Mr. Raper makes the Attic drachm worth 9_d._ ²⁸⁶⁄₁₀₀₀. Greaves reckons it equal to 67 grains, which, supposing silver to be sold at 5_s._ per ounce, fixes the drachm at 8_d._ 1½_qr._ Dr. Arbuthnot computes it 6_d._ 3_qr._ ¹³⁶⁸⁄₄₇₀₄. Others fix the Attic talent at 187_l._ 10_s._, and the drachm at 7_d._ 2_qrs._, or the eighth part of an ounce of silver. If we take the mean of these computations, we may suppose the Attic drachm to have been equal to 8_d._; the Eginean to 13_d._ 3_qrs._; the insular to 16_d._; and the drachm of Antioch, to 48_d._ The learned Madame Dacier speaks of the Attic drachm thus: “la drachme Attique valait à peu près _cinq sols_.” No person, I think I may venture to assert, was ever more habitually correct than Madame D. NOTE 137. _Indeed, Sir, I think you are too frugal; it is not well timed._ Tu _quoque_ perparce nimium. Non laudo. Donatus thinks, that the force of _quoque_ in this line is as follows: _He (Pamphilus) is much to blame for his childish petulance in taking offence at so trifling a circumstance: and you (Simo)_ ALSO _are to blame for having made so sparing a provision for your son’s wedding supper_. Terence has managed the whole circumstance very artfully: Simo intending to deceive Pamphilus and Davus, had provided to the amount of ten drachms, which was sixty times more than the expense of Chremes’ supper, which cost but an obolus, (_vide_ Note 120,) and accounts for what he said to Sosia, Act I. Scene I. (_vide_ Note 60.) But we are meant to suppose, that his frugality would not allow him to support the deceit by purchasing a plentiful wedding supper, which, among the Athenian citizens of rank, was a most expensive entertainment. (_Vide_ Herodot. B. 1. C. 133. Arrian, B. 7. C. 26.) NOTE 138. _Davus. (aside.) I’ve ruffled him now._ Simo is supposed to overhear this speech of Davus. _Vide_ Note 210. The whole of the second act (as well as the first) has been preserved in Baron’s Andrienne, without alteration. In the Conscious Lovers, the second act varies considerably. Instead of the scene between Davus and his master, Indiana and Isabella are introduced, and afterwards Indiana and Bevil: but both these scenes are entirely barren of incident. Bevil protects Indiana, as Pamphilus protects Glycera; but the former is on the footing of a _protector only_, and remains an undeclared lover until the fifth act.