l. 16: "But
expect nothing about the plot of this Play; the old men who will
come hither will disclose the matter to you."]

[Footnote 21: _To fetch him_)--Ver. 24. "Advorsum ierant." On the
duties of the "adversitores," see the Notes to Bohn's Translation
of Plautus.]

[Footnote 22: _Either have taken cold_)--Ver. 36. Westerhovius
observes that this passage seems to be taken from one in the Miles
Gloriosus of Plautus, l. 721, _et seq._: "Troth, if I had had
them, enough anxiety should I have had from my children; I should
have been everlastingly tormented in mind: but if perchance one
had had a fever, I think I should have died. Or if one in liquor
had tumbled any where from his horse, I should have been afraid
that he had broken his legs or neck on that occasion." It may be
remarked that there is a great resemblance between the characters
of Micio here and Periplecomenus in the Miles Gloriosus.]

[Footnote 23: _To see you well_)--Ver. 81. Cooke remarks, that
though there are several fine passages in this speech, and good
observations on human life, yet it is too long a soliloquy.]

[Footnote 24: _I was looking for_)--Ver. 81. Donatus observes that
the Poet has in this place improved upon Menander, in representing
Demea as more ready to wrangle with his brother than to return his
compliments.]

[Footnote 25: _Such a son as AEschinus_)--Ver. 82. The passage
pretty clearly means by "ubi nobis AEschinus sit," "when I've got
such a son as AEschinus." Madame Dacier, however, would translate
it: "Ask me-- you, in whose house AEschinus is?" thus accusing him
of harboring AEschinus; a very forced construction, however.]

[Footnote 26: _Broken open a door_)--Ver. 88. The works of Ovid
and Plautus show that it was no uncommon thing for riotous young
men to break open doors; Ovid even suggests to the lover the
expediency of getting into the house through the windows.]

[Footnote 27: _Does he feast_)--Ver. 117. Colman has the following
observation here: "The mild character of Micio is contrasted by
Cicero to that of a furious, savage, severe father, as drawn by
the famous Comic Poet, Caecilius. Both writers are quoted in the
Oration for Caelias, in the composition of which it is plain that
the orator kept his eye pretty closely on our Poet. The passages
from Caecilius contain all that vehemence and severity, which, as
Horace tells us, was accou