Pamphilus does not mean by this expression, that he was not married before, but that now that he has his father’s consent to his union, he can ducere uxorem, _lead his wife_ publicly to his own house with the usual ceremonies. The latter phrase _ducere uxorem_, _to marry_, took its rise from the custom of leading the bride from her father’s to her husband’s house, in a ceremonial procession. For an account of the marriages of the Greeks, _vide_ Notes 116, 117, 118. Marriages, among the Romans, were of three kinds. The first, and most binding, by which women of rank and consideration were married, was called _confarreatio_: when the parties were joined by the high priest, in the presence of a great number of witnesses; and ate a cake made of meal and salt. The second kind of marriage was _usus_, when the parties lived together for one year. The third kind was called _coemptio_ or mutual purchase, in which the bride and bridegroom gave each other a piece of money, and repeated over a set form of words. NOTE 214. _Char. (aside.)――This man is dreaming of what he wishes when awake._ ――――Num ille somniat Ea, quæ vigilans voluit. The optative influence, (if I may so call it,) on the visions of the night, here alluded to by Terence, has been described at length by a celebrated poet, in verses which charm the ear with their melody, and which command the approbation of the judgment as a faithful portraiture of nature. Their author wrote verses, which, in _harmony of measure_, excelled those of all the Roman poets, excepting _Ovid_. Omnia quæ sensu volvuntur vota diurno, Pectore sopito, reddit amica quies: Venator defessa toro cum membra reponit. Mens tamen ad sylvas, et sua lustra redit. Judicibus lites, aurige somnia currus, Vanaque nocturnis meta cavetur equis. Furto gaudet amans; permutat navita merces; Et vigil elapsas quærit avarus opes. Vatem Musarum studium sub nocte silenti Artibus assuetis solicitare solet.――CLAUDIAN. NOTE 215. _Do you, Davus, go home, and order some of our people hither, to remove her to our house. Why do you loiter? go, don’t lose a moment._ _Davus.――I am going. You must not expect their coming out: she will be betrothed within_, &c. The concluding lines of the play from “_You must not expect_,” &c., were not originally spoken by the actor who personated Davus, but formed a sort of epilogue, spoken by a performer, called Cantor; who also pronounced the word PLAUDITE, with which the _comedies_ and tragedies of the Romans usually terminated. _Vide Note 217, also Quintilian_, B. 6. C. 1., _and Cicero and Cato_. Horace expressly tells us, that the Cantor said the words, vos plaudite.