pecies,
who obtained their ends by flattery.]

[Footnote 48: _In the stocks at last_)--Ver. 325. "In nervum
crumpat denique." There are several interpretations suggested for
these words. Some think they allude to the drawing of a bow till
it breaks; but they are more generally thought to imply
termination in corporal punishment. "Nervus" is supposed to have
been the name of a kind of stocks used in torturing slaves, and so
called from being formed, in part at least, of the sinews of
animals.]

[Footnote 49: _They will take you_)--Ver. 334. At Rome, insolvent
debtors became the slaves of their creditors till their debts were
paid.]

[Footnote 50: _To his patron_)--Ver. 338. "Regi." The Parasites
were in the habit of calling their patron "Rex," their "King."]

[Footnote 51: _At free cost_)--Ver. 339. "Asymbolum." Without
having paid his "symbola," or "club," for the entertainment.
Donatus informs us that the whole of this passage is borrowed from
one of Ennius, which is still preserved.]

[Footnote 52: _First to drink_)--Ver. 342. To be the first to
drink, and to take the higher place on the couch when eating, was
the privilege of the most honored guests, who usually bathed, and
were then anointed before the repast.]

[Footnote 53: _Banquet full of doubts_)--Ver. 342. "Coena dubia."
Horace, who borrows many of his phrases from Terence, uses the
same expression.]

[Footnote 54: _Since you reign alone_)--Ver. 605. This is a remark
well put into the mouth of an Athenian, as the public were very
jealous of any person becoming paramount to the laws, and to
prevent it, were frequently guilty of the most odious oppression.]

[Footnote 55: _So many minds_)--Ver. 454. "Quot homines, tot
sententiae." This is a famous adage. One similar to the succeeding
one is found in the Second Eclogue of Virgil, l. 65: "Trahit sua
quemque voluptas," exactly equivalent to our saying, "Every man to
his taste."]

[Footnote 56: _Must deliberate further_)--Ver. 457. "Amplius
deliberandum." This is probably a satirical allusion to the
judicial system of procrastination, which, by the Romans, was
called "ampliatio." When the judges could not come to a
satisfactory conclusion about a cause, they signified it by the
letters N. L. (for "non liquet," "it is not clear"), and put off
the suit for a rehearing.]

[Footnote 57: _Much more at a loss_)--Ver. 459. Se