_Davus.――Truly, at this rate, I shall hardly dare open my mouth._ Sed, si quid narrare occæpi continuo dari Tibi verba censes. S. _Falso._ D. Itaque hercle nil jam mutire audeo. Dr. Bentley reads _falso_ in Davus’s speech; and Cooke thinks it should be altogether omitted. I have followed the old English edition in supposing the word in question to be spoken _ironically_, which is certainly consistent with the usual style of conversation between Simo and Davus. NOTE 148. _Now, finding that the marriage preparations are going forwards in our house, she sends her maid to fetch a midwife._ This is a very subtle contrivance. Davus intends that the birth of Pamphilus’s child shall be reported to Chremes to alarm him, (as we see Act V. Scene I. page 82,) and, therefore, that Simo may not suspect _him_, he persuades him that Glycera is contriving to spread reports of Pamphilus’s engagements to her. M. Baron has entirely omitted the incident of the birth of the child. He introduces Sosia again to fill up the chasm. In a scene between Simo, Davus, and Chremes, the latter is induced to renew his consent to the marriage, by overhearing a conversation between Simo and Davus; in which, as in the original, the slave invents a tale that Pamphilus and Glycera are at variance. Sir R. Steele varies the third act altogether; he makes it turn wholly on the underplot, of which the chief personages are Lucinda, and her two lovers Myrtle and Cimberton: the latter is a pedantic coxcomb, and added to the original characters by the English poet. NOTE 149. _And to provide a child at the same time, thinking that unless you should see a child, the marriage would not be impeded._ ――――“Et puerum ut adferret simul; Hoc nisi fit puerum ut tu videas, nil _moventur_ nuptiæ.” _Moventur_, in this passage, does not mean to _move forward_: but signifies _to move back with disturbance_, _to hinder_, or _to disorder_, and is used instead of _perturbantur_. Moveo is very unfrequently though sometimes employed in this sense. I shall cite one passage from _Horace_, where it has the same meaning as in the before-mentioned line from _Terence_. ――――“Censorque _moveret_ Appius, ingenuo si non essem patre natus.” He to whom I owe my birth was free, A freeborn citizen: had he not been so, The censor Claudius Appius would have _stopt_, And _driven_ me _back_. NOTE 150. A. III. S. III. _Simo. (alone) I am not exactly, &c._ Terence uses an expression in the beginning of this scene that has been a source of discussion among the critics. It is in the following line, “Atque haud scio AN quæ dixit sint vera omnia.”