of certain slaves to take off the shoes of their masters.]

[Footnote 25: _To spread the couches_)--Ver. 125. The "lecti" or
"couches" upon which the ancients reclined at meals, have been
enlarged upon in the Notes to Plautus, where full reference is
also made to the "coena" or "dinner," and other meals of the
Romans.]

[Footnote 26: _Provide me with dress_)--Ver. 130. It was the
custom for the mistress and female servants in each family to make
the clothes of the master. Thus in the Fasti of Ovid, B. ii.,
l. 746, Lucretia is found amidst her female servants, making a cloak,
or "lacerna," for her husband. Suetonius says that Augustus
refused to wear any garments not woven by his female relations.
Cooke seems to think that "vestiant" alludes to the very act of
putting the clothes upon a person. He says, "The better sort of
people had eating-dresses, which are here alluded to. These
dresses were light garments, to put on as soon as they had bathed.
They commonly bathed before eating, and the chief meal was in the
evening." This, however, does not seem to be the meaning of the
passage, although Colman has adopted it. We may here remark that
the censure here described is not unlike that mentioned in the
Prologue to the Mercator of Plautus, as administered by Demaenetus
to his son Charinus.]

[Footnote 27: _Neither movables_)--Ver. 141. "Vas" is here used as
a general name for articles of furniture. This line appears to be
copied almost literally from one of Menander, which still exists.]

[Footnote 28: _To sell my house_)--Ver. 145. On the mode of
advertising houses to let or be sold among the Romans, see the
Trinummus of Plautus, l. 168, and the Note to the passage in
Bohn's Translation.]

[Footnote 29: _Toward your children_)--Ver. 151. The plural
"liberos" is here used to signify the one son which Menedemus has.
So in the Hecyra, l. 217, the same word is used to signify but one
daughter. This was a common mode of expression in the times of the
earlier Latin authors.]

[Footnote 30: _Festival of Bacchus, "Dionysia"_)--Ver. 162. It is
generally supposed that there were four Festivals called the
Dionysia, during the year, at Athens. The first was the Rural, or
Lesser Dionysia, +kat' agrous+, a vintage festival, which was
celebrated in the "Demi" or boroughs of Attica, in honor of
Bacchus, in the month Poseidon. This was the most ancient