PHILE. Surely, in loving you, I never could have better employed my pains. PHILO. The account, then, of receipts and expenditure fully tallies between ourselves; you love me, I love you. Each thinks that it is so deservedly. Those who rejoice at this, may they ever rejoice at the continuance of their own happiness. Those who envy, let not any one henceforth be ever envious of their blessings. PHILE. (_pointing to a couch on the stage_). Come, take your place, then. (_At the door, to a_ SERVANT, _who obeys._) Boy, bring some water for the hands; put a little table here. See where are the dice. Would you like some perfumes? (_They recline on the couch._) PHILO. What need is there? Along with myrrh I am reclining. But isn't this my friend who's coming hither with his mistress? 'Tis he; it's Callidamates; look, he's coming. Capital! my sweet one, see, our comrades are approaching; they're coming to share the spoil. [Footnote 1: _That which stuffs out_)--Ver. 164. That is, the body.] [Footnote 2: _Assume the character of a wife_)--Ver. 220. "Capiundos crines." Literally, "the hair mast be assumed." Festus says that it was usual on the occasion of the marriage ceremony, to add six rows of curls to the hair of the bride, in imitation of the Vestal virgins, who were patterns of purity, and were dressed in that manner. Hence the term "capere crines" came to signify "to become a wife."] [Footnote 3: _'Tis downright cramming_)--Ver. 230. "Sagina plane est." "Sagina" was the term applied to the fattening or cramming of animals for the purpose of killing. The use of the term implies Scapha'a notion of the bestial kind of life that Philolaches was leading.] [Footnote 4: _Give me the mirror_)--Ver. 242. Probably a mirror with a handle, such as the servants usually held for their mistresses. There is something comical in the notion of a female coming out into the street to make her toilet.] [Footnote 5: _Hand me the ceruse_)--Ver. 252. White lead, or "cerussa," was used by the Roman women for the purpose of whitening the complexion. Ovid mentions it in his Treatise on the Care of the Complexion, L 73.] [Footnote 6: _A woman smells best_)--Ver. 267. Cicero and Martial have a similar sentiment; their opinion has been followed by many modern writers, and other persons as well.] SCENE IV.--_Enter_ CALLIDAMATES, _at a distance, drunk, and_ DELPHIUM, _followed by a_ SERVANT. CALL. (_to his_ SERVANT). I want you to come for me [1] in good time to the house of Philolaches; listen you; well then! those are your orders. (_Exit_ SERVANT.) For from the place where I was, thence did I betake myself off; so confoundedly tired was I there with the entertainment and the discourse. Now I'll go to Philolaches to have a bout; there he'll receive us with jovial feelings and handsomely. Do I seem to you to be fairly drenched, my bubsy? DEL. You ought always to live pursuing this course of life.