that if he
only names a price, AEschinus will suborn witnesses to say that he
has agreed to sell her, in which case AEschinus will carry her off
with impunity, and the laws will not allow him to recover her; as
it will then be an ordinary debt, and he will be put off with all
the common excuses used by debtors.]

[Footnote 37: _On more unequal terms_)--Ver. 212. "Certationem
comparatam." This was a term taken from the combats of gladiators,
where it was usual to choose as combatants such as seemed most
nearly a match for each other.]

[Footnote 38: _If you had parted with ever so little_)--Ver. 217.
This passage is probably alluded to by Cicero, in his work, De
Officiis B. ii. c. 18: "For it is not only liberal sometimes to
give up a little of one's rights, but it is also profitable."]

[Footnote 39: _In the very joint_)--Ver. 229. "Ut in ipso articulo
oppressit." Colman translates this, "Nick'd me to a hair."]

[Footnote 40: _To take to Cyprus_)--Ver. 230. He alludes to a
famous slave-market held in the Isle of Cyprus, whither merchants
carried slaves for sale, after buying them up in all parts of
Greece.]

[Footnote 41: _Have you by this reckoned_)--Ver. 236. "Jamne
enumerasti id quod ad te rediturum putes?" Colman renders this,
"Well, have you calculated what's your due?" referring to the
value of the Music-girl that has been taken away from him; and
thinks that the following conversation between Sannio and Syrus
supports that construction. Madame Dacier puts another sense on
the words, and understands them as alluding to Sannio's
calculation of his expected profits at Cyprus.]

[Footnote 42: _Scrape together ten minae_)--Ver. 242. Donatus
remarks, that Syrus knows very well that AEschinus is ready to pay
the whole, but offers Sannio half, that he may be glad to take the
bare principal, and think himself well off into the bargain.]

[Footnote 43: _He's looking for me_)--Ver. 265. Donatus remarks
upon the readiness with which Sannio takes the appellation of
"sacrilegus," as adapted to no other person than himself.]

[Footnote 44: _Flying the country_)--Ver. 275. Donatus tells us,
that in Menander the young man was on the point of killing
himself. Terence has here softened it into leaving the country.
Colman remarks: "We know that the circumstance of carrying off the
Music-girl was borrowed from Diphilus; yet it is plain from
Don