that by having given this ring, she has done two
good acts instead of one-- she has both cleared her conscience and
saved the child; for had there been no ring or token exposed with
the infant, the finder would not have been at the trouble of
taking care of it, but might have left it to perish, never
suspecting it would be inquired after, or himself liberally
rewarded for having preserved it.]

[Footnote 76: _I see more hopes_)--Ver. 659. Syrus is now alarmed
that Antiphila should so soon be acknowledged as the daughter of
Chremes, lest he may lose the opportunity of obtaining the money,
and be punished as well, in case the imposition is detected, and
Bacchis discovered to be the mistress of Clitipho and not of
Clinia.]

[Footnote 77: _A man can not be_)--Ver. 666. This he says by way
of palliating the cruelty he was guilty of in his orders to have
the child put to death.]

[Footnote 78: _Unless my fancy deceives me_)--Ver. 668. "Nisi me
animus fallit." He comically repeats the very same words with
which Sostrata commenced in the last Scene.]

[Footnote 79: _Retribution_)--Ver. 668. "Infortunium!" was the
name by which the slaves commonly denoted a beating. Colman has
the following remark here: "Madame Dacier, and most of the later
critics who have implicitly followed her, tell us that in the
interval between the third and fourth Acts, Syrus has been present
at the interview between Chremes and Antiphila within. The only
difficulty in this doctrine is how to reconcile it to the apparent
ignorance of Syrus, which he discovers at the entrance of Clinia.
But this objection, says she, is easily answered. Syrus having
partly heard Antiphila's story, and finding things likely to take
an unfavorable turn, retires to consider what is best to be done.
But surely this is a most unnatural impatience at so critical a
conjuncture; and, after all, would it not be better to take up the
matter just where Terence has left it, and to suppose that Syrus
knew nothing more of the affair than what might be collected from
the late conversation between Chremes and Sostrata, at which we
know he was present? This at once accounts for his apprehensions,
which he betrayed even during that Scene, as well as for his
imperfect knowledge of the real state of the case, till apprised
of the whole by Clinia."]

[Footnote 80: _With my sides covered_)--Ver. 673. He most p