Andr. II. vi. 11. note; Ad. III. iii. 79. For 
 spatiwm, in ver. 14, cf. I. ii. 55, above, "spatium Bolituduua." 
 
 15. Neque voce alid ac res monela', &c, " Nor could she lament in 
 other language than her circumstances suggested." "Res," bays 
 Donatus, here = " partus.'' For " corripui," see above, ver. 5. For 
 percltus, "violently moved," in ver. 17, 6ee Plant. Casin. III. v. 6, 
 '• Ne quid in te mali faxit ira percita." Cic. pro Milou. c. 23, " Sive 
 enim illud auimo irato ac percito fecisset." 
 
 18. Jam ut limen exircm, h. e. Cum jam in eo eram ut limen exirem, 
 " Just as I was going forth from the threshold." For the phrase limen 
 exire, i. q. "e limine exire," cf. Csesar. B. G. i. 45, "Exerchum Gallise 
 provincia2 fines egressum." — Ad genua accidit, "She fell at my knees" 
 as a suppliant. Ruhnken illustrates the phrase by Seneca, Troad. 690, 
 "Ad genua accido supplex." 
 
 19. Hoc sic est, "This is the case," or " This is a fact." So Andr. III. 
 iii. 22, " Profecto sic est." Ch. " Sic hercle ut dicam tibi ." 
 
 20. Omnibus nobis — humiles sumus, " According as circumstances 
 present themselves to us, we are proud or humble." For the phrase 
 dant sese, i.e. "succeed," cf. Heaut. V. i. 43, "Quot res dedere, ubi 
 possem persentiscere." Virg. Geor. i. 287 ; J&n. iv. 627.— Magni is = 
 "superbi," according to Ruhnken, who quotes Plaut. Mil. IV. ii. 53. — 
 " Magnum me faciam Nunc, quoniam illrec me collaudat." For the 
 general sentiment Donatus compares Horn. Odyss. xviiL 136 — 
 
 ro7os yap voos iartv (irixSoviaiv avBpwxwv 
 oiov eV -tiixap &yriai iraT7)p avSpuvrt Qewvrt. 
 
 In ver. 21, Institit, = " incepit." Gronov. illustrates it by reference to 
 Livy xxiv. 26, " Aversis auribus animisque, omissis pro se precibus, 
 puellis ut saltern parcerent, orare institit." 
 
 23. Vitiumst oblatum. Cf. Ad. III. i. 9, note.— Oiata ejus reminiscov, 
 " I remember her prayers." Oruta, the neut. plur. participle for the 
 substantive " orationes " or " pieces." 
 
 26. Quceque fors fortunast, " Whatever strange chance it is." Quwq^r 
 is i. q. " qusecunque," as above at I. i. 8, " Quemque nacta es." For 
 " fors fortuna," a goddess who liad a temple on the right bank of the 
 Tiber, Parry refers to Ov. Fast. vi. 773. &c. See Eun. I. ii. 54, " Forto 
 fortuna ;" Phorm. V. vi. 1, "O Fortuua, fors fortuna."— Si jus, si fas 
 est, "It it is consistent with human and divine law." For "si" thus 
 used in adjurations, see Andr. I. v. 57 ; Madv. Gr. 294, obs. 1. Ruhnken 
 quotes Virg. Geor. i. 269 : " Festia qusedam exercere diebus Fas et jura
 
 HF.CYRA. 17 T 
 
 si mint." — Advorsa ejus, "Her misfortunes." Fur the plur. neut. adj. 
 thus used, see above, * orata," ver. 25. — Tacitaque apvd omnes sient, "And 
 Lushed up iu every one's presence." Tacka is used passively, as in 
 Adelph. III. iv. 28, " Ignotum, tacitumst." 
 
 30. Sine labore hanc yratiam, &e., '"She now begs you in return for 
 that to grunt her this favour which will cost you no effort.'' Westerhov. 
 illustrates " siue labore" by Phselrus. III. vii. 24: "Sic sine labore 
 venter iuipletur nieus.'' " Gratiam dare" is uncommon; but we find 
 " gratiain petere "' in Plant. Cap. III. v. 63, " Rrgo ab eo petito gratiam 
 istam;" and Stich. I. ii. 23, "Gratiam a pane si petimus." — Ccetemm 
 de reduccnda, &c, " But as regards taking her back, do that which may 
 be to your interest." 
 
 34. Mauu agitw — septimus, cf. Virg. Mu. v. 626, " Septima 
 post Trojae excidiuui jam vertitur sestas.'' — Doque operant, cf. Aulul. 
 240, H. 
 
 38. Dicam abort am esse, " I will say 'twas a miscarriage." — Ex te rccte 
 eum natuni. Ruhnkeu rightly explains rede as i. q. " legitimo ruatri- 
 monio." In ver. 40, Vic is i. q. "herein." — In ver. 42, CtHum est, " I'm 
 resolved." Cf. Plaut. Men. 871 ; Aid. 630, H. G. 
 
 43. Nam de rcdueeadd, <fcc, " Now, as to taking her back," &c. De 
 reducendd is, i. q. Quod ad reduclionem atthiet, as in ver. 31. Nam, 
 " now," is used perhaps here elliptically, the connection being " I'm 
 resolved to keep my word as regards that point'" [viz. keeping the 
 secret; but what am I to say as to the other point] : "Jor, as to taking 
 her back," &c. For ''nam" so used, cf Aulul. H. G. 656. — Amur — 
 cvRsuetwloque ijus. Westerhov. neatly explains this as an Heudiadys 
 for " consuetus arnor," cf. Andr. I. i. 103, " L't consuetum amorein 
 facile cerneres." Consuctvdo, "intimacy,' occurs in Andr. I. v. 44 : II. 
 vi. 8. — Quoin in in- it. For this impersonal use of the phrase 
 
 " iu mentcm venit," compare Ter. Phorm. IV. iii. 47. " Nam mihi 
 venibat in mentem ejus incommodi;" and Plaut. Aulul. H. (J. 183, 
 " Venit hoc mi in mentem.'* 
 
 16. forluna, ut nunquam — es data. Cf. Adelph. V. ix. 15, 
 " Utinam hoc perpetuum fiat gaudium." "Data" is the reading of 
 Donatus here, adopted by Bentley, for the ordinary " bona." Bentley 
 also suggested "perpetua" for " perpetuo." Cf. Plaut. Cistell. I. in. 
 46, " Ut sunt humana, nihil est pcrpetuom datum." — Ad hanc rem 
 exercit'iluiii, cf. II. i. 6 above, "Docto ad malitiam." — Quern ego turn con- 
 tUio ratnusi feci, " Which I then purposely discarded.'' For "misBUUi 
 cf, Andr. IV. i. 60; V. i. 14, notes. Parry rightly explains the 
 sense of the mange : '' My former love has trained me ; for as I 
 got rid of it determinedly, so now I will do my best for my present 
 ii.'' 
 
 Adeit f'armeno cum pueris, "Here's Parmono with the slaves;" 
 
 cf. III. ii. 24, •' Tu I'iuii.i curve, Parmeno, obviam. la hdc re adesse, 
 
 old be mixt up iu this matter." — Nam olini soli credidi,&c. Parry 
 
 . ■ m has gone upon a misapprehene on in finding 
 
 fault with Terence here. Parmeno does not know why Philumenu 
 
 •.vent tO her mother'* house, nor does the audi, nrr know it, till this 
 
 scene. Parmeno knew that Pamphilus and Philumena had not at tu i 
 
 ■ther. Put till this scene not even Pampbilua seeni* to have 
 
 known the true state of the case. 
 
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 l~2 NOTES ON 
 
 . r )l . Ed me ab.stinuissc, &c, cf. Heeyr. I. ii. 64, above — IJinc ahlegandus, 
 " Must be sent houce out of the way." " Ablego" is used of the re- 
 moval of distasteful objects or persons, cf. Plaut. Mil. Gl. III. ii. 55. 
 Livy, i. 35, "Sub tempus pueroa venatum ablegavit." 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Pahphilus follows out his resolution (III. iii. 54) by sending Par- 
 meuo, just arrived from port with the baggage and servants, on an 
 errand to the Acropolis, to put off his friend Callideuiides, whose 
 appearance is described, and for whom he is to wait till evening, if 
 need be. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Ain tu, " You don't mean to say?" cf. Heaut. II. iii. 1. — Hoc in- 
 cnhiiuodian evenisse iter, " That this voyage of yours proved unpleasant." 
 " Ire" is so used in Virg. JEa. iv. 310, " Et mediis properas aquilonibus 
 ire per altum." For tantum, followed by quam in ver. 3, cf. Livy. vii. 35, 
 " Nee in acie tantum ibi cladis acceptum, Quam quod trecentos — im- 
 molarunt !" Plaut. lindens. I. iii. 1, "Nimio hominum fortune minus 
 mi^er;e memorantur Quam reapse experiundo iis datur acerbum." In 
 ver. 3, navigare is the infinitive used as the subject. Cf. Madvig. § 388, a. 
 For the sentiment commentators quote Menander: Xlvp koX QaXaaaa 
 ■ .'. yvvii, Ka.ua rpia. 
 
 5. Qui nuvquam cs ingressus mare. Posidippus had a line 6 htj 
 nurKevKks ovSev kdipaxt k<xk6v. With plus eo (tempore sc.) in ver. 7, com- 
 pare Heaut. I. i. 11, " Annos sexaginta natus es, aut plus eo." — Note. 
 
 9. I'a usque adversd tempestate usi sumus, " Such bad weather did we 
 experience all the while." For "usque" so used Parry quotes Virg. 
 EcL ix. 64, " Cantantes licet usque (minus via lsedet) eamus." Cou- 
 ingtou translates that " usque" with " eamus:" " let us go straight on." 
 '• Usque" seems to imply " continuous extent of space" or " time." 
 
 1 0. Odicsum, " Troublesome," or " what a bore," cf. Menaechm. H. G. 
 2o0. — Deuique hercle aufugerim potius, &c., " In a word, by the gods 
 I'd rather make my escape than return (to Imbrus, sc.),.if I knew I 
 had to return thither again." Bentley reads "sciam" for the ordinary 
 reading "siet;" Phajdrus I. xviii. 1, "Nemo libenter recolit, qui hesit, 
 locum." In ver. 11 and 12, Parmeno twits Sosia with having always 
 bad a taste for running away. Donatus compares Audr. IV. iii. 15, 
 where, in reply to Davus, who has pleaded some desire to swear truly, 
 Mysis says, " Intelligo: Nova nunc religio unde istacc incessit V 
 
 16. H:re, etiam tu hie stas? " Master, are you still standing here?" 
 Etiam = "etiam nunc, as in Andr. I. i. 89; III. ii. 23. Virg. JEn. vi. 
 485, "Etiam currus, etiam arma tencntem." In Euu. II. ii. 55, we fiud 
 "etiam nunc hie stas, Parmeno V — In arcem transcurso opus est, " You 
 must run across to the citadel." See Andr. III. ii. 10, note; Madvig. 
 § 266, obs.; Key, § 1280.— Cui hominit " Who must?"- Tibi, " You !" 
 In Andr. II. ii. 7, we find "Quis homo'st." 
 
 18, 19. Cat'idemidem — conveni, "Go up to Callidemides, my host of 
 Myconos, who sailed hither with me." Myconos, one of the Cyclades.
 
 HECYRA. 173 
 
 Cf. Virg. .En. iii. 76, " Gyaro celsa Myconoque revinxit." — Yovisse 
 hunc dicam, &c, " I should say that this master of mine had vowed, 
 that if ever he had reached home in safety, he would break my wind 
 with •walking." A sportive allusion to the custom of vows by sailors 
 for safe return. Cf. Hor. Od. I. v. 13, "Me tabula sacer Votiva paries 
 indicat uvida," &c. ; Virg. ^£n. ii. 17, " Votum pro reditu simulant" 
 For the phrase " ambulando rumpere," Gronovius compares Martial. 
 XII. xiv. 11, 12, " Quid te frena juvant temeraria? Ssepius illis, Prisce, 
 datum est equitem rumpere quam leporem ;" and ibid. IX. lvii. 4, " Nee 
 ruptfe recutita colla mulae." Stiilbaum quotes Plaut. Capt. Prol. 14, 
 " Ego me tua causa, ne erres, nou rupturus sum." 
 
 22. An conreniam modo ? " Am I only to go up to him V 
 
 23. Immo, quod constitui, &c, " Yes : as to my appointment that I 
 would meet him to-day, (tell him) I cannot : (tell him) not to wait there 
 for me in vain ! Away with you." — Nan posse, and ne me — expectel 
 depend on dicas, understood from dicam in ver. 22. — Vvla, compare 
 Plaut. Pers. II. ii. 17, " Vola curriculo." 
 
 26. Magnus, rubicundus, &c, "A large, red, curly, coarse, cat-eyed 
 fellow." — Cadaverosd facie, "with a corpse-like face;" "a ghastly 
 visage." For a similar description see Heaut. V. v. 17, "Rufamne illam 
 virginem " &c., where also we have the epithet " csesiam " q. v. ibid. 
 The Myconians, according to Apollodorus, were all bald. Donatus 
 therefore suppose Terence to have purposely written " crispus " for a 
 joke. Westerhov. illustrates this passage by Plaut. Capt. III. iv. 113, 
 " Macilento ore, naso acuto, corpore albo, et oculis nigris, Snbrufus 
 aliquautum, crispus, cincinnatus." — Cadaverosus, accordiugto Westerhov. 
 and Kuhnken is an epithet similar to the Greek vtKpdiZns, and the Lat. 
 "morticine" (carrion !), cf. Plaut. Pers. II. iv. 12. 
 
 33. Quod polero faciam : tamen ut, &c, "I'll do what I can; yet in 
 such a manner as to regard my filial duty." — Ita is understood "before 
 tamen. Pamphilufl means that he will hold his tongue; but he will 
 not take her home again, out of regard to what is due to his mother. 
 With ver. 34. cf. I. ii. 47, "Pudorine anne amori obsequeretur magis." — 
 For hurnum in ver. 36 (h. e. huc-vorsum), cf. Plant. Rud. I. ii. 83, 
 "Horsuui se capessit." 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. V. 
 
 At this point Laches, with Phidippus, comes upon Pamphilns ; who 
 is at a l" j s to cay why he will not receive his wife back. Laches pre- 
 teodi that Philumena had gone home at her fathers wish, but would 
 Dow return. Pamphilns however tells him that he knows all, and puts 
 the separation on the score of his mother, who, he says, does not agr< a 
 with his wife. He must prefer his duty to his love. He leavei 
 Phidippna and Laches, the former goes away in a rage, and L*ch< i 
 vows vengeance against Sostrata. 
 
 Metre: — 1 — 34. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 35 — 05. Iambic Trimeter.
 
 1 ? 1 NOTKS ON 
 
 1, Dtxlin* dudum, &c, c(. above II. ii. 27. — Factum (sc. "eat quod 
 dida.") 
 
 4. Cerium ojirmarc est — persequi, "I am resolved to persist in the 
 course which I have determined to follow out." Kuhnken illustrates 
 " persequi " by Cic. Cat. iv. 5, " Quoniam hanc is viam, qua? popularis 
 habetur, aecutus est." — For " omrmare " see Heaut. V. v. 8, note. 
 With dc quo hoc ar/cbam tecum in ver. 5, compare Adelph. I. i. 53, note. 
 
 6. Bene fachim te advenisse, " I'm glad you've arrived." Cf. V. iv. 17, 
 " Bene factum et volup est." Phorm. II. i. 25, "Salvoin venire — vellem 
 quidem." — Adeo, cf. Andr. III. iii. 47, note. — In ver. 8, Admodum, 
 " Yes, very ! " or '' exactly so," used in emphatic replies. Cf. Phorm. 
 II. ii. 1, " Itauc patrifl ais adventum veritum hiuc abiisse ? Oet. 
 Admodum " Plant. Bacch. IV. vii. 40. " Bellan' vidctur specie mulier? 
 Admodum." — Consobiinus is a degree of relationship subsisting between 
 sister's children {consororini : sobrini), as "patrueles" between brother's 
 children. — Homo roluptati obsequens, cf. Adelph. I. i. 8. 
 
 10. Qui sic sunt, "Those, whose way is such," cf. Andr. V. iv. 16, 
 Sic, Crito, est hie." Notes. — Vixit, dum vixit, bene, " He lived a jolly 
 life, while he did live;" "While he lived* he lived well." — Colman. 
 •• Pendant qu'ils out veVu, ils ont su vivre agreablement." — Madame 
 Daoier. — Ter. Eun. V. viii. 44, " Et libeuter vivis, eteuim bene libentev 
 victitas." 
 
 12. Turn tu igitur nil, &c , "And so then j'ou've brought nothing 
 more hither than one sentence." Bentley suggested " hac " after 
 '•una." — Qmcqmd est id, quod reliquit, profuit, " What little he has left, 
 is an advantage." — Jmmo obfu.it, " Nay, a loss." Quiquid id est is an 
 apologetic way of speaking of property, as in Plaut. ltud. Prol. 58 
 (quoted by Kuhnken), " Quit-quid erat, noctu in navem comportat 
 donio." — In ver. 15, Impuru optare istuc licet = " You may safely wish 
 that." — Et tamen atrv/m math, scio, is said " aside." 
 
 17. Noli foelere, " Don't dig me " (in the ribs, i. e.) "Don't nudge me." 
 So in Hor. Kp. I. vi. 50, " Lsevum Qui fodicet latus." — Sciticet=" To 
 be sure I shall." — At istos maidot JJi perdant, &c, " Now may the gods 
 confound those envious iuformanta of yours." Donatus explains 
 " Invidoa " here, " qui matrimonio iuvideaut." — For "at " used as here 
 in indignation, cf. Andr. IV. i. 43, note. 
 
 21. Fieri a vobis posset, " I'm sure that I took precautions that no 
 notion of affront should deservedly arise on your part" (addrest to 
 1'hidippus). — In v. 22, /W is less usual than "fuerim" would have been. 
 But a dependent interrogative proposition does sometimes occur in the 
 indicative in Plaut. and Terence, never in prose, cf. Madvig. Gr. § 356, 
 obs. 3. — For possum, in the next verse, we might also expect possim. 
 
 25. Cum ilia, quo? nunc in me iniqua est, cequa de me dixerit, " When 
 she, who now is unfavourably disposed towards me, shall have spoken 
 fair of me." Donatus observes that the testimony of an enemy is a 
 strong rhetorical figure. Cf. Virg. .En. i. 625, " Ipse hostis Teucroa 
 iusigni laude ferebat." — For discidium in ver. 26, cf. Andr. IV. ii. 14, 
 note. 
 
 27. S?d quando sese esse indignam deputat, matri mea Qua concedal, 
 " But since she deems it unmeet for her to yield to my mother." The 
 common reading was "Cui" which gives no sense. Gronov. in his Obser- 
 vations, pp. 499, 500, emends this passage by reading "Qme" for
 
 HECYRA. 175 
 
 " Cui," from the Bembine Cod. ; and he is followed by Bentley. Gronov. 
 illustrates mdignam quce, &c, by Eun. V. ii. 29, "At tu indignus, qui 
 faceres tatuen." Iu the next verse, Cujusque causes some difficulty, 
 as it seems awkward to refer it to any antecedent, except " sese " 
 which clearly is not its antecedent. Bentley proposed "Quaeque ejus 
 mores." But, to our mind, Fleckeisen has hit the true emendation, 
 " hujusque mores toleret " &c. This we retain, construing, "To yield 
 to my mother, and to bear her tempers with her proper moderation." 
 —For " mores" used in a bad sense, cf. Andr. II. iii. 21, " Uxoreni his 
 moribus dabit nemo." Plaut. Trinum. III. ii. 43, "Atque is mores 
 hominum moros et morosos efficit." — For " componi potest gratia," " a 
 reconciliation can be effected," cf. Plaut Cure. V. iii. 23, " Si potis 
 sum hoc inter vos componere." Ter. Phorm. IV. iii. 16 ; Virg. Eel. 
 iii. 108, " Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites." 
 
 31. Nunc me pittas matris — suadet, "'Now,' or 'under present 
 circumstances,' duty to my mother induces me to consult her in- 
 terests." — Pittas matris, the objective genitive after a substantive, cf. 
 Madvig. Gr. § 233. For an accusative after suadeo, which more com- 
 monly has a dative, cf. Phredr. I. xv. 6, " Suadebat asinum fugere." 
 Virg. JEa. xii. 81 4. But perhaps "me" is to be taken as the accusative 
 before the infinitive "sequi." — For "commoduni sequi," Jtuhnken refers 
 to ver. 45 below, "Matris servibo commodis." 
 
 33. Quum te postputasst — pra, cf. Adelph. II. iii. 9, note. — Pravc 
 in$istas, " But look to it, Pamphilus, that you do not pursue a wrong 
 course through the promptings of anger." Phorm. L iv. 15, "Qua 
 quaerere insistam viarn." 
 
 36. Quai — commeritast, "Seeing that she has never committed any 
 fault towards me." "Commereo" and "commereor" are generally used 
 in a bad sense. See Plaut. Aul. 695, H. G. " Culpam commeritum." 
 Plaut. Capt. II. iii. 43, " Neque te commeruisse culpam." Ter. Phorm. 
 I. iv. 28, '■ Arbitrabitur Commeruisse culpam." — Quod nollem, "That 
 I would wish undone." — Meritam quod vtllem, scio, "I know that she 
 has often done her best to please me." This use of " mereor " (the 
 opp. of "commereor" as Donatus Bhows) is hard to render exactly iu 
 English. Donat. quotes here Virg. ^Eu. iv. 333, " Nuuquam, regina, 
 bo Promeritam." 
 
 39. Miro ingenio, "Of an admirable disposition." Ruhnken ijuotes 
 Virg. ..En. i. 78, " Omnee ut tecum meritis pro talibus annos Exigat." 
 
 Tibi id in miiiiii est, nt fiat, "The preventing of that rests iu your 
 hands." Cf. below IV. iv. 44, " Uxor quid faciat, in inanu nou est 
 iii'-.i." Plaut A mill). II. i. 14, " Istuc tibi in mauu est." — Notl est 
 turn, " I don't intend to do so," " "ii- not my intention." Plaut, 
 Mil. Glo. II. iii. 78, "Consilium est, ita facere." — Matris servibo com- 
 modu, et above ver. 81. 
 
 Ihi. nunc it tibi me supplicaturum putat, "Does that fellow then 
 think that I'll go and cringe to him." Donatus notes that "sibi " and 
 "ine" are to be pronouuoed with emphasis, an in Virg, EcL iii. 25, 
 • Cantando tu ilium '.' — Si est, ut velit, See. " If he chooses to take back 
 Iii- wife, be may do ho," For the phrase *i est, ut &c. see below IV. 
 i 48, "Si est ut dicat volh- se, ' and Ad. III. v. A, note. 
 
 62. Renvmeret dotem Auc,"Let bim payback her dower here, in! 
 uiy hand. 11 a, i used iuKTtKwi. Donatus at III. iii. 81, on the •••
 
 170 NOTES ON 
 
 "Quod in rem sit tuum." explains "Nam nisi reducatur, reddenda dos 
 cnt." Bucfa wan the Ailienian Law, seo Dos, in Smith's Diet. Ant. s. v. 
 Renumaet — " reddat." So in Ad. III. iii. 52, " Nam ut numerabatur 
 forte argentum." For ecce autem, see Adelph. I. ii. 73, note. Plaut. 
 Men. H. G. 687. — Protcrve, "immoderately."— In ver. 54, nobis, is the 
 Dativus Ethicus, "to our sorrow." Cf. Madvig. Or. § 248. 
 
 55. Decedet, " will abate." Cf. V. ii. 15 below. Livy iv. 52, " Ubi 
 has sollicitudines discessere." — Sublati sunt animi, " Your pride is 
 uplifted." Cf. Plaut. True. II. viii. 10, " Postquam filiolum peperit, 
 animot sustulit." See also PI. Aulul. H. G. 124, "Istas maguas fac- 
 tiones, animos, dotes dapsiles." — Velitne, an non, (" uxorem reducere " 
 so.) — Ut alii, si huic non est, sict. Such is the reading of the Bembine 
 MS. adopted by Bentley. Understand "uxor" as the nom. to "est" 
 and " siet." 
 
 60. Audi pauds. Cf. Andr. I. i. 2; III. iii. 4, notes. — Quid med 
 ("refert" sc.) "What care I?" — Inter se transigant ipsi. Cf. Andr. V. 
 vi. 17, "Intus transigetur." 
 
 63. Q>ue dico parvi pendunt, " And do not value what I Bay," " attach 
 no weight to my words." Cf. Heaut. I. L 103, "Tu ilium nunquam 
 ostendisti quanti penderes." — Porto hoc jurgium, h. e. portabo, the pre- 
 sent for the future. Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 148. 
 
 65. Atque in earn, hoc omne, quod mihi agrest, evomam, "And I'll vent 
 on her all this spleen of mine." For "evomam" cf. Ad. III. ii. 15; 
 III. iv. 65, notes, and for "Quod mihi segre est," II. L 30 above, " Ne 
 quid ajgre esset mihi," Adelph. I. ii. 57. 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. I. 
 
 Going into his house, Phidippus discovers his daughter's real con- 
 dition, and blames his wife for seeking to hide the birth of the child. 
 If it is Pamphilus's, wherefore should it be exposed, he asks ? He puts 
 his veto on this. 
 
 Metre :— 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17—19. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 3, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 20—27, 32—50. Troch. Tetram. Catalect. 
 
 5. Trochaic Dimeter Catalectic. 
 6, 28—31, 51—61. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 2. Vagientis, " crying " (as an infant). See Ovid. Fast. ii. 405, 
 " Vagieruut ambo pariter : sensissc putares." Ibid. Heroid. xi. 85, 
 " Vagitus dedit ille miser ; " and Livy. I. iv. " Ad puerilem vagitum 
 cursum flexis.-;e." For " corripuit sese," cf. III. iii. 5. note. — Derepmte, 
 " suddenly." This compound adverb (of the same class as " de-nuo " 
 " de-subito ") occurs in three fragments of Ennius, and one of Attius. 
 (A.styanax LS4. "Derepente aspicio ex nemore — egredi." See Ribbeck's 
 Trag. Lat. Keliqui;c (Index). See also Plaut. Most. II. ii. 57, and for 
 " desubito" Heaut. IV. ii. 6. 
 
 4. Clum me habuisse, " That I concealed from him." So in IV. iv. 35, 
 below, " Non clam me haberet." — Ostium concre/ruit, cf. Andr. IV. L 58, 
 note. Nulla sum, see above, III. i. 39, note.
 
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 7. Se diixit f»ras, " Withdrew out of doors." Cf. above, III. iii. 4, 
 "Me — citius eduxi foras." Aulul. 662 (Hildyard). — Tibi dico, "It's 
 to you I'm speaking." Cf. Adelph. I. ii. 17. 
 
 9. Vir ego, &c. •' What ! I be your husband 1 Do you think that 
 I'm a husband or even a man.'" "'Moi, votre mari? Estce que vous 
 me considerez comme tel ? Ou enfin, me prenez vous seulement pour 
 un bomme ?" — Madame Dacier. The reading "aim" for "sum," is 
 restored by Brntley, from the MS. Bembiue. Vir = " maritus " as in 
 Virg. Eel. viL 7, " Vir gregis ipse caper," &vnp in Greek 
 
 11. Non sic ludibrio — habitus essem, " I should not have been thus 
 made ridiculous by your acts." Cf. I. ii 74, " Earn ludibrio haberi, 
 Parmeno." PI. Men. H. Q. 6S5, " Ludibrio, pater Habeor," and ibid. 
 595, "Me — tibi habes despicatui." — Cui datast nuptum, cf. Andr. II. 
 i. 1, note; Adelph. III. ii. 48; Madvig. § 411, obs. 1. 
 
 14. Credo: neque adeo — pafris est aliter, " So I suppose : nor in fact 
 does it become a parent to think otherwise. But I marvel" &c. — Prce- 
 ser/im cum it recti et tempore sua, &c, " Especially since her delivery has 
 been regular and at her full time." " Recte " is used as here in Hecyr. 
 
 III. iii. 39. " Ex te recte eum natum patent." 
 
 17. Adeon' pervicaci esse animo, &c, " To think that you should be 
 so stubborn-spirited as to prefer that the child should perish," &c. For 
 this construction, see Andr. I. v. 10, "Adeon' hominem esse inve- 
 nuetum," and note ibid. With " praeoptares " "potius" is elegantly 
 redundant in ver. 19. Ruhnken quotes, Cic. Ep. ad Div. xv. 5. " Casum 
 potius quam te laudari mavis." Something similar is the Greek uaWov 
 tvTvxt<TT*pos. — Potius quam — esset cum illo nupta, " Rather that she 
 should be wedded with him against your inclination." With ver. 19, 
 we mu6t supply "ut" in sense. For "nupta cum illo" (more com- 
 monly " illi ") We-terhov. quotes Plaut. Stich. I. ii. 75, " Vosne ego 
 potior cum mendicis nuptas, me vivo, viris?" 
 
 20. E<jo eliam illorum, <fcc, " I believed that this fault, which all lies 
 at your door, belonged or attached to them likewise," i. e. to the family 
 of Laches. The position of "etiam" points to this construction. 
 l>onatu8 thought " etiam "="adhuc," and construed it with " credidi." 
 — Bed nunc mi in mentem venit, De hdc re. Compare Phorm. IV. iiL 47, 
 Hecyr. III. iii. 45, note. The ordinary reading is, " ex bac re." 
 I'»:ntlev restores " de " from the quotation of the line by Douatus at 
 
 IV. iv. 89. 
 
 22. Generum cepimus, h. e. " elegimus.'" Gronov. quotes Virg. Georg. 
 ii. 230, " Ante locum c.ipies oculi-." 
 
 27. Verum id vitium, &c. See Adelph I. ii. 21, " Non est flagitium " 
 &c. — Nam id innnlumst, at pol jam adcrit &c. Such was one of Bentley'a 
 •:.s of reading this line, which would then be a Trochaic. His 
 other plan was to read, " Nam id omnibus innatum, ut," omitting 
 "est," and so making an Iambic with what follows. Parry, whoso 
 reading for its simplicity we have followed, reads, " Nam id est 
 omnibus innatum: at pol jam aderit"&c. The Metro will then be 
 bio Tetrameter. — At p<>l yim adcrit — gwm, cf. Andr. I. i. 125, 
 " Prope adeet, quura alieno more vivendum est." Plaut. Baccli. 111. 
 iii. 13, "Jam aderit tempus, cum m ipse odcrit." CoDStrue, 
 
 " Nay, s'lon the time will come, when he will even also hate bit former 
 Belf." Sco for " quoque etiam " thus joined, Hecyr. V. i. 36, "Ego 
 
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 quoquo etiam oredidi," and for sentiment generally, Heaut. V. iv. 20, 
 "Ehcu, quam ego nunc totus displico mini." Parry adds, Juvenal 
 vii. 34, 35, q. v. — Badem esse nil cessavisti, h. e. " You have not a whit 
 ceased to be the same up to the present time." 
 
 30. Utjiliam — neu quod eyisscm, &c., " As to estranging my daughter 
 from him, and as to frustrating that which I had done, or arranged." 
 Neu is i. q. " et ut nou." 
 
 31. Id nunc res indicium Jucc facit, quo facto, &c, " This conduct 
 of yours shows this, namely, how you wished things done." Parry 
 rightly explains "id" as the accusative, governed by the logical idea 
 of " indicium — facit," i. q. " indicat." The clause " quo pacto " &c, 
 is in apposition to "id." — Factum w^«en's=''optaveris." — Qui mater 
 stem, "Towards one whose mother I am." — Si ex usu esset nostra, &c., 
 " If this marriage were for our advantage." Cf. Andr. V. iv. 51, " Magis 
 ex sese." Heaut. I. ii. 36, " Tibi quod ex usu siet." See also below, 
 IV. iii. 10, "Ex usu quod est, id persequar." 
 
 34. Nobtram in rein quod sit. Cf. above, I. ii. 27, " Si in rem est 
 Bacchidis." Andr. 111. iii. 14, " Si in remst utrique," note. — Quid turn 
 pnstca? "What matter?" an expression of contempt of some argument 
 or charge. The phrase occurs in Euu. IV. ii. 9. 
 
 38. Dare operant id scire, qui nos oderit, " Than to do our utmost, 
 that our enemy should know it," i. e. " than to take all pains to publish 
 it to our enemies." Such is the explanation of Westerhov. and it 
 seems the true one. He compares IV. ii. 14, "Qui nobis maledictum 
 velit," which is a similar construction. Parry explains " qui " in the 
 sense of the purpose, as in Andr. Prol. 5. But this is not so satisfactory. 
 Madame Dacier translates qui nos oderit., " afin qu'il vous hai'sse." But 
 there can be no doubt that the interpretation given above is the best 
 and most natural. For " derepente" in ver. 39, above cf. IV. i. 3, note. — 
 Quacum tot consuesset annos, cf. Ad. IV. v. 32, note. 
 
 41. Nec virum saiis firmum gnatce, "Nor a husband constant enough 
 for my daughter." Cf. above I. ii. 26, " Firma) hae vereor ut sint 
 nuptiae," and Andr. III. iii. 39, " Tibi generum firmum et filiaj invenies 
 virum." — Mitte, "have done with" i. q. "omit." Cf. Andr. IV. iv. 25, 
 " Mitte id quod scio," note. — Solus solum conveni, cf. Ad. IV. v. 34, note, 
 and above III. ii. 15, note'.— Rorjii, in ver. 43 has its last syllable short. 
 See Parry's note on Adelph. III. iv. 21, &c. For "si est ut dicat velle 
 Be," compare Adelph. 111. v. 4, note. 
 
 45. Si quidem, &c, " If it is true that he himself does not wish her, 
 and that you perceive! that there had been a mistake herein : I was 
 at hand " &c. Editors pass over this passage unnoticed, but it seems 
 best to take "peccatum " with " esse in eo," and to make "aderam" &c. 
 tho Apodosis. — Cvjus consilio ea pa)- fuerat prospici, " By whose advice 
 it was meet that those matters should be provided for." — Incendor ird, 
 cf. Ad. III. ii. 12, " Ardeo iracuudia." — Injussu meo, cf. Phorm. II. i. 1, 
 aud below, IV. iv. 82. 
 
 48. Neextulisse ie/j«="neefferas" that you don't remove" or"expose. 
 " I forbid you to expose." This Periphrasis of the infinitive after 
 "velle," is not uncommon. Ruhnkeu quotes an illustration, Lucret. 
 ii 640, " Ut arinis Ac virtute velint patriam defendere terrain." Ov. 
 Met. ii. 74 ; f>, " Tu tan turn fida sorori Esse velis." 
 
 52. Nam ut luc laturus hoc sit, &c, " For how he (Phidippus) will
 
 ECYRA. 17!) 
 
 bear this, if he shall have come to know the actual state of the case; 
 by the gods, I am not at all in doubt." Cf. II. ii. 19, 20 above. 
 
 55. Hoc mihi uuum — relicnom fuerat malum, &c, " This one last ill 
 then of many miseries was iu store for me, namely, if he forces me to 
 rear the child." For a parellel expression, cf. Ad. III. iii. 3, " Id misero 
 restat mihi mali, si ilium potest" &c. For "non quita est" in ver. 57, 
 the old form of " quivit," cf. Madvig. Gr. § 159, obs. 2. The passive form 
 was used where the infinitive passive was subjoined. See also Plaut. 
 Rud. IV. iv. 20, " Ut nequitur comprimi ;" Pers. II. ii. 12, " Nee subigi 
 queantur unquam ; " Sallust. B. Jug. 31, " Ulcisci nequitur." — In ver. 
 58, Qui post posset &c., "qui" is the ablative. For the constructions 
 " detractum ei est," "eripuit virgini," cf. Adelph III. ii. 20, note. Key's 
 Gr. § 972. 
 
 60. Orata nostra. Cf. above III. iii. 25, "Quoni orata ejus reminiscor." 
 — Alienum, h. e. " nothum," cf. Heaut. V. iv. 6, "AHenum te esse," note, 
 and see below at IV. iv. 27. — Tolli (as " tollam" in 55) " to be brought 
 up," "reared." Cf. Andr. I. iii. 14, note; Heaut. IV. i. 14. 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. II. 
 
 Sostrata has an interview with her son Pamphilus, who, she has 
 heard, has preferred his filial duty to his love. She is determined not to 
 exact this sacrifice, but to retire to the country-house, that Philumeua 
 may return to her husband and be freed from her presence, which has 
 been distasteful. Pamphilus does not accept her proposal, which, if 
 favourably received, would cut away from him any excuse for not 
 receiving her back. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. We adopt here Bentley's emendation which omits "me" before 
 " esse," and reads " euspectum." 
 
 2. Propter rneos mores, "Un account of my tempers." Cf. III. v. 28, 
 note. — Itaque ohtiwjant ex te qua; exopto mihi, " And so may what I 
 desire from you happen to me." Phorm. V. iv. 1, " Fratri obtigis.se 
 quod vult." — Commerui, cf. notes on III. v. 36, " Commerita est." 
 — Caperet odium ilium met. So above II. i. 22, " Cepisse odium tui 
 Philumenam." 
 
 .5. Teque ante quod me amare rebar &c, "And that which I thought 
 before, namely, that you loved me, to that fact you have given con- 
 firmation : " " You have pledged your faith." Beutley, followed by 
 Kuhuken, reads "quod" instead of " quam," the more general reading 
 here. Donatus weerns to have read ''quam," and to have supposed 
 "tarn" to be understood; iu which case we should construe, "And. us 
 I before thought, that you loved me, so now you have confirmed " &c. 
 Schneider, quoted by St&lbaum, takes "quam" to mean "quam- 
 topere." We prefer Bentley's solution. 
 
 6. Quo pacto me loabueris Pncpositam, h. e. prarpomerit. A kind of 
 Gnecinm which Kulmken illustrate* by S.dlust. Catil. 23, "Tale peri 
 cuhini reipnblion baud occultum habuit." Jug. Li. 10, " Neque M r< - 
 falsuui me habuit." Parry quotus Plaut. Cas. II. ii. 15, " Vir me babet
 
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 pessimis despieatam niodis.'' Soph. Antig. 22, rbv pty irpoTtvas, rhp 
 3' art/xaa as «x ei - 
 
 8. Ut apud me prcemium esse positum pielati scias, ''That you niay 
 know that with me a reward is set apart or proposed to filial piety." 
 PicUiti appears to be tho true reading here, and is confirmed by Plaut. 
 Pocu. V. iv. 17, "Prscmium ut esse sciaiu pietati," quoted by Bentley. 
 Virg. JEu. i. 465, " Sunt hie etiam sua prrcmia laudi. Virgil in JEa. V. 
 292, bos " Invitat pretiis animos et prcemia ponit." See also Phortn. 
 Prol. 17, " Pal mam esse positam." — In ver. 10, Certo decrevi, "I've 
 positively determined," " fixed for certain." 
 
 13. lUius shdtitid — migres ? (" Oportet ut," sc.) "Shall her per- 
 verseness drive you out of town?" Column — Vt qui nobis male dictum 
 relit, &c, *' Nor will I allow any one who would fain slander us, to say 
 that your going into the country was caused by my obstinacy, not 
 your moderation. For " Ut qui nobis — velit," cf. IV. i. 38, " Qui nos 
 oderit," note. 
 
 16. Torn tuas arnicas, &c. — festos dies, "Besides, I would not have 
 you for my sake desert your female friends and relations, and your 
 festivals." Gronov. and Kuhnken quote Cic. Orat. post Keditum ad 
 Quiritee, sect. 1, "Amieitise, consuetudines, vicinitates, clientela), ludi 
 denique et dies festi quid habercut voluptatis, oarendo magis intellexi, 
 quam fruendo." The festivals alluded to seem to have been "family 
 gatherings," called "Charistia." Plaut. Aul. 334, has "Festo die 
 siquid prodegeris." In ver. 17 istac is i. q. "ibtre." Cf. Heaut. IV. 
 vii. 10; Phorm. V. viii. 23 ; " Hjeccine " for " Hajcine." 
 
 18. Tulit. Cf. Andr. I. ii. 17 ; Ad. I. i. 28, notes. — Satias jam tenet, &c, 
 " I'm disgusted at last with those amusements you speak of." For 
 "satiaB" (gen. " satiatis "), see Euu. III. i. 14, where some read 
 " satietas," and V. v. 3, " Ubi satias ccepit fieri, commuto locum." 
 
 20. Lonyinquitas (etatis obstet, " That to none may my length of 
 days be a hindrance." " Longinquus" and " longinquitas," says 
 Gronov., are used of time as well as space. Cf. Propert. I. vi. 27, 
 " Multi longinquo periere in amore libenter;" Caesar. B. G. i. 47, 
 "scientiam, qua multa jam Ariovistus longinqna consuetudine uteha- 
 tur." — Mortemve expectet meam, " Or anyone be longing for my death." 
 So in Adelph. I. ii. 29 ; V. iv. 20, notes. There is an Anacoluthon 
 here: we should expect "neve quis." Colman quotes Midsummer 
 Night's Dream, Act. I. scene 1, "She lingers my desires. Like to a 
 step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue." 
 Mtnander has left a line — 
 
 ■iriKpdv ecTTi QpifJifia yepu'v tv alula fiivaiv. 
 
 22. Omnes causas prw> idam omnibus, " I shall cut off" all grounds of 
 dissatisfaction from all." Kuhnken quotes Cic. in Verr., Act. II- Lib ii. 
 62, " Da mihi hoc : jam tibi maximam partem defensionis praocideris." 
 Cic. Cato Major, c. 16, "Brevi proecidam ; " Hor. Epist. I. ii. 9, "Belli 
 prsecidere causam." — Morem gessero, cf. Andr. IV. L 17, note; Plaut. 
 Men. (H.) 690. — Sine me — hoc tffugere, volgus quod male audit, &c, 
 '• I'rythee, let me avoid this charge, with which the mass of woman- 
 kind is reproached." Quod is i q. " proter quod." For "volgus 
 mulierum," cf. Andr. III. iv. 4, note, " VolguB servorum." For male
 
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 audit, "is ill spoken of," cf. Phorm. Prol. 20, " Benedicts si certasset, 
 audisset bene." Hor. Epist. I. xvi. 17, " Si curas esse, quod audis." 
 Sostrata alludes to Act II. L 4, " Omues socrus omnes suas oderunt 
 nurus." 
 
 25. Ahsqne una hac foret , "Were it not for thi3 one thing" (sc. re.) 
 A common phrase of Terence and Plautus, iu which "si" is elegantly 
 omitted. Cf. Plaut. Mtnaechm. H. G. 920, Absque te esset, "But for 
 you." Triuutnni. 802 (IV. i. 13), "Nam absque foret te, sat 6cio in 
 alto Distraxissent ;" Ter. Phorm. I. iv. 11, "Nam absque eo esset 
 Recte ego mini vidissem;" Plaut. Bacchid. III. iii. 8, &c. 
 
 27. Non tute incommodam rein, &c, " Will you not make up your 
 mind to endure each unpleasantness, as it comes." Cf. Hor. Od. I. 
 xi. 3, " Ut melius quidquid erit pati," Hor. Sat. I. iii. 78, 79, " Ac res 
 Ut quaeque est, ita suppliciis delicta coe'rcet." Compare, for the senti- 
 ment, Andr. V. iv. 18 ; Hor. Od I. xxiv. 19. 
 
 29. Da veniam Kane mild, " Grant me this request." Cf. Andr. V. 
 iii. 30, note. 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. III. 
 
 Laches has overheard the dialogue in the last scene, and concurs in 
 his wife's determination — which he persists in urging her to carry out, 
 iu spit* of the delays and doubts suggested by Pamphilus. He thinks 
 'tis time that he and his old woman should retire from the stage. 
 Phidippus comes up at this juncture. 
 
 Metre : — 1, 16. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic 
 
 2, 3. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 4, 5, 8, 10 — 14. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 6. Iambic Trimeter. 
 7, 9. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 15. Iambic Dimeter. 
 
 1. Procul hinc," At a little distance hence. Ben tlpy reads, Procul 
 hie, "Hard by here." Cf. Plaut. Hen. H. G. 144 ; Virg. Eel. vi. 16, 
 " Serta procul tantum capiti sublapsa jacebant." — Isluc est sapere, qui 
 vbi, &c, " That is true wisdom, whereby one can direct one's mind 
 wheresoever there may be need." — Qui is then i. q. " qua ratione." 
 Btalbaum, however, considers qui as the nominative i. q. ut tu, " to be 
 able," &c. Either construction is admissible. Ver. 3 is further explana- 
 tory of utuc est sapere, ' To wit, if one shall hive done now the very 
 same thing, which perhaps must be done hereafter." The second per- 
 son is put generally for the third. 
 
 4. Fan fuat foil "May fortune befriend us!" "Fore" = "For- 
 tuna." Wat fuat, the old form of " Sit" a " fuo " (<pvu), cf. Anlul. H. 
 <}. 190, 880 j Virg. .En. x. 108, " Tnm Rutulusve fuat;" PL M. G. II. 
 vi. 112, " Nc, duni abanm, illis sortito fuam.'' 
 
 r>. Oompone, qua, tec, " Pack np what is to bo carried with you." 
 So [n Plant. Mil. G. TV. vii. 21, "Omnia oomposita rant, quo? donavi, 
 ut ferat." — Dixi, " I have said the word " Properly used of advocates 
 who have finished their cause. See Phorm II. iii. 90, " Dixi 
 Phormio;" Hun. V. viii. M, "Dictum est."
 
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 7. Hinc ahire matrem ("decetne," sc). Minime, An answer to his 
 own question. In ver. 8, etiam " is i. q. " etiam nunc," as in Audr. I. 
 i. 89, — Vix contineor, "I can scarce keep myself from doing so (h. e. 
 " quia reducam," sc.). Contineor is used in a middle sense. 
 
 1U. Bed nou minuam meum consilium, "But I won't alter my deter- 
 mination." Andr. II. iii. 18, "Nee tu minueris," &c. ; Cajsar. B. G. v. 
 26 " Minuere controver.siam." — Ex usu quod est, id persequar, " What 
 is to our interest, that I'll cany out." For ex usu, see Andr. V. iv. 51 ; 
 lUaut. I. ii. 36, notes, and above, IV. i. 33. 
 
 11. Credo ed gratid Concordes maijis, &c, "I suppose that they will 
 agree better together on the strength of this, namely, if I do not 
 reinstate her (Philumena)." Bentley proposed to omit "non" before 
 'reducam," and he is followed l>y Fleckeisen. In that case " credo" 
 is to be taken ironically. But Pampbilua only means " they will do 
 better%part." For " ea gratia," cf. Audr. II. vi. 2, note. 
 
 12. Nescias. Verum id, &c, "You don't know that. But it matters 
 nothing to you which of the two things they do (agree or disagree), 
 when my wife 6hall have taken her departure."— For refcrt tud, cf. 
 Adelph. V. iv. 27, note; Madvig. § 295; Key's Gr. § 910 (who con- 
 siders " mea, tua," &c. to be accusatives feminine singular). Donaldson, 
 in Varronianua, p. 310, takes them as datives = " mese, tuce," &c, 
 agreeing with "rei" in "refert;" as also Festus seems to indicate. — 
 Hac oztas, SeiKTtKoos. m 
 
 14. E medio cequom excedere est, " 'Tis meet we should retire from the 
 world's gaze." So in Adelph. III. iv. 33, " In medio'st mater virginis." 
 In the opposite sense, Plautus, Amph. I. i. 68, has "In medium;" 
 " Utrique imperatores in medium exeunt." — Postremo nos jam fabula 
 Sutnus, &c, " In a word, we are already a by-word, ' old man and 
 old woman.' " Such seems the simplest interpretation ; cf. Hor. Epod. 
 xi. 7 " Heu me ! per urbem, (nam pudet tanti mali,) — Fabula quanta 
 fui ! '" Epist. I. xiii. 9, " Fabula fias." Madame Dacier explains, " Nous 
 jie sommes plus bons qu'li faire le sujet d'un conte, il y avait autrefois 
 un bon-homme et une bonne-femme," and this explanation was that of 
 Donatu.-s Guyetus, and Tanaquil Faber. These last read "fabula," 
 Kuhuken reads " fabulse." , 
 
 16. Pertempus, "In good time," "opportunely. So Andr. IV. iv. 
 41, " Chreme, per tempus adveuis." 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Phidippus, having learned his daughter's secret, blames Myrrhina 
 for the separation of Philumena from Pamphilus, and urges the latter 
 to acknowledge the child. Laches concurs in this request. But 
 Panii.hilus is only the more set against it, and Laches infers that 
 he still loves Bacchis, in whicb view Phidippus joins. Pamphilus 
 leaves them to do aud say what they please, and they resolve upon 
 sending for Bacchis, to warn her against encouragiug Pamphduss 
 visits.
 
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 Metre :— Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 I. Tibi qwque, "With you, as well as your mother." For tins 
 is the force of quoque. — De hac re, " As regards this matter." 
 
 6. Aperiam. Bentley's reading " operiam " seems more^ probable 
 here, and it has been adopted by Fleckeisen. Construe, " What shall 
 I answer these ? or how shall I hide this from them \ " Parry prefers 
 aperiam, " How can I tell them the whole matter ] " 
 
 8. Ne revereatur, miiius jam quoredeat domum, h. e. " quominus jam 
 redeat," &c, a case of Tmesis, " That she may not fear to return 
 home now." — For commeru.it in ver. 9, cf. note at III. v. 36, " Quae 
 commeritast." 
 
 II. Mutatio fit. These words properly belong to Pamphilus, who 
 speaks them aside. He says, " There's a shifting of the charge," from 
 Sostrata to Myrrhina, L e. The ordinary reading attributes " Mutatio 
 fit" with the context, to Phidippus. 
 
 12. Dum ne reducam, &c." Provided I don't restore her to my home, 
 let them squabble on as much as they please." For Dum ne, cf. Andr. 
 V. iii. SI. — Turbent porro, cf. Plaut. Mostell. III. i. 15, " Pergam fcurbare 
 porro;" Virg. Eel. i. 12, "Usque adeo turbatur agris." " Turbare " 
 is used also absolutely also, in PL Men. H. G. 388 ; Aulul. 610.— Quum 
 velint is l. q. " quantum velint." Ruhnken illustrates this use by Cic. 
 pro Caelio, c. 26, " Quam velit, sit potens." 
 
 15. Sin est ut, &c. A Euphemism to avoid the ill omen of the word 
 "divorce." Adelph. III. iv. 46, '■ Siu aliter animus vester est." — Ac- 
 ci/nas puerum, " Take and rear the child." Donatus says, that iu 
 cases of divorce, the male children followed the father. — Sensi'. pepe- 
 risse : occidi I Said aside to the audience. 
 
 18. Pragmas. This form, as well as the form " prsegnaus," occurs in 
 Terence and Plautus. In Plaut. Aul. 120, the editions are in favour 
 of " pnegnantem," as also in Plaut. Amph. II. ii. 91, " Praegnanti." 
 Festus explains the difference between gravida, " qua? jam gravatur 
 conceptu," and pragnans " velut occupata in generando, quod con- 
 ceperit." — Unquam ante hunc scivi dum. Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 402, 
 " Unquam ante hunc diem Vidi neque novi." 
 
 21. Sedquid mulieris uxorem habes ? &c, " But what sort of woman 
 have you for a wife ? " Quid mulieris implies contempt ; as iu Heaut. 
 IV. viii. 7, " Qureso quid tu hominis es!" Eun. V. L 17, "Quid illuc 
 hiiminis eHt;" Andr. I. v. 10, &c. — Quibus mwatam moribus, "Endowed 
 with what a disposition" or "temper." " Moratua is used thus either 
 in a bad or good sense. Compare, Aulul. l'rol. 22, " Pariter moratum," 
 and ibid 1!"< (11.). " Duininodo morata recte veni^it." 
 
 23. Nome hoc celatos turn diu ? For this construction, see Andr. I. 
 v. 10, notes: and for the two accusatives after "celo," Madvig. Gr. 
 §228 a, obs. Andr. III. iv. 6, note. — In v. 24 videtur is the indicative, 
 where the subjunctive would be more common. It seems to express 
 the speaker's opinion more decidedly. In ver. 25 there is no need with 
 id "dolet." Stalbaum rightly explains the line, aa equi- 
 valent to "Mini hoc factum aeque displicet atque tibL" 
 
 27. Earn sequitur a\i< nut. />u< ,," The child oi another followa beraa his 
 dam " For atierua, tee above IV. i. 61, and for "eequitur," the meta 
 phor of which i* from the young of a flock following their dam, of. 
 Jl'<r. Od. I. xxiii. 11, " Tandem (h.-.-*no matrem Tempeativa viro leqni ;"
 
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 Virg.Gcorg.iii.31<>, "Atque ipsa; memores redeunt in tecta, suosquo 
 Ducunt." — Qotuultatio = " occasion for deliberation." Of. " cautio est," 
 Audr. II. iii. 26. 
 
 31. Nu'lus sum. Cf. Andr. II. ii. 33, note. — In ver. 30, Westcrliov. 
 quotes Virg. Ain. iv. 327, "Saltern siqua mini de te suscepta fuisset, 
 Ante fbgam soboleB," &C. — For Se esse mrcum nuptam, compare above, 
 IV. i. 23, "Nuptam filiam cum eo," &c, and Phorm. V. iii. 34, " Nataiu 
 inveni nuptam cum tuo filio." 
 
 3*>. Alienum a me, cf. A<1. III. ii. 27, notes. 
 
 37. Nee conventurum — arbitror, "And I don't, think tliat, there will be 
 a reconciliation between us hereafter." Bentley read " arbitrer : '' but 
 arbitror may stand, if we read it in a parenthesis. Conventurum is i. q. 
 "concordiam futuram," cf. I. ii. 103, "Bene couveniebat sane inter 
 eas;" Plaut. Triuumm. III. i. 22, " Nescio quid nou satis inter eos 
 convenit." 
 
 41. An quia non delinquunt viril " Is it because men do no wrong?" 
 (ironically). Cf. V. ii. 18, " An quia non tute duduin audisti." — Rc- 
 missan opus sit vobis redductan domum, " Whether she ought to be sent 
 back to us by you, or taken home to you" — "to be repudiated or 
 reinstated." For the construction of the ablatives "remissa" aud 
 " reductS," agreeing with Phil amend understood after opus sit, cf. Key's 
 Gr. §§ 999, 1280, &c. For the repetition of "ne" instead of " ne — an," cf. 
 Key's Gr. § 1424; Virg. iEn. i. 312. "Qui teneant oras, hominesne 
 feraene;" Tibull. IV. v. 20, "Quid refert clamne palamue roget." — In 
 manu non est med, cf. III. v. 43, note.— Quid faciemus puero? cf. notes 
 at Andr. III. v. 8, "Nee quid me nunc faciam scio." 
 
 46. Ridinde rogas : quirqnid, &c, " You ask a foolish question : 
 whatever may happen you must surely give back his child to my son 
 here, that we may rear our own." Nostrum is said by the grandfather, 
 as having an interest in his son's child. Pamphilus then says to the 
 audience, "What one whom his real father has neglected," and then 
 :doud to his father, Egoalam! "Am I to rear V There seems no reason 
 for the reading "ipsa" with Douatus, in ver. 48.— For Prodemus in ver. 50, 
 cf. Heaut. IV. i. 26," Neiupe anui illi prodita abs te filiast planicBume." 
 
 54. Aid quid sit id quod, &c, "Or what is the cau*e, by reason of 
 which you are harassed in this fashion? Quod h. e. " ob quod." 
 —Policita.it ea, &c., cf IV. ii. 21, IV. iv. 7. — Nucha alteram es, " You 
 have lit upon another." Cf. V. iii. 27, below; Plaut. Men. 325, "Si 
 possum hospitium nanciscL" 
 
 61. Aliquando tandem, &c, " That at some time, late though it were, 
 you might attach yourself to matrimony:" hue StiKTiKis. — Animum 
 adjungas, cf. Andr. I. i. 29, "Ut animum ad aliquod studium ad- 
 jungant." — Spatium umandi, cf. I. ii. 55, "Spatium solitudinis." — 
 Sumptus quos fecisti in earn, "The expenses you incurred for that 
 woman" (Bacchis). Cf. Heaut. I. i. 7b", "Sumptus domi Tantos ego 
 solus faciam;" Adelph. V. iii. 21, "Sumptum filii Quern faciuut." 
 
 64. Egi atque oravi tecum, " I pleaded with you, and prayed you 
 to marry." "Oro" is used with "cum," and the abl. of the personal 
 pronouns, by Plaut. lindens. III. iv. 68, "Tecum oro, senex." Parry 
 adds, Plaut. Cas. II. v. 16, " Mecum oraret ; " Asinar. III. iii. 96, 
 " Petere atque orare mecum." Westcrliov. needlessly refers the ex- 
 pression in the text to the class of constructions of which Adelph. V.
 
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 vii. 19, " Illas abi et traduce" is an instance. — Impulsu duxisti meo, 
 " You married at my urgency," cf. II. i. 45, above. 
 
 66. Quce turn obsecutus, &c, " By complying with my wishes as to 
 which things then, you did as it became you." — Animum ad meretricem 
 induxti. Parry says that this is the sole instance in Terence of "ad" 
 following " animum inducere." Westerhov. quotes " animum ad malas 
 adducam partes," in V. iii. 38, as somewhat similar. — Cui in ver. 68, 
 refers, of course, to Bacchis. 
 
 69. Revolutum denuo, " For I behold you rolling back again upon the 
 same course of life." For thi3 use of denuo (de novo) with revolutum, 
 Parry quotes Prol. ii. 30, "Refero denuo." For revolutum, Ruhnken 
 adduces Cic. ad Att. xiii. 26, " Revolvor identidem in Tusculanum." 
 Westerhov. refers to St. Pet. II. ii. 22, 5s \ou<rafievri ds Kv\iafj.a fiop- 
 &6pou. In ver. 71, Fleckeisen follows Bentley in reading " Confingis," 
 for " Cum fingis." — Testem hanc, " This witness here," L e. his wife. 
 
 73. Sensitque adeo uxor, " And what's more, your wife has discovered 
 it." Cf. Andr. III. iii. 47, note. —Plane hie divinat, " The man is 
 clearly a diviner " (aside to the audience). Gronov. explains " divi- 
 nare " here " conjiciendo rem acu tangere," quoting a similar sense of 
 "divinus" and "divinitus" in Livy, i. 36, " Agedum, inquit, divine 
 tu, inaugura," &c., and Curculio, II. L 33, " Vah ! solus hie homo est, 
 qui sciat divinitus." 
 
 75. Dabo jusjurandum. So Adelph. II. i. 11, "Jusjurandum dabitur." 
 — Quamobrem non opus sit eedo, cf. " reducta " as in ver. 44 above. For 
 " cedo," see Heaut. IV. viii. 5, Plaut. Meuaechin. H. G. 114. In culpa non 
 est, cf. above III. L 19. 
 
 80. Tot me — concludit pater, " By so many things does my father 
 get wretched me in the toils." Concludo is a metaph from snaring wild 
 beasts. Cf. Andr. IL iii. 12, " Ut ab ilia excludar, hue concludar." Cf. 
 also Plaut. Cure. iii. 79. — Promoveo parum, " I make little progress," 
 " I gain little." Cf. Andr. IV. i. 16 note, Eurip. Hippol. 1294 kclWui 
 irpoK<tya> y ovSev. — Ivjussu meo, cf. IV. i. 47. 
 
 85. Num tibi vidctur esse apud scse ? " Does he seem to you to be 
 in his senses." Cf. Heaut. V. i. 48, " Non sum apud me." Andr. V. 
 iv. 34, " Vix sum apud mo." — Sine, " Leave him to himself." Eun. I. 
 L 20, " Sine inodo," " Let me alone for that." 
 
 88. Anuira mulieres sunt. So Menander, <pvcrfi ywi) b~vcr-r)vi6v iart k<l\ 
 iriKp6v. Ovid. A. A. ii. 373 — 378, q. v. — Ipsa, narravit mild, h. e. in 
 Act. IV. 3C. i. ver. 23. 
 
 98. Nam omnino alhfjrrere, &c, "For I see that his inclination is 
 altogether set against matrimony." Cf. Andr. V. i. 10, "Abhorrenti ab 
 r>- uxorii." 
 
 95. Oremus: accusemus: gravius denique &c, "Let us treat with her; 
 accuse her ; then in fine threaten her." Bentley has rightly placed the 
 oolon at " accusuiJiuH," and omitted a stop between "gravius" and 
 " di-nique." — Si cum ill'/ rem, Ac., cf. Eun. I. ii. 39. 
 
 98. Hue evocavn-lnt meis, " Hid her in my name to come forth hither." 
 For verbis mcis, cf Plant. Mil. Gi. III. iii. 89, "Anulum Quem ego 
 militi darem toil verbis." Plaut. Amphit III- iii. 12, " Gubernatorem 
 a navi hue evoca verbis meis." Sallust. Jug. B. c. 21, "Caniniui me 
 tui- verbis .vlinonuit." 
 
 101. Manere udfmiiatcm. Cf. ver. 14, and with Ruhnken, V'iTg .Vln.
 
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 i. 26, "M.inet altil mento repostum Judicium Paridis," where, as here, 
 there is a notion of fixedness. 
 
 10*. Para, "Hire." Cf. Eun. III. ii. 35, "Qui haberet qui pararet 
 alium, lmnc perpeti." Hor. Sat. II. iii. 129, " Servosno tuos, quos cere 
 pararie." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Scen. I. 
 
 Bacchis comes at the bidding of Laches, who first disabuses her 
 mind of any unfriendly purpose on his part, and then imputes to her 
 a continuance of her old liaison with Painphilus. She denies it to 
 the satisfaction of Laches, and at his wish undertakes to prove to 
 Mvrrhina and Philumeua, that since his marriage, Pamphilus has kept 
 aloof from her. She desires to clear herself and her former lover. 
 
 Metre : — 1 — 4, 17, 18. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 5. Iambic Dimeter Catalectic. 
 6 — 16. Iambic Tetrameter Cata^ctic. 
 20, 21. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 19, 22—41. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. Non hoc de nihilost, &c. This is not for nothing, namely, that 
 Laches seeks an interview with me now. The phrase, de nihilo, is 
 illustrated by Kuhnken from Propert. III. vii. 52 (Paley), " Nee sic do 
 nihilo fulininis ira cadit," and Westerhov. adds, Plaut. True. IV. ii. 56, 
 " De nihilo illi est irasci, qure te non flocci facit." — Me conventam esse 
 expetit, see Plaut. Pcen, V. ii. 159, " Est qui illam conventam esse vult." 
 
 2. Nee pol me multum fallit, quin &c, " Nor, faith, am I much mis- 
 taken, unless what he wants with me be what I suspect." 
 
 3. Videndum est ne minus propter tram, &c, " I must look to it that 
 through this anger of mine, I don't obtain legs than I might." This is 
 said aside. Bentley for hanc, reads " liinc," h. e. "a Bacchide." But 
 this change is unnecessary. — Aut ne quid faciam plus, quod, &c, "Or 
 lest I should do anything too much, which afterwards it might be 
 better I had not done." Compare Pborm. III. iii. 21, " Ne quid plus 
 minusve faxit quod nos post pigeat, Geta." 
 
 7. Hue for as pw rum evocare jussi, Cf. IV. iv. 97. — Ego pol quoque 
 etiam. For the combination of "quoque" and " etiam," cf. above, IV. 
 i. 28, and below at ver. 36 of this scene ; and Virg. /En. i. 9, " Multa 
 quoque et bello passus." — Venit mi in mentem, cf. Heaut. V. ii. 33 and 
 43, notes; Adelph. IV. i. 12 ; Hecyr. Ill iii. 45. 
 
 9. Ne nomen mild qucesti obsit, &c, " That the name of my trade may 
 operate to my prejudice." The Bembine MS. has "quassti," and omits 
 "apud tc," which was in the old texts. Fleckeisen reads "quajstuis;" 
 but we have preferred to follow Mentley, who adopted the Bembine 
 reading. For such forms as "quajsti" see Adelph. V. iv. 16, " Fructi," 
 note. — Nam mores facile tutor, "For I can easily defend my conduct." 
 Parry, after Perlet, quotes here Adelph. II. i. 7, where Sannio tries to 
 defend his profession, " Leno ego sum — At ita ut usquam fuit fido 
 quisquam optima." See also below V. iii. 38. 
 
 11. Utnon siit peccato mi ignosci asquiun, "For I am now at that
 
 HECYRA. IB? 
 
 time of life, that it is not fair I should be pardoned, when a fault lias 
 been committed by me." Gronovius explains " peccato " as an ablative 
 absolute, illustrating it by Cicero De Lege Agraria Orat. II. c. 2, " Cui 
 errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus — proponitur." This ex- 
 planation is quite satisfactory ; and that of Mr. Parry respecting 
 "ignosco," having here a combination of two datives, of the tiling, 
 and the person, is not adequately illustrated by the instances given. In 
 ver. 12 " Magis " is pleonastically joined with " cautius." Ruhnken 
 quotes Livy ix. 7, " Tristior ignominiosae pacis magis quam periculi 
 nuncius fuit." 
 
 14. Inscitum offerre injuriam, &c, "'Twere unfair of me foolishly to 
 inflict an injury on you which you deserve not." For "inscitum," cf. 
 Mil. Glor. III. i. 141, " Qui deum consilia culpet, stultus inscitusque 
 Bit." For " offerre injuriam" cf. Ad. III. i. 9, note. In ver. 15, Bentley 
 read " Est magnam — gratiam de istac re quod tibi habeam." 
 
 16. Nam qui pott factam, &c. For this sentiment, compare Adelpli. 
 II. i. 8, 9 ; and for expwget, Andr. V. iii. 29, " Sine me expurgem." 
 — Mewii receptas Jilium, "You harbour with you my son Pamphilus." 
 Cf. Adelph. V. iii. 13, " Cur recipis meum?" See the note there. Cic. 
 pro Milou. c. 19, ''Ipse ille omnium latronum occultator et receptalor 
 locus." — Vostrum amoreui, either " the love between you two," or " his 
 love for you." 
 
 19. Mane. Parry notes that the " e " in " mane " is short here ; see 
 Adelph. III. iv. 21, and above at IV. i. 42, "Roga." He also remarks 
 that there is an hiatus after " dixi." — Firmiorem, cf. Andr. III. iii. 39, 
 " Tibi generum firmum," &c. ; and above I. ii. 26, note. 
 
 21. Nam neque ille hoc animo erit cetatem, " For neither will he be of 
 this mind for an age, nor will you be of that time of life " (to enable you 
 to get "alium firmiorem."). For "oDtatem" cf. Heaut. IV. iii. 38, 
 " Me aetatem censes vello id adsimularier ?'" Plaut. Asiuar. II. ii. 8, 
 "yEtatem servire veliin ; " and for "istac aetate," cf. Heaut. I. i. 58, 
 " Istuc aetatis." 
 
 22. Quis id ait, namely, the charge in ver. 17. In ver. 25, Sefp-egatttm 
 hahaisne is i. q. " segregasse, as in IV. ii. 6, " habueris praspoeitam " is 
 i. q. " praeposuisse." As Parry observes, we are not bound to reconcile 
 very closely this statement with that in Hecyr. I. ii. 82, " I bat ad 
 Bacchideu quotidie;" and there is some degree of verification to her 
 words in I. ii. 85, "Maligna multo et magis procax facta illico est." 
 Fleckeisen, following Bentley, has ventured to omit " me " in ver. 26, 
 and " vis" in ver. 27; for the exigencies of the Trochaic metre. 
 
 29. Exple animum ri.\, " Satisfy their minds." Cf. Andr. I. ii. 17, 
 " Animmii at Bxpleret mum," Virg. ./En. ii. 586, " Animuinque 
 
 explesse juvabit." — Teque hoc crimine expedi, cf. III. i. 8, "Qui to 
 expedias his GBrumni& 
 
 30. Alia ex hoc qucestu, "Another of my trade:" "hoc is used 
 StwTiKws. For the use of the ablative with "ex" instead of the geni- 
 tive, see Cic. pro Murcn. c. 36, quoted by Ruhnken, " Facit eodem 
 ex studio vir eruditus." For " i 1 li ut commodem " in ver. 84, cf. Andr. 
 I. L 135. 
 
 '■',;>. Facilem bcnevolumquc. Cf. Adelph. V. ix. 29, "Facilem et festivum 
 fiutant." In tho next verse, Fleckeiseti, after Bentley, reada "liBBc" 
 fur " hee," cf. Heaut. IV. vii. 10, note, Phorm. V. viii. 23. — tyo quoqut
 
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 etiam, " What's more : I too believed it." la ver. 37, "quam" seems a 
 better reading than " quum," as it thus becomes the relative to which 
 " eadem " is antecedent. Construo, " Now, what I have discovered you 
 to be, contrary to my preconceived opinion, that same take you care to 
 be hereafter." For prater opinionem. cf Heaut. I. i. 7. — Porro, Andr. 
 Prol. 22, "Dehine ut quiescaut porro." — Utere is the future. 
 
 39. Alitor si facias. An Aposiopesis, cf. Andr. I. i. 137; Adelph. I. 
 ii. 55, notes.— Sed me reprimam, cf. Heaut. I. ii. 25, "lllene? Sed 
 reprimara me." — Ne cegre quicquam ex me audias. "vEgrc" here="quod 
 ffigre sit tibi," or " quod eegre feras." 
 
 40. A?nicus qualissimaut quid possiem, &c, "Make trial what sort of a 
 friend I am, or what is my power as a friend, rather than what sort of 
 foe I am." For "quid possiem" see Plaut. Stich. I. ii. 12, "Cujus 
 potestas plus potest ; " and for " periculum facias," Andr. III. iii. 34, 
 note. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. II. 
 
 PniDirrus returns with a nurse for the baby, and is informed by 
 Laches of the statement Bacchis has made. After some trouble be is 
 induced to believe it, and suggests the mission of Bacchis to Myrrhiua 
 and Philumena. 
 
 Metre : — after ver. 1, Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 2. Tibi defieri patiar,"V)\ let you want for nothing" (said to the 
 nurse). For " defieri" see Plaut. Men. 137 (Hildyard), " Neque defiat; 
 neque supersit." Virg. Eel. ii. 22, " Lac mihi — non frigoro defit. — 
 Benigne preebeatur, "Be bountifully supplied." Benignus is used in 
 this sense in Plaut. Cure. IV. ii. 37, " Pecuniam benigna pnebuisti." 
 Hor. Od. I. xvii. 15, "Benigno — cornu." So in Plaut. Menaechm. 
 Prol. 16, " Benignitas," " bountifulness," cf. Hildyard's Glossary. 
 
 3. Sed quom tu eris satura at qua ebria, " But when you shall have 
 eaten and drunk your fill, take cure " &c. — Ebria is not here used in 
 its bad sense, but as in Plaut. Capt. I. i. 35, " Unde satietate eaepe ego 
 exii ebrius." Parry quotes a passage from the Casina III. vi. 19, where 
 it means "plentiful." Cf. loc. " Facite coenam mihi, ut ebria sit." — 
 Nostcr socer in ver. 4, "Our good friend, the father-in-law," cf. Virg. ^En. 
 ii. 149, " Noster eris." Madame Dacier, " Notre Beau-pere." 
 
 5. Dejerat persancte, "Protests very solemnly." Cf. Plaut. Men. 
 H. G. 716, " Abstulisse dejerat." The force of "do" is " thoroughly," 
 "out-and-out," cf. " detergeo," "derniror," "dealbo." See also Ter. 
 Eun. II. iii. 40, " Liquet mihi dejerare." — For respiccre, in ver. 5, cf. 
 Andr. IV. i. 18, " Nisi quid Di respiciunt." Plaut. Bacch. IV. iii. 24, 
 "Deus respieict nos aliquis." 
 
 7. Ancill'ts dedo, "I am ready to give up my handmaids for examina- 
 tion " (by torture). Cf. Plaut. Most. V. i. 38, 39, "Servos pollicitus 
 est dare Suos mihi omnia qutestioni." — Qwi htbet cruciatu per me exqnire, 
 " Examine them, as far as my leave is concerned, by the rack." — Ihec 
 rex hie agitur, "the business now on hand is this." For " perficio " in 
 ver. 9, Beutley and Fleckeisen read " effecero." — Non pemitet me fanwt t
 
 HECYRA. 189 
 
 " I am not ashamed of the credit I shall have " &c. Cf. Phorm. I. 
 hi. 20 ; Heaut. I. L 20, note. 
 
 12. Porro hanc nunc experiamur. " Henceforward let us make trial 
 of Bacchis here.— Crimini, iu ver. 13,=" a false charge." Corn. Nepos, 
 Epam. c. 7, " Cum criniinibus adversariorum omnes in invidiam venis- 
 sent." — Missam iram faciet, " She will dismiss her wrath." Andr. V. 
 L 14, note. — Hcec ira abscedet, cf. above, III. v. 55, " Decedet jam ira 
 hEec." 
 
 16. Discidio dignum, " deserving a separation," discidium (th. dis- 
 scindo). Cf. IV. iv. 43, " Remissan opus sit vobis redductan domum." 
 — Quod satis sit, " ad purgationem," sc. " to justify herself."' — De hue re 
 animus meus ut sit, cf. Adelph. III. iv. 47, note. — I Ills modo explete 
 aidmum, cf. V. i. 28, " Exple animum eis," and below, ver. 21. Cic. pro 
 Domo sua, c. 17, " Explevi aniinoa invidorum." Construe. "Do but 
 satisfy their minds." 
 
 23. A viro ubi scgregatast. Cf. above V. L 26, " Segregatum habuisse, 
 uxorem ut duxit, a me Pamphilum." In ver. 24, hcec is i. q. hw, as in 
 V. i. 36. Bentley is right in not omitting ver. 25, with some MSS. 
 and editions. Through their anxiety for their children, both old men 
 naturally give the same pledge to Bacchis. — Suspicione exsolves. So in 
 V. i. 29, '" Teque hoc crimiue expedi." 
 
 27. Piulet Philumence, " I'm ashamed to be seen by Philumena." Cf. 
 Heaut. II. iii. 19, " Cujus nunc pudet me et miseret," &c. Livy iii. 19, 
 " Pudet deorum hominumque." Key explains, that the genitive of 
 person with "pudet," may be either one who has acted, or one who has 
 been dealt with shamefully ; so that in either case the sight of him 
 raises the feeling of shame. See note to § 938, Key's Gr. p. 180. 
 
 28. Quid est quod — evenire, " What is there that I could wish to 
 happen to me, rather than what I understand is happening to Bacchis 
 here, viz." &c. For gratiam vieat, cf. Heaut. II. iii. 61, " Ne falsarn 
 gi - atiam Studeas inire." Adel. V. vii. 16, " Ego lepidus ineo gratiam." 
 Bentley proposes to read, " ineam " and " prosim " needlessly. — For 
 Si est, ut, &c, cf. note above, IV. iv. 15, "Si est ut aliter tua .siet 
 sententia." 
 
 30. Segregarit, properly used of the breaking off of a " liaison ; " 
 cf. above, V. i. 26, and Andr. I. v. 56 ; Heaut. II. iv. 6, q. v.— Sett sibi 
 nobilitatem ex eo &c, " She knows that from that act a good name, and 
 fortune and credit accrues to her." For "nobilitatem," ltuhnken 
 quotes, Cic. pro Arch. c. 11, "In eo ipso in quo prsedicationem 
 nobilitateinque despiciunt." It is often used in a bad sense, as in Eun. 
 V. vi. 20, '' Nobilito " is used ; see also "nobilis" in Heaut. II. L 15, 
 note. 
 
 32. Und operd, "By one and the same means." Cf. Plaut. Men. 
 (H. 0.) 426, " Ut hoc nunc una opera ad aurificem deforas." Ibid. 
 096, 698. — Ei refers to Pamphilus.
 
 190 NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. III. 
 
 Parmeno returns from his bootless errand (cf. Act. III. Sc. IV.), and 
 meets Bacchis coming out of the house of Phidippus. She sends him 
 to fetch Pamphilus, and to tell him that Myrrhiua has recognised the 
 ring, which he had given to her (Bacchis), as her daughter's. Bacchis 
 then soliloquises on the train of circumstances, and the fortunate 
 di.-eovery of this ring at the present crisis. 
 
 Metre: — 1 — 17. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 18 — 42. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. For the servant's complaint in ver. 1, Westerhov. refers to a 
 parallel in Plaut. Amphitr. I. i. 17, 18, q. v. — Frustraubi totum desedi 
 (I 'ma, " Where 1 have been idling to no purpose all day." For "desedi" 
 in this sense, compare Plaut. Bacch. II. iii. 2, 3, " Nostrum tarn din 
 Ibi desidere." Pseudol. IV. iv. 7, Aul. 33, "Quasi claudus sutor domi 
 sedet totos dies." Compare "deses" and "desidia." — llli in ver. 4, 
 is i. q. " illic," as above. 
 
 5. Accedtbam, "1 kept going up to them." So Andr. I. i. 57, 
 " Kogitabam, heus puer," &c. — Die dum quccso. For " dum" thus used, 
 " paragogice " as it is called, see Ter. Andr. I. i. 2, note ; Plaut. Men. 
 H. G. 84, 88. 
 
 6. Hospitem ecquem Pamphilum, " Any foreign friend named Pam- 
 philus." This "hospes" would be the Greek |eiVos, between* whom 
 and the strauger arriving at Athens there would be a league of hospi- 
 tality. Cf. Phorm. I. ii. 17, '" In Ciliciam, Ad hospitem antiquom." — 
 Neque eum quemquam esse arbitror, "In short, I don't believe there's 
 such a man, ' Column. Quemquam, " Anybody at all." 
 
 9. Ab nostro adjine, " From our new connection's house." This 
 sense of "affinis" seems most like Terence, and is adopted by Colman 
 aud. Madame Dacier. Parry translates, "from our neighbour's." Fur 
 " noster," used for anything belonging to a slave's master, cf. Andr. V. 
 ii. 5, " noster Chreme ! " note. — Quid huic hie est rei. See Adelph. 
 IV. v. 4, "Quid huic hie negotist?" — Opportune te offers, "Well met !" 
 Andr. IV. ii. 3, " Uptime mihi te offers." See note. 
 
 12. Tud quod nil refert, percontari desinas, " Don't ask about what 
 does not concern you." Menander wrote a /jltj irpoa-iiKei fxnr Hicovt, fxrjff tipa. 
 Plant. Stich. II. i. 48, "Tua quod nil refert ne Cures." For percontai i, 
 cf. above, I. ii. 2 ; Heaut. I. i. 26. 
 
 13. Edam, " Yet more." Cf. Aulul. H. G. 16 ; Gr. ?t«.— In ver. 15, 
 Tantumne est? = " Is that all J" Cf. Eun. V. v. 26, " Tantum est." 
 
 17. Totum hunc contrivi diem, " I lmve spent all this day." Cf. (with 
 Westerhov.) Propert. II. i. 46, "Qua pote, quisque in ea conterat arte 
 diem:" and see Adelph. V. iv. 15, note. — In ver. 19, Quot commodas 
 res is i. q. " Quot commoditates," in Andr. III. iii. 37. 
 
 20. Uarum, " These women in the house," S(iktikws. — Qud re 
 suspectus — exsolvi. Here the antecedent is attracted to the relative 
 clause. The full sentence would be, "Exsolvi ea re de qua suspectus 
 fuit.'' Cf. IV. iv. 72, " Ut cum ilia vivas," &c. : and for "exsolvo" 
 thus used, see IV. ii. 23.
 
 TIF.CYRi. 191 
 
 23. Adeo, "Nay more." Cf. Plaut. Men. Prol. 23, and H. G. 47. 
 Hie anulus (SetKTixu>s) "the ring on iuy finger here." — Abhinc menses 
 decern. For " abhinc " thus, see Andr. I. i. 42, " Abhinc triennium." 
 For the time mentioned, cf. Adelph. III. iv. 29, "Hie mensis decimus 
 est," and note ibid. — Nocte primd, " In the early part of the night." 
 Compare, Heaut. V. i. 29, " Ultimis in sedibus;" Madvig. sect. 311 ; 
 Adelph. V. iii. 55. — Fin* plenum, cf. Hor. Od. III. xxv. 1, " Quo me, 
 Bacche, rapis tui Plenum." For amabo, "prythee," see Heaut. II. iv. 
 24 j Plaut. Men. H. G. 291. 
 
 27. Quid exanimatus, obsecroJ "Why, pray, are you breathless V 
 Cf. Andr. I. iv. 7, "Quidnam Pampbilum exanimatum video?" Phorm. 
 III. iii. 31, " Quam scio esse examinatam metu." Hecyr. III. iii. 
 4, above. — Alias res agcre se simidare, "He began to feign that 
 he was not attending," literally "that he was engaged about some- 
 thing else." Cf. Amir. I. ii. 15, note, " Hocine agis an non ? " "Are you 
 minding me or not ? " 
 
 28, 29. Postquam video, Neseio quid suspicarier, " On seeing thi?, I 
 began to suspect something." — Homo se fatetur, &c. Westerhov. points 
 out that this passage is borrowed from Plaut. Cistell. I. iii. 10, 11, q. v. 
 — Dam luctat : note the old use of the active form instead of the later 
 deponent. Cf. Plaut. Trinumm. IV. i. 20, " Quibus aerumnis deluc- 
 tavi." This usage is common in Plautus and Terence. Cf. Madvig. 
 Gr. sect 147. — ///(' — anulum dctraxisse, cf. Heaut. IV. i. 38, "De 
 digito anulum Detraho;" Hor. Od. I. ix. 23, " Pignusque dereptuiu 
 lacertis Aut digito male pertiuaci;" and above, IV. i. 59. 
 
 32. Eum hvec cognovit, &c, " That ring Myrrhina here recognised, as 
 I had it just now on my finger." Thi3 is according to Bentley's 
 reading, " habente," a sound emendation for " habentem," the old 
 reading. Cf. Heaut. IV. i, 44, *■ Postquam aspexi ilico Cognovi." 
 Parry remarks on the lengthened last s_\ liable of " modo" here, and 
 refer;; to Andr. IV. i. 6. 
 
 Propter me, "By my means." Andr. I. v. 36, note; Eun. V. v. 
 29. — In rem nostrum, " To our interest," cf. above, II. ii. 7. For 
 " qua?sti gratia," cf. Andr. II. ii. 28 ; Madvig. Gr. sect. 47, obs. 2. 
 Madame Dacier translates, " Mais le gain ne me portera jamais a 
 faire rien de rnalhonucie." 
 
 39. Dam illo licitum est (•' uti," sc). Incommode mihi nvptiis evenit, 
 " It brought bad luck to me when he married." Ill befell me from his 
 marriage. Nuptiit is i. q. " ex nuptiis." — Factum fateor (id esse, 3c), " I 
 don't deny that it was so." 
 
 42. Malta e.r quo faerint commoda, ejus incommoda aquum est ferrt, 
 " It's only fair to pat up with disagreeables on the part of one, from 
 whom many a^reeables have proceeded. 
 
 " And since I have received much kindness from him, 
 Tia fit 1 should endure this one affliction." — Colman. 
 
 Ejus is i. q. "ex eo."
 
 102 NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Tamphilus cannot well believe the good news conveyed by Parmeuo 
 till he has seen Bacchis ; but makes great promises to the slave, if his 
 tidings are confirmed. Bacchis does confirm them, and they agree to 
 keep the whole truth from Laches, as also from Phidippus. Parmeno 
 finds that he has been doing more good unwittingly tliis day, than lie 
 has doue knowingly all his life long. This observation of his closes 
 the play. 
 
 Metre: — 1, 7. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 2—6, 8, 9, 11, 27—34, 39, 40. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 10. Iambic Dimeter. 
 12, 13, 19—26, 35—38. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 14—18. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Hcec cerla et clara altuleris, "Pry thee, good Parmeno, look to it 
 again and again, that this news you have brought me be clear and 
 certain." For "etiam," used as here, see Andr. I. i. 89; Aulul. H. G. 
 16. For the junction of "clara" and "certa" Gronov. and Ruhnken 
 quote Plaut. Pers. II. ii. 1, " Satin' haec tibi sunt clara et certa!" 
 Livy L 18, "Signa nobis certa adclarassis ; " Senec. de Mort. Claud, i., 
 " Ab hoc ego quaecunque audivi clara et certa affero." 
 
 2. A'e me in breve tempus conjicias, gaudio hoc falso frui, an involved 
 construction. Frui is L q. " ad fruendum," and the whole clause is 
 nearly i. q. (in Heaut. II. iil 51), " Ne me in lsetitiam frustra 
 conjicias." Construe, "Lest you should thrust me into a brief 
 space only, for enjoying this delight, if it be false." For frui. 
 used instead of a gerund after "ad," cf. III. ii. 10, above, " Introiit 
 videre." — Visum est is the answer to "vide" in ver. 1, "It has been 
 looked to."— Dcus sum. Cf. Heaut. IV. iii. 15, "Deorum vitam apti 
 sumus • " Andr. V. v. 4, " Nam mi immortalitas " &c. and Plaut. 
 Curcul.' I. iii. 11, " Sum Deus;" Propert. II. xii. 40, " Nocte una quivis 
 vel Deus esse potest." 
 
 4. Manedum, sodcs, " Prythee now stop." For the paragogic " dum," 
 cf. Andr. I. L 2.— For maneo, as here, Heaut. II. iii. 32. —Factum, " It 
 is so," in ver. 6, is a not uncommon affirmation, cf. II. L 23 ; Eun. IV. 
 iv. 40, "Factum. Et earn est indutus] Factum." 
 
 8. Vtnustatkque adeo plenior, "And, what's more, fuller of luck in 
 love." For this sense of "venustas" (th. Venus), cf. Andr. I. v. 10, 
 note ; Plaut. Poen. I. ii. 44, " Diem pulchrum et celebrem et venustatis 
 plenum."— Nihil enim, in ver. 10, = " Why nothing," understand "ine 
 dones." 
 
 12. Qui ab Oreo — reducem in lucem feceris, " What ! shall I suffer you, 
 who have restored mc, dead as I was, from the shades to light again," 
 &c, a figurative mode of expressing "rescue from the depths of 
 trouble." For parallels, Ruhnken quotes Gvid. Trist. V. ix. 19, 
 " Seminecem Stygia revocasti solus ab unda ; " Plant. Pseud. III. ii. 6, 
 " Quiu ob earn rem Orcus recipere hunc ad se noluit." For abire sine 
 inuiure, " to go unrewarded," cf. Virg. Mu. v. 305, " Nemo ex hoc 
 numero mihi non donatus abibit."
 
 HECYRA. 193 
 
 17. Benef actum, et volup est. For the indeclin. adv. "volup" or 
 * volupe," see Phorm. IV. iiL 5, below, the only other place where it 
 Dccurs in Terence, and Plaut. Men. H. G. 579. Hildyard explains it 
 is i. q. " voluptas." Parry as a neuter from an old adj. " volupis." Both 
 imount to the same thing, the neut. adj. used as a substantive. — Factis 
 tU credam fads, " By your acts you make me believe (the sincerity of 
 jj-our delight," sc). 
 
 18. Antiquamque — renustatem obtines, "And you keep up your old 
 :harm of manner." For " obtines" see Andr. IV. v. 22, "Antiquom 
 obtines," and note ; Ter. Ad. V. hi 26. — " Venustas" is used in its usual 
 3 ense. — Ut voluptati obitus, &c., " So that a chance meeting with you, 
 i conversation with you, or your expected coming is ever a pleasure, 
 whithersoever you go." Obitus (th. " obeo," i. q. " occurro " cf. Lucre- 
 tius. L 123.), differs from adventus, in that the latter is a " settled 
 :oming : " " obitus," a chance-meeting. In ver. 21, Unus quisquam 
 must be joined in sense, and " quisquam," as Parry notes, is used 
 because the sentence is negative ; "unus quisque," would indicate an 
 iffirniative. Construe, " There is nowhere in the world a single man of 
 ill the sex living, who is more cautious than you." For "quisquam," 
 see Key's Gr. 1142. 
 
 22. Recte amdsti, " You were right in loving your wife." Cf. Andr. 
 [V. iv. 27, " Recte ego semper fugi has nuptias." — Quod nossem, " Quo 
 je sache," Madame Dacier. Cf. Adelph. IV. v. 7. " Non equidem istas, 
 quod sciam." — Perliberalis, " Very well bred ;" cf. Andr. I. i. 11, note 
 " Liberaliter." Eun. Ill, ii. 20, " Quam liberali facie;" Phorm. V. 
 iii. 32. 
 
 25. Neque opus est Adeo viultito, "And it must not be so much as 
 whispered." Cf. Andr. III. ii. 25, note, "Nil jam muttire audeo;" 
 Plaut. Men. H. G. 613. Some editions place a colon at "opus est," 
 and make " muttito " the imperative mood. Donatus took the 
 sentence in the other light. — Placet non fieri — comadiis, " I'm 
 resolved that this shall not be done in the same way as in comedies 
 where," &c. The fun here consists in the actor beiDg supposed to 
 forget he is acting, and to quiz his art. Parry illustrates the passage 
 by Plaut. Pseud. IV. vi. 19, &c, " Nugas theatri, verba quae in 
 comoediis Solent lenoni dici;" and RudenB IV. viL 23 — 27, " spectavi 
 ego pridem comicos, &c. See also Amphitryo III. iv. 3. For " re- 
 sciscunt," see above, III. i. 7, "Priusquam id rescitum est;" Heaut. I. 
 i. 47. 
 
 29. Daho h.e. "Dicam." Cf. Virg. Eel. i. 19, "Da, Tityre, nobis." 
 —Jurijurando meo Se ftdem habuissc, &c, " That she has given cre- 
 dence to my oath, and that therefore she holds you cleared;" or 
 " acquitted." Cf. II. ii. 12, " Aut ea refellendo aut purgando vobis cor- 
 rigeraus;" Plaut. Aulul. H. 710, " Qui quando malo fecorunt, pur- 
 gitant ;" Csesar. B. G. i. 28. 
 
 35. Er/one hunc ab Oreo mortuum f Parmeno tries to worm out the 
 fecret by quoting the words of Pamphilus at ver. 12 of this scene.— 
 /' udens in ver. 37 = " Without knowing what I was about." He is 
 still pretending to a knowledge of the secret, in order to beguile Pain- 
 philut into letting it out. 
 
 38. An temere quicquam Parmeno prcetereat. Bentley rightly ascriln^ 
 this sentence to Bacchis. " Can Parmeno careh Ij pan ovei aught 
 
 K
 
 ];il. NOTES OK HIiCYRA. 
 
 that's needful to be done." Some editors read " Parmenonem," 
 
 which dass Parry adhere, Either will do The two «mclud,ng 
 
 Hues seem to have been borrowed from Plant. Capt. PwL 48-45. 
 
 For the concluding " Plaudite," see Andr. V. vi. 15 ; Heaut. V. v. 21, 
 
 notes.
 
 P. TEEENII. 
 
 P H R M I 
 
 GR.ECA ArOLLODORV EPIDICAZOMENOS. ACTA LVDI3 
 ROMANI3, L. POSTVMIO ALBINO, L. CORNELIO MERVLA 
 £DILIBYS CVRVLIBVS. EGEKE L. AMBIVIVS TVRPIO L. ATI- 
 LI VS PR^N. MODOS FECIT FLACCVS CLAVDI, TIBIIS INPA- 
 RIBVS. TOTA FACTAST IIII. C. FANNIO, M. VALERIO COS.
 
 C. SULPICI APOLLINARIS PERIOCHA. 
 
 Chremetis frater aberat peregre Deniipho 
 Relicto Athenis Antiphone filio. 
 Chremes clam babebat Leinni uxorem ac filiam, 
 Athenis aliam cunjugem et awantem unice 
 Gnatuni fidiciuaui. mater e Lemno aduenit 
 Athenas : moritur : uirgo sola (aberat Chremes) 
 Funus procurat. ibi earn cum uisam Antipho 
 Araaret, opera parasiti uxorem accipit. 
 Pater et Cbremes rcuersi fremere. dein minas 
 Triginta dant parasito, ut illam conjugem 
 Haberet ipse, argento hoc emitur fidicina. 
 Uxorem retinet Antipho a patruo agnitam. 
 
 PERSONS. 
 
 Davos Servos. 
 Geta Servos. 
 Antipho Advlescens. 
 Phaedria Advlescens. 
 Demipho Senex. 
 Phormio Parasitvs. 
 Hegio -J 
 
 Cratinvs I Advocati. 
 Crito -I 
 Dorio Leno. 
 Chremes Senex. 
 sophrona nvtrix. 
 Navsistrata Matroaa.
 
 PROLOGVS. 
 
 Postquam poeta uetus poetam non potest 
 
 RetraUere ao studio et transdere hornineni in otium, 
 
 Maledictis deterrere ne scribat parat : 
 
 Qui ita dictitat, quas antehac fecit f'abulas, 
 
 Tenui esse oratione et scriptura leui : 
 
 Quia nusquam insanum scripsit adulescentulum 
 
 Ceruam uidere fugere et sectari canes 
 
 Et earn plorare, orare ut subueniat sibi. 
 
 Quod si iutellegeret, olini quom stetit noua, 
 
 Actons opera magis stetisse quara sua, 
 
 Minus multo audacter, quam nunc hedit, hederet. 
 
 Nunc siquis est, qui hoc dicat aut sic cogitet : 
 
 ' Vet us si poeta non lacessisset prior, 
 
 Nullum inuenire prologum posset nouos, 
 
 Quem diceret, nisi haberet cui male diceret:' 
 
 Is sibi responsum hoc habeat, in medio omnibus 
 
 Palmam esse positam, qui artem tractant musicam. 
 
 Die ad famem hunc ab studio studuit reicere: 
 
 Hie respondere uoluit, non lacessere. 
 
 !;• nedictu si certasset, audiaset bene: 
 
 Quod ab illo adlatuinst, id siln relatum patet. 
 
 De illo jam finem faciam dicundi mihi, 
 
 Peccandi '|Uom ipse de Be finem non facit ? 
 
 .N'hik; quid u'lim aiiiiinun atteadite. adporto aouam 
 
 Epidicazomenou quam uocant comoodiam
 
 198 PHOEMIONIS PItOLOGVS. 
 
 Greeci, Latini Phormionem nominant : 
 Quia primas partis qui aget, is erit Phormio 
 Parasitus, per quem res geretur maxume, 
 Voluntas uostra si ad poetani accesserit. 
 Date operam, adeste £equo animo per silentium, 
 Ne simili utamur fortuna, atque usi sumus 
 Quom per tumultum nostor grex motus locost : 
 Quem actoris uirtus nobis restituit locum 
 Bonitasque uostra adjutans atque terjuaiumitas.
 
 PHORMIO P. TERENTI. 
 
 ACTVS L— Scen. 1. 
 
 DAVOS. 
 
 Amicus summus meus et popjlaris Geta 
 Heri ad me uenit. erat ei de ratiuncula 
 Jampridem apud nie reliouom pauxillulum 
 Nummorum : id ut conficerem. confeci : adfero. 
 Nam herilem nlium ejus duxisse audio 
 Uxorem : ei credo munus hoc conraditur. 
 Quam inique comparatumst, hi qui minus habent 
 Ut semper aliquid addant ditioribus ! 
 Quod ille unciatim uix de demenso suo 
 Suom defrudans geuium comparsit miser, 
 Id ilia uniuorsui.i abripiet, haud existumans 
 Quanto labore partum. porro autem Geta 
 Ferietur alio munere, ubi hera pcpererit : 
 Porro autem alio, ubi orit puero natalis dies : 
 'hi initiabunt. omue hoc mater auferct: 
 Puer causa erit mittundi. sed uideou Getam ? 
 
 10
 
 200 PHOKMIO. 
 
 ACT. I.— Scen. 2. 
 
 GETA. DAVOS. 
 
 Ge. Siquis me qureret rufus .... Da. Prcestost, desine. 
 Ge. Oh, 
 At ego obuiaru conabar tibi, Daue. Da. Accipe, hem, 
 Lectumst ; conueniet uumerus quantum debui. 
 
 Ge. Amo te : et non neglexisse habeo gratiam. 
 
 Da. Pnesertim ut nunc sunt mores : adeo res redit : s 
 
 Siquis quid reddit, magna habendast gratia. 
 Sed quid tu es tristis ? Ge. Egone ? nescis quo in metu, 
 Quanto in periclo simus. Da. Quid istuc est ? Ge. Scies, 
 Modo ut tacere possis. Da.. Abi sis, insciens : 
 Quoius tu fidem in pecunia perspexeris, le 
 
 Verere uerba ei credere ? ubi quid mihi lucrist 
 Te fallere ? Ge. Ergo ausculta. Da. Hanc operam tibi dico. 
 
 Ge. Senis nostri, Daue, fratrem majorem Chremem 
 Nostin ? Da. Quid ni ? Ge. Quid ? ejus gnatum Pha?driam ? 
 
 Da. Tam quam te. Ge. Euenit senibus ambobus simul ,s 
 Iter illi in Lemnum ut esset, nostro in Ciliciam 
 Ad hospitem antiquom : is sen em per epistulas 
 Pellexit, modo non montis auri pollicens. 
 
 Da. Quoi tanta erat res, et supererat ? Ge. Desinas : 
 Sic est ingenium. Da. Oh, regem me esse oportuit. 
 
 Ge. Abeuntes ambo hinc turn senes me filiis 
 Relinquont quasi magistrum. Da. O Geta, prouinciam 
 Cepisti duram. Ge. Mi usus uenit, hoc scio : 
 Memini rehnqui me deo irato meo. 
 
 Coepi aduorsari primo : quid uerbis opust ? M 
 
 Seni fidelis dum sum, scapulas perdidi. 
 Venere in mentem mi isteec : ' nam qua.' inscitiast,
 
 iC 
 
 FHORMIO. 201 
 
 Aduorsuni stimulum calces !' coepi eis oinnia 
 Facere, obsequi quse uellent. Da. Scisti uti foro. 
 
 Ge. Noster mali nil quicquam priiao : hie Phasdria 
 Continuo quandam nactus est puellularu 
 Citharistriain : banc ainare ccepit perdite. 
 Ea seruiebat lenoni inpurissunio : 
 Neque quod daretur quicquam : id curarant patres. 
 Restabat aliud nil nisi oculos pascere, 
 Sectari, in ludum ducere et redducere. 
 Nos otiosi operant dabamus Phsedrise. 
 In quo haec discebat ludo, exaduorsum ei loco 
 Tustrina erat quaxlam, liic solebamus fere 
 Plerunique earn opperiri, dum inde iret douium. 
 Interea dum sedemus illi, interuenit 
 Adulescens quidaru Licrumans. nos mirarier. 
 Rogamoa quid sit : ' numquam jeque ' inquit ' ac modo 
 Paupertas mihi onus uis umst et miserum et graue. 
 Modo quandam uidi uirgiuem hie uiciniw 
 Mi ram, suam matrem lamentari mortuam : 
 Ea sita erat exaduorsum, neque illi beniuolens 
 Neque notus neque cognatus extra unam aniculam 
 Quisquam aderat, qui adjutaret funus. miseritumst. 
 Virgo ipsa facie egregia. quid uerbis opust ? 
 Commorat omnia noa. ibi continuo Antipho, 
 ' Voltisii<; eamoi nisera ?' alius 'censeo: 
 ESamus: due aoe lodei.' imus, aenimaR, 
 Videmiu: uirgo pulclira: ct quo magis diccres, 
 Nil aderat adjumenti ad pulchritudinem : 
 Capillus passus, nudus pes, ipsa horrida, 
 Lacruinie, ucstitus turpis : ut, ni uis boni 
 In ipsa inesset forma, bsBG forinam extjngnarent. 
 Die 'jui illam amabat fididnain tantuminodo 
 
 E S 
 
 6(
 
 202 PHOIIMIO. 
 
 ' Satis' inquit 'scitast:' noster uero .... Da. Jain scio : ( * 
 
 Amare ccepit. Ge. Scin quam ? quo euadat uide. 
 
 Postridie ad anum recta pergit : obsecrat, 
 
 Ut sibi ejus faciat copiam. ilia enim se negat 
 
 Neque eum aequom ait facere: illam ciuem esse Atticam 
 
 Bonam bonis prognatam : si uxorem uelit 
 
 Lege id licere facere : sin abter, negat. 
 
 Noster quid ageret nescire : et illam ducere 
 
 Cupiebat et nietuebat absenteni patrem. 
 
 Da. Non, si redisset, ei pater ueniam daret ? 
 
 Ge. Ille indotatam uirginem atque ignobilem 
 Daret illi ? numquam faceret. Da. Quid fit denique ? 
 
 Ge. Quid fiat ? est parasitus quidam Phormio, 
 Homo confidens : qui ilium di omnes perduiut. 
 
 Da. Quid is fecit ? Ge. Hoc consilium quod dicam dedit : 
 ' Lex est ut orbse, qui sunt genere proxumi, 
 Eis nubant, et illos ducere eadem haec lex jubet. 
 Ego te cognatum dicam et tibi scribam dicam: 
 Paternum amicum me adsimulabo uirginis : 
 Ad judices ueniemus : qui fuerit pater, 
 Quae mater, qui cognata tibi sit, omnia haec 
 Confingam, quod erit mibi bouum atque commodum. 
 Quom tu homm nil refelles, uincam scilicet. 
 Pater aderit. mibi paratae lites : quid mea 1 
 Ilia quidem nostra erit.' Da. Jocularem audaciam. 
 
 Ge. Persuasumst homini : factumst : uentumst : uincimur : " 
 Duxit. Da. Quid narras 1 Ge. Hoc quod audis. Da. U 
 
 Geta, 
 Quid te futurumst 1 Ge. Nescio hercle : unum hoc scio, 
 Quod fons feret, feremus aequo animo. Da. Placet : 
 Hem istuc uirist officium. Ge. Iu me omnia spes mibist. 
 
 Da. Laudo. Ge. Ad precatorem adeam credo, qui mibi
 
 PHORMIO. 20 -'3 
 
 Sic oret : ' nunc aniitte quseso hunc : ceterum 
 Posthac si quicquam, nil precor.' tantummodo 
 Non addit : ' ubi ego bine abiero, uel occidito.' 
 
 Da. Quid paedagogus ille, qui citbaristriain ? 
 Quid rei gerit ? Ge. Sic, tenuiter. Da. Non niultum babet s 
 Quod det fortasse ? Ge. Imnio nil nisi spent meram. 
 
 Da. Pater ejus rediit an non ? Ge. Nondum. Da. Quid ? 
 8enem 
 Quoad expectatis uostrum ? Ge. Non certum scio : 
 Sed epistolam ab eo adlatam esse audiui modo 
 Et ad portitores esse delatain : banc petam. 
 
 Da. Numquid, Geta, abud me uis ? Ge. Ut bene sit tibi. 
 Puer, heus. neinon buc prodit 1 cape, da hoc Dorcio. 
 
 ACT. I.— Scen. 3. 
 
 ANTIPHO. PHJEDR1A. 
 
 An. Adeon rem redisse, ut qui inihi consultum optume uelit 
 esse, 
 Phaedria, patrem ut extimescam, ubi in mentem ejus aduenti 
 
 ueDit ? 
 Quod ni fuissem incogitans, ita eum expectarem, ut par fuit. 
 I'u. Quid istuc est I An. Rogitas ? qui tarn audacis facinoris 
 mibi conscius sis ? 
 Quod utinam ne Phormioni id suadere in meutem incidisset, 
 Ntu me cupidum eo inpulisset, quod niihi prinoipiumBt mali ! 
 Non potitus essem : fuisset turn illos mi a:gre aliquot dies': 
 At non cotiiliaua cura hajc angeret animum . . . Pa. Audi>>. 
 An. Dum expecto quam mox ueniat qui banc inihi adimat 
 conauetudincm.
 
 204 piioitMio. 
 
 Ph. Aliis quia dent quod amant segrest : tibi quia superest 
 dolet. &\ 1 i 10 
 
 Amore abundas, Antipho. 
 
 Nam tua quidem hercle certo uita haec expetenda optandaquest. 
 Ita me di bene anient, ut mini liceat tarn diu quod amo frui, 
 •lam depecisci inorte cupio ; tu conjicito cetera, 
 Quid ego ex hac iuopia nunc capiam, et quid tu ex istac copia, " 
 Ut ne addam, quod sine sumptu ingenuam, liberalem nactus es, 
 Quod habes, ita ut uoluisti, uxorem sine mala fama palam : 
 Beatus, ni unum desit, animus qui modeste istsec ferat. 
 Quod si tibi res sit cum eo lenone quocum mihist, turn sentias. 
 Ita plerique omnes sumus ingenio, nostri nosmet ptenitet. -° 
 
 An. At tu mibi contra nunc uidere fortunatus, Phtedria, 
 Quoi de integro est potestas etiam cousulendi, quid uelis : 
 Ketinere amorem an mittere : ego in eum incidi infelix locum, 
 Ut neque inihi ejus sit mittendi nee retinendi copia. 
 Sed quid hoc est? uideon ego Getam currentem hue aduenire? '•' 
 Is est ipsus : hei, timeo miser, quam hie nunc mihi nuntiet rem. 
 
 ACT. I.— -Scen. 4. 
 
 GETA. ANTIPHO. PH^EDRIA. 
 
 Ge. Nullu's, Geta, ni jam aliquod tibi consilium celere rep- 
 peris: 
 Ita nunc inparatum subito tanta te inpendent mala : 
 Qme neque uti deuitem scio neque quomodo me inde extraham : 
 Nam non potest celari nostra diutius jam audacia. 
 An. Quidnam ille commotus uenit ? 
 
 Ge. Turn temporis mihi punctum ad hauc rem est : hems 
 adest. An. Quid istuc malist ?
 
 hioumio. 205 
 
 Ge. Quod quom audierit, quod ejus reinediuni inueniaui ira- 
 cundiae ? 
 Loquar ? incendam : taceam ? instigeru : purgem me ? laterem 
 
 laueru. 
 Heu me miserum : quom mihi paueo, turn Antipho me excruciat 
 
 auimi: 
 Ejus me miseret, ei nunc timeo, is nunc me retinet: nam absque 
 eo esset, 10 
 
 Kecte ego mihi uidissem et senis essem ultus iracundiam : 
 Aliquid conuasassem atque bine me conjicerem protinam in 
 pedes. 
 Ay. Quani hie fugam aut furtum parat ? 
 Ge. Sed ubi Antipbonem reperiam ? aut qua quaerere insistam 
 
 uia ? 
 Ph. Te nominat. An. Nescio quod magnum boc nuntio ex- 
 pecto malum. lo 
 
 Ph. Ab, sanun es ? Ge. Domum ire pergam : ibi pluri- 
 
 niumst. 
 Ph. Reuocemus hominem. An. Sta Uico. Ge. Hem, 
 Satis pro inperio, quisquis es. An. Geta. Ge. Ipsest quern 
 uolui obuiam. 
 An. Cedo quid portas, obsecro, atque id, si potes, uerbo ex- 
 
 pedi 
 Ge. Faciam. An. Eloquere. Ge. Modo apud portum — An. \ 
 
 Meumne ? Ge. Intellexti. An. Occidi. Pu. Hem. -" 
 An. Quid agam ? Ph. Quid aifl ? Ge. Hujus patrom uidisse 
 
 me, patruoin tuom 
 \<. Nam quod ego buic nunc subito exitio remedium in- 
 veniam miser ? 
 '^'""1 si eo mere fortuna} rcdeunt, Phanium, abs te ut distrahar, 
 Nnllast mihi uita expetenda. Ge. Ergo istacc quom ita »int, 
 Antipho,
 
 -00 FHORMIO. 
 
 'J 'an to magis to aduigilare toquomst : fortis fortuna adjuuat. " 
 An. Non sum apml me. Ge. ACqui opus est mine quoin 
 maxuine ut sis, Antipho : 
 Nam si senscrit te timid urn pater esse, arbitrabitur 
 Commeruisse culj)am. Ph. Hoc uerumst. An. Non possum 
 inmutarier. 
 Ge. Quid faceres, si aliud quid grauius tibi nunc faciundum 
 
 foret? 
 An. Quom hoc non possum, illud minus possem. Ge. Hoc 
 nil est, Phsedria : flicet. : "' 
 
 Quid hie conterimus operam frustra ? quin abeo 1 Ph. Et 
 
 quidem ego ? An. Obsccro, 
 Quid si adsimulo, satin est ? Ge. Garris. An. Voltum con- 
 
 templamini : hem, 
 Satine sic est? Ge. Non. An. Quid si sic ? Ge. Propemo- 
 
 dum. An. Quid sic 1 Ge. Sat est : 
 Hem, istuc serua : et uerbum uerbo, par pari ut respondeas, 
 Ne te iratus suis sasuidicis dictis protelet . An. Scio. 
 
 Ge. Vi coactum te esse inuitum, lege, judicio : tenes ? 
 1 Sed quis hie est senex, quern uideo in ultima platea 1 An. Ip- 
 
 sus est. 
 Non possum adesse. Ge. Ah quid agis ? quo abis, Antipho 1 
 Mane, mane inquam. An. Ego me noui et peccatum meum : 
 Vobis commendo Phanium et uitam meam. 
 
 Ph. Geta, quid nunc net ? Ge. Tu jam Litis audies : 
 Ego plectar pendens, nisi quid me fefellerit. 
 Sed quod modo hie nos Antiphonem monuimus, 
 Id nosmet ipsos facere oportet, Phredria. 
 
 Ph. Aufer mi 'oportet' : quin tu quid faciam inpera. 
 Ge. Meministin, olim ut fuerit uostra oratio 
 In re incipiunda ad defendendam noxiam, 
 Justam iilam causam, facilem, uincibilem, optumam ?
 
 PHORMIO. 
 
 •207 
 
 Ph. Memini. Ge. Hem, nunc ipsast opus ea, aut, siquid 
 potest, 
 Meliore et callidiore. Ph. Fiet sedulo. 
 
 Ge. Nunc prior adito tu, ego in subsidiis hie ero 
 Subcenturiatus, si'piid Juficias. Ph. Ago.
 
 208 PJIORMIO. 
 
 ACTVS II.— Scen. 1. 
 
 DEMIPHO. OETA. PH^DRIA. 
 
 De. Itano tandem uxorem duxit Antipho injussu meo ? 
 Nee meuru inperium, ac niitto inperium, lion sinmltatem 
 
 meam 
 lleuereri saltern ! non pudere ! o facinus audax, o Geta 
 Monitor ! Ge. Vix tandem. De. Quid niihi dicent aut quam 
 
 causam reperient ? 
 Demiror. Ge. Atqui repperi jam : aliud cura. De. An hoc 
 
 dicet niihi : 
 ' Inuitus feci, lex coegit ' ? audio, fateor. Ge. Places. 
 
 De. Verum scientem, taciturn, causam tradere aduorsariis, 
 Etiamne id lex coegit ? Ph. Illud duram. Ge. Ego expe- 
 
 diam : sine. 
 De. Incertumst quid agam, quia prseter spem atque incredi- 
 
 bile hoc mi obtigit : 
 Ita sum inritatus, animum ut nequeam ad cogitandum insti- 
 
 tuere. ,0 
 
 Quamobrem omnis, quom secundaB res sunt maxume, turn 
 
 maxume 
 Meditari secum oportet, quo pacto aduorsam serumnam ferant. 
 Pericla, damna peregre rediens semper secum cogitet 
 A ut fili peccatum aut uxoris mortem aut morbum filife, 
 Communia esse hfec, nequid horum umquam accidat animo 
 
 uouom : 15 
 
 Qilidquid prater spem eueniat, omne id deputare esse in lncro.
 
 pnoiiMio. 209 
 
 Ge. Phaedria, incredibilest quantum herum ante eo sapi- 
 
 C / 
 entia. 
 
 Meditata mihi sunt omnia mea incommoda, herus si redierit : 
 
 Molendumst in pistrino, uapulandum, habendae compedes, 
 
 Opus ruri faciundum : horum nil quicquam accidet animo 
 
 20 
 
 nouom. 
 Quidquid praeter spem eueniet, omne id deputabo esse in lucre 
 Sed quid cessas hominem adire, et blande in principio adloqui ? 
 
 De. Phaedriam mei fratris uideo filium mi ire obuiam. 
 
 Ph. Mi patrue, salue. De. Salue : sed ubist Antipbo ? 
 
 Ph. Saluom uenire. De. Credo : hoc responde mihi. 
 
 Ph. Valet, hie est :Psed satin omnia ex sententiaj ; 
 
 De. Vellem quidem. Ph. Quid istuc est ? De. Rogitas, 
 Phaedria 1 
 Bonas me absente hie confecistis nuptias. 
 
 Ph. Eho, an id succenses nunc illi ? Ge. O artificem pro- 
 bum ! 
 
 De. Egon illi non succenseam ? ipsum gestio 
 Dari mi in conspectum, nunc sua culpa ut sciat 
 Lenem patrem ilium factum me esse acerrumum. 
 
 Ph. Atqui nil fecit, patrue, quod succenseas. 
 
 De. Ecce autem similia omnia : omnes congruont : 
 r— 
 I Hum cognoris, omnis noris. Ph. Haud itast. 36 
 
 Dhl Hie in noxiast, ille ad dicendam causam adest : 
 Quoin illust, hie praestost : tradunt operas mutuas. 
 
 <'-e. Probe horum facta inprudeiis depinxit senex. 
 
 De. Nam ni hoec ita essent, cum illo haud stares, Phtedria. 
 
 I'u. Si est, patrue, culpam ut Antipho in se admiserit, 
 Ex qua re minus rei foret aut fain* temperans, 
 Nfon causam dioo quin quod meritus sit ferat. 
 Sed siqui.H forte m.alitia fretus Blia 
 Iiup lias nostroe fucit ailuloscontiie
 
 210 PHORMIO. 
 
 Ac uieit, nostran ea culpast an judicum, u 
 
 Qui sjepe propter imiidiarn adimunt diuiti 
 Aut propter niisericordiarn add unt pauperi ? 
 
 Ge. Ni nossem causam, crederein uera hunc loqui. 
 
 De. An quisquam judex est, qui possit noscere 
 Tua justa, ubi tute uerbum non respoudeas, M 
 
 Ita ut ille fecit ? Ph. Functus adulescentulist 
 Officium liberalis : postquam ad judices 
 Ventumst, non potuit cogitata proloqui : 
 Ita eum turn tirnidum illic obstupefecit pudor. 
 
 Ge. Laudo hunc : sed cesso adire quam primum senem ? 5S 
 Here, salue : saluom te aduenisse gaudeo. De. Oh, 
 Bone custos, salue, columen uero familiae, 
 Quoi comrnendaui filium hinc abions meum. 
 
 Ge. Janadudum te omnis nos accusare audio 
 lnmerito, et me horunc omnium inmeritissumo : 
 Nam quid me in hac re facere uoluisti tibi ? 
 Seruom hominem causam orare leges non sinunt, 
 Neque testimoni dictio est. De. Mitto omnia. 
 Do istuc ' inprudens timuit adulescens ' : sino 
 ' Tu seruo's' : uerum si cognatast maxume, 65 
 
 Non fuit necesse habere : sed id quod lex jubet, 
 Dotem daretis ; qucereret alium uirum. 
 Qua ratione inopem potius ducebat domum 1 
 
 Ge. Non ratio, uerum argentum deerat. De. Sumeret 
 Alicunde. Ge. Alicunde 1 nil est dictu facilius. 
 
 De. Postremo si nullo alio pacto, fVenore. 
 
 Ge. Hui, dixti pulchre : siquidem quisquam crederet 
 Te uiuo. De. Non, non sic futurumst : non potest. 
 Egon illam cum illo ut patiar nuptam uimm diem ? 
 Nil suaue meritumst. hominem commonstrarier 7% 
 
 Mi istum uolo aut ubi habitet demonstrarier.
 
 PHORMIO. 211 
 
 Ge. Nempe Phorniionem 1 De. Istum patronum niuheris. 
 
 Ge. Jam faxo hie aderit. De. Antipho ubi nunc est 1 Ge. 
 Foris. 
 
 De. Abi, Phaedria, eum require atque adduce hue. Ph. Eo : 
 Recta uia quidem illuc. Ge. Nempe ad Pamphilam. 
 
 De. At ego deos penatis hinc salutatum domuin 
 Deuortar : inde ibo ad forum, atque abquot mihi 
 Amicos aduocabo, ad hauc rem qui adsient, 
 Ut lie inparatus sim, si adueniat Phormio. 
 
 «Q 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 2. 
 
 PHORMIO. GETA. 
 
 Ph. Itane patris ais conspectum ueritum hinc abiisse 1 G e. 
 
 Admodum. 
 Ph. Phanium relictam solam ? Ge. Sic. Ph. Et iratum 
 
 senem ? 
 Ge. Oppido. Ph. Ad te summa solum, Phormio, reruni 
 
 redit : 
 Tute hoc intristi : tibi omnest exedendum : adcingere. 
 
 Ge. Obsecro te. Ph. Sirogabit. . . Ge. In te spes est. Ph. 
 
 Eccere, 
 Quid si reddet ? Ge. Tu inpulisti. Ph. Sic opinor. Ga 
 
 Subutjiu. 
 Ph. Cedo senem : jam instrueta sunt mi in corde cousilia 
 
 omnia. 
 Ge. Quid ages? Ph. Quid uis, nisi uti maneat Phaniiuu 
 
 atque ex crimine hoc 
 Antiphonem eripiam atque ui me omnem irain deriuem senifi ? 
 (/E. O uir fortia atque amicu's. uerum hoc snupc, Phorinio, "
 
 212 riioii.Mio. 
 
 Vereor, ne istaec fortitiulo in neruom erumpat denique. Ph. 
 Ah, 
 
 Non itast : factumst periclura, jam pedum uisast uia. 
 Quot me censes homines jam deuerberasse usque ad necem, 
 Hospites, turn ciuis ? quo magis noui, tanto ssepius. 
 Cedodum, en umquam injuriarum audisti mini scriptam 
 dicam ? I5 
 
 Ge. Qui istuc ? Qh. Quia non rete accipitri tenditur neque 
 miluo, 
 Qui male faciunt nobis : ilbs qui nil faciunt tenditur, 
 Quia enim in illis fructus est, in illis opera luditur. 
 Aliis aliundest periclum, unde aliquid abradi potest : 
 Mihi sciunt nil esse, dices ' ducent damnatum domum ' : -° 
 
 Alere nolunt hominem edacem, et sapiunt mea sententia, 
 Pro maleficio si beneficium summum nolunt reddere. 
 
 Ge. Non pote satis pro merito ab illo tibi referri gratia. 
 
 Ph. Immo enim nemo satis pro merito gratiam regi refert. 
 Tene asymbolum uenire unctum atque lautum e balneis, 
 Otiosum ab ammo, quom ille et cura et sumptu absumitur ! 
 Dum tibi fit quod placeat, ille ringitur : tu rideas, 
 Prior bibas, prior decumbas : cena dubia adponitur. 
 
 Ge. Quid istuc uerbist ? Ph. Ubi tu dubites quid sumas 
 potissumum. 
 Hrec quom rationem ineas quam sint suauia et quam cara 
 Bint, M 
 
 Ea qui prrebet, non tu hunc habeas plane pneaentem deum ? 
 
 Ge. Senex adest : uide quid agas : prima coitiost acerruma : 
 Si earn sustinueris, postilla jam, ut lubet, ludas licet.
 
 PUORM10. 213 
 
 ACT. II.— Scen. 3. 
 
 DEMIPHO (CVM ADVOCATIS). GETA. PHORMIO. 
 
 De. En umquam quoiquam contumeliosius 
 Audistis factarn injuriam quam hoec est mihi ? 
 Adeste quEeso. Ge. Iratus est. Ph. Quin tu hoc ages ? 
 Jam ego hunc agitabo. pro deum inmortalium, 
 Negat Phanium esse hanc sibi cognatam Demipho ? * 
 
 Hanc Demipho negat esse cognatam ? Ge. Negat. 
 De. Ipsum esse opinor de quo agebam. sequimini. 
 Ph. Neque ejus patrem se scire qui fuerit ? Ge. Negat. 
 Ph. Nee Stilpouem ipsum scire qui fuerit ? Ge. Negat. 
 Ph. Quia egens relictast misera, ignoratur parens, 
 Negligitur ipsa : uide auaritia quid facit. 
 
 Ge. Si herum insimulabis malitiie, male audies. 
 De. O audaciam, etiam me ultro accusatum aduenit. 
 Ph. Nam jam adulescenti nil est quod succenseam, 
 Si ilium minus norat : quippe homo jam grandior, 
 Pauper, quoi opera uita erat, ruri fere 
 Se continebat : ibi agrum de nostro patre 
 Colendum habebat : sjepe interea mihi senex 
 Narrabat se hunc neglegere cognat\im suom : 
 At ijuem uirum ! quern ego uiderim in uita optumum. iU 
 
 Ge. Videas, te atque ilium ut narr.os. Ph. I in malam 
 cracem. 
 Nam ni ita euui existuniassem, numquam tarn grauis 
 Ml) hanc iniinicitias caperem in uostram familiam, 
 Quam is aspernatur nunc tarn inliberaliter. 
 
 ('•v.. Pergin hero absenti male loqui, iiqmrissume ? 
 I'ii. Dignu m autem hoc illost. Ge. Ain tandem career? 
 De. Geta.
 
 214 PHORMIO. 
 
 Ge. Bonorum extortor, legum contortor. De. Geta. 
 
 Pji. Responde. Ge. Quis homost ? ehern. De. Tace. Ge. 
 Absenti tibi 
 Te indignas seque diguas contumelies 
 
 Nuuquani cessauit dicere. De. Ohe dosine. i0 
 
 Adidescens, primum abs te hoc bona uenia peto, 
 Si tibi placere potis est, mi ut respond eas : 
 Quern amicum tuom ais fuisse istum, explana mihi, 
 Et qui cognatum me sibi esse diceret. 
 
 Ph. Proinde expiscare quasi non nosses. De. Nosscm ? 
 Ph. Ita. 8i 
 
 De. Ego me nego : tu qui ais redige in memoriam. 
 
 Ph. Eho tu, sobrinum tuom non noras ? De. Enicas. 
 Die nomen. Ph. Nomen ? maxume. De. Quid nunc taces ? 
 
 Ph. Perii hercle, nomen perdidi. De. Hem, quid ais 1 Pn . 
 Geta, 
 Si meministi id quod olim dictumst, subjice. hem, w 
 
 Non dico : quasi non noris, "temptatum aduenis. 
 
 De. Egone autem tempto ? Ge. Stilpo. Ph. Atque adeo 
 quid mea ? 
 Stilpost. De. Quern dixti ? Ph. Stilponem inquam noueras. 
 
 De. Neque ego ilium noram neque mi cognatus fuit 
 Quisquam istoc nomine. Ph. Itane ? non te horum pudet ? u 
 At si talentum rem reliquisset decern 
 
 De. Di tibi male faciant. Ph. Primus esses memoriter 
 Progeniem uostram usque ab auo atque atauo proferens. 
 
 De. Ita ut dicis. ego turn quom aduenissem, qui mihi 
 Cognata ea esset, dicerem : itidem tu face : 
 Cedo qui est cognata ? Ge. Eu noster, recte : heus tu, caue. 
 
 Ph. Dilucide expediui quibus me oportuit 
 Judicibus : turn id si falsum fuerat, filius 
 Quor non refellit ? De. Filium narras mihi,
 
 PIIORMIO. 215 
 
 Quoius de stultitia dici ut dignurnst non potest 1 
 
 Ph. At tu qui sapiens es, magistratus adi, 
 Judicium de ea causa alteram ut reddant tibi : 
 Quandoquidem solus regnas, et soli licet 
 Hie de eadem causa bis judicium adipiscier. 
 
 De. Etsi mihi facta injuriast, uerumtamen i0 
 
 Potius quam Utis secter aut quam te audiam, 
 Itidem ut cognata si sit, id quod lex jubet 
 Dotem dare, abduce banc, miuas quinque accipe. 
 
 Ph. Ha ha hae, bomo suauis. De. Quid est ? nuru iniquom 
 postulo ? 
 An ne hoc quidem ego adipiscar, quod jus publicumst ? 
 
 Ph. Itan tandem quaeso, item, ut meretricem, ubi abusus sis, 
 Mercedem dare lex jubet ei atque amittere 1 
 An, ut nequid turpe ciuis in se admitteret 
 Propter egestatem, proxumo jussast dari, 
 Ut cum uno ajtatem degeret ? quod tu uetas. 70 
 
 De. Ita, proxumo quidem : at ftos unde ? aut quamobrem — 
 Ph. Obe, 
 Actum' aiunt 'ne agas.' De. Non agam ? immo baud de- 
 sinam, 
 Donee perfecero hoc. Ph. Ineptis. De. Sine modo. 
 
 Ph. Postremo tecum nil rei nobis, Demipho, est : 
 Titos est damnatus gnatus, non tu : nam tua 7S 
 
 Pnetcrierat jam ad ducendum {etas. De. Omnia haec 
 Ilium putato, quie ego nunc dico, dicere : 
 Aut quidem cum uxore bac ipsum prohibebo domo. 
 
 Ge. Iratus est. Ph. Tuto idem melius feceris. 
 
 Da Itane es paratus facere me aduorsum omnia, 
 lufclix ! Ph. Metuit bic nos, tametsi sodulo 
 I 1 imulat. CJe. Dene babent tibi pi iucipia. Pu. Quin quod 
 
 OHt
 
 216 HIOIiMIO. 
 
 Fcrundum fers ? tuis dignum factis feceris, 
 
 Ut amici inter nos shims. De. Egon tuani expetam 
 
 Amicitiani 1 aut te uisum aut auditutn uelim ? * 
 
 Ph. Si concordabis cum ilia, habebis qu88 tuam 
 Senectutein oblectet : respice aetatem tuam. 
 
 De. Te oblectet : tibi habe. Ph. Minue uero iram. Dk. 
 Hoc age. 
 Satis jam uerborumst : uisi tu properas mulierem 
 Abducere, ego illam ejiciam : dixi, Phormio. 
 
 Ph. Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignumst liheram, 
 Dicam tibi inpiugam grandem : dixi, Demipho. 
 Siquid opus fuerit, heus, domo me. Ge. Intellego. 
 
 ACT. II.— Sc:en. 4. 
 
 DEMIPHO. GETA. HJEGIO. CKATINVS. CRITO. 
 
 De. Quanta me cura et sollicitudine adficit 
 Gnatus, qui me et se hisce inpediuit nuptiis ! 
 Neque mi in conspectum prodit, ut saltern sciam, 
 Quid de hac re dicat quidue sit sententia?. 
 Abi, uise redieritne jam an uondum domum. 
 
 Ge. Eo. De. Videtis quo in loco res h;ec siet : 
 Quid ago ? die, Hegio. He. Ego ? Cratiuum censeo, 
 Si tibi uidetur. De. Die, Cratine. Cra. Mene uis ? 
 
 De. Te. Cra. Ego qure in rem tuam sint, ea uelim facias : 
 mihi 
 Sic hoc uidetur : quod te absente hie filius 
 Egit, restitui in integrum fequomst et bonum : 
 Et id inpetrabis. dixi. De. Die nunc, Hegio. 
 
 He. Ego sedulo hunc dixisse credo : uerum itaat.
 
 PHORMIO. 217 
 
 Quot homines, tot sententise : suos quoique mos. 
 
 Mini ijoii uidetur quod sit factum legibus 15 
 
 Rescindi posse : et turpe inceptust. De. Die, Crito. 
 
 Cri. Ego amplius deliberandum censeo : 
 Res magnast. He. Numquid nos uis ? De. Fecistis probe : 
 Incertior sum multo quam dudum. Ge. Negant 
 Redisse. De. Frater est expectandus mini : "^ 
 
 Is quod mihi dederit de hac re consilium, id sequar. 
 Percontatum ibo ad portum, quoad se recipiat. 
 
 Ge. At ego Antiphonem quseram, ut quse acta hie sint sciat. 
 Sed eccuni ipsum uideo in tempore hue se recipere.
 
 21* THORMIO. 
 
 ACTVS III.— Scen. 1. 
 
 ANTIPHO. ORTA. 
 
 An Eniinuero, Aritipho, inultiinodis cum istoc animo es 
 uituperandus : 
 Itane te hinc abisse, et iiitam tuam tutandam aliis dedisse ! 
 Alios tuam rem credidisti magis quam tete animum aduorsurofi ? 
 Nam ut ut crant alia, illi certe quae nunc tibi domist con- 
 
 suleres, 
 Nequid propter tuam fidem decepta poteretur mali : 
 Quoius nunc miserse spes opesque sunt in te uno omnes sitae. 
 Ge. Et quidem, here, nos jamdudum hie te absentem incu- 
 
 samus, qui abieris. 
 An. Te ipsum quserebam. Ge. Sed ea causa nihilo magis 
 
 defecimus. 
 
 An. Loquere, obsccro, quonam in loco sunt res et fortuiire 
 
 meae : 
 
 Nuinquid subolet patri ? Ge. Nil etiam. An. Ecquid spei 
 
 porrost ? Ge. Nescio. An. Ah. lu 
 
 Ge. Nisi Phajdria haud cessauit pro te eniti. An. Nil fecit 
 
 noui. 
 Ge. Turn Phormio itidem in hac re, ut in aliis, strenuom, 
 
 hominem prajbuit. 
 An. Quid is fecit ? Ge. Confutauit uorbis admodum iratum 
 
 senem. 
 An. En, Phormio. Ge. Ego quod potui porro. An. Mi 
 Geta, omnis uos amo.
 
 PHOEMIO. 219 
 
 Ge. Sic habent principia sese ut dico : adhuc tranquilla res 
 est, 
 Mansurusque j)atruoni pater est, dum hue adueniat. Ax. Quid 
 
 euni ? Ge. Ut aibat 
 De ejus consilio sese uelle facere quod ad hanc rem attinet. 
 Ax. Quantus ruetust niihi, venire hue saluoin nunc patruom, 
 Geta! 
 Nam ejus per unam, ut audio, aut uiuam aut moriar sententiam. 
 Ge. Phaedria tibi adest. Ax. Ubinam ? Ge. Eccum ab 
 sua palaestra exit foras. -° 
 
 ACT. III.— Scex. 2. 
 
 PHJSDRIA. DOEIO. AXTIPHC. GETA. 
 
 Ph. Dorio, audi 
 
 Obsecro. Do. Non audio. Pu. Parumpcr. Do. Quiu omitte 
 
 me. 
 Ph. Audi quod dicam. Do. Atenim taedet jam audire eadeui 
 
 iniliens. 
 Ph. At nunc dicam quod lubenter audias. Do. Loquere, 
 
 audio. 
 Ph. Nequeo te exorare ut maueas triduom boc 1 quo nunc 
 
 abis? 
 Do. Mirabar si tu mihi quicquam adferres noui. Ax. Hei, J 
 Metoo lenouem nequid . . . Ge. Suo suat capiti / idem ego metuo. 
 Pu. Nondum mihi credis 1 Do. Hariolare, Ph. Sin fidem 
 
 do? Do. Fabuhe. 
 I'm. Freneratuin istuc beneficium pulcbre tibi dices. Do. Logj 
 I'h. Crode mihi, gaudebia facto : uurum hercle hoc est. 
 
 Do. S. .in ii in. 
 
 i. 2
 
 SJjJO PHORMIO. 
 
 I'm. Ezperire : non est longuin. Do. Cantilenam eandem 
 
 10 
 
 cams. 
 
 Ph. Tu coguatus, tu parens, tu amicus, tu . . . . Do. Gam 
 
 modo. 
 Ph. Adeon ingenio esse duro te atque inexorabili, 
 TJt neque misericordia neque precibus molliri queas ! 
 
 Do. Adeon te esse incogitantem atque inpudentem, Phaedi i;i, 
 Ut phaleratis dictis ducas me et mcam ductes gratiis ! 
 
 An. Miseritumst. Ph. Hei, ueris uincor. Gu. Quam uter- 
 
 quest similis sui. 
 Ph. Neque, Antipho alia quom occupatus esset sollicitudine, 
 Turn hoc esse mi objectum malum ! An. Ah, quid istuo 
 autemst, Phsedria ? 
 Ph. fortunatissume Antipho. An. Egone ? Ph. Quoi 
 quod amas domist : 
 Nee cum hujusmodi umquam usus uenit ut conflictares malo. * 
 An. Mihin domist ? immo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo 
 lupum. 
 Nam neque quo pacto a me amittam, neque uti retineam, scio. 
 Do. Ipsum istuc mi in hoc est. An. Heja, lie parum leno 
 sies. 
 Numquidhic confecit ? Ph. Hicine ? quod homo inhumanis- 
 
 sumus : 
 Pamphilam meam uendidit. Ge. Quid ? uendidit ? An. Ain i 
 uendidit ? 
 Ph. Vendidit. Do. Quam indignum facinus, ancillam sere 
 
 emptam meo ! 
 Pir. Nequeo exorare ut me maneat, et cum illo ut mutet 
 Mem 
 Triduom hoc, dum id quod est promissum ab amicis argentum 
 
 aufero : 
 Si non turn dudero, unam prsaterea horam ne oppertus sies.
 
 PUOKM10. 221 
 
 Do. Obtundis. Ax. Hand longuinst id quod orat, Dorio : 
 exoi-et sine : 
 Idem hie tibi, quod boni promeritus fueris, condupUcauerit. 
 Do. Verba istaec sunt. An. Paniphilanine hac urbe priuari 
 sines ? 
 Turn praeterea borunc amorem distrabi poterin pati ? 
 
 Do. Neque ego neque tu. Ge. Di tibi onines id quod es 
 
 dignus duint. 
 Do. Ego te compluris aduorsum ingenium meum mensis tuli, 3S 
 Pollicitantem et nil ferentem, flentem : nunc contra omnia hoec 
 Repperi qui det neque lacrumet : da locum melioribus. 
 
 An\ Certe bercle, ego si satis commemini, tibi quidemst olim 
 
 dies, 
 
 Quam ad dares buic, prsestituta. Ph. Factum. Do. Nuin 
 
 ego istuc nego ? 
 
 Ax. Jam ea pneteriit ? Do. Non, uerum hcec ei antecessit. 
 
 An. Non pudet 40 
 
 Vanitatis ? Do. Minume, dum ob rem. Ge. Sterculinium. 
 
 Ph. Dorio, 
 Jtane tandem facere oportet ? Do. Sic sum : si placeo, utere. 
 A .v. Sic bunc decipi ! Do. Immo enimuero, Antipho, bic 
 me decipit : 
 Nam bic me hujusmodi scibat esse : ego hunc esse aliter 
 
 credidi ; 
 I te me fefellit ; ego isti nibilo sum aliter ac fni. 
 Bed, ut ut hac .-mit, tamen hoc faciam : eras mane argentum 
 
 milii 
 Miles dare se dixit : ai mihi prior tu attuleris, Phoedria, 
 Ma lege utar, ut sit potior, qui prior ad dandumst, vale. 
 
 /
 
 222 PIIORMIO. 
 
 ACT. III.— Scen. 3. 
 
 PH.EDRIA. GETA. ANTIPHO. 
 
 Ph. Quid faciam ? unde ego nunc tam subito huic argentum 
 inueniam miser, 
 Qnoi minus nihilo est ? Quod si hie pote fuisset exorarier 
 Triduom hoc, promissum fuerat 1 An. Itane hunc patieinur, 
 
 Geta, 
 Fieri miserum, qui me dudum, ut dixti, adjuerit comiter ? 
 Quin, quom opus est, beneficium rursum ei experimur reddere ? i 
 Ge. Scio equidem hoc esse aequom. An. Age ergo, solus 
 
 seruare hunc potes. 
 Ge. Quid faciam ? An. Inuenias argentum. Ge. Cupio : 
 
 sed id unde, edoce. 
 An. Pater adest hie. Ge. Scio : sed quid turn ? An, Ah, 
 
 dictum sapienti sat est. 
 Ge. Itane ? An. Ita. Ge. Sane hercle pulchre suades : 
 etiam tu hinc abis ? 
 Non triumpho, ex nuptiis tuis si nil nanciscor mali, 
 Ni etiam nunc me hujus causa quserere in malo jubeas crucem ? 
 An. Verum hie dicit. Ph. Quid? ego uobis, Geta, alienus 
 siim ? Ge. Haud puto : 
 Sed parumne est, quod omnibus nunc nobis succenset senex, 
 Xi instigemus etiam, ut nullus locus relinquatur preci ? 
 
 Ph. Alius ab oculis meis illam in ignotum abducet locum I 
 
 hem : '* 
 
 Turn igitur, dum licet dumquo adsum, loquimini mecum, 
 
 Antipho, 
 C'mtemplamini me. An. Quamobrem? aut quidnam facturu's, 
 cedo? 
 Ph. Quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, certumst persequi
 
 PBORMIO. 223 
 
 Aut perire. Ge. Di bene uortant quod agas : pedetemptim 
 tamen. 
 An. Vide siquid opis potes adferre huic. Ge. ' Siquid ? ' 
 quid ? An. Quaere obsecro : -° 
 
 Nequid plus minusue faxit, quod nos post pigeat, Geta. 
 
 Ge. Quaero. An. Saluos est, ut opinor. Ge. Verum enim 
 
 metuo malum. 
 An. Noli metuere : una tecum bona mala tolerabimus. 
 Ge. Quantum opus est tibi argenti, loquere. Ph. Solse 
 
 triginta minse. 
 Ge. Triginta ? hui, percarast, Phsedria. Ph. Istaec uero 
 uilis est. ss 
 
 Ge. Age age, inuentas reddam. Ph. O lepidum. Ge Aufer 
 te hinc. Ph. Jam opust. Ge. Jam feres : 
 Sed opus est mini Phormionem ad hanc rem adjutorem dari. 
 
 An. Praestost : audacissume oneris quiduis inpone, et feret : 
 
 Solus est homo amico amicus. Ge. Eamus ergo ad eum ocius. 
 
 An. Numquid est quod opera mea uobis opus sit? Ge. Nil : 
 
 uerum abi domum, i0 
 
 Et illam miseram, quam ego nunc intus scio esse exanimatam 
 
 metu, 
 Consular^, cessas ? An. Nil est aeque quod faciam lubens. 
 Ph. Qua uia istuc facies ? Ge. Dicam in itinere : hinc modo 
 te amoue.
 
 2£ J- PIIORM10. 
 
 ACTVS IV.— Scen. 1. 
 
 DEM1PHO. CHREMES. 
 
 De. Quid ? qua profectii3 causa hinc es Leinnum, Chreme, 
 Adduxtin tecum filiam ? Ch. Non. De. Quid ita non i 
 
 Ch. Postquam uidet me ejus mater esse hie diutius, 
 Simul autem non manebat setas uirginis 
 Meam neglegentiam : ipsam cum omni familia 
 Ad me profectam esse aibant. De. Quid illic tamdiu, 
 Quajso, igitur commorabare, ubi id audiueras ? 
 
 Ch. Pol me detinuit morbus. De. Unde ? aut qui ? 
 Ch. Rogas ? 
 Senectus ipsast morbus, sed uenisse eas 
 Sahxas audiui ex nauta qui illas uexerat. I0 
 
 De. Quid gnato obtigerit me absente, audistin, Chreme ? 
 
 Ch. Quod quidem me factum consili incertum facit. 
 Nam hauc condicionem siquoi tulero extrario, 
 Quo pacto aut unde mihi sit dicundum ordinest. 
 Te mihi fidelem esse seque atque egomet sum mihi 
 Scibam : ille si me alienus adfinem uolet, 
 Tacebit, dum intercedet familiaritas : 
 Sin spreuerit me, plus quam opus est scito sciet, 
 Vereorque ne uxor aliqua hoc resciscat mea : 
 Quod si fit, ut me excutiam atque egrediar domo, 
 Id restat : nam ego meorum solus sum meus. 
 
 De. Scio ita esse : et istsec mihi res sollicitudiuist : 
 Neque defetiscar usque adeo experirier, 
 Donee tibi quod pollicitus sum id effecero.
 
 phoumio. 225 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 2. 
 
 GET*.. (DEMIPHO. CHREMES.) 
 
 Ego homineni callidiorem uidi neminem 
 
 Quam Phonnionem. uenio ad hominem, ut dicerem 
 
 Argentum opus esse, et id quo pacto fieret. 
 
 Vix dum dimidium dixeram, intellexerat : 
 
 Gaudebat : me laudabat : quserebat senem. 
 
 Dis gratias agebat, tempus sibi dari, 
 
 Ubi Phsedrise esse ostenderet nilo minus 
 
 Amicum sese quam Antiphoni. hominem ad forum 
 
 Ju.ssi opperiri : eo me esse adducturum senem. 
 
 Sed eccum ipsum. quis est ulterior? attat Phsedrise 
 
 Pater uenit. sed quid pertimui autem, bellua ? 
 
 An quia quos fallam pro uno duo sunt mihi dati ? 
 
 Commodius esse opinor duphci spe utier. [ 
 
 Petam hinc unde a primo institui : is si dat, sat est : 
 
 Si ab eo nil net, turn hunc adoriar hospitem. '* 
 
 iC 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 3. 
 
 ANTIPHO. GETA. CHREMES. DEMIPHO. 
 
 An. Expecto quam mox recipiat sese Geta. 
 Sed patruom uideo cum patre astantem. hei mihi, 
 Quam timeo, aduentus hujus quo inpellat patrem. 
 
 Ge. Adibo : o salue, noster Chreme. Ch. Salue, Geta. 
 
 Ge. Venire saluom uolup est. Ch. Credo. Ge. Quid 
 agitur ? * 
 
 Cu. Multa aduenienti, ut fit, aotia hie oomploiUL 
 
 i a
 
 2:20 PHOEMIO. 
 
 Ge. Ita. de Antiplione audistin quae facta ? Ch. Orunia. 
 
 Ge. Tun dixeras liuic ? facinus indignura, Chrenie, 
 Sic circumiri ! De. Id cum hoc agebarn coinmodum. 
 
 Ge. Nam hercle ego quoque id quidem agitans mecum 
 sedulo l0 
 
 Inueni, opinor, romedium huic rei. Ch. Quid, Geta ? 
 
 De. Quod remedium ? Ge. Ut abii abs te, fit forte obuiam 
 Milii Phormio. Ch. Qui Phormio? Ge. Is qui istam. Ch. Scio. 
 
 Ge. Visumst mi, ut ejus temptarem sententiam. 
 Prendo bomiuem solum : ' quor non ' inquam ' Phormio, li 
 
 Vides, inter nos sic haac potius cum bona 
 Ut componamus gratia quam cum mala ? 
 Herus liberalis est et fugitans litium : 
 Nam ceteri quidem hercle amici omnes modo 
 Uno ore auctores fuere, ut praecipitem hanc daret.' ■" 
 
 An. Quid hie cceptat aut quo euadet hodie? Ge. 'an legibus 
 Daturum poenas dices, si illam ejecerit ? 
 Jam id exploratumst : heja, sudabis satis, 
 Si cum illo inceptas homine : ea eloquentiast. 
 Verum pono esse uictum eum : at tandem tamen 2S 
 
 Non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae.' 
 Postquam hominem his uerbis sentio mollirier, 
 ' Soli sumus nunc hie ' inquam : ' eho, die quid uis dari 
 Tibi in manum, ut herus his desistat litibus, 
 Haec hinc facessat, tu molestus ne sies ? ' Su 
 
 An. Satin illi di sunt propith ? Ge. ' nam sat scio, 
 Si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris, 
 Ut est idle bonus uir, tria non commutabitis 
 Verba hodie inter uos.' De. Quis te Lstaec jussit loqui ? 
 
 Ch. Immo non potuit mehus peruenirier 
 Eo quo nos uolumus. An. Occidi. De. Perge eloqui 
 
 Ge. A primo homo insanibat. Ch. Cedo quid postulat 1
 
 VHuRMlO. 227 
 
 Ge. Quid ? nimium quantum libuit. Ch. Die. Ge. Siquis 
 daret 
 Talentum magnum. De. Immo malum hercle : ut nil pudet I 
 Ge. Quod dixi ei adeo : ' quaeso, quid si filiam 40 
 
 Suam unicam locaret ? parui retulit 
 Non suscepisse f inuentast quae dotem petat.' 
 Ad pauca ut redeam, ac mittam illius ineptias, 
 Haec denique ejus fuit postrema oratio : 
 
 ' Ego ' inquit ' a principio amici filiam, ** 
 
 Ita ut sequom fuerat, uolui uxorem ducere. 
 Nam mihi uenibat in mentem ejus incommodum, 
 In seruitutem pauperem ad ditem dari. 
 Sed mi opus erat, ut aperte tibi nunc fabuler, 
 Aliquantulum quae adferret, qui dissoluerem *° 
 
 Qute debeo : et etiam nunc, si uolt Demipho /l^y - 
 Dare quantum ab hac accipio, quae sponsast mihi, 
 Nullam mini mahm quam istanc uxorem dari.' 
 
 An. Utrum stultitia facere ego hunc an malitia 
 Dicam, scientem an inprudentem, incertus sum. ,0 
 
 De. Quid si animam debet 1 Ge. ' Ager oppositust pignori 
 Decern ob minas ' inquit. De. Age age, jam ducat : dabo. 
 
 Ge. '^diculae item sunt ob decern alias.' De. Oi! hui ! 
 Vimiumst. Ch. Ne clama : repetito hasce a me decern. 
 
 Ge. ' Uxori emunda ancillulast : turn pluscula *• 
 
 •itipellectile opus est : opus est sumptu ad nuptias : 
 His retnu ' inquit ' pone sane decern minas.' 
 
 De. Sexcentas firoindc scribito jam milii dicas : 
 Nil do : / inpuratus me ille ut etiam inrideat ? 
 
 Oh. Quaeso, ego dabo, quiesce : tu modo filius " 
 
 Fac ut illam ducat, nos quam uolumus. An. Hei mihi, 
 Geta, occidisti me tuis fallaciis. 
 
 ''it. Bfea oaaia 'jicitur: me hoc est BBqaom amittere.
 
 22S PHORMIO. 
 
 Ge. ' Quantum potest uie ccrtiorem ' inquit ' face, 
 Si illam dant, banc ut uiittam : ne incertus siem : 
 Nam illi inihi dotem jam con8tituerunt dare.' 
 
 Ch. Jam accipiat : illis repudium renuntiet : 
 Hanc ducat. De. Qiue quidem illi res uortat male. 
 
 Ch. Opportune adeo argentum nunc mecum attuli, 
 Fructum quern Lemni uxoris reddunt pnedia : 
 hide sumam : uxori tibi opus esse dixero. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 4. 
 
 ANTIPHO. GETA. 
 
 An. Ueta. Ge. Hem. Ax. Quid egisti ! Ge. Emuuxi 
 argento senes. 
 
 An. Satin est id ? Ge. Nescio hercle, tantum jussus sum. 
 
 An. Eho, uerbero, aliud mihi respondes ac rogo ? 
 
 Ge. Quid ergo narras 1 An. Quid ego narrem ? opera tua 
 Ad restim res redit mihi quidem planissume. 
 Ut te quidem di deseque omnes superi atque inferi 
 Mai is exemplis perdaut ! hem, siquid uelis, 
 Huic mandes, qui te ad scopulum e tranquillo auferat. 
 Quid minus utibile fuit quam hoc ulcus tangere, 
 Aut nominare uxorem 1 injectast spes patri 
 Posse illam extrudi. cedo nunc porro, Phormio 
 Dotem si accipiet, uxor ducendast domum, 
 Quid fiet ? Ge. Non enim ducet. An. Noui. ceterum 
 Quom argentum repetent, nostra causa scilicet 
 In neruom potius ibit ? Ge. Nil est, Antipho, 
 Quin male narrando possit deprauarier. 
 Tu id quod bonist excerpis, dicis quod malist. 
 Audi nunc contra jam : si argentum acceperit, 
 / 

 
 phoumio. 229 
 
 Ducendast uxor, ut ais : concedo tibi : 
 
 Spatium quidem tandem adparandis nuptiis, ^ 
 
 Vocandi, sacruficandi dabitur paululum. 
 
 Interea amici quod polliciti sunt dabunt : 
 
 Inde iste reddet. An. Quamobrem ? aut quid dicet I G e. 
 
 Rogas ? 
 ' Quot res postilla monstra euenerunt mini ! 
 Intro iit in sedis ater abienus canis : * 
 
 Angui per inpluuium decidit de tegubs : 
 Gallina cecinit : interdixit hariolus : 
 Aruspex uetuit : aDte brumam autem noui 
 Negoti incipere * * * ■ * * * 
 
 * * quse causast j ustissuma. ' 
 
 Haec fient. An. Ut modo fiant ! Ge. Fient : me uide. 
 Pater exit : abi, die esse argentum Phsedriae. 
 
 ACT. IV.— Scen. 5. 
 
 DEM1PITO. GETA. CHREMES. 
 
 De. Quietus esto, inquam : ego curabo nequid uerborum duit. 
 Hoc temere numquam amittam ego a me, quin mihi testis 
 
 adhibeam : 
 Quoi dem et quamobrem dem, commemorabo. Ge. Ut cautus 
 eat, ubi nil opust. 
 Ch. Atqui ita opus factost: at matura, dum lubido eadem 
 hajc manet : 
 Nam si altera ill.x-c magis histabit, forsitan nos rejiciat. 
 
 Ge. Rem ipsam putaw De. Due me ad eum ergo. Gb. 
 Non moror. Ch. Ubi hoc egeris, 
 Transito ad uxorem meam, ut conueniat banc prius quam hino 
 abit.
 
 230 puormio. 
 
 Dicat cam dare nos Phormioni nuptum, ne succenseat : 
 
 Et magis esse ilium idoneum, qui ipsi sit familiarior : 
 
 Nos nostro officio nil digressos esse : quantum is uoluerit l0 
 
 Datum esse dotis. De. Quid tua, malum, id refert? Ch. Magni, 
 
 Demipho. 
 Non satis est tuom te officium fecisse, id si non fama adprobat : 
 Volo ipsius quoque htec uoluntate fieri, ne se ejectam prsedicet. 
 De. Idem ego istuc facere possum. Ch. Mulier mulieri magis / 
 
 conuenit. 
 De. Rogabo. Ch. Ubi illas nunc ego reperire possim, co- 
 
 gito. •*
 
 PHORMIO. 231 
 
 ACTVS V.— Scen. I. 
 
 80PHRONA. CHREMES. 
 
 So. Quid agam ? quern mi amicum inueniam misera ? aut 
 quo consilia hsec referam ? Aut 
 Unde mi auxilium petam ? 
 Nam uereor, hera ne ob meum suasum indigna injuria ailfi- 
 
 ciatur : 
 Ita patrem adulescentis facta haec tolerare audio uiolenter. 
 Ch. Nam quae hsec anus est, exanimata a fratre quae egres- 
 sast meo ? 6 
 
 So. Quod ut facerem egestas me inpulit, quom scirem infirmas 
 nuptiaa 
 Hasce esse, ut id consulerem, interea uita ut in tuto foret. 
 Ch. Certe edepol, nisi me animus fallit aut parum prospichmt 
 oculi, 
 
 Meae nutricem gnatee uideo. So. Neque ille inuestigatur 
 
 Ch. Quid ago ? 
 So. qui est ejus pater. Ch. Adeo ? an maneo, dum haec 
 quae loquitur magis cognosco ? ,0 
 
 So. Quod si eum nunc reperire possim, nil est quod uerear. 
 Ch. East ipsa : 
 Conloquar. So. Quia hie loquitur? Ch. Sophrona. So. Et 
 meum nomen nominat ? 
 Ch. Respice ad me. So. Di obsecro uos, estue hie Stilpo ; 
 
 Ch. Non. So. Negro 1 
 Ch. Concede hinc a foribus paulum istorsum sodea, Sophrona.
 
 ii'>2 PHORMIO. 
 
 Ne me istoc posthac nomine appellassis. So. Quid ? non, ob- 
 secro, es 15 
 
 Quern semper te esse dictitasti ? Cu. St. So. Quid has metuis 
 foris ? 
 Cu. Conclusam hie habeo uxorem sseuam. ucruiu istoc me 
 nomine 
 Eo perperam olim dixi, ne uos forte inprudentes foris 
 Eti'utiretis, atque id porro aliqua uxor mea rescisceret. 
 
 So. Istoc pol nos te hie inuenire miseraa numquam potu- 
 
 imus. - 1 ' 
 
 Ch. Eho die mihi, quid rei tibist cum familia hac nude 
 
 exis 1 
 
 Ubi illae sunt ? So. Miseram me. Ch. Hem, quid est ? 
 
 uiuontne ? So. Viuit gnata. 
 Matrem ipsam ex segritudine hac miseram mors consecutast. 
 Ch. Male factum. So. Ego autem, quae cssem anus deserta, 
 egens, ignota, 
 Ut potui nuptum uirginem locaui huic adulescenti, 2S 
 
 Harum qui est dominus Eedium. Ch. Antiphonine ? So. Hem, 
 illi ipsi. 
 Ch. Quid ? duasne is uxores habet ? So. Au, obsecro ; unam 
 
 ille quidem hanc solam. 
 Ch. Quid illam alteram quae dicitur cognata ? So. Hieo 
 
 ergost. Cir. Quid ais ' 
 So. Composito factumst, quomodo hanc amans habere posset 
 Sine dote. Ch. Di uostram fidem, quam ssepe forte temere :,fl 
 Eueniunt quse non audeas optare ! offendi adueniens 
 Quocum uolebam, et ut uolebam, conlocatam filiam : 
 Quod nos ambo opere maxumo dabamus operam ut fieret, 
 Sine nostra cura, maxuma sua cura hsec sola fecit. 
 
 So. Nunc quid opus facto sit uide : pater adulescentia uenit ,; ' 
 Eumque animo iniquo hoc oppido ferre aiunt. Ch. Nil periclLst.
 
 PHORMIO. 233 
 
 Sed per deos atque homines meam esse hanc caue resciscat quis- 
 quam. 
 So. Nemo ex me scibit. Ch. Sequere me : intus csetera 
 audies. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 2. 
 
 DEMIPHO. GETA. 
 
 De. Nostrapte culpa facimus ut malis expediat esse, 
 Dum minium dici nos bonoa studemus et benignos. 
 Ita fugias ne pneter casam, quod aiunt. nonne id sat erat, 
 Accipere ab illo injuriam ? etiam argentumst ultro objectum, 
 Ut sit qui uiuat, dum aLiud aliquid flagiti conficiat. 
 
 Ge. Planissume. De. Eis nunc pnemiumst, qui recta praua 
 
 faciunt. 
 Ge. Verissume. De. Ut stultissume quidem illi rem gesse- 
 
 rimus. 
 Ge. Modo ut hoc consilio possiet discedi, ut istam ducat. 
 De. Etiamne id dubiumst ? Ge. Haud scio hercle, ut homost, 
 
 an mutet animum. 
 
 De. Hem, mutet autem ? Ge. Nescio: uerum "si forte" 
 
 dico. ,D 
 
 De. Ita faciam, ut frater censuit, ut uxorem ejus hue ad- 
 
 ducam, 
 
 < "i 11 ii ista ut loquatur. tu, Geta, abi pra : nuntia banc uenturam. 
 
 Ob. Argentum inuentumnt Pha idriae : de jurgio siletur : 
 1'i'iiisumst, ne in prsesentia hsec liinc abeat : quiil nunc porro ? 
 Quid net? in eodem luto husitas: uoreura solues, ' 5 
 
 i : pne»ens quod fderat malum in diom abiit : plagee crescunt, 
 N isi prospicis. nunc liinc domum ibo, :ic Ph.inium edorr-lm, 
 Nequid ueroatur Phormioncm, ant 7n/jun oratiuiirni.
 
 i23-t PHORMIO. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 3. 
 
 DEMIPHO. NAVSISTRATA. CHREMES. 
 
 De. Agedum, ut soles, Nausistrata, fac ilia ut placetur nobis, 
 It sua uoluntate id quod est faciundum faciat. Na. Faciaiu. 
 De. Pariter nunc opera me adjuuas, ac re dudum opitulata es. 
 Na. Factum uolo : ac pol minus queo uiri culpa, quam me 
 • dignumst. 
 
 De. Quid autem ? Na. Quia pol mei patris bene parta indi- 
 bgenter s 
 
 Tutatur : nam ex eis prsediis talenta argenti bina 
 Capiebat statija : hem, uir uiro quid prsestat ! De. Binan 
 quceso ? 
 Na. Ac rebus uilioribus multo tamen talenta bina. De. Hui. 
 Na. Quid hsec uidentur ? De. Scilicet. Na. Virum me 
 natum uellem : 
 
 Ego ostenderem De. Certo scio. Na. quo pacto 
 
 De. Parce, sodes, )0 
 
 Ut possis cum ilia, ne te adulescens mulier defetiget. 
 
 Na. Faciam ut jubes : sed meum uirum abs te exire uideo. 
 Ch. Ehem, Demipbo, 
 Jam ilk' datumst argentum 1 De. Curaui ilico. Ch. Nollem 
 
 datum. 
 
 Hei, uideo uxorem : psene plus quam sat erat. De. Quor 
 
 nolles, Chreme ? 
 
 Ch. Jam recte. De. Quid tu ? ecquid locutus cum ista es, 
 
 quamobrem hanc ducimus ? 1S 
 
 Ch. Transegi. De. Quid ait tandem ? Ch. Abduci non 
 
 potest. De. Qui non potest ? 
 Ch. Quia uterque utriquest cordi. De. Quid istuc nostra 1 
 Ch. Magni : praeter haec
 
 PHORMIO. 235 
 
 Cognatam comperi esse nobis. De. Quid ? deliras. Ch. Sic 
 
 erit: 
 Non temere dico : redii mecuni in niemoriam. De. Satin sanus 
 
 63? 
 
 Na. Au obsecro, uide ne in cognatam pecces. De. Non est. 
 Ch. Ne nega : M 
 
 Patris nomen aUud dictumst : hoc tu errasti. De. Non norat 
 patrem ? 
 Ch. Norat. De. Quor aliud dixit ? Ch. Numquamne hodie . 
 concedes mini 
 Neque intelleges ? De. Si tu nil narras ? Ch. Pergis ? Na. 
 Miror quid hoc siet. 
 De . Equidem hercle nescio. Ch. Vin scire ? at ita me seruet 
 Juppiter, 
 Ut propior illi, quam ego sum ac tu, homo nemost. De. Di 
 uostram fidem : 2S 
 
 Eamus ad ipsam : una om'nis nos aut scire aut nescire hoc uolo. 
 Ch. Ah. 
 De. Quid est ? Ch. Itan paruain mihi fidem esse apud te ! 
 De Vin me credere 1 
 Vin satis qmesitum mi istuc esse ? age, fiat, quid ? ilia filia 
 Amici nostri quid futurumst ? Ch. Recte. De. Hanc igitur 
 mittimus ? 
 Ch. Quid ni 1 De. Ilia maneat ? Ch. Sic. De. Ire igitur 
 tibi licet, Nausistrata. 30 
 
 Na. Sic pol commodius esse in omnis arbitror, quam ut coe- 
 peras, 
 Manero hanc ; nam perliberalis uisast, quom uidi, mihi. 
 
 De Quid istuc negotist ? Ch. Jamne operuit ostium ? De. 
 Jam. Ch. O Iuppiter, 
 Di nos re«piciunt : gnatam inueui nuptam cum tuo filio. De. 
 Hem,
 
 286 piioumio. 
 
 Quo pacto id potuit ? Ch. Non satis tutus est ad narrandimi 
 hie locus. •'<■> 
 
 De. At tu intro abi. Ch. Heus, ne filii quidem nostri hue 
 resciscant uolo. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scbn. 4. 
 
 ANTIPHO. 
 
 Laetus sum, ut meae res sese habent, fratri obtigisse quod uolt. 
 Quam scitumst, ejusmodi parare in animo cupiditates, 
 Quas, quom res aduorsae sient, paulo mederi possis ! 
 Hie simul argentum repperit, cura sese expediuit : 
 Ego nullo possum remedio me euoluere ex his turbis, 
 Quin, si hoc celetur, in metu, sin £>atefit, in probro sim. 
 Neque me domum nunc reciperem, ni mi esset spes ostenta 
 Hujusce habendae. sed ubinam Getam inuenire possim 1 
 Ut rogem, quod tempus conueniundi patris me capere jubeat. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 5. 
 
 PHORJIIO. ANTIPHO. 
 
 Ph. Argentum accepi, tradidi lenoni : abduxi mulierem ; 
 Curaui propria ut Phaedria poteretur : nam emissast maim. 
 Nunc una mihi res etiam restat quae est conficiunda, otium 
 Ab senibus ad potandum ut habeam : nam aliquot hos suinam 
 dies. 
 An. Sed Phormiost : quid ais ? Ph. Quid ? An. Quidnam 
 nunc facturust Phaedria ? s 
 
 Quo pacto satietatem amoris ait se uelle absumere ? 
 
 Ph. Vicissim partis tuas acturust. An. Quas ? Ph. Ut 
 fugitet patrem.
 
 PH0RM10. 237 
 
 Te sua? Togauit rursum ut ageres, causain ut pro se diceres. 
 Nam potaturus est apud me. ego me ire senibus Suniuni 
 Dicam ad mercatum, ancillulam emptum dudum quam dixit 
 
 Geta: 
 Ne quom hie non uideant me conficere credant argentum 
 
 suom. 
 Sed ostium coucrepuit abs te. Ax. Vide qui egrediatur. Ph. 
 
 Getast. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scex. 6. 
 
 GETA. AXTIPHO. PHORMIO. 
 
 Ge. O fortuna, o fors fortuna, quautis coinmoditatibus, 
 
 Quam subito meo hero Antiphoni ope uostra hunc ontsrastis 
 
 diem I 
 
 An. Quidnam hie sibi uolt 1 Ge. nosque amicos ejus ex- 
 
 onerastis metu ! 
 
 r — 
 Sed ego nunc mihi cesso, qui non humerum hunc onero pallio, 
 
 Atque hominem propero inuenire, ut hsec quae contigerint 
 
 sciat. * 
 
 Av. Xum tu intellegis, hie quid narret ? Ph. Num tu 1 
 
 Ax. NiL Ph. Tantundem ego. 
 Gb. Ad lenonem hinc ire pergam : ibi nunc sunt. Ax. Heus, 
 
 Geta. Ge. Hem tibi. 
 Num mirum aut nouomst reuocari, cursum quom institeris I 
 
 Av. <;ota. 
 Ge. Pergit hercle : uumquam tu odio tuo mo uiuces. An. 
 
 Non manes ? 
 Ge. Vapula. An. Id quidem tibi jam fiet, nisi resistis, 
 
 uerbero. 
 Gb. Fainiliariorein oportet esse hunc: muiitatur malum.
 
 288 PHOUMIO. 
 
 Sod isue est quein qu«sro au uon ? ipsust. Ph. Congredero 
 
 actutum. An. Quid est ? 
 Ge. O omnium, quantum est qui uiuont, hominum homo 
 
 ornatissume : 
 Nam siue controuorsia ab dis solus diligere, Antipho. 
 
 An. lta uelim: sed qui istuc credam ita esse mihi dici 
 
 uelim. r ' 
 
 Ge. Satin est si te delibutum gaudio reddo ? An. Enicas. 
 Ph. Quiu tu hinc pollicitations aufer et quod fers cedo. 
 
 Ge. Oh, 
 Tu quoque hie aderas, Phormio ? Ph. Aderam: sed cessas ? 
 
 Ge. Accipe, en: 
 lit modo argentum tibi dedimus apud forum, recta domum 
 Sumus profecti : interea mittit herus me ad uxorem tuam. 
 An. Quamobrem ? Ge. Omitto proloqui : nam nil ad hanc 
 
 remst, Antipho : 
 Ubi hi gynaeceum ire occipio, puer ad me adcurrit Mida, 
 Pone adprendit pallio, resupinat : respicio, rogo 
 Quamobrem retineat me : ait esse uetitum intro ad heram ac- 
 
 cedere. 
 1 Sophrona modo fratrem hue ' inquit ' senis iutroduxit Chre- 
 
 mem,' "' 
 
 Eumque nunc esse intus cum illis : hoc ubi ego audiui, ad foris 
 Suspenso gradu placide ire perrexi, accessi, astiti, 
 A ii imam compressi, aurem admoui: ita animum ccepi atten- 
 
 dere, 
 Hoc modo sermonem captans. An. Eu, Geta. Ge. Hie pul- 
 
 cherrumum 
 Facinus audiui : itaquo psene hercle exclamaui gaudio. 
 
 An. Quod ? Ge. Quodnam arbitrare ? An. Nescio. Ge. 
 
 Atqui mirificissumum : 
 Patruos tuos est pater inuentus Phanio uxori tuae. An. Hem,
 
 PHOItMni. 239 
 
 Quid ais ? Ge. Cum ejus consueuit olim matre in Leumo clan- 
 
 culum. 
 Ph. Somnium : utin haec ignoraret suom patrem ? Ge. Ali- 
 
 quid credito, 
 Phormio, esse causae : sed me censen potuisse omnia 
 Intellegere extra ostium, intus quoe inter sese ipsi egerint ? 
 Ax. Atque hercle ego quoque illam audiui fabulam. Gk. 
 
 Immo etiam dabo 
 Quo magis credas : patruos interea inde hue egreditur foras : 
 Haud multo post cum patre idem recipit se intro denuo : 
 Ait v.terque tibi potestatem ejus habendse se dare : 
 Denique ego sum missus, te ut requirerem atque adducerem. 
 
 An. Hem, 
 Quin ergo rape me : quid cessas ? Ge. Fecero. An. O mi 
 
 Phormio, 
 Vale. Ph. Vale, Antipho. bene, ita me di ament, factum. 
 
 gaudeo 
 Tantam fortunam de inprouiso esse his datam. 
 Summa eludendi occasiost mihi nunc senes, w 
 
 Ft Phiedrise curam adimere argentariam, 
 Xe quoiquam suorum tequahum supplex siet. 
 Nam idem hoc argeutum, ita ut datumst, iugraths 
 Ki datum erit : hoc qui cogam, re ipsa repperi. 
 Xunc gestus mihi uoltusque est capiuudus uouos. 
 Bed hinc coucu<lam in angiportum hoc proxumum, 
 Indo hisce ostendam me, ubi erunt egressi foras. 
 Quo mo adsimularam ire ad mercatura, uon eo.
 
 fc-l'J PII0UM10. 
 
 ACT. V.— SuexV. 7. 
 
 DEMIFHO. CHREMES. PHOR2CJU 
 
 De. Dis rnagnas merito gratias habeo atque ago, 
 Q'jaudo euenere hcec nobis, frater, prospere. 
 Quantum potest, nunc conueniundus Phormiost, 
 Prius quam dilapidet nostras triginta miuas 
 Ut auferamus. Ph. Demiphonem si domist 
 Visam, ut quod .... De. At nos ad te ibamus, Phormio. 
 
 Ph. De eadem hac fortasse causa ? De. Ita hercle. Ph. 
 Credidi : 
 Quid ad me ibatis ? ridiculum : uerebamini 
 Ne nou id facerem quod recepisseni semel ? 
 Heus, quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen 
 Adliuc curaui unum hoc quidem, ut mi esset fides. 
 
 Ch. Estne ita ut dixi, liberalis ? De. Oppido. 
 
 Ph. Idque ad uos uenio nuntiatum, Demipho, 
 Paratum me esse : ubi uoltis, uxorem date. 
 IS am omnis posthabui inihi res, ita uti par fuit, 
 Postquam tantopere id uos uelle animum aduorteram. 
 
 De. At hie dehortatus est me, ne illam tibi darem : 
 ' Nam qui erit rumor ' inquit, ' id si feceris ? 
 Olini quom honeste potuit, turn non est data : 
 Nunc uiduam extrudi turpest:' ferme eadom omnia 
 Quae tute dudum coram me incusaueras. 
 
 Ph. Sati3 superDe mluditis me. De. Qui ? Pu . Rogas l 
 Quia ne alteram quidem illam potero ducere : 
 Nam quo redibo ore ad earn quam contempserim ? 
 
 Ch. ' Turn autem Antiphonem uideo ab sese amittere 
 Iuuitum earn' inque. De. Turn autem uideo fUium 
 Inuitum sane muherem ab se amittere.
 
 PHORMIO. 2ll 
 
 3ed transi sodes ad forum, atque illud rnihi 
 Argentum rursum jube rescribi, Phorcnio. 
 
 Ph. Quodne ego discripsi porro illis quibus debui 1 M 
 
 De. Quid igitur fiet ? Ph. Si uis mi uxorem dare, 
 Quam despondisti, ducam : sin est ut uelis 
 Manere illam apud te, dos hie maneat, Demipho. 
 Nam non est sequom me propter uos decipi, 
 Quoin ego uostri honoris causa repudium alterae 
 Remiserim, qu?e dotis tantundem dabat. 
 
 De. I hinc in malam rem cum istac magnificentia, 
 Fugitiue ? etiam nunc credis te ignorarier, 
 Aut tua facta adeo ? Ph. Inritor. De. Tune hanc duceres, 
 Si tibi daretur ? Ph. Fac periclum. De. Ut filius * 
 
 Cum ilia habitet apud te, hoc uostrum consilium fuit. 
 
 Ph. Quaeso quid narras ? De. Quin tu mi argentum cedo- 
 
 Ph. Mihi uero uxorem tu cedo. De. In jus ambula. 
 
 Ph. Enimuero si porro esse odiosi pergitis . . . 
 
 De. Quid facies ? Ph. Egone ? uos me indotatis modo ** 
 Patrocinari fortasse arbitramini : 
 
 Etiam dotatis soleo. Ch. Quid id nostra ? Ph. Nihil. 
 Hie quandam noram, quoius uir uxorem — Ch. Hem. De. 
 Quid est I 
 
 Ph. Lemni habuit aliam : Ch. Nullus sum. Ph. ex qua 
 filiam 
 Suscepit : et earn clam educat. Ch. Sepultus sum. 
 
 Ph. Hajc adeo ego illi jam denarrabo. Ch. Obsecro, 
 Ne facias. Ph. Oh, tune is eras 1 De. Ut ludos facit. 
 
 Ch. Missum te facimus. Ph. Fabulae. Ch. Quid uis tibi ? 
 Argentum quod habes condonamus te. Ph. Audio. 
 Quid uos, malum, ergo me sic ludificainini 4 * 
 
 [nepti, uostra puerili inconstantia, ? 
 Nolo uolo : uolo nolo rursum : cape cedo : 
 
 M
 
 24? PIIORMIO. 
 
 Quod dictum, imlictuiust : quod modo erat ratum, inriturast. 
 
 Ch. Quo pacto aut mule htec liic resciuit ? De. Neecio, 
 
 __. .... . . , so 
 
 Nisi me dixisse neuum certo scio. 
 
 Ch. Monstri, ita me di anient, simile. Ph. Injeci scrupu- 
 
 luin. De. Hem, 
 
 Ilioine ut a nobis hoc tantum argenti auforat, 
 
 Tarn aperte iuridens ? emori hercle satius est. 
 
 Animo uirili prsesentique ut sis para. 
 
 \*ides tuom peccatum esse elatum foras ; 
 
 Neque jam id celare posse te uxorem tuam: 
 
 Nunc quod ipsa ex aliis auditura sit, Chreme, 
 
 Id nosmet indicare placabilius est. 
 
 Turn hunc inpuratum poterimus nostro modo 
 
 Ulcisci. Ph. Attat, nisi mi prospicio, hjereo. 
 
 Hi gladiatorio animo ad me adfectant uiam. 
 
 Ch. At uereor ut placari possit. De. Bono animo es : 
 
 Ego redigam uos in gratiam, hoc fretus, Chreme, 
 
 Quom e medio excessit unde ha?c susceptast tibi. 
 Ph. Itane agitis mecum ? satis astute adgredimini. 
 
 Non hercle ex re istius me instigasti, Demipho. 
 
 AiD tu ? ubi qua? lubitum fuerit peregre feceris, 
 /Neque hujus sis ueritus femina) primarise, 
 
 Quin nouo modo ei faceres conturueliam, 
 
 Venias nunc precibus lautum peccatum tuom ? 
 
 Hisce ego illam dictis ita tibi incensam dabo, 
 
 Ut ne restinguas, lacrumis si extillaueris. 
 
 De. Malum quod isti di deasque omnes duint. 
 
 Tautane adfectum quemquam esse hominem audacia ! 
 
 Non hoc publicitus scelus hinc asportarier 
 
 Iu solas terras ! Ch. In id redactus sum loci, 
 
 Ut quid agam cum illo nesciam prorsuni. De. Ego sc : 
 
 In jus eamus. Ph. In jus 1 hue, aiquid lubet. 
 
 so
 
 PHORMIO. 24") 
 
 De. Adsequere, retine, dum ego hue seruos evioco 
 
 Ch. Enini nequeo solus : adcurre. Ph. Una injuriast " 
 
 Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo. Ph. Alterast tecum, Chreme. 
 
 De. Rape hunc. Ph. Itane agitis ? enimuero uocest opus : 
 Nausistrata, exi. Ch. Os opprime. De. Tnpurum uide, 
 Quantum ualet. Ph. Nausistrata, inquam. Ch. Non taces ? 
 
 Ph. Taceam ? De. Nisi sequitur, pugnos in uentrem in- 
 gere. 95 
 
 Ph. Vel oculum exclude : est ubi uos ulciscar probe. 
 
 ACT. V.— Scen. 8. 
 
 NAVSISTRATA. CHREMES. PHORMIO. DEMrPHO. 
 
 Na. Qui nominat me ? Ch. Hem. Na. Quid istuc turbajst, 
 obsecro, 
 Mi uir ? Ph. Ehem, quid nunc obstipuisti ? Na. Quis hie 
 
 homost ? 
 Non mihi respondes ? Ph. Hicine ut tibi respondeat, 
 Qui hercle ubi sit nescit ? Ch. Caue isti quicquam credwas. 
 Ph. Abi, tange : si non totus friget, me enica. 5 
 
 Ch. Nil est. Na. Quid ergo ? quid istic narrat ? Ph. Jam 
 Bcies -. 
 tulta. Oh. Pergin credere ? Na. Quid ego obsecro 
 Huic crudani, qui nil dixit ? Ph. Delirat miser 
 Timore. Na. Noil pol fa merest, quod tu tain times. 
 
 Ch. Egon timeo ? Pit. ItecU; sane : quaudo nil times, '" 
 Et hoc nil est quod ego dico, tu narrj. De. Scoln ■■-., 
 Tibi narret ? Ph. Ohe tu, factumst abs te sedulo 
 Pro fratre. Na. Mi uir, non mihi narras ? Ch. At . . . . 
 Na. Quid ' at ?' 
 
 m 2
 
 S I 1 rnoKMio. 
 
 Ch. Non opus est dieto. Ph. Tibi quideni : at scito huic 
 opust. 
 In Lemno — Ch. Hem, quid ais? Drc. Non taces? Ph. Clam 
 te — Ch. Hei mihi. ls 
 
 Pir. Uxorem duxit. Na. Mi homo, di melius duint. 
 Ph. Sic factumst. Na. Perii misera. Ph. Et inde filiam 
 Suscepit jam unam, dum til dormis. Ch. Quid agimus ? 
 Nv. Pro di inmortales, facinus miserandum et malum. 
 Ph. Hoc actumst. Na. An quicquam hodiest factum indig- 
 nius ? M 
 
 Qui mi, ubi ad uxores uentumst, turn fiunt senes. 
 Demipho, te appello ; nam cum hoc ipso distaxlet loqui : 
 Haecine erant itiones crebrse et mansiones diutinae 
 Lemni ? hsecine erat ea quae nostros minuit fructus uihtas ? 
 De. Ego, Nausistrata, esse in hac re culpam meritum non 
 nego : is 
 
 Sed ea qnin sit ignoscenda. Ph. Verba fiunt mortuo. 
 
 Df,. Nam neque neglegentia tua neque odio id fecit tuo. 
 Vinolentus fere abhinc annos quindecim mulierculam 
 Earn compressit, unde haec natast : neque postilla umquam at- 
 
 tigit. 
 Ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit : qui fuit in re hac scru- 
 pulus. ;, ° 
 
 Quamobrem te oro, ut aba facta tua sunt, aequo animo hoc 
 feras. 
 Na. Quid ego aequo animo ? cupio misera in hac re jam de- 
 fungier. 
 Sed qui id sperem ? aetate porro minus peccaturum putem ? 
 Jam turn erat senex, senectus si uerecundos facit. 
 An moa forma atque a;tas nunc magis ex[)etendast, Demipho ? ** 
 Quid mi hie adfers, quamobrem expectem aut sperem porro non 
 fore ?
 
 PHORMIO. 24-5 
 
 Ph. Exequias Chremeti quibus est commodum ire, hem tem- 
 pus est. 
 Bic dabo : age nunc, Phormionem qui uolet lacessito : 
 Faxo tab eum niactatuni atque bic est hifortunio. 
 Redeat sane in gratiam : jam suppbci satis est rnihi. 4( ' 
 
 Habet bsec ei quod, dum uiuat, usque ad aurem ogganniat. 
 Na. At meo merito, credo : quid ego nunc commemorem, 
 Demipbo, 
 Singulatim, qualis ego in bunc fuerhn ? De. Noui seque omnia 
 Tecum. Na. Merito boc meo uidetur factum ? De. Minume 
 
 gentium : 
 Verum quando jam accusando fieri infectum non potest, * 3 
 
 Ignosce : orat ; confitetur ; purgat : quid uis amplius I 
 
 Ph. Enimuero prius quam hsec dat ueniam, mibi prospiciam 
 et Pbsedriae. 
 Heus, Nausistrata, prius quam buic respondes temere, audi. 
 Na. Quid est ? 
 Ph. Ego minas triginta ab illo per fallaciam abstuli : 
 Eas dedi tuo gnato : is pro sua arnica lenoni dedit. i, ° 
 
 Ch. Hem, quid ais ? Na. Adeon indignum boc tibi uidetur, 
 filius 
 Homo adulescens si babet unam amicam, tu uxores duas ? 
 Nil pudere 1 quo ore illuin objurgabis ? responde mibi. 
 
 De. Faciet ut uoles. Na. Immo ut meam jam scias senten- 
 tiam, 
 Ncque ego ignosco neque promitto quicquam, neque respondco " 
 Priusquam gnatum uidero : ejus judicio pennitto omuia. 
 Quod is jubebit faciaiu. De. Mulicr sapiens es, NausLstrata. 
 Na. Satin tibist } Ch. Mihin ? immo uero pulcbre discedo 
 et probe 
 Et prfeter spem. Na. Tu tuom die nomen quod sit. Pa. 
 Phormio :
 
 246 IMIORMIO. 
 
 Vostra) f;unili;c licrclc amicus ct tuo summus FhsedlicB. M 
 
 Na. Phormio, at ego ccastor posthac tibi quod potero et quie 
 uoles 
 Faciamque et clicam. Ph. Benigne dicis. Na. Pol meritumst 
 tuom. 
 Ph. Vin primura hodio facore quod ego gaudeam, Nausis- 
 trata, 
 Et quod tuo uiro oculi doleant ? Na. Cupio. Ph. Me ad 
 cenam uoca. 
 Na. Pol uero uoco. De. Eamus intro bine. Ch. Fiat : sed 
 ubist Pbfedria, 6b 
 
 Judex noster ? Ph. Jam bic faxo aderit. Cantor. Vos ualete 
 et plaudite.
 
 PUBLII TERENTII AFRI PHORMIO. 
 
 PROLOGUS. 
 
 The prologue is, as those to the Andria and Heautontimorurnenos, 
 a reply to the attacks of Lavinius, who had added a new charge to 
 his former charges, to wit, that the plays of Terence are comniou- 
 place in language, and feeble in style. Dealing first with this attack, 
 Terence admits that, if to introduce noisy characters and striking 
 incidents is a merit, he must plead guilty to the lack of it. But 
 Lavinius, he suggests, owed the success of his own pieces to his actors, 
 not himself. As to the charge that the matter of his prologues 
 is simply retort upon Lavinius, his answer is, let Lavinius cease his 
 attacks, which arise from a desire to monopolise the stage, and he 
 will cease replying. He finishes by explaiuing the nature aud origin of 
 his play, and asking for it a more favourable hearing than, on a former 
 occasion, one of his plays, perhaps the Hecyra, met. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Potta i>etus. Cf. Andr. Prol. 7 ; Heaut. Prol. 22, notes. For the 
 juxtaposition of poeta — poetam cf., with Donatus, Virg. JEn. i. 684, 
 " Notos pueri puer indue vultus." 
 
 2. Retrahere ah studio, " Obliger TeYence a renoncer a l'^tude de la 
 poetic, " Madame Dacier. Retrahere is i. q. " abstrahere " in Andr. I. v. 8, 
 or " revocare," as it is used in Cic. pro. Sext., c. 15, quoted by Ruhnken, 
 " Cum duo consules a republica provinciarum focdere retraxisset." — Ab 
 studio: " musico," sc. ; compare Heaut. Prol. 23, and note there. — Traius- 
 dere homincmin otiuin, &c, "to consign the man to idleness," " to leave 
 him nothing to do." For the form " transdero " for " tradere," cf. 
 " transducere," " trausnare," " tranijicere," Ruhnken. — Otium, cf. Hecyr. 
 Prol. Alt. 18, "Ut in otio esset potius quam in negotio." For malcdic- 
 tis deterrere. in ver. 3, cf. Hecyr. ProL Alt. 19, " Deterruissem facile, ne 
 alias scriberet." 
 
 4. Qui ita dictitat, " For he is constantly giving this out." " Dictitat,'' 
 cf. Heaut. Prol. 22, " Quod malivolua vetus poeta dictitat." — Quas— 
 fabulas, attraction of antecedent to the caso of relative, cf. notos on 
 Andr. Prol. 3 ; Madvig. § 319 : obs. fecit, as ibid, is properly used of the 
 playwright* 
 
 5. Tcnui esse oratione et scripturd levi, "Are of poor lnngnage and 
 mi.iiiht;iined style." The charge against him that his (days lacked due 
 
 itj and aolimit] of style, is in itself a proof of hia excellence 
 comic v. Titer, aa Donattu has noted. For oratio, used as bore, cf. Andr. 
 ProL 12 j Beaut. ProL 46. — Scriptwa is Lq. " stilo," in the first of
 
 2 1 8 NOTliS O.X 
 
 these passages. Levi is the opposite to "gravis" or "grnndis" — 
 epithets of tr.igody. Parry here remarks upon Terence's close adhe- 
 rence to tho features of tho New Comedy. 
 
 6. Quia nusouam — sectari canes, " Hccaiise he never introduced the 
 oharaoter of a mad young man fancying he saw a hind Hying, and the 
 hounds in pursuit, and tho former imploring and praying him to help 
 her." A hit at Lavinius, who seems to have been fond of introducing 
 such incidents, unsuited to comedy, and rather what we should call 
 melodramatic A like hit at a similar incident is made in Heaut. Prol. 
 v. 31, " Qui uuper fecit servo current! in via," &c. 
 
 In ver. 7, vidcre =" fancying he saw," which Ruhnken illustrates by 
 Virgil. yEu. iv. 469, " Euinenidum veluti demons videt agmina 
 Peutheus;" Plant. Stioh. II. i. 50, " Quas tu vides colubra3?" Pliny, 
 in his Hist. Nat. viii. 32, remarks that deer hard pressed in tho chase 
 are wont to fly to man for succour. Westerhov. compares Ovid 
 Pont. II. ii. 39, " Nee se viciuo dubitat committere tecto Qua} fugit 
 infestos torrita cerva canes." 
 
 9. Quom stetit olim nova, "fabula," sc, cf. Hecyr. Prol. Alt. 7, note; 
 Hor. Epist. II. i. 170, "Securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo." 
 Construe, " When it appeared originally." 
 
 Iu ver. 10, stetissc must bo construed, "stood its ground," as in 
 Hecyr. 1. c. 
 
 After ver. 10, a verse had crept in from Andr. Prol. 3, "Et magis 
 placerent quas fecisset fabulas." Bentley ejected this verse, and has 
 the approval herein of most later editors. 
 
 11. Here begins a reply to the statement that Terence has cause to 
 thank Lavinius for attacking him : as otherwise he would have no 
 matter for prologues. Vitus, " Lavinius," cf. v. 1. — Norus, " Terence." 
 — Prologum refers here to the matter spoken, not as in Hecyr. Prol. Alt. 
 1, and elsewhere, to the actor who delivered it. 
 
 In ver. 14, Bentley reads " posset" for " potuisset." 
 
 16, 17. In medio omnibus Palmam esse posit am, &c, "That the prize 
 is set up in the midst for all, or lies open to all, who ply the pontic 
 calling." Cf. Heaut. Prol. 23. — Studium — musicum, and note ibid. 
 Hecyr. Prol. Alt. 38, arfcm mnsicam. For the phrase In medio omnibus 
 Pal '/nam esse positam cf. Virg. JEu. v. 109, "Munera principio ante 
 nculos, circoque locantur In medio ; " Cic. in Verr. II. ii. 42, " TabuLx- 
 sunt in medio." 
 
 18. Ille ad famrm — studuit reiccre, " The other strove to drive bat k 
 our poet here from his calling to want again," " whilst he has wished 
 to retort, not to provoke attack." Studio, Hecyr. Prol. 15 ; Plant. Capt. 
 ProL 13, " Quando histrionem cogis mendicarier." For the form 
 rcicere, cf. Virg. Eel. iii. 76, " Tityre, pascentes a flumino reicc capel- 
 las; " Lucrct. iii. 877, " eicit" for " ejicit." 
 
 20. Bencdictis si certussct, &c, " Had ho vied with me iD good words, 
 he would have been well spoken of." Cf. Andr. V. iv. 17, "Simihi 
 pergit quao vult dicero, ea qure non vult audiet." — audisset bene, cf. 
 Hecyr. IV. ii. 24, p. 181. note. Madame Dacier well renders the next 
 verse, Quod ab illo adl«tums>, &c, "On ne fait que lui rendre co quit 
 a pretc." " Sibi esse id rellatum putet," is the reading of most MSS. 
 
 28. Mihi — de se, are antithetic, "Now for my part I shall make an 
 cud of speaking of him, though on his side he does not of his own
 
 phormio. 249 
 
 accord cease to offend." — de se=&<£' iavrov. For the sentiment, cf Heaut. 
 Prol. 34, animum attendite, al " advertite." The same phrase occurs iu 
 Cic. in Verr. I. c. 10. — Adporto novam, " I present you a new play," h. e. 
 new to the Latin stage. For adporto, cf. Andr. V. ii. 17, " Quidnam 
 adportas? " and ibid. I. i. 46. 
 
 25. Epidicazomenon, h. e. " the claimant for the heiress," h. e. Phor- 
 mio. This, which is Parry's explanation, is better and safer than 
 supposing with Bentley, Ruhnken, and others, that we should read 
 " Epidicazomenen," and referring it to Phanium. She would, as he 
 observes, be called, t] iiriSiKaaOeiaa, cf. Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, in 
 v., and Smith's Diet. G. and R. A. p. 123 A. — Vocant Greed. The play 
 was one of Apollodorus. Bentley proposes to read " Gnece : Latine 
 hie Phormionem nonikiat." His chief reason is because the play was 
 not yet acted, when the prologue was being spoken. But, as Parry 
 says, the Romans might have been familiar with it, though not on their 
 own stage : and may have called it Phormio from the principal charac- 
 t<r. — Phormio has his name from (pop/xhs, a mat, as iu Plaut. Men. I. 
 i. 1, " Juventus nomen fecit Peniculo mihi," &c. The " mat," and the 
 "sponge," from their powers of suction, gave fitting nicknames to 
 parasites. 
 
 27. Quia primas partes qui aget, " Because the chief character," &c. 
 In such phrases, the subst. " partes " was often omitted. Cf. Adelpli. 
 V. iv. 26, "Non posteriores feram," and notes ibid. See also Eun. I. 
 ii. 71, " Priores partes ; " Phorm. V. v. 7. — Voluntas vestra, " your favour," 
 as in Cic. ad Div. iv. 13, quoted by Ruhukeu, " Vulgi voluntas, vel 
 potius consensus omnium." 
 
 30. Date operant, adeste, &c. Cf. Andr. Prol. 24, " Favete, adeste 
 aequo animo," &c.— Per sileatium, " A calm hearing could not always 
 be counted on." Cf. Hecyr, Prol. Alt 21, " Quam mihi per silentium 
 Nunquam agere licitumst." 
 
 32. Quom per lumultum, &c. This seems to be an allusion to the 
 fate of the Hecyra (see Prol. Alt. 25 — 34). For " per tumultum — motus 
 locost," cf. Hecyr. Prol. Alt. 33, " Tumultuantur, clamant, pugnant de 
 loco : Ego interea meum non potui tutari locum." For " grex," used 
 as here for a "troop" or "company" of players, cf. Heaut. Prol. 44, 
 note; Plaut. Asinar. Prol. 3. — Quein, actoris virtus, &c. A compliment 
 to the actors, cf. for " restituit locum," Hecyr. Prol. Alt. 13, note. — For 
 aquanimitat, ver. 34, cf. Adelph. Prol. 24, " Facite poquaniniitas," &c. 
 
 ACTUS I— Sc. I. 
 
 Enter Davus with some money duo to Geta, and needed by him at 
 this time, because his master, Demipho's, son Antipho was married 
 yesterday, and ho would liko to make tho brido a present. There will 
 be presents when tho baby is born, and on its birthdays, ere long, 
 thinks Davus. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Amicus summus mens, ct popidaris, " My tnont nonr friend and fellow- 
 townsman." For " amicus summus," cf. Andr. V. vi. 6, note. Phorm. 
 
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 250 NOTES ON 
 
 V. viii. 60, Papillaris in its first senr.e would be " one of the same race 
 or people." These slaves are not so : but speak as if their master's 
 country was their own. For " popularis," cf. Adelph. II. L 1, " Obse- 
 cro ! populareB ; " Euu. V. viii. 1, " O populares." 
 
 'J. Erat ei de ratiuncula, &c, " There was for some time past a trifling 
 sum of money remaining in my hands from an account due to him." 
 " I owed him a trifle from an old account." " Ratinuucula" occurs in 
 PI. Curcul. hi. 1, " Subduxi ratiunculam." "Ratio" is constantly 
 used in the same sense. Plaut. Men. 123, "Ratio redditur." For the 
 phrase " apud me relicuom pauxillulum," &c, Westerhov. quotes 
 Plaut. Mostell. I. hi. 141, " Etiam nunc decern minte apud te sunt : vel 
 rationem puta ; " Cic. ad Att. xvi. 3, " Maxime me angit ratio reli- 
 quorum meorum." Davus, it will be observed, is fond of diminutives : 
 ratiuncula, pauxillulum. 
 
 4. Id ut conficerem (" rogavit," sc), " He begged me to make it up." 
 Perhaps this clause depends upon the verb " venit " in ver. 2, which 
 implies an application for the money. For conficerem, so used as here, 
 cf. below, Phorm. V. v. 11, "Ne, quum hie non videant me, conficere 
 credant argentum suum." Cic. in Verr. Act II. Lib. i. c. 52, " Per- 
 magnam eum dicere ex ilia re pecuuiam confici posse." So Plaut. 
 used " fieri," Pseud. I. iii. 68, " Vel ducentse fieri possunt prasentes 
 minaa." 
 
 6. Munus hoc conraditur. Cf. notes ad Adelph. II. ii. 34; Heaut. I. 
 i. 89, " Conrasi omnia." Donatus notes that wedding presents might 
 be presented until the seventh day after a marriage. — Quam inique com- 
 paratum est, " How hard is the arrangement." Heaut. III. i. 94, " Ita 
 comparatam esse hominum naturam omnium ; " Cic. pro Sext. Rose. 
 Amer. 36, * Itaque more majorum comparatum est, ut," &c. ; Plaut. 
 Amph. II. ii. 3, " Ita cuique comparatum Est in a3tate hominum." See 
 Column's version of verses 7—12. Westerhov. quotes Martial. V. xxxii. 
 1. 'Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, ^miliane; Dantur opes nulli 
 nunc, nisi divitibus." 
 
 9. Quod Me unciatim—comparsit miser, "What, Geta, poor wretch, 
 has saved up with difficulty, ounce by ounce, from his monthly allow- 
 ance, cheating himself of his proper fare : Ail this that bride will 
 carry away."— Unciatim. The " uncia" was the twelfth part of an " as " 
 — so that the adverb is used to express the pitiful amount of the 
 slave's scrapiDg.— De demenso, "frumento," sc. The allowance was 
 four, or, according to Pliny. H. N. xviii. 9, five "modii" per month. 
 C£ 'Demensum" in Plaut. Menaechm. H. G. 14, "Nunc argumentum 
 vobis demensum dabo Non modio, neque tiimodio, verum ipso horreo." 
 This allowance was paid on the first of the month, the Kalends, 
 and was by the Greeks, Hesiod. Op. et D. 767, called op/uoA.*?). Cf. 
 Plaut. Stich. I. ii. 3, " Vos meministis quot calendis petere demen- 
 sum cibum." — Suum dtfrudans genium. Cf. Plaut. Aul. 682, " Ego- 
 met me fraudavi, Aniinumque meum, geniuuique ineum." See Hild- 
 yard's note. In Plaut. Pers. II. iii. 11, we have the opposite, " Genio 
 meo multa bona faciam," "I'll indulge my appetite." Hor. Od. III. 
 xvii. 14, " Cras genium mero Curabia." With the reading "defrudans" 
 for " defraudans," cf. Andr. III. iii. 41, where some copies read 
 " cludier." 
 
 13. Ftrktur alio munere, " Will be mulcted in another present."
 
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 Pmpert. IV. iii. 50, " Qui volet austeros arte ferire viros," where 
 Paiey observes that "ferire" seems to have been conventionally used 
 of deceiving a husband. In Prop. V. v. 44 (al. IV. v. 44), we read 
 " Cum ferit astutos comica insecha Getas," where Broukhus, Kuinoel, 
 and others, say the simile is from gladiatorial combats. — Natalia dies, 
 for this keeping up of birthdays by the ancients, compare Plaut. 
 Capt. I. ii. 71, "Quia mihi est natalis dies, Propterea te vocari ad 
 eoenani volo." Ovid Amor. I. viii. 93; Plaut. Pseud. L ii 32, "Nam 
 mihi hodie natalis dies est, decet eum omnes vos concelebrare." 
 Lindenbrog. quotes Genesis xl. and Matt, xiv., the birthday festivals 
 of Pharaoh and Herod. 
 
 15. Ubi initiabunt, " And when they shall wean the child " — initiabunt 
 (8C. "cibo et potu"). Stalbaum quotes Varro ap. Non. Marcell. p. 10S, 
 " Cum primo potu et cibo initiarent pueros, sacrificabantur ab edulibus 
 Edusae, a potione Potinae." Donatus seems to refer the words to the 
 Afi<ptSp6/jLta of the Athenians, the festival for introducing and naming 
 the child. See Smith's Diet. G. and R. A. 41 a. Thus the three occa- 
 sions for presents to the child will be the birth, the birthday, and the 
 naming-day. — Omne hoc mater auferet, " All this the mother will carry 
 off" " The boy will be the excuse for sending the presents." 
 
 ACTUS I.— Sc. II. 
 
 Enter Geta, whom Davus questions as to his rueful visage. He 
 explains that his master and his master's brother have entrusted to 
 him the care of their sons Antipho and Phredria, while they are absent 
 in Lemnos and Cilicia. First he tried strictness ; but finding that he 
 got kicked for that, he let the youths have their way. What is the 
 result ? Phredria has fallen in love with a music girl belonging to a 
 slave-merchant, and Antipho with a penniless orphan, Phanium, whom 
 one Phormio, a parasite, has helped him to marry, by pretending that 
 Antipho is next of kin to the girl, and that he, as the father's friend, 
 was bound to sue him to marry her. He has carried out this scheme. 
 They were married yesterday. Phredria's affair has been less happy, as 
 ho cannot raise money to buy the music-girl. The fathers are ex- 
 pected home. The slave and the young man are in a very natural state 
 of alarm as to the consequences. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 1. Sinuis me queeret, Sec. Cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 1. — At ego obviam conabar 
 tOri ("ire," sc.). See Heaut.II.ii.il, note, " Dum moliuntur, dum 
 conantur, annus est." Construe, " Why, I was starting to meet you, 
 Davus." — Accipe, he m, Lectumst, " There, take it, it's good coin." C£ 
 Plant. Pseud. IV. vii. 50, '"Accipe: hie sunt quinque argon ti lect;r 
 numeratfe minae." — Convenict numerus quantum debui, " You'll find it 
 the exact sum I owed." For convenict numerus, cf. Plaut. Most. I. iii. 
 146, quoted by Parry " Bene i^'itur ratio accepti atquo exponsi inter 
 nos conveuit;" Plaut. Men. H.G. 100s, " Couvuoiuut signa ; " see
 
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 also, l'lant. Pseud. IV. vii. 109, " Tantundein argenti, quantum mflofl 
 dcbuit, Dedit lmic." 
 
 4. Amn ic, "I thank you." Cf. Eun. I. ii. 106, " Merito to arao." 
 '• A mo " is used in thanking : "amabo" (cf. Plant. Aul. H. O. 101; 
 Men. H. O. 291), of asking a favour. — Habeo gratiam, cf. Andr. 1. i. 
 
 15. — Non neglexisse (" te," sc.). — Prcesirtim ut nunc sunt mores, cf. 
 Andr. I. i. 41, " Namque hoc tempore Obaequium," &c. — Adeores red't, 
 " It comes to this," cf. Heant. I. i. 61, note. — Siquis quid reddit, &c. 
 Westerhov. quotes Plaut. Trin. IV. iii. 44, "Siquis mutuom quid 
 dederit, fit pro proprio perditum." 
 
 7. Trislis, " Rueful visaged." With modo iit tacere possis, ec, "Tide," 
 cf. Andr. II. iv. 6, note, — Abi sis, insciens, "Prythee, away, blockhead." 
 Cf. Adelph. II. ii. 12, note ; IV. iv. 12, note. 
 
 10. Cujus tu fidem, &c, an " a fortiori " argument. — Ubi quid mihi 
 lucrist, &c, " In which matter what interest have I in deceiving you." 
 Ubi — "in qua re," as in Heaut. V. i. 43, " Quot res dedcre ubi 
 possem persentiscere." Or, we might construe the sentence, " Where 
 have I any interest in deceiving you," simply. 
 
 12. Hanc operam tibi dico, " I am paying you this attention," h. e. 
 the attention you ask. Dico is, i. q. do, as in Plaut. Bacch. IV. ix. 72, 
 " Aurium operam tibi dico." So in Plaut. Mil. Gl. IV. i. 7, " Irnino 
 omnes res posteriores pono, atque operam do tibi." 
 
 15. Tamquam te. Fleckeisen, following Bentley, reads Tarn quam as 
 two words, cf. Eun. IV. iv. 50, " Tarn scio quam me vivero." In ver. 
 
 16, illi = " Chremeti." nostro = " Demiphoni." — Ad hospitam anti- 
 quum, " To a foreign friend of long standing," cf. Hecyr. V. iii. 6, note. 
 — Pdlcxit, "decoyed." Cf. Plaut. Mensechm. H. G. 257, " Si pellex- 
 eruut, perditum amittunt domum," where Hildyard shows the dis- 
 tinction between " illicio " and " pellicio " to be the same as between 
 "twducere" and "yfwducere," " tentare," and "pertentare." The prepo- 
 sition per seem* to indicate "accomplishment," carrying through, cf. 
 "pellax" and "pellex." — Modo non montes nuri pollicens, "Promising 
 him all but mountains of gold." For modo non, "all but," or "well 
 nigh," cf. Gr. /xovovovxl, and Madvig. Gr. § 462, a. For the hyperbolic 
 "montes auri," Ruhnken quotes Sail. Cat. c. 23, " Repente glorians 
 maris montesque pollieeri coepit." PI. Mil. G. IV. ii. 73, " Turn argenti 
 montes non massas habet." 
 
 19. Cui tanta crat res, et supercrat? " What ? decoyed a man who had 
 so great riches; and such a superfluity of them?" This is the sen-e 
 of the passage as Donatus understood it, referring cui to Demipho ; 
 and Stalbaum follows Donatus. Westerhov. refers cui to "hospitem;" 
 " Who had such wealth, and such a superabundance }" The first sense 
 is best. — Desinas, an impatient rejoinder. — Sic est ingenium, "Such is 
 my master's nature" — "Money's his passion," Colman : cf. Plaut. 
 Ainph. III. ii. 18, "Ita ingenium meum est." 
 
 20. Oh I regemme esse oportail, " Oh ! 'tis I that ought to have been 
 as rich as a king." The emphasis is on me, and the implied force is, 
 " I should know how to enjoy my money, and not run about after 
 more." For "rex" in tho same sense as here, see Plaut. Capt. IV. ii. 
 15, " Non ego nunc Parasitus sum, sed regum rex regalior." Eun. I. ii. 
 88, rrgincz. — Magistrum, " pedagogue." Commentators compare 
 Adelph. V. ix. 5. 

 
 PHORMIO. 253 
 
 23. Provinekan Cepisti duram, " You undertook a hard office !" Cf. 
 Heaut. III. ii. 5, " Nostro traditast provincia," and notes thereupon. — 
 MUd usu-- venit, hoc scio, "It has proved so; I'm sure of that?" Seo 
 note on Heaut. III. ii. 42, " Non usus veniet, spero ; " Adelph. V. vi. 7, 
 " Si quid usus venerit," note. — Memini relinqui me Deo irato meo, " I 
 remember that I was left in charge of them, when my God was wroth 
 with me." Dcus is here, i. q. " genius," " my tutelary spirit." For 
 similar phrases, see Andr. IV. L 40, " Deos fuisse iratos," note. Hor. 
 Sat. II. iii. 8, " Iratis natus paries Dis atque poetis." Plaut. Pcen. II. 
 4, " Dis meis iratissimis ; " Virg. 2£n. II. 396, " Haud numine nostro." 
 
 26. Scapulas perdidi, " I ruined my shoulders." So Plaut. Epid. I. 
 i. 84, " Corium perdidi" Expressions of slaves for a sound beating. 
 See Casin. V. iii. 14, " Nam t-alus nulla est scapulis, si domum redeo." 
 Parry quotes also Asin. II. ii. 49, 50, and Trucul. IV. iii. 19. 
 
 28. Advoi'sum stimulum calces (" jactare " sc), "to kick against the 
 jroad;" '"to raise the hinder part of the heel to kick," is "calces 
 jactare," or " ducere." Gr. irpbs Kevrpa KaKri^tv. See ^Esch. Agani. 
 1624 ; Eurip. Bacch. 794; Acts of the Apostles, ix. 5, xxvi. 14 ; Plaut. 
 Trucul. IV. ii. 55, " Nugse sunt. Si stimulos pugnis csedis, manibus 
 plus dolet." For the construction of obsequi qua vellent, see note at 
 Adelphi. V. ix. 33. — Scisti utiforo, "You understand how to suit your 
 market." " You don't fix your price beforehand, but are ruled by the 
 current price of the market." 
 
 31. Nactus est, "Chanced upon," cf. note at Hecyr. I. i. %. — Hanc 
 omare ccepit perdite, cf. Heaut. I. i. 45. — Fmpurisrimo, "Most rascally," 
 cf. Plaut. Aul. H. G. 332, " Ita illis impuris omnibus adii mauum ; " 
 Asinar. 4 53, "Impure, nihili, non vides irasci]" In ver. 34, with 
 " quicquam," understand " suppetebat." 
 
 35. OcvJos pascere, "To feast his eyes." liuhnken illustrates this 
 phrase by Cic. Phil xi. 3, " Cum animum satiare non posset, oculoa 
 pavit s'ios." Lucret. ii. 418, " Oculos qui pascere possunt." Similarly, 
 Virg. JEa. i. 468, "Animum pictura pascit inani." Plaut. Poen. V. iv. 
 1, 'J., " Fuit hodie opera? pretium ejus qui amabilitati animum adjicent 
 Oculis epulas dare." For similar expressions see Hildyard's note ou 
 AuluL 492, upon the reading of Lambinus " edi " for " audivi " there. 
 — In bidu.ui, ducere, &c, "To escort her to school, and back." For 
 " ludus," so used, see Hccyr. II. i. 6 ; Plaut. Rudens. Prol. 44. — Secturi, 
 ' Hun after," " amatorie." Cf. Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. i. 13, " Ait sese ultro 
 omnes mulieres sectarier." Donatus remarks upon the satire intended 
 here; " sectari " properly applies to "attaching oneself to the teaching 
 of some philosopher," as Pluedria ought to have been doing, instead of 
 running after the " cithamtria." 
 
 87. Not otiosi operant, &c. " We too, for lack of other business, gave 
 our time to Pbaxlria," Column. — In quo hwc disccbat ludo, exadvorsum 
 ex loco, " opposite that place, namely, the school in which the girl was 
 I iking lesHoua." For the attraction of the antecedent to the case of 
 the relative, sec Andr. Prol. 3. For exadvorsum,, Adelph. IV. ii. 45, 
 :,„t.-.— Illi, in ver. 41, is i. q. " illic," as in Adelph. I. ii. 36 ; Hccyr. V. 
 iii '■',, note-. -|. v. T'.iittrina, "A barber's shop," the haunt of loungers, 
 it Ami|.I,. IV. i 5; Epid. II. ii. 14. 
 
 45. Hie viciviir, " I -i this neighbourhood," cf. noto at Andr. I. i. 43 
 Ma'lvig. Or. 2fl4, obs. 9. — Ea sita erut exadvorsum, " The corpse was
 
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 placed (or laid out) opposite to her," h. e. in the hall of the house. — 
 t/equt ill i benevolent, &c, "Nor had she any well-wisher, acquaintance, 
 or kinsman, present, to assist in the funeral." For Qui udjutaret funus, 
 compare Andr. I. i. 81, "Curabat una fuuus ; " and for "adjuto," in a 
 like construction, Hccyr. III. ii. 24, " Atque eis ouera adjuta." 
 
 51. Commorat omnes nos, " He had moved ua all." — Commorat, 
 syncope, for " commoverat." — Eamus viscrc, sc. ut before camus. For 
 the construction cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 114, note. — Alius, h. e. Phaedria or 
 some other of the loungers at the barber's shop. — Imus, venimus, vide- 
 in ut. Asyndeton, "We go: we reached the spot: we see her." Veni- 
 mus is, i. q. " advenimus," the pert, but there is no reason for supposing 
 mi us to be i. q. "ivimus." Parry compares this passage with Heaut. 
 
 II. iii. 44—50, q.v. 
 
 54. Quo magis diceres, h. e. " putares," ita rem esse, sc, "And, on 
 which account you would think her the more so." — Nil aderat adju- 
 menti, " There was no addition to set off her beauty." Cf. Heaut. II. 
 ii. 47, 48, "Turn ornatam ita uti qua; ornantur sibi Nulla mala re esse 
 expolitani muliebri;" Ovid. Fast. II. 763, 764, q.v. For " Capillus 
 passus," see Heaut. I.e. 49. — Ipsa horrida, "Herself unkempt;" 
 horrida is here i. q. "sordida," in Heaut. 1. c. 56. Ipsa, according to 
 Ruhnken, means " in her whole appearance." 
 
 57. Ut, ni vis boni In ipsd inesset J'ormd, &c, " So that if the essence 
 of beauty had not been in her very form, these things would have 
 killed (or " put out ") her loveliness." For the construction cf. Madvig. 
 Gr. § 347 b, aud obs. 2 ; Key, Gr. § 1209 ; Ter. Adelph. IV. v. 74. For 
 via boni, cf. Lucret. IV. 1166, " Quoi Veneris membris vis omnibus 
 exoriatur." For bonum, in the sense of " beauty," Hor. Od. IV. i. 3, 
 " Qualis eram bonce Sub regno Cinarae." Catull. xv. 10, " Infesto 
 pueris bonis malisque." 
 
 59. Ilk ("Phtedria," h. e.) tantumodo 'Satis,' inquit, 'scitast.' 
 "Merely said, she's fair enough." For "scitus" so used, cf. Andr. III. 
 ii. 6, " Per ecastor scitus puer." Satis is used of faint praise. Cf. note 
 on Heaut. III. ii. 12.— Sic satis — noster vero, " But our young master " 
 ( Antipho). Cf. Andr. V. ii. 5, " noster Chreme ! " 
 
 61. Scin quam ? quo evadat vide, " Know you to what extent." "Ob- 
 serve the result." Quam, according to Stalbaum, is for " quautopere." 
 — Sibi ejus faciat copiam, " To give him possession of her." ^ Plaut. 
 Cas. II. viii. 14, " Quod maxime Cupiebas ejus copiam feci tibi." — Ilia 
 enim, h. e. "enimvero," Gr. 5V? ; cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 168. After negat, 
 we must supply "copiam facturain."— Neque eum cequom, &c, "And 
 she says that he is acting wrongly ; " Neque — "et non," as in Hecyr. 
 
 III. iii. 32. 
 
 65. Bonam bonis prognatam, " An honest girl, and born of honest 
 parents," Colman. Bonus is here, L q. "virtuous" as in Hor. Od. IV. 
 iv. 29, " Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis ; " Epist. I. xvi. 52, " Odcrunt 
 peccare boui," &c. — Lege id licere facere, " If he wishes her for a wife, 
 he may accomplish that legally." Lege, h. e. " legitime," as in Andr. 
 
 IV. v. 4, note, and Hecyr. I. ii. 97, q. v. 
 
 69. Non, si redisset pater, &c, " Would not his father, on his return, 
 have given consent?" .Si is here used of " time," as in Hor. Epist. I. 
 vii. 10, " Quod si bruina nives Albanis illinet agris," &c. ; Plaut. Capt. 
 II. ii. 1, "Jam ego revertar intro si ex his quae volo exquisivero."
 
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 — Veniam daret, cf. Andr. V. iii. 30, "Da veniam ;" Hecyr. IV. ii. 29, 
 notes. — lndotatam, — ignobilem, Two great requirements were dower 
 and family connections. Westerhov. quotes Trinumm. I. ii. 122, 
 " Ut earn in se dignam conditioner collocem." But see Plaut. Aulul. 
 434 (H.), on the subject of dower, "Nam meo animo," &c, " Ut indo- 
 tatas ducant uxores domum." Cf. ibid. 196, and Amphitr. 687 (Bothe.), 
 and Hor. Od. III. xxiv. 21. 
 
 72. Quid fiat (" rogas " sc), a common construction with Terence. — 
 Homo confident, " An impudent fellow." Cicero alludes to this passage 
 in his oration for A. Ccecina, c. 10, " Sextus Clodius — nee minus niger, 
 nee minus confidens, quam ille Terentianus est Phormio." For con- 
 fident, cf. Andr. V. ii. 14, " Ellum, confidens, catus."— Qui ilium di 
 omnet perduint, " Would that all the gods might confound him ! " 
 The general consent of editors and commentators explains qui in this 
 and like imprecatory passages as i. q. " utinam." Cf. Plaut. Mensechm. 
 H. G. 356, " Qui ilium perduint Di omnes," and ibid. 828. Westerhov. 
 whom Stalbaum follows, resolves it into an aposiopesis, Qui — Ilium 
 perduint, &c, " Who — but may the gods," &c. Parry explains qui as 
 an ablative "wherefore," i.e. "and so." In default of satisfactory 
 explanation, we incline to the view of Hildyard, who follows Donatus, 
 Gronoviua, and others. 
 
 75. Lex est ut orbce, &c. Cf. Andr. I. i. 44, note; Adelph. IV. v. 18, 
 " Hie meus amicus illi genere est proximus : Huic leges cogunt nubere 
 hanc," see notes. For " nubant " and "ducere," in ver. 76, cf. Plaut. 
 Menajchm. H. G. 41, where Ov. Met. ix. 764, is quoted "Sacra quibus 
 qui ducat abest, ubi nubimus ambae," in which passage Iphis, then a 
 female, is about to wed Ianthe. 
 
 77. Tibi scribam dicam, " I'll enter an action against you," ypctyojuai 
 b"u<r)v. Cf. Plaut. Aul. 716; Hildyard's Glossary and notes. Dica (h. e. 
 S'ik^i), ia a substantive from the Greek. Cf. below IV. iii. 63 ; II. iii. 92, 
 "Dicam tibi impingam grandem ; " II. i. 15. See also Cic. in Verr. II. 
 ii. c. xiv., " Scribitur Heraclio dica," and Long's note on that passage ; 
 as well as ibid. c. xv., "Dicas sortiturum ; " Plaut. Pcen. III. vi. 5, 
 " Cras subscribam homini dicam." 
 
 80. Qui cognata tibi sit, " How she is your relation." Qui = " quo- 
 modo." — Quod erit mihi bonum atque commodum, " As far as shall be 
 good and advantageous to my cause." Quod — " quoad." Donatus 
 takes the phrase to be the Parasite's form of saying, " Quod felix faus- 
 tumque sit ; " and Zeune alters the punctuation by placing a colon at 
 " confingarn," and referring " quod — commodum " to ver. S2. But 
 the first method is best. For "refelles," cf. Hecyr. II. ii. 12. — Vincam 
 scilicet, Westerhov. quotes Cic. Tusc. Q. i. 1, "Brat facile vincere non 
 repugnantes." — Quid med, " refert," sc. Compare Adelph. V. iv. 27, 
 note; Hecyr. IV. iii. 12, note. 
 
 84. Jocularem audaciam. Cf. Andr. IV. iv. 43, " Jocularium in 
 malum," and note there. — Pcrsuasxtmst Itomini, " Our poor follow was 
 persuaded," h. e. Antipho. The reading " persuasumst " for "per- 
 suasit" Is Bentley's, from the C. Bembin., and suits best with the 
 "asyndeton" of the passage. For Quid tc fulurumsl? in ver. 87, cf. 
 Audi-. III. v. 8, note ; Heaut. III. i. 515, noto. 
 
 88. Quod fors fcret, &c, " Whatc'er clianco shall bring, I'll bear 
 patiently." Westerhov. quotes Virg. Mn. V. 710, " Quicquid erit,
 
 256 NOTtS ON 
 
 •uperanda omnis fortuna forendo est." Cic. ad Att. viL 14, "Sod haoc 
 i:t fore tnli'iit." For w iEqmo aniino," &c, cf. Hor. Od. I. xxiv. 20, 
 ' Levins tit pitientia," &c. — In me omnis spes mihi.it. Cf. Euu. II. ii. 9, 
 " 1 tan' paraati to, ut spes nulla reliqua in te esset tibi?" 
 
 90. Ad precalorem adeam, credo, &c, "What, I'm to go to an inter- 
 cessor, I suppose," &c. Credo is sai.l ironically. For prccatorcm, cf. 
 Heaut V. ii. 23, " Nee tu arani tibi, Nee precatorem panaris," and note 
 ibid. Slaves used to suborn an intercessor : cf. Plaut. Asia. II. iv. 9, 
 &c. Amitte = " dimitte," cf. Andr. V. iii. 27, note. — Podhac si quic- 
 quam, nil precor, " If he shall have done any wrong again, I won't 
 intercede for him." For the ellipse after quicquam, cf. Andr. I. ii. 25, 
 " Si sensero hodie quicquam." Parry compares Eun. V. ii. 13, " Unam 
 banc noxiam Amitte; si aliam admisero unquam, occidito." — Tantum- 
 modo non addat, " And all but add, when I'm gone hence kill him, an't 
 please you." Bentlcy places a full stop at precor, and reads addit, 
 " He only does not add," and Flockeiscn follows him. 
 
 94. Quid pecdatjogus ill e, qui citharistriam ? " Sectabatur " sc. A 
 humorous allusion to Phsodria, " Wliat of him, gentleman- usher 
 to the music-girl?" Colman. One of the duties of a slave, who 
 was employed as a ptcdagogue, was to attend his charge to and 
 from school. — Quid rci gent ? " How goes he on ? " i. q. " quid 
 agit?"— Sic, tenuiter, "But so so, very poorly." For sic, cf. Heaut. 
 III. i. 49, Sic hoc, note; Andr. IV. v. 9, 10, note, "Sic ut quimus, 
 ftiunt," &c. In ver. 98, quoad = " quamdiu." — Non cerium scio, cf. 
 Hecyr. III. i. 44, " Certum sciam," where, however, Fleckeisen reads 
 " certo sciam." 
 
 100. Ad portitores esse dclatam, " And that it has been carried to the 
 custom-house-officers." For this sense of " portitor," "cujus erat 
 porturn obsidere, et omnia sciscitari, ut ex iis vectigal sumeret," see 
 Plaut. Mensechm. ; Hildyard's Glossary, 41, " Portitorem domain 
 duxi ; " Asinar. I. iii. 7, " Ego pol istum portitorem privabo portorio ; " 
 Trinumm. III. iii. 64 — 66, " Jam si obsiguatas non feret, dici hoc potest : 
 Apud portitorem eas resignatas sibi, Inspectasque esse ; " Cic. de Off. i. 
 42. — Numquid — me vis ? cf. Adelph. III. iii. 78, note ; Hecyr. II. ii. 30, 
 note. — Puer,heus, " What ho ! boy?" This is said as he knocks at the 
 door. — D a hoc Dorcio, "Give this money to Dorcium," his wife and 
 fellow-slave. The termination is the same as usual in women's 
 names, e. g. Glycerium, Phanium, Planesium. 
 
 ACTUS I.— Sc. IIL 
 
 Antifbo expresses to Phfedria his dread of his father's return, and 
 consequent discovery of his marriage, which is a constant source of 
 anxiety to him. Phsedria rallies him on his being actually disposed 
 to find fault with his good luck in love. Antipho replies (to his 
 cousin's wish that he were in his, Phjcdria's, difficulty), that the 
 difference is in his affair being indissoluble, while Phaedria's can be 
 dropped at any moment. Geta interrupts them.
 
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 Metre: — 1 — 4, 5. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 2, 3, 6—8. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic 
 9, 10, 12 — 24. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 25, 26. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 11. Iambic Dimeter. 
 
 1. Adeon rem redisse, &c, " To think that it should have come to 
 this." Cf. notes to Andr. I. v. 10; Heaut. IV. v. 3.— Ut qui mihi con- 
 sultum optime velit esse, &c, "That him, who has my interest most at 
 heart, that I should dread my father, I say." Cf. Bacch. IV. vi. 18, 
 " Orabat ut quod istic esset scriptum, ut fieret." The second ut is pleon- 
 astic. "Qui — velit" is a periphrasis for "amicus summus," and refers 
 to his " father." For " consultum velit," cf. Plaut. Bacch. III. vi. 36, 
 " Me ires consultum male." — Ejus adventi in mentem venit, cf. for this 
 construction, Phorm. IV. iii. 47, 48; Plaut. Aulul. H. G. 183; Eunuch. 
 
 IV. iii. 24 ; Cic ad Verr. Divinatio. c. xiii. For adventi, archaic, for 
 " adventus," cf. Andr. II. ii. 28, note. 
 
 3. Quod ni fuisstm incogitans, " Whereas had I not been incon- 
 siderate." Incogitans occurs again at III. ii. 14. below, and " ineogi- 
 tautia" in Plaut. Merc. I. i. 27. The particle "quod" occurs as here 
 in Cfesar, B. G. i. 44, "Quod nisi discedat," &c, and below in ver. 5, 
 Quod utinam, pleonastically. — Quid istuc est ? " What's this you speak 
 of?" — Rogitas? qui — consents sis, "Do you ask, who are privy with me 
 to so audacious an act?" Phsedria was with Antipho, cf. I. ii. 41. 
 For mihi conscius, cf. Heaut. I. i. 69, note ; " Qui fuere ei conscii." 
 Plaut. Rudens. IV. vii. 21, " Ne conscii sint ipsi maleficiis suis." 
 For quod utinam, cf. ver. 3. — Neu = "atque utinam ne." — Quod milii 
 — mali, cf. Andr. II. vL 27, " Hem illic est huic rei caput." Parry 
 compares with the general scope of the following lines, Andr. II. vi. 
 9, 10, q. v. 
 
 7. A'o/i potitus essem, " Suppose I had not gained her." Douatus 
 illustrates this granting the possibility of failure, by Virg. JEa. iv. 
 603, " Verum anceps fuerat pugnae fortuna — fuisset." For fuisset mihi 
 ceijrt, cf. Adelph. I. ii. 57, " JSgre est," In ver. 8, Audio is equivalent 
 to "Oh ! doubtless," said ironically. Cf. Andr. III. iii. 20; and Phorm. 
 
 V. viii. 54. In ver. 9, dum exepecto depends upon " cura angeret 
 animura" in ver. 8. — Qui hanc mihi adimat consuetudinem, " Whilst 
 I'm on the look out how soon he may arrive, who is to deprive me of 
 tliis intercourse." For quam mox, cf. Plant. Men. H. G. 606, " Provisatn 
 quam mox vir mens redeat domum." Ibid 79, " Quam mox incendo 
 rogam I" For consuetudinem, cf. Andr. II. vi. 8, note; Hecyr. III. iiL 
 44. — sEgrest, see above, ver. 7. 
 
 10. A His quia d>fit. Wcsterhov. quotes Plaut. Curcul. I. iii. 14, 
 '• Ipsus se excruciat, qui homo quod ainut, videt ; nee potitur, dum 
 " F>t " dofit," see Hecyr. V. ii. 2. — Amore ubundas, Antipho, 
 " You're too rich a lover, Antipho ! " — Colman. 
 
 12. Nam tua quidem hercle certo. For this concurrence of particles, 
 if. Andr. II. ii. 10, note, and the use of the Greek r6iyaprol. The 
 same phrase occurs in Plaut. Menaechm. 228, H. — /'a me di bene aim ni 
 Ml, c£ Hecyr. II. L !*. Dote ; Heaut. III. iii. 8.— Tarn diu qttcd amo frui, 
 ' > o M ; . <>n of what I love as long;" h. e. a« Antipii" baa 
 
 his wife, fam 'Hn w perhaps said StiKTtKwi. Frui, as Stalbauin uotts, 
 ii u^ed " proptie in re amorum."
 
 258 NOTES ON 
 
 14. Jam. dcpecisci mortc cupio, " I'm ready at bhis moment to close 
 the bargain with my death," Parry. " Depecisci morte " is, " to enter 
 on a compact not to refuse even death as an equivalent for the accom- 
 plishment of one's wishes." Cic. ad Att. ix. 7, "Cur non honestissimo 
 f>ericulo depecisci velim ? " Virg. JEn. v. 230, " Vitamque volunt pro 
 Bade pacisci; " xii. 49, "Lotumque sinas pro laude paeisci." — Tit con- 
 jicito ccckra, " Imagine you the rest, what I now reap from this lack I 
 experience, and what you do from that abundance, with which you are 
 blest." Plaut. Casin. I. i. 6, " Dehinc conjicite caeterum." — tit ne= 
 Iva pi\. 
 
 18. Beatus ni unum hoc desk, "Blest in all but tliis" &c. Cf. Hecyr. 
 IV. ii. 25, " Quam fortunatus ceteris sum rebus, absque una bac foret." 
 — Turn sentias, Andr. II. i. 10, " Tu si hie sis aliter sontias." — Noslri 
 nosmct pcenitet, " AVo are dissatisfied with our own state." Cf. Heaut. I. 
 i. 20, note ; Cic. ad Fam. vi. 1, "Etsi ea perturbatio est omnium rerum, 
 ut suae quemque fortunao maxirne poeniteat." — De integro, " afresh," 
 "from a fresh starting-point." Cf. Andr. Prol. 26; Heaut. V. iii. 8, "ad 
 integrum." In ver. 23, Fleekeisen reads " retinere amorem an mittere." 
 
 23. In eum incidi infelix locum, " Have fallen unluckily into that 
 predicament, that I've the power neither of letting her go, nor keeping 
 her." For locum, see Heaut. II. iii. 1 18, " In eum jam res rcdiit locum." 
 For the construction ejus (h. e. " uxoris ") amittendi, see Hecyr. III. 
 iii. 12, note; Heaut. Prol. 29; Madvig. 413, obs. 2, and below, V. vi. 40, 
 where some read "ejus habendi." 
 
 ACTUS L— Sc. IV. 
 
 Geta enters in a state of perplexity how to escape the reward of his 
 aid to his young master, now that his father is come home. He is half 
 inclined to run away from the consequences, and only stays from love 
 to Antipho. Antipho interrupts this soliloquy and learns his father's 
 arrival at the Piraeus. He is in utter consternation, but Geta urges 
 him to brave it out. Ere his father can come up, however, his reso- 
 lution fails, and he leaves Geta and Phacdria to do their best to appease 
 Demipho. They agree to stick to the story of the lawsuit. 
 
 Metre :— 1, 2, 11, 12, 18—37. Trochiac Tetrameter Catalectic 
 3, 4, 6 — 8, 14, 15. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 5, 17. Iambic Dimeter. 
 9, 10. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 13. Trochaic Dimeter Catalectic. 
 16, 38—52. Iambic Trimeter. 
 1. Nullus a. Cf. Andr. III. iv. 20, note; Hecyr. IV. L 6. Bentley in 
 this verse omits " tibi," and reads " repereris." — Tc impendent, " hang 
 over you." For the unusual construction of an accusative after im- 
 pendent, see Lucret. L 327, " Mare qua) impendent veaco sale saxa 
 peresa." Some read " in te impendent," as in Plaut. Epid. I. i. 77, 
 " Tantae in te impendent ruinaa." — Me inde extraharn, " I may ex- 
 tricate myself therefrom," cf. Hecyr. V. iv. 36, " Ex quanta aerumna*
 
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 extraxeris." After ver. 4, copyists have introduced a verse from Andr. 
 
 I. iii. 3, " Quae si non astu," &c. ; but Bentley properly rejects it here. 
 5. Quidnam illc commotus venitt "What is it that he's disturbed 
 
 about, as he comes?" For commotus, compare Audr. V. ii. 23, " Ego 
 jam te commotnm reddam ; " V. iv. 34, " Ita animus commotust metu." — 
 Turn temporis mihi punctum, &c. " Besides I have but a moment for this 
 matter," i. e. devising some plan of concealment. Punctum temporis= 
 <TTiy\jL7) xp6v°v- Barry quotes Hor. Epist. II. ii. 172, "Puncto quod 
 raobilis horse." 
 
 9. Loquarl incendam, "Suppose I speak] I should inflame him. 
 Or be silent? I should goad him on. Or try to excuse my conduct? 
 'twould be labour lost." For mstigem, see Audr. IV. ii. 9, note, "Si 
 hie non insanit satis sua spoute, instiga." — Laterem lavem, literally " I 
 should be trying to wash a brick, -n-Kivdovs irKvveiv, to get the colour out 
 of it." Westerhov. quotes Luciliu*, Sat. ix., " Nam laterem qui ducit 
 habet nil amplius unquam Quam commune lutum e paleis, ccenumque 
 acerosum." For excruciat animi in ver. 10, cf. Mil. Gl. IV. ii. 76, 
 " Quid illam miseram animi excrucias." " Discrucior animi," Flaut. 
 Aulul. H. G. 66. Adelph. IV. iv. 1, " Discrucior animi." 
 
 11. Nam absque eo esset, "For were it not for him." See notes at 
 Hecyr. IV. ii. 25 ; Flaut. Mensechm. H. G. 920. — Recte ego mihi vidissem, 
 " I should duly have looked out for myself." Vidissem is, i. q. " pro- 
 vidissem," as in Andr. II. vi. 25. See the use of " vide," Menaechm. 
 266, H., and the common use of " viderit," " let him look to it," in 
 Virgil JEn. and elsewhere. 
 
 12. Aliquid convasassem, &c. " I would have packed up something." 
 "Convasare " is, i. q. " vasa colligere;" cf. Blaut. Pseud. IV. iii. 16 — 18. 
 Bentley suggested reading "convasissem" unnecessarily. — Meconjicerem 
 in pedes, "I'd take to my heels." Cf. Flaut. Bacch. III. i. 7, "Me 
 continuo contuli protinam in pedes." For " protinam," see Flaut. Cure. 
 
 II. iii. 84, " Exinde me ilico protinam dedi." 
 
 15. Qud qucerere insistam vid, " Ou l'irai-je chercher?" — Madame 
 Dacier. Quarere is, i. q. "ad quserendum." — Expccto, "I anticipate." 
 Virg. J£,n. vL 14, " Inclusi pcenam expectant." — Ibi plurimum est, " He 
 ia mostly there." " Plurimum " = t& it\u(ttov — Donatus. 
 
 18. Satis pro imperio, quixquis es, "You stand sufficiently on your 
 
 authority, whoever you are!" Cf. Adelph. I. i. 27, "pro meo jure." 
 
 Livy iii. 49, " Jam pro imperio Valerius discedere a privato lictores 
 
 jubebat." With obviam supply dart. — Verbo expedi, "Tell me in one 
 
 L" Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 516, " Mi expedi." 
 
 22. Nam quod ego huic, &c. " Prytheo what remedy," &c. For nam 
 I as here, interrogatively, cf. Andr. II. ii. 24, "Quorsum nam istucC 
 note; Andr. III. iv. 12. But see Plaut. Menaechm. H. (5. 150, where it 
 is explained an " emphatice dictum." Cf. Ter. Andr. IN. v. 6. — Exttio 
 mu'dium inveniam, cf. Andr. III. i. 10, "Quod remedium nunc huic 
 malo inveniam." — Eo meat forluwc redeunt, cf. above, I. iii. 1, note. 
 
 25. Fortes fortuna adjuvat. Enniua lib. vii., " Fortibus est fortuna 
 viris data." Cic. True. Diip, II. iv. "Fortes enim non modo fortuna 
 *ljnvat," &c. \iru-. Ma. x. 284, "Audcutes fortuna juvat." Ifenander, 
 
 " riAfiri Stnaia Kal Wfos (Tvkha.fifi4.vti." Sophoc. " oil rols a.8v)X0ts y tux?) 
 nvKKofifiiLvfi." — Nov sum iijnul ml . Amir. II. iv. 5; V. iv. lit, " Vix sum 
 apod me ;" Hecyr. IV. iv. 85, note. — Quvm muximc ut sis (apud te," sc).
 
 200 NOTES ON 
 
 For "cum mnximd," cf. Adelph. IV. i. 2, " Nunc quoin maxime operis 
 ((liquid facoro credo." Hecyr. I. ii. 40, note. 
 
 28. Commcruissc culpam (sc. te), " That you have committed a fault," 
 cf. note nt Hecyr. III. v. 36; Plaut. Aul. 695, H. G. — Non possum im- 
 mu'uri'f, "I cannot change myself: i. e. my usual timid nature." Colman 
 translates, " I cannot help it nor seem otherwise." Madame Dacier, 
 "Jo ne puis pas me changer." 
 
 30. Quom hoc non possum (facere, sc.), h. e. " apud me esse." — Tllud, h. e. 
 " aliud gravius." — Hoc nil est, " This is nothing," h. e. " nothing of im- 
 portance." Cf. Andr. II. i. 14, "Id aliquid nil est." — Ilicet, "Let him 
 be off," h. e. Antipho : cf. Heaut. V. ii. 21, note. — Quid hie conterimus 
 operant, &c. cf. Adelph. V. iv. 15, note.— Quin abeo? " But I'll be off." 
 
 32. Quid si adsinvulo (" me audacem esse," sc), " Suppose I feign 
 boldness ? "Satincst ? " Will that do 1 "—Garris, cf. Heaut. IV. vi. 19, 
 "Garris, Unde?" — Yultum contcmplamini, " Regard my countenance," 
 "Look and see how this face will do . "— Hem, istuc serva, "There! 
 keep that expression." — Et verbum verbo, par pari ut respondeat, " And 
 mind you answer him, word for word, and tit for tat." Ut depends on 
 some verb of cautioning implied in " serva." Par pari, Westerhov. 
 compares Plaut. Trucul. v. 47, " Par pari responded" 
 
 36. Ne te iratus scevidicis dictis protcltt, " Lest in his angev he should 
 repulse you, put you to flight, with his sharp-spoken words." "Protelo" 
 is a very rare word, occurring only here, in the Latin authors, " melioris 
 sevi et notse." It is derived by the old grammarians from TpAe. But 
 Smith (L. D.) derives it from " tendo," by the change of " d" into " 1," as 
 in "cicala" from "cicada." Westerhov. derives it from " telum," in 
 which sense protcltt is equivalent to "lapides loquatur." See Plaut. 
 Aul. 110, Hildyard, "Lapides loqueris." 
 
 38. In ultima plated. Cf. Heaut. V. i. 29, " Ultimis in sedibus ;" and 
 Madvig. Gr. § 311. 
 
 41. Tujam lites audics, &c. " You will catch a rowing, and I shall be 
 tied up and flogged, or I'm much mistaken." Donatus quotes Heaut. 
 II. iii. 115, " Tibi erunt parata verba, huic homini verbera." See also 
 Eun. V. vi. 20, " Tu jam pendebis." Plaut. Cure. V. iv. 24, " Nulla 
 causa est, quin pendentem me, uxor, virgis verberes." 
 
 45. Aufer mi ' oportet,' "Away with your 'musts,' prythee." See 
 note at Adelph. V. viii. 14. Gronovius quotes Hor. Sat. II. vii. 42, 
 " Aufer Me vultu terrere;" and below V. vi. 18, "Quin tu hinc polli- 
 citationes aufer." For the taking up " oportet " from the last speaker's 
 In-, compare Ter. Andr. II. i. 14, "Id 'aliquid' nil est;" I. v. 29, 
 " Misera timeo incertum hoc quorsum accidaf?" 
 
 47. In re incipiundd ad defendendam noxiam, "When we commenced 
 this matter for the purpose of shielding ourselves from blame." For 
 " noxia " in this sense, see Hecyr. II. iii. 3, " Sum extra noxiam ; " 
 Heaut II. iii. 56, note ; Livy x. 1 9, •' Desertori magis, quam deserto 
 loxia fore." — Vincibilem, "Sure to win" actively. So in Plaut. Most. 
 V. ii. 40; Merc. III. iv. 20, "iiupetrabilis" is used actively. Adelph. 
 IV. iii. 18, " placabilius. In ver. 49, ipsd refers to "oratiouo." — Siquid 
 potest, cf. Adelph. IV. L 5, " Et istoc si quid potis est rectius." 
 
 51. Ego in subsidiis hie ero subcenturiatus, " I'll be here in the rear as 
 a reserve." The "subsidia" of the Koman army were the Triarii, or 
 tLird rank ; the "centurise " the second and more advanced lines, which
 
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 were recruited from the rear. Hence, Geta means to say, that he will 
 hang behind to reinforce (succenturiare) Phaedria, and supply his place, 
 if he fails. See Plaut. Cure. IV. iv. 29, " Miles pulchre centuriatus 
 expuncto in manipulo." Bentley, frem old editions and MSS., replaced 
 " subsidiis " for " insidhs." For a humorous introduction of military 
 phrases on the stage, see Eunuch. IV. vii. 6, " Ubi centurio est Sauga 
 et manipulus furum 1 " 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. I. 
 
 Demipho enters, in a rage at his son's marriage, and Phormio's 
 lawsuit. He thinks he might have pleaded some defence, and not 
 yielded so easily. Phsedria and Geta listen to his remarks : and at 
 length Phaedria accosts his uncle, and defends his cousin, on the 
 ground that he was over-reached, and, when sentence was given, over- 
 whelmed, and so did not answer. Geta joins them, and shows that the 
 hindrance to paying some one else to marry the girl was Demipho's 
 absence, and consequent lack of funds. Demipho is determined to 
 see Phormio, and arrange some reversal of the marriage. 
 
 Metre :— 1, 2, 22, 23. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 3 — 21. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 24 — 84. Iambic Trimeter. 
 1. Itane tandem, " Is it so then? " For tandem, used in angry inter- 
 rogations, cf. Andr. V. iii. 4, " Ain' tandem?" — Injussu meo ; Hecyr. 
 IV. i. 47; IV. iv. 82, notes. — Nee meum imperiwn — revereri saltern? 
 " And was he not in awe of my authority. Well, well ? " I waive 
 authority — at any rate afraid of dissension with me?" Revereri, the 
 hist, infinitive. For age, mitto imperiwn, cf. Heaut. IV. i. 24, "At id 
 omitto : misericordia, animus maternus: sino." — Simtdtatem (th. simul), 
 A coming together, generally hostile, cf. Plaut. Pseud. I. iii. 50, 
 " Ne illam veridas ob simultatem suam; " and Cic. ad Att. ii. 19, where 
 this passage is quoted by Cicero. 
 
 4. Oeta Monitor/ " Oh, that Geta, his prompter ! " Monitor was a 
 title applied to "pedagogues." Ruhnken quotes Hor. A. P. 163, 
 " Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper." Heaut. V. i. 2, " Adjutor 
 meua et monitor et prccmonstrator Chremes." — Vix tandem may mean, 
 •' 1 1 old, scarcely that ; I've hardly been that to him." Or, as Stalbaum 
 thinks, " So ! at hist he's hardly come to speak of me ! " "Pene inei 
 oblitus est." This is the view of Donatus. 
 
 5. Atqui repperijam : aliud cura, " Nay, but I've found one already ; 
 think of something else." (aside.) Fleckeisen, following Lachmanu 
 (Lucret iii. 1050), roads "reperinm," which he places in the mouth of 
 
 Iria. Parry combats this change satisfactorily, see his notes here. 
 7. Verum scientem — causam tradcre adversariis, " But wittingly, and 
 without a word to yield the cause to your opponents." According to 
 Gronov. Obs. L. iii. c. xxiii. p. 053, " Donare causam adversaria" \\m 
 the part of a " prevaricator or "sham defendant or accuser," " ono 
 who plays booty;'' s.iid of those who "per malain gratiam causam 
 adr«nania tradunt." — IUud durum, "That's hard to answer ! " This is
 
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 in the mouth of Pheedria. Pbaidria is less ready than Qeta, who is 
 quirk to answer the argument, which strikes so home to the other. 
 
 10. AnimuDi ad cogitandum institucre, "Settle" or "compose my 
 mind to thinking." Plant. Most. I. ii. 2, " Argumentaque in pectus 
 multa iuatitui." — Quamobrem omnes — accidat animo novum. These 
 verses appear to have been suggested by the fragment of Euripides's 
 Theseus, quoted by Galen (IV. vii.), Plutarch and others, and to be 
 found in Dindorf 's Poet. Scon. Fragm. Eurip. 384. Cicero quotes the 
 vereee of Terence and Euripides (translated) in his Tusc. Disp. iii. 14. 
 In ver. 13, Fleckeiseu, following Bentlcy, whose reading is based on 
 Tusc. Disp. 1. c, reads — 
 
 " Pericla damna peregre rediens semper secum cogitet." 
 
 Parry, following Westerhov. and others, reads "Pericla, damna, exilia. 
 Peregre rediens semper cogitet," making the three asyndetous words 
 an explanation of " rerumnam ; " and beginning a new sentence at 
 Peregre. We prefer Fleckeisen's whole arrangement of this passage. 
 
 15. Communia esse hcec, "That these things may befall any of us." 
 Cf. Virg. JEa. vi. 105, " Non ulla laborum virgo nova mi fades in- 
 opinave surgit : Omnia prcecepi, atque animo mecum ante peregi." 
 
 16. Quicquid prceter spem — in luci'o. Cf. notes at Adelph. V. iii. 31, 32; 
 Hecyr. III. i. 7 ; Hor. Od. I. ix. 14, " Quem sors dierum," &c. — Ante eo 
 sapientid, cf. Plaut. Bacch. V. i. 3, "Solus ego omnes longe anteeo 
 stultitia." — Meditata mihi sunt omnia. For participles of deponents 
 used passively, see Madvig. Gr. § 153. Construe, " All my mishaps, 
 when my master shall have returned, have been thought over." 
 Si=" cum." For meditata, see Cic. Tuscul. Disp. iii. 14, " Siut semper 
 omnia homini humana meditata." Catil. I. x., "Ad hujus vitse studium 
 meditati illi sunt, qui feruntur, labores tui." 
 
 19. Molendumst in pislrino, cf. Andr. I. ii. 28, 29, notes. — Vapu- 
 landum, "mihi" sc. "I must suffer beating." Cf. Plaut. Pcen. IV. ii. 33, 
 "Mihi vapulandum est." — Opus run fact imdum, "I must be set to 
 work on tho farm," instead of in the city, a degradation. Cf. Hor. 
 Sat. II. vii. 118, "Accedes opera agro nona Sabino." 
 
 25. Salvum venire. Cf. Hecyr. III. v. 7, note. — Creditur. Demipho 
 breaks off his nephew's speech abruptly. — Satin' omnia ex sententid, " Is 
 all as you could wish? " Cf. Heaut. IV. iii. 5, note ; Aulul. H. G. 544. 
 — Vellem quidem, cf. Adelph. V. i. 13, " Nollem hue exitum." 
 
 28. Bonas — confecistis nuptias, " You have brought about a fine 
 marriage here, in my absence." For " conficere nuptias " see Andr. 
 IV. i. 50 ; Heaut. V. i. 22. In ver. 29 (an id succenses nunc illi ?), id is 
 the accusative of limitation ; cf. Andr. II. iii. 3, " Si id succenseat," 
 note. 
 
 31. Dari mihi in conspectum,"! long to have my son himself set face 
 to face with me." " Let mo but set eyes on him," Colman. Compare 
 Adelph. III. ii. 13, " Quam illam totam familiam dari mi obviam." — 
 Lenem patrem ilium, " That that formerly lenient father of his," or "his 
 father so well known for his lenity." Donatus illustrates "ilium " by 
 Virg. JEu. ii., " Quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore." See too Andr. I. 
 i. 59, " Nam Andrise Illi id erat nomen." 
 
 34. Ecce autem, " Why look you now ! " (in token of astonishment 
 at something unexpected). See notes at Adelph. I. ii. 73 ; Menrechm.
 
 PHORMIO. 
 
 2G3 
 
 H. G. 687; Hecyr. III. v. 53. Construe, "Why, lo ! it's all of a piece ! " 
 — Omnes congruunt, " They are all agreed " in their story, sc. Compare 
 Heaut. III. L 102, " Ne nosruet inter nos congruere sentiant."— Vnum 
 cognoris, &c. For this proverb, compare Viig. JEn. ii. 65, " Accipe 
 nunc Danaum insidias et crimine ab uno Disce oames." Audi'. 
 Prol. 10. 
 
 36. Hie in noxid est. Some read "noxa." Ruhnken and Fleckeisen 
 and others read noxia, which we retain. Cf. I. iv. 48. — Me ad defen- 
 dendam causam ad- at, " One does a fault, the other's hard at hand to 
 bear him out." — Colman. Adest, says Gronovius, is a forensic word, 
 Cic. pro. Milone, c. 14, " Vidi enim, vidi hunc ipsum Q. Hortensium, 
 lumen et ornamentum reipublicse pcene iuterfici manibus servorum, 
 cum mihi adtsset. — Prcesto est is used in the same sense in the next 
 verse, and in Cic. pro. Murena. e. q. " Servius prcesto multis fuit." 
 
 38. Probe eoricm — depinxit senex, " The old man has unwittingly 
 drawn a correct picture of their doings." "Depiugere" may be taken 
 here in its natural sense, see Psenul. PI. V. ii. 154. For imprudens, see 
 Andr. IV. i. 18, note; Plaut. Men. H. G. 326; and Aulul. 23, H. G. &c. 
 
 39. Cum illo haud stares, " You would not side with him," " You 
 would not stand by him." Compare Mensechm. 701, " Hinc stas, illinc 
 causam dicis," and Hildyard's note. " Hinc " is, i. q. " a me" the more 
 usual form with " sto " in this sense. This phrase is properly applied 
 to military, and in its secondary sense to forensic, support. — Si est, 
 patrue, culpam ut. For si est — ut, see Adelph. III. v. 4, uote; Hecyr. 
 IV. i. 43, note. " Cidpam in se admisent." Cf. Adelph. IV. v. 48, "Me 
 hoc delictum admisisse in me," note. 
 
 41. Minus rci aut famte temperans, "Too inconsiderate as to his 
 patrimony, or his reputation. Rei refers to his marrying a poor girl ; 
 famce, to his marrying one humbly born. For " tempero " as here iu 
 the sense of " parco," Parry quotes Hor. Od. III. xxiv. 18, " Illic matre 
 carentdbua Privignis mulier temperat innocens." — Ex qud rc=ex qua 
 culpa, h. e. " so that by that fault." — Non causam dico quin, " I do not 
 argue against." Cf. Plaut. Aul. 712 (Hildyard), " Haud causijicor, quin 
 earn Ego habeam potissimum." Plaut. Capt. III. iv. 92, " Nullam 
 causam dico quin," &c. Casin. V. iv. 26. 
 
 45. Vicit, "Has won the suit." Cf. I. ii. 82, " Vincam scilicet;" 
 I. iv. 49, " Vincibilem." — Qui sape propter invidiam — addunt pauper i. 
 Diviti, e. g. " Antiphoni ; " pauperi, e. g. " Phanio." Lindenbrog 
 i|Uotes from Sotades, 'O irtvns ^Aeerrai, 6 8« irhovaios (pdoveiTai. An;i- 
 ph.ines, KdKwi ■ntvtaBa.i puKKov V\ tt\ovt(7v Ko/cir. Tb nev yap eAeoc, to 
 5" in nip-no- iv <ptpti. WeetorhoT. observes that the Law of Moses provided 
 against such unfairnecs, cf. Exod. xxxiii. 3 ; Levitic. xix. 15. 
 
 52. Functus adulesceniulist Officiuia Uberalit. For the ace. after 
 " fungor," cf. notes on Heaut. I. i. 14, " Officia fungere;" Adelphv III. 
 iv. 18, "Functus officiumst viri." — Non potuit cogitata proloqui, "He 
 wanted power to utter what he had prepared." — Colman. 11 n'a pu 
 diro ce qu'il avoit prdpard. — Madame Daci<T. 
 
 57. Bone cuslos, salve, columen, &c., "How are you, excellent governor, 
 
 and support of my family." For " custos " see above II. i. 4, " O C,< vi 
 
 monitor." Both words refer to the samo office. — Oohnmen families, of. 
 
 llor. Od, II. .wii. 4, "Qrande deoua, cohuneuque rerum"; I. xxxv. 14, 
 
 intern columnam ; " Plaut. Caa. III. ii. 6, "Sed cecum egreditur
 
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 sanati colamen, presidium popli " (said, as here, ironically). Adelph. 
 111. iv. 35, " Solus omnem faniiliam Sustentat." ' 
 
 60. ImmcritUsimo, adv. superlative, "most undeservedly." Westerhov. 
 quotes from a fragment of Coelilius " meritissimo." 
 
 O'J. Servum hominem, Sec. " A slave the laws will not allow to plead." 
 For the fact here enunciated, see Audr. IV. iv. 32, note. For the sub- 
 stantive used adjectively, "hominem servom," cf. Adelph. IV. vii. 6, 
 " Virgiuem civem," note ; PL Men. H. G. 3, " Hominis captivos ; Aul. 
 H. G. 377; Plaut. Ep. III. i. 7. For "causam ornre," cf. Hecyr. IV. 
 iv. 64, " Egi atque oravi tecum." Cf. Virg. JEn. vi. 850, "Orabunt.causas 
 melius." Cicero in his oration for Sextus Rose. Amerin. c. 10, uses the 
 phrase, "Ameriam re inoratd reverterunt," h. e. indictd, nullo de re 
 verbo facto. — Neque testimoni dictio'st, " Nor has he the right to give 
 evidence." Dictio is a verbal adjective of the same nature as " Tactio," 
 iu Aulul. 377, H. G. ; Menaechm. 914, though in these cases tho verbals 
 retain the construction of their verb, while here we have the natural 
 construction of the latter of two substantives. Fleckeisen reads in 
 ver. 64, " Do istuc imprudens," &c. But there seems no ground for 
 altering the usual reading, "addo." Some editions have "adde" — tlie 
 Beinbine C. "addo." Colman translates "Nay more ! " " The boy was 
 bashful." " I allow it." 
 
 66. Sed id quod lexjubet, Dotem daretis, " But as the law enjoins, you 
 should have given her a dower ; she might have sought another hus- 
 band." For this law, cf. I. ii. 75, note &c For " quaereret alium 
 virum" cf. Hecyr. V. i. 20, "Qurere alium tibi firmiorem." Donatus 
 says, that " qusero " indicates " looking out in disgust ; " a3 in Virgil 
 -En. " Quterat sibi foedera Turnus." 
 
 68. Qud ratione &c, " On what reckoning did he marry a penniless 
 girl, rather than give her a dowry?' Potius (" quam dotabat," so.). Geta 
 punning upon the word " ratio " observes, " non ratio, verum argentum 
 deerat." " Ce n'est pas la raison qui nous a manque", e'est l'argent." 
 Madame Dacier. So Plaut. Trinumm. II. iv. 17, "Ratio quidem herele 
 apparet, argentum ofx«Tai. "Ratio," in the 69th line, seems to mean 
 the "account" in a money point of view. — Sumeret alicunde (mutub, sc), 
 " He might have borrowed it from any one." Geta rejoins, " From any 
 one, eh ! that's very easily said." 
 
 71. Postremo — fcenore, " Last of all, if by no other means, on 
 interest." Ruhnken distinguishes "mutuom" from "fcenus" by the 
 former being " sine usuris," the later " cum usuris." Cf. Plaut. Asin. 
 I. iii. 95, " Nam si mutuas non potero, certumst sumam fcenere." Plaut. 
 Epid. I. i. 51. Fcenus or " feuus" (th. "fetus," feo, <pva>) is=to the Greek 
 t6kos. 
 
 72. Siquidem quisquam crederet Te vivo. This would be a violation of 
 what Plautus (Pseud. I. iii. 69) calls the " Lex quina vicenaria," which 
 forbade loans to a minor under twenty -five years of age, in his father's 
 life; and rendered such loans, if made, irrecoverable. See also Plaut. Ru- 
 deus. V. iiL 26. This law was also called " Lsetoria lex." — Non, non sicfatiir 
 rum'st: non potest. Ruhnken illustrates the force of the repeated " non" 
 here, by Livy xxx. 14, " Non est, non (mihi crede) tanturn ab hostibus 
 — periculum." See also Adelph. I. ii. 21—22. — Egone illam cum illo ut 
 patiar &c, cf. note on Andr. I. v. 28, " Ein' ego ut advorser." For 
 cum illo — nuptam, see Hecyr. IV. L 19, note; and ibid. ver. 23.
 
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 75. Nil suave mcritumst. J. F. Gronovius explains this, "Nil mihi 
 niercedis suave est, ut ego illam cum illo uuptaua feram, " No compen- 
 sation can satisfy me, for," &c. ; and Plaut. Men. 134, H. G., "Neque 
 hodie, ut te perdam, meream Deum divitias mihi," in some degree 
 supports this explanation. But it is simpler and more satisfactory 
 to adopt Parry's explanation that " meritum " is used here, as in 
 V. viii. 25 below, passively ; so that we should construe, " No leniency 
 has been deserved." Madame Dacier, in a note on the passage, catches 
 a light upon it in her last words — "Ou plutot c'est le preterit du verbe 
 qui peut etre actif et passif." 
 
 78. Jam faxo hie aderit. For " faxo " followed by an indicative, as 
 here, see Plaut. Men. H. G. 240, "Jam ergo haec madebunt faxo," and 
 ibid. 4.62. Ter. Eun II. ii. 54; IV. hi. 21, "Jam faxo scies." See 
 below V. viii. 66. It more commonly has a subjunctive after it. — 
 Recta via, cf. Andr. IIL iv. 21. — Nempe ad Pampktlam, is, of course, 
 said aside. 
 
 81. At ego Deos penates hint salutatum, &c, "But I will step aside 
 hence, and go home to salute my household gods ;" a u-ual custom 
 before meeting relations and families, on returning home. Cf. Plaut. 
 Ampb. I. i. 25, " Dis advenientem gratias pro meritis agere atque 
 adloqui." Stichus. IV. i. 29, "Deos salutatum atque uxorem modo 
 intro dt-vortor domum." — A micos advocabo, " I will call some Mends 
 to my aid." Cf. Plaut. Amph. V. L 76, " Ego Tiresiam conjectorem 
 advocabo." Hence the use of the word "advocatus," see Ter. Adelpb. 
 IV. v. 42, " Advorsumne ilium causam dicerem Cui veneram advocatus." 
 Plaut. Men. (Hildyard) TOO, " Non equidem mihi te advocatum, pater, 
 adduxi." — Adsient is also used in a forensic sense, cf. above in this 
 scene ver. 36, " Ille ad dicendam causam adest," note. 
 
 ACTUS IL— Sc. IL 
 
 Geta having apprised Phormio of Demipho's arrival, and the con- 
 sequent abandonment of Phanium by Antipho, the parasite prepares to 
 meet the angry father, and, by recalling to Geta's mind former successful 
 tricks, encourages him to hope that he will take the whole business 
 on his own shoulders. He says his boldness arises from having nothing 
 to lose, and from his sponging qualifications. 
 
 Metre : — Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. Admodwn, " Exactly so ! " see note at Hecyr. III. v. 8. — Oppido, 
 cf. Heaut. IV. ii. 2, note. Donaldson's Varronianus, p. 93, q. v. — Ad tc 
 gumvia — redit, " The conduct of affairs reverts to, or devolves on you 
 alone, Phormio." For MffiM rerum, Kulmken quotes Csesar. Bell. 
 Civ. iii. 5, "Ad lmnc nuxuoa imperii respicicbat." 
 
 4. Tute hoc intristi, h. c. "intrivistL" "You have made this mess : 
 you must eat it all. Set about it then !" — Intcro is to" bruise, orumble, 
 or pound." — Intritum, "a mash," cf. PhajdiuB I. xxvi. 7, " Intrito a bo 
 Plenam lagouam posuit." Ausonius, Idyll, vii., quotod by Ldodanbrog,
 
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 baa " Tilii quod intristi exedcndum est; sic vetus verburn jubet, Com- 
 piles quas ipse fecit, ipsus ut gestet faber." 
 
 5. Obsccro te. " I pray you, help us." — Si rogabit, "Suppose lie enquire 
 of me why 1 act thus." — Eccere, " I have it now." Ecccre is, i. q. '' Per 
 jedem Cereris," cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 310. It occurs in the Amphitryo 
 aud Casiua also. Some derive it from " ecce, res ! " " lo there ! " 
 Donaldson's Varroniauus, p. 436, agrees with the former explanation — 
 Quid si reddet may mean " What if he reply;" or " What if he return 
 tho girl on our hands." In these two lines Phortnio and Geta are 
 engaged in their own lines of thought ; aud it seems a game of cross 
 questions and crooked answers. 
 
 7. Jaminstructa sunt mi in corde. Cf. Plaut. Pseud. II. iii. 10, "Jam 
 instituta, ornata, cuueta in ordine animo ut volueram Certa, defonnata 
 habebam." — Cedo sencm is, " Let's have the old mau before us ! " 
 
 9. Antiphonem eripiam atque in me, &c. Cf. Hecyr. III. i. 55, note. — 
 Omnem iram dirivem senin, " Turn all the current of the old man's 
 wrath upon myself." Cf. Cic. pro Milone, c. 10, " Dicam nou derivandi 
 crimiuis causa." 
 
 11. In nervom erwmpat deniqne, "1 fear that courage may end at last 
 iu the stocks." Cf. IV. iv. 15 below, " Nostra cause scilicet In nervom 
 potius ibit." Cf. Rudens. Plaut. iii. vi. 34, "Melius est te in nervom 
 correpere." Plaut. Aulul. 700, " In nervo," where see Hildyard's 
 Glossary. Festus explains " nervum " ferreum vinculum, quo pedes 
 impediuntur, quanquam Plautus eo etiam cervices viuciri ait." Gr. 
 £uAott48ti. See also Curcul. V. iii. 40, " Tu autem in nervo jam jacebis." 
 
 ] 2. Jam pedum visa'st via, " The way of my footsteps is plain." " I 
 can go my own way without getting into the stocks." For factumst 
 ■periclum above, see Andr. III. iii. 33. Pericutum feceris, note. — Dcvvr- 
 bcrasse usque ad necem, "Have cudgelled well nigh to death," said 
 metaphorically, to express " have almost ruined." Madame Dacier 
 translates, " Combien crois-tu que j'ai batu de gens en ma vie"; and 
 "Westerhov. illustrates the passage aptly by Plaut. Capt. III. v. 12 — 14, 
 " Quia me meamque rem — Tuis scelestis falsidicis fullaciis Delace- 
 ravisti, deartuavistique opes." 
 
 14. Quo magis novi, tanto scepius, u The better I know the way, the 
 oftener I've done it." After "novi," sc. riam hanc from ver. 12. — 
 Cedodum, en unquam ivjuriarum, &o. "Come tell me now, I wonder if 
 you ever heard of an action for assault having been brought against 
 me?" For cedodum, cf. Andr. I. i. 123, and I. i. 1. For icriptam 
 dicam, see above I. ii. 77, note. — En unquam, cf. below II. iii. 1. Plant. 
 Trin. II. iv. 189, " O Pater, En unquam aspiciam te! "' Virg. Eel. i. 68, 
 " En unquam patrios lougo post tempore fines," &c. Eel. viii. 7, " En 
 quid ago." So tfv is used before questions in Greek. See Conington's 
 note on Virg. Eel. i. 68. 
 
 16. Quia non rete, &c. " Because the net's not spread to catch the 
 hawk Or kite, who do us wrong : but laid for those Who do us none at 
 all; in them there's profit, In these mere labour lost." So Colman, 
 literally enough. Compare for the sentiment Juvenal ii. 63, " Dat 
 veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas." Phormio means to say that 
 the well-to-do are the only persons worth putting into prison ; needy 
 fellows like himself are all cost and no profit. For opera ludiiur, cf. 
 Caeiua. II. vii. 1, " Meam operam luserim."
 
 piiormio. 267 
 
 19. Alih aliundest pericvlum, &c. " Some are exposed to danger from 
 one quarter, some from another, of those, from whom anything can be 
 extorted." — A bradi (cf. Cicero. Csecin. 7), a metaphor from shaving or 
 scraping wood. — Ducent damncUum domum, An allusion to the custom 
 of Romau law, that debtors, when insolvent, should be condemned to 
 slavery in the house of the creditor, and so made to work out their 
 debt. To this the passage of Plaut. Mensech. H. G. 23, refers, "Ad 
 Menaechmum nunc eo, quo jam diu Sum judicatus," where Hildyar I 
 explains "judicatus " damnatus, "addictus quasi per judicis seuten 
 tiam." See also Asin. V. ii. 87, " Judicatum me uxor adducit domum." 
 For alere, " to keep," &c. in the next verse, see Hildyard's Glossary to 
 Meuajchm. v. 22, " Non alit." Hecyr. IV. iv. 48. Creditors had to 
 maintain their " nexi." 
 
 23. Ab Mo. i. e. Antipho — Immo enim — graliam reyi refert, "Nay 
 rather, no <>ne can be grateful to his entertainer as he deserves." Repi, 
 ■ the master of the feast," the " arbiter bibendi," who had the " regna 
 vim." This interpretation is given by Westerhov., but the general inter- 
 pretation is, that " regi " here means " patron ; " and Parry quotes Plaut. 
 Stich. III. ii. i. 2, "Tam confido quam potest Me meum obtenturuui 
 regem ridiculis meis;" and Juvenal, i. 135-6 in confimation of this. 
 The general sense of "entertainer" meets both views, which are iu 
 fact much akin. — Ten' asymbolum venire, h. e. auvfi^oKov SenrveTv, " For 
 you at free cost to dine." Cf. note at Andr. I. i. 61, " Synibolam 
 dedit;" Eun. III. iv. 2, " De symbolis esse." Compare also the use 
 of "immunem" in Hor. Od. IV. xii. 22, " Non ego te meis Immuuem 
 meditor tingere poculis." — Cnctum et lautum, &c. An allusion to the 
 Roman luxury of the bath before- dinner. Cf. Plaut. Trinumm. II. 
 iv. 5, " Comesum, expotum, exntum, elotum in balneis." Pers. I. 
 iii. 10, " Lautum credo e balneis Jam hie adfuturum." 
 
 26. Otiosum. ab animo, " Easy as regards my mind." Cf. Plaut. Aul. 
 178 (Hildyard), " Innoxium abs te atque abs tuis," h. e, "quod ad te 
 et tuos attinet." Plaut. Trucul. IV. iii. 59, "Ab ingenio est improbus." 
 Iu Andr. V. ii. 1, q. v. we have, "animo otioso." — llle rinyitur, "He 
 chafes." Cf. Hor. Ep. II. ii. 128, " Quam sapere et ringi." "Ringi' 
 is, primarily, " to grin like a dog," " to show the teeth," — Prior de- 
 cu.rn.bas, " You are the first to be seated at table." Cf. Asin. V. i. 1 , 
 " Agedum, decumbamus sis, pater." " Discumbere " is more common 
 in this sense, Cic. in Verr. i. 26, " Mature veniunt, discumbitur." — 
 Ccena dubia adponttiw, "A dinner is served, of which you are puzzled 
 what to eat first." Bo Horace Sat. II. ii. 77, " Vides, ut pallidus omnia 
 o& deaurgat dubia." In a somewhat similar sense, Silius Italicus 
 uses "Dubia in' tit .tu- cuspide" (iv. 188), where "dubia" implies the 
 hesitation of the spear's owner, whom he shall first assail. 
 
 30. Rationem meat, "You go into a calculation." — Prcesentem deum, 
 " A favouring deity," Virg. Eel. i. 42, "Nee tam prasentes alibi cog- 
 noscere divec." Hor. Od, I. xxxv. 2, " PraeBens, vel imo tollere de 
 gradu." Ibid. III. v. 2, " Praesens divus habebitur Augu.stus." — Pout- 
 ilia jam, ut lubet , ludas licet. "Tout le reste ne sera que jeu," "All 
 that follows will be mere play." For postilla, Bee Andr. V. iv. 33, note; 
 l'laut. Men. H. G. 256.
 
 NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. III. 
 
 ] n.Minio has brought with him certain friends to witness his inter- 
 view with Phormio, :vn. 1 now enters with them, taking counsel as to 
 what he shall do. Geta and Phormio get up a conversation, which 
 they manage that ho shall overhear. Phormio blames the avarice of 
 1 teoiipho, whose conduct in regard to Phanium has been influenced by 
 puree-pride. Geta pretends to defend his master hotly. Demipho 
 joins them at this point, and asks the name of the friend of Phormio, 
 whom he (Demipho) is supposed to have forgotten, and whose daughter 
 he scorns for his sou. Phormio at first is at fault, but, aided by Geta, 
 gives Stilpho's name. As to the relationship, he has gone into all that 
 in the courts of law. He declines Demipho' s offer of five minse, if he 
 will take back Phormio, and Demipho threatens to turn her out of 
 doors. Phormio says, he had better not 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. En unquam, cf. II. ii. 15, note. These words are an appeal of 
 Deniipho to his friends.— Adestc qutsso, " Pry thee stand by me" (as 
 '•advocati"). Cf. above II. i. 82, "Amicos advocabo ad banc rem qui 
 adsient ; " and at ver. 36 of the same scene.— Quin tu hoc ages, " Well 
 then, heed me now." Cf. Andr. I. ii. 15, "Hoccine agis an non ?" note. 
 Plant. Menfechm. 726 ; Heaut. IV. iii. 16, note. 
 
 4. Jam ego hunc agitabo, " I'll soon disturb him," a metaphor from 
 
 wild beasts roused from their lairs by the hunter. Cf. Andr. V. ii. 2:3. 
 
 4 Ego jam te commotum reddam," note; and Heaut. IV. iv. 8, note. 
 
 —Pro Deum immortalium ("fidem," sc.). In ver. 7, Sequimini is 
 
 addressed by Demipho to the " advocati." 
 
 8. Neque ejus patrem, &c, "And does he say that he does not know 
 who was her father? " A Greek construction, like otSa <re rls & The 
 sentence depends on an affirmative verb implied in " negat." There is 
 no need, with Bentley, to doubt the genuineness of ver. 9. Further 
 in the scene Phormio forgets Phanium's father's name, but, as Zeune 
 observes, " Perturbatus non semper memor est dictorum." 
 
 10. Ignoratur parens, " Her father is despised as unknown." We 
 use the word "ignore," almost in this sense, of things. Kuhnken 
 illustrates the word by Plaut. Ainpb.it. IV. iii. 14, " Queni omnes 
 mortales ignorant et ludificaut, ut lubet," where "ignorare" is ex- 
 plained "aapernari et cognoscere nolle." Lindenbrog quotes from 
 Menander's A del phi, ipyov evptlv avyytvrj U(V7]t6s iariv ov8f fls yap 
 dfioKoyei'Avra TtpoaijKziv tov #o7j0eias rwhs A(6fxevoV alrtLadai yap a^a 
 ti TrpooZoica. For vide, " Look you now," said in a rage, see Adelph. V. 
 i. 4, " Illud sis vide Kxemplum discipline." 
 
 12. Si herum inrimulabia avaritice, &c. For this construction, cf. 
 Madvig. Gr. § 293. Plaut. Mil. G. ii. iv. 12, " Qui propudii me maxime 
 i-inocentem Falso uvimulftvitl" See Hildyard'a Glossary on Menscchni. 
 70?, "Quae iusontem meimulea." — Edam m u/tro accusaium advenil? 
 For vitro, .-ee note at Adelph. IV. iii. 4 ; Andr. I. i. 73, note. 
 
 It. Nam jam wlulwccnti, &c. Phormio continues as if he had not 
 heard Demipho's observation. Qusxl is i. q. " propter quod," " As to
 
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 the youth, I cannot take offence, If lie had not much knowledge of 
 him," Colman. — Homo jam grandior, ''Seeing that the man being now 
 somewhat advanced in years ; " cf. Virg. iEu. vi. 304, "Jam senior: 
 sed cruda deo, viridisque senectus." — Out opera vitafu.it, § ih ifr/ov i\v 
 6 /Si'os, " Whose labour was his subsistence." Ruhnkeu quotes Plaut. 
 Stich. III. ii. 9, " Nam ut ilia vitam repperit hodie sibi ; " where as 
 here, vitum = " victum." Bentley from some MSS. reads " Cui in opere 
 vita fuit," and he is followed by Zeune and Fleckeisen. — Ruri fere Se 
 continebat. Cf. Adelph. I. i. 20, "Ille contra hsec omnia Ruri agere 
 vitam." For Ruri see M&dvig. § 273, b. 
 
 18. Agrum — cohndum habehat, " He held land under my father to 
 till," a sign of narrow means. Ruhnken illustrates by Virg. JEn. 
 xii. 520, "Couductaque pater tellure serebat." — Se hunc negligere cogaa- 
 turn suum, " That this man being his kinsman overlooked him." Se 
 refers of course to the old man. — At quern virumt quern, &c, "Aye, and 
 what a man ! the very best I have seen in my lifetime." For this form 
 of praise, see Eun. III. v. 42. "At quern deuni ! qui templa cceli summa 
 sonitu concutit." For in vita, cf. Heaut. V. iii. 4. — Optimum — quern, 
 is i. q. " Optimum eurum. quos." 
 
 21. Videjs, te at'juc il/um ut narras, "See what lies you're telling 
 about yourself and him." This is the simplest and only plausible in- 
 terpretation of an obscure passage. It is borne out by the use of 
 "narro ' = "mentior" in Heaut. II. i. 8, " Sua qua? narrat facinora;" 
 Adelph. IV. ii. 18, &c. Beutley ventured to alter the text to " Vidisti 
 nullum, ut narras ; " but this is too sweeping an emendation. For 
 / in nialam crucem, see 1'laut. Men. Prol. 66, " Abstraxitque hominem 
 in maximam malam crucem;" ibid. 242, " Nunquid vis? Ut eas 
 masimam in malam crucem;" Aulul. 413, " Abi iu malum erucia- 
 tura." So Aristoph. is Kopanas t\duv. Construe, "Go to perdition;" 
 " Go and be hanged." See Audr. III. v. 15, "Quid meritu's? Crucem !" 
 — /lane in ver. 23, is "Phanium," of course. Bentley, from the Co. lex 
 Bembinus, reads vostram familiam, which Parry and Fleckeisen adopt. 
 — llltberalittr, cf. Adelph. IV. v. 30, q. v. The antecedent to guam 
 is hanc. 
 
 25. Pergin' hero absenti male loqui, &c, "Are you going on to abuse 
 my master in his absence," &c. So Plaut. C:ipt. III. iv. 32, "Male mihi 
 loqui audes ?" Trueul. II. ii. 10, " Pergin male loqui, mulier, mihi ) " 
 
 26. Lfignum autem hoc illo est. " Well ! he deserves it!'' — Aim tandem, 
 i? For tandem here, compare Audr. V. iii. 4, " Ain' tandem, civis 
 
 Glyccri'im.-t I " " Say you ro," &c. See above II. i. 3. Career is, i. q. 
 " carcere digne ! " Cf. Aulul. 476 H., " Aliqua mala crux," where 
 '' crux " is used of a person. Bentley altered " tandem " into "tamen," 
 to amend the metre. — Seque dignas, h. e. " quas ipse debet audire." 
 
 81. Bond venid, ■' With your leave," i. q. "pace tua." Parry emotes 
 
 from Cicero do Orat. i. 57, " Bona venia hujus optimi viri dixerim." — 
 
 \b% placert potu est, h. e. "potest" used impersonally. Construe, 
 
 " An't please you." For " potis est," cf. Notes to Andria II. vi. 6. In 
 
 '.■ r, 'M. qui in the ablative case. 
 
 ProimtU exjmcare, quaxi non nosses, " You fish for the answer, just 
 U if you did not. know him." Cic. ad Fain. ix. 19, " Nescis me ab ill" 
 "inida expiacatum."- -Proinde — quasi. So " Proiade — at," in Plaut. 
 Men. S17, and Amph. Prol. 03. — Ego m<. nego {none, sc.) — redigt in
 
 270 NOTKS ON 
 
 memorial)!, " Faites m'en souvenir," "Help me to recollect it." Wes- 
 terhov quotes Cio. ad Fain, i. 9, " Quidque sibi is de se reccpisset, in 
 nu'iu.u iaiu rcdegit." 
 
 37. SoortMMl tuum, "Your cousin-german." Sobrini (cf. Hecyr. III. 
 v. 8, note) are the children of "consobriui" i. q. " consororiui," sisters' 
 •hil.lr.il. For cnicas, "you worry me," cf. Audr. IV. i. 36, "Cur nie 
 silicas I" note. 
 
 40. Subjux, "Prompt me," "Suggest it to me." Ruhnken emotes 
 Virg. JE\i. iii. 314, " Vix pauca furenti Subjicio." Propert. I. vii. 20, 
 '• Nee tibi subjiciet carmiua serus Amor." — Hem, non dico, &c, " Hold ! 
 I'll not tell you : you come hither to try me, as if you didn't know 
 hiin." — Non dico: present for the future, as in Plaut. Men. 148. 
 These words are said aloud to Demipho. — Si meministi — subjice, aside 
 to Geta. In ver. 42, with atque adco quid mea, understand " refert," 
 " Well then, ii you must have it, what matters it to me." For atque 
 adeo, see Plaut. Men. 47, H. G. — Quid med, see Hecyr. III. v. GO. 
 
 46. At si talentxim rem, &c, "But suppose he had left behind him a 
 property amounting to ten talents." — l)i tibi malefaciant, " Bad luck to 
 you." For the opposite phrase, cf. Ter. Adelph. V. v i. 19; Plaut. 
 Menaechm. 919, H. G. — Primus esses memor iter Pro'jcniem — proferens, 
 •■You would have been the first to set forth by heart your race even 
 from grandsire and great qrandsire " The words are used loosely as in 
 Virg. JEn. vii. 56, " T'un \is avis, atavisque potens." Atavus is pro- 
 perly the father of " Abavus," the great-grandsire. Cf. Plaut. Mil. 
 Gl. II. iv. 20, " Ibi mei majors sunt siti ; pater, avos, proavos, abavos;" 
 and Persius. Sat. vi. 57 — 6^, •' Progenies terra; ? Quaere ex me quis 
 niilii quartus Sit pater," &c. — Esses — profereus is i. q. " proferres." 
 Cf. Andr. IV. iv. 36, " Ut fcu sis sciens." 
 
 49. Ita ut dicis, &c, " It's even as you say ; in that case (i. e. had he 
 left me a legacy) if I had come into court [advenissen, ad judices, sc.) 
 i should state how she was related to me. Do you do the like ; tell 
 me, how is she akin to me V Geta observes, Eu, noster, recte, "Bravo, 
 master, that's right;" and then to Phormio, /feus tu, cave! "hook 
 you, sir, take care." For " noster,' see Eunuch I. ii. 74, " Eu, noster, 
 lau.lo." 
 
 55. Cvjus de stvltitid, &c, "Do you talk to me of my son, whose 
 folly cannot be spoken of in fitting terms)" — Judicium de eddem causd 
 it> mm, &c. This seems to have been contrary to Greek law. Cf. 
 Demosth. c. heptin. p. 502 (Bekker.), oi v6p.oi ovk iaxri 5h irpbs tov avrhv 
 untp twv auritiv otjn 5i'«ay, odrt tvdwas, o(ne hiafiiKaaius, out' aWb toiuvto 
 ovStv tlvai. 
 
 ;"9. Qui indoquidem solus regnas, " Since you are sole potentate." An 
 invidious sarcasm, at Athens, or Rome, each being Republic. Cf. a like 
 taunt in A.lelph. II. i. 21, " Itegnumne, ^Eschine, hie tu possides?" — 
 Judicium adipiscier, " to get the judgment given." " Faire juger une 
 lncine affaire deux fois," Madame Dacier. Bentlcy reads " apiscicr " 
 (metri gratia) instead of "adipiscier." The simple verb occurs in 
 Heaut. IV. iii. 15, " Deorum vitam apti sumus." Plaut. Rudeos. 
 Prol. 17, has " litem adipisci." 
 
 61. Potius quam lites teeter, "Rather than engage in a lawsuit." Cf. 
 notes t<» Andr. IV. v. 16 ; Adelph. II. ii. 40. — Ilidem ut cognata si sit, 
 '■ In like manner as if she were my kinswoman, as the law ordains U
 
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 4 
 
 give a dower, so, away with her, and take five minse." Demipho resorts 
 to the course which he before suggested that his son should have 
 taken. Cf. II. i. 67, " Sed id quod lex jubet, Dotem daretis ; quajreret 
 alium virum." 
 
 64. Homo suavis, " Pleasant fellow," ironically. Ruhnken says that 
 " suavis " is i. q. *' stultus," comparing the kindred use of tjSus and 
 yXvicvs, Plat. Hipp. Ma. 288, B.— Anne hoc quidem — publicum' st? "Am 
 I not even to obtain this, which is the common right of citizens." 
 "Jus publicum" is not here used, says Ruhnken, in its sense as the 
 opposite to "jus privatum." So Cic. Div. i. 5, "Jura communia." 
 For " abusus sis " with an accusative in ver. 66, cf. Andr. Prol. 5, note. 
 The second person used for the third, in the general sense of the 
 French " on " is to be noted here : " When a man has abused," &c.—Ut 
 meretricem, h. e. "quasi esset meretrix."— Amittere, "to get rid of her." 
 68. Civis in se admitteret. Civis is used in contradistinction to "pere 
 grina;" for "in se admittere cidpam" or " turpe," see Ter. Adelph. 
 IV. v. 48; Phorm. II. i. 40; Plaut. Aul. 747, H. G.—Ut cum uno cetatem 
 degeret, i. e. " Not with many, but with one." Cf. Plaut. Cistell. I. 
 L 79, " Quia ego ilium unum mihi exoptavi quicum setatem degerem." 
 Heaut. II. iv. 12, " Vobis cum uno semel ubi setatem agere decretumst 
 viro." 
 
 71. Ita proximo quidem : ut nos unde? &c, "Just so, to her nearest- 
 of-kin truly. But from what source did she get us for such, or where- 
 fore." The sentence is broken off by Phormio, interrupting. For 
 "Ohe!" eee Adelph. IV. vii. 5; Plaut. Aul. 16, H. G.— Actum, aiunt, 
 ne agas, "Don't lose your labour, as the saying is." Cf. Adelph. II. 
 ii. 24, notes; Plaut. Pseud. I. iii. 28, "Stultus es : rem actam atiis."— 
 Sine rnodo, " Only let me try," " Let me alone for that." Cf. Eun. I. 
 i. 20, " Quse me 1 qua; non 1 sine modo." 
 
 76. Omnia luce Ilium putato, &c. So in Heaut. III. iii. 48, "Pro 
 Menedemo nunc Ubi ego respondeo," kc.—Aut quidem cum uxore, "Or 
 indeed I'll forbid him and this wife of his, my house." Adelph. I. 
 ii. 39, " Ubi non erit, fortasse excludetur foras." Sallust. Catil. 28, 
 " Itailli janua prohibiti." 
 
 79. Tute idem melius feceris, "You'd better do that same to yourself," 
 h. e. " Turn yourself out than your son." This seems the best inter- 
 pretation, and is that of Donatus. Madame Dacier translates " Vous 
 ne serez pas si mechant que vous dites." — Infelix in ver. 81, is i. q. 
 icaKo5ai/na>i>, "Wretch." So. Plaut. Cistell. IV. ii. 17, "Ilicet me in- 
 felicem et scelestam." — Sedulo, Andr. I. i. 119, note. 
 
 82. Quia, quod est Ferendum, fersf " Why don't you endure what 
 must be endured." Cf. Andria. II. iii. 25, " Quin taces?" Virg. 
 I 11.71,72. In ver. 88, Hoe age," Mind mel" " Mark me ; " cf. 
 note at Andr. I. ii. 15, " Hoccine agis an non ? " Heaut. IV. iii. 16. 
 
 90. Ego Warn ejiciam, cf. IV. iii. 22, below, "Si illam ejecerit" — 
 Dixi, Phormio, " Phormio, I've eaid my say." Cf. Hecyr. IV. iii. , r >, 
 note; Bun. V. viiL 86. — Dieam tibi impingam grandem, "I'll bring .i 
 (twinging writ against you," Colman. For "dicam" see above, I. ii. 77, 
 note, fiii/'iii'/'iiii in. rtiiB *' I will fasten on you." Parry quotes Plant. 
 C ipt III. v. 76, " Jubete huic crassas compedes impiugier." — D^nu, tne, 
 
 •' compelle" or arcei •■" is nndentood.
 
 27\> NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS II.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Dkmii'Uo having despatched Geta to look for Antipho, consults his 
 " advocati " as to the present posture of his affairs. They do not agree 
 in their views, and leave him in greater doubt than before. Geta 
 returns to sny that Antipho is not at home. Detnipho determines to 
 await his brother's return, and to go down to the port for this purpose. 
 
 Metro : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 2. Impcdivit, of. Andr. III. v. 11, note. — Videlis quo in loco res litec 
 sirt. Cf. III. i. 9, below; Heaut. II. iii. 118, "In eum jam res rediit 
 locum." — Quid ago ? in ver. 7, is i. q. " Quid agam," pres. for fut., as in 
 Men. H. G. 148, q. v. — Oratinum ccnseo {" interrogandum," sc), " Cra- 
 tinus, please you, should speak first," Colman. 
 
 9. Qua; in rem tuam sent, cf. Andr. III. iii. 14 ; Hecyr. I. ii. 27, notes. 
 — Restitui in integrum, " Should be restored to its original footing," i. e. 
 " should be undone." Cf. Cic. in Vcrr. II. v. 46, " Perditce civitates — 
 solent hos oxitus exitiales habere, ut damnati in integrum restitu- 
 nutur,'' &c. Here it is used in the force of "resoindi," "should be 
 declared null." For cequom est cl bonum, see Adelph. V. ix. 30 ; Heaut. 
 IV. v. 40. 
 
 13. Ego sedulo hunc dixisse, &c, " I believe my friend here has given 
 his opinion to the best of his ability." Sedulo, see note at Andr. I. i. 
 119, "A la bonne foi." — Quot homines, tot sentential. For a parallel, 
 see Hor. Sat. II. i. 27, " Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum 
 Millia." " Autaut de tetes, autant d' avis," Madame Dacier. — Suns 
 caique mos. "Chacun a son gout." Virg. Eel. ii. 65, "Trahit sua 
 ijuemque voluptas." 
 
 16. Et turpe inceptu'st. So Bentley. Many editors read " inceptum." 
 Construe : " the attempt is shameful." — Ego amplius deliberandum 
 censeo. Crito falls back on what tho Roman Law called " ampliatio " 
 (cf. Cic. in Verr. act. II. lib. I. c. ix.), '• an adjournment." See Long',3 
 note in " Bibliotheca Classica." Construe, " My opinion is that the 
 case needs further deliberation." Jits magna est, "'Tis a matter of 
 importance." Aulul. H. 728, " Magna res est, quam ego tecum otiose, 
 si otium'st, cupio loqui." — Numquid nos vis ? See Ter. Adelph. II. ii. 
 39, note ; Plaut. Men. H. G. 242. — " Incertior sum multo," &c. cf. Hecyr. 
 II. ii. 9. — Fecistis probe: ironically. — Is, quod mihi dederit de hdc re 
 consilium, &c, cf. Adelph. III. iv. 54. 
 
 22. PercmUatum — quoad se recipiat, " To inquire how soon he is to 
 return." Cf. I. ii. 98, above, "Quoad senem expectatis vestrum." 
 For percontatum, see note at Hecyr. I. ii. 2. — In tempore, cf. Andr. IV. 
 iv. 44, " Per tempus," h. e. " tempestivo." Plantus constantly uses 
 " Temperi" in this sense; cf. Menajchm. H. G. 350, 367. 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. I. 
 
 Antipiio enters, full of self-reproach, because he has left his interests 
 to the management of others. Geta reports to him tolerable progress 
 in appeasing Demipho, who is awaiting his brother at the Piiaous.
 
 THORMIO. 273 
 
 Metre : — 1 — 4, 15, 16. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 
 5, 6, 17 — 20. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 7 — 14. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Enimvero, in soliloquies such as this, see Andr. I. iii. 1, "Eniin- 
 vero, Dave," &c. — MuUimodis, Andr. V. iv. 36 ; Heaut. II. iii. 79. — 
 Cum istoc animo, Andr. V. iv. 38, " Cum tua religione." Eun. I. ii. 73, 
 " Egou quicquam cum istis factis tibi respondeaml" — Itane te hinc 
 abisse, cf. Andr. I. v. 10, notes, " Adeone hominem esse invenustum :" 
 and Madvig. Gr. §§ 399 ; Andr. III. v. 3. 
 
 4. Ut ut alia erant, " Howsoever other matters stood, at least you 
 should have consulted the interests of her, whom you now have at 
 home." For Ut ut, cf. Heaut. I. ii. 26; Adelph. II. ii. 40, notes: for 
 consuleres, the imperf. for pluperf., see Audr. IV. iv. 54 ; Virg. ^Eu. viii. 
 643, " At tu dictis, Albane, maneres." 
 
 5. Poteretur. This form of the verb "potior" solves the difficulties 
 of scansion in this passage which would arise from reading " potiretur," 
 which seems to have been one reading of Donatus. Poteretur is more 
 commonly adopted by editors. But it is clear that but for the i in 
 " potiretur," that would be the general reading. Parry quotes for the 
 use of "poteretur," Ovid. Met. xiiL 130, "Tuque tuis armis, nos te 
 poteremur, Achille;" Virg. ^En. iii. 56, " Vi potitur;" Phormio (below) 
 V. v. 2. For Spes opesque, in ver. 6, compare Adelph. III. ii. 34, note 
 Construe, "All whose hopes and resources," &c. 
 
 7. Equidem, according to Beutley, was not used except with verbs of 
 the first person singular in the ago of Terence. And he therefore 
 reads, Et quidem, "Well, truly!" Cf. Key's Gr. 1453, d. But, as 
 Parry shows, equidem is the MSS. reading at Eun. V. iv. :S4, where it 
 is coupled with the third person ; and in Propert. III. xxiii. 5, where 
 see Paley's note. — Qui abieris, h. e. " propterea quod abieris." — Defect- 
 vius, compare I. iv. 52, " Siquid deficias." 
 
 10. Numquid sulolet patrit "Has my father any plight suspicion V 
 See note at Heaut. V. i. 24 ; Plaut. Pseud. I. v. 7 ; Trinumm. III. ii. 72. 
 Compare "Olfecissem," in Adelph. III. iii. 43. — Nit etiam, "None as yet." 
 
 For this sense of etiam, see Andr. I. i. 89, note; III. ii. 23, &c Et quid 
 
 spei porro est. Porro is, i. q. " for the future." 
 
 11. Nisi Phcedria kaud cessavit. For nisi, thus used, for " nisi quod," 
 see Heaut. III. ii. 31 ; Andr. IV. i. 40.— Nihil fecit novi, "That's 
 nothing new in him." — fitrcnuum homiurin /irwl>«it, "Has shown him- 
 self a man of energy." For the omision of " se " here, Westerhov. 
 quotes Cic. ad ram. v. 18, " Kogo atque oro, te colligas, virumque 
 pnebeas." .Smith, in his Dictionary, quotes "praebeo," used in a 
 neuter sense, Ovid A. A. ii. 685, " Odi quffl prsebefc, quia sit praebero 
 neceuae." For cf/nfutarit, in the next verse, see note at Heaut. 
 V. i. 76, "Dictis coufutabitur." 
 
 15. Sic habent principia s<xc ut dim. So in II. iii. 82, above, " Bene 
 liabent tibi prineipia." — Tranquilla res est, " All's calm and quiet." Cf. 
 Aii'lr. III. v. 14, "Ex tranquillissiiiia ro." — Mantv/nuqtu patruum, &c, 
 " And your father's going to wait for your uncle." For this sense of 
 "maiieo" compare Plaut. Meritcclnn. (Ilildyard's Glossary), 32. 1 -, 
 " Etiam parasituin manes?" Ibid. 986, " Bic me mane." 
 
 17. Jji ijas oontilio, h. e. "ex ejus consilio," "By his advice." 
 Plaut. Bacch. IV. Lx. 115, " Fecisae dicas demea wn1 
 
 m 3
 
 274 notks on 
 
 20. Eccum ab tud pdcutrd exit foraa, " See, he comes forth from h 
 tnuning-schooL" Palaestra is facetiously used to denote the pander 1 
 house bore, to whioh Phsedria is supposed to go regularly, as to school 
 So it La used by Plaut. Bacch. 1. i. 33, " Penetrarc hujusmodi in 
 palfestram, ubi damnis desudascitur.*' See the whole passage, when* 
 the idea implied in the metaphor is very fully worked out. Compare, 
 also, Radons II. i. 7, "Pro exercitu gymnastico et palacstrico." Parry 
 refers to the facetious use of the term " prcdagogus," in I. ii. 94, above. 
 
 ACTUS III.— Sc. II. 
 
 Ph/EDRIA enters, begging three days more of Dorio, the slave- 
 dealer, before he completes the sale of Pampbila to a soldier, as he 
 hopes ere the expiration of that time to raise wherewithal to purchase 
 her himself. Antipho and Gcta join with Phsedria in urging this delay ; 
 but Dorio is hard to move, and will only grant a respite till the next 
 morning. 
 
 Metre : — 1. Trochaic Monometer. 
 2—5, 8—11, 13—17, 20—49. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 6. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 7. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 12, 18, 19. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 3. Andire eadem milieus. Cf. Eun. III. i. 32, "Plus millies audivi." 
 For exorare, in ver. 5, see Heaut. II. iii. 117, " Istunc exora." — Triduurr. 
 hoc, Heaut. IV. iii. 38, " ^Etatem." — Mirubar si tu — adferres. Com- 
 pare, f>>r this construction, Andr. I. ii. 4, " Mirabar, hoc si sic abiret." 
 
 7. Bei metuo lenonem nequid Suo suat capiti, "Alas! I'm 
 
 afraid the procurer will — Oe.: work some mischief for himself: That's 
 the same fear I have." Geta anticipates Antipho, who was going to say, 
 " Phaedrue ; " and substitutes " suo capiti." For the phrase " suo suat 
 capiti," cf. Plaut. Amph. I. i. 211, " consutis dolis." So the Greeks 
 used j>dnT(iv. For "suo capiti," see Hecyr. III. i. 54, note. Bentley 
 read " suo capiti fuat," but there is no advantage gained by adopting 
 his conjecture upon this somewhat obscure passage. For Hariolare, 
 " You are dreaming," or " You are mad," cf. Adelph. II. L 48, note ; 
 Plaut. Men. Prol. 76. For Fabulce, see notes at Andr. I. iii. 19 ; Heaut. 
 II. iii. 95. 
 
 9. Fvcncratum istuc beneficium, &c , "You shall - say you're well 
 repaid for this benefit." Cf. Adelph. II. ii. 11, " Ne non tibi istuo 
 faeueraret," notes. — Logi, " Mere words." Nonius c. i. 218, " Logi a 
 Graeco \6yoi, & rmones, vel dicta ridicula et contemnenda." Seo 
 Meuaechm. H. G. 682, " Non longos logos." 
 
 10. Gaudtbis facto, " You'll not repent of doing it," h. e. "gaudebis 
 post factum." Plaut. Peen. I. i. 69, " Faciam ut facto gaudeas." — Somniu, 
 cf. Adelph. II. i. 50, note. — Cantilenam eandem canis. rb axno Afets 3a>ia, 
 " Vous ohantez toujours la meme note," " You're harping on the same 
 string." Hor. A. P. 356, has " Chorda qui semper oberrat eadem." — 
 Tu mihi cognatus, &c, cf. Plaut. Capt. II. iii. 84 ; Propert. I. xi. 23, &c 
 
 Qurri modo, "Chatter on," a metaphor from birds. Adeone, &c, cf. 
 
 Andr. I. v. 10, note.
 
 PH0RM10. 275 
 
 16. Utphaleratis dictisducas me, &c, "As to try to deceive ine by 
 specious words, and to obt;iiii possession of my slave, without paying 
 the price." For this sense of " ducas," compare Andr. IV. i. 20, 
 " Ducere postulas," note. — Phaleralin dictis, i.e. "words in showy 
 trappings." "Phalerae" were the silver ornaments of horses : hence any 
 thing for mere show. Cf. Persius. Sat. iii. 30, " Ad populum phaleras : 
 ego te intus et in cute novi." — Ductes = " fruarU," verbum obsc£euum, 
 b£ Plaut. Asin. V. ii. Vi.—GnUiis, i. q. " gratis." Cf. Adelph. IV. vii.26, 
 note, " Si non pretio, gratiis." 
 
 17. Misa-ituMst, " I pity him," h. e. Plisedria. — Hei veris vincor, " Alas ! 
 what he says is too true." Cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 36," Vera haec pnedicat." Parry- 
 adds, Hor. Sat. II. iii. 305, 306, "Stultum me fateor, liceat coucedere 
 veris, Atque etiain iusauum." — Quam uterque similis eat sui, " How like 
 each is to himself," viz., how completely Phsedria acts up to his g neroua 
 nature, in listening to reason, and how hard-hearted Dorio is, as might 
 be expected. This is Stalbauni's explanation, the best on the whole. 
 
 18. Neque Antipho alia, &c. After neque, understand " vellem,' - and 
 construe, "And I would that this evil had not befallen me at a time 
 when Antipho," &c. This is Zeune's explanation. The solution 
 attempted by construing " neque alia," i. e. eadem, is very unsatisfac- 
 tory. For " Objectum malum," cf. Adelph. IV. iv. 2, note. 
 
 21. Nee cum hujusmodi — usus venit ut canjiictares malo, "And there has 
 never come any need of struggling with an evil of this nature." For 
 '•usus venit," see above I. ii. 23, "Mi usus venit, hoc scio." For 
 " conflictares," see Andr. I. i. 66, note. It means properly, " to come 
 in contact with." — Imo, id quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum, " Nay, but, 
 aa the saying is, I've got a wolf by the ears." Cf. Aristsenet. ii. 3, 
 'Eyw yap rbv \vkov ruv &ioiv €x<», '6v otrrt KaTtxeiv eVl tto\v Svvarbv, 
 o6t( fxr)v okivHuvov wpUvai. Sueton. Tiberius, c. 25, " Cunctandi causa 
 erat metus undique imminentium diseriminum, ut sa;pe, lupum auri- 
 U ivere diceret." Commentators there explain that as the wolf has 
 very short ears, it cannot well be held by them, while if they are let 
 go, there is great risk of being destroyed by the wolf. Bentley need- 
 lessly brackets ver. 23, Nam neque, &c, but the Greek passage quoted 
 has the same explanation as is given here; a strong evidence that the 
 verse is sound, 
 
 24. Ipsum istuc mihi in hoc est, " 'Tis just my case with him," 
 Colmao. " Voila justetnent oiij'en suis avec lui," Madame Dacier. — 
 Heia, ne parum leno tie*. Ant pho says to Dorio, " Ha, you're afraid 
 you should fail of being a procurer thoroughly." Before " ne " 
 understand " vereris," and compare Plaut. Pers. IV. vi. 4, " Ne non sat 
 esses leno, id metuebas miser." As Grouovius says, " Eleganter 
 ponuntur persona; pro inoribus certarum personarum," e. g. in Ovid 
 ■fob xii. 29, " Pietatem publics causa liexque patron vicit." Thou 
 turning to Phatdria, Antipho adds, Nwm quia hie confecitt "Has this 
 fellow settled any tiling,'' or "arranged anything?" 
 
 27. Quam indiyuum facinus, ancillam aire emptam suo. Said ironi- 
 cally, " What a scandalous act, to sell a girl bought with liis own 
 money." Hor. Sat. II. iii. 1 21*, " Servosquo tuo quns urc pararih."— < 'tun 
 
 »//</ ut mutetfidem, "And to break bia faith with that other follow." 
 
 F'.r this passage Gronov. quut. ■-< I'laut. Mil. G. IV. iii. 37, "Numquil 
 videtur demutarc, atquo uti ego Dixi,'' .v , where demmlafi i-, i. q.
 
 270 NOTES ON 
 
 " alius esse ;" IV. i. 36, ibid., " Ne istanc amittain et hsec mutct fidem." 
 Pseud. I. iii. 142, "Si tu argentuui attuleris, cum illo perdiderim 
 fidem." Something similar is the use of " invito" iu the phrase " Haud 
 muto factum," Andr. I. i. 13. Tridimm hoc appears to be the accusa- 
 tive of duration of time after "me maneat." — Aufero, "I get." Cf. 
 Heaut. IV. viii. 9, " Ut ea via abs te argentum auferretur." Plaut. 
 Epid. II. ii. 9, "Quo pacto abs se argentum auferam." 
 
 31. Obtundis, "You dun me." Cf. Andr. II. ii. 11; Hecyr. I. ii. 48, 
 note. — Idem hoc tibi — conduplicaverit, " He will soon repay you twofold 
 this same service which you will have done him." The sense is tho 
 same as that of ver. 8 of this scene. — Distrain, cf. Hecyr. III. v. 42, 
 "Illam a me distrahit necessitas." 
 
 35. Nequc ego, neque tu. Colman translates, " Can you, Dorio, 
 divide their loves?" Dorio. "Nor I, nor you." And Madame 
 Dacier's rendering is, " Ce n'est ni votre faute, ui la mienne." The 
 inference is implied, " It rests with Phaedria, and his power to pay the 
 money." — Di tibi — quod es dignus, duint. For duint, see Andr. IV. i. 
 42, note; Plaut. Men. H. G. 184; Aul. 23.— Id quod es dignus. The 
 safest course here is to consider id as the ace. after " diguus," because 
 attracted to the case of the relative, and not to base on Andr. V. iv. 
 38, "Dignus es — odium," and this passage, a claim for "dignus" 
 to an accusative after it. See note at Andr. 1. c. 
 
 37. Nunc, contra omnia hwc, Repperi, " Now, in direct contrast to 
 all this, I've found one to give and not whimper." For " Contra hsec 
 omnia," cf. Adelph. I. i. 19, note. — Da locum melioribus, "Give place 
 to them that are better off: melioribus," h. e. "ditioribus." The for- 
 mula was used by the lictors preceding the consul. Cf. Plaut. Cure. 
 II. iii. 1, " Date viani mihi noti atque iguoti." 
 
 40. Quam ad dares huic, protstituta, " A day appointed, by which 
 you should pay this man." For " diem praestituere," cf. Pseud. Plaut. 
 I. i. 56, " Ei rei dies Haec prrestitutast." For ad diem dare, " to pay by 
 a certain day," cf. Caesar B. C. ii. 19, " Edictum pramiittit, ad quam 
 diem magistratus — sibi prsesto esse Cordubse vellet." See also, Cic. 
 ad Attic, xvi. 16, " Admonuit ut pecuniam ad diem solverent." 
 
 41. Verum hac ei antecessit, " But this day has come before it." He 
 seems to imply that he has effected the sale to the other bidder a day 
 beforehand. The exclamation of Antipho, " Are you not ashamed of 
 your falsehood I" confirms this view." — Ob rem, " To my interest." Cf. 
 Sallust. Jugurth. c. 31, "Id frustra an ob rem faciam, in vestra manu 
 situm." — Sterquilinium : literally, KOTrpoSox^ov. Here the thing is 
 used for the person. Cf. Plaut. Pers. III. iii. 3, "Sterquilinium pub- 
 licum." Cf. Mil. Gl. II. i. 12, " Stercoreus."— Sic sum, " It's my way." 
 So in Andr. V. iv. 16, "Sic, Crito, est hie." Plaut. Ainph. II. L 57, 
 " Sic sum, ut vides." 
 
 48. Miles dare se dixit, h. e. " daturum esse se," the present infini- 
 tive for the future. Cf. Plaut. Memechm. H. G. 439, " Dicam curare ." 
 Ibid, 954, Dixi petere,h. e. " petiturum." Aul. 641, " Impetrassere," 
 for " impetraturum esse." Ovid. Met. ix. 444, "Credensquo suis iu- 
 surgere rcgnis," h. e. " insurrecturum." 
 
 49. Med lege ular, &c, " I'll follow my old rule." " The first to pay 
 shall be first served." Med lege, h. e. " lenonia," which prefers " in- 
 terest " to " honesty."
 
 PHORMIO. 277 
 
 ACTUS III— Sc. III. 
 
 Ph.edria is in a strait, how to get the money. Antipho, grateful 
 for Phaedria's aid to himself, urg^s Geta to devise some plan for rais- 
 ing it. Geta comes into the matter somewhat unwillingly, and, after 
 hearing Phaedria desperate, he at last undertakes to do the only prac- 
 ticable thing — have recourse to Phormio. 
 
 Metre : — Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 2. Quod si hie potuisset nunc exorarkr, &c. This is the reading of 
 Westerhov. The Bembine MS. reads potefuisset without nunc. Bentley, 
 for " hie," reads " hinc," h. e. " ab lenone." But the text as it stands 
 will yield a satisfactory sense, " But if he could now have been per- 
 suaded out of tbese three days." Exoro is one of those verbs which, 
 in the active, take two accusatives, and in the passive voice an accusa- 
 tive of the more remote object. Cf. Madvig. § 228, a. b. ; Hecyr. IV. 
 iv. 23, note. — Adjuerit, contracted from "adjuverit." Bentley reads 
 "adjurit." Fleckeisen, following Faernus, reads, in ver. 5, "experimur'' 
 instead of "experiamur," and places a note of interrogation at the end 
 of ver. 4. Construe, " Why don't we, at his need, try to render him 
 a kindness in return." Cf. Andr. II. iii. 25, "Quintaces?" note. 
 
 8. Dictum sapienti sat est, "A word to the wise." Plaut. Pers. IV. 
 vii. 19. — Etiam tu hinc abis? "Are you not off yet?" "Begone, won't 
 you ? " Cf. for " etiam," Andr. V. ii. 8 ; Adelph. IV. ii. 11, notes. 
 
 10. Non triurnpho, ex nuptiis tuis, &c, " Can't I triumph at taking no 
 hurt out of your nuptials, without your also now bidding me, for the 
 sake of your cousin here, seek punishment in mischief," or rather 
 " greater trouble in the midst of trouble." For "triurnpho," see Heaut. 
 IV. ii. 5, " Triurnpho si licet me latere tecto abseedere." For "nan- 
 ciscor," used of bad luck, see Andr. V. vi. 3, note; Phorm. III. i. 5, 
 above — Qucerere in malo crucem, h. e. "malum sumrnum," cf. Plaut. 
 Men. 6 ; Hildyard, " Namque homini misero si ad malum accedit 
 malum." 
 
 14. Ni insli'iemus etiam, &c, " Unless we furthermore provoke him, 
 so that no place be left for entreaty." For " preci," see Andr. III. iv. 
 22, note. "Parum" and "locus," Parry observes, are to be taken as 
 monosyllables. For a parallel to the next verse, see Adelph. IV. v. 
 20—35. 
 
 18. Quoquo hinc asportabilur, &c. For " Quoquo terrarum," cf. 
 Heaut V. i. 54, "Quovis gentium." Madvig. 2H, obs. 9and 11. Asj>or- 
 tabUur is, i. q. " absportabitur." — Cerium est, "I'm resolved." Cf. 
 Andr. I. iii. 4, " Nee quid agam certumst." Virg. Eel. x. 52, 58, 
 "Certum est in silvis, inter spelrca ferarurn Malle pati." Plant. 
 Mercator. V. ii. 16, " Certa res est Me usquo quaerere illam, quoquo 
 hinc abducta est gentium." 
 
 19. Di bene vertant, quod agas. Cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 121, note. — Pcde- 
 tentim tamen, " persequaris," sc. h. c. a-irtv8e fyabtw:, Stttlbaum. Geta 
 says, " God speed your object — only proceed cautiou-ly." Palctcntim, 
 i. e. " pedibuH tontando." 
 
 21. Nequid plus minusve faxit, &c. Cf. Hecyr. V. i. 4, notes ; Plaut. 
 Captiv. V. iii. 18, "Cur ego plus mintvqae feci qaaXD aoquuni fait,"
 
 278 NOTES ON 
 
 — Qttirro, "I'm seeking a plau," cf. Andr. IV. i. 59, note, " Quaoro." 
 Fleokeiaen readfl, " Salvos est, ut opinor," as a speech in the mouth of 
 Antipho. Oeta is maile to rejoin Verum enim meluo malum, "Yet in 
 truth I fear some mishap." This is not an unlikely reading of the 
 passage. But the verse will stand, it* supposed to proceed entirely 
 from Geta. 
 
 28. Bona mala tolembimus, " We will endure good or ill fortune " 
 Of. Ter. Adelph, III. iv. 50, "Paupertatem una pertulimus gravem." 
 Virg. JEn. ii. 709, " Unum et commune perioulum, Unasalus ainbouus 
 i rit." For " opus" used adjectively, as in the next verse, cf. Audr. II. 
 i. 37, note, "Nisi ea qute nil opus sunt sciri." — Istiec vcro vilis est, 
 " Nay, a girl like that is cheap." 
 
 26. Age, age, inventus reddam, " Well, well, I'll find and hand over 
 the money," i. q. " inveniam et reddam." — lepidum, "caput" is 
 added in most MSS. but not in the Bembine. The verse " Abi : die, 
 pr83->tO ut sit domi," which follows ver. 27 in some copies, is not 
 found in the Bembine, and does not seem necessary. 
 
 '29. Solus est homo amico amicus. Mil. Gl. III. i. 66, "Qui amicus 
 atnico sit tuagis." Solus here meaos "preeminently," as in Ter. Andr. 
 V. vi. 9, "Solus est quern diligunt Di." Apollodorus has fj.6vos iiriffTaTai 
 (piAelv rovs cf>i\ovs. — /Ham miseram, h. e. Phanium. — Exanimalam metu, 
 " Breathless with fear," cf. Hecyr. V. iii. 27, note. — Dicamin itinere, " I 
 will tell you on our road." Bentley here and at Heaut. II. iii. 30, 
 reads " itere " for "itinere." But this form seldom occurs except in 
 Lucret. v. 652. "Iteris" is used by Naevius, 38 (Ribbeck's Trag. Lat. 
 Reliquiae), " Ignotae iteris sumus." Attius. ibid. 499, has "Longo 
 ab itere." 
 
 ACTUS IV.-Sc. I. 
 
 Chkemes and Demipho talk over the voyage of the former to 
 Lemnos, whither he had gone to bring home his daughter, with a 
 view to her marriage with Antipho, his nephew. Finding, on reach- 
 ing the island, that mother and daughter had sailed for Athens, and 
 arrived there, he returned at once. His plans are upset by Antipho's 
 conduct : and he shrinks from marrying his daughter to a stranger, 
 to whom he will have to disclose her parentage, and his own in- 
 trigues. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Quid? qua profectus cansd — Adduxtin, &c. Here qud causd is 
 the relative clause with the sentence Adduxtin — Jiliam as its antece- 
 dent : "How now? Have you brought with you your daughter, for 
 the sake of whom you set out ' " &c. For a similar sentence see Plant. 
 Bacch. II. iii. 15. In ver. 3, vidct is the historic present. 
 
 4. Non manebat — Meam negligentiam, " Could not wait for my negli- 
 gent delay." For this sense of " maneo," see above III. ii. 4 ; Hor. 
 Od. I. xxviii. 33, " Debita jura vicesque superbaj Te maneaut ipsum." 
 Parry refers to Adelph. IV. v. 38, " An sedere oportuit Domi vir- 
 fdnem tam grandem, dum cognatus bine Illinc veniret expectantem? " 
 q. \.—Familid " servants." Cf. Plaut. Men. H G. Prol. 74 and 525.
 
 TrtuKMlO. Ji79 
 
 ■ Familia " (says Cicero, pro Csecin. 19), "constat ex servis pluribus." 
 See also Heaut. IV. v. 3, note. 
 
 9. Senectus ipsa est morbus, rb yrjpas iariv avrb v6<rrifj.a, Apollodorue. 
 Plaut. Menaechm. 658 — 60. Merc. 664, " Tantum hoc onerist, quod 
 fero. D. Quid oneris] S. Annos octaginta et quatuor." — Audivi ex 
 nautd ; so in Plaut. Mil. Gl. IV. iii. 16, " Nauclerus dixit, qui illas advexit, 
 mihL" " Nauta" seems to have the sense of "nauclerus." 
 
 12. Quod quidem vie factum, &c, " Ay, an act which makes me waver- 
 ing in purpose." We must understand " immo audivi." For "consilii 
 incertum," cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 46, " Animi incertus," and Madvig. 289 b. — 
 Nam, hanc conditionem si cui tulero, &c, " For if I shall have proposed 
 this match to any one unconnected with us." For " conditio," in this 
 sense, see Plaut. Aul. H. G. 194, "Tu conditionem hanc accipe." 
 Andr. I. i. 52, note. — Extrario is a word not often used : but in the 
 notes to Suetonius: Vespasian c. 5, "Canis extrarius" is explained 
 " qui erat extra focum Vespasiani : " it is so explained also by Festus, 
 who says extrarius is " qui extra focum, sacrumeutum, jusque est.'* 
 Extraneus=" exterraneus." — Quod pacto aut unde, &c, " I must tell 
 from beginning to end how, or by whom she is mine." For this use 
 of ordine, see Plaut. Men. H. G. 581; Virg. ^Eu. iii. 179, " Kemque 
 ordine pando. - ' 
 
 17. Tacebit, durn, intercedet familiar! las, "He will hold his peace, so 
 long aa there shall subsist intimacy between us." For intercedet, see 
 Hecyr. III. L 24 ; Andr. V. v. 5, notes. — Plus quam opus scito est, see 
 Madvig. 266, obs. ; Adelph. V. ix. 39, note; Andr. III. ii. 10, note. 
 
 20. Ut me excutiam, " To strip myself of everything." Plaut. Aul. 
 600, " Excutedum pallium." Hor. Sat. II. iii. 19, " Aliena negotia euro 
 excussus propriis." Parry adds, Hor. Od. III. ix. 19, "Si flava excuti- 
 tnr Chloe," and says that the observations of Chromes indicate that 
 he has married a woman with a fortuue, and is therefore in her power. 
 Ruhnken explains " ut me excutiam," " ut me ejiciam domo," " to hurry 
 forth." 
 
 21. Ego meorum solus sum meus, "I've only myself, of my belong- 
 ings, that I can call my own." Meorum seems to refer to the " house- 
 hold," with a general sense of " qui mini faveam," " I alone of my allies 
 can be counted upon by myself." Apollodorus has i-yu yap ti/*< n6vos 
 riiv IfjLUv 4fi6s. 
 
 23. Neque adeo defcliscar — Donee, " Nor shall I ever tire of trying 
 till the very moment of my accomplishing," &c. For adeo — donee, see 
 Andr. IV. L 38, " Ui-que adeo donee perpulit." 
 
 ACTUS IV— So. II. 
 
 Geta soliloquises on the cleverness of Phormio, whom he has seen, 
 and prepared to aid Phicdria and Antipho, at once; a recommendation to 
 the scheme in Phormio's opinion. The parasite understood the case 
 before it had been half detailed, and bad gone off, full of meetiug 
 Dendpho, and getting tho money from him. Geta sees Demiplio anil 
 Chremea coming np together, and determines to try Demipho first, and, 
 f.uling him, apply to Chremes.
 
 2K0 N0TE8 ON 
 
 Metro : — Limbic Trimeter. 
 
 3. Ardent inn opus uat, "That money is needed." Opus is used ad- 
 joctively, as in Heaut. V. i. 20 ; Amir. II. i. 37, note; above, II. iii. 93. — 
 Fieret, h. e. " confieeretur." Pseud. I. iii. G8, " Fieri possunt prssaentea 
 minro." See too Pliorm. I. i. 4, note. — Tempus sibi dari Ubi, "That an 
 opportunity was afforded him, in which he might," &c. Ubi = "in 
 quo," Parry and Fleckeisen prefer Lachmaun's simple emendation of 
 the common text, Phadrice se — Amicvm esse, which was metrically 
 faulty, namely, reading "Ubi Phredriao esse — Amicum sese." For 
 reasons against Bentley's " Phffidriai," see Andr. II. vi. 8, note. — Ad 
 forum is i. q. " apud forum," cf. Andr. I. v. 19. 
 
 11. Pertimui aictem bdlua, "Yet what was I afraid of, simpleton ! " 
 Bcllua, a term of self-reproach. Cf. Kun. IV. iv. 36, " Ago nunc bellua 
 Credis huic quod dicit .' " Plaut. Trinumm. IV. ii. 110, " Nae tu me 
 edepol arbitrare belluam." 
 
 13. Duplici spe vtier, " To have two strings to my bow." Westerhov. 
 quotes Ovid. Remed. Am. 449, " Qui sibi jampridein solatia bina para- 
 vit.'' — A primo, "At first," as ad primum is sometimes used for 
 " primum," cf. IV. iii. 37, " A primo homo insanibat." Plaut. Mostell. 
 III. ii. 139, "Quin multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi." 
 For adoriar in ver. 15, cf. Heaut. IV. v. 9, "Cesso hunc adoriri." 
 
 ACTUS IV— Sc. III. 
 
 Antipho finds Geta with his father and uncle, trying to extort 
 from them by subtlety the sum needed by Phsedria. He listens to 
 the conversation, unperceived ; but without getting any clear notions 
 of what is the scheme of Geta and Phormio. Geta tells the old man 
 that Phormio will take back Antipho's wife. Phanium, and marry her 
 himself, if a dower of 30 tninae be given with hor. Phormio, he says, 
 had stickled for a talent, but he had beaten him down to 30 ininae. 
 This Demipho thinks too much : but Chremes engages to pay it, thus 
 getting rid of Phanium, and dissolving Antipho's wedlock. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Recipiat se. Cf. II. iv. 22, above. — Venire sahum volup est, "I'm 
 glad to see you're safe arrived." Volup is a neut. substantive accord- 
 ing to Hildyard on Menaechm. 579, Glossary — Terence Hec. V. iv. 17, 
 " Beuefactum et volup est." — Quid a/jitur, Adelph. III. iii. 19, note. 
 
 6. Midta advenienti — compluria, " J'ai trouve, a l'ordinaire, bien des 
 nouvelles en arrivant," Madame Dacier. Compluria is explained by 
 Donatus as an old form of "complura" formed from " complure," 
 the old form of "plus." — Facinus indiynum, cf. III. ii. 26. 
 
 9. Sic circumiri, "To be thus overreached." Cf. Plaut. Pseud. III. 
 ii. 109, " Nam eum cirenmire in hunc diem." So " circumveniri " ia 
 very commonly u«ed. Cf. Ter. Hec. Prol. Alt. 46. — Id cum hoc agebam 
 commodum, "I was touching on that point with my brother here, tins 
 veiy moment " (commod&m). For the use of this word as a neuter adv. 
 Gronov. quotes Plaut. Amphitr. Ii. ii. 37, " Ad aquam praebendain
 
 PHORAIIO. 2S1 
 
 commodum adveni domum." Casin. III. iv. 3, "Ad te hercle ibam 
 commodum." Kudens. II. vi. 35 ; Merc. I. ii. 106. So also Eun. II. iii. 
 52, " Ilia sese interea commodum hue adverterat." 
 
 13. la quiistam — " aposiopesis, "The fellow, who as to that girl." 
 Understand " defendit," or some such word ; which Geta, to chime in 
 with Chremes's disgust, leaves unsaid. The emphasis is laid on istam. 
 — Prendo kominem aolum, " I accost the man when alone." Cf. Andr. 
 II. ii. 16, note ; Plaut. Mil. Gl. i. 60, Reprehendkrunt. 
 
 16. Hcbc putiua cum bona, &c. Cf. Hecyr. III. v. 29, note ; Virg. 
 Eel. III. 108. — Furjitana litium, "Averse to lawsuits." For this con- 
 struction of the genitive of the object after a participle used as an 
 adjective, see Madvig. §§ 289, a. 
 
 20. Uno ore — prcecipitem hanc da/ret, " All the rest of his friends but 
 now with one mouth advised him to turn her out of doors." Uno ore, 
 Andr. I. i. 69. — Aw.iores fucre, cf. Adelph. V. viii. 16, note; Key's Gr. 
 § 909. — Prcecipitem daret. So "agere" is used by Cic. in Verr. I. iii. 
 " Agunt eum prcecipitem psenrc civium Romanorum." — Quo evadct 
 hodie, " Where will all this end \" Column. Cf. Andr. I. i. 100, " Quam 
 timeo, quorsum evadas." 
 
 23. Jam id exploratumst, " That matter has been already looked 
 into." — Sudabia aatii, " You'll have trouble enough." Compare Hor. 
 A. P. 241, 242, " Sudet multum frustraque laboret Ausus idem." Cic. 
 iii. Ep. 12, "Videa sudare me, jamdudum laborantem quomodo ea 
 tuear," &c. 
 
 25. Virum pono eaae victum eum, "But I'll suppose him cast in his 
 suit." Pono is the reading of Bentley after the Bembine MSS. instead 
 of " pone." — At tandem tamen, &c, " Yet even then after all it's not a 
 question of life with him, but of money." Cf. Heaut. III. i. 67, "Non 
 nunc pecunia agitur." Hor. Ep. I. xviii. 84, " Nam tua res agitur, 
 paries cum proximus ardet." In ver. 29, dari tibi in manum = " to be 
 paid down to you," as Prce manu is used in Adelph. V. ix. 23, q. v. 
 
 30. Hcec kinc facesaat, tu moleatua ne sies. These clauses, with the 
 one immediately preceding, are " asyndetons.'' Geta represents him- 
 self as asking Phormio what consideration he will accept, on the 
 understanding that " his master desists from the lawsuit, on the one 
 part, and that, on the other, Phanium {luec) takes herself off, and 
 Phormio puts no obstacle in the way." For " hinc facessat," cf. 
 M. iiiechrn. H. G. 166, "Dictum facessas doctum;" and Livy i. 47, 
 ' V toesse hinc Tarquinios." There seems to be an ellipse of "se." 
 
 8L Satin' Qli 1>> uni propiHi ? b. e. " Is he in his senses ? " Compare 
 Andr. IV. L 40, "Deos fuiase iratos," note; and Phorm. I. ii. 24, 
 " Memini relinqui me Deo irato ineo." For cequi bonique, cf. Heaut. 
 IV. v. 39, note. Construe, " If you act reasonably in some measure." — 
 Ut eat Me bonua vir, tria non COmmvtabitit, &c, " Such is that excellent 
 tii.ui, my master's goodness, that you'll not have to bandy threo 
 words," &c. ; cf. Andr. II. iv. 7, note. For a primo, in ver. 37, see abovo 
 at IV. ii. 14. 
 
 38. Quidt nimium quantum lihuil, "How? So then what he wantid 
 was a great deal too much." For such phrases as nimium quantum, 
 ■'■ ■ Soi it. I. xxvii. 6, " Immane quuntum," and the I Ireekj obpdviov i'arov, 
 Oav/xaarhv oaov, kfirixavov '6<tov, &c. Cic. do Fin. iv. 'J.:i. Ii i- " niiiiiutn 
 quantum;" as aloo SymmachuH, vii. 16; Livy. ii. 1, "Minim quau-
 
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 tam." Bentley wished to omit "libuit," adding "quantum'' before 
 "die" to the words of Chremes. But of this there is no need. — 
 Taltntum ma</num, h. e. an Attic talent = 60 miuse, or 6000 Attic 
 drachmae. Cf. Flaut. Aul. H. G. 264. 
 
 40. Quod dixi adco ei, "Just what I said to him." For the sense of 
 adco, see Andr. I. i. 135, &c. The words that follow seem to flow 
 from Oeta, in reference to his master, "What more, pry thee, could 
 he do, if he wore giving in marriage an only daughter ? It has been 
 small gain to him not to have had a daughter; for one has been 
 found, to look for a dower from him." For *' locaret," said of giving 
 daughters in marriage, cf. Aulul. H. O. 149, " Neque earn queo locare 
 cuiquam," "in matrimonium," sc. Plaut. Triuumm. III. iii. 52, " Ubi 
 erit locata virgo in matrimonium," Phorm. IV. vi. 25, below. — Parvi 
 rettdit, cf. Hecyr. IV. iii. 12, note; Adelph. V. iv. 27, note. — Ad pauca. 
 ut redcam, cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 60, note. 
 
 47. Nam mihi veniebat in mentem, &c. For the impersonal con- 
 struction, which is the explanation of the passage, if we read with 
 Bentley " incommodi," see Hecyr. III. iii. 45, note. But editors are 
 generally agreed in retaining "incommodum" here, as in Eun.II.ii. 2. — 
 Aliquantulum quce afferret, &c, "One who should bring with her a little 
 sum wherewith I might discharge my debts." Parry illustrates dissol- 
 verem by Cic. in Verr. II. iii. 75, " Pecuniam publicam tenueris 
 omnem, neque quicquam ulli dissolveris civitati." Ciesar. Bell. Civ. 
 i. 87, " Pecuniam pro iis rebus dissolvit." 
 
 56. Quid si animam debet. Commentators quote a Greek proverb, 
 Kal avTiiv tV \pvxh" ocpeihet. The phrase is used of those who owe 
 more than they can pay, perhaps with some reference to a creditor's 
 right over life and limb of insolvent debtors. — Ager oppositust pignon, 
 &c, " A farm, said he, has been mortgaged for 1 rnina;." Cf. Plaut. 
 Curcul. II. iii. 77, "Illo suum anulum opposivit." Catull. xxvi. 1 — 4, 
 " Furi, villula vestra non ad Austri Flatus opposita est — Verurn ad 
 millia quindecim et duceutos." Pseud. Plaut. I. i. 85, "Si me oppouam 
 pignori." 
 
 60. Turn pluscula suppellectile opus est, " B -sides we need some little 
 more furniture." In ver. 62, pone is, i. q. " Set down " or " reckon." 
 Unless we attach to it the sense of "suppose," as above, at ver. 23, of 
 thi* scene. 
 
 63. Sexcentas proinde scribito, &c, " Well then, let him bring any 
 number of writs against me." For sexcentas, used here indefinitely for 
 any number, cf. Aulul. H. G. 472, " Treceni." Plaut. Trinumm. III. 
 iii. 62, " Sexcentas ad earn rem possunt causae conligi." Hor. Od. III. 
 iv. 79, " Amatorem trecentae Pirithoum cohibent catenae." Hor. Sat. 
 II. iii. 116, &c. For "dicas," see above I. ii. 77, note. Do is, i. q. 
 " dabo." — Impuratus vie die ut etiam inideat, understand " visne," or 
 some such verb, and see note on Hecyr. I. i. 9, " Utin eximium nenii- 
 nem habeam." For " impuratus," Ruhuken refers to Plaut. Rudeus. 
 II. vi. 59, " Impurata bellua." 
 
 67. Oeta occidisti, &c, cf. note on Adelph, V. vii. 1.— Med caitsd 
 ejicitur, "Phanium" sc. For ejicitur, cf. II. iii. 90, " Ego illam ejiciam." 
 For Quantum potest in ver. 69, compare Andr. V. ii. 20, note. Plaut. 
 Men. 340, H. G. Aulul. 80. Construe, " as quickly as possible." 
 
 72. Illis repudium renunciet, " Let him report to that other family
 
 piiormio. 283 
 
 his repudiation of her that was betrothed to him." " Repudium " was 
 said of a "breaking off" between betrothed persons ; "divortium" of one 
 between married persons. Cf. Plaut. Aulul. 740, " Is me nunc renuu- 
 tiare repudium jussit tibi." See Hildyard's Glossary. Compare also 
 V. vii. 35, below. — Quce quidem — vertat male, cf. Adelph. II. i. 37, note. 
 75. Fructum quern Lemni uxoris reddunt prcedia, " The income which 
 my wife's farms at Lemnos yield." Cic. in Catil. ii. 8, speaks of " Id 
 quod est stultissimum, certare cum usuris fructibus prsediarum," i. e. 
 " trying to pay the interest of money with the proceeds of the land." 
 Cf. Catull. cxiv. (Doering.), 4, "Fructus sumptibus exsuperat." "Reddo" 
 is also properly used of the returns made by land to its owner. 
 Ruhnken quotes Columella de Re Rust. II. 13, " Reddit pratum in 
 pabulo non minus quam in fceuo." 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. IV. 
 
 Antipho turns upon Geta, with reproaches against him for the line 
 he has taken in reference to Pbauium. He will have to lose her, 
 through Geta's fault. Geta explains that all will be well. Phormio will 
 receive the money, and be in no hurry to take Phanium home. This 
 delay will allow the money to be raised elsewhere, and repaid to the 
 old men. Phaadria will have got the money he needs; and Phanium 
 will remain with Autipho. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 1. Emunxi argento senes, " I've cheated the old men out of their 
 money." " I've cleared them out of it." "Emungo" is literally "to 
 wipe the nose;" hence, " to cheat or outwit." Cf. Plaut. Bacch. IV. 
 iv. 50, "Emungam hercle hominem probe hodie ; " V. i. 15, " Miserum 
 me auro esse emunctum." Epid. III. iv. 58, " Qui me emuuxisti 
 mucidum," where Lambinus explains the phrase " tauquam puerulum, 
 cujus nasus mucoris plenus, omnisfjuc cousilii est expers, delusum 
 argento spoliasti." See also Mostell. V. i. 60, " Probe Me emunxti. ' 
 So, Gr. airouvTTfiv. See also Hor. A. P. 238, " Emuncto lucrata 
 Simone talentum." 
 
 •I. Satin! id ext? "Well, is that enough 1" i. e. "to have got the 
 money out of the old men, without considering the means taken to 
 that end." Geta, purposely misunderstanding Antipho's meaning, 
 rejoins, Tantum jussus sum, " 'Twae all my orders.'' 
 
 5. Ad rettim mihi — rediit planissime, " By your means my case has 
 been absolutely brought to an affair for the halter ; " "I am driven to 
 hang myself. 1 For like phrases, see Plaut. Poon. I. ii. 184, "Capias 
 ii ot te BUBpendas," &c. Pseud. I. i. 86, "Restim volo Mihi 
 emere." Martial, iv. 69, "Nihil Annuiaiio, proter aridam restim Moriena 
 reliquit oltimia pater ceris." Cf. also Andr. I. v. 20, and Soph. (Ed. 
 Tyr. 1874, tpy' irrrl Kptitraov a.yx^w)'' flpyarr/xfva. 
 
 7. M'i/i.< i ./•- m /,/ix, ■■ \\y coiKliyii punishmente." Cf. Eun. V. iv. 26, 
 "In ipif:tn esempla Sent." Ilem, si quid vc/in link nmiulr. . qui U 
 ad acupidum, &c. In sjtite of their absence from the Bembine *ii<l t)th.OT
 
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 MSS.. wo must follow Bentley in retaining " Qui te — aufetnt " after 
 " Huic niauilcs," and rejecting "quod quidem recte curatum velis" 
 as an interpolation derived from Adelph. III. iii. 18, and a useless 
 repetition of " si quid velis" in the line above. Construe, " Look you, 
 if you want anything done, entrust it to this fellow to bring you out 
 of smooth water against a rock." For Hide mandes, cf. Adelph. III. 
 iii. 18, note; Asin. J. i. 107. Lueret. ii. 1170 has the phrase, " Ire Ad 
 ecopulum spatio retatis defessa vetusto." 
 
 9. Quid minus utibllc fuit, &c., " What could have been less service- 
 able than to touch this sore." For utibile, cf. Plaut. Mencechm. (Hild- 
 yard's Glossary) 879; Mil. G. 611. For Tangere ulcus, cf. with Parry, Ovid 
 Trist. III. xi. 63, 64, " Deque gravi duras ulcere tollo manus," where 
 however Merkel reads " vulnere." See also Cic. pro Dotno. c. v., 
 " Tu in hoc ulcere tanquam ingncn existeros." For Posse Warn extrudi, 
 in ver. 11, compare Plaut. M. G. IV. i. 30, where Lambinus reads " Ut 
 mulierem estrudam foras." 
 
 13. Non enim ducet, "Why to be sure, he won't marry her." For 
 this sense of "enim" i. q. " euimvero." cf. Plaut. Men. 85. H. G., 
 "Egone ? Id enim quod tu vis," &c. see below at V. viii. 90, Hecyr. II. 
 i. 41, note. — Nostrd causd scilicet In nervunt potius Hit, "On my account 
 forsooth he will prefer going to ga< >1 " For the phrase in nervum ire, 
 cf. above, II. ii. 11, note; Curculio. V. iii. 40. These words are, of 
 course, ironical. 
 
 16. Quin male narrando, &c., " Many a tale is spoilt in telling," 
 Colman. Westerhov. quotes a counter statement from Cic. Paradox, i., 
 " Nil est tarn incredibile quod non dicendo fiat probabile," &c. Geta 
 explains the process in the next verse. — Tu id quod bonist excerpis, " You 
 take out of your s'atement all the good there is." For " excerpis," see 
 Hor. Sat. I. iv. 40, " Primutn ego me illorum — Excerpam numero." 
 
 20. Spatium quidem tandem adparandii, Sec, '• At least some little 
 space will be allowed for getting ready the nuptials, for invitations, for 
 sacrificing." Madame Dacier reads "adparandi nuptias," evidently to 
 make ver. 21, follow without change of construction on ver. 20. But 
 this is unnecessary. For '' sacrificandi," see Aulul. 684 (Hildyard), 
 " Eo lavatum, ut sacrificem," where Gronovius quotes from Servius the 
 statement that "uxorem ducturi sacrificiis semper auspicabantur." 
 Compare Adelph. IV. v. 65, "Abi domum, ac deos compreeare ut 
 uxorem arcessas." — Paxdulum agrees with " spatium." In ver. 23, 
 Inde iste reddet, " Out of that he will repay." hide is i. q. " ex eo," as 
 constantly in Terence ; or it may be for " ex iis," " from that source." 
 or " those friends." Westerhov. reads " id ille istis reddet." Rut " inde 
 iste reddet," is the reading of the C. Bembin. approved by Bentley. 
 
 24. Quot res ? Postilla, monstra evencrunt mihi. We prefer the 
 reading and punctuation common to most editions, and understand 
 " dicere poterit Phormio." For "postilla," see Andr. V. iv. 33, note; 
 Phorm. II. ii. 33. It means here "from the time of my betrothal" 
 &c. If the whole lino is read without any stop, "monstra" must he 
 in apposition with "res," which is awkward and inelegant. — Ater alievvi 
 cants, "A strange black dog." Plaut. Cas. V. iv. 4, " Caninam sewvam 
 spero meliorem fore." 
 
 26. Anguis per impluvium, &c, "A snake fell from the tile6 through 
 the skydight." Bentley after Guyctus, reads " in imnluviuro." Im-
 
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 pluvium is properly the tank, in the middle of the "atrium " to receive 
 the rain. Compluvium, " the sloping roof above," which is here meant; 
 as also in Eun. III. v. 41, " In alienas tegulas Venisse clanculum per 
 impluvium." Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. ii. 4, " ItA per hnpluviym intro spec- 
 tant." In Plaut. Amphitr. V. i. 56, " Decidunt angues jubati deorsum 
 in impluvium duo," we have a parallel to the omen here mentioned, 
 and " impluvium " used in the proper sense. See for the same omen 
 Livy, i. 56, " Anguis ex columna lignea elapsus." 
 
 27. Oallina cecinit, "A hen crowed," "a sure sign that the husband 
 would die first." Faber gives the French proverb, " La poule a chante" 
 le cocq." — Interdixk hariolus, " The soothsayer forbad the marriage." 
 For " hariolus, ' th. "fari," see Plaut. Men. Prol. 76, H. G; Plaut. Mil. Gl. 
 IK. i. 99, " Hariolae, at que haruspicse." The distinction between the 
 two probably is, that " hariolus " divined the future from general omens, 
 the " haruspex " from signs discovered in the sacrificial victims. 
 " Haruspex " is derived from " hira," an intestine, and " spicio ; " from 
 the same origin comes " haruga," or " arviga." See Smith's Latin 
 Diet. Parry thinks " haruspex " is closely connected with UpoaKoiros. 
 Fleckeisen supposes a lacuna between incipere in ver. 29, and Quee 
 causast, &c. in ver. 30. — Ut modo fiant, "Spero" sc. "I only hope they 
 may ! ''—Me vide, " Trust tome." Cf. Andr. II. ii. 13, note; Plaut. 
 Rud. III. iii. 18. — Die esse argentum Phcedria, " Tell Phsedria that we 
 have the money " (nobis, sc.) 
 
 ACTUS IV.— Sc. V. 
 
 Demipho and Chremes return with the money for Phormio. and 
 Demipho enters assuring Chremes that he is quite a match for the 
 parasite, whom he will pay at once, before he chauges his mind. He 
 undertakes likewise to get Nausistrata to see Phauium before she goes 
 to Phormio, and explain that this is the fittest match, and that tliey 
 have given a handsome dower. Chremes then goes off in quest of his 
 wife and daughter from Lemnos. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Ne quid verborum duit, "That he don't at all impose upon me." 
 For " verba dare," Bee notes at Andr. I. iii. 6 ; Plaut. Men. H. G. 55 ; 
 Aulul. H. G. 23. For the form " duit," see Andr. IV. i. 42 ; Plaut. 
 Men. H. G. 184, "duis;" Aulul. 23.— Testes adhibeam, "Procuring 
 witnesses to the payment" Cf. Caesar Bell. Civ. iii. 105, " Ut iis 
 testibus in summa pecuniae uteretur." — Commemorabo, " I will recite, 
 t'. whom I pay, and why I pay it." — Vbi nil opus est. Opus used adjec- 
 tively, cf. Andr. II. i. 37, note, "Opus facto'st," cf. Key's Gr. §§ 1280. 
 
 .". Altera Wcec, "The other girl he mentioned." Cf. IV. iii. 58, 
 
 " Quotum ab hac accipio, qum sponsa'st mihi." — Forsitan nos rejiciat, 
 
 •" Perchance he may cast us off," b. e. "our match for him, Phauium/ 
 
 Plaut. Bacch. IV. iii. 19, " Rejeci hominom."— Rem ipsam puttuti, 
 
 " You've hit it exactly," h. e. "Rem acu tetigisti ; " for which see
 
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 l'laut. Rud. V. II. 18, 19, "Tetigisti aeu."— Non moror, "I'm all 
 ready." — Heme, h. e. l'baniuui. 
 
 8. Nt siicccnseat, " To prevent her being angry at being sent away." — 
 I'.l magit esse ilium idoneum, qui ipsi, &c, " And that he is far fitter (to 
 ho her husband) because he is much more intimate with her." See 
 above, II. iii. 16 — 20. Qui here, points the cause. 
 
 11. Quid tud, malum, id refert ? " Pshaw ! what's all this to you ? " 
 For tud rtf&rt, of. notes at Adclph. V. iv. 27, and Hecyr. IV. iii. 12. 
 For malum, "plague on't," cf Adclph. IV. ii. 5; Eun. IV. vii. 10, &c. 
 Parry thinks that " tiia " must be retained in its place in the text here, 
 though an almost solitary example of the last syllable short in such a 
 case. An easy and probable emendation is, " Quid, malum, tua id 
 refert?" Iu earlier editions ver. 13 was placed in the mouth of 
 Demipho. Bcntley seems to have done well iu giving it to Chremei 
 In ver. 13, ejectam — "thrust out,' "ex tedibus," sc. "et matrimonio." 
 
 14. Idem ego istuc facere potsum, "I can do all that same" h. e. 
 "explain the ma'ter to Phanium." Chremes replies, Midier m/ulieri 
 magis congruit, " Une femme convient mie\ix h une femme." Westerhov. 
 quotes Florus III. xxii. 3, " Viro cum viris facile couvenit." By ilia) 
 in ver. 15, Chremes means his Lemnian wife, of whose death he has - 
 not heard, and her daughter Phanium. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. I 
 
 Sophrona, Phanium's nurse, meets ChremeB as he is seeking his 
 daughter, and bewails the troubles her charge has to fear from 
 Antipho's angry father. Chremes overhears her justifying her own 
 motives in getting Phanium married, and lamenting that Bhe cannot 
 meet with Stilpho, under which name she knows Chremes. They meet 
 and recognise each other in the street. Chremes tells bar that hie 
 other name had been assumed for fear his Athenian wife should learn his 
 Lemnian connexion. Sophrona tells him that that anxiety is over, for 
 his Lemnian wife is dead. He further learns from her that Phanium 
 is married to Antipho, which is just what he could have wished. J !<-. 
 begs Sophrona not to divulge that he is Phanium's father. 
 
 Metre : — 1, 3, 4, 8 — 11. Trochaic Tetrameter. 
 2. Trochaic Dimeter. 
 5, 12 — 14. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 6, 7, 15—20. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 21 — 38. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic 
 1. Quo consilia hcec referamf "To whom shall I disclose these schemes 
 of mine?" Quo=" ad quern ; " cf. Andr. III. iv. 27, "Quo nunc in- 
 praeeipitem darem," where quo = " m quod." — Unde in ver. 2,="aquo." 
 — Ob meum suasum, " OwiDg to my persuasion." Cf. Plaut. Pers. IV. 
 iv. 48, "Suasu atque impulsu men." 
 
 4. Tolerare — violenler, h. e. " graviter ferre," " takes in dudgeon." In 
 ver. 5, Nam 0«fc="qusenarn." Cf. Andr. II. ii. 24 ; III. iv. 12; III. v. 6. 
 Plaut. Men. U. G. 150, "Nam quid," &c. Construe, "Who in the world
 
 riicuxiio. 2S7 
 
 now is tbis old woman, out of breath.? " For a fralre, h. e. "ex acdibus 
 fratris." Cf. Andr. I. iii. 21, " Ab ea." 
 
 6. Egestas me impulit. Cf. Andr. I. v. 40, " Coactum egestate in- 
 geniuni," &c. Cf. Hor. Od. III. xxiv. 42, " Magnum pauperies oppro- 
 brium jubet Quid vis et facere et pati." — Infirmas nuptias Hasce esse, 
 "That tbis marriage was invalid." Cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 26, note; I. ii. 101, 
 ibid. — Uc id consulerem seems to be a resumption of the sense of quod 
 utfacerem in ver. 6, "Namely, to compass this end, that meanwhile 
 she might live securely and comfortably, even though not lawfully 
 married," i. e. "to keep her from indigence, till her father was found." 
 
 8. Nisi rue animus fallit, cf. Heaut. IV. i. 1. For parum prospiciunt 
 oculi, see Adelph. III. iii. 85, note, "Si satis cerno." Westerbov. 
 quotes Plaut. Epid. V. i. 28, "Satin' ego oculis utihtatem obtiueo 
 sincere, an parum?" — Quid ago? in ver. 9 = "quid again." Cf. Mensecbm. 
 H. G. 148. In ver. 10, adeo and maneo are likewise present for future, 
 "Am I to accost her, or wait till I learn more fully what she says?" 
 
 13. Estne hie Stilpho 1 Cf. II. iii. 42. — Ne me isioc posthac nomine 
 appellassis, " Don't call me henceforth by that name." Plaut. Amph. 
 
 II. ii. 181, "Ne me appella falso nomine." Appellassis—" appellaveris," 
 cf. Plaut. Men. 323, H. G. " Intrassis ; " Aul. H. G. 540, "Mutassis;" 
 Ibid. 562, " Indicassis ; " 565, " Prohibessis." 
 
 17. Coaclusam hie habeo uxorem scevam, "I've a savage wife shut up 
 here, like a wild beast." Cf. Andr. II. iii. 12, " Hue concludar." 
 Curcul. iii. 79, 80 ; Ter. Hecyr. IV. iv. 80. — Verum istoc me nomine Eo 
 perptram, &c. "But as regards that name, I gave it wrongly heretofore, 
 to the intent that you might not by chance babble it carelessly out of 
 doors." — htoc de nomine is, i. q. " quod ad istoc uomen attinet," as in 
 Andr. V. iv. 46, " De uxore." Adelph. II. i. 50, "De argento, som- 
 nium." For effutiretis, cf. note on Andr. III. v. 3, "futilis," the 
 derivation is " effundo ; " and "effutio " is literally, perhaps, " to leak," 
 hence "to blab."— Perperum, cf. Men. H. G. 856; Ampbitr. 95. With 
 "aliqua," understand "via'' or " ratione." 
 
 20. Istoc, h. e. " propter istoc," " On that account " or " on account 
 of that false name of yours." In ver. 23. Ex cegritudine miseram, 
 " Wretched, owing to sickness and sorrow," cf. Andr. V. v. 5. — 
 Male factum, h. e. " valde doleo," according to the usual acceptation. 
 Compare Plaut. Most. II. ii. 27, "Male, hercle, factum," and see the 
 ite phrase "Bene factum 'in Andr. I. i. 78. Donatus observes, 
 that the grief of Chremes is naturally not excessive (" Male factum " 
 would equal in his view, " That's a bad job "), as it relieves him from 
 an awkward plurality of wives. 
 
 25. Ut potui, " As far as I was able." " Nuptum virginem locavi," 
 cf. above IV. ii. 4'i, note ; Plaut. Trin. III. iii. 7, " Ut earn sine dote 
 fratcr nuptum collocet." — Dominus, h. e. " the heir : the master after 
 his father's death." 
 
 28. Quid Mam alteram, &c. " What then of that other who is said to 
 be related to him." For quid ilium alteram, at. Heaut. V. i. 77, "Sed 
 Syrum. Men. Quid earn I " See above at III, i. 16. — Ilcec ergo est, "This 
 is she, I tell you." Cf. Andr. V. iL 9, "Tibi ergo," note; Plaut. Epid. 
 
 III. iv. 41, " Hecc ergo est fidicina." 
 
 29. Com j,; itofactwntt, '■ It was pre-arranged that by this means her 
 might bo able to obtain her without a dower." For " composito,"
 
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 the ablative of perf. particip. used adverbially, cf. Virg. Mn. ii. 128, 
 1'29, " CompoBito rumpit vocem." Cf. such words as consulto. — Quam 
 tcepe forU temert crcniunt, "How oft by some random chance those 
 tlii'gs happen which you cannot dare to wish for I" Gronovius gives 
 four passages from Livy, where "forte temere " are thus conjoined, 
 xxiii. 3; xxv. 38; xxxix 15; xli. 2. See also Cic. de Divinat. ii. 68, 
 '• Ni.si ista casu noimuuquam forte temere concurrorent." Lindenbrog 
 quotes for the bentiment, Plaut. Most. I. iii. 40, and from Menander — 
 
 Taimi/uarof fiixiv KaWiiv fiovKfvfTai. 
 
 31. Offend' adventens, kc, "On my arrival I have found my daughter 
 married to him, with whom I wished to see her wedded, and as I 
 wished." The reading of ver. 33 is that of Wcsterhov. Beutley reads 
 " filiam locatam," Fleckeisen " collocatam guatam." Adven'uns is, i. J 
 " cum adveuissem," Gr. napayev6iJ.ei>os. 
 
 86. Oppido. Cf. Hecyr. II. i. 41, " Euim lassam oppido aibant turn 
 esse ; " Heaut. IV. ii. 2, uote, "In angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur 
 copies."— Stibit, cf. Men. H. G. 295, "Scibo;" Madvig. Gr. 115, c. 
 Chremes goes with Sophrona into Demipho's house to see Phanium. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. II. 
 
 Demipho grumbles to Geta about the money he has paid Phormio ; 
 and says it all comes of being too easy. Geta hints that it's well il 
 the money effects its purpose, and Phormio marries Phanium. Demipho 
 goes off to see Nausistrata, about her speaking to the girl; and Gets 
 soliloquises respecting his own position. He must pay his creditors 
 by borrowing from others. The evil day is only put off. He resolves 
 to go and see Phanium to relieve her from fear of Phormio, and t<j 
 prepare her for Nausistrata's visit. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 1. Nostrapte culpd facimus, kc, " By our own fault we make it to b« 
 the interest of others to be bad, whilst we are over-anxious that wc 
 ourselves should be called good and kind." Nostrapte culpa facimus ut, 
 " We have only ourselves to blame, that." For malis esse expediat, cf 
 Heaut. II. iv. 8, " Expedit bonas esse vobis," note. See also Madvig 
 Gr. 393, c. obs. 1. 
 
 3. Ita fugias, ne prater casam, ut aiunt. The sense of this passage 
 is best explained by Gronovius, " Si fugam paras, ita institue, ut cast 
 domini tibi non sit practereunda . . . Satis periculi est fugere, ne alian 
 teuieritatem addas, et periculum duplices prsetereundo casam." The 
 moral would be, that if a man pays money for an injury done to him 
 he invites another ; just as he who, having run away from service, ii 
 fool enough to pass his master's house, puts himself into twofold anc 
 needless peril. Construe, " So run away, as not to pass your master'i 
 house, as the saying is." The proverb is a rustic one, as seen in the 
 words " fugias " and " casam." See more in the Notes of J. F. Gronov 
 to Terence, p. 209.
 
 PHOfiillO. 
 
 2b9 
 
 4. Etiam argentumst ultro objectum, "Money was thrown to him. 
 dmost before he asked it." Ultro has often somewhat of the sense of 
 " prior," cf. Plaut. Aul. H. G. 485, " Etiam ipsus ultro debet argen- 
 tario;" Menschm. 272, H. G., " Alloquar ultro ; " Virg. JSn. II. 279, 
 " Ultro flens ipse videbar Compellare virum."— Objectum, as Ruhnken 
 shows, is used of a sop given to a dog. Cf. Livy IV. 51, " Deleui- 
 mentum animis Bolani agri divisionem objici." Parry quotes Virg. 
 j£u. vi. 420,421, q. v. — Accipeve — injariam— i 'To put up with an 
 injury from him." 
 
 5. Ut git qui rvcat, dura, &c, "That he may have whereupon to live 
 (means of subsistence) until he can accomplish some other mischief.'' 
 For " qui vivat," cf. Heaut V. ii. 25, " Unde peterem mihi cibum ; " 
 Adelph. V. ix. 23, "Unde utatur;" Plaut. Trin. II. ii. 74, "Qui nosmet 
 utamur." — Qui recta prava faciunt, "qui font voir que le blanc est noir" 
 Madame Dacier, " Who put wrong for right." 
 
 7. Ut stultissime quidem Mi, &c, " So that in the most foolish way we 
 have been consulting or forwarding his interests." For " rem gero" 
 in this sense, see Plaut. Pers. IV. iii. 34," Ego valeo recte, et rem gero, 
 et facio lucrum." Cf. also Hor. Epist. I. viii. 1, "Celso gaudere et bene 
 rem gerere Albino vano." But "illi" may stand for"illic," in which 
 case we must construe, " So that herein we have managed matters most 
 foolishly." 
 
 8. Modo ut — possiet discedi, ut islam ducat. Cf. " Sperandum est," 
 " Let's hope only that by this scheme things may turn out successfully 
 that he may marry her." — Discedi possiet is used impersonally, in the 
 sense of coming off successfully from a contest : as, " we may come 
 off" ("a nobis" sc). Cf. V. viii. 58, " Immo vero pulchre discedo, et 
 j. rube Et praeter 6pem." For Ut homo est, see Adelph. I. ii. 63, " Nam 
 itast homo." Key, in a note on § 1131 in his Grammar, observes, that 
 the relative adverb "ut" is used for "sic," or "ita," here and elsewhere. 
 He construes, " I am only too much afraid, faith, (knowing the fellow's 
 character) he may change his mind." Cf. Hecyr. III. v. 10, " Sic sunt;" 
 Phorm. III. ii. 43, Sic sum, "It's my way." 
 
 10. Nescio: verum "si forte" dico, "I don't know : I only say, 'per- 
 haps.' " Nuntia (Phanio, sc.) hanc (Nausistratam) venturam. 
 
 13. De junjio siUtur, "There's no talk about the lawsuit" with 
 Phormio, on account of the maiTiage. 
 
 15. In eodcm luto hasitas, " You are sticking in the same mire still, " 
 "You're as deeply involved as ever." Parry illustrates by Pseud. IV. 
 ii. 27, " I'erii, nunc homo in medio luto est," which Lambinus explains 
 " non potest se cxpedire." Cf. Pers. IV. iii. 66. — Versurd solves, Oeta, 
 " You'll pay old scores by borrowing afresh," h. e. "You'll get out of 
 one difficulty by getting iuto another." Versura=" the borrowing of 
 money to pay a debt." Cf. Smith's Diet. G. R. A. 527. As Gronovius 
 observes, "Ita creditor mutatur, debitum manet." Cic. pro Caelio. c. 7, 
 " Versuram nunquarn omnino fecit ullain." Hero of course "the 
 debts," are Geta's faults and trespasses. — Prascns quod fuerat tti'ilum, 
 " The punishment which had been elo-e at hand (if Phcedria had lost 
 his music girl) has been staved off for a season." In diem, see Eunuch. 
 V. vi. 19. — Playa crescunt Nisi prospicis, "The score of lashes is in- 
 creasing if you don't look out." In ver. 18, Fleckeisen reads "hujus" 
 for "ejus" (after Madame Dacier), h. c. Nausistrata.
 
 2ijO NOTES ON 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. III. 
 
 Demtpho is engaged in speaking to Nausistrata, when Chremes 
 comes out of Demipho's house, full of his discovery. Nausistrata lias 
 been promising to do her best to persuade Phanium to go to Phonnio. 
 Chromes finds that his brother has paid the money already, and is 
 sorry for it, but owing to his wife's presence cannot exactly say wiry. 
 He tells thorn Phanium won't go from Autipho, and what's more, she 
 is of kin to their family after all. This causes much cross-questioning, 
 and he answers obscurely till his wife retires, content that Phanium 
 shall remain where she is. Then Chremes unburdens the whole story 
 to Demipho, how that it is his daughter that Antipho has married. 
 They go into the house of Demipho to talk it over quietly. 
 
 Metre: — 1 — 11. Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 12 — 36. Iambic Tetrameter. 
 
 1. Fac ilia ut placet ur nobis, " Faites — qu'elle no nous veuille point 
 de mal," Madame Dacier, " Try to put this woman in good humour 
 with vis," Colman. — Ut sud voluntate — facial, cf. Adelph. III. iv. 44, 
 note; and see above IV. v. 13. 
 
 3. Pariter — ac re dudum opitulata es, "Just as you a little while 
 ago aided me with your substance." He alludes to her loan to him 
 from her rents. See above, IV. iii. 76, " Inde sumam : uxori, tibi opus 
 esse, dixero. — Factum volo, " I'm glad 'twas done;" "I'm agreeable; " 
 or "With all my heart." Cf. Plaut. Bacch. III. iii. 91, "Serva tibi 
 sodalem, et mibi filiura. Mn. Factum volo." — At pol minus queo — 
 dignupitt, " Eut faith, I'm less able to aid you, through my husband's 
 fault, than I ouglit to be." 
 
 5. Quia — iudiligenter tulatur, " Because he's a careless manager of 
 my father's well-earned property." Tatari=" tueri," in its sense of 
 " keeping in good order." Gronovius illustrates it by Cic. in Verr. i. 50, 
 " iFdem Castoris P. Junto habuit tuendam." So " Tutela " is used by 
 Pliny, Epiat. ii. 12, "Villa usibus capax, non sumptuosa tutela." For 
 " indiligenter " see note at Adelph. IV. v. 50, " Vereor ne indiligens 
 uimium fries." 
 
 7. Capiebat statim, "For from these farms ho used to enjoy a uniform 
 income of two talents." — Statim literally means " in standing." Nonius, 
 nays Gronov., explains it " perpetuo, perseveranter." Cf. Plaut. 
 Am ph. I. i. 83, "Sed in fugam se nemo tamen convertitur: Nee recedit 
 loco quiu statim rem gerat." Ibid. 120, " Ita statim stant signa." — Vir 
 viro quid pramtat t " What a difference there is between man and man ! " 
 (Jf. Eun. II. ii. 1, " Homini homo quid prrestat, stulto iutelligens." In 
 the sense of the text statim has its first syllable long; but not always, 
 as Parry shows, see his noto here. — Ac rebus vilioribus multo, tamen 
 V dent a bina, "And that was while things were far cheaper, yet he drew 
 two talents." 
 
 9. Quid Iicec ridentur, (" tibi" sc.) " What think you of all this? "— 
 ScUicit, "To be sure," a careless assent." — Virum me natum vellem. 
 Bentleyand the Bembine Codex read "natum " not "natam," rightly. 
 I vmipho stops this termagant with difficulty by suggesting to her to 
 aave her words for an argument for Phanium, who m younger.
 
 PHOKMIO. 291 
 
 13. Curavi ilico, " I attended to it immediately." — Nollem. datum, cf. 
 Audr. I. i. 13, where one reading is "factum gaudeo ; " see too above in 
 this scene ver. 4, " Factum volo." — Pent plus quam sat erat, (" locutus 
 fiii " 8C.) " I had almost said too much." This is said aside. For 
 "quam sat erat," cf. Adelph. V. iii. 48, " Attentiores — quam sat est." 
 
 15. Jam recte, '"Tis all right," "No matter." Cf. Hecyr. III. ii. 20, 
 " Recte, mater;" Heaut. II. i. 16; Adelph. I. v. 19, notes. — Istd, h. e. 
 " Phanium." — hanc, " Nausistrata." 
 
 17. Quia uterque ulrique cordi est, "Because each is near to the 
 other." For "cordi est," cf. Audr. II. i. 28; Plaut. CistelL I. i. 111. 
 " ' Mihi cordi est tameu." Terent. Heaut. II. iv. 14, " Utrique ab 
 utrisque vero devincimiui." Gronov. h. 1. shows that " cordi esse " is a 
 phrase which Livy much affected. Cf. Livy vi. 9 ; vi. 20 ; viii. 7 ; ix. 1, 
 &c. — Quid istuc nostra, ("refert'' sc.) See Hecyr. IV. iii. 12, &c. — Deliraa, 
 Audr. IV. iv. 13, note.— Sic exit, "So it will prove." Cf. Eun. V. viii. 28, 
 where the same form occurs. 
 
 19. Rediivitcum in, memoriam, "I have recalled the matter to my 
 mind." So Plaut. Capt. V. iv. 25, " Nunc demum in memoriam redeo, 
 cum mecum recogito." Bentley was the first to read " redii " instead 
 of the old reading "redi." The old reading would mean, if anything, 
 " Recall the matter to your mind along with me." — Non est, " cog- 
 uata " sc. 
 
 21. Patris nomen aliud dictum est, "Another name (than the true 
 one) of the father was mentioned," in the trial, by Phormio. — Hoc tu, 
 errasti, h. e. "propter hoc" — " C'est ce qui vous trompe" — Madame 
 Dacier. Concedes, in ver. 22,="credes, cousenties, — Si tu nil nairas, 
 '■ non possum intelligere," sc. 
 
 26. Una omntt nos aut scire aut nescire, &c. Cf. Plaut. Epid. III. i. 3, 
 " Situe quid, necne eit, scire cupio." — Iian' parvam mihi fidem esse, &c, 
 " To think that you should have so little confidence in me ! " For this 
 construction of the inf., cf. Andr. I. v. 10, note. 
 
 28. Vin satis quwsitum, &c. '' Would you have me be satisfied witli 
 my inquiries as to that matter. — Recte " Nothing." See above at ver. 
 15 of this scene. — Hanc iffitur mittiiuus! "Are we then to give her 
 up," h. e. " the daughter of our friend." An ambiguous form of speech 
 for Chremes's daughter by his Lemnian wife, whom Demipho does not 
 know to be one and the same with Phanium. Parry and same others 
 think "hanc" means "Nausistrata" — Ilia maneat f "Is that one 
 whom he has taken (h. e. Phanium) to remain V — Ire sc. "domum." 
 
 32. Ptrliljcmlis visust, " She seemed very well-bred." Cf. Hecyr. V. 
 iv. 22, note ; Andr. I. i. 11, note. — Hi nos resj/iciunt, "The gods look on 
 us with favour." Cf. Andr. IV. i. 18, note; Hor. Od. I. ii. 35, " Nepotes 
 Respicis, auctor," — Nuptam cum tuofilio, cf. Hecyr. IV. i. 13, note. 
 
 36. Ah they retire into Demipho's house, Chremes charges him not 
 to divulge the secret that Phanium is his daughter, even to their sou6.
 
 293 NO'l'KS ON 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. IV. 
 
 As ririio rejoices at his brother's good fortune, however bad his own. 
 Pliaedria's case shows the wisdom of moderate desires, soon supplied. 
 As for himself, Antipho is iu a dilemma. Secrecy entails constant fear. 
 Exposure would bring shame with it. He will seek Geta, to learn when 
 he may best face his father. 
 
 Metre : Iambic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 1 . Ut mem res aese habent, " However my affairs proceed." Cf. Phorm. 
 III. i. 4, ''Ut ut erant alia." For "ut" is here, i. q. " ut ut." Cf. 
 Adelph. II. ii. 40, &c. For fratri oUir/use, quod vidt, cf. Hecyr. IV. 
 ii. 3, note.— Quam acituwCat, cf. Heaut. I. ii. 36, " Hoc scitum est," &c, 
 see note ibid. 
 
 3. Quaa — paulo mederi possis, " Which, when circumstances are un- 
 toward, you can relieve a little." Either the relative is here attracted 
 to the case of the antecedent, or "mederi" governs an accusative; as 
 "medicari" does in Virg. JEa. vii. 756, "Sed non Dardaniae medicari 
 cuspidis ictum Evaluit." 
 
 4. Curd aese expedivit, cf. Adelph. IV. iv. 6, note.— Me evolvere, " Freo 
 myself, literally " unwind myself." (Gr. iKroXoireveiv ./Each. Again. 
 1034.) Cf. Eun. IV. iv. 55, "Te omni turba evolves." — Siti patefa, the 
 indicative here, after the subj. " celetur " in the other clause, is an 
 a.va.i<6hovQov, as Donatus notes. 
 
 7. Ni mi esset apes oatenta, &c, "Unless I had had a glimpse of hope 
 of keeping her." Cf. Eun. III. v. 56, 57, " Occasionem Mihi osteutatu 
 tantam, &c." Gronov. quotes Cic. pro Cluent. c. 8, " Cum unius filii 
 recuperaudi spes esset ostentata." In these and other passages, 
 "Ostendo" and "ostento" have an idea of "rare," or "infrequent 
 occurrence." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. V. 
 
 Phormio boasts to Antipho, that he has got Demipho's money, and 
 given up the music-girl to Phaedria. He is now going to get a holiday 
 iu the country. Antipho inquires what Phaedria is doing, and Phormio 
 replies that, like Antipho, he is avoiding his father's presence, and 
 hopes that his cousin will plead for him with Chremes, whilst he's off 
 in the country with the Parasite. Phormio is going to tell the old men 
 that he is going to Sunium to buy his wife a slave. 
 
 Motre : — Iambic Tetrameter. 
 1. A bduxi muHerem. cf. above V. iii. 16. — Cur avi, propria ed — poleretw. 
 " I've made sure Pliaedria's having her for his own inalienably." Cf. 
 Virg. iEu. i. 77, " Connubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo." See 
 also Andr. IV. iii. 1, note.— Poteretur, Heaut. II. iii. 81, Virg. JEn. III. 
 55, 56. " E mixta est manu, "She has been set free."="Manu missa 
 est." Cf. note at Adelph. V. ix. 18, " emitti ;" Plaut. Pseud. IV. iL 31
 
 PH0KM10. 293 
 
 " Mulieremque mihi emittere;" Plaut. Aul. H. G. 773, q. v. Menaeehin. 
 H. G. 921, 941; Capt. II. iii. 48, "Nunquam erit tarn avarus quin te 
 gratis emittat maim ; " Curcul. V. ii. 18. The ceremony of manu- 
 mission is alluded to, see Smith's Diet. G. and R. A. 3/anw="potestate." 
 In ver. 3, etiam=" still," "yet." — Ab senibus, "Chrenies and Demipho, 
 who might look to him to take away Phanium." 
 
 4. Nam aliqicot hos sumam dies, " For I am going to spend (h. e. 
 enjoy) these few next days." Cf. Adelph. II. iv. 23, note, "Hilarem 
 hunc sumamus diem ; " ibid. V. iii. 68 ; Plaut. Pseud. V. i. 23. 
 
 6. Quo pacto satietatem — se velle sumere, " How does he mean to 
 take his fill of love." — Colman. "Satietatem amoris sumere=" amore 
 frui, quantum ipsi satis videtur." — Partes tuas acturust, cf. Phorin. 
 Prol. 27, notes. 
 
 8. Te suas rogavit rursum ut ageres, "partes" sc. Westerhov. and 
 other editors, whom Parry follows, read "suain." But Bentley's read- 
 ing from the Bembine MS. "suas" is clearly right, though Donatus 
 seems to have read " suam." — Causam pro se diceres, "Plead his 
 excuses." Cf. Adelph. IV. v. 42, "Advorsumne ilium causam dice- 
 rem." 
 
 10. Mercatum^ "The fair." Plaut. Poen. I. ii. 126, " Mercatus niere- 
 tricius." Livy i. 30, "Mercatus, conventusque Grsecia?." Adelph. II. 
 ii. 23, " Nisi eo ad mercatum venio." — Sunium, Eun. I. ii. 35, " Ab- 
 reptam e Sunio." There appears to have been an emporium there, 
 according to Donatus on that passage. — Quam dudum dixit Geta, " me 
 emptu rum esse" sc. Cf. IV. iii. 60, " Uxori emunda ancillulast." — 
 Me conficere crtdant argentum suum, " They may suppose I'm making 
 short work with the money they paid me." Nonius explains '• con- 
 licere " here " consumere, dilapidare." The sense does not seem 
 uncommon, if we recollect the constant usage of " confectus," '* wasted," 
 " used up." See another sense in I. i. 4, above. 
 
 12. Ostium concrepuit abs te. See Audr. IV. L 58, "Concrepuit a 
 Glycerio ostium," and the note there. 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. VI. 
 
 Geta issues from Demipho's house, full of the news that Antipbo'a 
 wife's is the Lemninn daughter of Chremes. Thi* Phormio and Antipho 
 partly overhear, and then call him back as he is going off in search of 
 his young master. He relates at length to thorn how after Demipho 
 and lie had got home from the Forum, his master sent him to Phanium, 
 whose page stopped him from going in, because Chremes was with her. 
 He resolved at once to play the eaves-dropper, and ho gathered that 
 Phanium and her mother were tho Lemnian wife and child of Chremes. 
 Antipho goes off overjoyed to meet his family circle, l'hormio, some- 
 what incredulous, determines on a plan to make Chremes rest satisfied 
 without repayment of the money; by holding thil new st cret over 
 him. 
 
 Metre :— 1 — 34. Trochaic Tetrameter Cataleetk) 
 44 — 54. Iambic Trine fcer.
 
 SO I NOTJJ8 OS 
 
 1. Fan fort una, "0 strange fortune." Cl'. note on Hecyr. II T 
 Lit 26 ; Bun. I. ii. 54. — Quantis commoditatibus, &c, " With how great 
 blessings ami how suddenly have you loaded my master Antipho, by 
 your aid." — Aero meo — kunc diem, is a case of hypallage for " herum 
 mouiii — hoc die." For oncrare, used in a good and bad sense, cf. Andr. 
 V. i. 8, " Remittas jam me onerare injuriis." Capt. IV. ii. 47, "Sed ego 
 eesso Hegionem oneraro lastitia senem." 
 
 4. Scd ego nunc mihi cesso, qui non, &c, " But I'm loitering to my 
 hurt, in not throwing my cloak upon my shoulder." Mihi is the dative 
 of the person concerned, cf. Key, Or. § 977. — Humcrum onero pallio, 
 cf Eun. IV. vi. 31, " Attolle pallium." This action denotes tucking up 
 the cloak for the sake of expedition. 
 
 8. Num mirum aut novumst revocari, &c. " Is it any marvel or 
 novelty to bo called back, when you've begun running?" " Quand 
 on se met a courir?" — Madame Dacier. For an allusion to the 
 common joke of calling to a slave to stop, see Phorm. I. iv. 17, 18, 
 note. — Pergit hercle, " He goes on calling me back, I declare." — Nun- 
 tjuam tu odio tuo me vinces, " You shall never prevail upon me by 
 boring me." Cf. Hecyr. I. ii. 48, "Tundendo atque odio — effecit senex." 
 See below V. vii. 44, " Si porro esse odiosi pergitis " Hor. Sat. I. 
 vii. 6; Plaut. Menajchm. 230, " odiosus," H. Q.—Non manes? " Won't 
 you stop ? " pres. for fut. 
 
 10. Vapula, "To the lash with you!" "Go and be beaten !" Cf. 
 Plant. Asin. II. iv. 72. — " Vapula/ Me. Id quidem tibi hercle fiet." 
 Antipho here rejoins, "That will soon be your fate, rascal, unless you 
 stop." Vapula is Bentley's reading for " vapulabia.*' 
 
 11. Familiariorem oportct, &e, "This must be some one intimately 
 acquainted with me : he threatens punishment." A slave's conscience 
 is at work. For "malum" "punishment," cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 6, 
 " Si ad malum accedit malum ; " Aulul. H. G. 437, " Malam rem ; " Pers. 
 V. ii. 35, " Ne tibi hoc Bcipione Malum magnum dem." — Congredere 
 actutum, "Accost him at once." These are the words of Phorinio to 
 Antipho. Bentley assigns them to Geta. 
 
 13. omnium, quantum est qui zirunt, &c. For Quantum est, see 
 Heaut. IV. vi. 6, note. Hor. Epod. v. 1, " At, deorum quicquid in 
 coelo regis." Plaut. Aulul. 742, note, H. G. — Homo hominum ornatis- 
 sinie. Adelph. II. ii. 10, " Homo hominum stultissime." — Ab dis solus 
 diligere, " You're the special object of the gods' regard." Cf. Andr. V. 
 vi. 9, " Solus est quem diligant Di." 
 
 16. Satin' est si te delibutum gaudio reddo ? "Will you be satisfied, if 
 1 plunge you over head and ears in joy?" For delibutum, cf. Plaut. 
 l'on. I. ii. 55, "Cceuo delibutas;" Hor. Epod. xvii. 31, "Quantum 
 neque atro delibutus Hercules Nessi cruore;" Epid. iii. 13. — Enicas, 
 " You torture me." Cf. Andr. IV. i. 36, note. — Quin tu hinc — aufer, 
 &c, " Away with your promises, and tell the news you bear." — 
 Quin is here expostulatory, as in Andr. II. iii. 25, " Quin taces." 
 — Aufer = " omitte," cf. above I. iv. 45, " Aufer mi oportct." In 
 ver. 18, for accipe, hem, Fleckeisen reads "Accipc, en:" "Hear then, 
 lo." For accipe ("auribus" sc.) compare Hecyr. III. iii. 3, " Quas 
 accepi auribus." 
 
 19. Tibi, h. e. "Phormio;" uxorem tuam, h. e. " Antipho's wife." 
 — Iltctd domum sumus profecti, "We started homewards forthwith."
 
 PHORMIO. 293 
 
 The houses of Demipho and Chremes are both represented on the 
 stage ; so that Bentley's emendation " Kecta ad Chrernein," is need- 
 less. 
 
 22. Ubi in gynceceum ire occipio, " When I begin to enter the women's 
 apartments, up to me runs the page Mida." Gyn(eceum=ywatKe7ov sc 
 6'tKn/xa, cf. Plaut. Most. III. ii. 72. It was the inner part of the house, 
 in the rear of the men's apartments. — Pone adprendit pallio, " Catches 
 me by the cloak behind." Cf. Mil. G. I. i. 59, " Ut vel illse quse here 
 pallio Me reprehenderunt ; " Epid. I. i. 1, " Quis properautem me 
 prehendit pallio." — Resupinat, " He pulls me backwards." Gronovius 
 explains the word "retro trahendo facit ut vultu aliquis coelum spectet." 
 Cf. Hor. Sat. I. v. 19, "Stertitque supinus;" Hor. Od. III. xxiii. 1, 
 " Ccelo supinas si tuleris manus." 
 
 27. Suspenso gradu, &c, " I proceeded to go quickly on tip-toe." 
 Cf. Ovid. Fast. vi. 333, " Et fert suspensos corde micante gradus." 
 Phaedrus. Fab. II. iv. 18, " Evagata noctu suspenso pede." And, above 
 all, see Conington's note on Virgil. Eel. ii. 66, " A ratra jugo referunt 
 su-ptnsa juvenci." — Animam compressi, cf. Adelph. III. ii. 26, note ; 
 Ov. Fast. i. 425, " Surgit amans, animamque tcnens, vestigia furtim 
 Suspenso digitis fert taciturna gradu." 
 
 29. Hoc modo sermonem captans. "In this fashion (SeiKTiitm, suiting 
 the action to the words) listening to their conversation." For this 
 use of " capto," cf. PI. Casin. II. viii. 8, " Captandus est horum clan- 
 culum sermo mihi." — Pulcherrimum facinus. Facinus is here used in 
 a good sense. Cf. Heaut. II. iii. 73, " Facinus magnum nee memo- 
 rabile." 
 
 33. Cum ejus consuevit olim matre, &c. For this use of consuevit, cf. 
 notes at Adelph. IV. v. 32, and Hecyr. IV. i. 40, above. — Somnium, 
 "Moonshine," cf. Adelph. II. i. 50, note.- Utin' hcec ignoraret suiua 
 patremt "Do you mean that she didn't know her own father?" 
 Westerhov. supplies the ellipse " adeone rudis erat." But see Hecyr. 
 I. i 9, "Utin* eximium neminem habtam." — A liquid credito — esse 
 causae, " Be sure there was some reason for it." " Croi, Phonnion, qu'il 
 y a la-dessous quelque chose que nous ne savons pas." Egevint, iu 
 ver. 36, means "treated of," " dixerint, locuti siut." 
 
 37. Atquc hercle ego quoque istam audivi fahulam. This sentence 
 was, till Bentley's time, assigned to Phormio. He rightly saw that it 
 belonged to Antipho. For "Audivi" some editors read " inaudivi," 
 after Donatus. Cf. Plaut. Mil. Gl. II. ii. 56, "Os columnatum poets 
 inaudivi barbaro." Antipho perhaps refers to IV. iii. 65, q. v. Dubo 
 = dicam, as in Heaut. Prol. v. 10. lnde, h. e. "e domo Demi- 
 phonis." Hue, " into the street." Gronovius appears to have read 
 " intus egreditur foras," taking "intus" for "ex intoriore parte 
 aedium;" which he parallels by Plaut. Amph. II. ii. 138; Bacch. I. 
 i. 62. 
 
 40. Ait utcrque — ejus habendce. Bcntley needlessly, and without 
 authority, read " habeudi." But this is not a case like that of Heaut. 
 I Vol. v. 27, &c, and there is no merit in inventing a difficult oon« 
 ■truotioiL 
 
 42. Quin ergo rape me, "Away with mo then instantly," Oilman : 
 Bun. II. iii. 86, " Abduc, due, quantum potea." Madame Daoier*a idea 
 a« to Antipho "qui! H met .^ur lcs epaulea do sou valet" has no
 
 2 ( .l("> NOTES ON 
 
 warranty in tbe worde of the text. Guyetus ended the play, and 
 Bcutley, after Faernus, the scene, at gaudeo in ver. 43. 
 
 45. Summa eludcndi, &c, " Now I've a first-rate opportunity of 
 outwitting the old men." In the next line we have an " anacoluthon," 
 mlimere, where we should have expocted "adimeudi" after "elu- 
 iK'iidi." For Phcedrice udimere curam aryentariam, cf. Key's Gr. § 
 1 252, where this passage is instanced as a case where the infinitive 
 Beema to supply the place of a genitivo (rod "adimere"). Construe 
 " and of relieving Phsedria of his anxiety about money ;" Plaut. Pseud. 
 I. iii. 66, " Inopia argentaria." 
 
 48. Nam idem hoc aryentum, ita ut datumst, &c, " For this very 
 money, just as it has been given to me, shall be given to him, against 
 their will." Ei the reading of the C. Bembinus is far better than 
 •'his" which is found in the old editions. For inyratiis, cf. Plaut. 
 Men. H. G. 952; Curcul. I. i. 6, &c. — Hoc, qui coyam, re ipsd repperi, 
 " How to force them to this, I've discovered, under the circumstances, 
 as they present themselves," viz., by pretending to be ready to marry 
 1'hanium; and if the old man won't give her up, then refusing to 
 restore the money. — Vidt usque est capiundus novus, cf. Heaut. V. i. 14, 
 " Vultus quoque hominum fiugit seel us.'' — Anyiportum, cf. Adelph. IV. 
 ii. 39 j Eun. V. ii. 6. 
 
 ACTUS V— Sc. VII. 
 
 As Demipho and Chremes come forth from the house of the former, 
 rejoicing in the happy issue of their desires about Antipho and 
 Phanium, and bent withal on r. covering the thirty pounds from 
 Phormio, they are met by him. He pretends readiness to marry 
 Phanium and take her at once. Demipho interposes excuses. " He can't 
 turn her out of doors : and Antipho won't give her up." Then, says 
 Phormio, " I can't repay the money. I've spent it in paying debts, and 
 it is mine, for I've been ready to fulfil my contract." Demipho retorts, 
 calling Phormio a rogue and cheat : and he, in turn, holds in terror 
 over Chremes his Lemnian intrigue. Chremes then foregoes his claim, 
 and begs the parasite to keep his secret : but Demipho counsels 
 lesiatance to Phormio's demands. As the old men are collaring 
 Phormio, he cries out for Nausistrata, bent on telling her the whole 
 tale. 
 
 Metre : — Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 3. Quantum potest, " With all speed ; " cf. Andr. V. ii. 20, note ; 
 Plaut. Men. H. G. 340. Dilapidit, literally "demolish," here "squan- 
 der." Construe " That we may carry off from him our 30 minse 
 before he squanders them." Fleckeisen places ver. 12, * Estne ea— 
 oppido" after ver. 2: probably on account of its apparent uumean- 
 ngncaa in ita usual place. But there seems no authority for the 
 change. 
 
 !i. Qu/jd recpissem srmcl, " Which I had once promised. Cf. T< 
 Heaut V. v. 12, note, "Ad me recipio ;" Cic. ad Fain. i. 9, " Quidq 
 
 Cf. Ter. 
 ue
 
 PHORMIO. 297 
 
 sibi is de me recepisset, in memoriam redegit;" Cic. Philipp. V. c. 18, 
 " Promitto, recipio, spondeo, Caium Caesarem semper talem fore civem, 
 qualis hodie sit." — Quanta quanta hcec mea paupertas est, cf. Adelptu. 
 III. iii. 40, "Tu quantus quantus es nil nisi sapientia es," note; Plaut. 
 Pcen. III. iv. 28. For the sentiment compare Virg. JEn. ii. 79, "nee, 
 si miserum Fortuna Sinoueni Finxit, vanum etiaui mendacemque im- 
 proba finget." 
 
 12. Estne ea ita ut dixi, &c Chremes must be supposed here to be 
 heedless of the conversation, and to ramble on about his new found 
 child. In ver. 13, Bentley reads "Idque adeo advenio nuntiatum ; " 
 Parry, " Itaque ad vos veuio ; " Fleckeisen, " Idque ad vos venio nun- 
 tiatum." — Omnes pos'habui miki res, cf. Adelph. II. iii. 9, " Omnia sibi 
 postputavit ease; Virg. Eel. vii. 17, " Posthabui tamen illorum men 
 seria ludo." 
 
 20. Nunc viduam extrudi turpe est, " Now it were shameful that 
 she should be thrust out of doors without a husband." Viduam = 
 " viro di-yunctam," as in Plaut. Men. 37, " Faxo foris vidua visas 
 patrem," where see Hildyard's Glossary; Ovid. Heroid. L 10, " Lassa- 
 ret viduas peudula tela mauus; " ibid. xix. 69; cf. Catull. vL 6, "Te 
 non viduas jacere noctes,'' &c. See also Men. 622, H. Lanibinus 
 explains "vidua," "ea quae, postquam nupsit, viro caret." JJuduia 
 me incusaveras, cf. Phorm. II. iii. 66, &c. For " incuso," with two 
 accusatives ; cf. Key's Gr. § 898. 
 
 22. Satis supcrbe inluditis me, " Vous me traitez fort cavalierenieut," 
 " You trifle with me in a tolerably high tone." For llluditis, in this 
 construction of Heaut. IV. iv. 19, note. Alteram, cf. Heaut. IV. iii. 
 52, " Nullam mihi uialim quam istane uxorem dari." — Quo redibo ore, 
 " With what face ; " cf. Heaut IV. iii. 22, " Nam quo ore appellabo 
 patrem ? " see notes, ibid. 
 
 25. Turn autem AntijJtonem video — inqvs, "Besides, I find that 
 Antipho won't part with the woman. Say this." Chremes is prompt- 
 ing Demipho with another plea, which he immediately uses. — Sed 
 transi sodes, &c, " But, come, step to the forum, and direct that that 
 money be paid back to me." Money matters were settled at the 
 " mensae " and " tabernae " of bankers iu the forum ; " cf. Adelph. II. 
 iv. 13, note. For " rescribcre," in the sense of "repaying," cf. Hor. 
 Sat. II. iii. 76, "Dictantis quod tu nunquam rescribere poesis." 
 
 30. Quodne ego discripsi, &c, " What ! the money I've paid away at 
 once to my creditors." Bentley, after the Bemb. c. and the apparent 
 reading of Donatus, restores discripsi for persci-ipsi, the usual reading- 
 — Dos hie maneat. Hie is said SttKTiKws, " With me," pointing to his 
 pockets. 
 
 35. Vestri honoris caiud, "Out of respect to you;" Plant. Peon. III. 
 iii. 25, " Quia nos honoris tui ciut-a line ad te venimus." — Repudium 
 altera remiterim, " I've refused the other woman," cf. above, IV. iii. 72 ; 
 jflO Aulul. M. G. 740, and ibid. 750. " Fa rorepudium rcminit avun- 
 culus eaui-a mea." For altera;, see note at Heaut. II. iii. 30. It is an 
 archaism for "alteri." 
 
 •'57. / hinc in ma/am, &c, "To perdition with you, vagabond, witli 
 
 tag of yours '. " cf. above, II. iii 21 ; Men. ProL H. G. 66, &c— 
 
 xstac rri'i'ivijiri-niid. Cf. Heaut. IV. vi. 6,7, " dun tuo — lutoc 
 
 invcuto cumque iueepto;" Andr. V. iv. 38, " Uuui tua religiouc."
 
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 Fugitive, " runaway slave," cf. Plaut. Pseud. I. iii. 131, "Fugitive." — 
 Te ignerarior, au' tua facta adco, " That you're not known, aye, and 
 your acts too : " adeo, " what's more." For Irritor, cf. Adelph. II. iv. 
 18, note ; Andr. III. iv. 18, note. 
 
 40. Pac pcriclum, "Try me;" Hcaut. II. i. 9, " Periclum ex aliis 
 facito ;" Andr. III. iii. 32, note; Hecyr. V. i. 40, note. Demipho then, 
 in ver. 41, imputes to Phormio a base motive. 
 
 43. In jus amb ula, " Come to the law-courts." " Marche devaut les 
 juges." Cf. Plaut. Cure. V. ii. 23, " In jus ambula." Jus here, accord- 
 ing to Donatus, pro, "loco" judicii est. — Si porro esse odiosi pergitis, 
 " If you continue to be troublesome." Cf. for odiosi, Plaut. Meu. 
 H. G. 230 ; Aulul. 84, " Odiosas haberi." The words here are an 
 illustration of " aposiopesis." Cf. Andr. I. i. 137, note; Adelph. I. ii. 
 55, note. 
 
 45. Vos me indotatis — arbitramini, &c, " Perhaps you deem that 
 I act as champion only for undowered females : I'm wont to dis- 
 charge a like office for some who have dowers." A hit at Chremes, 
 to whose wife, Nausistrata, he alludes in dotatis. — Quid id nostra" 
 ("refert" so.) 
 
 49. Nullus sum, cf. Andr. III. iv. 20, note ; Hecyr. IV. i. 6, note. — 
 Scpultus sum, "I'm a dead man," "I'm lost." Parry quotes Amphitr. 
 V. i. 22, "Sepultus est quasi sit mortuus." But there is no exact 
 parallel to be found in the commentators. In ver. 51, as often above, 
 adeo = "and what's more." — lit ludos faclt, "How he mocks us!" 
 Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 314, " Ludos facere ;" Aulul. H. G. 209, "Quern 
 senecta aetate ludos facias.." Ludos facere = " ludificare," and takes 
 au accusative after it; cf. Andr. III. i. 21, note. 
 
 53. Missum te facimus, " Nous ne te demandons plus rien." We 
 discharge you of obligation. Cf. Andr. IV. i. 56, note; V. i. 14, "Nos 
 missos face." — Argentum — condonamus te, "We forgive you the money 
 you've got of ours." The common construction after " condono " is a 
 dative of the person, an accusative of the thing, forgiven, cf. Key, § 
 975. But here and in Plaut. Bacch. V. ii. 24, we have a double accu- 
 sative, "Siquam debes, te condono." — Audio, cf. above, I. iii. 8, 
 note. Malum, cf. Heaut. II. iii. 77; Ad. IV. ii. 5, note. 
 
 56. For puerili sententid, Fleckeisen suggests " puerili inconstantia." 
 With the following verses compare Plaut. Aul. 215, 216, "Pactum non 
 pactum est, non pactum pactum est, quod vobis lubet," where Lam- 
 binus quotes this passage : Hor. Epist. I. i. 97. 
 
 60. Nisi me dixisse — scio. Nisi here = " But," as iu Andr. IV. i. 
 40 ; Ad. IV. ii. 6, Notes. — Monstri simile. So in Eun. II. iii. 43, 
 " Eho ! Nonne hoc monstri simile est?" "Prodigious! so help me 
 the gods ! " — Inject scrupulum, " I've made them uneasy," cf. Adelph. 
 II. ii. 20, note; Andr. V. iv. 37, &c. 
 
 62. Hicine ut a nobis — auferat, " To think of this fellow carrying off 
 from us so large a sum, and laughing at us bo barefacedly ! " For 
 this not uncommon construction cf. Andr. I. v. 28, " Eine ego ut ad- 
 vorserJ" note; Phorm. II. i. 74, " Egone ilium — ut patiar" &c. — 
 Emori hercle satius est," "I'd die rather;" Eun. I. i. 21, "Mori mo 
 malim.'' — Animo virili presentique ut sis para, "Prepare to act like a 
 man, and with presence of mind; " Eun. IV. vi. 31, "Fac animo heec 
 pnesenti dicae."
 
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 65. Esse elatum foras, "Has been divulged;" "has got abroad." 
 Cf. Adelph. IV. iv. 17, "Quod minurue'st opus Usquam efferri." — 
 Piaeabilius e*t, " To state the matter to her ourselves is the mo*t 
 likely way to appease her." Cf. Adelph. IV. iii. 17, Note, " Te ipsuin 
 purgare ipsis coram piaeabilius est." 
 
 69. Hum impuratum ulcisci, " To take revenge on this rascal in our 
 own fashion." Impuratum, cf. above, IV. iii. 64; Aulul. (Hildyard's 
 Gloss.) 313, "Inipurate," filthy wretch; "Impurata bellua," Rudens. 
 II. vi. 59. — Nostra modo, Andr. I. i. 126, " Meo modo ; " Plaut. Men. 167, 
 " Non tuo hoc fiet modo." — Hcereo, " I'm in a fix;" see Eun. V. ii. 9, 
 Trinumm. IV. ii. 59, " Hseret hsec res." 
 
 71. Hi gladiatorio — affectant viam, "These men are making towards 
 me with most hostile intent." Gladiatorio animo,h.e. "with the 
 spirit in which the gladiators descend into the arena." Affectant. 
 viam, cf. Heaut. II. iii. 60, Note ; Plaut. Men. 5S8 ; Aul. H. G. 530. 
 — Bono animo es, "Cheer up!" "Take heart;" cf. Plaut. Aulul. 
 (Hildy.) 689, " Animo bono es ! " Ter. Adelph. IV. v. 62. — Hoc 
 fretus, Chreme, Quum, &c, "Relying on this, to wit, the fact that 
 she is removed from us." &c. Quum, says Donatus, is for quia. 
 E medio excessit, "Has departed this life." Cf. Adelph. III. iv. 34, 
 In medio est, h. e. "is still among us." The phrase is a Euphemism 
 for " mortua est." 
 
 75. Satis astute aggredimini, " You begin your assault very cleverly." 
 The metaphor is still from the gladiators. — Aon hercle ex re islius me 
 ins'if/asli, "But, 'faith, 'twas not to your brother's interest that you 
 goaded me on, Demipho ! " Ex re istius, " To the interest of that 
 brother of your.-! ; " cf. Plaut. Pseud. I. iii. 104, " Ex tua re non est, ut 
 ego emoriar ;" True. IV. iv. 20, " E re mea est." 
 
 77. A in' tut l/bi quce libitum fuerit, &c, "How say you, Sir?" 
 (turning to Chremcs). Plaut. Aulul. H. G. 254, A in' tandem ? " When 
 you have done abroad what you pleased." — Neque hujus sis veritus, &c, 
 " And have not regarded your wife here, a lady of family." Vereor is 
 found with a genitive in a fragment of Afrauius. apud Non. " Uxor 
 quae non vereatur viri," and Cic. ad. Att. viii. 4, " Ne tui quidem 
 testimonii veritus." The methods of commentators to explain away 
 this genitive, e.g. "hujus" (causa sc), and hujus genitive of value, 
 are ridiculous. For fcemince primarice, cf. Plaut. Mil. III. i. 73, " Para- 
 situm primarium;" Rud. IV. iv. 29, "Quoad primarius vir dicat;" 
 Stich. I. ii. 81, " Conditionem ex pessimo; primariam." 
 
 79. Quin novo modo— contumeliam, "So as to forbear insulting her 
 in an unheard-of manner." Quin depends on "veritus sis" above. — 
 Venias mild, &c, "Would you come, I ask you, to wash out your 
 off'-nce by entreaties." In this sense luo is much more common than 
 " lavu." Horace in Od. III. xii. 2, has " nequo dulci Mala vino 
 lavere." Mihi, here, is the dativus Ethicus ; cf. Key Gr. § 978; 
 Hor. Epist. I. iii. 15, " Quid mihi Celaus agit." 
 
 81. Incensum dabo. Cf. Andr. IV. ii. 20, " Effcctum reddam ; Heaut. 
 V. i. 77, "Adeo exornatum dabo," note; Andr. IV. i. 59, "Inventum 
 dabo." — Ut ne restinyuaa lachrymis si exstillareris, "That though you 
 mi It away in tears, you shan't quench the firo" (of hor wrath). The 
 metaphor is from water used in putting out the fire. For " exstillent," 
 cf. Plaut. Psoud. III. ii. 29, " Oculi ut oxstillcut."
 
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 83. Malum quod itti — duint. There is no difficulty here if we take 
 malum as the ordinary imprecation, and consider the words that follow 
 Demipho's mode of fastening it on Phorinio. ''A plague I and may 
 all the gods nud goddesses cause it to light on that rogue." This 
 verse occurs in Plaut. Moat. III. i. 126, " ipsissimis verbis." — Tantdne 
 adjeclum, &c. Cf. note on Andr. I. v. 10. — Non hoc publicitus, 4c, 
 " Ought not this rascal to be transported to a desert land at the 
 country's expense." — Publicitus, cf. Amphitr. I. i. 8. " Peregre ad- 
 veniens hospitio publicitus accipiar." Plautus in the Trinumm. II. iv. 
 1 46, draws a picture of a convict settlement, " Malos in quern omncs 
 publico mitti decet," and whither " detrudi maleficos -<Equum videtur." 
 — For "solas terras," cf. PI. Rud. I. iv. 8, "Neque magis solse terra; 
 sunt," &c. ; Aulul. 627 (Hild.) "Solum locum," h. e. tfrrjuov; Virg. 
 Eel. x. 14, ''Sola sub rupe." — In jus eamus, cf. above ver. 43. — Rue, si 
 quid lubet, Phorinio retorts In jus upon Chremes, and his reply is, 
 " Before a judge] yes, come in here then, if you please," pointing 
 to Chremes' house, and hinting at Nausistrata as the judge. — Adsequere 
 ac retine, " Run up to him and hold him," &c. 
 
 90. Enim nequeo solus, " Why ! I can't, single-handed " Enim is 
 used " elliptice," as in Hecyr. II. i. 41, note; Aulul. H. G. 454 — Una 
 injuria est tecum (to Demipho), *' I've one assault, against you." Injuria, 
 says Donatus, is here " actio injuriarum." — Lege agito ergo, " You may 
 go to law with me then." Lege agito was said to one, whose threat ap- 
 peared contemptible; see Donatus. Compare Plaut. Aulul. 412, 
 Hildyard's notes, and Mil. Gl. II. v. 43, " Lege agito : nunquam 
 niittam." 
 
 93. Os opprime, "Stop his mouth." Cf. Plaut. Asin. III. ii. 40. 
 Impurum vide, quantum valet I " See the rascal, how strong he is ! " — 
 Pugnos in venUem ingcre, " Hit him in the wind, if he does not follow 
 you." Phormio takes him up, menacingly, "Ay, or knock out his 
 eye. I shall have a fine opportunity of revenge." — Oculum exclude. 
 Cf. Plaut. Pseud. I. v. 95, " Excludito mihi hercle oculum." Lam- 
 biuus in that passage reads " exculpito ; " as indeed the Bemb. c. here 
 reads exscalpe. " Est ubi vos ulciscar prope." — For est ubi, as here, cf. 
 Plaut Pseud. V. ii. 26, " Eiit ubi te ulci-car, si vivo." 
 
 ACTUS V.— Sc. VIII. 
 
 The clamour brings out Nausistrata, to whom Phormio, amid much 
 interruption, tells her husband's misdeeds at Lemnos. Demipho tries 
 to justify his angry sister-in-law. Phormio exults in his mischief, and 
 further tells Nausistrata all about the 30 miuai, and her son Pluedria's 
 intrigues. She is disposed to treat the matter easily, and, at his own 
 m ingestion, shows her thankfulness to the parasite by asking him to 
 ku; per. 
 
 Metre: — 1 — 21. Iambic Trimeter. 
 
 22 — 66. Trochaic Tetrameter Catalectic. 
 
 2. Obstipuisti. So Bentley, after C. Bcmbin., cf. Andr. I. v. 21, " Ob-
 
 P!£ORMIO. 301 
 
 stipui." See note ibid. Others read here " Obticuisti." For cr duag, 
 in ver. 4, cf. Plaut. Pcen. III. v. 2; Trinumrn. III. i. v. 5. Creduit 
 occurs in True. II. ii. 52, q. v. Creduas is an archaic form of " Credas." 
 — Si non totus fnyet, &c, "He's in a shivering fit, I'll lay my life," 
 Colinan. Cf. Eun. I. ii. 3, " Totua, Parmeno, Treino horreoque, post- 
 quam aspezi hanc." 
 
 6. Nihil est, " Formula respondere detrectantis," cf. Adelph. II. ii. 
 25, note. — Delirat miser Tinwre, "He is mad, poor wretch, with fear." 
 For Delirat, cf. Andr. IV. iv. 13, note; Phorm. V. iii. 18. — Non pol 
 tenure est, &c, '"'Faith, its not without some cause, that you're so 
 afraid." Heaut. IV. i. 7, "Non temere est." 
 
 10. Rede sane. Ironically, " Oh, not at all." Cf. for " recte," 
 Hecyr. III. ii. 20; Heaut. II. i. 16, notes. — Scelus, Tibi narrttl 
 " Rascal ! tell it at your bidding." Tibi is the Ethic dative here. — 
 Quid, " at " ] " But what 3 " or " what means that, But V 
 
 14. At scito huic opus est, "But the lady here must know it!" 
 "Scito" is the abl. of the perf. part, after opus, cf. Key's Gr. § 1280. 
 — Mi homo, Di melius duint, " My good man, may the gods give us 
 better luck ! " Cf. Virg. Georg. iii 513, "Di meliora piis, erroremque 
 hostibus ilium ! " 
 
 18. Bum tu dormis, "And has by her one daughter already, while 
 you're in a state of happy ignorance of it." Such seems to be the 
 force of " dormis," which Colman has not hit off. For this sense of 
 dormio, cf. Adelph. IV. v. 59, "Dormienti hsec tibi confecturos Deos.'' — 
 An quicquam hodie — indiynius? Hodie here does not relate to time, 
 but signifies indignation. Cf. Adelph. II. ii. 7, " Hodie ei usque os 
 prrebui ;" Virg. JEn. ii. 670, &c. Bentley ascribes " Hoc actum3t" to 
 Demipho: "An quicquam — senes" to Phormio : " Demipho, te ap- 
 pello." &c, to Nausistrata, but the sense is nowise improved by this 
 alteration.— Qui mild ubi, &c, " 'Tis such men as these, I'm sorry to 
 say, who then only become old, when they've come to their wives." 
 Sc. " ii sunt" or " ejusmodi sunt ii." For the sentiment here, cf. Plaut. 
 Asin. IV. ii. 4, " Uxori excuses te et dicas senem." Mihi is here 
 redundant, as often ; cf. Heaut. II. i. 8, Is mihi ubi adbibit plus 
 pau'.o, &c. 
 
 22. Distadd loqui, " I cannot hear to speak." For distwdet, cf. 
 Amphitr. I. iii. 5, " Domi distajdeat." — Iloecine erant itiones, &c, 
 '• VVere these then his frequent goings, and long sojourns at Lemnos?" 
 lhr.c = "hae/'ef. Heaut. IV. vii. 10, note. Westerhov. quotes Virg. 
 /En. iv. 675, " Hoc illud, germana, fuit?" — Hcecine—vilitas, " Was this 
 the cheapness, that used to reduce our rents?" cf. V. iii. 6. 
 
 25. Esse in hoc re meritam. If with the Bembiue MS. we read, 
 "meriturn," here, there is nothing out of course in the construction. 
 But the reading of MSS. and editions generally is "meritam;" in 
 which cane wc must suppose the verb to be used passively, as in II. i. 
 75, above, where see the note. — Scd ea quin sit iynoscenda (" nego" sc, 
 from ver. 25). "But I deny that it is an unpardonable offence;" cf. 
 Hecyr. V. i. 11. Another readiug is Sed earn, qua sit ignoscenda, " But 
 such an one, as is pardonable." — Verba f.unt mr/rtuo, " You are talking 
 to the dead," or "to one as good as dead." Cf. Plaut. Prcn. IV. ii. 18, 
 "Verba facit emortuo." In ver. 27, nr;/li;/mtid tud and odio tuo, "in- 
 difference" or "aversion to you ;" cf Heaut. II. iii. (Jtj, Madvig. 297,
 
 302 NOTES ON 
 
 ti. obfl. 1. — Abliinc annos quindeeim. Cf. Andr. I. i. 42, " Abhinc 
 trionniuiu." 
 
 30. E medio abiit, qui — scrupulus, " Your only grievance is re- 
 moved," Colman. See Audr. V. iv. 37, note ; Adelph. II. ii. 20 ; and 
 above, V. vii. 61. 
 
 32. Cupio in hac re misera — defungier, " I'm anxious to put an end 
 to the trouble with this business — to be quit of it with this business." 
 Cf. Adelph. III. iv. 62, "Utinamhic sit modo Defuncturn," "I wish it 
 were only ended with this." See note ibid. Madame Dacier wrongly 
 translates " Je venx pour toujours roiupre avec lui." 
 
 37. Exsequias Chremeti, &c, " Whoever would attend the obsequies 
 of Chremes, now's the time !" (said to the audience). The words of 
 the crier proclaiming a public fnneral, according to Lindeubrog. — 
 Sic dabo, "Thus I'll pay him off." Cf. Plaut. Men. H. G. 506, "Sic 
 datur," which Pareus explains as " sormo castigantis et paenas su- 
 mentis." Cf. Pseud. I. ii. 22, " Hem, sic datur, si quis herum servos 
 spernit." — Age nunc, age, &c, "Now let anyone provoke Phormio, if 
 he dare." — Mactatum atque hie est infortunio, "I'll cause him to be 
 afflicted with like misfortunes to this man." Macto is from the root 
 ■mag. "to be great," seen in "maguus," and means first to "honour," 
 hence " to sacrifice." Plautus constantly uses it as here ; cf. Aulul. 
 H. G. 490, "Dotatrc mactant et malo et damno vivos;" Plaut. Pacuul. 
 
 III. i. 14, "Divitem audacter solemus mactare infortunio;" Trinumm. 
 
 IV. ii. 151, " Macto te infortunio." 
 
 41. Usque ad aurem ogganniat, " She can for ever din in his ear," cf. 
 Adelph. IV. ii. 17, "Quid idle gannit!" cf. Plaut. Asin. II. iv. 16 
 " Ceuties eadem imperem atque obganniam." 
 
 42. At meo merito, credo, "Well, it's owing to my own deserts, no 
 doubt." These words are ironical, cf. above, I. ii. 90. Madame Dacier 
 translates, " Mais sans doute Je me auis attird cela moi-mdme." — 
 Singu/atim, more commonly "singillatim." Sometimes "singultim." — 
 Minime gentium, " Not in the least in the world;" Eun. IV. i. 11 ; 
 Heaut. V. i. 55 ; Madvig. Gr. 284, obs. 9. 
 
 45. Fieri infectum non potest, " What's done can't be undone." Cf. 
 Plaut. Aulul. 698 ; Hildyard. Hor. Od. IIL xxix. 45, " Diffinget, infec- 
 tumque reddet," &c. — Per fallaciam ab Mo abstuli, " I got through 
 trickery from that huxband of yours." Abstuli is used thus by Ter. 
 Heaut. IV. viii. 9, " Ut ea via (per fallaciam) abs te argentum auferre- 
 tur." Bentley for " illo " reads " isto." 
 
 53. Quo ore — objurgabis ? " How will you have the face to chide 
 him 'i. " Cf. for quo ore, V. vii. 24 above, note ; Heaut. IV. iii. 22, 
 note. Westerhov. quotes Juvenal xiv. 50, "Unde tibi frontem libcr- 
 tatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex ? " 
 
 58. Satin' tibi est '! Ch. Milan f This is Fleckeisen's reading. The 
 original reading was " Satin' id est ? Ph. Immo vero," &c, Bentley, 
 suggested to add " Chreme " after n est," and to attribute " immo 
 vcro," &c. to Chremes. Fleckeisen's plan is as good. Pulchre din- 
 cedo, " I come off famously." Cf. Plaut. Stich. II. ii. 70, " Diacessissea 
 non male." See also above, V. ii. 8. 
 
 60. Tuo summus Phmdrim, " And a special friend to your son, 
 
 Phaedria." Cf. Andr. V. vi. 6 ; Adelph. III. ii. 54, note Benigne 
 
 dici*, "You're very kind!" Cf. Adelph. IV. v. 68, " Perbenigne ; '
 
 PH0RM10. 303 
 
 4 
 
 •-> 
 
 Hor. Epist. I. viL 15, "At tu quantumvis tolle. Benigne;" Pluut. 
 True. I. ii. 27, " Benigne dicis." In vers. 63 and 64, " Quod " is i. q. 
 " propter quod." 
 
 64. Et quod tuo viro oculi doleant? "And a thing to grieve your 
 husband's Bight," " whereat your husband's eyes may be vexed." Cf. 
 Plaut. Asin. V. i. 4; Most. IV. ii. 10. 
 
 66. Jam hie, facco, adent. The same words occur above, II. i. 78 : see 
 note. Vos valete et plcwdite (to the audience). Cf. Andr. V. vi. 17; 
 Heaut. V. v. 23, notes 
 
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