Apollodorus, it was the barber himself that gave the account how
he had just returned from cutting off the young woman's hair,
which was one of the usual ceremonies in mourning among the
Greeks. Donatus remarks, that Terence altered this circumstance
that he might not shock a Roman audience by a reference to manners
so different from their own.]

[Footnote 32: _Take out a summons_)--Ver. 127. "Dica" was the writ
or summons with which an action at law was commenced.]

[Footnote 33: _Usher to the Music-girl_)--Ver. 144. This is said
satirically of Phaedria, who was in the habit of escorting the
girl to the music-school. It was the duty of the "paedagogi," or
"tutors," to lead the children to school, who were placed under
their care. See the speech of Lydus, the paedagogus of Pistoclerus,
in the Bacchides of Plautus, Act iii. Sc. 3, where, enlarging upon
his duties, he mentions this among them.]

[Footnote 34: _Sever from me this connection_)--Ver. 161. By
forcing him to divorce her.]

[Footnote 35: _Neither right_)--Ver. 176. No right to get rid of
her in consequence of the judgment which, at the suit of Phormio,
has been pronounced against him; nor yet, right to keep her,
because of his father insisting upon turning her out of doors.]

[Footnote 36: _Be washing a brickbat_)--Ver. 187. "Laterem
lavare," "to wash a brick," or "tile," was a proverb signifying
labor in vain, probably because (if the brick was previously
baked) it was impossible to wash away the red color of it.
According to some, the saying alluded to the act of washing a
brick which had been only dried in the sun, in which case the
party so doing both washed away the brick and soiled his own
fingers.]

[Footnote 37: _Here in reserve_)--Ver. 230. "Succenturiatus." The
"succenturiati" were, properly, men intrusted to fill up vacancies
in the centuries or companies, when thinned by battle.]

[Footnote 38: _Let alone "authority"_)--Ver. 232. "Ac mitto
imperium." Cicero has quoted this passage in his Epistles to
Atticus, B. ii. Ep. 19.]

[Footnote 39: _When affairs are the most prosperous_)--Ver. 241.
Cicero quotes this passage in the Third Book of his Tusculan
Questions, and the maxim here inculcated was a favorite one with
the Stoic philosophers.]

[Footnote 40: _Any giving evidence_)--Ver. 293. Slaves were
neither allowed to plead for themselves, nor to give evidence.