I have selected from a very long note on this passage, by an eminent writer, the following extracts, which will afford, I trust, a satisfactory elucidation of the line in question. “_Atque haud scio an quæ dixit sint vera omnia_: this seems, at first sight, to signify, _I do not know if all that he has told me be truth_; but, in the elegance of the Latin expression, however, _haud scio an_, means the same as _fortasse_ (perhaps) as if he had said _haud scio an non_. Thus, in the Brothers, A. IV. S. V. v. 33. _Qui infelix haud scio an illam misere non amat_: which does not mean, _I do not know whether he loves her_, but, on the contrary, _I do not know that he does not love her_. Also, in Cicero’s Epistles, B. IX. L. 13., _Istud quidem magnum, atque haud scio an maximum_; _this is a great thing, and perhaps the greatest of all, or, I do not know but it is the greatest of all_. And, also, in his Oration for Marcellus, when he said that future ages would form a juster estimate of Cæsar’s character than could be made by men of his own times; he says, _Servis iis etiam indicibus qui multis post sæculis de te judicabunt, et quidem haud scio, an incorruptius quam nos_. There are numberless examples of this kind in the writings of Cicero, and I know that there are some which make for the opposite side of the question, as in his book on “_Old Age_,” speaking of a country life, he says, _Atque haud scia an ulla possit esse beatior vita_. But, it is my opinion, that these passages have been altered by some person who did not understand that mode of expression, and that it ought to be, Atque haud scio an _nulla_ possit esse beatior vita.” THE AUTHOR _of the old Translation of Terence. Printed 1671. Paris._ Terence frequently has this construction: the two following sentences are of similar difficulty: they both occur in this play: Id paves, ne ducas tu illam; tu autem, ut ducas. Cave te esse tristem sentiat. NOTE 151. A. III. S. IV. _Simo, Chremes._ _Simo.――Chremes, I am very glad to see you._ “Jubeo Chremetem (_saluere_)”: the last word is not spoken, because the speaker is interrupted by Simo. It is necessary to observe that _jubeo_ does not always signify to _command_, but sometimes means to _wish_, to _desire_, especially when the speaker’s wish is afterwards verbally expressed; according to what Donatus observes on this passage, “Columus animo, jubemus verbis.”――OLD PARIS EDITION.