“Primum hæc pudicè vitam, parce, ac duriter Agebat, lana ac tela victum quæeritans: _Sed postquam ad illam accessit adolescentulus_, Unus, et item alter; ita ut ingenium est omnium Hominum ab labore _proclive ad desidiam; Sperans se cuipiam illorum uxorem fore, Famæ haud pepercit, illosque in domum suam Lubens admisit nimium familiariter_. “At first she lived chastely, and penuriously, and laboured hard, managing with difficulty to gain a livelihood with the distaff and the loom: but soon after several lovers made their addresses to her, and as we are all naturally prone to idleness, and averse to labour, and _as they made her promises of marriage, she was too negligent of her reputation, and admitted their visits oftener than was prudent_.” NOTE 73. _Aha! thought I, he is caught._ In the Latin, Certè captus est. HABET. Terence borrowed this expression (_habet_) from the amphitheatre at Rome, where men called _gladiators_, who were (for the chief part) captives and slaves, fought before the people: who looked with great delight on these combats, which often terminated in death to half the persons engaged. When a gladiator was wounded, the people exclaimed HABET, _he has it_, and thus the word was often used at Rome, in the sense adopted by Terence. NOTE 74. _He paid his share, and supped with the rest._ In the Latin _symbolum dedit_, _he gave his ring as a token, or pledge_. This phrase is an allusion to a custom which prevailed chiefly at Rome. When a party agreed to dine together at their own expense, or, in other words, to club together for an entertainment: each of the party _gave his ring_ to him who had the care of providing the feast, as a symbol or token that he, the owner of the ring, was to join the company, and defray his share of the expense. Hence, he who paid nothing, was called _asymbolus_. Rings were also given in contracts instead of a bond: and used for tokens of various kinds. The Greeks also seem to have called rings by the same name, σύμβολα. NOTE 75. _To give his daughter to Pamphilus with a large dowry._