[Footnote 70: _The open air_)--Ver. 586. Donatus remarks that it was usual for the Greeks to sit and drink in the sun; and that Syrus being suddenly asked this question shows his presence of mind by giving this circumstantial answer, that he may the better impose upon Demea. The couches used on such occasions may be presumed to have required stout legs, and to be made of hard wood, such as oak, to prevent them from splitting. Two instances of couches being used for carousing in the open air will be found in the last Scenes of the Asinaria and Stichus of Plautus.] [Footnote 71: _You skeleton_)--Ver. 588. “Silicernium.” This was said to be the name of a funeral entertainment or dish of meats offered up to the “umbræ” or “manes,” in silence. The word is also said to have been applied to an old man from his stooping postures, “silices cernit,” “he looks at the stones.”] [Footnote 72: _Head and ears in love_)--Ver. 590. “Totus,” literally, “quite” or “altogether.”] [Footnote 73: _Sipping my cups_)--Ver. 592. As to the “cyathi” and cups of the ancients, see the last Scene of the Stichus of Plautus, which is a perfect specimen of a carousal among the lower classes in ancient times. See also the last Scene of the Asinaria. The slaves generally appear to have taken part in the entertainments with their young masters.] [Footnote 74: _Are suspicious_)--Ver. 606. These lines are supposed to be founded on some verses of Menander which are still extant.] [Footnote 75: _Obliges him to marry her_)--Ver. 655. It appears to have been a law given by Solon to the Athenians that the next male relative of suitable age should marry a female orphan himself, or find her a suitable portion. Madame Dacier suggests that the custom was derived from the Phœnicians, who had received it from the Jews, and quotes the Book of Numbers, xxxvi. 8. This law forms the basis of the plot of the Phormio.] [Footnote 76: _To Miletus, pray?_)--Ver. 658. A colony of Athens, on the coast of Asia Minor.] [Footnote 77: _Who betrothed her?_)--Ver. 673. Donatus observes that these questions, which enumerate all the proofs requisite for a marriage, are an indirect and very delicate reproof of Æschinus for the irregular and clandestine nature of his proceedings.] [Footnote 78: _Propitious to you_)--Ver. 707. Donatus remarks that there is great delicacy in this compliment of Æschinus to Micio, which, though made in his presence, does not bear the semblance of flattery. Madame Dacier thinks that Terence here alludes to a line of Hesiod, which says that it is the duty of the aged to pray. Colman suggests that the passage is borrowed from some lines of Menander still in existence.] [Footnote 79: _Certainly I had rather_)--Ver. 730. He pauses after “quidem,” but he means to say that if he had his choice, he would rather it had not been so.]