[Footnote 2: From μενὸς, “strength,” and δῆμος, “the people.”] [Footnote 3: From κλίνω, “to incline,” or from κλινὴ, “the marriage-bed.”] [Footnote 4: From κλειτὸς, “illustrious,” and φῶς, “light.”] [Footnote 5: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Andria.] [Footnote 6: From Syria, his native country.] [Footnote 7: From σώζω, “to preserve,” or “save.”] [Footnote 8: From ἀντὶ, “in return,” and φιλῶ, “to love.”] [Footnote 9: From Bacchus, the God of Wine.] [Footnote 10: From Phrygia, her native country.] [Footnote 11: _Being Consuls_)--M. Juventius Thalna and Ti. Sempronius Gracchus were Consuls in the year from the Building of the City 589, and B.C. 164.] [Footnote 12: _Assigned to an old man_)--Ver. 1. He refers to the fact that the Prologue was in general spoken by young men, whereas it is here spoken by L. Ambivius Turpio, the leader of the Company, a man stricken in years. The Prologue was generally not recited by a person who performed a character in the opening Scene.] [Footnote 13: _That I will first explain to you_)--Ver. 3. His meaning seems to be, that he will first tell them the reason why he, who is to take a part in the opening Scene, speaks the Prologue, which is usually spoken by a young man who does not take part in that Scene; and that he will then proceed to speak in character (eloquor), as Chremes, in the first Scene. His reason for being chosen to speak the Prologue, is that he may be a pleader (orator) for the Poet, a task which would be likely to be better performed by him than by a younger man.] [Footnote 14: _From an entire Greek one_)--Ver. 4. In contradistinction to such Plays as the Andria, as to which it was a subject of complaint that it had been formed out of a mixture (contaminatus) of the Andrian and Perinthian of Menander.] [Footnote 15: _Which from a two-fold plot_)--Ver. 6. Vollbehr suggests that the meaning of this line is, that though it is but one Play, it has a two-fold plot-- the intrigues of two young men with two mistresses, and the follies of two old men. As this Play is supposed to represent the events of two successive days, the night intervening, it has been suggested that the reading is “duplex-- ex argumento-- simplici;” the Play is “two-fold, with but one plot,” as extending to two successive days. The Play derives its name from the Greek words, ἑαυτὸν, “himself,” and τιμωρουμενὸς, “tormenting.”]