[Footnote 44: _Flying the country_)--Ver. 275. Donatus tells us, that in Menander the young man was on the point of killing himself. Terence has here softened it into leaving the country. Colman remarks: “We know that the circumstance of carrying off the Music-girl was borrowed from Diphilus; yet it is plain from Donatus that there was also an intrigue by Ctesipho in the Play of Menander; which gives another proof of the manner in which Terence used the Greek Comedies.”] [Footnote 45: _He is in haste for Cyprus_)--Ver. 278. Donatus remarks that this is a piece of malice on the part of Syrus, for the purpose of teasing Sannio.] [Footnote 46: _Order the couches_)--Ver. 285. Those used for the purpose of reclining on at the entertainment.] [Footnote 47: _Leave me alone_)--Ver. 321. Quoting from Madame Dacier, Colman has this remark here: “Geta’s reply is founded on a frolicsome but ill-natured custom which prevailed in Greece-- to stop the slaves in the streets, and designedly keep them in chat, so that they might be lashed when they came home for staying out so long.”] [Footnote 48: _On his father’s knees_)--Ver. 333. It was a prevalent custom with the Greeks to place the newly-born child upon the knee of its grandfather.] [Footnote 49: _It shall be boned_)--Ver. 378. The operation of boning conger-eels is often mentioned in Plautus, from whom we learn that they were best when eaten in that state, and cold.] [Footnote 50: _Serve somewhere or other as a soldier_)--Ver. 385. See a similar passage in the Trinummus of Plautus, l. 722, whence it appears that it was the practice for young men of ruined fortunes to go and offer their services as mercenaries to some of the neighboring potentates. Many of the ten thousand who fought for the younger Cyrus at the battle of Cunaxa, and were led back under the command of Xenophon, were, doubtless, of this class.] [Footnote 51: _As though into a mirror_)--Ver. 428. He parodies the words of Demea in l. 415, where he speaks of looking into the lives of men as into a mirror.] [Footnote 52: _Of our tribe_)--Ver. 439. Solon divided the Athenians into ten tribes, which he named after ten of the ancient heroes: Erectheis, Ægeis, Pandionis, Leontis, Acamantis, Œneis, Cecrops, Hippothoontis, Æantis, and Antiochis. These tribes were each divided into ten Demi.] [Footnote 53: _Would take her home_)--Ver. 473. As his wife.] [Footnote 54: _Is among us_)--Ver. 479. “In medio,” “is alive,” or “in the midst of us.”] [Footnote 55: _Take him, bind him_)--Ver. 482. In allusion to the method of examining slaves, by binding and torturing them.] [Footnote 56: _Juno Lucina_)--Ver. 487. So in the Andria, l. 473, where Glycerium is overtaken with the pains of labor, she calls upon Juno Lucina.] [Footnote 57: _He was my kinsman_)--Ver. 494. In the Play of Menander, Hegio was the brother of Sostrata.]