ged regiment
which Shakspeare places under the command of Falstaff was not very
unlike it, nor that which owned the valiant Bombastes Furioso as
its Captain.]

[Footnote 102: _At Antipho's_)--Ver. 839. Madame Dacier here
observes that Chaerea assigns very natural reasons for not having
changed his dress; in which the art of Terence is evident, since
the sequel of the Play makes it absolutely necessary that Chaerea
should appear again before Thais in the habit which he wore while
in the house.]

[Footnote 103: _Pick daintily about_)--Ver. 935. He seems here to
reprehend the same practice against which Ovid warns his fair
readers, in his Art of Love, B. iii. l. 75. He says, "Do not first
take food at home," when about to go to an entertainment.
Westerhovius seems to think that "ligurio" means, not to "pick
daintily," but "to be fond of good eating;" and refers to the
Bacchides of Plautus as portraying courtesans of the "ligurient"
kind, and finds another specimen in Bacchis in the
Heautontimorumenos.]

[Footnote 104: _This advantage_)--Ver. 970. Donatus here observes
that the Poet introduces Laches, as he has Parmeno just before, in
a state of perfect tranquillity, that their sudden change of
feeling may be the more diverting to the Audience.]

[Footnote 105: _For some occasion_)--Ver. 999. We learn from
Donatus that Menander was more explicit concerning the resentment
of Laches against Thais, on account of her having corrupted
Phaedria.]

[Footnote 106: _As I knew_)--Ver. 1003. She enjoyed it the more,
knowing that the old man had nothing to fear, as he had just heard
the fiction which she had imparted to Parmeno. Donatus observes
that the terror of Laches accounts for his sudden consent to the
union of Chaerea with Pamphila; for though he could not settle the
matter any other way with credit, he was glad to find that his son
had made an unequal match rather than endangered his life. Colman,
however, observes with considerable justice: "I think Chaerea
apologizes still better for this arrangement in the Scene with
Thais at the opening of this Act, where he says that he is
confident of obtaining his father's consent, provided Pamphila
proves to be a citizen; and, indeed, the match between them is
rather a reparation of an injury done to her than a degradation of
himself."]

[Footnote 107: _In return for that present of yours_)--Ver