Nam expedit bonas esse vobis: nos, quibuscum est res, non sinunt; Quippe forma impulsi nostra, nos amatores colunt: Hæc ubi immutata est, illi suum animum alio conferunt. Nisi si prospectum interea aliquid est, desertæ vivimus. Vobis cum uno semel ubi ætatem agere decretum ’st viro, Cujus mos maxume ’st consimilis vostrum, hi se ad vos applicant. Hoc beneficio utrique ab utrisque vero devincimini, Ut nunquam ulla amori vestro incidere possit calamitas. _Heaut._ II. iv. Virtue’s your interest: those with whom we deal Forbid it to be ours; for our gallants, Charmed by our beauty, court us but for that; Which, fading, they transfer their love to others. If, then, mean while we look not to ourselves, We live forlorn, deserted, and distressed. You, when you’ve once agreed to pass your life Bound to one man whose temper suits with yours, He too attaches his whole heart to you. Thus mutual friendship draws you each to each; Nothing can part you, nothing shake your love. How beautiful, too, is the unselfish devotion of Antiphila, when she artlessly professes to know nothing of other women’s feelings, but to know this one thing only, that her happiness is wrapped up in that of her lover!—— Nescio alias; me quidem semper scio fecisse sedulo Ut ex illius commodo meum compararem commodum. II. iv. 16. PHORMIO. The Phormio is a translation or adaptation of the Epidicazomene (_the subject of the law suit_) of Apollodorus: it was entitled Phormio. Quia primas partes qui aget, is erit Phormio Parasitus, per quem res geretur maxume.[222] It was acted four times; on the last occasion, in the consulship of C. Fannius Strabo and M. Valerius Messala,[223] at the Roman or Circensian games.