The reader will judge whether the arguments used by these two learned and ingenious critics, will justify them in translating _immutatus_ in a sense directly _opposite_ to its usual meaning, in the writings of Cicero, and the most learned of the Roman authors. With all the respect which is unquestionably due to the pre-eminent talents of Madame Dacier and Mr. Colman, I am inclined to believe that the sense of this passage is made more clear by the reading I have adopted. If we allow their arguments to be of force, we must translate the sentence thus, _is Chremes changed because he sees that I am unchanged_. But if we allow _immutatus_ to retain its usual signification, the sentence must be read thus, _is he changed because he sees that I am changed_: i. e., _because I, who had so high a character for prudence, am changed, and by my connexion with Glycera have proved that I am imprudent_. It is, in short, as if he said, Chremes has changed his mind once on account of my connexion with Glycera, and now, I suppose, he changes it again for the same wise reason. This would not, (in my opinion,) be an unnatural expression for an impatient man: and the sequel of the same speech seems to favour this interpretation. NOTE 103. _I shrewdly suspect that this daughter of Chremes is either hideously ugly, or that something is amiss in her._ In the Latin _aliquid monstri alunt_, _they breed up some monster_. This expression took its rise from the custom of exposing and destroying monstrous and deformed children, (_see Note 93_) which was required by law: therefore, those parents who resolved, notwithstanding, to educate a child of that kind, were compelled to do so with the utmost secrecy: hence, the phrase “_alere monstrum_,” _to breed up a monster_, was used in Rome, to express any thing done in great secrecy. Terence has, by no means, violated probability, in representing Pamphilus as unacquainted with the person of Philumena: _though she had been contracted to him_; as Grecian women very seldom appeared abroad, and never, unveiled: and it not unfrequently occurred, that the bridegroom was introduced to the bride for the _first time_ on the day of marriage. NOTE 104. _She is in labour._ In the Latin, _Laborat e dolore_. Cooke thinks that these words mean merely _she is weighed down by grief_: and argues, that if Pamphilus had understood her words in any other sense, he would have urged her to more haste; as he does, when she tells him that she is going for a midwife. But _laboro_ sometimes means to strive or struggle, as in _Ovid_, “Et simul arma tuli, quæ nunc quoque ferre _laboro_.” _Metam._, B. XIII. L. 285. ’Twas then I bare Achilles’ arms, which now _I strive_ to wear. Also, in _Horace_,