(_dryly_) Yes, waiting for us to breathe our last with celerity. _Soror_ Vesper hic est, sequimini. It’s evening: come along. _Nic._ Ducite nos quo lubet tamquam quidem addictos. Take us where you please, just as if we were your veritable bond servants. _Bacch._ Lepide ipsi hi sunt capti, suis qui filiis fecere insidias. (_aside to spectators_) Here they are, prettily caught themselves--after laying traps for their sons. [EXEUNT OMNES INTO HOUSE OF _Bacchis_. GREX EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY THE COMPANY. Hi senes nisi fuissent nihili iam inde ab adulescentia, non hodie hoc tantum flagitium facerent canis capitibus; neque adeo haec faceremus, ni antehac vidissemus fieri, ut apud lenones rivales filiis fierent patres. 1210 spectatores, vos valere volumus et clare adplaudere. Unless these old men had been worthless from their very youth, they would not be guilty of such an enormity as this to-day when their heads are hoary; nor, indeed, would we have presented such a comedy, unless we had seen before now how fathers become their sons’ rivals at places of unsavoury repute. Spectators, we wish you health and--your loud applause. * * * * * [Footnote 1: Leo notes lacuna here: _aedis_ Ritschl.] [Footnote 2: Leo notes lacuna here: _fide_ Leo.] [Footnote 3: Corrupt (Leo): _perii_ MSS: _prope_ Ritschl.] [Footnote 4: Leo brackets following v., 67: _ubi pro disco damnum capiam, pro cursura dedecus?_] [Footnote 5: Leo brackets following v., 69: _ubique imponat in manum alius mihi pro cestu cantharum._] [Footnote 6: Leo brackets following v., 107: _simul huic nescio cui, turbare qui huc it, decedamus._] [Footnote 7: Leo brackets following v., 150: _video nimio iam multo plus quam volueram._ ] [Footnote 8: Leo brackets following v., 153, 154: _nil moror discipulos mihi iam plenos sanguinis._ _valens afflictat me vacivom virium._] [I have no liking for these full-blooded pupils: the sturdy youngster is bullying me, destitute of strength as I am.] [Footnote 9: Leo brackets following v., 166, 167: _edepol fecisti furtum in aetatum malum_ _cum istaec flagitia me celavisti et patrem._] [Good heavens! Such villainy in a lad of your age, concealing such atrocities from me and from your father!] [Footnote 10: _Tardare_ Hauptius: _turbare_ MSS.] [Footnote 11: Leo brackets following v., 377-378: _quibus patrem et me teque amicosque omnes affectas tuos_ _ad probrum, damnum, flagitium appellere una et perdere._] [You are doing your best by such conduct to bring ignominy, loss, disgrace, upon every one of us, your father and me and yourself and all your friends, and ruin us.]